Year: 1876

sre:-rhc patent medicine man short OF actual
came there he satisfactorily explained, on which ap
pcared very neatly written, the name OF prominent
citizen OF that neighborhood


Williams known IN The town ano al Inc oAnk
He had his wagon, his horse and his house The medi-
cine man was comparative stranger He, TOO. would
the note was discounted The discount was obtained,
the division made The lions share and per-
csnsgs s 70 % u spa ah
note in bank. Did Williams know the character OF
the note He declares that he did not and the police
believe that he did not But tho prominent citizen
whose name had been forged as soon as he saw she
note did know Its character. Williams was arrested
and everybody learned yesterday from this paper
found himself In due course OF time In the Eastern
Pententinry while the bank seized his property and
turned his wife adrift


His history during his Imprisonment, the letters
presents and assurances he received, were all men
ttoned In the account Of Wednesdays hearing. Tho
motives with which the patent medicine men followed
him up after he got out of prison. with the tac
ties they had employed while hs there, were
TO keep the man from bctraying them 10 tho police
for now more than ever depended upon his silence
He had heard Of the bird. " the "babe, tho '1ews"
and was really under tho circumstances, most dan
gerous man TO anybody who might DO implicated IN
the abduction OF Charlie Ross That the man was
wise enough TO discreun honest enough 20 resist
ali the brilliant inducements held out 70 him
by the s.mcdicne men Is an additional point
IN favoI o. his honesty i ' rather ;, 20 500 %
tary confinement tor crime committed by
another the did turn against society and JOIN



With the characteristic meckness OF his race he len the
cell in when he had suffered there IS little doubt IN
Justly and next day went home 70 harrisours 20 see
the mon by whom he had been victimzcd ana was now
feared. He had been at home but two days when no
received letter promising him $500 II he would come
10 Philadelphia He came, but advised by friend,
declined accept any money from his tempters or 70
nave anything do with tnem and got situation AZ
coachmau with distinguished citizen OF Philadelphia.


Strange say another mistake hero had nearly got
him second timc into trouble instead, led 70 ms
vvho n q
great use TO the OF right and his occupation OF
which seems striking indication Of the action Of an
Justice 4 memorandum book OF Parker as he should
now be called, accidentally, or rather Providen-
tally seen BY Lieutenant Given contained some
then to acting Slowly and steadily, Ntep by step, he
made his way, and I'LL lately paid his way back along
tho road by which the leader has been led.
He found who lived In Lombard street, above
seventh; where the house In Harrisburg was,
who were It's inmates, and who its frequenscrs, and
where they lived, and what they had been doing.
Week after week, month after month, with tho stead
OF tho old Oriental Avenger he has followed the
buggy and the gay powder and potion circus wagon,
with It's paint gliding and prancing horses. through
village after village now conferrnR with the postmas
this rustic and that and the other in
tcrprcting tho "babe' Of one letter. :he 'ewcr OF
another, picking up third where II was not lost and
could not be hidden, and saving fourth from the


whoever would like TO follow him in his search need
only open ssBlcak House, take seat beside Esther
Summerson while Mr. Bucket is on tho box and drive
on that faithful officer repeats his steady going
sGet on, my lad" And, at last, when the lieutenant
the wagon followed; how both the Ross boys wsrc
taken on little way in tho buggy till the elder was
released; how them there was stoppage in lonely
place. and transfer OF the stolen child and separa
ton the buggy going way and the wagon another
when he Is ready to tell you that and fcw other
facts he one night being Harrisburg and learning
that Benncrs and Picket in certain house.
whittier they have gone TO pass . pleasant
evening posts his men round II ana rings the bell.
Beside him is Parker, like risen from the dead.
Behind him. almost within CALL the civil and military
power OF shc Commonwealth


care those the menf"


ssThose are the men,


They are "wanted" They had better, being gen.
tlemen, behave as gentlemen, and no more words
about IT,


s'What," says Benners in surly tone, ''are We
rested forY'


.sCome to tho Mayors office and Ill tell YOU
answers the lieutenant.