Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1875 — A Suspicious Character. [ARTICLE]

A Suspicious Character.

A Willimantic (Conn.) paper tells a curious story about a Norwich clergyman who supplied a country pulpit on a recent Sunday and was obliged on liis return home the next morning to travel by stagecoach about three miles to the railway station. .On the route the driver heard Something rattle in the gentleman’s car-pet-bag which sounded to him like pieces of steel striking together. Putting- the gentlenian’s reserved manner, keen appearance and the ominous sounds from the carpet-bag together the driver concluded that his passenger was a first-class burglar perhaps a bank burglar—. and after- his arrival the depot he hunted up ;in officer and imparted his suspicions tahini. The officer went to the depot and there was the suspected burglar pacing up and down the platform, waiting for the train. The officer thought him a suspicious-looking character and his suspicions were confirmed by the tenacity with which the gentleman clung to the carpet-bag, for it was nqver out of his hand from the time he left the stage until the train came. In a short time the train came along and the traveler entered and took a seat. The officer, intent on duty, saw a gentleman on the train with whom he was acquainted, pointed out Ihe suspected individual, imparted his suspicions and requested his friend to notify the police in Norwich if the gentleman stopped there so that they might be on their guard. When the train arrived at Norwich the gentleman alighted and "’Went up town, shadowed closely by Jhc other man until the fatter found a policeman, whdn. pointing out the suspected party, he inquired of the officer if he knew that man. “Know him? Y’es! That’s one of our ministers. Rev. Mr. pastor of the Church-”