Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-12-20

| experiences were commonplace. consist
ing OF entering q store, producing the
slip of cloth and asking II they had suit
Of clothes of that material. When urged
to buy others equally az good and Of the
same quality-as he invariably was--his
answer was that he wanted the suit as a
sort of uniform.
| YEARLY he traversed both sides Of the
thoroughfare between Houston street
and the Cooper institute and, indeed all
that part Of the Bowery on the east side
as far down as Chatham square.
About half way mp on the west side
he entered store and preferred his re-
quest as usual.
The clerk waiting on him examined
the piece carefully.
"No," he said, "we have no cloth az
that kind, but" and he hesitated, much
to Toms impotence. 81 think il you
will go down into Fulton street you will
find it. A dealer bought all there was in
the market of this kind. have brother
employed there, and il am not mis-
taken this is the kind Of cloth"
Tom took the address and the name n
the mans brother,
Arriving at this store he inquired for
the clerk whose name he had obtained;
he produced his piece Of cloth and as..od
to look at the suits.
The clerk smiled and said, Another
of the U. s. T. S, hey?'
Tom did not know what the U. S. It's
were, but be assented.
The clerk was very chatty.
As he laid out the suits he said,
eve laughed when the boss bought
all there was of this cloth in the market.
and thought he would make mess of
it; but he knew what he was about,
after all"
Evidently" said Tom, encouraginclv.
"Let me get your waist measure. Yes,
these pants will fit you. The very first
day we got them on tho counter your
committee came in, looked over the
stock and lit on this LOT. THEY'LL be
just the thing for our clam bake said
they"
Cob, it's clam bake am going on,
is it," thought Tom.
Let me take your chest measure.
Here's the coat. You will have a fine
day tomorrow from the looks Of TODAY"
Tom assented.
"They gave an order for a hundred
suits right down. Since then tweutv-aight
have come in. You mako the twenty
ninth. I suppose thercn be more in
before we close to-night-that is, if YOU
have got more than one hundred and
twenty-nine members. We will work
the stock off pretty well"
Tom now had a basis for proceeding
and tried to stop the flow of talk.
"Have you sold the same clothes to
any one clse:'
Just one suit that know didn't be.
long to the L. S. T. s."
Tom frightened up.
eve ought to &c, on to him and make
him 60 with u.s."
That's what You ought to do"
Can you recollect the sort Of fellow
he was:'
well. sir, that's pretty hard to do"
"By thunder! III bet | know who it
is. Tall fellow, slim, dark haired, dark
eyes, handsome, swellish-lind O. a dad
ish fellow"
"Well, that does kind O answer to
him."
YES, by thunder! That's Just like
his pranks See here, did he get suita
size too large for him and didn't buy the
ve,t:'
"Well, no, can't recollect that andr
don't thiuk-I know We sold q vest with
every suit You sec it would cost the
same whether they took the vest or not
III he was up to the game l think he
was, it wouldn't make any difference
about the price. I say, would you rec
ollect his face if You saw photograph
of him.
81 think it likely, sir"
"What day did you sell it to him, can
You recollect:"
Il can tell by looking at the sales
slips; always keep the slips"
DO, please"
The clerk went Off and returned with
a handful of papers. Looking them over
he finally extracted one.
1T was on the'12th, in the afternoon
Five days before the MURDER"
thought Tom.
Aloud he said: "Thank you. I am on
to him. Please send these clothes to No.
LOO East Thirty-frst street. III pay
you for them now"
This is such good days work" said
be, when out on the street, Il think
will dine well and at the expense Of the
paper"
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