The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-21
CAN YOU TALK NEW York;
If Not, Get Onto Detective with Both
Feet and Shake Him Down.

From the Neio York sun.
A cigarette manufacturer had occasion a
few days ago to employ detective, and the
delicate mission was entrusted to a friend
! who recommended a man of long expert
ence, with a reputation for astuteness, dis
erection, pluck and perseverance,. An ap-
pointment was made, and the manufacturer
met the detective IN the vestibule of an up
town hotel. The detective must have re-
ceived an accurate description Of his en-
ployer, for he was Longing in the doorway
when the manufacturer alighted from a
cab and he stepped across the sidewalk and
broke the ice with:
II wouldn't wonder if you were the party
made date with"
Made whatW queried the proprietor of
the cigarette factory.
MADE a date, an appointment. raped
to you the moment you arrived"
You whatm
trapped to you-knew you, as it were, :"
said the detective. Il think | fell up
against you before in this joint, or some
where else. Amt you the party that wants
me to get onto the mug that touched you
for your roll when you were lush the other
nightF
"Are you the detective whom Mr.. Fixing
ton spoke to for me9 Your language is IN
comprehensive to me, but | suppose you
know what you are talking about. We Will
go into the cafe and sit down and see if we
cannot come to some understanding. | am
afraid that will have to ask you to explain
every other word"
They proceeded to the cafe, and sat down
at one of the tables with cigars and Bass
ale before them.
Now said the manufacturer, Il will
confide in you. / was slightly ndiscreet
one night last week and lost my watch, pin,
and pocketbook, and want to recover some
Of the property OF course l understand
that | cannot get any of the money back.
and will probably have to pay well to get
back the papers, tie watch and the pin"
How many bones did you loseH'
"How many whatP
"Bones-cases; what was the Doodle
worth!"
"Ah, Doodle! Now I catch your drift
| There was about $3.50 in the pocketboOk,
| but let that go. | want to ct back some
papers of no value to the thieves, and
would like to have the watch and pin, for
both are keepsakes. My chief desire is to
avoid publicity in the matter"
Then the manufacturer gave the detec-
tive a detailed account of his experience,
as we'll as he could recollecJ it, AID gave him
| a fair description of one of the men whom
he suspected of robbing him.
II think | an onto the mug that did the
trick" said the detective.
"HOw is that"
II think know the fellow that touched
you"
THAT what7"
THAT pulled away your stuff-Stole your
| money and watch"
"Oh.n
YES; am unto him, now, with both
feet. settled that mug for another trick
| once, and l think | can shake him down
| now, and find out who stood for the stuff
and where it was planted" ~
"My dear friend | do not understand
you. You settle him, you say. What does
that meani"
Sent him to Sing Sing.n
"And what is shaking him down?"
Shaking down. Why, when you shake
man down you stand him up and see
what he's got about him or what he
knows
"Oh, yes, comprehend now; and when
you say planted, you mean that the stuff
has been buried somewhere, do you notw
Nav, | don't; mean that it is stuck
away in some fence"
do you really mean to tell me that a
clever thief would be so simple as to hide
his pluuder in fenceW
II guess you don't tumble to what
fence is. A fence amt fence, it's a place
kept by a man who buys stuff from the
crooks. He's fence and his place is a
fence. You just stake me with twenty
bones and | will go to work on this case and
I'll have that mug to rights inside of two
days"
Chow is thatf'
Just put up twenty-five dollars as a
starter, and l will get your stuff. 1t may
cost more before l get it, but that will do
for a starter"
ooh, certainly" and the manufacturer
handed over two tens and five.
Now, my friend, he continued, 81 have
just one question to ask you, and it really
has nothing to do with the case. viii you
kindly tell me what language this is that
you speakn
That! Why, that's New York You
want to learn that language if you intend
to go around much in this village. You
never go into push anywhere but wnat
you hear somebody talking it, | can rap to
a man in a minute if he's stranger III This
city just by his talk"
Do you talk New York, gentle reader9