Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-03

friend. 1 know him of old. You do
not want to have anything to do with
him. ~
The scamp began TO sputter little at
this, and this exhausted the clerk s pa
thence. Taking the fellow by his shoul-
ders he hustled him roughly TO the door I,
and showing him through it contributed
a farewell kick to the last portion of his
anatomy as he disappeared. When l
went down to the street few moments
later / found the beautiful scoundrel
quietly scanning the names of the ten
ants in q handsome Office building few
doors away, preparatory to trying his
very transparent game once more. OF
the swindlers in New York this finely
groomed, violet bedecked simpleton is to
me the greatest. The beauty about him
is that it IS not possible for him to carry
his plans to a successful conclusion more
than once in year. And yet he works
as diligently at it as though he was a
collector of taxes.
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Foreigners are apt to think of America
as q land where dollars grow on low
bushes, and may be plucked from under
the eyes of their owners without much
trouble or danger. Take the case OF
Birchell. the Englishman accused of the
murder near Niagara Falls. How silly as
well as tragic was his crime. BY the
way, one of the most sagacious men at
our police headquarters, after d long
homily on the subject of the murder,
said that, in his opinion, Birchell was in
no danger of being hanged. cit is i'm
possible just now, - the officer said, 'to
get thorough hold of Birohell's plans.
The correspondents up in Canada who
pretend TO give such full information
about all of his inner thoughts are good
many OF them at sea. Birchell did not
go back and identify the body of the man
he is supposed to have murdered because
he was fool. He is not fool. He did
silly thing in returning to have the
body exumed, but there is something,
underlying it which the police and the
people have not yet got hold of. 1t was
not fool IS freak, by any means. The
man is a cool and clever criminal, and
personally l do not believe they can pos
sIbly hang him. So many crimes are
committed here and elsewhere or which
there is no solution that the disappointed
ones seize upon any criminal as scape-
goat. There is no proof eXtant that
crimes which have been credited to him
since bis arrest. You can mark my word,
though, that they will never be able to
hang him.
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Let US give attention, however, to less
deadly attempts TO live without toll.
was astonished TO find in Bowery dime
museum q very beautiful girl charming
snakes. She seemed one of the happiest
mortals under the sun, the twinkle Of
her eyes and the gentle curl of her red
lips indicating that her heart was as
light as bird g. Twill admit that when
she lifted the huge striped and spotted
snakes from their boxes and ooiled them
around her neck, arms and body, often
letting their danny scales press against
her mouth, was considerably shocked,
and 1 wondered what circumstances of
life could have possibly impalled woman
Of such superior physical charms to
adopt q. repulsiFe nrofession OF this
. sort. A.. young man" very much
Afder the Snfnenes of liquor Was
exhibiting the freaks in tbs mu-
scum, aud as the snake oharmer twined
her pets about her, always smiling as
though she enjoyed their. embraces as
well as If they were the arms OF a lover,
he reco1nted the history of the girl, say
ing that she was q princess in Abyssinia,
and that she preferred snakes to dolls as
baby. After the exhibition, and while
the crowd was clustered about the wild
men of Borneo, / ventured- to ask few
questions Of the snake charmer while
buying from her a photograph of herself
began BY the, surest route to q women e
confidence. assuring her that girl of her
good appearance might easily be occupied