Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-19
A PECULIAR pARAGRApursr.

Exploits of r. II. Brace, q Journal
fist from ElkO-visiting h Com
stock under Favorable Cfrcum
stances and Stealing Everything
I'm Sisht-Bome Of His Distin
guished Victims.
From the Virginia chronicle.i
Some days ago r. T. Brace, a journals
from Elko, generally known as the pun
gent paragraphist Of the Post" of tina
town, arrived in this city on q sort o.
pleasure trip to the Comstock. He brought
letters of introduction TO each and every
journalist on the lode, and was received
with open arms by the profession. He
walked into the Chronicle Office with a let
ter which read as follows;
"FRrESD -, This will introduce Mr.,
r. T. Brace, the pungent jottings man OF
the Elk0 Post. You will find him a very
clever fellow, and any favors," etc., etc.
The letter was left on the table Of the
person to whom 1t was addressed, he for
tunately being out. He therefore did not
meet the Elko paragraphist.
WORKING THE ENTERPRISE"
Mr.. Brace then called at the Enterprise
Office and presented his letters. He was
very cordially received, and the next morn
ing the paper announced that Mr.. R. T..
Brace, the pungent paragraphist OF the
Elko Post, wa in town. The same day
Nj. Daggett missed o 500 meerschaum
pipe, Steve ellis was minus o coat, and
Dan De Guile bewailed the loss Of a gross
Of lead pencils. II was not suspected at
the time, however, who was the perpetra-
tor Of these thefts.
OPERATIONS IN COLI HILL.
Brace next called at the Gold Hill Ners
Office and presented his letter to All Do
ten. Mr.. Doten first showed him his fine
cabinet Of minerals, in which he takes
great pride, and then took him over to a two
bit saloon and introduced him to the bar
keeper, where he left him, as he had some
business to look after. Brace proved a
genial fellow and "stood off" the bar
keeper for seventeen drinks, and wandered
over to the Neus Office later in the
day. Mr.. Doten afterwards noticed that
some one had been at his mineral cabinet,
and taken a specimen OF native silver val
ued at $50. He suspected no one Of steal
ing ii ut the time. but thought his wife
had taken 1t to show TO Q friend. In the
afternoon he happened to be looking at the
Delta saloon cabinet in this city and found
the identical specimen. The barkeeper at
the Delta said he purchased it of Brace for
four dollars. The specimen had been cut
with o chisel on one side, and Mr.. Doten
was able TO swear TO its identity by that
mark.
wARRAST U FoR I'M.
He then swore out a warrant for the ar
rest Of Brace, but the pungent paragraph
list had COMO to Carson on the 2:45 train.
The barkeeper OF the Gold Hill saloon now
to the front and asserts that Brace
his coat.
1t seems almost incredible that q man
who could have borrowed all the money he
wanted among the newspaper men OF the
Comstock should have resorted to such
petty thefts, yet the evidence is conclusive
against him.
STILL AT LARGE.
The police were looking for him in Car.
son last night, but up 10 the present writ
ing he is still at large. Parties who knew
him in Elko say that he was once il the
State Prison for larceny.
1t is not a pleasant task to expose the
shortcomings Of fellow-journalists, but
such a man as Brace simply disgraces the
profession, and should be kicked out OF it.
He is only fit to be an Indian agent. The
only excuse he can offer is that his brain
was affected by Gold Hill whisky.