RECOLLECTION OF A LONDON DETECTE (Countinued.)

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 30 May 1891, Page 4

RECOLLECTION OF A LONDON DETECTE (Countinued.)

eence shs urged me to go there and arrest him I explained that before I could do that I must have pi oof, and it was in hope Of eettin? lliat that I wished his address. Far from bein? S'>!e ti > arrest him. I did not wish him even t*, Unc^^t I was on bis track. She thehßav^^ *Ome Particulars of her life, from^liich V: speared- hat of a handsome fortune which c with her to her husband there was left K wely suflicient to keep them alive. They we, "c, dee P!y *n debt, and the great house am. l servants must all ba relinquished soon. ° , hesitated to reveal the truth to thY on .'y relative she had—an uncle, who she e^ dared would be apt to kill her husband if Ik " discovered the truth^ 'The m6ney and property had all gone in t a few months, and mostly she believecl Inrough the demon haunting her husband. "What will becoipepf: Baby Pet?" was] her pitiful conclusion. , Jj; ]r, ■ It was a dreadful' and'melancholy•. story,; and I was really glad when'I 1 got away front her tearful face, and the pallid atomy of a child rating in her arms. In the evening I managed to get into a bouse opposite-that occupied by Moulpied, and for three hours I did not take my eyes off the door except'; to look into his room.''' I \vai sffectuallyl screened by a lace window-curtain. About) dusk Warren arrived in a hansom,' andi Mou!pied and he soon reappeared, and were| about to enter the vehicle, when a female figure approached and tried to detain' \V;u ion. The hansom was between us, so I cou! I not see tbesfaca of tjie-g^fl, but\, saw Warren givln|jper^fati\^wj^ich r sfcnt! her realing backwaras agafnst?the iron failings ; then he and his companion stepped into the cab and were off. I fancied now that I recognised Mrs^ Warren, in the prostrate figure, roundWhicfi'some street gamins # were beginning to gather, and I ran down and acrosr, the street to pick her up. - She appeared stunned, but otherwise not much hurt, but she kept trying to put up her hand in a feeble fa§hiqiyta- /eßK,tb«f back pf her head, and, by liftWg^^y^tlii; bonnet and dark brown hair, vdiscovcred that it wascut and bleeding. "-; J- f ? ' With some difficulty I got a cab, and sent her to the nearest hospital under charge of the policeman on the beat, with instructions to have her conveyed' to' her home' as soon as the wound had been seen and-dressed by the resident surgeon. I did not for a moment think the injury a serious one, for it bled very little. I then invaded Moulpied's lodgings, and had., Jo frighten the'landlady well ba fore she : would allow me to look through his effects. ji I discovered but little, ?et nearly as much as was needed to secure lis arrest. There >vas a letter under a weight on the mantelpiece, addressed to "M.: Moulpied Bordelaise'," "and written in French in a hand bearing a close resemblance to a specimen already in our possession. The contents were in cipher, and one so- ingeniously constructed that the contents remain unread to this day. The specimen we held was written by the man supposed to be the actual forger of the notes on the Bank of France, Moulpied having been chiefly engaged in the passing of the notes. The meeting of Warren and Moulpied had been for the purpose of seeing a new play at the Haymarket, after which they would probably adjourn to some gaming house in which to spend half of the night. ..I therefore drove to the theatre as soon as I had searched the rooms and put them under lock and key. The*%vo ririenda, were, in a private box. Moulpied** seemed rather . 'savage on recognising me, but rose at once when I told him to come wjch.me,. leaving the tiger-headed cane, in the-corner' of the box. "You are forgetting your stick," I remarked with little elation, but in "perfect innocence. He gave me a queer 100k —dark and searching —but took up the malacca without 'a word and followed me. 1 I handcuffed him--outside-the box, and, when his companion protested, I told him [to go to the hospital and see after his wife. •Rather sobered, he dropped off, and I saw him no more for a week, when I was sent to arrest him. The true reading of that strange look given me by Moulpied did not appeal for some days, when one of the sarjgeants happened to be examining and adimiring tli2 tiger-headed malacca. It was a stout cane, and not at all like one which a fashionable gent like Moulpied would choose to carry —the style at that time being for fast men to carry very slender canes. Thsre was a band of silver fastening the ti-'cr-head to the cane, and at first the idea lv.id struck some of us tfittf'tlje whole might jbe a sworcl-cane,'aticl*~l r^nember we made several attempts Act discover if the, head |came oft, but faitetrtb^eftf to move. * The iscrgeant, however, in admiring and inspecting the head of the cane, chanced to put his finger tip into the mouth to touch the ivory tongue, when he found that it moved down•wards as on a hinger *>&* tjhe same moment there was a click as'of a spring, and the Ihead parted slightly from the cane. To take |off the head was then jeasy, and the cane [was found to c&^ijPqinte"a ccbilection of letters in French, from the forger already [alluded to. These were written on thin •paper, and not all fp.: cypher. A certain !street in Paris—one of those steep ones leading up to Mont Mart —was also named, and a plan proposed for forging notes on the Bank of E^ghtftaCrGA. speTSijHSff r np|iB T was alluded to as*beifl)f forwarclea with one of the letters, but the note itself was not found in the cane. The result of this discovery j-was sent acrotftßAaiXrßiemß^Slice, and the forger wa^taT^rWßaysTaTer. , Two of the officers came over to convey Moulpied across the channel, and the two were tried tog^erHSnc^warcJecr'-jfifteen years a-piece. v "*" Mrs Warren was found to have her skull (badly fractured, and was not allowed to be taken from the hoapitaLto-her own house. Her husband visited her there, and wept maudlin tears over the young life he had wrecked, but the tears came too late, Jfo£ she was nnly'fflirtVi*. S^jyj^ fryirijiyg Trfiftn? she died. "What jji©ifpfcjn^oF Baby Pet?" was the only connected utterance jwhich escaped her after the accident. I was sent to arre^k.;^a^ffi|onA\charge of manslaughter, bu^|sjft)Wovc.w l nen he came to be tried he was acquitted. I have seen him since, and he seems sober and steady -.. enough now, and Baby Pet, whom I thought dromed to die. -is!SC>>ogMTfe]im girl of fifteen, and the very picture of health. The father is a clerk in the city, and has always a cloud on his brow, and I fancy does not look at me very pleasantly", knowing tha 1 I koow something of the cause. He ought to b. more grateful. (Ti«nKiH>.i.:i; • i • ''