“Is this lady your w-w-wife?” asked Mr. Keeling excitedly, pointing out the dark-eyed young woman, who was regarding them in great surprise.
“Certainly,” said the jeweler. “Now what the thunder are you looking under my tables and kicking down my door for, if you please?”
“Look in your show cases,” said the policeman, who began to size up the situation.
The diamond rings and watches that were missing amounted to $800, and the next day the detective settled the bill.
Explanations were made to the jeweler that night, and an hour later Mr. Keeling sat in his office busily engaged in looking over his albums of crook’s photos.
At last he found one, and he stopped turning over the leaves and tore his hair. Under the picture of a smooth-faced young man, with delicate features was the following description:
“James H. Miggles, alias Slick Simon, alias The Weeping Widow, alias Bunco Kate, alias Jimmy the Sneak, General confidence man and burglar. Works generally in female disguises. Very plausible and dangerous. Wanted in Kansas City, Oshkosh, New Orleans and Milwaukee.”
This is why Mr. Thomas Keeling did not continue his detective business in Houston.
(Houston Daily Post, Sunday morning, May 17, 1896.)