The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-06-03

the thlcf would prefer TO steal some
other property than to attempt to make
money by owning myself the thief OF
property stolen and recovered But.
as | have said. the professionals were
working the case, and | was simply
acting for them. When. however. one
morning received the following note
by mail confess was surprised:
Dear Sir--I have seen your advertise
msnt I am not fool enough to walk into
trap. II $4,000 will tempt you TO re-
turn me the necklace the money will be
yours. II In worth $4,000 In other words
I'll go halves with you. II you agree To
these terms put an ad. In next Sundays
personal column Of any first class New
York newspaper and l viii write you
when. how and where TO deliver the goods
and receive the funds.
The detectives were very hopeful on
receipt of this letter. AS for me.
could not believe that the man who
had seen me and talked with me
would consider me person TO divide
the price of stolen goods even In the
expectation of pocketing $4,000. The
detectives said that | was probably
right In my inference. but no one
could tell exactly what was the mans
game Ii was doubtless something diff
ferent from what appeared ON the sur
face. They insisted on my inserting
the adj. which | did, and In reply |
received a note instructing me to take
the necklace on a certain night at IL
o'clock to house which IT. . writer de-
scribed so infinitely that ! could not
miss It was warned that any at
tempt to put the police on the writer's
track would fail. for the man from
whom l had received the satchel would
not act. but leave his interests In the
hands Of innocent persons who did
| not know that the transaction was H.
Legitimate.
had not objected TO carrying the
| suggestions OF the detectives thus far.
| but did not like the idea of going any
further and asked the police to put a
substitute In my place. They told me
that the moment the rascais saw that
another than the man with whom the
| property had been left was not acting
the whole affair would fall to the
ground. have never been shirker
my duty to do all in my power to help
the police catch the thief yielded and
agreed to carry out their plans.
The first thing they did was to have
spurious necklace made up to repre-
sent the real one. They had barely
time for this when the evening for
meeting the thief came round. and
repaired to the place Of rendezvous. l
was armed. and | knew that l was
every moment under the eye OF the
police until l entered the house where
the transfer was to take place, and
after that 1t was surrounded by them.
though they were In plain clothes and
kept in shadow. The house was a d.
lapidated dwelling. There was a light
In one room. the window being covered
by a shade. ! went to the door and
raped. man came to the door, and
l asked him II a man was there who
wished to buy some jewelry. He led
me into the room lighted by a candle,
which stood on table He pointed
to seat on one side Of the table and
sat down himself on the other side.
"Show up" he said. taking a roll of
bank bills from his pocket and. after
showing me that they were OF hun
dred dollar denomination. waited for
me to produce the necklace.
The police had found 1t impossible to
suggest any secret signal by which
was to notify them that it was time to
close In on US, 30 we had agreed that
they were to do 30 ten minutes after
my entrance 10 the house. II were
In danger l was to cry out or IRE my
pistol To delay the matter few mo
ments ! asked the man some ques.
tons.
do you represent the party who
turned over this satchel to mef'
eyes"
Does he know you are dealing with
that person.
HE does"
"HowY'
HE has seen you through a hole IN
the partition"
opened the bag and took out the
spurious necklace. The man extended
his left hand with the bills In 1t, while
with the other ne ciutched the neck
lace. at the same time blowing out the
candle. leaving the room In total dark
ness. l gave yell as signal for the
men outside to come In. which they
did not need. for they saw that the
light was extmguished. They strovt
, to open the front door. but 1t had beer
locked from the inside. A few minutes
were spent In breaking It down. during
which time sat In darkness. They
made so much noise at the door that
could hear little or nothing that wal
! going on In the room One thing die
hear. 1t sounded like the closing Of 4
door.
When the men came In they flashet
their lanterns and relit the candle
j They found no one IN the room bu
, myself. There was no door In 1t ex