BETRAYED BY THE BAGPIPES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 269, 19 September 1879, Page 3

BETRAYED BY THE BAGPIPES.

For nearly two years past a young man wearing the garb of a Highland piper, has been wandering about in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, playing his pipes in the atreet3, attending picnics and dances, and i_ apparently depending on his instrument him a living. A few days since playing in a mining village on the outskirts of Scranton, Pa. A crowd had gathered around him, among them a mine laborer named Brady. Suddenly the piper ceased the music, and stepping from the crowd, seized Brady by the shoulder and announced that the laborer was his prisoner. For two years he had been on the track of his prisoner, who is charged with having murdered a wealthy man named Findlay in Scotland in January, 1871. Brady was in the employ of Findlay. Early one morning the latter was found dead by the roadside with his skull crushed with a club. Brady had been discharged the morning before for drunkenness. He had been heard to make a threat that he would get even with Findlay. He was nowhere to be found, but w»8 tracked to Glasgow, where it was believed he had taken a vessel for America. William Male, detective, was employed by the relatives of the deceased to come to this country to search for Brady, who it was thought would bring up in the Pennsylvania coal regions, where he had friends working. One of Brady's peculiarities was his Jove for the bagpipes, so the detective, being a piper, adopted the disguise of a Scotcli piper, and played absut the coal town in the hope of somo day attracting the attention of the man he was seeking, he being sure from information he had received that Brady really was somewhere in the coal regions. The ruse succeeded after two years of patient trial. Male is now on his way to Scotland with the alleged murderer,