Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-06
HE'S A LITERARY FELLER."
A Local Sure Thing Sport in q
New Role.
PATSY TALKS ABOUT PURITY.
The Hrunmrl of the Bar Rooms
Sends a Letter to an Alleged
Dcfamer OF His
Character
Fcu IN Love with Falion.

lively as n leader of the sure-thing sports, a
roao-house keeper, a saloon proprietor and "a
manager fora blcycicnne. His connections
with these enterprises were nothing but
what might have been expected of him. But
his new departure is great surprise.
He wants to be one of "them literary
fellers."
An affair of the heart prompted his first
efforts, and thereby hangs this tale:
A young girl, whose name may or may not
be smith, and who lives in Council Bluffs,
has been in Omana for the past year cin.
ployed as a salcslady in n leading millinery
store. Snc Is a decidedly handsome young
woman, OF very pleasing address and
manners aud very, highly appre'
ciated by her employers. She was
known to keep company with
some young men whose standing in society
is not the best in the world but no complaints
have ever been made against her character
Several weeks ago the young lady formed
the acquaintance of Falon and AT once joined
tho ranks of the great army Of fair ones VINO
have found IL impossible TO withstand his
winning ways. The proprietor of the store
in which the young miss was employed OBJ
served her relations with Fallon with dis
pleasure, but said nothing to her.
The climax came last Monday morning.
Miss Smith had been out with Fallon on
Saturday and Sunday evenings The fact
became known to n little blonde woman who
is an inmate OF one of the bawdy houses IN
the city and known among the sporting poo-
pie rs MAUD Fallon.n This woman claims
Fallon as her own, aud when she learned OF
his attentions to Miss Smith she went on the
warpath. She visited the store where her
supposed rival was employed and raised
terrible row.
Miss Smith. fortunately for her, was alb
sent at the time and ''mama" vented her
spite upon the proprietor and finally had to
b. elected from the st re.
Nhen Miss Smith arrived the proprietor
at "a al 10 trpubla pS
with the other woman and told the young
lady that she would either have to give up
Fallon or her place In the store. .
The young woman made her choice in
stanter.
Fallon loved her, she said, and had prom
ised to marry her and she loved him and was
going to stick to him,
This settled it and the love sick maiden re-
turned to her home in Council Bluffs and her
place in tho store was taken by another
young lady.
When Fallon heard of Miss Smiths release
from her employment ON his account his
literary ambition was cut loose. At the die
tation of an attorney. who relieved him of
the brain bag, he wrote the following letter,
which reached tho proprietor of the store on
Wednesday morning:
al have been told this morning that Miss
- has been offered by you the alternative
of being dismissed from your employ or of
giving up my company, aud that you allege,
as reasons for you doing this, that YOU have
lost the custom of the ''young LADIES' at 1913
Capitol avenue, and further that some re-
spectacle customers have objected to being
attended by youngperson who is acquainted
with me- Miss -- has chosen, as u brave
girl would, strong in the strength of her
purity and sincerity. she refuses to be die
tated to in the matter Of the choice of her
friends; but TIE affair casts serious
imputatiOns upon me and l claim
the right of demanding from you
the grounds of their Justification. My DO
sition IN sporting and athletic circles here
has given me some popularity and notoriety,
and as II too natural consequence, has en-
gendered spirit of envy aud enmity against
me, what are but small vices and white sins
III other men are magnihed beyond recog-
milton in my case. | do not claim TO be i'm
maculate. VINO can: But even Satan is
generally accounted TO be not half so black
as he is painted. have dear grey-hared
mother anu sisters OF my own and can look
the whole world in the face with the proud
consciousness that have never
done wrong or injury by thought,
word or deed to pure and
virtuous srl. So | sought Miss -
acquaintance. So she gave me of her friend
snip, which bids fair to become closer and
warmer, il from no other cause, at least from
the nature of her treatment by those who
should have made Drawer stand for one who
has 50 faithfully done her duty to them,
while they have listened too willingly to the
malicious lies Of women whose touch alone is
contamination. The loss of their custom may
no doubt be serious thing to the proprietors
OF II store VINO lay themselves out lDr SuCn Il
class of trade, but the preaching
by them of lofty morality and
illusions to the virtue of character
SAVIOUR somewhat strongly of pharisaical
hypocrisy. To your highly respectable Gus
toner who Threatens on my account to give
up coming To your store, l would simply say,
judge not too hastily Of strangers char
acter on hearsuy evidences who in no way
iutcrieres with you. Are you quite certain
that the lives of your own male acquaint-
ances, friends and relatives can bear close
inspectioni The dismissal at so short notice
of one occupying the position in your en-
ployment which Miss did will
at first in the eyes of the gem
eral public, mere superficial observers,
do an incalculable injury to her character
which should have received the best and
strongest protection ut your hands, while
her dismissal of me could have made any al
teration in your receipts from the easily but
ilearned wages of sin
The jealous motives which prompt the
slanderous utterances OF so'called men i
need not allude to, beyond expressing my
surprise that you should attach any import
ance to what they say. My friendship
toward Miss = is the alleged sole cause of
her dismissal: in justice TO her, no less than
10 myself, demand fuller explanation
Yours, II. j. FALLoN.
The proprietor of the store paid no atten-
tion to this letter and Fallon was accordingly
aggrieved
His feelings had been hurt and he wanted
balm.
Yesterday morning Miss Smiths late en-
ployer received the following
"As you have chosen TO ignore my letter
in which l demanded justification OF your
malicious and slanderOus attack upon me, |
shall be compelled TO instruct my lawyer to
institute proceedings for defamation Of char
acter unless Ireceve some satisfactory an
swer by Monday morning, October Z.
Il. j. FALLoN,n
The proprietor of the store when inter
viewed yesterday said
II know nothing of Fallon and don't want
TO. 1 simply took the position that l could
not have women from sporting houses cons
ing in mere and creating scene because "A
girl In my employ had been in company with
man whom one of these women claimed
was her solid fellow / have TO protect my
business, and in discharging the young
lady simply did what 1 considered
necessary for my protection IL Fallon
writes me any more letters l will use my
lawyer in method that the law gives me
OF getting rid of such annoyances,n
II has been learned that our heroine has
been engaged for a number of years TO q
young man named Charles Il. Brandt, who
Is connected with the civil service dep Irt-
ment in Cincinnati. The wedding was tC
have taken place on Wednesday next, but
the young woman declares that Fallon has
promised 10 marry her and that she prefers
the new love to the old.
win t'allon keep mis- promisei
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