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They are very short; and, I think, curious. We welcomed the Carpet Bag, as cordially as Mr. Shepherdson welcomed the false Butcher at the Setting Moon. Sergeant Dornton proceeded. 'In 1847, I was despatched to Chatham, in search of one Mesheck, a Jew. 'Mesheck was off, before I got to Chatham. All I could learn about him was, that he had gone, probably to London, and had with him a Carpet Bag.
He had gone to the United States, and I gave up all thoughts of Mesheck, and likewise of his Carpet Bag. 'Many months afterwards near a year afterwards there was a bank in Ireland robbed of seven thousand pounds, by a person of the name of Doctor Dundey, who escaped to America; from which country some of the stolen notes came home. He was supposed to have bought a farm in New Jersey.
'It was a bag which had, on one side of it, worked in worsted, a green parrot on a stand. A green parrot on a stand was the means by which to identify that Carpet Bag. 'I traced Mesheck, by means of this green parrot on a stand, to Cheltenham, to Birmingham, to Liverpool, to the Atlantic Ocean. At Liverpool he was too many for me.
'What did I see upon that Carpet Bag, if you'll believe me, but a green parrot on a stand, as large as life! "That Carpet Bag, with the representation of a green parrot on a stand," said I, "belongs to an English Jew, named Aaron Mesheck, and to no other man, alive or dead!" 'I give you my word the New York Police Officers were doubled up with surprise.
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