The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-10-26

the value of the described plumber was
about three hundred dollars
Fitzgerald left the premises firmly con-
WINGED that it was an inside job, and his
suspicious leaned toward Jimmy as the
perpetrator
On the following day he discovered that
Jimmy was rushing Mike Egan's daugh
ter,-Mike, whos once had trimmed him,
and to whom he owed a bitter debt.
He then went before a magistrate and
procured warrant empowering him to
search, not only Mikes business premises,
but his home as well. Not that he ex-
pected to find there the stolen jewery. In
fact the idea of locating the jewelry had
now been replaced in the mind of Fitz
by bigger game. Here was an opportunity
to even things up with Mike by making
it tough for him, and showing him up to
the neighbors.
However, find the missing jewelry is
just precisely what he did do nicely
wrapped and slowed away in corner of
Mays hope chest much to his own sur
prise, and the chagrin of poor little May.
He then caused the arrest of both Mike
and Jimmy. The recovered jewelry, with
the exception of one of pair of earrings,
value at about fifty dollars, was returned
by Fitz to Jimmy's aunt. The missing
earring was not in the package at the time
of its discovery. Fitz questioned May. She
told him how the package had come into
her hands, that she was ignorant of its
content, had at no time opened it, and pre-
sumed it to contain some trinkets that had
belonged to Jimmy's mother
Jimmy confessed to his aunt. She re-
fused absolutely to prosecute. She would
forgive and forget
And May? Well, there was nothing to
be gained by cluttering her innocent little
head with lot of sordid detail Jimmy's
aunt insisted that the package should be
returned to Mays hope chest, and that
Jimmy's original story to May should
stand; that the whole thing was only
misunderstanding
There is always a what and why con-
nected with matter of this kind which
a confession does not always reveal. 1t is
just this that stuck in the crop of Mike as
he and Jimmy were talking things over
that night.
"What can't understand, kid, is what
the Sam Hill got into your head to do this
thing"
"Well, I'll tell YOU Mike, didn't mean
to take all the stuff. You see its like this
| went into her room an took one earring,
removed the rock from the settin', threw
the settin' away, and then took it down to
Levinsky's an sold it for ten bucks. But,
l got to thinkin' it over-the more l
thought, the more it scared me. l thought,
when she misses it she'll maybe think l
took it. So l went back to the room,
bunged up the window little, and took
all the stuff in the box so she'd think it
was burglary"
ooh, understand all that Jimmy But
you don't get me- What Pm tryin' to get
at is what put 1T into your head to take the
earring in the first placer"
"Well you see, Mike, it's like this. 1
tried to make drag at the office; but old
Penurious down there wouldn't stake me
cause l didn't have full week in"
"Kripes, kid, you sure must have needed
the money! You sure must have been up
against it'll"
Gee, Mike, l was! You see-I had a
date to take May to the Hippodrome-and
i couldn't disappoint her-could II"
MORE: Read before the Pierian Chau-
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