The Match Went Out

Published in:

• Lowell Sun, March 9, 1889
• Xenia Daily Gazette, March 12, 1889
• Osawatomie [KS] Graphic, April 19, 1889
• The Lawrence [KS] Gazette, August 29, 1889

A shorter version of this story was published as
“His First Detective Job. It Ended in a Midnight Tussle with a Ghost,” in State Herald [CO] March 29, 1889. Click here to redirect to "His First Detective Job."

A longer version was published in
Goulburn Evening Penny Post [New South Wales], May 24, 1890, which cites Philadelphia Times as its source.