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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3731, 9 February 1891, Page 3

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(By Telegraph). (United Press Association). (Jreymoutli and Woatport HarboursWellington, Monday. The Government replied to the deputation re Greymonth and Westporc Harbours that they will withdraw three officials from the Board and replace them with members nominated by the Government. This will hare the effect of throwing the proceedings ? open to the public. RECOLLECTIONS OF A LONDON DETECTIVE. (Continued). Two other of the stopped notes were found in circulation while 1 was making these inquiries, and again one of the firms had the idea that one of the notes had been paicLto them by Powder & Co.'s cashier. I noticed that every evening, and sometimes in the morning, when he came into the city, Morrice stopped for a good while at a which ivn:. ....i.l \U IO ilU*l a branch ik- cit v Si:.' v.-is vouni; and " ißWicc was i'l love with ha. e 1 dropped ir.to the j.hco from :in;o to time, and smoked an:! c!i.;:t-.-.l v.r.h h.;r ti'.i we got quite iritndiy. i. r 1 always had .beknack of petting on nicely with ;:r! v .'Jr.e day 1 pretended to n»>tire '■■r the ;ir>t trr.e that she wore an to her bluntly—- " I shouldn't wonder but Charlie Morrice put that there now She blushed crimson and laughed, very much pleased, and yet taken aback by the remark. Being a married man, with girls of my own, 1 often take upon me to advise yount: girls, and 1 had got to have a kind of interest in this one, so 1 said—- . '.".Do you think Charlie will make a good husband ? Ain't he a little last, and lond of betting and billiards ?" ' ".He gave up billiards long ago." she said, in a woman's proud way. as if che giving up had ; been through her, " and he will never bet any more; he's got a j;ood fright, and sworn never to bet or go to a race meeting again." ■■-'"A iright? how? Lost some money, eh?" Yes, a great deal—a good bit more than he could —but I shouldn't speak of that It was all made right through the knidno.- .-. o( a friend ; but it will keep him back lor a long time and put oft our marriage two years I don't mind that if it does hiin good. He's a good lad, and so kind and loving, but he has been foolish, that's all " ' "He looks a good lad, and simple cn-m-h to be led away." I said, which was quite true, "but I don't think he'd do anything

wrong ?" -No—no," she answered with a In tie hesitation, and then more decidedly she added, " he neVer will " X did not draw.much rriore out of her, and I left the place sincerely hoping that if he •was the; affair of the stopr-sd notes this girl would be saved from being tied to hiniifoc life, for it seemed-.to tne that -,he deser.ed a happy and prosperous union with some honest fellow less easily led by the nose than this novice. The question that now arose in my mind was the first thai? occurs to any one wh-jre a clerk has got into a difficulty with money if; his own -money; he. lost ? Hundreds offools every year put a little of their master's money in the stake along with their own; sometimes they win, and the borrowing transaction is never discovered ; but/generally they "lose, and go either into-prison-as'conv-icts or into the river as suicides. A friend had helped him out of the difficulty, but the thing was to cripple him. "for; years—what could that mean but bogbwed money, possibly at high interest ? The same evening, as I was following Morrice from his office towards the cigar shop, hecrossed" Bishopgate Street suddenly towards the corner of Houndsditch and stopped a. .man, who was. turning smartly dowmin that direction. T could not-see the whole of the man's face, but the Jewish features were plain enough. Morrice. had only'a word or two with him in passing, and then moved on as"'before.' My curiosity was roused, and I'determined'to foljow the man # and see who he-was.' At the foot of the street I got in front of him and riised him as Joss Murger, a man wherhad once been one of ..the smartest welchers infesting the racecourses. He had grown stont, though, and somewhat prosperous, so he : was riot so fit for running I knewahim first. ' I never could compare Joss's running, in his swift days, to anything iut that of a, mouse. \Vhen you see a mouse run across a room, the motion of its legs are so and itslbody lies so close to the floor, that you do'not 'see a limb move—the thing seems to dart and disappear. That was Jgss's style, when the race went the wrong way. He used to chuckle to me over the success of his tricks. " I'm doin' the fools good," he would say, " for, it" they didn't lose their money to me, they'd be sure to lose it a'worse way; or, if I stayed and paid up all square, they get gambling their masters' money, and never stop shori ofthe Old Bailey. When I nip them at the beginning, it disgusts and cures 'em. I'm better than twenty-preachers, for noitiiny touches a man so powerful as losin' money " I-did not for a moment imagine that Joss was the thief of the stopped notes. A Jew doesn't make a good thief, and seldom tries a line he is so unfitted for by nature Any kind of quiet crime, where there are many chances of escape, he will try and execute with the most elaborate cunning, though the profit should be absolutely, contemptible in comparison to the" labour involved, but bold robbery is queit put of their line. " I stopped Joss and chaffed him a bit.. He was anxious to know what I was about at that particular'moment, and of course I told him—Walker! ■ He pretended to accept my story in good faith, and I knew he was- pretending,- and he knew I was romancing, and it was nothing but a pretty farce altogether When Morrice had stopped him at the head of the sfaset I tried to " bear up " behind, but'the only word I caught was "station '. Morrice •seemed angry and heated, and spoke loudly and .imperatively, or'l should not have caught even that word. I pondered it for a little, and concluded to try Liverpool Street Station. Morrice lived out near Bryant..-& May's Match Works, fully-five minutes'-ride from the city, and always came and went from Liverpool Station. Allowing him an hour or an houi and a half at home, he might be back at the city about half-past six o'clock, and what Could be a more natural place for bim to meet a friend belonging to that quarter than at the railway station ? I smudged my'ace and did up as a beggar with bare feet, jtnd only a shirt, waistcoat, and trousers on, and went to the station and watched every incoming train, after I had explained to the stationmastd:'that I was not a beggar deserving seven days for daring to show inv rags and loiter in that place. I had been in the place speaking to him only the night before about a missing dressing-case, and I chaffed him over his blunder in not recognising me, though I was not so hopeful oi cheating Joss's sharp eyes. About seven o'clock Joss appeared, and I fefcpt well out of sight. He was joined a few minutes later by Morrice from one ol the trains, and the two went to a publichouse in a street off Bishopgate. I was

" bearing up " all the way, and Joss seemed sharp than usual, for he only once round, and then when he saw me seemed to have no suspicion. All the way MOrrice was pouring out his anger upon Joss, who laughed at it all. "You've cheated me into a dangerous job, when professing to be only lending money for a decent interest, and helping me out of a difficulty," he cried more than once. "If they are traced to me, what will become of me?"

"Why, you'll go to prison, of course." I understood Joss to say, though he was so W cautious that I could scarcely catch the words. "You'd have gone there anyhow, so what's the use of making a fuss over it." "They're after me now—l know they are," continued Morrice. " A man was at me the other day about one of the notes. 1 didn't suspect anything then, but I believe now that that man was.a detective. If I bad known then that, the notes were wronu. so pote of them would have gone out, but now I am helpless." "Then If jron hadn't passed them, how jOnld yon have squared your books ?" said Joss with a wicked laugh, and less cautiously than before. "What toooks?" cried Morrice, cuito jghast* '■* 'it". Ob, yfln thinlf I didn't know what yon pSnted the£soo for?" said Joss.«'• Think t?'dyin't,laiow l all you lost at-the D ;rby s andFv;nsteit came from? and where you'd bavebeen if I hadn't given you the neediul It's all-right and safe with me though. .-,0 don't get alarmed. I'll never peach if 1 tind vog jrnsosableand willing Jo do me a g<x»i turn_«t timeK Is it a b»rg*iu,2 bo .Continued,)