The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-03

were interested with him in the robbery.
and they too will no doubt be arrcsted,
Marshal Birchett and Officer Bondurant
went down to Cairo to bring the little ras.
cal back and to help work up the robbery
mentioned elsewhere as occurring on the
steamer Idlewild. Being delayed IN this
latter work they did not return last night
but will be home tonight on the Fisk.
Their mission in respect to the Idlewild
robbery proved successful"
"A one legged stranger was in the city,
yesterday, who Is manifestly dead beat.
He called upon two or three families in the
Fourth ward, and other families elsewhere,
doubtless, and, if he saw reason for believ-
ing the man of the house absent, he begged
of the woman the favor of quarter to
assist him in the purchase of cork leg.
He didn't make such appeals to the men,
because he knew they would at once ask
him why he had not been pensioned, and
why he had failed to avail himself of the
provision made by law for supplying de.
serving applicants with artificial limbs. The
fellow doubtless succeeds in gathering in
good many quarters, and it is safe to say
that he wouldn't wear wooden leg, If he
were supplied with such an appendage. 1t
would rob him Of his occupation. If he is
still in the city, he deserves to be spotted,
as he is most undeniably dead beat. In
fact the country is full of such impostors.
Chester, Trenton, Carlyle and other towns
in Southern Illinois have had their one
legged infections, The Trenton dead beat
succeeded in obtaining forty dollars, on the
strength Of forged recommendations from
prminent citizens of Carlyle. After OBJ
tanning the money the rascal commenced a
rousing spree, which he kept up until he
exhausted his money. The public should
understand, therefore, that Union soldiers
have no occasion to canvass the country on
a begging tour. sour benefcent govern.
ment" has provided for them, sufficiently
if not plentifully. P. S.-For better un
derstanding of the foregoing, it Is well
enough to observe that the stranger pre-
tended that he was Union veteran"
We are not disposed to snatch single
feather from the police turban of Paducahi
City Marshal; but if he claims, as the Pa
ducah News claims tor him, that ht
"worked up the case against Duffy, lie,
and Brooks, who stole Mrs. Gregg's Jew
elry," and was in Cairo at the time of thei
arrest, he claims entirely too much. TIL,
Cairo police regard the whole thing as {
very commonplace transaction, and have
} never dreamed that there was anything il
it out OF which a reputation could be man
utactured for anybody. But the facts are
these: Devans and his companions had
not been in the city an hour, before two Of
our policemen had spotted them; they had
not been in the city two hours, before the
same policemen (who don't even care tc
have their names mentioned) had the gang
under arrest, and the stolen property III
their own possession. Ten hours afterwards
a telegram was received from Paducah an.
nouncing the Idlewld theft, and giving a
description of the property stolen. No in.
timation that such and such persons were
suspected, was given in the dispatch, al
all, The Cairo police replied that they
had the thieves and property; and about
fifteen hours after the arrest, the Paducah
Marshal arrived in the city. Just where
the CREDIT to HIM comes in, for the life OF
us we are unable to determine. If credit
is due anywhere, it is due 70 the police o.
Cairo, or, rather, to the two gentlemen who
effected the arrest That they are not am
bilious to be known in the matter, the alb
sence OF their names in this connection
rather plainly indicates.