Show H tf HM 3 The ManInI ManInt 4 the box A detective solved the 5 tery of ills being there by john L everhart cop right by american press pi tea aso elation clation 11 1911 1 hen I 1 arst first entered upon the de 1 being inexperienced I 1 found it difficult to get a position and w i hen I 1 jot ot ono one I 1 couldn coulden t leer leep it I 1 bad find be bet u n arid by one or two agen bivs but had beon outwitted by the putties pa I 1 ind been sent seat to outwit and after one of mi tit failure failures found myself with fill no lio and not a cent in my picket win walking malling disconsolately along nr air manue m coupled solely 1 by time 1111 I 1 saw mim a agro o 0 man alit id of we wheeling it I 1 ox ov on it truck lit 1 I titI to be talking t in tit a lo 10 ton tonk and I 1 t line title up tit without INIth out making silly nolar indeed my foot falls fall t ery cry well LII bo be heard because eau se tin the day lay ans wet t and I 1 wore vore rubbers N liking for a short distance behind bilin I 1 heard him siy sty tabea I 1 ae ket t to the till steps going down into too the isemena I 1 11 call look out sos so yoi yol can I 1 race yourself As soon oun iii I 1 heard beard this I 1 surmised that somebody was in tho the box there seemed to me lue but one reison reason for any ono one to be thui thus incased and that was cither either to break or ev itle the law borne boule pemon u ills goldir to effect nn an entrance somewhere in order to be concealed tn in the box till a favorable opportunity should arise to commit a crime or some one was escaping from the po lice my detective instincts further told me that vint if the person in the box boc were going to rub rob he be taken to a mercantile building if 1 he were going to escape tho the police be would bo be taken to a railroad station and ped as freight this lest lent was ung my favorite theory I 1 knew knem that it was wag much easier to ap prop movable property belonging to others othen than that to get am away a v with it and turn it into cash suddenly the negro porter turned wheeling the box into the basement door of a handsome dwelling house I 1 had lind purposely acly dropped behind him that in case ho he stopped I 1 would not feel obliged to walk past him ho ile eased en s tho the truck down three s under de r the tho stoop and just aa as he be reached the t h e basement ba ement door it was opened open ed by a maid mald that ha I 1 said ro to myself I 1 this 1 Is it servants s er scheme there are more burgl urlet committed through the con entrance of servants than ans other way there 1 N a inan in tint th it box hov who when very ivery ona in the hoube 14 1 will get out of it and carr olt IT alint he becan can find WP shall get ali rhth tin r he lie will or not it haq jut JIM lo 10 I 1 e e dark darl ahn hut t tux 1 ix was wheeled into tile howe lioi il 1 ahe I lie hour fitted tny my theor exactly per son would not wish to remain dint up nil in fit auch stich quarter any thin tit in nace kven even 11 it wa it would be vi emmry for hini to stay where ho he was for several hours I 1 waited till I 1 saw tin tili negro 0 10 awn with hia ills rock mick then ent about log nn an excuse to visit the houie houge with n view to locating citing lo the coition poI tIon of 0 the lox bov an advertisement IN hid hail left sonic handbills puff ing a fact powder pon der on the along tho the street gathering Oath cring a bev of them I 1 went ment to the basement door of the hono I 1 wa interested in and rang the th bell the th mald who had let in the porter an answered gerNI the summons first lighting a gas jet in tit the basement As oon A ai she opened the door I 1 11 saw aw the tile box standing in a corner in t the he hall where the darky had loft left it the tile top wai still on it the maid was mas n verv verr nice looking girl not one to lo 10 suRl suspected of admitting n bur glar to the boure I 1 asked her if I 1 could tell her some face powder but at the aine she saw me looking at the W box wr r nul ind shut the tile door in my flee lint but since I 1 had hail what I 1 wished to see hia treatment trouble ine me I 1 bad had viry little doubt lit I 1 had nn an incipient Inci plent robbery I 1 was not doubtful as to the means of pr venting it what mat wl egli mo agag how ho to turn hit that prevention to HI TU own oin account if I 1 lent to the owner nf of the 11 ind and told him that then ther was i burglar concealed in lite fib n no would call the tile police the burglar ie le and IM WJ the owner would klit me 8 5 fer for haring aurnt died hint him the anfor I 1 wn waa r a barkr it to me abot I 1 wout I 1 better 1 out Pom something ething concerning con corning the pw pen pl ph who elrett in the house it was wr a IlAnd Me tone front dinell nit and could only he 1 ly by wealtha people fortunately I 1 eil that the ali ceu for ifju 1010 was ins being taken I 1 would mall iny malf elf of ihli ft fitch i ceniu etli elal I 1 could ask nl all tho the I 1 liked ilki mahout su sit g hut but I 1 would likely IN ix admit twi by the tile mall I 1 to whom I 1 had bail tried to ell 11 the face ponder and t do to play two parts to the wine mint audience I 1 went to in my r room where I 1 kept various 11 beep materials and put on t different atilt of or clothes and a full leard and mustache rind spectacles thus thug arrayed I 1 went to the house la in que question tIon rani rang the front door bell and wa was admitted by the I 1 ame maid as before I 1 told hr that emust I 1 must see the master of the house about the Ce casai 1501 and twe do showed me irto the front parlor and went upstairs in a few minutes no an elderly g gantle antle man came down tere was something about him I 1 didat ildr t like at all iio ile had the craftiest face and eye on hlin hirn of any roan man I 1 ever saw I 1 had a blank book in my ray hand and opening it I 1 it to taking down town aepli replies asked him film ruch such questions as are usual ly asked by gathe gatherers reri I 1 learn cd ed that hit hlo u wag I 1 aurence girard that he lived in the house houge with his niece mho ts b 0 would come of ago age in a few days and that he lie and she were the only persona persons living there except the servant whose names I 1 took dow domn n with pretended care dailig asked nil the ques questions tiong 1 I dared are I 1 up tip roy my book rind depar t d one thine thing I 1 had decide 1 on that I 1 moul tint trust that man to rein relm burse bume ine tile for any information I 1 might rive him without security As I 1 was the steps a nian man turned to e enter af at the basement door do you live me here I 1 asked as s dr I 1 in the tile butler I 1 ni taking tithing the tile cc demeus I 1 let et me see if I 1 have hare your name 1 I 1 looked in the record I 1 had taken and found the man name IlIc bard coa n then I 1 engaged him in con cor vers atlon I 1 found him al mint cathe I 1 asked him film what k elul III I 1 of a twin his master was and rec received el red na an reply but when I 1 m mentioned en tinned h his ls masters master q niece ho he m warmed armed up a bit miss edith Is 14 a lovely gir he salil it must be lonely for her hero here fir ins ing with nn an old man 1 I I 1 remarked the man made no reply to this but there N was as Pv evidence Ideno of something aar pasa ing in tila ills mind IN V hen I 1 left him I 1 had mide made up my mind that there was mas a myrtry coa with nith the premi premises seq I 1 shifted my theory from a hiding burglar though thoi iRli I 1 t form any other I 1 was seized with nn an uncontrollable do de sire to piss the night in the house and see nhat happened that la Is it if any thing did happen but I 1 despaired of framing any plan that would enable me to do so then I 1 con the expediency of breaking in tit As toon loon as I 1 was convinced that e ev cry ery one in IV tho the house except the lie person in the box was asleep I 1 went ment into the alley at the rear and found that by climbing n ner er a high fence I 1 could get into the backyard back yard of the boua in question atlon going to my room I 1 vol ok a burglars i jimmy some skeleton leys and an electric h ind lamp and about 11 clock ment seat back to the house bouse concealing myself n the back yard halt half no an hour after I 1 saw the lait light turn ed cd out I 1 examined a rear basement window not in ho ile hall where the bos box was and finding that I 1 could tako take out a pane of glasa and unlock the window I 1 did so after passing inside rind listening I 1 sprung my ruy electric light and found myself in the kitchen going through a it door into the hall I 1 located the box from front memory but I 1 dian didn t to 0 o near ir it I 1 sat down la in abo ond tind waited it hour passed without a sound 1 hm lun I 1 heird a screw acre turning maetril uch auch I 1 heard n bearl 1 I from the top of the box laid j etli on oil the bloor thare wen mem more ofte turnings turnIng 4 tatti th 11 after another un una A retno ed I 1 heard iward L sound S 4 indicating flint polite one 1 was a 9 getting out of the tile box 11 in a J few minutes more footsteps indicated a person coment lilly toward the tile kitchan door drawing a it rc roler I 1 always carri carried cj I 1 passed the key of my MT electric light and it fell full on a iu ans face he mals lOt lothlin nothing llin like ille it burglar but A well mell dressed joung man mail about awen tone t one lit ile was v very 0 P uch startled come in hero here I 1 said and taking him into tim kitchen I 1 shut the door tell me what this means first fint tell tel I 1 me NN who you are 11 lie replied I 1 told him of my tay accidental discovery of his ills entrance into the house then he unfolded a plot of the master of the house to make away with hia ills niece who at eighteen would be in po possession of nn an immense fortune the young man was her lover lie ile wai wag ignorant of what plan her uncle would adopt to remove her oud and git g lt her tier property to which he lie was next I 1 in line of inheritance but the servants had told him that the oung lady was keit lei t it prisoner the maid mald and the butler wire in the lovers secret which uns to release the girl of course I 1 sympathized with ills object 1 ct and find offend to help him lie ile bad find 11 1 1 informed as to the room tha tile girl ill was coutin counnis I in she knew of bisi his projected attempt and alad was as waiting malting for him I 1 followed fOl follow lOmed cd him upstairs stealthily to the be he sought ind lad when we reached it he put his hind hand on the knob to open it he failed to do so 10 turning ti tu me with nith despair oi 01 lia lis face he ile whispered it its a locktu 11 bat me try I 1 eald said and gettI rj out 0 ut my skelt ton keys I 1 opened tha the dior dor giving place to him my eyes wen were good gi enough to see that ho ht was joined b a it woman without n word all three of us ed down the staircase but found eera er doot locked and the tile keys reiney I I 1 led the holers to the window by ty willell I 1 ha ila I 1 entered and pasi pass ing 1110 out we two men helped the girl ar or the ali fence I 1 rom the alley wo we entered A thorough fire which at that tha hour w u s dearte I 1 was about to genvo them when N lien the young man sahl said botne with us to n clergyman clergy min we alfi you tu to bitne witness our marriage that waa was my iny start I 1 didn dian t prevent a burglary bur gidry of money but I 1 effected nil abduction of a girl the young map dc lared that without my ray agil assistance stance his attempt would hive been futile the day lay after their marriage the wife fell feli heir to a million and the they made m e A handsome present with permission to call on then them whenever I 1 needed fund |