The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-14
$4,000 IN HIS INSIDE POCKET

How . BargInr Secured the fruit~ of .
Lottery Ticket.
awould you like tn hear n true story
about crooks ?" asked n well-known gam
bier of n Boston Globe writer u few days
Certainly" wa. the reply. iii it is q
good one."
.You shall judge for yourself as to that.
IL is u curious story tn say the least, and
one the like Of which ] have never heard
or read Of i'm all my experience through
the country. IL was i'm ISIS, while dealing
the hank i'm New York, that met n fellow
named Tom Clinch. That was not his
true name, as ! afterward found out, hut
man~lS-,o"iine fellow Of ps.haps Is
every night to the place where I worked
To buck the tiger Sometimes he would
win, hut oftcner he would lose. This did
always carried ~ roll, and although !
knew that he did not work no one could
tell me how or where he got his money.
Suddenly lle Disappeared, and II was sew
eral months before I saw him again.
When me did make his appearance. how
gradually grew 20 know him better he got
confidence i'm me and we used otter to
chat about our business affairs or past
at was not until then that I found out
that he was q burglar, and u noted one at
that tn siis a"Sas;. ne was q; met Ssw very yo well a ai, YIN
~orL hav;nc i"sc,, dome tbro,,yh 1i,c West
'.One night I chanced To ask him what
had become of u friend of his called Jack,
whom I Ind often seen in his company
preyious To the time he had disapnearcd.
"His face grew thoughtful when l asked
swered: It's a queer story, hut II you'd
l,ss e f.I hS"r II Il i ra S ss.i y Y;Ss, ali Snr ,ha Is m asna;
that 1 have now would have, bcen his.'
1--WE started away from New York for
work." you know. and for n month or two
ali was plain sailing. Then, as luck
city i'm Colorado, where both of us were.
known. althouUh we were not aware of IL
at the time
1--we started To '.Ro through n house
i'm the s,,b,Irip. and were. followed by the
chief of police and n few officers. After
we got in the house they surrounded il
and called ON us to come out and give our.
selves up.
"'This would never do, SO We decided
70 make q nsh. for IL. succeeded in
wound In my left arm from n bullet, but
poor Jack was killed. a bullet from the
pistol of the chief of police going through
should have gone away from the place
but for one thing. Jack and ] had been
month, and the list of winners was print
ed in the daily papers on the morning
f%eiiowins the lay that lack was killed;
had in hi. pockct wn.m killed bad drawn
&l5.OOO, and l made up my mind then and
fherx, that I would NOT leave, thc place nm.
ill 1 had either the ticket or the money
that IL had drawn,
alt seems that the chief of notice.. I'm
going Through Jacks clothes. had fo,snI
the ticket. and he OF co,,r,sp nIso kuevr
that IL had drawn A big prixc. bnt for sou,,,
reason or other hc WAS nfrai,i In vs.t n
cashed from the city i'm which he held
office. He also knew that knew hc h,,I
the ticket. but did not fear me-. fnr ~
went forwar,I tn claim n co,I.I cns;lx
have been sent To- the uc,itcntin,.v fnr nm.
burglary. As II wns wns ,,nL NOUN ,n
him Is.r.o,,aIIv' Will. M. was Sno~ ~
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Is,inv caught.
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