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"Wallace's Trotting Register," and Wallace's Monthly open be- 

 fore him, and as he read out the pedigrees in their alphabetical 

 order, his clerk, on the opposite side of the table, wrote them 

 down. In a very few weeks the work was done and Sanders put. 

 his three thousand dollars in his pocket. Thus the clerk was paid, 

 his employers were in possession of his dishonest work, and J. H. 

 Wallace was robbed of the labor of years, but the instinctive 

 honesty of the public conscience had not yet been reckoned with. 

 The book was published under the title of "The Breeder's 

 Trotting Stud Book." The clerical work was well done, closely 

 following the copyrighted sources from which it was drawn, so 

 closely indeed as to furnish strong prima facie evidence that it 

 was copied. But this feature of excellence, if that word can be 

 applied to theft in any form, furnished literally hundreds of 

 evidences, clear, unmistakable and conclusive, that from begin- 

 ning to end it had been copied from the "Register" and the 

 Monthly. Like all works of the kind, those volumes were not 

 free from errors, the spelling of a name might be wrong, the 

 initials of a name might have been misplaced or reversed, a date 

 or a location may have been incorrect, and as all these errors were 

 copied and not one of them corrected, and there were hundreds 

 of them, each one stood up as a competent and undisputed wit- 

 ness and told the story of the theft. But, knowing the character 

 of the people with whom I had to deal, I was prompted to adopt 

 the methods of the detective in using marked bills, and then 

 finding those bills on the person of the culprit. Fortunately 

 there was a very easy way of applying this effective and conclu- 

 sive method and I adopted it. Instead of marking bills, I 

 marked pedigrees, by inserting imaginary crosses. As an illus- 

 tration, there was a horse in Delaware called Frank Pierce Jr. 

 Nobody ever knew anything about the blood of his dam, and I 

 supplied the place with "dam by Tom Titmouse, pacer," and 

 then waited for my marked pedigrees to make their appearance. 

 Nobody ever heard of a horse called "Tom Titmouse" in Dela- 

 ware or any other country. In due time the book appeared and 

 there my "marked bills" came to light in the possession of Lucas 

 Brodhead and Henry C. McDowell. The piracy was a clean sweep 

 and the evidence of it was just as complete as the depredation 

 itself. As a matter of course I did not delay in raising the shout 

 "stop thief," and after one or two broadsides from the Monthly 

 giving the extent of the theft and examples of the evidence to 



