The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-04-20
BURL1NG. THE NEW YORK DUN.

The Boston Posts account of this man
gives but faint picture of him. [ will
give Seusons freha3 real lifei u
Ten years ago was seated in my Office
at No. I2, Wall street, busily engaged in
driving the quill, when heard quiet ste 2
behind and then a mild voice inquiring if
hal the transcript of certain judgment
against one J. G. O.-the proprietor of the
great Peg CHE wah Company for sell
ling Indian Medicines. l looked up and
cav q man whose twisted foot and palsied
arm were quite familiar to me, but of whose
name Or calling ] knew nothing. asa
.AYes.ias Ireplieds ! i have the transcript"
.'Well, want it, be said, ''I'n1 going
to collect it for the creditor"
''Going to collect i, % O. I exclsimed,
why the Judgment. and all ordinary means
of grace. have long ago been exhausted up
on o.. He is hopelesslys insolve1t, and is.
besides, the most adroit scamp Of swind-
Ter ever encountered"
whats that to me 90 broke out the Wis.
itor. in gruff, strong voice, quite different
from his first tones. "Perhaps you don't
know who I am. I'm Burling. the man
about town. You a lawyer, and not know
me? Sheriffs are good for nothing, con-
stables are good for nothing; executions and
creditors, bills are good for nothing. Give
me the transcript-here''s the order for it
I'll make the money out Of him."
swiveled around in my chair and stared
at the.,man, = "And will you be so good,
MI. Bdiiing," asked, ''as to tell me what
is your potent plan for supersediRg officers
and writs, and for squeezing blood out .gol
turnips, and cash out of the President Of
the Peg CHE wah- wah Company ? 2,
"How T dot you mean. Why. dun
'em at their houses, dun 'em in the street,
dun lem al, the theater, l dun 'em IN church,
I catch 'em early in the morning and stick
to 'em all day; follow 'em up wherever they
90: no to meals and eat with 'em; give 'em
no peace day nor night; Sunday nor week
day, stick to 'em like death to dead mig
ger. A man owes debt. He won't pay
It. I follow him up all the week so he CAM
do, any business. nor GO to see his sweet
heart, nor walk in Broadway, nor eat with
any appetite, nor sleep without dreaming
I'm after him with ghe devil to help run
him down. All this won't do. Very well
When he goes to church Sunday he finds
mesiu his pew. Il Your sheriffs can't work
Sundays.) do my business then. The
congregation rises, and he rises. takes out
his book, opens at the place. and there he
finds the bilt I've stuck there, and gets SC
mad he can't say amen.
k.Shsriffs aud coustabtos r continued be.
getting loud and fierce, twill sheriff 81
Of Sunday morning TO parsons house
aud follow him TO church and walk up tbs
broad aisle with him before all the congre'
gallon. and go up the pulpit stairs close te
bis heels, and slip into the pulpit alter him
before he can shat the door. and take sea-
by his side and get up when he gets up
and when be opens the Bible. open Johr
Jones' bill full length, aud lay it down ove'
the. chapter and. verse, aud tell him : Ihers,
thets BIZ aefa hOrse kire;, pay a before goa
preach But that's whataI did--and go
my money, TOO"
.'And what commission did you charge
Fifty per cent - AsFsA 'lSa@A
Rather strong suggested. "but still
ySaF mode of procedure was strong. d
you often get as much as fifty per cent?
..When earn it. get it. DIR. c.. o
Broadway, sent me to dun fellow who livet
in back yard. and kept two bull dogs tina
he let loose when anybody came to colec
honest dkhtss II weasE to bin with hors'
pistol in each hand aud his bill in ny
mouth, and made him pay up. What dir
DEsG offer me fos getting his sixty .d0iiars
lie offered me one dollar. won't take II
says /. III pay no more says he. Pa.
me thirty dSIisfs. lsassaIgmGf eo6t of ny
eassaOrk Ill, kick yeexont, says be, , Pa.
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