Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1879-02-18
FIRST EDITION.
Hs WOULDN'T CONDONE.

Al, About sammy, The RefOrner-
A Beautiful Little Political Ale.
cory to illustrate the HumOrs Oi
the Cipher Dispatch Investfga.
lion.
New York rribune.l
He sat in horse car and howl-d for
,our blocks that he had been robbed Of
his watch. He was an old person and
seemed to be very much exercised
apout it; at one tina he stepped out on
the platform bareheaded and held up
bis right hand and swore hs wouldn't
Ondone it. Several younger persons
who got on the car with him assisted in
making great row about the robbery;
one of them talked 50 learnedly about
!. that the passengers couldn't quite
msk. out whether he was expatiating
on the outrage or describing the old
Gentleman as an escaped gyastacutus;
they all agreed, however, that Is what
;h.y called a "damshame, and that it
never should be condoned. Then a
policeman came in, and the old person
charged an Ohio gentleman in the car
with the theft. The young fellows who
,ad been fumbling round the stranger
Imported the charge, and they all went
ID to the station house together.
"Who are these parties : and what's
NJ this row about ?" said the magis-
tate.
well, this ere old 'un," said the
Dhcer, is Sammy the Retormer;;' he
l,-l to be- in with Tweed, Sweeny and
.Aat gang. You may remember, some
IN years ago, We came near pulling
in in with Tweed In the Seymour
hoffman job, but he got off on an alibi;
aid he was only dummy in it. He's
zen on the Reform lay for year or
vo, and claims to be connected with
he Society for the Suppression Of Vice,
hough the company he keeps don't
Nk much like it,"
who are the rest of these fellows"
well, they are all Tweed's old
tss. This ere high-shouldered fellow
tth loose chin always used to testi-
to Tweed's good character when the
I'd man got in trouble. The black
Hhiskered fellow lives up the river.
r used to help the old man in the AL
any business. The other fellow is a
kml Of nsvy or something tothe old
parity there"
And the otherN'
"Oh, he's stranger. Never saw
m beiore. He says he's an Ohio man.
lis the man those fellows charge with
|+alng Sammy's watch"
Then Sammy said: don't care any
hing about the watch, but do want to
ave stealing stopped and thieves
Fbown up. Don't ask me to condone
for | won't do it.
pom examination the watch which
fammy claimed to have lost was found
nave the Ohio mans name on 1t
a4 80 many passengers testified to see
D, the young fellows crowding the
Ao man and trying to pick his pock-
IT., that two of them confessed it, but
si they thought it was sammy's
patch, and they wanted to get it and
.,lore it to him, And the high-shoul-
rr"d man, who it appeared was max
g, signs to the other fellows, said he
bought it was Sammy's watch, too !;
ut he had 10 idea OF getting it back
that way. He only made signs to
y nevy where the watch was, and how
areess y the Ohio man was carrying
as a sort of danger signal. Nevy
nd he understood the signal to mean
20 for it," and lie went.
Then it seems, >" said the magistrate,
hat this was only an 'inchoate otfense'
srnpted by those noisy witnesses in
BE- interest of the person who claims to
ave- been robbed. Was this done with
our c0univance, Samuel"
Not at all, assure you, Judge. New
dreamed Of it; never saw any signs
Is, between these young men; and
len did see them disapproved of
t-m. had no idea my nevy would
any such thing, for I've told him |
ii not like it, and when he was caught
..p or twice tefor-, have shown con-
!erable impatience. He did very
tOng. His only excuse was that he
bought the gentleman had my watch,
Aich is the fact.
Well then, As this gentleman very
anly has his own watch, and the at
SMpt to steal it by Sammy's pals--or,
the -shouldered man callsth-n,
oparceners'-was only an inrhoate
sense, we'll dismiss the case
Couldn't you find, Judge" said
Fimmy, softly, "that as the boys failed
steal the watch the Ohio man must
iT- stolen it That seems to be a rea-
Eaable theory"
We never do business here in that
Pay,
What! Never''
Well, hardly ever"
Then" said Sammy, 81 desire on
1S interesting occasion to assert my
'.rr belief, before God and my coun-
y, that he's got my watch.' And he
+pped down remarking that he would
Ever condone it.
A kentucky journalist met him on
lr@eps and whispered to him conf
Fotially as they walked away togeth-
IF you only keep that a.going, the
E.O.ic IL have to give you a watch to
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