The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-15


lars to be released Lally asked twenty, but
compromised on ten; the man handed Lally
twenty-dollar bill, and Lally, having
left his check.book at home and
the bank being closed anyhow,
kept the bill and promised to send the man
the change to Vienna. The Vienna man
agreed to this arrangement and left. A few
days afterwards Lally proved that he was a
gentleman Of honor by sending the man q
ten dollar bill by mail; but, of course,
Lally didn't know that the bill he
had seat was counterfeit,
but the Vienna man does.
1t appears further that the Vienna man
lost his watch while here and Lally, in bis
letter enclosing the change, told the man
that the watch was in Charleston and that
he, Lally, would get ii and send it to him,
she Vienna man, provided he would send
two dollars-meaning good money, Of
course. This proposition was signed
'Jack Lslly, county constable"
The Vienna man was again taken in.
lie sent the money asked for and waited pa
| tiently for the watch.--So far as THE Bull.
LErN could learn yesterday he is waiting
yet for the watch. This is the story as
obtained from our officers, and upon which
the warrant in question is based. 1t is an
interesting story and would be as good
reading in Vienna as it is here.
But so far as this community is
concerned, it is TO be hoped that the officer
will never have the opportunity to serve
the warrant; in other words, that the young
rogue for whose body it calls will skip the
town if he has not already skipped, and stay
"A silk" young fellow has been "doing
the town" for several days past. He was
of awkward, medium build, had face that
would have been certain protection to him
against even the love-lorn Mormon maidens
of Salt Lake. and was disfgured by close
fitting, silk, scull cap. He has confined
his movements mostly to Ohio levee, haunt
ing the front doors Of railroad offices, or of
commission houses and seeking opportu-
mites to gain the acquaintance OF some Of
the young clerks in the former. On Sun
day he came to The Halliday, represented
himself as hotel clerk who had been to
Hot Springs for his health, run outof funds,
and desired to "dead-beat' the
house for a few days because Of the
"chalk mark" on his hat. Bat Mr.. Parker
couldn't see the chalk mark and the young
man was compelled to pay for his dinner,
which so offended him that he left, yowing
to return never more. On Monday he ac-
costed a number Of the prominent Ohio
levee business men in the street and begged
them for enough money to buy meal,
saying he had left the palatal home Of his
dotng parents and was roaming through
the west in the disguise Of common
tramp. The discrepancy between this
story and the one he told at The Halliday
must be attributed to the young mans
weak memory rather than to any propen.
sity for 'romancing." Chief Myers had
watched the young man, and noted his Sus-
picious actions and learned the capers he
was cutting, and yesterday afternoon he
arrested him. The chief took him to the
headquarters and interviewed him, and he
learned that the young man was perfectly
honest, of highly respectable psrentage in
the east; was here on trough" had bePl
expelled from school in the east; came west
from New Jersey; came to Cairo on a
Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans freight
train Monday morning; had four dollars in
his pocket-book name was G.. w. Wal.
lace; intended to so east This was the
substance of the honest young mans story.
"Came to Cairo Monday morning" yet he
had eaten dinner at The Halliday on Sun
day. "came on Chicago, st. Louis and
New Orleans freight" though no freight
trains have been running on that road for
several weeks; his name was G. w. Wal
lace though his clothes were marked "W.
w. G."; be was "a rich mans son ia dis
guise" and had four dollars in his pocket,
yet he wanted to "dead- beat" the hotel and
was begging perfect strangers for money
enough to buy him meal. He was and
had done several other things according to
his utterances to other persons, which he
was not and had not done when talking to
the chief The chief detected the young
man in all these little inaccuracies and con-
cluded, finally, that whatever else the young
man might have been or be, he was Ger.
tainly COMPOUNDED liar" and he gave the
young man so to understand and told him