The morning call., 1891-03-25
Dispensed With a valise.

dispensed w IIn u NatIses
Jim Meredith, whom everybody knows,
has been in the city for several days, and
his has been one of the most prominent fig
ures in the corridors of the Palace Hotel.
when l was Coroner of Los Angeles
County," he said last night, I" was sum-
moned at a late hour to hold an inquest on
the body of q man who had been struck aud
killed by Southern Pacific train. He was
walking on the track, when the night pas
senger whirled round a corner, and before
the engineer could stop his engine the man
was corpse. 50 far as we knew, he was
stranger in Los Angeles, but we learned
afterward that he was a sheep-herder who
had come down from the mountains and
was tramping it into town for little time
with the boys. The peculiar part of the
whole layout, however, was the mans
makeup. When the body was stripped for
examination twenty-one garments were re-
moved, and In one of his pockets was found
a 10-shot revolver. The latter was of
French make and is still in the Coroner's
office 10 Los Angeles, where 1t is kept as
curiosity. The mans costume was won
der. He wore 6 pairs of pantaloons. 4yests,
3 coats, shirts, l jumper and pair of
cheap oyeralls. To top it all, he had about
his neck seventh pair of pantaloons, worn
as muller, with the legs tucked In beneath
the lapes OF his numerous coats. The sur
mise was that he found it more convenient
himself with Yaise.
An Effective Argument.
L. c. Bailey, travelling man who has just
returned from a trip through Mexico aud
who is now at the Palace Hotel. says that in
the mountainous districts of our sister re-
public the people live in constant dread of
tie bandits who infest the isolated districts,
and who make frequent predatory raids
upon the small settlements. while jour-
ney ing through the State Of Topic, said Mr..
Bailey Yesterday " stopped for the night
at a mill owned by an American, and 1
noticed that the building was located in
such way that it could be approached
from but one direction. Around three sides
it was guarded by a huge stone wall, which
could be scaled only by means of ladders,
while the froGt was unguarded by even 50
much as an ordinary fence. Facing the
opening in the wall, however, was a large
door that opened about twenty feet from
the ground. and which could only be reached
from tie interior OF the building. | re-
marked this, and after dinner casually men,
toned it to my host, who Smlingly con-
Quoted lie up a narrow flight of steps to the
second story of the mill, where he opened
the door and showed me Calling gun
planted so as 10 command the approach to
the building. He told me that prior TO his
purchasing the mill it had been repeatedly
looted by bandits who swoOpel down from
their mountain Businesses. When my host
took possession one of his first acts was to
procure the Calling, and he then issued an
invitation to the whole surrounding popu-
lation to come and see his new gun. When
they assembled lie caused the Calling to be
fired at its maximum speed, and IN such
way as 10 sweep the entrance to the mill.
The MeXicans departed with open-mOuthed
astonishment and the bandits had carefully
avoided uoie>[ing the place.