Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-16


sociating with the elite up at Sing Sing,
and he did not mention it. They danced
together and took quite liking to each
other; but she was the most smitten, for
after Teddy had over-lubricated his sys-
tenn with intoxicants, on her refusal to
give him what money she had, he sud-
denly had an Industrious spell and beat
her numerically. He probably would
not have allowed himself half holiday
yet had Officer McDoolihan not inter
fered
The officer sailed into Teddy, and sub
jected him to the usual massage treat
ment with his little locust hypnotizer
For awhile the officer looked like Band
master Gilmore welding his baton in
the most exciting part of Wagner's
Goetterdemmerung. What the officer and
Teddy said sounded like it, too.
Then Officer McDoolihan took Teddy
by the subsequent part of the neck to
the station-house and led him to dark
brunette cell, even as spring poem is
thrust into the nav of the famished
waste basket. Teddy might have re-
manned in his cell indefinitely had it
not been for the Presidential election.
Being criminal, of course he had polit-
ical influence, so he was released on
bail. As he was not subsequently re-
warded with a position of honor and
trust, it is fair to infer that Teddy
worked for Cleveland, such are politics
in New York
The little misunderstanding would
have faded out of Teddy's memory had
he not been nominated by the grand
jury as candidate for his former posi-
ton at Sing Sing. The election took
place in the court of general sessions,
Judge Cowing being the presiding elder.
At the suggestion of his bondsmen
Teddy put in an appearance also. He
was jauntily attired and accompanied by
his lawyer. The legal gentleman was a
short man with a shirt bosom which
bulged out and was covered with spark
ling gems of the Orient, thus resembling
the show window of a jewelry store on
the Bowery.
The complaining witness was also
present. Her bruises and contusions had
faded away, but there was a sinister
blink in her eye that filled Teddy with
remorse. The District Attorney offered
in evidence a photograph. Teddy's law
yer looked at itand his lower jaw wilted
or dropped like a new-fangled folding
bed. Then he got mad and objected to
the admission of any photograph gallery.
He flung open the mouth, so to speak,
of an adult volume of Greenleaf on Evil
dence, and he scooped out of it's COM
partments chunks of wisdom which he
hurled at the court.
Then he pointed a livid finger of scorn
at Judge Cowing, and shook it until it
vibrated TREMENDOUSLY, like the tail of an
irate billy-goat, but even then Judge
Cowing didn't COW. As a last resort, the
attorney for the defendant shed large,
on Cherry street and takes away
their pennies and beats them bru-
tally and spends the money for gin. 1
do not believe that this latter variety
exists at all, because the self-reliant
young bohemians would not stand such
treatment single day.
once ran across such a case. The
boy was crying bitterly and he told me
the story of the horrible old bag who
beat him with realistic detail.
I was filed with Indignation and pro-
ceeded to investigate. 1 had my plans
all laid to have the woman arrested and
the unfortunate youngster taken care
of. followed The boy home and found
him living in comparative comfort with