The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-05-12

Northampton. Old John Lords stolen
bonds, S250,000 worth, came from the
same source, and numerous other recoveries
well known TO the police. Red Leary got
as friendly greeting from the police sup
erintendents and detectives as If he had
been New York alderman. Inspector
Burns or Bob PinSerton never failed to
pass a pleasant good day when they met,
and Red Leary always seemed to feel quite
proud of their acquaintance. His sporting
house on Norton's Point at Coney Island
was the resort, not only of most of the
first-class crooks in the country, but swell
politicians, prize-ighters, brokers from
Wall street and fast young men about town,
might be seen night after night hobnobbing
in front of the bar, and every man felt
while he was in Reds place, his person and
property were very much safer than they
would be in q more pretsntlous hotel. he
adopted the rule so long in vogue at Harry
Hilrs-"No stealin' inside this ere 'ouse;"
"Hall hexperts will be 'eld accountable for
the same. an don't ye forgit It," Some Of
the experts did forget IL and violated this
rule. Did Harry Hill hand them over to
the peliceP Not bit Of IL; the next time
they called at his house he invited them
into back room, and there he went at
them with club, and the result was that
mans watch or pocket-book was safer in
or Young Mems Christian Association.
OF late years Red LearY adopted the same
rule and no drunken man could be 1eeced
| at his bar. II was suspected by many of
his old pals, that he purchased his immun-
| ity from punishment by furnishing infor-
nation to the police, and this fact possibly
may have led to his death. He was fol-
lowed to his grave by men of his own class 1;
his wife, Red Kate, the sharer of his des-
perate life, being the only one who could
really be called a mourner.
! The arrest in Brooklyn of a prominent
real estate man named Swimm on Tuesday
last, is the elimination of one of the quaint
little romances of our city life. Mr.. Swimm
is an eminent respectable citizen, apparent
| ly retiring in his ways, rather clerical in his
appearance, and is in fact regarded as one
Of the staunchest pillars of the Baptist
church to which he belongs. Still there
must be little of Old Adam left in
| Brother Swimm, Notwithstanding his con-
version and his yearsk for a few months
ago he thought he would have little quiet
| lark, so he put an advertisement in the
paper for a housekeeper, and as he
advertised himself as a gentleman of
means, he did not want a wrinkled old
tabby, but nice, bright, plump, Yivacious,
| intelligent, accommodating housekeeper:
in short, just the right kind of housekeeper
! for handsome gentleman of means 1t is
hardly necessary to say that he GOT a
bushel and half of letters, and one hur-
dred seventy-three photographs. Now Mr..
Swimm didn'n want any housekeeper. he
had most excellent housekeeper in Mrs.
Swimm. an estimable lady, who had darned
his stockings and faithfully attended to the
duties of Swimm's household for over
thirty years. But on the receipt of his
mail Swimm looked over the letters and
photos, and finally pitched upon an angelic
| widow in New Haven to preside as the
keeper of his mythical house. Donning
his Sunday suit he kissed Mrs. Swimm
| goodbye, and told her that he was going
to look after little bit of real estate on
which he had his eye. Now, If Mr.. Swimm
had saie personal property, it would haye
been nearer the truth, but he did not. Well,
Mr.. Swimm hurried up to New Haven and
met the charming widow, and wonderful to
relate, she was just exactly like her photo,
but then she wasn't exactly a widow; she
was only constructively widow, that is to
say, widow of the grass variety. That
was just the kind of housekeeper that Mr..
Swimm was looking for; she suited him to
a dot, and by way of binding the bargain,
he took her down to Black Rock on a ten
cent excursion, and there they had Book
beer, fried clans, deviled Holsters, ice cream,
and jolly good time generally. SO far ali
was plain sailing; but Mr.. Swimm had
hardly reached his hotel, his head swimming
with ecstacsy at his prospective bliss with
his new housekeeper, when knock came
at the door and gentleman walked in,
who called himself Mr.. Sibley, and desired
to inquire of Mr.. Swimm, what in Jerusa-
lem he had been doing with his wife? Per-
haps Mr. Swimm thought that this was
Sibley's ghost, at any rate the next day he
got up and busted for Brooklyn. He told
Mrs. Swimm that he had concluded not to
invest In that property, and made straight
bolt for his office. He had hardly got seat
ed behind his desk, when the grass widow
Sibley stood in the door with blood in her
eye. She soon gave the gentleman OF means
to understand, that while 1t was not easy to
| get rid of her, and in her particular case in
would require guilders to do it. Mr.. Sibley's
| constitution was so badly shattered by
S wimm's indelicate attentions to his wife.
that is required at least ten thousand dol.
lars to put him in passable repair. The
suit was to have come off last week, but it
was understood to haYe been settled out of
court, for Swimm failed to materialize.
But though Mr.. Sfbley's honor was salts
| he'd, Mrs. Sfbley's was not, and this week
she has him arrested for libel, and If she
succeeds, she may convince Old Swimm
that widows are dangerous things to fool,
| grass or no grass.
| Occasionally we get very much excited
| over sudden and mysterious disappearances,
A man or woman drops out of sight, and
sometimes that,is the last of them, and
then again, sometimes it amt. One of
these events occurred last week. Mr..
Clarence Cook, the son of wealthy gentle
man was going to be married to one of the
most beautiful aad amiable young ladies in
] off In. lot
swell, indeed; all through the evening and
afternoon the presents came pouring in.
The church was decked with flowers One
OF the toniest clergylnen in the city was en-
gagged to tie the nuptial knot. Fifteen hum
dred invitations were issued, and even then
nearly one half of their intimate friends
were left out in the cold. Everything was
ready. The bride, a dream of loveliness, was
crowned with orange fowers-but the BRIDE
groom came not; messengers were sent out
into the highways and byways, detectives
secured the dives, but to no purpose; no
fellow could find out whether he had gone
to Kingdom Come or Colorado. After a
weary search of three days, his father ran
across him in the street in a very dazed
conditon-suffering so his father saws.
from mental alteration. That's not what
they used to call it when l was a boy, but
it will do. They took the young man home
ana put him TO bed, and If they keep every
thing erciting away from him except
plentiful supply Of cold water, should not
wonder If he might recover from his mental
alteration.
Another wonderful disappearance took
place in the person of a country editor
You don't often catch a country editor
tripping in New York, for as general
thing they are gentlemen of sound morals
and good general information, and about
as hy on all the ins and outs of city life as
the bunco men themselves. Well this par
ticular editor came to town with twelve
hundred dollars in his pocket to buy some
presses for his office. He parted with a
friend at the ferry, and "hey presto fly,"he
disappeared as If the earth had swallowed
him. His father and delegation of his
country neighbors came post haste to the
city and the town was turnded upside down
and inside out, looking for this country edi-
/ tor The morgue was searched the river