Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yardRaymond, P. T.
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Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yard
Raymond, P. T.
Detective and mystery stories; Detectives -- Juvenile fiction; Dime novels
And these two important points being settled, nothing remains but to
dispose of the principal actors in this strange but true narrative of
events growing out of the robbery of the Webster bank.
The body of Reuben Tisdale was recovered from the sub-cellar beneath
the Donegal Shades upon the morning of the burglars' arrest.
In some unexplained manner, P. Slattery had got wind of the affair, and
deserting his saloon, has never since been seen.
In due time, Elijah Callister, exposed in his true colors before the
world, paid the penalty of his many crimes upon the scaffold in the
yard of the Tombs, which event occurring as it did only a few months
since, after a long and much talked of trial, must still be fresh in
the minds of all who read this tale.
The Cutts, father and son, were sentenced to Sing Sing on the testimony
of Caleb Hook, for a term of years.
Between the detective and Mr. Billy Cutts this most effectually squared
accounts.
For his services, so kindly and faithfully rendered, as may be well
believed, Frank Mansfield saw this brave member of the New York
detective force fully repaid.
Indeed, it is rumored that so liberal was this compensation, that there
is no actual need for Caleb Hook to continue on the force.
The papers given by Mrs. Mansfield to the detective in the room in
Cherry street proved to be simply a desultory description of the
history of that unfortunate woman's past life.
Before his final resignation of the case he turned them over to
Frank, who having revised them in the light of later disclosures,
gave them to the press, thereby clearing the name of his dead father
from all stain, Tisdale's confession rendering it absolutely certain
that the funds placed in the hands of that unfortunate gentleman for
safe-keeping had been stolen by Callister and himself.
The watchman of the Lispenard Bank, and Flaherty, the "crooked"
policeman on the beat covering the Webster Bank, were tried together
for aiding and abetting the gang of burglars.
Against Mike, the watchman, the evidence was conclusive, and he was
sent to Sing Sing to keep company with his friend Detective Cutts, but
Flaherty escaped for want of evidence, although he was dismissed from
the police force in disgrace.
Jim Morrow and Ed Wilson, Frank's fast companions, who assisted Billy
Cutts to betray him, we presume remain still in California--at all
events we have heard nothing of them since.
Nor is this to be regretted.
Frank plays poker no more, and has no use for any of their sort.
In an elegant mansion on one of the avenues, Frank Mansfield lives with
his mother, whose reason is now fully restored.
With them dwells a young lady who seldom appears in public, and dresses
in the deepest black.
It is Miss Edna Callister, who, while admitting the justice of her
father's punishment, still deplores his fate.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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