The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-09-02
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letter of"Nor'westcr" to the Boston Post,
referring to Burling, the New York coll
lector, which went the rounds OF the pa
pers a few weeks ago. The following ac-
count Of his moius oPsrapdi seems TO cor-
roboroto "Nor'wcste's statements: .-
Ten years ago was seated in my Of
fee At No ~, Wall street, busily driving
the Quill, when heard quiet step behind
and then a mild voice inquirng Il I had
the transcript ola certain judgment against
one ]. G.. o., tho protector OF the great
Pcg-she-wah-wah Company for selling In
dian medicines. looked up, and saw
man whose twisted foot and pa lsicd arms
were quite lOmiliar % me, but Of whose
name or calling knew nothing.
Eyes" l replied, 81 have the tran
script"
/ We'll, Iwant IT," he said; am going
10 collect Il for the creditor"
I "Going 60 colloctit,N | exclaimed, "why,
the judgment spcrlectly worthlcsr. Ex-
ccutions, and proceedings after Judgment,
aud all ordinary means Of grace, have long
ago been exhausted upon q. He 10 help
lessly insolvcnt, and is besides the most
adroit scamp OF aswindler ever encoun-
tered" .N...
"WhEt's that to NOT broke ont the vis-
itor in a grplf strong voice, quite different
from his first tonos. "Pghapa you don't
know who | am. am Burling, the man
about town. Nuua lawyer, aud not know
mel Shcrifls are good for nothing; con.
stables are good for nothing; executions
and creditors bills are good for nothing.
Give me the transcript--here's tho order
for it'll make the money out Of him.
| swivelcd around my chair aud stared
at the man. "And win you be 80 good,
Mr. Burling," ! asked, "as TO toll me what
isyour patont plan for supcrseding officers
and writs, aud for qu,eEing blood out of
turnirs, and cash out Of the President Of
the Peg-she-wahwah Companyl"
"How / do il, you mean. WHY / dun
'om at their houses, dun 'em in thcstr
! dun 'Cm at the theatcr, | dun 'em in
church, | catch 'em early in the morning
and stick TO 'em all day; follow 'om up
wherever they 60; 70 e. meals and eat
with 'om go 10 bed and sleep with 'em
i give 'em no peace night or day, Sunday
nor week day. stick 10 'em like death toa
dead niger. A man owes debt. He
won't pay Il. ] follow him all the week
50 he can't do any business, nor 90 to see
his sweetheart, nor wall, in Broadway, nor
eat with any appetite, nor sleep without
dreaming. I'm after him, with the doyil
T to help run him down. All this won't
do! Very well. When hegoes to church
Sunday he finds me in his pew. (Your
sheriiis can't work Sundays--I do my
best business then.) The congregation
rise, and he rises, takes out his book, op-
ems at the place, and there he finds the
bill I've stuck there. aud gets so mad he
can't say amen. I -H-.
"Sherifis and constOblesn continued he,
getting loud and fierce, "will a sheriff 90
Of Sunday morning to parsons house
and follow him TO church, and walk up
the broad aisle with him before all the
congregation, and 60 up the pulpit stairs
close to his heels, and slip into the pulpit
after him before he can shut the door, and
take a seat by his side, and get up when
= he gets up, and when he opens the Bible
opens John Jones' bill full length, and lay
II down over the chapter and verse, and
tell him;--TAere'S that biiiof horse Aire-
pay IL fore goa PrsaoAl But that's what
! did--and | got my money, too"
"Apd what tcommission did you chargel'
"Finy per cent"
: "Ratier strong" l suggested, but still
your mode Of procedure was strong Do
you often get as much as fifty per CENT?
"When ! earn il get H. DIR. O., oI
, Broadway, sent me TO dun a fellow who
, lived back In yard, and kept two bull
dogs that he let loose when anybody came
to collect honest debts. went 70 him
with horse-pistol in each hand and DR..
C.'s bill in my teeth, and made him pay
= up. What did DR.. G. offer me for getting
his sixty dollsl He offered mo one dollar.
! won't take It, says /. pll pay no more,
says he. Pay me thirty dollars, says /.
Get out Of my office or I'll kick you out,
: says he, and he kicked me out Of his door
= and down the steps into Broadway.
l goes across 20 tho--hotel, and hires q
great armchair out Of the bar-room, and
takes II across the street and plants 1t on
4 the ourbstbne right opposite DR.. C,'s Of
fec door, and lays the bill had made
I out on a full sheet OF foolscap across my
/, knees, hanging down, so everybody thai
4, went by could read in large, black, sand
= ed letters ,......F ..i- -.....,..., ...
s'l- nv d to1 To J. BUaIiSo. DR..
i, For collecting Of RioHmB RoE. i. ~
, Commission. ..-...........r....,.
"And all the crowd kept stopping to
read, so that there was all the while two
or three hundred people standing on the
4 doctoT's pavement, and reading first my
. bill and then his sign, and making thoil
/ Jokes. / had hired the chair foi
/ the whole Afternoon, but he hadn't stoot
this more than fifteen minutes before hC
comes 10 the door, and says: "Comehere
v you Tascal," and ! went in and took thir
Q " dollars of his money, and len the bill
= receipted.h N
g"But, my friend, don't your lmpuden
II ways often get you into scrapes; are yot
!. not afraid some ono will some day breel
SBfeak whose headr' he thundefed.-
Il"Didn't Colonel g., Of New Orleans,
man that's killed seven men Ia duels, whof
I went 10 dun him at the Astor House,
: didn't he grab me by the slack Of my
! breeches, and hold me out OF the fifth sto
Try window and shake me there above the
: pavement, and say: 'Shall letyou fall
and break your neck on the stones, or TAX,
you in and kick you down stairsP"
do thenl"
I. "What did dot said, Pay me tha
e money and didn't he pull me in and pay
o every centp' lfle odl eias5lr fllU
p The intensity Of his manner as he thu
o related his exploits, cannot be rendere,
2 on paper, especially when he exclaimed
d with closed toethr rand the fingers Of hi
+ round hand clohelied, @Pey ma that mon
Il eyls tg g08oss sn- 5...s sa,
= lie took the transcript and limped out
a In another day tho hapiess debtor, an,
n ovor-match for all the regulor thumb
9 scfews Of the law, came in 10 beg pite0hs