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BUCHOLZ AND THE DETECTIVES.

BY

ALLAN PINKERTON,

AUTHOR OF "THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE," "THE MODEL TOWN AND THE DETECTIVES," "THE SPIRITUALISTS AND THE DETECTIVES," "THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES AND THE DETECTIVES," "STRIKERS, COMMUNISTS, TRAMPS AND DETECTIVES," "THE GYPSIES AND THE DETECTIVES," ETC., ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK: _G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers_, MADISON SQUARE. MDCCCLXXXII.

COPYRIGHT BY ALLAN PINKERTON. 1880.

Stereotyped by Samuel Stodder, Electrotyper & Stereotyper, 90 Ann Street, N.Y.

Trow Printing and Book-Binding Co. N.Y.

CONTENTS.

THE CRIME.

CHAPTER I.
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The Arrival in South Norwalk.--The Purchase of the Farm.--A Miser's Peculiarities, and the Villagers' Curiosity 17

CHAPTER II.

William Bucholz.--Life at Roton Hill.--A Visit to New York City 30

CHAPTER III.

An Alarm at the Farm House.--The Dreadful Announcement of William Bucholz.--The Finding of the Murdered Man 39

CHAPTER IV.

The Excitement in the Village.--The Coroner's Investigation.--The Secret Ambuscade 47

CHAPTER V.

The Hearing Before the Coroner.--Romantic Rumors and Vague Suspicions.--An Unexpected Telegram.--Bucholz Suspected 56

CHAPTER VI.

The Miser's Wealth.--Over Fifty Thousand Dollars Stolen from the Murdered Man.--A Strange Financial Transaction.--A Verdict, and the Arrest of Bucholz 67

CHAPTER VII.

Bucholz in Prison.--Extravagant Habits, and Suspicious Expenditures.--The German Consul Interests Himself.--Bucholz Committed 78

CHAPTER VIII.

My Agency is Employed.--The Work of Detection Begun 87

THE HISTORY.

CHAPTER IX.

Dortmund.--Railroad Enterprise and Prospective Fortune.--Henry Schulte's Love.--An Insult and Its Resentment.--An Oath of Revenge 93

CHAPTER X.

A Curse, and Plans of Vengeance 109

CHAPTER XI.

A Moonlight Walk.--An Unexpected Meeting.--The Murder of Emerence Bauer.--The Oath Fulfilled 115

CHAPTER XII.

The Search for the Missing Girl.--The Lover's Judgment.--Henry Schulte's Grief.--The Genial Farmer Becomes the Grasping Miser 122

CHAPTER XIII.

Henry Schulte becomes the Owner of "Alten-Hagen."--Surprising Increase in Wealth.--An Imagined Attack Upon His Life.--The Miser Determines to Sail for America 131

CHAPTER XIV.

The Arrival in New York.--Frank Bruner Determines to Leave the Service of His Master.--The Meeting of Frank Bruner and William Bucholz 148

CHAPTER XV.

A History of William Bucholz.--An Abused Aunt who Disappoints His Hopes.--A Change of Fortune.--The Soldier becomes a Farmer.--The Voyage to New York 157

CHAPTER XVI.

Frank Leaves the Service of His Master.--A Bowery Concert Saloon.--The Departure of Henry Schulte.--William Bucholz Enters the Employ of the Old Gentleman 166

THE DETECTION.

CHAPTER XVII.

The Detective.--His Experience, and His Practice.--A Plan of Detection Perfected.--The Work is Begun. 177

CHAPTER XVIII.

A Detective Reminiscence.--An Operation in Bridgeport in 1866.--The Adams Express Robbery.--A Half Million of Dollars Stolen.--Capture of the Thieves.--One of the Principals Turns State's Evidence.--Conviction and Punishment 185

CHAPTER XIX.

The Jail at Bridgeport.--An Important Arrest.--Bucholz Finds a Friend.--A Suspicious Character who Watches and Listens.--Bucholz Relates his Story 205

CHAPTER XX.

Bucholz Passes a Sleepless Night.--An Important Discovery.--The Finding of the Watch of the Murdered Man.--Edward Sommers Consoles the Distressed Prisoner 218

CHAPTER XXI.

A Romantic Theory Dissipated.--The Fair Clara Becomes communicative.--An Interview with the Bar Keeper of the "Crescent Hotel" 226

CHAPTER XXII.

Sommers Suggests a Doubt of Bucholz's Innocence.--He Employs Bucholz's Counsel to Effect his Release.--A Visit from the State's Attorney.--A Difficulty, and an Estrangement 233

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Reconciliation.--Bucholz makes an Important Revelation.--Sommers Obtains his Liberty and Leaves the Jail 244

CHAPTER XXIV.

Sommers Returns to Bridgeport.--An Interview with Mr. Bollman.--Sommers Allays the Suspicions of Bucholz's Attorney, and Engages Him as his Own Counsel 252

CHAPTER XXV.

Sommers' Visit to South Norwalk.--He Makes the Acquaintance of Sadie Waring.--A Successful Ruse.--Bucholz Confides to his Friend the Hiding Place of the Murdered Man's Money 260

CHAPTER XXVI.

Edward Sommers as "The Detective."--A Visit to the Barn, and Part of the Money Recovered.--The Detective makes Advances to the Counsel for the Prisoner.--A Further Confidence of an Important Nature 270

CHAPTER XXVII.

A Midnight Visit to the Barn.--The Detective Wields a Shovel to Some Advantage.--Fifty Thousand Dollars Found in the Earth.--A Good Night's Work 284

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The Detective Manufactures Evidence for the Defense.--An Anonymous Letter.--An Important Interview.--The Detective Triumphs Over the Attorney 295

CHAPTER XXIX.

Bucholz Grows Skeptical and Doubtful.--A fruitless Search.--The Murderer Involuntarily Reveals Himself 309

THE JUDGMENT.

CHAPTER XXX.

The Trial.--An Unexpected Witness.--A Convincing Story.--An Able but Fruitless Defense.--A Verdict of Guilty.--The Triumph of Justice 319

CHAPTER XXXI.

Another Chance for Life.--The Third Trial Granted.--A Final Verdict, and a Just Punishment 338