Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-11-08
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The night Re still young, said Ximinos,
the Newspaper reporter. at midnight just
about one year ago, CHANGING at the nickel
plated alarm clock which resfed upon his
mantelpiece partly obscured by numerous
tobacco inrs, longstemmod pipes match
boxes, ink bottles and similar elegant bric-a
trac ] val 90 down 20 Newspaper row and
Gee II. perehaure tho mails have brought me
any checks along with the usual allowance u
tradesmeu's bills since the afternoon
Ximines consequently uttired himself in his
hot and walkiugstiek, and Jared forth into
The lamp-lit streets n tho great metropolis;
and. deciding that a Third avenue str.at-car
whose route lay through the Bowery would
prove the most interesting as well as the
quickest method u reaching the city hail he
wendcd bis stepa toward that thoroughfare
and took a rapidly moving downward bound
car Tie vehicle was crowded. with that vBri-
egatsd class u humanity which makes the
Bowery and its locality lively by night inso
much that there was no room inside Kim
ines therefore stood on the back platform In
company with two gentlemen who had sta.
toned themseiyaa on the strps Tor greater
convenience IN relieving outgoing and in
coming passengers n their watches On the
platform stood two or three other night birds,
the one who was nearest Ximincs being IA
medium sized man Of powerful figure, who
wore long brown mustache
At Fourteenth street the car stopped and
the passengers who got On were Of 80 un-
usual description that even the light
fingered gentlemen stared Three men got
on 30 the car Two of them were under 30
sleek and well dressed, and Of type which
frequenters u the courts would recognize r.
being brought 20 trial almost weekly on
charges that could never b. proved against
them The third man was the one who at
tracted the attention He was TO all appear
anco more than ~ years Of age He was
bareheaded, bis hair was silvcry white, and
he was exceedingly drunk His companions
held him up by each arm, and tho patriarch
was 50 extremely full that he could scarcely
lift his feet TO the car step, whereupon one
Of the young men exclaimed savagely,
BLANK you Get up therel' aud gave him
rough shake. The two younger men Of the
three new arrivals exchanged chances with
"souper fakes or watch thieves ON the car
stera but no word passed between them,
and the ill.assorted trio went into the car,
Gro wdod their why forward, where some one
gave up bis seat TO the inebrintod patriarch,
and he sank into it and relapsed into uncon-
sciousness, closely guarded by his two com
panions. They had scarcely passed inside
when the man who stood next TO Ximines on
the platform said to one Of the other passen-
gers:
well, by G., call that rough The
crooks are playing II pretty low down when
they've got to work an old man with white
hair"
There was n murmur Of sympathy from
those In the vicinity and one Of the souper
fakes remarked thrcateningly;
"You want to be pretty careful how you're
talking around here, young Teller Them's
gentlemen, an that's their old man they're
n.takin' home
"Who's going to make me careful how
talkT demanded the hrown-mustached
stranger fercely Don't you pay out any
more slack Those fellows are crooks, say
II that was their father would they be wear
ing hats and let him go barcheadedi Would
they be cursiIfg their father 30 make him
get up the stepsl Would they be making
holy show Of him, drunk, in a street car,
when they might take him home in a cab If
he was their fatherr
ats none o your business, anyway" said
the thief surlily.
well III make it my business said the
stout stranger "Just wait till we pass a po-
liceman."
OF course there was no policeman in sight
and the two car-step thieves dropped off at
the Cooper institute TO take the next car back
for their prey which goes up town from
Fourteenth street early in the morning. The
stout stranger glanced into the car at the old
man sleeping in the forward end, and then
remarked to young mechanic in his best
clothes, who was on his way home with his
"girl" from picnic at Jones' wood,
at goes against my conscience to let those
two crooks get away with an old man like
that, even If he is drunk VIII you stand by
me II 60 in there and take him away from
thomi ! wouldn't b. afraid Of the two If 1t
wasn't that You can never tell how many pals
they've got IN tho crowd, but we two are
good for a whole carload of crooksp
"l've got woman on the carr said the
young mechanic "or I'd go In with you, but
don't want to git in no row while she's
around
Tho stout stranger turned from him con
temptuousy and put the question 10 another
Hhle-bod!ed passenger,
O.! don't want 70 git cut to pieces in some
body else fight rotorted this individual
with franz, cowardice
Niniuos Ind been an interested and admir-
ing listener to the stout strangers champion
ship Of the ancient inehriste, and when he
asked next for his support, as ne had for that
OF the othor two passengers in righting the
Old mans wrongs, Xinines promptly agreed
20 second his efforts
"Good' said the stranger. Now our best
plan ls 10 get on to the front platform and
wait till they take him Off the car Then
we'll tackle EN- in the street II they refus,
TO give him up there'll be an ambulance call
for one of EN- anyway
The interior 81 the car was crowded with
passengers clinging TO the straps, and 1t tool:
ximines and the stout stranger several
minutes to force their way TO the front end
but when they got there the old man and his
two companions were gone
We'll find him or else hunt all night said
the stranger. SAY he asked of the driver
did an old man and two young fellows get
or the car only few minutes ago"
"Yes,h returned the horsemnn. They got
on at Broome street Old fellow boiling full
Two crooks hanging ON 10 him.
The car had then almost reached Grand
street. but before the driver had finished
the stranger had jumped from the steps. and
was running back TO Broome street, closely
followed by Ximines At the corner he
stopped and gazed down the deserted and
gloomy thoroughfare, There were no signs
Of the crooks or their victim, and the patri-
arch's companion exclaimed to Ximnes;
Take the left side Of the street and open
every doorway Open EN- quick, and shut
EN- quick, and look out for yourself Those
fellows are going 10 stand the old man up in
some hallway, III go down the other side. -
The two opened all the doors that were not
ocked between the Bowery and Mott street,
out found no trace Of their game Two
italian ag-pickers just starting out for their
mornings labor met them on this corner
and Ximines' new companion asked them Il
they bad seen the trio Of whom he was in pur-
suit The Italians pointel 10 the south with /.
out word and went on their way unin-
tsrestsd Tho stranger and Ximinos ran
softly mp Mott street 10 Spring, and peering
up this thoroughfare, discerned the three men
on the sidewalk The old man had sufficiently
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