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Show ' (;K.NEi:ot's ol eat or a to.v- ilLT. AISOUKLIX WOMAN'S STOKVtU- A BCBULAB AND HIS WEALTH. "Some vears ngo my fiiiher rented a luiuc in WtUierefieW from Cap-t-iiu U'lltanl, Krho th!! tbe warden of live O'onHfctlcut (Jla't; I'rix-ii. 1 le vss f U-rwnrds ptabbtrd to Jtatli, as you uy retuetuber, ly out- of the prisoiwrii, uho ssaa liatipl for the inunfer," saUl a Umoklyn lady. Iy latliet's family was very large, but ro a- tlie oltl liou-f. aii'i there wan plenty of rvoro for us alL The srouuds were tpactowi, and re-iuni.-l a Kood deal of care, .-o that live or mx (xibiFed gardeners were often nofkitigon tliem. Thte men nere all cotni. L-, hired by niy fither from the urinou, uhirli a abutitarjuarUrroi n mile from our house. CaCahi Willard saW tliry wt re a Uaiig-niua lot. and warned us to watch them clorely, and ad-vied ad-vied my father not to allotr any of utt s'rl" 1" H-ak to tin ra or to ko near them alone. I can cut say, lioa-ever, that any of the (( al-loted al-loted to us l wrmbbeluTed uulesf, in kill. It was the one alrnit whom 1 am going ti, spea!.. "This was a big, good-natured ft lion, very blark, a -H ILiI iiaml h Hli the banjo, and about rears old. His wife and ihildren went to see him iu tlie jail every r letting day, anu they all eeeiued to lie veri' lijfu of the future, for the jri-Hiuer jri-Hiuer was aerriug a term of only five years, lie was su'pecUtl of having uBrtirJTuteU iu a numlwr of burglaries but was con vn ted of but one, Uie n.bbery of a jewelry store in Hartford. Very little proi-rty wasfouud ltli him whru he was arretted, and though the (-tore bad been completely emptied of it valuable, valu-able, it waa MJppoM.'d that ho had played but 3 very small tart in the mid upon it, aau bis Mtitence was HghL I'.ut one day this mau, to whom my father l.au been v0" Wind, told him ti.at he had Uf n entirely alone III Ins list roblK-ry and a dozen others auu that the day before he had It-en t'lken ii.tu ru!ody, knowing know-ing that fci arrii-t waa imminent, he bad buriea all uu bwity, amounting amount-ing in value, he thought, to oluee on f-jOlHIi), in an uufreipjeiited (dace, lieonered to tell my fa' her where tlie treaMire Hy, and nhare it eijually with him if iie nuuM tinet'rUi it, turn it into ca)i, and hold it until his term of Lnprr-onmeut bail ebunl. fif cjre, my father re-fuMd re-fuMd tollmen t such a proposition, anu trieii to worm out of his informant inform-ant here the utalth w.if. hidden; but tbe priKiner was too running fur him. He deti-eled ha oljevt, and became very n tut oL "About i mi'Utu after tlie man had iieenrehared my father received fully Sw worth of jeuelry. In Hie shape of bu !'.' rings and hraceltts. : There was no letter Willi the bundle, Imt tliero was no duulit alaiut the ntvuraty of tlie address. The ' tlui.es were shawn to the jeweler who lis J tieen nJi-d, lait be Mid none of tliem had ever belonged to him, so we kept them, MihjeU to an original owner's i laiin. -Ia'c ln5 winter I was in Xew Orleans v. i:h my iiuUmnd. and one iifttrnooa an eldirly p-ljicii man nceosleii me a- I was waiklug in l!ie htrett. He wac dressed in the nst fashionable material, cut iu the latest stsie, nnd he literally twinkled nit-i diamond; but 1 easily rengiui-d ouroldWethem field gardener. He wis evidently quite neb, and I -Uil him whin and how he had acquired ht-utaltb. ht-utaltb. " Mi&sy,' licsaU. forgetting that I was an elderly married woman, -it was betV i went to prison. I done tole yer o. all 'bout it, but be give me de cole shoMab.' |