The daily gazette., 1875-09-28
n Verdant Youth Is Enticed IN
to q Tiie Den and Skinned
He Relates His Sad Experience.

He was raw-boned, tall, Of perhap.
nineteen or twenty hay seasons, aud
veruancy was predominant throughout
ms gen"ral make up" as he entered
TINS onee, and in a timid manner ac-
costed National Police Gazette reporter
who was awaiting his assignment.
Mis- r.. said he. ''do you know the
perlice Cause why, if yer do, want
to tell Ter sumthin' whatll make yer
feel kii ier shaky."
| swell, sir" said the ubiquit nus re-
porter. What grievance have you to le.
lateT Here was chance, thought he.
to listen TO some blood curdling tai --
one Of unalloyed horror"
m WAL. now, if you'll gimme cham
| III tell yer all erbout it. | live up i.
Schoharie county. and got some money
an came to New York coz / wanted tel
see ther sights. and I tell you seed 'en,
and sombudy ought ter be put in the
lookup for it."
! We'll. sir, what was it? State your
case as quickly and concisely as possible,
as haven't much time to spare" said
the scribe.
We'll, you see, was walkin' along
big street, when a scrumpshous look
ing gal she come right up ter me, and
she says, in the purtiest way you ever
seen, here yer goin, loveyS and
told her | was goin' to my hotel oh
| she says, come along o me, an I'll
| show you my room She WAS so per
lite and 'feclionate | couldn't say no,
an she TUX me tu house all lit up,
an with the biggest kinder axin's you
ever saw, an she says ter me, Are yer
goin' to shout:' an says what shall
shout: oh, drinks, of course says
she; au' then just hollered 'Oh, drinks
OF course! jist us load as | could, an
she got kinder mad an' says, You
bloody snoozer, meant for you to ball
I the crowd of. | didn't know what
she meant. an told her so, an she
says Come out with yer Doodle, and
Ill show yer. Give us yer leather, she
says, | couldn't ha' told what she
meant if | was to be struck dead that
minute. At last she said she meant
my pocket book, and gave it to her,
an she put it In her pocket an took
out bill an asked me W hat I'd take,
an told her I'd take my pocket book
II she was willing. She told me to
wait awhile, and then thought 1t was
joke, an didn't say nothing. Well,
we had some queer sort of cider what
made me feel as ii my head WAS In the
seat OF my pantalUons, and / kinder
sort o'think l saw the inside of, her
room, but | don't member much what
happened, an wouldn't tell yoa II
did.
But the long and short of it is, WAS
woke mp lyin' on the stoop the next
morning by big, illmaunered consts-
Bile, with II Tin shield and brass buttons
on his coat an he said il | didn't get
along he would take me in told him
| thought had heen taken in already.
He called me galloot, and hit me with
stick, an run as fast as could; and
what want to tell you is that / had
hundred and sixty three dollars and
forty three cents in my pocket book
when | give it to that girl. and she
never gave it back want her looked
up until she gives melt don't know
where the house is that she took me
to, but will give anybody fifty cents
OF it to get it back, because l will
have to walk home, and my fatner'll
be all fired mad when he hears about
It,"
The reporter told him to 60 to No.
300 Mulberry street, and tell Captain
Wsrlow that ne would give one dollar
reward for the recovery of his pocket
book. Warlow would then Sc mt twenty
or thirty detectives with him, ana in
less than an hour he would have his
money back, minus the one dollar
reward. Upon this information the
rustic quickly went away with a happy
light beamiug on his innocent counle-
nance.