| Show A way to raise ioney about the most desperate thing I 1 ever heard of in the way of money raising came to my professional notice some years ago said 1 detective to me complaint was made at the office that a diamond ond atud valued at over a thousand dollars had been stolen from a certain up town house I 1 was detailed on the case and after a few hours found the stone which had been pawned for when property is found at a pawnbroker the amount advanced on it fa returned to hiim eithel by the owner or the thief if Hs resources will allow of such a thing the law protects the broker and it is proper that it should but the capture and conviction of tha thief is a necessary factor in such cases this time no traca of the burglar could be found the owners proved property and the brilliant was returned to them it represented at this stage a clear gain for the rascal and s dead loss for the pawnbroker it was not long before we had oui man though and then there waa prompt conviction a sentence of one year in the elmira reformatory and a vain search fox the owners of the property the matter dropped from my mind in the rush of other business until one day I 1 learned the secret of the whole operation the theft had been the deed of the eon of the robbed family they were borely in need of money and had resorted to this way of getting it when called on to reimburse the luckless pawnbroker they were apparently penniless the thief had then gone free and all the parties interested had dropped from sight that fellow was paid or rather paid himself at the rate of three dollars per day during his stay in elmira new York Herald |
