Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-22

e 'In strange kind o. way says Joe.
you see. Mike bad struck the President
Of a Pittsburg bank fur satcheI with
twelve thOusan' dollars in il. Billy Hail.
one Of our men. c0rnered him on the train
jess the other side "A Altoona. Mike an
he had a tussle. an Billy shot i'm twice.
one ball goin' through his lungs. He only
lived a few hours an they buried i'm
quietly at CressOn.'
AT Cressonr says 1, struck all Of a
heap.
"'Yes; an most singular Of all, the
twelve thOusan' dollars In the satchel new
er turned up, though they offered twenty
hTe hundred reward for 1t. Pretty hard
on Billy
Yes said I. not thinkin' much Of
what l was sayin', and then tried 70 talk
OF sOmethin' else. was afraid Joe, who
WIZ as sharp eZ a needle, would ketch on
to nv interest in the case and worm il all
out o me. hedn't told il to a liYin' soul,
coz I'm a shrinkin', sensitive natur', an
afraid o ridicuIe. But ! swOre that the
next time bizness called me West i would
work that matter up.
The opportunity came afoFe ] know'd
il an promise you didn't forget to stop
at Altoona and take the day accommoda-
ton to CressOn the next m0rnin'.
81 found the place the ghost p'inted
out an hunted arounf for two or three
hours without findin' a thing. 1t struck
me men must be as big liars in the other
world as they are in this. l wuz dis
gusted.
'sSittin' down on the edge Of the railway
embankment, with my legs a hangin'
over, cussed myself for being such a
fool as to place any dependence on a
burglars ghost, when, lookin' down at
my feet, / saw under a loose stone that
had rolled down the ragged end of a
worn-out trunk strap. j supposed it WIZ
jess an old piece Of strap that he'd bin
chucked out o. the baggage car of sum
passin' train. There the darn'd thing
wuZ, We see, jess the little bit Of tip end
a stickin' out.
81 couldn't for the life O. me tell you
why. but sum sort o. impulse KEEP sort o.
pushin' me to pick the blamed thing up.
jumped down the embankment and tried
to. but il wuz sort a wedged under the
stone an couldn't bulge it. AT last
took fence rail and pried the stone out
an then l saw sOmethin' that acterally
took my breath away.
ssWhat wOs itf Why, a black satchel,
that's what it was, an praps you think
Pm a liar if l tell you that there wuz
twelve thOusan' dollars lawful money OF
the United States inside it.
"Well, l got the reward an sent five
| hundred of 1t TO the ghosts wilder, a de-
D
/ she set up a little thread-an' needle store
on Ann street with the money. / felt
/ Obleeged to do that after the hansum man
| ner the ghost behaved. An Ricketts,
/ Oh, yes-you jess ask Joe Ricketts, who
/ gave i'm the fust-class, A 1 chronometeT
4 an eighteen-carat gold chain, with From
an Admirin' Fren' engraved inside the
! case, an see what he says.
"Gemmen, / hev never laughed at mar
/ for believin' in spooks since. It's bring
I in the matter too nigh home. Money
I talks. Will have cigarI Don't care ii
/ l dO,o and the man in the shiny plug hal
| strOlled away to light it.
"A remarkable man." 1 whispered tt
4 my nearest neighbor.
''YOu bet he is. replied the commercial
/ tourist. That's Lou Higgins-'Liar Lou
the biggest old stiff this side of the
| mountains"
S'And Sorgum, Lasses & Co. %
''In the hands of a receiver. Lasses
had most of his settled on his wife anC
SOrgum lit out to Europe before the crasl
! came. Anyone picks them up for suckers
/ gets left"