The Creditor and His Money.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 198, 26 August 1873, Page 7

The Creditor and His Money.

in a subtle and delicate flavour about California!) crime not to be matched by the felonies of any other known locality. They taste of the soil. There is a region in Sardinia, the bitterness of whose earth ,i$ perceptibly in its* l}oney ( ; and delicate tasters have noticed in Vines of Eastern France a flavour of flint; in those of Burgundy a smell like that of the sprouts of wild eglantine, and a taste of faded rose leaves. And the soil seems to transmit its quality to human actions, as well as its flavour to honey and wine, or grapes or laurel blossoms. Here comes record of a little criminal drama in five' acts, enacted there by the borders of the Pacific, in which one Whitney, having a sum of money in the Bank and owing an equal sum, consulted one Dixon as to the best means of avoiding payment. Dixon promptly counselled that Whitney should withdraw the money and lodge it secretly in his hands, so that it could not be attached by legal process. This was done; but when Whitney desired to withdraw the sum from his ingenuous and guileless friend, the latter denied all kuowledge of the transaction. Thereupon the despoiled Whitney craves the interposition of the law, and makes a clean breast of it. The legal myrmidons overhaul Dixon, and it is at last discovered that he has made over the money to an evil woman named Richardson, with the understanding that both are to fly, rejoining each other in a distant city, where they can diffuse the booty in peace. Searching and urgent investigation of this person disclosed the fact thatj she had just perfected her arrangements to throw overboard her fellow-felon and run away with another man—a man of the Hoodlum order, with a taking eye, and a correct taste in hair oil. Search for this young man brought to light the amusing fact that he had spent quite a good portion of the money in purchasing a fugitive outfit for another young woman, who, as soon as she had got the articles, did literally and actually fly with still another young man about whom nothing is known, except that he seems to be the only one in this strange succession of criminals who has reaped any of the T.rits of the original crime. Considering the extreme complication and embarrassment of everybody concerned, and the small likelihood thai he will ever get any of his money back, it is possible that Whitney nwynow almost wish that instead of mobilising his capital in that secret fashion, he had quietly paid his debts with it.— New York Tribune.