, 1879-08-12


hkipped out to Join hin. It was not long, how
ever, before Gus Clemens, Special Agent Of TIN
Treasury Department, and Col. Tfumbull's yat'1- |
nblo assistant In these cases,
POSTED OPP TO LONDON,
saw Jimmy, learned his story, ehadovcd Baxter,
secured all tlls necessary points. aud, Indeed,
ccomplished everything but gattfnE Baxter out
Of the Quoen's dotnntons, anl returned. It
was Unlimited In The TnrBuKR several weeks
ago that Jimmy would strike the town ono Of
these days, ard the reporters hare been living in
wait for him. Heleft London Saturday morning,
got tuto town rcry qutetly Saturday evening,
rem mined invisible Sunday, nrnl WIS yesterday
c1oseted with the Revenue officers until late
hour In the afternoon, 1rhcn the reporters wesa
allowed to take tt,cir whsck at him md put him
through the modern interviewing PROCESS.
Jimmy Is tall for bis nge, rather coo'l-tooktng.
tlressoa With taste, mud ia most voubIe .alkrr.
lie would be called bright boy anywhere, auti
the allegation, If truo that he was wound around
naxter's GnEer without h!s knowing what he wBs
doing. ls expaInablo only on the theory that, as
he states If. be conceived Il to be bis duty to do
whatever hts etnployer told him. He very read.
lis nerced tn tell hfs atory, which was III SUBJ
stance "A follows:
liz went into Daxter's employ" as clerk In
June, 1873 Ifaring been out OF n 1of, for some
time. he was naturally dcs!rous Of pleasing. and
general oflco work, for which the pay was s,a!l
Along In February last Baxter asked him to
s1GN HIS SAMs TO 4 DoouMgsT,
and, having implicit faith II Baxter. he signed
md asked nu ducsttons. What he signed now
turns out to be the Baxter masch.boud. From
contents hp WAS equally ignorant, BnIter deity
covering up all but the line on which ho was to
siRn; 10 order that ho might renan IN thls state
were roqusitio,ts M thc Department for stamps.
| or. in some cases, were blank pieces Of papcr.
| which, beit,E sIgncd, were Afterwards dllod hy
baxter himself With the ail OF the Typewriter.
! Ono Sunday, early In April, TIE THiHUEE
lot daylight Into tho Wheeler hond.
baxter greeted Jimmy tho next morning With
n cheerful salutason to tue effect that the Gov,
ern0,ent was FakinE 'ctn In, and Jimmy replied
that Il did rather apnear 90. lle had seen
Wheeler and the Hnles at the office tltne. aI1d
| again, but knew nothing about tlletu until the
newspaper account OF the swintie. lie had
alsu aeen Smith. Wustusn, atld Joues, bonds
men In this very Baxtcr case, at the Office,
! where tl4ey. caruc pretty nearly every gay,
though he knew nnth!ug Of them except their
names. and. as ho catme, hadn't the faintest Idea
tnateh- bond, OF on anything else for that mat
ter. rhis particular conversation with Darter
was on Montiar morning, April Z. mud, 81 BAx-
tcr's suggestion. lie remained aWaF from the
Tuesday morning he turned up ns usual, when
Baxter remarked that II he stayed about the
Office thu Government people would probably
run him tiozn and get him to tell all he kue"
| about Wheclcr AMI tho rest. Jimmy WAS ayeEse
10 publicity, he says, having done nothing, md
not carlng to mix himself up 10 nny tsoubla.
Baxter rancatcd Ills remark tint jimmy might
l,e wanted, and asked him ii he wouldn't Ike TO
| 90 orr OF TOWN
for couple OF weeks.
my, as he told his story TO Tns TnlnuSE re-
porter. "1u fact, was atxiuus to rec so!"e
now p1accs,-at Ills cxpcnss." Hero he smiled
knowingly.
Tic result Of t: nll WINS that Jimmy left t'at
night. Tuesday, April g. for London, cana1a.
supplied BY Baxter with TaitEoa! Ticket ant
spending money, Baxter solicited the place OF
Ills exile, rrmarking thn., III Jimmy wns Eoii':
away, lto'd better 70 fsr enough, so ",kcy !"
couldn't talk TO him. Further than this !c as
signed no reason fos shc hogfs going awas othe.
thnn sliat he wished him to do so for couple of
weeks, attor which ho could roturn. bax-
days, and they parted. llo Ind lbbcd ltttlr
whenn he tolti lila folka l.o was going sway on
business Tor Its employer, when thc reality was
that he didn't care TO get mixed ~ ~ tl'at ,a's
| Wheeler mcss and ha was at the sntno tiffse W
no means avoEss tn taking trip ansl y seeing
the country "-at Daxtcr's eSrcnse. lit q iew
through on Ills why East. ,'thcra wasn't much
conversation Then, hut on h!s return Jlltmy eaw
HIN agall. ut the depot and hal so,no ta!k win
him. Baxter told hin, To remhi,I anu go to
| AGf0Q4 tOr 1tID "HlGt ulli "HGu u4 %N"i1
buck he would tind his snlary rsiscd.
Jimmy liked this we'll enough l}aHsGr Eavo
Lin money to pay expo1lsts M NJ nla'c ~
arrangements to 70 10 school tn i.onaou: h1t
the tpouay to nay tuition u,mt boar! lug. house.
keeper cams In annoying lr'biots md, attnr st1
weeks Ut sctonllng, Jimmy was nshu.lled to laee
the muster md an unphla tn!tton bl, anil 4n't.
In tl,c neansinu, hts mn'acr Aatl hoe eai,mS asn'
Baxter Ind prolnIscl tn pay lGr. Tho bFoErf
maid IL for tho E3sat few weeks With soHn degrce
Vi promptness. Then 10 hogan to bc rc1ntss,-
needed good tlcal Of hunting III md unn,'lE,
| and finally ceased to pay her anything what
ever. All this cot to Jinly's ears Ho sat
down md
WROTE HAxTEN 4 1ErrETl,
in whicl, llu took h[s employor To tnsk for not
keeping hts word, a'rl slosel wi'h rg9'lssi TO-,
''nll spcnd tho Fourth OF iu!y IN decent style. y
A rauly ca1ae, telling hin to rcsraln where he
wns, rs I'axtur would Join him hi iGw '1Ays'
and remained ! few,, iass, eas!,lg TIC
bays 1ui.rt tsmpurar1l1 on ts'e great
aul pressing question Of nances. nstore
Baxter got art'.in'' aEan conveniently thn eatne ~
gro.ln,l shortly afterwards. saw thy boy, a.
Eut his story, mud It was not until Clemens hal
rcmoytsl the scales from Ills eyes. aec1rd!,IG Ia
Jin,nys story. sIat ho rscr for one taoMent int
agincd tlms baxter WAS crooked. anu had beeN
t,s!uE him to srtye hts purpose, This Hns
shout ths l6lh or l7th ot July. mud during ule
week Baxter turned up III London himself.
"wH ll1p 4 VERY sTonMY INTERVIEW"
said Jimmy, II: be described their meetlng. ~
accused him Of having tnAAu 'na SIGN paTesa ami
Of having got thu ilta Ills trouble. | told htty
wouldn't alaye ever sCped QUO Of them IT hi
hai toll nc this"
!" Aud what did ho hayo to say In Eopl,'
qucrleA tho reporter,
"Oh, sa saia there was no usa talk!ug abou
tint NOW; lIsut II was a!l done aMl couldn't b
n,,dona; 1hat ha could sottla with tho Govern
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