The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-28
VOL,9..
Ght '8ulletin.
A THRIFTY TRAMP
Profits ot ~ stroll from Louisiana 10
. New York 4 curieas Cash Account
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Several Of our lawyers were visited
yesterday by u young efIenlinate look
my fellow, who represented that he was
on his way from Omaha and wanted
~ 10 to help hin to Portland, Me. AT
QUE office he asked VERY Aspectiuily for
some copying TO do, md fisS mood hear.
ed lawyer, having no work Tor him, gave
him hall dollar. TO buy his dinner. an
other lawyer gave him twenty live eenfs,
which al first he was incllne1 10
refuse, but finally accepted, asking
for his benefactOr's business Gard,
that he might return the money.
Al other places ne got orders Tor dinners
on difIereut Restaurants. Finally he
oallc,fo DisLr,ct Attorney BaiioJ nnd
repeated his request Tor $270. MIR.
Bailey was al first inclined To give 1t, al
though he remarked that $40 would
not pay iarc 10 Maine. The boy, who is
perhaps seventeen, but quite small Tor
iis age, said he could 20 for bali fare,
The more the District Attorney thought
OF II the less he felt like grant ng the re-
quest, aud finally handing him twenty
i've cents, told him thai would get hun
dlnner and that was all he could do.
This sum the boy handed back as he had
done at one or two other plac about
town, and In going ont slipped under the
door card on which was written vile
language. Mr. Bailey, convinced that
the fellow was All impOster, reported him
at headquarters, and accompanied
Detective Dryer to the Whitney
landing, where the boy was arrested
Just as he was going to Troy. Chief
Maloy searched him carefully, and on
nj, person discovered two diaries In
which were entered the places he had
"worked," the names OF several OF mis-
victims, the amounts received each day,
and various other data OF curious in
terest. ..
whats this Z" said the Chief and he
pulled out two cigars.
CIGARS" replied the prisoner. Take
on: They are not very good; ten cent
ers. | generally smoke twenty-five
centers.n
You are a frst-class fraud replied
the Chief, and the boy was not In a posi-
to deny the charge. He said, however,
ton, that he only beat those who can
stand 1t. He said he was born IN 81.
James Parish. La, OF Creole parentage.
The name he goes by Is Frank Taylor,
although in his diary he calls himself
"Frand La Belle" which may be a pet
name OF bis own. derived from his grlish
appearance. In tact, he says he
has been three times arrested on suspic.
lon OF being Il girl in male atlire-the
last time In Newark, y. J.-but never
for any other Oiiense. He says, further,
that he has travelled with Mrs. Bowers,
playing ia Lady Audley's Secret"
His diary shows that he has visited
cities as far west as st. Paul, as far south
as Galveston, and has pretty thoroughly
worked Kentucky and the Western
states. aud Las just been making the tour
OF the Central road. His cash account
shows that from the 7th ot last December
TO May o, ne took in $1,000 above e&-
penses: from May To May 0 his net re.
ceipts were S3j,05, His best days work
was at Galveston. March ID. when he
took in $3.50. lie remarks that Calves
ton and Houston are the best and most
generous places he has met with. The
names of his victims Include railroad and
steamboat officials, newspaper men,
United States senators, bankers, lawyers,
etc.
On being taken to the police court this
morning Frank La Belle" was sent to
the penltentiary for six months as va.
grant.