Part 1

KNOTS UNTIED: OR, _WAYS AND BY-WAYS_ IN THE HIDDEN LIFE OF AMERICAN DETECTIVES.

BY

=OFFICER GEORGE S. McWATTERS,=

LATE OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE, NEW YORK.

A NARRATIVE OF MARVELLOUS EXPERIENCES AMONG ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY,--CRIMINALS IN HIGH LIFE, SWINDLERS, BANK ROBBERS, THIEVES, LOTTERY AGENTS, GAMBLERS, NECROMANCERS, COUNTERFEITERS, BURGLARS, ETC., ETC., ETC.

=HARTFORD:= =J. B. BURR AND HYDE.= =1871.=

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

J. B. BURR AND HYDE,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane.

PREFACE.

I am aware that the preface of a book is usually the last portion of it which is read--if read it is--and, therefore, of little import; and I have, consequently, deliberated somewhat whether I would encumber the following tales with a prefix or not, but perhaps it is due to the reader to say (what, however, is apparent enough in some of the tales themselves) that the experiences and observations therein narrated, are not all personally mine; that some of them have, at different times, been detailed to me by old and tried personal friends, of deep knowledge of the world, and of extreme sagacity, and that I have presented them here, together with my own, in special instances, as being equally illustrative with mine of subtle human nature.

What is specifically my own in these tales, and what little I am indebted for to my good friends, I leave to such as may be curious, to determine for themselves. It must now suffice them (for in the experiment of "book-making" I have nearly lost my best patience--amidst its multiplicity of perplexities; its "proof-reading," the awful blunders of the printers, the "bungling" of the mails, the calls for "more copy" at inopportune moments, etc., etc.)--it must suffice them, I repeat, simply to know, that whatever experiences here recited are not my own, are equally authentic with mine, and, in my judgment, add to the merits of "Knots Untied" (if merits it has) rather than detract therefrom. So, since it cannot be that the reader will peruse my book for my sake, but for the book's sake and for his own, let him thank me for whatever "clearer light" I have accepted from others for his benefit.

It was only at the instance--I might properly say by the repeated importunity--of certain partial friends of mine, that I was first induced to put into readable form some of the notes of my experiences and observations, particularly those running through a period of a dozen years of official life, preceded by a dozen more of a quasi-official character. I would remark here, that no chronological order has been observed in the collation of the tales composing "Knots Untied."

Having, from my early days, been interested with various sociological problems, it has been my wont to fix in memoranda, of one form or another, such data as I conceived worthy, as simple statistics or eccentric facts, bearing upon the great general question of human suffering and crime, and their causes, and the means of their depiction, and final extinction also (as I firmly believe) in "the good time coming," when Science shall have ripened the paltry and distracted civilization of the present into that enlightenment in which alone the race should be contented to live,--in which only, in truth, they can be fully content with existence,--and which the now subject classes could, if they were wise enough to know their rights and their power, command in concert, for themselves, and the ruling classes as well.

And these partial friends of mine have thought I might do some good, and that I ought to, however little it may prove, to the cause of human happiness,--in the intent thereby of enlarging the security of the innocent from the machinations of the depraved,--by the detail of certain wily "offences against the law and good order of society," while demonstrating therein how sure of final discovery and punishment are the criminally vicious, however crafty and subtle, in these days, when the art of police detection has become almost an exact science.

Authors are sometimes sensitive (I believe), about the reception which they, "by their works," may meet with at the hands of the public; and not seldom do they, in more or less ingenious ways, attempt to cajole their readers, through well-studied prefaces, into a prejudicedly favorable mood regarding the body of their books. Perhaps mine is a singularly good fortune, in that my partial and importuning friends before alluded to, have given me consoling courage to "go forward" and publish what they are so kind as to be pleased with, by the assurance that they will take upon themselves, and patiently bear, all the severe criticism, the curses, the wanton blows, etc., which may be aimed at me by "hypercritical critics," or by vexed and wrathful readers; while I shall be left to enjoy, unalloyed, all the "blessings" with which the rest of the public may be pleased to favor me.

I regarded this as so excellent an expression of human[e] goodness upon the part of these my friends, that I consented to honor it, by submission to their will. Hence these tales, in their printed form,--designed at first to beguile an hour for particular friends in the reading, as the same had beguiled many long hours for me in the writing,--and not primarily intended to be put into the form of a book. If any good to the world accrues from their publication, through the instruction which they may afford to some, perhaps; or by their possibly enlarging the scope of the reader's charity for the erring, or in any way, I shall be gratified; and so (it _is_ but fair in me to add this, for they are human, and sensitive to the joys which "a good done" brings)--and so, to repeat, will also be my aforesaid partial, good friends.

GEORGE S. MCWATTERS.

CONTENTS.

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PUBLISHERS' INTRODUCTION. 18

=BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.=

=OFFICER GEORGE S. McWATTERS.=

PERSONAL DESCRIPTION--ALWAYS TEMPERATE--IN WONDERFUL PRESERVATION--"A GOOD FACE TO LOOK INTO"--NEITHER SCOTCH, IRISH, NOR ENGLISH IN APPEARANCE. 21

=WHERE HE WAS BORN AND REARED.=

NO MATTER WHERE A MAN IS BORN--KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND--NORTH OF IRELAND--AMBITIOUS BOYHOOD--"THE BEAUTIFUL LAND BEYOND THE WESTERN WATERS"--INTENSELY DEMOCRATIC--BECOMES A MECHANIC. 21

=REMOVES TO LONDON.=

FOLLOWS HIS TRADE IN LONDON--MARRIES THERE--HIS INTERESTING FAMILY--MISS CHARLOTTE, HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER--HER MARRIAGE--SIGNOR ERRANI. 23

=MIGRATES TO THE UNITED STATES.=

OFFICER McWATTERS' GREAT SYMPATHY FOR CHATTEL AND WAGES-SLAVES--HIS COUNTLESS DEEDS OF BENEVOLENCE LEAVE HIM NO TIME TO GET RICH--ANECDOTE OF PROFESSOR AGASSIZ. 24

=SETTLES IN PHILADELPHIA, AND STUDIES LAW.=

A YEAR (1848-9) IN A LAW OFFICE--REVELS IN THE STUDY OF BLACKSTONE, KENT, CHITTY, ETC.--A BEAUTIFUL DREAM. 25

=A HEART TOO SOFT FOR A LAWYER.=

THE BEAUTIFUL DREAM OVERSHADOWED--POOR ORPHANS AND POOR DEBTORS TOUCH HIS HEART WITH THEIR SUFFERINGS--DISTRAINING GOODS FOR RENT--A TOUCHING STORY--McWATTERS' BENEVOLENT DEVICE--HE QUITS THE LAW IN DISGUST. 25

=DEPARTS FOR CALIFORNIA.=

THE "GOLD FEVER"--IN THE NEW ELDORADO--THE RECKLESS WARFARE OF GREED AND CRIME--MEN LOST THEIR CONSCIENCES THERE--RETURN. 26

=BACK IN NEW YORK.=

ASSOCIATED WITH LAURA KEENE, AS HER AGENT--FIRST CALLED UPON TO ENACT THE PART OF A DETECTIVE--HIS SUCCESS, AND WHAT IT LED TO. 27

=MR. McWATTERS AS AGENT AND LECTURER.=

BECOMES EXHIBITING LECTURER, ACCOMPANYING A GRAND PANORAMA--IN THE CHIEF CITIES AND TOWNS--THE COUNTESS OF LANDSFELDT, OR "LOLA MONTEZ." 28

=ANECDOTE OF LOLA MONTEZ AND LAURA KEENE.=

AN AMUSING STORY--LOLA BECOMES PIOUS, AND SELLS HER THEATRICAL WARDROBE--LAURA PURCHASES A PART--A SPLENDID SILK DRESS PATTERN PROVES TO BE FURNITURE CLOTH--ATTACKS AND RETORTS--THE GOODS FINALLY BURNED UP. 28

=MR. McWATTERS SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS.=

HIS GREAT INTEREST IN SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS--HOW SHALL THE GRIEVOUS BURDENS WHICH FALL UPON THE LABORING CLASSES BE MADE LIGHTER? 29

=OUR SUBJECT AND THE PUBLIC PRESS.=

REMARKABLE RECORD--PUSILLANIMOUS HIGHWAYMEN--TWO KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD FRIGHTENED BY A SPECTACLE-CASE. 30

=McWATTERS ENTERS THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE.=

DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF THEREIN IN MANY WAYS DURING A PERIOD OF TWELVE YEARS--OFFICER MCWATTERS UBIQUITOUS--THE STARVING PEOPLE OF KANSAS (1861) ELICIT HIS SYMPATHIES--A FORCIBLE PUBLIC SPEAKER. 33

=PERSONAL INCIDENTS.=

RESCUES CHILDREN AND MEN FROM WATERY GRAVES--ALWAYS AT HIS POST OF DUTY--RECEIVES THE WARMEST PRAISE OF HIS CHIEF OFFICER, SUPERINTENDENT KENNEDY--THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN. 34

=OFFICER McWATTERS DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR.=

HIS FORESIGHT--UNDERSTOOD THE MISERIES OF THE SUBJECT-CLASSES--HIS APPRECIATION OF REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS--PREVENTED BY UNTOWARD CIRCUMSTANCES FROM GOING TO THE FRONT--NOT OF THE "NOBLE HOME GUARD." 36

=FIRST SEIZURE OF GUNS AT THE NORTH.=

OFFICER MCWATTERS INTERCEPTS DAHLGREN GUNS ON THEIR WAY TO THE REBELS, MAY 11, 1861--HONORABLE MENTION BY THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE--FERNANDO WOOD'S INFAMOUS APOLOGY TO TOOMBS--WOOD AND MCWATTERS COMPARED--THE GRATITUDE OF REPUBLICS. 37

=OFFICER McWATTERS' SERVICES THROUGH THE PUBLIC PRESS.=

ABLE AND SPIRITED LETTERS TO THE PRESS--NOBLE WORDS ADDRESSED TO THE WORKINGMEN OF THE NATION. 38

=KINDLY AND WISE PROVIDENCE.=

PRIVATE APPEAL FOR LEMONS FOR THE FAMISHING SOLDIERS, MAY, 1863--IT DID A BRAVE WORK--EVENTUALLY INSPECTOR CARPENTER REVEALS THAT IT WAS ONE OF OFFICER MCWATTERS' BENEVOLENT DEEDS--OTHER EFFECTIVE MODES OF AIDING SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. 39

="RIOT WEEK," JULY, 1863.--OFFICER McWATTERS IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT.=

THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC PULSE OF THE NORTH WHEN THE RIOT BROKE OUT--THE NUMBER KILLED THAT WEEK IN NEW YORK ESTIMATED AT OVER FOURTEEN HUNDRED!--McWATTERS AND HIS FELLOW-OFFICERS FIGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE MOB INTO THE TRIBUNE OFFICE--McWATTERS FELLED TO THE GROUND; SPRINGS TO HIS FEET, AND DEALS DESTRUCTIVE BLOWS UPON HIS ASSAILANTS. 40

=OFFICER McWATTERS AND HIS LITERARY ASSOCIATES.=

COUNTLESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC PRESS--HIS UNPRETENTIOUS CAREER--"PFAFF'S," A FAMOUS RESORT FOR AUTHORS AND ARTISTS--AN INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE PLACE, AND THE HOST OF McWATTERS' AUTHOR FRIENDS WHO MEET THERE; AN ILLUSTRIOUS ARRAY--OF THE DEAD OF THIS GOODLY HOST--A MOST INTERESTING RETROSPECTION--McWATTERS' AUTHORS' LIBRARY. 42

=OFFICER McWATTERS AS THE GOOD SAMARITAN.=

AS A PHILANTHROPIST OFFICER McWATTERS HAS MOST DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF--HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEMONSTRATES TO HIM THE FOLLY OF FRAGMENTARY REFORMS; YET HE CONTINUES HIS WONDERFUL INDIVIDUAL CHARITIES--PATCHWORK CHARITY--HIS VITALITY OF BENEVOLENCE--McWATTERS IN THE RANKS OF THE HOWARDS OF THE WORLD. 45

=McWATTERS AND THE SOLDIERS.=

THE POOR VETERAN SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND--McWATTERS' GENEROUS ENTHUSIASM IN BEHALF OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES--HIS GREAT PASSION--THE POETRY OF HIS CURRENT LIFE. 49

=LADIES UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION.=

A GRAND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION--DISTINGUISHED LADIES OF NEW YORK AT ITS HEAD--ITS SCOPE OF SELF-IMPOSED DUTIES OF BENEVOLENCE--ASSISTED BY AN ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LEADING MEN OF THE CITY; OFFICER McWATTERS THE CHIEF AND MOST ACTIVE MAN THEREOF--SUPERINTENDENT KENNEDY SECONDS OFFICER McWATTERS' BENEVOLENT WORK--REV. DR. BELLOWS' WARM INDORSEMENT OF McWATTERS' GOOD DEEDS--THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN CRUELLY INTERFERES WITH McWATTERS' LABORS OF LOVE--DEATH CALLS FOR MR. JOURDAN: WHERE THEY PUT HIM, AND WHO FOLLOWED HIS HEARSE--OFFICER McWATTERS RESIGNS, AND LEAVES THE POLICE FORCE, IN ORDER THAT HE MAY CONTINUE HIS HUMANITARY WORK--COPY OF HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION--APPOINTED TO A POST IN THE CUSTOM HOUSE--COMPLIMENTARY NOTICES BY VARIOUS JOURNALS ON THE OCCASION OF McWATTERS' RESIGNATION. 50

=THE SWINDLING BOUNTY CLAIM AGENTS.=

OFFICER McWATTERS' RELENTLESS OPPOSITION TO THE SWINDLERS--THEIR INFAMOUS MODES OF OPERATION EXPLAINED--McWATTERS' PLAN OF WARFARE--HE ROUTS THEIR FORCES AND WINS A GREAT VICTORY--SERIOUSLY THREATENED BY THE SWINDLERS--McWATTERS APPEALS TO CONGRESS, AND GETS A NEW ACT PASSED--CHIEF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO GAVE HIM THEIR AID--PAYMENTS UNDER THE NEW LAW--THE GRATITUDE OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES--"HOW A POOR MAN FEELS!"--THE NATIONAL CEMETERIES AND THE DEAD VETERANS--McWATTERS' FURTHER WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS. 55

=HONORABLE TESTIMONIALS TO OFFICER McWATTERS.=

PRESENTATION OF A GOLD WATCH BY THE LADIES' UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION--COMMENTS THEREON BY THE PUBLIC PRESS--OFFICER McWATTERS' GREAT POPULARITY--A RESUMÉ OF SOME OF OFFICER McWATTERS' GOOD DEEDS, BY THE SUN, TIMES, TRIBUNE, ETC. 62

=THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL INIQUITY.=

THE RASCALITY EXPOSED IN A MASTERLY WAY--THE HORRORS OF THE HOSPITAL PICTURED--THE WAR CARRIED ON THROUGH THE PAPERS--OFFICER McWATTERS DIRECTS THE BATTLE--THE SCAMPS BROUGHT TO TERMS, AND THE SICK POOR AT THE HOSPITAL NO LONGER TREATED LIKE DOGS--THE CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION, AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE FIGHT--BENEFICENT RESULTS. 65

=CONCLUSION.=

OFFICER McWATTERS IN HIS CONTINUING LABORS OF LOVE--HIS FAMOUS LETTER IN BEHALF OF THE POOR VETERAN SOLDIER ORGAN GRINDERS--ELOQUENT WORDS OF SOCIAL STATESMANSHIP THEREIN--A GREAT MORAL DUTY--WHEN IT CAN BE PROPERLY DONE--LABOR MUST BE PROTECTED--PARTING TRIBUTE TO OFFICER GEORGE S. McWATTERS, THE TRUE MAN, THE STERLING PATRIOT, AND PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPIST. 68

=THE ORGAN GRINDERS.=

A WORD IN THEIR BEHALF--LETTER FROM OFFICER McWATTERS (REFERRED TO IN BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES)--A SAD STORY. 72

=TEN DOLLARS A MONTH: A STORY OF GRIEF AND JOY.=

("Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn")

McWATTERS--PATRICK O'BRIEN AND HIS SUFFERING FAMILY--LADIES' UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION--A STORM OF GRIEF QUELLED BY THE VOICE OF TRUE CHARITY. 74

=MACK AND THE VETERAN.=

A TOUCHING TALE--THE POETRY AND PATHOS OF BARE FEET. 80

=LOST IN THE STREETS.=

OPERATIONS OF THE BUREAU FOR THE RECOVERY OF LOST PERSONS--MISSING MEN AND WOMEN--TROUBLES ABOUT LOST PEOPLE--WHERE AND HOW PEOPLE ARE LOST--LOST CHILDREN--THE DENS OF MIDNIGHT--THE HORROR OF A BREAKING DAWN--MISERY, SHAME, AND DEATH--FINIS. 89

=AMONG THE SHARKS.=

ADVENTURES OF A FALL RIVER WANDERER--HIS VALUABLE EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK--CATCHING A FLAT. 97

=A SMART YOUNG MAN.=

AN AFTER-DINNER COLLOQUY, AND ITS RESULT--A FUNNY AFFAIR. 104

=A SUSPECTED CALIFORNIA MURDERER.=

ARRESTED--CHARGED WITH KILLING FOUR MEN: A GERMAN FOR HIS MONEY, AND TWO SHERIFFS AND A DRIVER WHO WERE CONVEYING HIM TO PRISON. 107

=EXTENSIVE COUNTERFEITING.=

SEIZURE OF FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN SPURIOUS POSTAL CURRENCY--ARREST OF THE COUNTERFEITER--HIS CONFESSION. 108

=THE GAMBLER'S WAX FINGER.=

CHARLES LEGATE--A FORGER--STUDYING HIM UP--FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS HIS "PRIZE"--DESCRIPTION OF LEGATE--NO TWO PERSONS EVER AGREE IN DESCRIBING ANOTHER--A MARK HIT UPON--START FOR ST. LOUIS--MUSINGS--CURIOUS INCIDENTS OF MY JOURNEY--A GENEALOGICAL "DODGE"--ON LEGATE'S TRACK AT LAST--ST. LOUIS REACHED--OF MY STAY THERE--LEAVE FOR NEW ORLEANS PER STEAMER--A GENIAL CROWD OF MEN AND WOMEN ON BOARD--CHARACTERISTICS OF A MISSISSIPPI "VOYAGE"--NAPOLEON, ARKANSAS--SOME CHARACTERS COME ON BOARD THERE--A GAMBLING SCENE ON BOARD--ONE JACOBS TAKES A PART--A PRIVATE CONFERENCE WITH JACOBS'S NEGRO SERVANT--A TERRIFIC FIGHT ON BOARD AMONG THE GAMBLERS--JACOBS SET UPON, AND MAKES A BRAVE DEFENCE--HOW I DISCOVERED "JACOBS" TO BE PROBABLY LEGATE, IN THE MELEE--HE IS BADLY BRUISED--HIS LIFE DESPAIRED OF--WE ARRIVE IN NEW ORLEANS--JACOBS'S IDENTIFICATION AS LEGATE--LEGATE PROVES TO BE VERY RICH--CURIOUS VISIT TO AN ITALIAN ARTIST'S STUDIO--A NOVEL MEDICINE ADMINISTERED TO SIGNORE CANCEMI--HE GETS WELL AT ONCE. 113

=LOTTERY TICKET, No. 1710.=

A DIGNIFIED REAL ESTATE HOLDER, VERY WEALTHY, LOSES SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE DOLLARS--OUR FIRST COUNCIL AT THE HOWARD HOUSE--VISIT TO HIS HOUSE TO EXAMINE HIS SAFE AND SERVANTS--A LOTTERY TICKET, NO. 1710, FOUND IN THE SAFE--HOW CAME THIS MYSTERIOUS PAPER THERE?--CONCLUSIONS THEREON--VISIT TO BALTIMORE, AND PLANS LAID IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE LOTTERY AGENT TO CATCH THE THIEF--THE TICKET "DRAWS"--THE NEW YORK AGENCY "MANAGED"--TRAP TO IDENTIFY THE THIEF--THE SECURITY AND "SOLITUDE" OF A GREAT CITY--A NEW YORK BANKER--MR. LATIMER VISITS A GAMBLING HOUSE IN DISGUISE--IDENTIFIES THE SUSPECTED YOUNG MAN--THE AGENT AT BALTIMORE WAXES GLEEFUL--HIS PLAN OF OPERATIONS OVERRULED--MEETING OF "INTERESTED PARTIES" AT THE OFFICE IN BALTIMORE--A LITTLE GAME PLAYED UPON THE NEW YORK AGENT--MR. WORDEN, THE THIEF, IDENTIFIES THE TICKET, AND FALLS INTO THE TRAP OF A PRE-ARRANGED "DRAFT"--DISCLOSES SOME OF THE IDENTICAL MONEY STOLEN--WE ARREST HIM--EXCITING SCRAMBLE--THE MONEY RECOVERED--WORDEN'S AFTER LIFE. 131

=PAYNE AND THE COUNTERFEITERS.=

AN IDLE TIME--A CALL FROM MY OLD "CHIEF"--THE CASE IN HAND OUTLINED--I DISCOVER AN OLD ENEMY IN THE LIST OF COUNTERFEITERS, AND LAY MY PLANS--TAKE BOARD IN NINETEENTH STREET, AND OPEN A LAW OFFICE IN JAUNCEY COURT--MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF MRS. PAYNE, LEWELLYN'S MOTHER, AND FINALLY GET ACQUAINTED WITH HIM--HE VISITS MY LAW OFFICE--I AM INGRATIATED IN HIS FAVOR--I TRACK HIM INTO MY ENEMY'S COMPANY, AND FEEL SURE OF SUCCESS--LEWELLYN FINALLY CONFESSES TO ME HIS TERRIBLE SITUATION--CERTAIN PLANS LAID--I MAKE "COLLINS'S" ACQUAINTANCE--VISIT A GAMBLING SALOON WITH HIM--A HEAVY WAGER--$15,000 AT HAZARD, PAYNE'S ALL--THE COUNTERFEITING GAMBLERS CAUGHT TOGETHER--SEVERE STRUGGLE--PAYNE SAVED AT LAST, AND HIS MONEY TOO--A REFORMED SON AND A HAPPY MOTHER--TWO "BIRDS" SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY. 153

=THE GENEALOGICAL SWINDLERS.=

PRIDE OF ANCESTRY IN THE UNITED STATES--IT IS SOMETIMES MORE PROFITABLE TO OTHERS THAN TO THOSE WHO INDULGE IT--"PROPERTY IN CHANCERY"--A WESTERN MERCHANT, HIS STORY, AND HOW HE TOLD IT--A FAMILY MEETING AT NEW HAVEN, AND WHAT A MEMBER LEARNED THERE--THE GREAT "LORD, KING, & GRAHAM" SWINDLE--THE WAY IN WHICH THE FRAUD WAS ACCOMPLISHED--A CUNNING LETTER FROM "WILLIS KING," OF THE FIRM OF LORD, KING, & GRAHAM, TO ONE OF HIS RELATIVES--THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THIS NOTED FIRM--THE SEARCH--THE TRAP LAID--THE SHARPERS CAUGHT, AND FOUND TO BE EDUCATED YOUNG MEN OF THE HIGHEST SOCIAL STATUS--THEY ARE MADE TO DISGORGE--A PARADOX, WITH A MORAL IN IT. 176

=HATTIE NEWBERRY, THE VERMONT BEAUTY.=

"SOCIETY, FOR THE MOST PART, CREATES THE CRIMES WHICH IT PUNISHES"--A BEAUTIFUL GIRL ON THE CARS FROM RUTLAND, VERMONT, ON THE WAY TO BELLOWS' FALLS, BESET BY NEW YORK ROGUES--A DETECTIVE RECOGNIZES IN HER THE FORMER PLAYMATE OF HIS OWN DAUGHTER--HE ENCOUNTERS THE ROGUES AT BELLOWS' FALLS, AND KNOCKS ONE OF THEM DOWN IN THE LADIES' ROOM--THEY ALL TAKE THE NEXT TRAIN, AND MOVE SOUTHWARD, ON THEIR WAY TO NEW YORK--INCIDENTS OF THE JOURNEY--A THIRD VILLAIN GETS ABOARD AT HARTFORD, CONN.--WHY HATTIE WAS GOING TO NEW YORK--AN OLD TALE--THE DETECTIVE GIVES HATTIE MUCH GOOD ADVICE--A SKILFUL MAN[OE]UVRE, ON ARRIVING IN NEW YORK, TO PUT THE ROGUES OFF THE TRACK--A PAINFUL DISCOVERY AT LAST--A DEEP, DEVILISH PLOT OF THE VILLAINS DRIVES HATTIE TO DESPAIR, AND SHE IS RESCUED FROM A SUICIDE'S GRAVE--THE ROGUES PROVE TO BE THE MOST HEARTLESS OF VILLAINS, AND ARE CAUGHT, AND DULY PUNISHED--HATTIE RETURNS EVENTUALLY TO VERMONT, AFTER HAVING MARRIED HER OLD LOVER--THIS TALE IS ONE OF THE SADDEST, AS WELL AS THE MOST INTERESTING OF EXPERIENCES, THROUGHOUT. 192

=ABOUT BOGUS LOTTERIES.=

HOW THEY ARE "GOT UP"--THEIR MODE OF OPERATIONS DETAILED--HOW THEY MANAGE THE "DRAWN NUMBERS" BEFOREHAND--THE GREAT SHREWDNESS OF THE OPERATORS--THE SOCIAL RESPECTABILITY OF THESE--THE GREAT FIRM OF "G. W. HUNTINGTON & CO."--THE IMMENSE CIRCULATION OF THEIR JOURNAL.--THEIR VICTIM, A MAINE FARMER, WHO BELIEVED HE HAD "DRAWN" FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, AND COUNSELLOR WHEATON, HIS LAWYER, A STORY TO THE POINT--WHO INVEST IN LOTTERIES? CHILDREN, WIDOWS, CLERGYMEN, BANK CASHIERS, ETC.--HOW THE FIRM OF "G. W. H. & CO." WAS CAPTURED--NO. 23 WILLIAMS STREET, NEW YORK--THEIR PRETENDED BANKING HOUSE--HOW A BOGUS LOTTERY COMPANY SWINDLED ITS OWN AGENTS--A QUEER TALE. 225

=THE BORROWED DIAMOND RING.=

THE DETECTIVE OFFICER'S CHIEF "INCUBUS"--AT WINTER GARDEN THEATRE--"HARRY DUBOIS"--AN EXPERT ROGUE EXAMINES HIS PROSPECTIVE VICTIMS--SOME SOUTHERNERS--HARRY "INTRODUCES" HIMSELF IN HIS OWN PECULIAR AND ADROIT WAY--HARRY AND HIS FRIEND ARE INVITED TO THE SOUTHERNER'S PRIVATE BOX--HARRY "BORROWS" MR. CLEMENS' DIAMOND RING, AND ADROITLY ESCAPES--MY DILEMMA--VISIT TO HARRY'S OLD BOARDING MISTRESS--HIS WHEREABOUTS DISCOVERED--ACTIVE WORK--A RAPID DRIVE TO PINE STREET--A FORTUNATE LIGHT IN THE OFFICE OF THE LATE HON. SIMEON DRAPER--A SUDDEN VISIT FOR A "SICK MAN" TO HARRY'S ROOM--HOW ENTRANCE WAS EFFECTED--THE RING SECURED--HUNT FOR MR. CLEMENS--A SLIGHTLY MYSTERIOUS LETTER--A HAPPY INTERVIEW. 257

=THE MYSTERY AT 89 ---- STREET, NEW YORK.=