The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1877-02-16

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THE cKMksx.>'~ nlrl,r.
| ,lnat snpls,~s sou i-.l much inter.
eseesl In bnrRlasS. nor are th.af hal.is n
wfy eholer theme IN polite lihrHtur.
bne uscaI that cN'nrrinv III ulen S,,lanu
wss rally nm extraordinary affair. YIN
ss~', sIr way sNnr ~ g,'t Nin.l III il ~ns
shnss,Rl. Calico Chall.s. M thy called
ann. ! WAS "a, thu f,,rsA tlsrn ~ n SEP.
grant That ~ar when Actin AMI k.n.
nelly made n tso lr,t inr lsth thu lA,li.
tAriMtn nnl tlr THIEVES. W. ,lrssl Il,
lN,NAt NJ that hmr that W. ha.l ihr l.~t
police forsr In thr world. We'll, Calico
harley ~rnt M fur lam Years FIR helm.
Ing b. cf~ck OH Oplwnhcimrrs plmv
thcr In thr Nowrrv. Ii WAS IL, nnlurLy
iot fcr him NIL through, AMI M was an.
81 the specials that "pirel' aiel t.pk
laiin. and ~ | had known him aif ai,i ou
iur long Time before that. IL waa Just
nke mc oi,e day, when | WAS up ut Mug
hiiE, - ~ over a. the stnnc quarry and
Tet thu keeper ~ III me- have talk with
him, ! Hot his whole history, H. warnt
us,c n your common crArkHm.n. Mt Il
~ u u nc was tro smart l,y lnnu
aAoe for TINT ~crt IL thing. nont VIZ,
run away with notion that burglars nrr
such awful smart chaps, That's II queer
idca TINT people get oat II tho stnr, pa
pers. Let nlr tell y,m TINT I've Ind nigh
onto fifteen years chance to lind mt. u,.l
I've never seen one TINT wuul,nt run his
i.e~ai into slip.M1sc the minute he ha.l
ehe lcast luck. Oh. M. l heard the
chaplain eay once, over Ia the isla,,l.
that y man whose mind mud body were
I'll right wouldn't h. thief no mnrc'n Il
healthy fcllnw'i b. y paupcr. rhrrc's
always something thu matter with I'm.
4 TWIST IN 'cM somewhere that knnks
Gun HAT when a sound man gets after 'rnl
Calico Charley, ~ ] WIN going Ii, ANY,
VIM pretty much ~ nh exception. IL
wAn brought UP Will. His father was
One III the hcst mnrhinists In thu cu,tu.
try. anu he took more lmins a. mike il
man ri llis lny thnn the fellow deserved.
The old man had little plmv ,,own
there In Maiden lanc wl,ei, / wna n
shaver. ! rsollca II we'll. II Mis- IL
Kind q nnrhine shop, where he ii,a,lr
Al..t noli tllNc or four tricks he'd invent.
~ limHrlt. H. hnl thu hoy Charley
Wit, him a bright. smart cl,ap Ii. war
then When Il. WIN n he got IL hr
priey lively about town. for thu oil man
hi.t aAvcl up \ handsome property ,,lM
lei Charley have mere money tl,an ~ns
Rssl for him. Then they ~, NJ a INV
.lr-lnrk, mil II made il hig riir, md |
believe they went into TINT rnrt IT tInu
pretty heayy. Any why Charley went
over 70 the iirxt worlds fair In f.u,ulun.
Iherr he got tripped up. never henr.l
exA1tly how II VIVA. They put M n
Job un him III some kind, and gnt him
mixed MP with u pretty bn.l London
mob. Thu story tint W. heard wl,s
Tint ~ picked II nafe-luck for purity
Tint shouldn't hav" been picked. Any
why, h. got In with The Nrnnu rruw,l,
nual thcy wouldn't IN - III HIM IL
ntald uver Their about iiv. yrnrr, and
Ent ~ lM regular iirrt-,lns@ snrnk, nn.l
worked half 4 dozen inhs III Iii. M~t
..'iclltitc manner. W. got wnrl from
nc,ilAnsl inrl TINT h. wis coming llrk.
mud dropped IN NJ the old man 4 plnes
there IN Maiden lane t. try aud find ont
something. Old CMlcott that VIVA his
namel llM.l get rich. WInt Will. his
bank.lock AnL hin other inventions. his
mean why of living. aud liir lnek IN buy.
ing Aunic downtown property before tflr
people Ind Nh idea how liR the city was
R"ii. - b., he'd conn. u Ii. i. regular
nai'"l', | couldn't ut wnrl vni III him
about llin boy. liz ~nia he'd piyen him
W, AiiL wns guinH tn retire from hnni.
ness, Money must have r.nn Il, pretty
inst - thu oil fellow. IT, showed M
hall \ dozen patents TINT Il. VIM p,,ap 81
sell nut, my ul,n ~ I'm must Inv. b..l,
worth pile II dollars.
Now think NJ IL. il was Gnieotl who
put the first Frankinte IN an iron sair.
AND he invented The rubber ilnlur Which
prevented thu thieves from ,,sina In. mir.
pump ~hen they wanted ~ blow ~, 4
.Aic.
i Htemn TINT when young calrntl
started fpr America hca nln.lr m l,is
mlild q cut his London acquaintance
and tricks, md square II by pping hack
y tho oil man. None III IN knew Il NJ
Tho time. We'll, when hr got here. ii 81.
riou. thing hMppn"l. W. Ind innn
in The Ccntr.l office w TIN nam. III
Meehan, who wis IN viii, MI Emit side
mob. He wAA broke about II ycnr after.
wassl. Mcclian hM.i got word from the
London gnng. nnd he met young cnlntt
on the i0ck with fnct. enouul, IL s.nI
him up: and he made straight oiIsr in
Nm y stay with tho East side gang II le
didn't want ~ cnd Ills career for useful.
mes. What d1s Cnlcott 10 Int hum
.nd h6w and 70 ~ No. Home III tie III.
lows. and. finding himself pretty we'll
stAkcl out, gives in md ulrns il fresh
!Ay Of IN lnstry. III Hnih nftrrwarl tint
b. intended ~ cut I'm tho first rlin,rs.
he gd. lint he never lid. III rot ii
~ hig chief IN ~ dangerous il pulig IN
ever worried the men Ia Mulberry street.
We thought W. hal him twn IT three
ttnaes, hut l,e slipped through our fin.
gefs. There wasn't clcnn Job in iron
put mp anywhere hut II hud the marks ii
his tools on II. When TIN war hroke o,lt
~ was IN New Orleans, md W. lost track
q him Tor hvc Or nix years.
II 49, In tho winter ~ 1919 TINT the
ecntlcmen's plnccs along tie Hnl.on
Wcre brulen int0 NV river EnnR. You
may rar0llcct II. Judge Hrhcrmerl,ori'
houeo q Glen spring wnh entered one
night and roblnd " On. OOO worth II
property. The papers made RDol tlenl
n fllas about II, and W. hal three or four
men working ~ II. tine ,lny Matti.on
r0nes intO thr Office with Il copy IT the
Hen spring paper Myuhd. believe II
uays Look VI this Heru's
! 20. Read that." And he pointed ont
~ advertisement. This II Iii. why II
rcd
Al burglars. house, brcaless, sneak.
hieveo. and asu1sains Mr0 hereby notified /
hat / buee over n6O. 0f1O worth III u0iu. l