Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-09

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found two white men and four negroes
locked mp for various offenses. Their
greeting was as hearty and cordial as
could desire, and the Sheriff had no
sooner departed than was patted on
the back and invited TO tell my story.
told it, and was laughed at for trying
TO stuff old veterans with any such
chaff. | slept on pine bench in one
of the cells, and |. was rather glad
when morning came. knew the
Sheriff had telegraphed for the livery
man TO come on and identify me, and
put in about four hours practicing on
the way | meant TO crush him when he
appeared. At 10 O'Clock. when he APP
peared, | was trying to understand a
game of cards called euchre, or echo,
or something like that.
Ny partner was negro, in for cutting
somebody with a razor, aud ] remem-
Der he was saying that we had lone
hand and had mopped the floor with
the vicious opposition. 1t might have
been lone hand, or solitary hand,
or full hand can't say. ! remem-
Der, however, that some of the cards
had chromos on them, while others
were covered with spots. The livery
man came in with a look of fond ex-
pectancy in each eve, but the moment
he saw me his jaw fell and he gasped.
"Why, you haven't got him here for
stealing my rig?"
"Why, of course. Isn't he the
chap."
"Nyell; you are an idiot and no mis-
take! You can get ready TO sweat for
this!"
But it turned out that the livery
man had given my description in place
of the other mans, having mixed the
two of us up. The Sheriff offered me
$500 at the very first pop to give him
receipt for damages, and guess he
would have come up to $4,000 if l
had hung out. / think the wine and
cigars cost him about $l5, and don't
believe his hair has got back TO its old
position yet.
And it also happened that | once
went into a jewelers., in Nashville, to
get kernel of corn, peanut shuck, or
some other trifle, picked out of the
works of my watch. AS l went out
another man came in, and it seemed
that this chap grabbed five rings from
tray and broke for the woods. The
jeweler had me fresh in his mind, and
when he described the thief he even
told of an abrasion on my face. This
was at 2 o'clock p. m. AS | came out
of the supper room at the Maxwell
House that evening a policeman took
my arm from either side, and one of
them kindly whispered:
"Now, then, come quietly, or it will
be the worse for YOU"
/ went over to headquarters, and
several officers there declared was
the man wanted. was "sent down
and the jeweler notified. He came in
at about 10 o'clock, just as | was fall
ing off to sleep, and heard the SER
geant telling him that there was no
doubt of my being an old-time crook
and a good one. | was routed out that
the victim might look at me, but at the
first glance he cried out;
"Great Heavens but you've got
the wrong man! OH Lord! oh!
Lord! but we will all be sued for
danages!"
The segeant hated to give up, but he
finally had to, and i was turned loose.
The iewe'er acknowledged his mistake
and wanted to settle, and knowing of
a poor boy who was hungering for a
Waterbury watch | took one and
agreed to call it square. They didn't
find the right man, but l recognized
him on the streets of Cincinnati a
week later from the description given,
and as he was hanging about the gen.
eral delivery window of the postofiice
| slid up to him and said:
"There's a detective from Nashville
waiting for you at the right hand door.
He wants to inquire about
But he went out at the left hand
door before could fnish.-M. Quad.
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