Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-09
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
How 8 Chicago Young Man Put It to Kr
 cellent Uso.

How 8 Chicago Young Man Put It to Kr-
 celent Use.
 "I reckon lovers will be lovers as long as the world goes round" said friend to the Chicago Mails club man the other day, land they'll keep right on making fools of themselves in all sorts of places just as they've been doing for ages. Butnot many of them will ever dodge trouble as cleverly as young chap know who lives over on the North side not very far from Lincoln Park. This young fellow happened, by some means, to come into possession of 8 $l0 counterfeit bill. He had this in his pocket, and one day when he got his months wages ne had some sort of hunch to wrap it on the outside of the mod lest roll that came in his envelope. That evening he went to see his girl. It was summer, and, after sitting around awhile and telling each other how much they loved one another, they went out for ice-cream. Then they sauntered over into the park, and, after the manner of lov- CTS, forgot all about the lapse of time. The result was that they were sitting on one of the rustic benches in a shady nook, down by the lake, building air-castles about their future and planning all sorts of happiness, he holding her hand aud sitting pretty close, when along came a policeman on his rounds through the park. It was after the hours for people to be there, but the lovers didn't know it; in fact, they hadn't thought a blessed thing about it.
 "But the policeman saw the chance and made great bluff at arresting them for dis orderly conduct. The young fellow pro- tested indignantly and the girl cried with modification, but the policeman insisted upon arresting them. The young fellow de- clared his identity and offered all sorts of assurances that both himself and the young E woman were eminently respectable; but the nm an 01 n1l1 fh<ax, had got pretty well toward the Clark street side the young fellow saw the officers game and an idea occurred to him.
 "'See here,' he said to the officer, you can take us in if you want to, but if you dc you'll be sorry for it. On the other hand pll give you s5 to drop this right here. You know we are all right and that this is only a bluff of yours.'
 "Well, after some hesitation the officer agreed to take the f5, and the young fellow produced the counterfeit S1O, saying that the officer would have to change it. The policeman, seeing the bill, thought to get the whole thing, and immediately began to make play that way, intimating that he'd better take them in, anyway. The young fellow said:
 "'All right. You can do it if you want to, but let me tell you I'll make it red-hot for you if you do. I'll not give you cent more Inah 90, anu you can take that or not, just as you like. But If you lock us up it'll cos, you your star, and you can bet on it. "When the policeman saw he couldn't | get the whole bill he yielded gracefully, l gave tAe young man $ of good money, took | the S10 counterfeit, and Sauntered down | hls beat, happy in the calloused conscious | ness of having corraled an extra S5. The | young man took his girl home, and on her | account let the rascally policeman go unre- l ported. He had euchered him out of $5 l anyway. That's 9 perfectly legitimate | use for counterfeit money, according to my thinkinp0