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A Paris Detective's Shrewdness

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Day
21
Month
April
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is so seldom that detectives in real life actually do anything very clever that it is worth while recording their achievements, howevei slight, when they show some degree of inger uity and devotion. The hero of tb is story is Detective Blusset. For two or thieo weeks he had been watching three men whom he suspected of practicing crime by the theft of teams and wagons left standing in the street. With a brother detective, Garnier, Blusset a day or two agosaw the three thieves following a wagon loaded with four casks. Presently the teamster stopped at a saloon and went inside. Immediately the thieves got to work. Two of them remained on the ground to keep watch, while the tnird mounted briskly to the driver's seat and drove rapidly away. Leaving Garnier to see to the arrest of the two watchers, whieh was soon accomplished, Blusset set off on a run in pursuit of the flying wagon. It was not long before he was blowing like a porpoise under the unusual exercise, and he began to think that perhaps he would better give up the chase, when the horses became suddenly unmanageable and the wagon stopped. The animáis in all probability were restive at the sound of a strange voice directing them. This was Blusset's opportunity, and, running forward with an air of great good nature, he assisted the thief to get the horses under control. He could have arrested the f ellow thcn and there, but there was where he showed his cleverness; he wanted to arrest also the thief s accomplice, so he let the wagon proceed again, after having received the thanks of the driver for assistance. But as it rolled away Blusset climbed upon the steps at at the tail ïmaid of th wagon, and squatted there out of sight should the driver happen to turn his head. AVhen the thief finally stopped it was before the establishment on the boulevard Menilmontant. Blusset quickly dismounted and retired. He saw the thief greet the conciërge of the establishment and with his assistance begin to unload the casks. The detective ran for a policeman and with the aid of the first one he met succeeded in arrestiug both the thief and his nccomplice. It is not often that a crime is so thoroughly worked and all parties toit securedat asingla

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