The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, July 03, 1909, Page 3, Image 3
THE THEFT Of
I THE EBONY BOX.
A Detective Story Involving Cost
ly Gems and a Cipher.
" By HOWARD FIELDING.
[Copyright, 190?, by American iYess Asso
ciation.]
In the possession of the Olmstead
f.tuiily there was a jewel casket more
quaint and curious than any other that
I have ever seen, though I have en
couutered some oddities in that line in
the course of nearly thirty years of
detective work. It was made of ebony
?raameuted with silver and measured
9 by 7 Inches by 4 In height. There
were many peculiarities of the sliver
Inlay, and the design was thought to
be highly artistic, but the chief point
to be noted here Is that the thing an-;
HE CAOGHT ntS RIGHT WKIST.
peared to be solid, even upon the
closest inspection.
The hiuges of the lid were Ingen
iously concealed. The hue between
the two parts was invisible, and the
hidden lock was operated by secret
6prings most cunningly devised. Nat
urally so strange an object was the
ceatecpiece of many queer stories,
which were collected by one of the
Olmsroads about sixty years ago and
set down by hitu iu manuscript in a
leather bound book originally Intended
to be a ledger. At the end of the book
is a very difficult cipher which con
tains the directions for opening the
casket
But for this cipher the secret would
have passed out of the world. A few
months ago. wheu the present head
cf the family. Mr. Stephen Olmstead.
stumbled upon the old book of tradi
tions, the casket itself had beeu for
gotten.
Stephen Olmstead found the r-nsket
1? a sort of vault iu the wall of the
country house which his father built
in March mont twenty years ago, and.
having solved the cipher after a pro
tracted struggle which nearly wreck
ed bis intellect (as he informed me),
he opened the ebony box and was dis
appointed because there was nothing
In It He bad uo reason to expect any
discovery of treasure, but he Is not
the sort of man to be Indifferent to
the possibility.
He w?s engaged to Mrs. Clara nol
ton, a rich and charming widow, with
a country house near the Olmstead
place. Mrs. Helton's lack of enthu
siasm for Jewels Is conspicuous. She
has never been knowu to wear an
expensive ornament. Nevertheless
Olmstead had no sooner found the
casket than h" wis possessed with
the idea of buying something rare and
precious to put into it, ostensibly as a
wedding gift.
Accordingly he appeared at his
Marchmont home one evening wi'b
a dazzling diamond piece of historical
as well as intrinsic value, a stomacher
that had one** been worn by a titled
lady of the old world. Miss Sylvia
Olmstead. sister of Stephen, ridiculed
this purchase when the gewgaw was
displayed to her and told Stephen that
Clara Uolton would divorce him rath
er than wear it.
"She'll like the casket." said Sylvia
"It's quite iu her line. How do yon
?pea Itf
The diamonds were already within
and the lid closed.
"Cauldn't tell you," said Stephen.
He put the casket away In the vault
and locked the door. Immediately
after this they heard ?ome one on the
Veranda, just outside the windows of
the library where the con versa lion
which I have tried to reproduce
from their recollection of it occurred.
?Both supposed that the person on the
veranda was George McKellar. a neigh
bor, and that he was coming to call
on Sylvia.
Neither Olmstead nor his sister spoke
?f hearing the footsteps, for McKellar
was a delicate subject with them.
Ofrustead opposed him as a suitor for
Sylvia's hand on the grouud that he
wns not flnanflnlly sound. McKellar
bad Inherited from his father a busi
ness In a rather bad tangle, and he |
was having a hard struggle wUh It.
They waited for McKellar to be an
nounced, and one of them was disap
pointed, while the other was agreeftWy
surprised, nr.lf an hour Inter Mc
Kellar called Sylvia by telephone and
told her that he was occupied with
biiainess affairs. I
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Industry Is the watchdog that
keeps the wolf from the door.
?when Olmstead, who was wakeful,
heard sounds In the lower regions of
the .house, lie was one of those nerv
ous Yankees who fear everything ex
cept danger. A hundred petty anx
i letles assailed liim. including the dread
j of taking cold, as he grumblingly made
his way downstairs.
In the lower hall he listened. Be
yond doubt there was some one In tbe
library. Olmstead opened the door
and entered. Tbe room was dark save;
for a feeble, fluttering light which:
suddenly settled upon Olmstead with j
a brilliancy that surprised him.
'Throw up your hands!" said a |
volee.
"Oh. nonsense!" snid Olmstead. and
he felt about on the wnll for the but
ton that controlled the lights. The
burglar's lantern revealed It to him.
and he iustantly made the room bright.
Seeing that Olmstead had no weapon
the burglar did not retreat, but took
some steps forward, holding his re
volver ready In one band while with
the other he clasped the ebony Jewel
box as a football player holds the
ball.
When they were quite close Olm
stead sprang upon the man so sud
denly aud with such skill that he
caught his right wrist and held the
arm straight up tu the air. The bur
glar let fail his weapon, which made
a loud noise on the floor. Olmstead
hurled him backward and stocped for
tbe revolver, whereupon the burglar
drew another from the side pocket of
his coat and tired with a considerable
coolness of aim from a distance of
about ten feet. The bullet struck
Olmstead on the upper edge of. the
left eyebrow and glanced off. Fie was
stunned, but only for h few seconds.
When the servants came running at
the noise of the shot their master was
already on his legs again and feebly
attempting a pursuit of the marauder.
The ease was immediately reported
to the local authorities. The suburb
of Marchmont has a chief of police
aud twelve patrelmeu.
The chief and ten of his men turned
themselves loose on the trail of the
Olmstead burglar, with no result
what) ver. The eleventh man remain
ed in charge of the station house.
Tbe twe!fib man patrolled old .March
mont village and caught a thief in the
bakeshop of Mrs. Sophia Neely. where
there was the sum of $4 In the till.
He had effected his entrance through
the adjoining barber shop of Gustav
Swam, where there was no money.
Three days later my services were
requested by Mr. Olmstead. who was
walking about with some plaster over
his eye aud not much the worse for
his adventure.
After hearing li(s story I was able to
give him hope of the rascal's capture,
for the description furnished to me
was excellent. Its most salient fea
ture was a reddish, brushlike mus
tache. The burglar's bair was dark
browu, but his mustache was unde
niably red and not false in Olm
stead's opinion.
Singularly enough, this description
perfectly fitted the only suspicious
character then known to exist within
the limits of Marchmont, except the
petty thief above referred to. who was
smooth shaven. The suspicious char
acter was Gnstav Swartz, the barber.
Swartz had borne an excellent repu
tation until about a month ago, when
some silver, stolen from a Marchmont
residence, had beeu found In his shop.
The barber said that the parcel con
taining the silver had been left with
hbn by a customer who was to call
for It and that he himself did not
know what the contents were, but the
story had obtained no credence.
Upon hearing Olmstead's description
the local police immediately exhibited
Swartz.
"Swartz looks very much like my
burglar," said Olmstend, "except that
ho has a good eye. The other fellow
had a bad one. I don't believe Swartz
Ls the man."
Tbe case stood thns when I took
hold. That evening, while I was talk
ing with Miss Olmstead and her
brother aud Mr. McKellar In the li
brary, there catno n loud, suddeu rap
at the window. Olmstead. who was
uaturally nervous, nearly jumped out
of his skin, but he was the first man
to reach the window. He raised the
I curtain and the sash, and by the light
that streamed out from the room he
saw the ebony box lying on the ve
randa. The person who brought It had
escaped.
Olmstead was overjoyed. As the
box showed no mark of violence the
diamond stomacher must be In It. and
with the anticipation of seeing this
treasure again Olmstead's hands shook
so that he was Of teen minutes opening
the casket. He did not let us see
how he did It. The casket was empty.
I will not enlarge upon the mysteries
involved In this performance. There
was no reason why anybody should
have returned the jewel box except
upon the belief that the diamonds were
In It 1 was doubly convinced of this
fact after I had persuaded Olmstead
to show me the trick of opening the
casket.
Somehow my snsplcions rested upon
Swartz, and I mnde a searching In
vestigation of the man. I discovered
that he had a brother who was a pro
fessional thief, no doubt the man who
had left the silver with him. This
brother was unknown In Marchmont
except to Swartz himself, and I could
not trace tmn up until a sudden In
spiration came to me.
The petty thief captured in Mrs
Noely's bakeshop hnd entered ?vrarlz's
?hop P.rsL Tbe police beMevod that he
had done no io steal and had then
nq?i5^d on t?? Mrs. Neely's ' hnd a I
different theory. I believed that thel
man had broken Into the barber's shop j
to shave and. being alarmed, had fled
through to the other bulldiinr. not to
steal, but to escape.
With this Idea in mind I took Olm
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The two persons to whom a wo
man's voice can be sweetest are a
small baby she loves and a large wo
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If lie had to choose he would Identify
this man by his eyes ruther than
Swartz by his mustache.
"They look very much alike," he
said, und 1 had begun to think so,
too. though at tirst I had not seen the
resemblance. I made up my mind
that this was Swartz's brother, al
though both Swartz and the prisoner
denied it.
At this stage of the investigation I
was switched to a wholly new theory
by a discovery which was purtly ac
cidental. I learned that George Mc
Kellar had encountered some sort of
good fortune and had tided himself
over his difficulty. Where bad he
got the money?
1 asked myself this question and
set to work to Gnd an answer. It
appeared that he must have raised
about $20.000. which could have been
done by selling the stolen diamonds.
But the money seemed to have come
from a loan by McKellar's bank, al
though he had already owed the bank
an uneasy sum.
It was in the midst of the late
money stringency, and 1 could not
believe that the bauk had obliged
him to that extent. Well. I had a
friend Inside that bauk. as I have in
some others, and I learned the facts.
A lady unknown to my friend and
without McKellar's knowledge had de
posited $20.000 in cash to secure this
loan.
This must have been done by some
woman from whom McKellar would
not accept a loan, and it did not take
me long to work down to Sylvia Olm
stead. But here 1 came upon a queer
thing. Miss Olmstead was worth
about $150.000 lu her own right, but it
was chiefly in real estate and very
bard to realize money upon in a time
of panic?In fact, nearly impossible.
I learned that she had raised $30.000
or thereabouts by a great sacrifice, but
she had not suiveeded until one week
after the $2">.000 had been put Into
McKellar's bank.
There was no way by which she
could have got the money unless she
had stolen the jewels from her brother.
But how had she opened the casket?
Did she know the secret? In order
to test her I ananged a little comedy.
I told one of my assistants how the
box could be opened in order that he
might be able to work with it clever
ly In Sylvia's presence while I watched
the girl's face. Then we went to the
Olmsteads* and held a Iii lie session
with the brother and sister and Mc
Kellar.
I explained that it was absolutely
necessary for me to discover whether
a persoD could guess the trick of open
ing the box. My theories had ad
vanced. I said, to the point where I
must have evidence as to the real dif
ficulty of the puzzle. Undoubtedly
the thief had been lurking outside tiie
window on the night of the robbery
and had seen the jewels put away. He
bad stolen them In the casket. Could
he have got them out of it in a half
hour's work?
"Certainly not," said Olmstead.
"My friend here," said I, "thinks be
can do the trick, and I'd like you to
try. Mr. McKellar, and you also, Miss
Olmstead."
"IU wager." said she, "that I can
open the box inside of fifteen min
utes."
"Nonsense!" said her brother, but
Sylvia took the casket, while I held the
THK DIAMONDS HAD COMK BACK.
watch, and she won, not in fifteen min
utes, but In as many seconds.
"There."' she cried and gave the box
to her brother.
He uttered a yell like a wild Indian.
The diamonds had come back to the
ebony casket
It required no very great penetra
tion to see through this case. Sylvia
bad learned the secret of tfle box from
the cipher In the old blank book. Des
perately anxious about McKellar's af
fairs, she had striven to raise money
to help him secretly, since he would
not have accepted opeu aid from her.
But she saw that she would never get
the money In time to save him.
The Jewels had Inspired her with a
wild idea. She had taken them as
soon as her brother was safely up
stairs?borrowed them, let me say. for
she put them in pledge and raised the
money to redeem them at the earliest
moment.
Barber Swartz's brother stole ou
empty box and was nearly a murderer
for the sake of It. .After shaving in
his brother's shop he was suddenly
alnrmed, and he fled, leaving the box
behind him. His brother found It
next morning, and as he was a thor
oughly honest fellow he returned it.
Of course with the discovery of the
Jewels my work ceased.
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beautiful ones with the right price.
Ask us.
The Best Jewelers Since '6T.
SPAHR'S
A PIANO OF MERIT
Beautiful case,
Splendid Tone,
Honestly mude,
Fully guaranteed.
Price $250.00.
TERMS:
$10.00 cash,
$7.00 monthly.
HE?Iarchant Mask
oo* East Russell street,
Orangeburg, S. C.
TIDE BANK OF SPRINGFIELD.
Edisto Dry Sooas Co.
Phone 12?.
5? West Russell Street.
UAVDEN & BRIGGMAN, Managers.
Some men go to the dogs gradual
ly; some get there immediately by
going into politics.
1).
In commencing treatment
for ^ :;iight irregularity that could
have been cured quickly by Foley's
Kidney Remedy may result in a seri
ous kidney disease. Foley's Kidney
Remedy builds up the worn out tis
sues and strengthens these organs.
Lowman Drug Co.; A. C. Dukes.
Oi?cera.
L. M. Minis, President; Jno. McB.
Bean. V. P.; J. B. Smith. Cashiar;
Edith Phillips, Asst.
Directors.
L. M. Miras, Jno. Bean, Joe. A.
Berry, L. B. Fulmer, W. P. Hut
to. J. W. Jumper, H. A. Cd,m,
T. L. Gleaton, O. C. Salley.
All business Intrusted to us re
ceives careful, official attention.
Leave your Surplus tund? with as
at four per cent n'terest.
Undivided Profits.12.00O.O0
Capital.f30.000.0C
Plants for Sale.
Rev. D. D. Dantzler, 49 whitman
street, has tomato plants at 25c a
hundred. Late summer cabbage
plants 20c a hundred.
The thing a man admires about
his wife's swell curtains is when they
are packed away for" the summer.