Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-05


The Lottery Ticket.
Detroit Free Press; The story | am
going to give was related to me by Il
crook named Jim Davis, alias Little
jim" and have every reason to know
that he told the truth. | give it in his
own language:
tickets in the Royal Havana lottery were
sold III the United States every month,
and when everybody knew the drawings
to be square, every gambler, pugllist,
thief and burglar made it u solemn duty
to invest in at least one ticket per month
happened in New York with my PAL
in May one year. and each of us bought Il
ticket for the May drawing, paying
therefor So each Our stay in the city
was brief. We had Il Job lad out in an
eastern state and went to Gotham after
tools to do it with. When we purchased
the tickets each of us took the number of
both on slip of paper. After few
days we got down to our work. We had
planned to crack the safe in the Office
of big iron mill, and we had gone over
the ground and worked out the details
until we felt sure OF the Doodle. The
payday at the mill came on the Goth of
the month. The money was drawn from
the bank OH the 18TH and OF course kept
in the safe over night. 1t was the night
of the 10Th we ackcd it. There was Il
watchman on the premises, and we bound
and gagged him and laid him IN corner
and went to work. The safes of those
days were mere shells, while the tools
were almost as perfect as now. We had
the door open in an hour, and in ten
minutes more we should have been off
with tha cash. but the Internal watch
nI atross 'G fGs stGe IN af'nvh nf %
r,nging of befis md sh6ntinp for bnJn
we gof rattled ind stortcd oti. withont
~nttin~ a dollar
"We ran ont tho bocl, wav and tbrorcb
the wards, but were m pursued W by three or r.
fnnr mon same of whom fred ,t ne with
revo,vars We cnt Ifnr rnvnc a. tr'pnin~ o1 mo
and stumblinp and in the dnrkness he,
came senarated Nv nai ran alone tho
edre of r. and was shot through tbn Toiv
bv ono Of thn man while nInnrnd dnwy1
nmon1 the rocls and hnshns and %ot safe
OF thourh bafIv msed mn by several talIs
I did not know Until reYt ~ Gmorninr that
WV ,,artnn,. bad hoan hyrt and Ie,rnoJ Nd
time Tho ho1v w,s t,Enn in Charge hv
the undert,knr and I d,cmnd If wisa ~
leave that iocnlitv I wns IN Rostnn whan
I saw n list of tha luck numhnrs for Ma
md while nv tinket iI was not namad ny, nv
nnrtncr had mt s3O 0o0, I comnared hy thye
numbers over and over AGAIN and there
was no mist.ka p." An nrent in New Ynrte
stood ready to cash Mi nrizes hnt where
was the t,c3ots | had seen II in INV mart.
ner,s wallet only the dnv before he was
killed As the coroner Ind taken choT%e
Of the bodv he must also have the man's
personal effects in his possession
wnnt nvcr to Nav Yorli ord
cooI,od m nl,n With
sharp, shrewd old woman. who at once
nroceednd to tbe nlace have not thourbt
hest TO name 70 Won and nassed herself
- ~ thn doad II nS,ar,o rootbor Sha ia
everythin@ i ~, m $50 So str, STRAIGHT that the % coroner @
did NOT doubt her but wef reanad no
nrotit from the nlan Notbin1 IM had henu an
fonnd on the boGv excrnt n fnw KEYS and
q knife Tho man had nrobohlv thrown
his wallet away while r,,nnin~ that No
cnmnromising nnnnrs miuht Tn fonnd
HAs we did NOT want tba hodv which
had of course hcen hurled tho woman
dronnod ont of s;ght and I bo1au n hnnt
for the wallet In one disguise and an
other / hung around the mill and the