ATTENTIONLADIES!
Hareyon seen the Finest Line of
Evening-^ Party Slippers
inLincoln, Neb., while Parnell, his de^^tectives and experts were vainly trying to^find a elue In Great Britain. Kgan was^sorely perplexed by the forged letters, iv^similes of which tie got in the Loudon^Times. The signature to those attributed^to him were remarkably good, and expres^^sion s and odd abbreviations peculiar to^hi in were In the text He considered^everybody who possibly could have^been the forger, but could not arrive at s^conclusion He remembered that Pigott^bad been In forgeries many years before,^but the idea that he might be concerned In^these seemed absurd. In scrutinizing the^forgtd fas similes, however, he finally dis^^covered that one signed with his own uame^was written avowedly at a certain^address In Paris, and the recollection^Mashed upon him that Pigott was the only^man to wuom he had ever given It. Pigott^had written him asking for a confidential^add res* to which he might send Important^Information, and Kgan. concluding to^learn wbat It was, secured this address,^which proved the key to the forgeries^Egan, who Is methodical in habit, bad^saved his correspondence for years. He^searched his volumes of letters until he^found Plgott's. H^ comparing them with^the handwriting on the forged letters he^saw he had the forger. He submitted the^letters written by lMgott to experts, to^if-^her with facslmllles of the forged let^^ters, and Immediately detected^the characteristic peculiarities which^ere confirmed under the microscope.^Kgan bad TigoU'it letters and the forger^^ies photographed aad started for Chicago,^here he placed all the papers before his^friend, Alexander Sullivan, who Is also a^solicitor. A brief was drawn up by him^snd Sullivan In the latter's office in Chlcs-^go. It related to the chief Incidents In^Plgott's career and showed he had been s^forger years before. When Pigott tried to^sell the Irishman (newspaper) to Parnell^and Kgau he furnished an luventory sp-^mrently authenticated by a well known^)ublln accountant, showing the value of^the property. Kgan proved that^the Inventory was false and thst^Pigott had forged the accountant's^signature to It Pigott was also caught In^another similar tranaactton. These facts^Egan committed to writing. He had mean^nile ascertained the process by which^Pigott had made the spurious letters. 