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Detectives At Weddings

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
July
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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At a wedding on Saturday In a fashionabl New York resldence a QraphU represen tativí saw two of IuBpector Byines' mcu aud twc more from Iho Wllkinsou ageney. Tbe foui were in full dreas suiU, gloved, patent leath ered, and with button-hole bouquets. No oue could bave dlstlnguishud theni froui the crowd of fasliloiiHlils guests. Tüey were never togethflr, but som i one of the four was contluually present in tli room where the presenta of the urldu w.re gpread out for th delectatlon aud delight of her Irieuds. "Is thls usual!" wbiipercd the rt'iorter t the tbarp-eyed, mlld-facid man from Wilklnson' a. "I should say so," was the reply. "If somt guard were not kept over those artlclcs the) would be Hable to disappear very piomptly. The last pólice story from Paris wou'd snow Just how necessary tlils supervisión is. Slial' I teil it to youl "The daughter of the Marq uis of Vaulsem was marrled In the hotel of Baron de Wen del, her únele, wlth a receptiou whlcli uli fastilouable Paria attended. The receptlog was an open oue, and the bundreds present thronged tbe second snloil in which the wed' ding presenta were cxhlbited. A hiah C'atbolie dlgnltary, Mgr. Fava, haviug been u nounced the throuf; crowded luto the lirsi salon to see blm. "After the commotlon caused by the arriral of the prelate subsided one of the ladles of tbe house returned to the tecond salon for the purpose of shonlng the presenta to i newly-arrlved frleud. Tbe eplendld diamond necklace, the most bcautlful andcostly of the exhiblU, waa goue. Tbe los was soon buzzecj through the assemblage and a cold sllencc feil upon the jfuests. Peopie looked at ect otber half in amazement and half in susplclon. All were in perplexity andconfuilon, for auion those present were many whose faces were familiar by reasou of tbclr belng seen In many Hke gatherini;s, but wbose names and posltiou In society were llttle known. In tbe suspense tbere was some talk of closlne the doors and keeplug the peopie together untll tue advent of the pólice. Som suggested thorouKh search, but uothlng ol the sort was attempted. The Marquls ol Vaulserre and Baron de Wende), howevor, stond at the ball door and scrutlnized eact departlne gucst. Nothiug suspicious bavlng been developvd, th pólice were sent luto tb second salon to investígate, but tber dlscovered nothlng except soihe reason to coucludt that tbe uecklacc and lts pendauts were too large to bave been taken tiwuv by u man uu less be wore a greatcoat whlle perpetratlne the theft. No man so Btilrcd was adinltted to tbe second salou. therefore tbey concluded that the jewel was stolen by a woman, whq bid lt among her volinnlnous sklrts aud passed unnotlced amid the iruciK The pólice have made no irogress slnco in elucldatlng the crime further tban to surmfse that lt was perpetrated bv threc Kngllsb women, wbo were seen lolterlng at th dooi when the wedding party arrived from tli church and tho receptfon beitan. Thev were sufliciently well attlred to b.; admittcd without challenge, and made the most of tbeli opportunltics wben the crowd duserted tb( second salon for a slgbt of tlie distlmculsbed prelate. If tbc bojt had taken the precaución that American gentlemen take and employed detectives to watch the jewels th( losi could not have occuned.'

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