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I '',--v-v ;, ; ... I , irf ' ' - - . . . , - . "- . r 1 i SO , RU88E1X 8XGB ! Ftird ; from WU ttt. ,Thr' eni ' . to ba obi ' doubt ' In . the minds of th operators la too trott,' but' th old flnncUr' physical ' condl 4 tloii leaves llttla doubt of thla. v' ; ,' ' " Tina baa dealt kindly with RuaaeU . earn. .'At tour acora and ctcht hla atep la aa aprlncy and be earrlea hla naarly 01 faat ef atatura m aracu aa M did And manUllj" well. If aBjrbodr tblnka r Ihere'a anythlnf In particular tha at t wih Rnaooll fiin't mind, let hint .; advaaoa to the venerable financier propoeltioa with a jokec In It and whether lfa dlacoyared. 1 - n ' 1 UIW r WVB WIWH II worked luat aa hard aa he liked, .and It .waa only a. few rrs a-o, too. One ; day he fell 111 and couldn't o U hla mt tttf, : v.v. t ; ' ; " , Hla family 'phyalclan. Dr. J. P. Nun. aald ba d worked too liard and naeoea .' rear. Ana, Jur. osv ., : ''Oh, fuda!" But be waan't- able to go downtown the,nxt day. ao tha doctor aald. and air! Base came rery near to being dta- asreeabla. There was nothing tha mat . ter with him. and ha knew It and ha bad other thlnja to do bealdea lie abed. , Finally Mra. 6ae eama In. and In that ajentle but wonderfully firm way .ana naa. ana aaia . . ... "Father, you're not rolna downtown " ioqay or irib wm. iou rw iwni " ' atay right here and rot and we'll bear r ' no mora to .tha contrary." i ( s V -Mr.. Baga bad heard hla wife talk that' Way to ethera. and wtia ana aald went He hadn't had tha ' experience - hhnuir. thaavh. and ha didn't onlta know what to aay. , Bo ba Juat - aald . "Umphr - ',. v. ! ' After be got aboutjie, waa batter than ..' From tiondoa Anawers. ( fll HE proof that an accuaed person 1 - la somewhere else at the 'time , ' that a crime la committed has ' alwaya been' a defense la which advocates have taken special delight Nothing can be more satisfactory, says Anawere, provided that tha slibt , Is" a good one, "If I prove to yon, gentlemen!" said a young barrister addressing- the Jurf la a case before Justice Hawkins, -that my unfortunate and estimable client was a hundred miles away from tha' scene -f the burglary at- the time that tbat ul deed was oommttted, then, I pre sume, that fact will ba sufficient for you.- ; ', ;;;...-". t "Of coarse, t cannot' speak for the jury." Justice Hawkins broke la In rentle- tones, addreealng the advocate, "but I can aaauro you that I myself hall not ba particular to mile or two. If you can show that tha prisoner waa even a mils. or. half a mile, away at the time I will give hint the benefit of tha doubt",. , ,-y -;. The SUM ha always been a favorite aerease with calculating criminals. K nas, oa tna other hand. In hundred ' of cases extricated the Innocent from the meebes of s. net of drcumstantiaM evidence which must otljenrlae have In evitably dragged . them to unmerited doom, - r- r .-, - .7--- t-: -,. -,. ; .la the famous case of Rush.' executed for the murder of Mr. and Mra. Jenny and their son at Btanfleld ball, tha as aaeala endeavored to establish aa alibi by means of his housekeeper.-. Upon the night of the murder Rusk elipped out of the house la disgulae, effected his horrible design and returned. Hla house keeper declared at flrat upon examine tlon, that Rush had coma homo to tea at ( o'clock and had then taken off hla ' ...w " v am nu icl L , the room In which they had been sitting, snd was absent about 10 minutes. After that . be went out no more. Under a severe cross examination a be broke down . and admitted that tha statement aha had maaa nad been dictated to her by Rush himself. Tho alibi waa false. She burst Into tears and aobblng," described" 16 tnl ; court how Ruah had been absent from . the farmhouse just at ths time pf the Clocks have played aa Important part la theae defenses. Lives have depended eg their accuracy or Inaccuracy.- In tha rasa of a maa named Hardy, who wsa - accuaed of havlns taken Bart In a nurdar with others, on of the murderers, after me crime was committed, made his wsy home ss faat as possible, it was night snd there was -wo one In hla house but a " servant , Putting tba clock In tha hall . back two hours, the maa went ta hod. ' and rising ahortly afterward awoke the servant and ordered her to go down- , statrs snd see- whst was the time. The ' girl did ao. and ones mora returned to her room, when the murderer, ateallng aoftly downstairs In hla bar' feet. once mora put tha clock right The unsuspect ing girl's evidence that the prisoner waa In bed at tha time when the crime waa committed secured hla acquittal on hla trial, Tba truth was made known by ' a deathbed confession some years later. . Witnesses who come forward to prove , alibis by tha clock sometimes prove very unsatisfactory. In a murder case at the Central Criminal oourt two witnesses swore most persistently to tha prisoner nevuig oeen in tlieir company at the : hour when the prosecution contended be -was engaged In the crime. . '. "Are you quite certain of tha exact ' timer asked the counsel for the proaecu . ;. tlon. - - "... . , v "Certain," replied the first wltnees. "How are you so sure about Itf" aaked 1. the arris ter. . "We were In the Bear nubile hnu . and I saw the time by the clock In the bar.!' replied tha witness, "it waa 17 minutes past ." . . "Tou saw list, time Jourselfr asked Ihe counsel, , . " One of the detectives engaged In the . case bars whispered something to the , barrister, and ha turned to the wltn "Once more, - . "Tou see that clock, he aaid,. pointing ' tt the clock In the .court. nhat I the , time Dy nr'i , 1 .. The witness turned - ghastly pale. , scratcnea . nis neao, gasped, and waa silent He could not tell the time. The waa condemned. -w ' ' 'A remarkable eaaa of innocence belna -rinaicatea orourrea ai Exeter some years . aro. when a" young naval officer was charged with .having presented at a I'lymouth hank a forged order for pay , ment la the name of the paymaeter- reneral. ' The order was cashed and the area a tee dlaamieared. - 1 ' From tha description ft tha man given by three of the bank rlerka, susnlolon attached Itxalf to the accused, tha son af an admiral, and tha clerka Identified . him out of othwr naval officers aa the - presenter of the forged Check. Fortu nately fer the accused he was able to ring forward a email army sf bis eoav radea to preva moat positively tbat at the hour named he was In their society. ' Alil) the Favorite. Defense ha had been la yeara and since than. when Mra. Sage tells him to do some thing for the good of hla health. 1 he luat says 'UltiDH: . ana aoea iu jw. when any one remark on how wall Mr. gaga look, lira, sage iooks si nr nua band, amllea and aaya rchly: ; . ' Well, he has pretty good care. Men don't know anything shout taking care of themselves." -. . - :.; . . And Mr. Bage.' trying hU bast to be teaty and to repress tha smtla with the love light in it aputters: . ? . ' .' "Tea. It's sU "Mrs. Sage's fault' '.' ' ' . Whan . Mr. ' Bago waa a ' boy up in Oneida county he waa : u bv sunrise or before. Ho doean't get up ao early aa that now, . but ho is rarely, Jn bed after T o'clock In the morning and ha la rarely out -of bed after 10 o'clock In the evening. . ; ...,. -v He and- Mrs. Saga breakfast together about I o'clock., and then Mr. Bake looks over the morning papers. .-:V',j! -y Formerly he went to his office between : and ! o'clock.' Mr. and Mrs. Bag began . housekeeping nest door to the Forty-seoond street comer lnjnfth sva US, ; '(.'..;j;i''7r i;. :,;:.A, , " Both greatly, regretted .that they had to leave the old -place. But the en croachments of trade anally drove them up tha avenue, on tha same aids, to a fins -house which Mr." Bage owned and had rented for years. -.'.""V It Is between Fiftieth and Fifty-Aral atrect, at No. U, and so It happens that "Uncle RuaaeU" now takea tha elevated st Fiftieth etreet whan . ha goes down town. , - . . ' v ; '.,'";.,., , -Mr.' gaga's bualneaa 'routine waa as methodical as a dock. On Bret reaching his office -ha would take a look at the ticker to sea how tha market had opened. Then he would look over hla mall. " Buch of hla letters as needed personal aaaBwaasssawawnaiieBanBaMs and that hs could by do possibility have been at tha bank as tha clerks described. Justice Crompton found the exculpating evidence so conclusive thatha suggested fo the counsel conducting the prosecution that It waa useless to proceed, and the charge was withdrawn. In this case the really guilty presenter .' of . the forged order must by some atranga chancer have barns a. striklnb resemblance to tha unfortunate officer charged. ---"r Baron Piatt used to declare that the worst false alibi to demolish was one In which ths witnesses for the defense all spoke to actual facta, bat to fact hat happened oa some dsy other than tha one actually In question. Jn ths esse of two msn charged at tha central criminal court with housebreaking, a remarkable alibi of this kind was presented. The men wars accused of having broken Into a house upon the night ef a certain Sunday, aad they were positively Identi fied by three persons who swore they saw the prisoners going to and coming from the-house In a trap drawa by a brown pony, '".' v On the other ' hand, ; numerous wit nesses were called, for the. defense to how that tha prisoners .were- at- home and remained there all that nlsht . Ail these wltneaaea agreed in their details of what happened during ths evening, and tha fiercest efforts- of the. counsel for ths prosecution failed to shake them is any particular. la reply to a question aa to what was ths stats of ths weather on that particular , Sunday night, the witnesses unanimously declared that It waa dark, rough and wet By an alma nao that was brought It was shown that there was a full moon, but none In court could remember what ths weather had been. The Jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty,' and ths prisoners wsrs re leased, Subsequent Inquiry proved that tha night In question, when the house breaking bsd taken plaoe, waa fine and. bright,' but that tha night of ths pre vious Sunday had been all that the wit ness described. - "Their evidence had clearly related to the wrong Sunday. . A case in which aa' Innocent man was ahla to etahllh aa. sJ'bL and refute a mass of extraordinary circumstantial evidence sgalnat him was that Jbf the Cannon street murder. Sarah Mllsom wss ths housekeeper to a large firm, with premise) In Cannon street In which she lived. Upon the night of the murder a man, whoso duty It wss to lock up ths building after the hands had left closed the place snd duly delivered the keys to Mrs. Mllsom. Ths housekeeper and a woman who acted as cook were bow ths only persons In the place, Ths cook, la her evidence, stated : what - happened. Mrs. Mllsom was sitting la the dining roont and ths cook was in ths bedroom when about 10 mtatues past I. thers came a ring at the door bell. Ths wit ness waa about to go down. to answsr It, when Mrs. Mllsom called out to her: . "Elisabeth, the bell Is for ms. X will go. ? -' .1 - ' -'', . The cook stayed in her room, hut later on went downstairs, whan shs was hor rified to find Mrs. Mllsom lying dead la ths corridor. Just inside ths door. She had been killed by a terrible blow with a crowbar that was lying close by the body. - ' -.-"..' ' ' An arrest wss made and the prisoner as defended -by Sergeant Bailantyn and Mr. Montasu .William. ,: K The defense wss able to prove, by ths evidence of witness sftsr witness, that ths prisoner waa st Eton and Windsor upon ths night of the murder at timss which made It Impossible for him to have committed tha crime. A bootmaker and the bootmaker' son, for-whom the accuaed man worked, had ' - seen and spoken to hint there. Ths alibi was In con testibls, - and the prisoner was ac quitted.' . The murderer has remained undiscovered to this ay, -r- ' r , . A young girl who lived with her par ent in a lonely part of Kirkcudbright was one day left alone In their cottage while her father and mother were bar- veatlng. On their return the girl was found murdered. A 1 surgical examina tion revealed ths fact that ths Injuries Inflicted must havs been the work of a left, handed man, and the polios discov ered In the soft ground around tbs cot' tags the Imprints of ths boots of a run ning msn. ". These impression corre sponded exactly with, ahe boots of young laborer named William Richard son, who was acquainted with ths deal girl, snd . who was slso left ' haadod. Richardson, on being aaked where hs was on the day of ths crime, declared that he was smploysd ths whols day lit ths work of his master, a farmer, some distance away. ' This fact- waa borne witneaa to by the farmer arid Richard- on'a fellow servant, and ths police were baffled. ' . . " V . The alibi. In spits sf all ths other suspicious circumstances . against ths prisoner, - appeared ao strong ss to unassailable. But the police persevered, and at 1aat one of the detectives discov ered that Rlchardaon and his fallow servants had that day been employed - r v mm-mmf Win . : '' ' V'", ( '1' Xl ' ' I ' .' ' " . From the New York Herald. .. A FEMALE bandit and smugglsr who was wounded and -captured by ths Mexican rurales after a . . , desperate battle a few daya ago on the Rio Grande is ' conceded to be none other than an .sdventuress and all around bad woman well known' In the Indian country aa zaiia, "ine jjsvus Ace." She Is now In a military hospi tal In Monterey and physicians ssy she has fought hsr Isst battle. , - This Strang character, who has had vicissitudes - of fortuns In her career without a parallel outside or ricuon, was born in an Indian village, oa tha plains. Her father was a Frenchman who lived with tha Comanchas mors than half a century. ' Hs married ths daughter of Iron Jacket and raised a large family of children. After the Comanchea settlsd Vn their present res ervation this Frenchman, whom tna In diana caiied. "Heap Writs," from the fact that he apent much of his tlms In writing, built a horns snd devoted hla fine abilities to ths education of hla family.- -. " - ' ' -'- : ' Zalla was ths beauty of the family. Bhe spent one year at school, at Jack sonville, III or at a place of that name In some other ststs, and when shs re turned to the territory It was easy to see that the had mastered many little arts that gave her an advantage over her slstsrs. - ."' ".."-v.. Sometimes she came to Fort Bill when the. Indians were drawing sup plies, dressed as a Comanehe -, maiden. In driving thely master's carts. These carts had been driven In a direction which took them close to the scene of the crime, and while they had been past ing through a wood Richardson had re quested hla comrades t stop a few min utes while hs ran to a smith's shop and back. They did so, and ons of tb drlvsrs remembered - that - Richardson when he returned hsd been absent halt' an hour by hla watch. This was ample tlms for blm to run to ths cottage, com mit tbs murder and run hack again, tie had not bees to tha smith's shop. Ths slibl thus broke down, Richardson was found guilty snd, before his execu tion, he confessed the Justice of hla sen tence. 1 . ,- . ' 7 " " An Insenlmia system of proving sn alibi was that of m maa named Gorton She wore a rob covered . with colored bead and sparkling gems, ths making of which, had occupied the attention of two generations of the most skilled ar tists of her tribe. Long chains of beads Of gold. Intermingled with strings of elks' teeth dipped In molten gold, were wound snout her nock and allowed t hang in loops below her waist At this period of her career she had mors than 100 offers of marriage, -, - .. . "While I . was a young gir Z , could easily have married any one of a dosen men. she said, "and at least three men proposed tb rae who havs sines become fsmous." - - :t Shs fell fn lovs with a bugler and a musician. . As time passed It became evident that tha beautiful, "seml-clvil-Ised child of ths forest worshiped the handsome young soldier. She would have passed through fire to gratify his slightest wish. . Ths bugler's comrades thought ho was alnoere In his protesta tion of affection for ths Indian girl . A few daya before the soldier wss to receive . aa honorable dlscbsrgs ' from tha army, a young woman arrived at Fort Sll who mads no attempt to eon- crat the fact that shs waa to b tha bride of the bugler at an early day. Rivals were not lacking to carry the news quickly to Zalla. - ' ' Tha unauaDectina' man was lured to a former trvstlnc place, in a grove of trees not far from the Indian girl's house. There the girl met him with a stiletto- In her- bosom, and attar rebak-4 at least, that wag on of bis JO bam eat convicted of various clever fraud in ths north V England. Hs hsd a twin brother, and whU h.was engaged la a robbery th twin kept himself In prom inent evidence la snother far removed place. When Oorton was arrested, ths persons who bsd met ths twin trooped Into th witness box to relat how they had met and conversed with him else where at the hour of the crime. Their evidence was of eours given In all honest belief that It wag perfectly correct for they had not the slightest suspicion of Oorton having A double. Ths srrangetnent broke down at' last, however, through one of those llttls oversights thst sven the most cunning rogues will fall Into, and th Ingenious twins cams to Uxelr deserts. The Oror- ing him And sousing him shs threw her arms . about , his neck and drove t ths keen blade into his heart Kissing hla dying lips ex ah let the limp form sink upon the grassy shs muttered: . "Now, the whits facg woman can' have' you." She knew that shs would be accused of the murder and lost no tlm In mak ing her escape from ' ; the territory. Dressed In a - suit of her 1 brother's clothes -and mounted on a black horse, shs set oat In the direction s of - Old Mexico, ' -" 1 A small body of soldiers struck hsr trail ths next day and came in sight of her Just st sunset when shs wss plunging ber horse Into Red river. Sev eral peddler -were encamped In a grove nssr ths crossing,, and when they saw ths soldiers they supposed they were about to be attacked. They sprang to their arme nd poured a shower of bur lets Into th ranks of - ths advancing soldiers.'' --' ' :- Zalla comprehended the , situation, and, drawing her revolver, shs Joined ths nswty discovered allies. Tbs sol diers were surprised and repulsed. . Zalla. while firing 'with -rapidity and precision, sang sn Indian war - song. Galloping from one point to another, ha la.ueh.ed and sang and ahoutad as if shs were Intoxicated with -the Joy of battle. The1 peddlers thought that shs waa insane. . - . She told them that ths '1ood of 40 generations ,of warriors wss bc-lltngln her-veine Ltons were criminals of ths kind that, as that clever detective I4tuecnild one re marked, "make detectives gray before they ars old." -" ,- j. v - 1 1 ' ' ' ' " Xas Sands, Bat Threads Veedle. Pulaski Correspondence ashvtlls Ban r , '--i - ner. '. During hr babyhood Emma Loa Law son, now 14. lost both hands by amputa tion, mads necessary by necrosis pf tha wrlat bonea. Ths llttls miss Is sn ex ceedingly bright child, an 'orphan, and notwltbatandlng ker physical disability, can writ a beautiful . hand and work examples In arithmetic' She can thread a needle almost aa quick a anyone, and sews wall. All thla. coupled with her cheerful disposition, makee her a favor- ltg with all Who know bee. attention he answered. The rest hs turned over to Colonel Blocum. Mrs. Sage's brother, or. t Mr. Osborn, who hss been "Uncle Russell's' cashier since well, the memory of msn runneth not to ths contrary. . After tbat hs took up ths business of th day as It presented Itself., r :',:''.. ' . ' .;-' Thanks to Mra. Sage's training, hshaa learned to skip details, leaving thoee to Colonel Blocum or Mr. Osborn; but every proposition of importance, from partici pating in an underwriting to the negotia tion of a loan, is submitted to him be fore any action, on wgy; or ths other, is taken.. ! : '; - t ;. ' i -. ; Besides this, he makes It his business t hsvs a personal knowledge of Just how bis books, stand ail the while. It baa become a truism In Wall etreet that Mr. Bag always keeps oa hand more money to. lend than any tother on man la th financial district. To keep per sonal track of hla books, therefore. Is no small job- In itself. " v The en4 of Mr. Bage'a buslaess day cam anywhere from ' to I;t0i In the afternoon, depending on ths character of ths business and his mood. But when h left his office he left : all business behind him. and this has been th habit of ft Ufstlmav ' .:h , For nearly half a century "Uncle Rus sell" hss played the gamsxf th street as h would play a gam f chess, mev htg her and moving there to checkmate or to be checked; but ths day over, he has alwaya left th pawns whr'they happened to be and forgot them until ths play of ths nsxt day began. ---vv -- At homo he and Mrs. Sags ar th .ruint of chums. - Mr. ' Sag always arrange on almost every An day to get MriT enouch to take a drive with Mrs. Bags before dark.. And thn "Unci RuaaeU'' has real run. .- ?- , v Tke Tnird Degree : From ths liondon Answers. , t HE informer has played ra ; I , markabl part In famous trials. ; I Ths moot infamous informsrof ; modern times -that a oourt of Justice has listened to giving evidence against his associates was ths notorious James Carey, ths plsnnsr of th Phoen' Park murders, in IIU. when Lord Fred rick Cavendish aad Mr. Burk Wl b neath th daggsrs ot a v ----- Ins th "Invlnclbl. organiseu oy Carsy bimMU. vVv ' Though the murder took pise in kmui Amr lixht In a public park, and at a spot oven within sight Of th rice regal lodge, ths murderers succeeded in scaping unobserved in a trap that, was waiting for them, driven by truaty confederate known as "Bkln the Goat" Boras months later th perpetrators were arrested and lodged In prison on suspicion of varioua offenses, and Carey found himself In prison with them. But ths evidence to bring th murder home to the gulRy. man wag weak, ana tne police adopted a little ruse to induoe Carey to turn informer. He wss led to believe that In . tb 011 next to him on of th most aetlvs of the gang waa confined, and aa Carey sat solitary' and brooding In his cell he heard on day, a larg number of ytsltors to his nslghbor. There sssmed to be a vast amount Of bustls and excitement next door, and Carey could only conclude that it was occasioned by on thing. - His neighbor must be giving Information, . . . Th Idea goaded Carey to a frsnsy of fear. He resolved -to -tell all he knew himself, snd so turned Informer. - The only person in thg next cell to him wss a police officer, and the -visitors to him, who. In Corey's affrighted arsw seemed magiatratea , and government officials. were really detectives playing a part, Carey senU f 1 v ef, bis associates to the gallows, two to penal servitude for life, and -others, to various terms of impris onment . , .. , ; : ' . Carey, ; having done hla.. work. was smuggled out ef the country by th-yo lies, and fled for safety abroad. - He waa tracked and shot by- O'Donnell, as hs was seated in a cabin of ths Metros steamer at Port Elisabeth, South Africa, four months later.- : ..- --..-.-.- . Few people who -were in the Centra criminal court on May ' SI, 1IV when th two scoundrels, Mllsom and Fowler, stood in th .dock, charged with the murder of Mr. Smith at Munswell.Hlll, will ever forget th scene that occurred when Fowler tried to strangl Mllsom. on discovering that b. had sought- to savs his own neck by giving the polio Information respecting his .companion's part In: the, crime. -. : When tb two men war placed in the dock,, a suspicion ef what had occurred seemed to penetrat - th brain -of th great hulking brute Fowler, as hs ob served bow Mllsom.- whits faced " and trembling, shrank away from him and sought refuge in ths furthest corner of ths dock. To ths terror which- filled Mllsom with regard to ths rssult of tbs trial waa now added the awful dread that Fowler might suddsnly throw him self upon blm and Kill mm oerore tne warders or colic could interfere. He- begged hla custodian, t la .trembling whispers,, to - pur-more men oevween them. - They did not know what Fowler wss like. bo ' declsred.- - -r . . - Mllsom' Information did him no good, and, shaking with fear, he crouched In th dock, seemingly nan senaeieav. r m a moment wnen xne aneniion Wi ni warter and police wsr distractea row ler seised his opportunity, and dashing away those who stood between he threw himself, with a cry Ilk that ef a wUd beast on his accomplice, the Informer It took half a doswa officers to tear him away and to handcuff blm.' 'Ths dock, aide was smashed to splinters. When ths Jury brought In thslr Verdict of "Oullty," and the Judg pasaed ths sentence Of death, Mtlsom waa yet al most ' breathless. - 80 Intena was th hatred for Mllsom Inspired In fowler by what he had dons that even when they met on .the scaffold officers had to interpoe to check another desperate attempt 'to wreak vengeance on him. , Another Informer who ran a very eon stdsrabls risk from th hatred Inspired In his -victim wss, Johsnn Bchmidt otberWIss Llebermsn,' ths cleverest for ger of Bank of England notes In modem years, and the-coolest exposer of -his confederates, when it cam to th point of being able to make mora by "putting them away" thin by sticking to them. The detail of the trial when Philip Bern stein, Solomon Barmaah and hla son, William Barmasb, were placed In the dock at the Central criminal court, charged with uttering forged notes, will be within my reeders' recollection. They will . remember how Solomon Barmaah after aentence of 18 yeara' penal servi tude had been pasaed upon htm. shot himself with a revolver la his cell. How hs cams to be possessed t of . such a wsspon he was searched very day was a mystery. It was probably pasaed In to him, wrapped in a waterproof cloth, in a beefsteak pudding, supplied y4jUm from , outside, for, sot . yet, being He has a pair of black road horaes, which ha bred, aad t drive them la ons of his ' greatest pleasures. " Nellie and Boom, hs calls them, and Nellie Is his favorite,- : , ' , There is little to be wondered at la this,' for 'th' mar shows her fondness -for her master in every wsy shs knows. Shs recognises his atepth moment shs hears it in the stable, and shs will not stop neighing until he has apokea la -hw. ',; 'r '. " -. ' . '.. f - '-. '.. After dinner there is a little reading of tha evening papers or ot boo ka but not so much ss there was 20 years' ago, because the eyes tlrq more., easily now ' than, they did then a chat with friends who may drop in, and if possible a gania of Whlat. out of which Mr. Sage gets mors fun than from any other recreation except driving. When the game Is over "Uncle Russell's" dsy Is donev and ha 1 sleeps like a -top until morning.- Mr. Bage- looks, out for' his digestion by eating plain foods, but ha has an ap petite that Is not mincing. For the rest, Mrs. Bags takea. car of that, snd she does say that Mr. Bage plays the most sclsntlflo game of whlat she ever knew anything about,': .'," 1. :" " ' That, by th way.. Is something of . conceaalon for ber to make, because It la paxt of the tradition of tha - famous ' Emma WUlard seminary at Troy, f which Mra. . Bags is an alumna, that, ther ar ao such whist players anyr wher aa WUlard grsdustss. . Mr Bags doesn't sork as hard at t aa he did at 00 but hs plays mora, and Mrs.- Base Is always' his . playmate. Something Ilk 40 years ago. as young lovers, they started op the hill together; now. lovers still, together they ars going down th slop. . . .. - t SI convicted. Barmaah could bar Jhla meals ssnt in. .: '. -:,. i ,; With' ths revolver In bis jxveket Bsr mash oat in ths dock. It Is believed that he desired ths weapon to revenge hlmeelf on Schmidt th man who; hlm alf th - wicked - brains of ths whol Iniquitous conspiracy, had. aa . soon ss he scented dsnger and money to be gained, hastened to turn informer; 1 ' - - Schmidt was a superb witness. . PosV albly hs had had' practice before.' Ho llttl dreamed, as he told his story so -glibly and calmly, aad In such apparent . safety, from th witness box that thst : gray-haired, quivering maa In th dock , had that weapon ready in his hand. Psrhaps It was ths paralytle selaure thst '. had attacked Barmaah during th trial, ,, or psrhaps It was ths alsrtnees of ths -prisoner's watchers . in tha dock that . prevented Bchmidt mooting with a very dlaagreeabl - surprise. Ths informer -; reoelved a substantial rswsrd., Hs went to th United States, and than was very soon in trouble again. - . ;'-. a It la not an Absoluts ruls of law that an tnformer'a evidence is of no value without corroboration., but in-praotioe , it la regarded with such suspicion that . no-Judg allows it to go to a Jury' as worth consideration without connrma tloii."A"polleo offlcer or agent 'who v cemes In th perform anc of hla dutya -passlvs spectator of Illegal acta for' the . purpose of discovering guilty persona Is -not -an informer, when he gives evU denco sgalnst them, ( Boms of th big- ' gest onaplracla, especially . political v ones, have been foiled by means of the secret agent .- Ho Is not to . bo con founded with 4ho Informer, . . 'That th law doe right to regard th informer's svldenco with ' suspicion hss . been shown over snd. over again. The ' hope of gain ba filled the witness-box with wretches ready, without corapuno-tlorv-so swear away tb live. acl Uo rty of innocent persona, Th ex-Police- . man MuUlns is a specimen of th worst type of informers Having murdered an. old lady named Emalsy, at BUpney, and f etttlrn m"nr j-'t i, ror ins , sake ot a reward offered for informs- tlon leading to ths . conviction of tho perpetrator or tho crime, hid part of r his sooty In tho outhouse-of a neighbor ,. and then Informed th pollc ef his sus picions that his nslghbor had committed thO murder and-eoncealea the spoil tn -. ths building. - Th police, acting on his tnformaon, searched the. building and found tb missing Jewelry; but Mulllns ; had acted his part so badly during tho search and hsd betrayed so much anx- u lety whUs it wss proceeding thst tho detectives arrested him as tho real mur derer. His - guilt was clearly proved , later on. and MuUlns was hanged. The fate of MuUlns recalls tbat of . tho man Volrbo, ths Informer associated r with ths triumph of M. Maos, tb lets : Parisian chef do aurste, Mace, wbll a young detective and burning to dla tlnguiah himself, hsd tbs solving of a, mysterious murder placed in hla hands. Ho was. after long inquiry, sertain that t it had been perpetrated by a man named r Voirbo. But how bring It home to hlraT ' Bvry effort of tho detective failed, and at last hs sdopted a desperate course.. Hs went to Voirbo and told him ho was ' certain that he knew a good dssl about, J ths crime. Volrbo's confusion waa si- ; . most a confession of guilt, but be . pulled himself together, and told Macs that he believed bo knew the murderer and that hs felt confident that he could aaalat him to run him down. Now Mac .was apparently one of the most creduloua and generous of men. Hs de- ; dared that If Voirbo helped btm to lay hsnds on ths asssssln hs would svss re- ( r member him, and. thus encouraged ,i Voirbo com ma need to turn energetic In-, former respecting the suspicious con duct ef some people ho knew. 'V - Maos appeared - completely deceived, y and Voirbo, laughing to himself st hv-v Ing so successfuUy, as ho Imagined, dl- verted all suspicion from himself, to', others, st last completdy betrayed him- , j self. - Ho found tbat M. Mac was quits , . a different man from what hs had . imagined, when it was too lata to ssv . , his head from .the guillotine, v . ; In the cass of Woodstock, th f a- : -mous oolnsr, his dog played the part of ' an unconscious informer, and led to his ' " capture. - All effort ttr dlsrovsr : tho" famous criminal had failed. Woodstock ' was In London, but wher a no on could toll. - Living under an assumed name, ba only went out at night, and then in die- guise. But It came to tbs knowledge of the police that he had a retriever dog , named Nero. If Nero could be found he ' might give information as to his mas- , ter's hiding place. . - -. ; A detective did oao day dlecover a re-' trlever wandering about In Camberwellt that responded .to the atranga name. Hs, ', kept' the dog In view till it cams does' ' to a butcher's shop,' snd then ths of ficer surprised the tradesman bf buying . a big chunk of oeef and throwing It to the dog. A dogs first Instinct under; such circumstances la to get Its treasure - eefcly horns, snd NeTO trotted off. . He led the wsy to his master's lodging and ths nest 'dsy Woodstock was In the. -hands of ths pursuers who had tracked) -htm so long la vein. -a rr I