The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-21
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 A travelling man tor . Chicago grocerv hoose. who had ben out ca his krst ,sip through the nosshwes1 rsessned to Chicago last Saturday. slammed his grip | sack down on the counter, add said he would settle up and quit. The proprietor did not know him, e his mousiacke had been shaved od, his hair sAinelsd, and he had . black eye and other evidences of hard usage. Aher the proprietor had become sAtisfed that the disgassed wreck of a man before him vas the identical blooming. beautiful gentleman that had gone out into tae world % proudly oaly few weeks before, he said, What is the cause ot this transformation scene? You have not been trying to stand up before Sullivan. have yoas Or have you taken to drink. that bAne of the human race."
 70. no" said the travelling man. as he looked in a glass and pu, some white chalk on the black place under his eye. IL is not Sullivan. nor drink Hut. bear too close a resemblance, that is ar'
 Beg pardon" said the proprietor. as he appeared not to catch the point. |" do not seem to uaderstand you. What resemblance do yos allude to ?"
 "l look too much hts . good many people that are sought aAer," said the travelling man. as he piansd up . reat ia the knee of hts pants which looked a though h had been made h . scussie, You see the country is full of defaulsing bank eashien, presidents, express rob- bers ard embeszlen generally, so say no'hing of the crooks who are wanted for murder and highwAy robbesies. and everything Every detective and chief of police and constable, throughout the country, has his pockets full oi photo graphs of distinguished crooks. descrip- tions of men wanted. with the amount of the reward. and they are sn the lookout for strangers. and they fas.en onto them regardless There ,s more clear money in catching bank cashiers. and other crooks. than in the legitimate business of the police. First. was arrested al Rock Island, and accused Of being Filler. the St. Louis express robber, and they took my sample cases and put them in the | %As< VI th< ptttAG s&AktVats 8ko totREu fNG up in a cell. and tired 10 pump me. and only for the fact that Filler was arrested in Milwaukee. might be there yet. Bu, got out, and was ordered out of town. and went over the river to Davenport, and policeman nabbcd me the first thing, as the defAuiting cashier of the bank at Monmouth, Ili. thought the thing was getting . little b,t too ire~ quent. and said l wouldn't 20 to the sta. ton, as l had buslness in town, and he handouficd me. and called upon several citizens in the name of the state of Iowa. and they marched me off with psoces. sion as big as Decoration Day parade. l got out ot that Jail tn a couple of days, and started north, and for a week did not have any trouble. but on the way from McCregor 10 S,. Paul the conductor got to talking with me, and 1 guess he tele. graphed ahead that he had A suspicious character on board, for when we got to Albert Lea. a constable came and took me on a charge of being an escaped cashier from New Jersey Do you know. l was mad. They kept me two days and had my picture taken fo- the rosues' gallery. and then let me 20. had my moustache GU, of, and my head shingled, and took a run over to La Crosse. and was a, once pulled as the man who robbed St. Paul jewellers by forged chec ks on a La Crosse bank. But they treated me real we'll there, and let me 70 as quick as T showed my samples. and e.- plained that they arrested me on aeeoua, of my disguis,ng myself by cutting of my moustache. ] went along towards St. Paul, and was not arrested, though at Winona a detective folio sed me all day and at Red Wing the police asked me a good many questions about natter in Wall street, and the failures, etc, bu, 1 didn't know anything about II, SO 1 pulled through all right But at ;, Paul ] had not struck the depot platform be- fore a man tapped me on the shoulder, and said, hello, Eno.' though. would be smart and said, How do you know know Enc! That seetled IL, and they surrounded me and had me in . hack in less than a minute, and on the way to Jail, and 1t was noised around that the de- tectives had Enc, the New York defaul,er They tsied to get me to confess, and tell them where had hid the money, and offered to divide with me, and when ] told them ] vas travelling for Chicago grocery house they laughed, and as they looked over my samples they said l played 1t well, and eould not have e. lected a better disguise to escape in. They said 1 would probably have sue cesded in escaping to Winnipeg if had not struck the hy desectives of fS.. Paul. We'll when got your lsetes enclosing . check. and some inquiries as 10 vhy didn't send in more ordsss, they opened t, and concluded they had made mis- take, ana they give me chance to e. cape, and drove to Minneapolis st night with team, arriving there abou, two o'clock, .. m. A gentleman in the hotel asked me if wouldn't have a 6rink be- fore going to bed, asd l said didn', care if did, because he said he was a brother travelling man, and 1 wen. ou, vita him, and pledge you nay word he landed me af tAe police xsstion and