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Betrayed By Music

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
June
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bradford (Ont.) Era,M.iyJ4. Jjornearly two years past a youna man wearing the grab of a Highland piper has been wandering about in the ooal rcgious of Pnnsylvama, plaviniï his pipes in the streets, atteaaingpic.net and dances, and apparentW depending on üis instrument to make iim a living A few days sinoe he was aying i„ a minmg villageon theoutskiits of Soraa ton, Pa. A orowd had gatlwred ftround hun among theru a mine laiorernamed Brady. buddenly the pipei ceasod hia mnsio. and stepping früm the crovvd seized Brady by the shoutfer and I nounoGd t hat t ho laborer raehis prisoner At the saine time he produced paper,' makmg the arrest. Brady seemed entiro y ovorwhelmod by the arrest, and made no opposition to the uthoriti.s wro it wus rerealed that he ras a deteotivo. For two yewr. he had boeu on the track ot his prisoner who is eharged with haring murdered a wealthy man named ïmdley, Sootland, in Jannary, 187. Brady was in theemployof Pmdfounddcad by the roadside, his skull crushed with a club. Brady had been disobargPdthemorning before fordrunkenness He had boen heard to make a tureatth.it he wouldgeteven ij. líe was nowhere to be found, but was tweed to Glasgow, where it u behaved he had takfin a rene] for Amer O. William Male, detective, was mployej by the relativas of the murdered man to come to this country and searchlor Brady, who.it wM thought would bring up in the Pennsylvania coal regions where he had friends working. One otBradys peculiaritios was bis love ior he bagp,pe, so the detective being a bcotch piper and played about the coal towns ,n the hope of gome day attracting the attention of the man he wajekinir he Diiincr surn frnm in1: v _ , D,' v ,, ' """'uiiuiuu utí ñau rweived that Brady really ww somewhere m the coal regions. The ruse succeedexl after two yoars of patiënt land with the alleged murderer. ín writing up Probabilities as to Gov. Croswell's sucoessor" the Detroit News includos J. Webster Childs as the " Granger Candidato."

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Old News
Michigan Argus