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A New Jersey Mystery


A Remarkable Story Told by the Late James Leonard, Police Inspector, Jersey City


[From The Galaxy for March]

One Spring morning, during the first year of the war, 1861, a barrel of pitch was found to have disappeared from a Jersey City Pier, and the Porter in charge, when reporting the fact to his employers, took occasion to speak of the river thieves in no very complimentary terms.

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