Knots untied, or, Ways and by-ways in the hidden life of American detectives / By Officer George S. McWatters.

  • McWatters, George S.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Knots untied, or, Ways and by-ways in the hidden life of American detectives / By Officer George S. McWatters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    THE GAMBLER'S WAX FINGER. CHARLES LEGATE A FORGER STUDYING HIM UP FIFTY THOU- SAND 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 —NAPO- LEON, ARKANSAS SOME CHARACTERS COME ON BOARD THERE A GAMBLING SCENE ON BOARD — ONE JACOBS TAKES A PART — A PRI- VATE 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 P^ROBABLY LEGATE, IN THE MELEE — HE IS BADLY BRUISED — HIS LIFE DESPAIRED OF — WE ARRIVE IN NEW ORLEANS — JACOBS's IDENTI- FICATION AS LEGATE — LEGATE PROVES TO BE VERY RICH — CURIOUS VISIT TO AN ITALIAN ARTISt's STUDIO A NOVEL MEDICINE ADMINIS- TERED TO SIGNORE CANCEMI HE GETS WELL AT ONCE. . . .113 LOTTERY TICKET, No. 1710. A DIGNIFIED REAL ESTATE HOLDER, VERY WEALTHY, LOSES SEVEN THOU- SAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE DOLLARS OUR FIRST COUN- CIL 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 IDEN- TIFY 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 OVER- RULED MEETING OF INTERESTED PARTIES AT THE OFFICE IN BALTIJIORE 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 1 DISCOVER AN OLD ENEMY IN THE LIST OF COUNTER- FEITERS, AND LAY MY PLANS TAKE BOARD IN NINETEENTH STREET, AND OPEN A LAW OFFICE IN JAUNCJEY COURT MAKE THE ACQUAINT- ANCE OF MRS. PAYNE, LEWELLYN's MOTHER, AND FINALLY GET AC- QUAINTED WITH HIM HE VISITS MY LAW OFFICE I AM INGRATI- ATED 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 WASER $15,000 AT HAZARD, PAYNE'S ALL THE COUNTERFEITING GAMBLERS CAUGHT TOGETHER SEVERE STRUGGLE PAYNE SAVED