appendiary

Updated: May 6, 2025

As appendiary matter, he also informed the detective that the house was a furnished one belonging to a wealthy grocer who had just gone to Europe with his family that it had been rented for a few weeks past to some very odd people and that he had wondered at their being no attention paid to it before, as he was satisfied it was a receptacle for stolen goods.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862