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Show Sriniocs detectives from Xcw York have been making predatory incursions into the smaller towns along the Hudson river, and levying blackmail apon the inhabitants thereof there-of by pretending to notify them of impending visits from bands of burglars. bur-glars. Dates and hours of the expected ex-pected attacks have been given in mysterious communications, in this style: New Yr.r.K. V'c. Z. T-j the 1'rai'h'Ht Hir VtHtfl- Am-- Tievei (oivme for Ameir.J 'o-ms'.it. Have wriuoc particulars t(Jo late. Shull we fjlio th-m Aniwf-r hy u-Ic- prapb. Of course m such iu. t.mces the en-Lerprising en-Lerprising dfcteaive are beccchcd to "folkiw them upland the ;.rliir end; m a 1-c-avy b-il for Ecrvir.cs rc-n-dj. fhesr pur:ou dttcotivts are leag'JC-d with bands of burglars. o tliat the doubting mind may be readily read-ily stimulated into the requisite degree de-gree of terror by an actual robbery when necessary', or when the profits warrant. Detectives, both spurious and genuine, are not profitable or agreeable acquaintances. The people peo-ple of Ameaia, and other towns along the Hudson, have learned this to their sorrow, after much alarm and greater tribulation, and that region will probably pro-bably hereafter prove unsafe for detectives de-tectives during a very extended period per-iod of time, |