The Bossier banner., 1891-10-22
You said you had been robbSd

You said you you lad been roDbSd
$50 have ..
But when you left here a few hours
ago you said you had nothing but your
watch. @
: Neither had
What in the mischief could thew
steal from you then9
My money!
Yot,fe drunk you old idiot; tn
lock you in the co3let for awhile till
you can talk sense
! $ Gosh all fishhooks, l am talking
sense, captain! Don't lock me up, but
let me tell you the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, so help
me George Washington =.
$50 Go on, then,' said the sergeant,
threatening1y, but cut. it short: I've
] wasted more than enough time over
you already
Then the old fellow told how he had
| followed the bogus detective, By devil
4 Gus ways and dark alleys, into room
on the top floor of crowded tenement
| house. There his conductor intro-
dueed him to another fictitious detect
| i've; who appeared to the old man to
/ be of higher rank than his guide, ow=
ing to the bullying way in which he
spoke; and the Differences paid him.
This fellow produced the old rrian's $50
from a drawer and counted it out slow:
ly to him: ... ..-... 49,.
" There's your money, old man. hs
said, and the vigilance of the finest
police force on earth is once more at:
tested No other power could have re-
covered it for you. Now tell me, is
that every cent you lost? Be particu-
lar and do not trifie with me, as you
value your liberty. We're you robbed
of one cent more than the $780,?
No. replied the old man, trembling
with delight at the recovery of his mon
ley. That Is all, captain, $50
" Take it and go. said the fellow,
and be careful to let the same officer
who brought you here conduct you to
the railway station. Speak to no one
but him till you are safe again on your
way to your country home, and leave
the wicked city to city folk and the all
watchful police
1.-The old man and his gttide bowed
themselves ont and departed. They
had hot gone far when burning thirst
seized the conductor, and the overjOyed
old fellow was not slow to appease it.
More drinks followed and the way to
the railroad station began to grow tor
ttious. Presently the countryman
missed his guide altogether in a crowd
and no efforts on his part avatled &c
find him. The old man got on a horse
car, and when he put his hand in his
pocket to pay his fare he found that
his money was gone again.
'He did not understand at all, even
then, and it took the police sergeant d
long time to make him see that he had
been played for sucker Of the rankest
kind. Finally he took it in and then
he exclaimed: Well, gosh darn it all
dunno which is the slickest, the
rascals that done me or the police that
can see through their tricks.
"You see,'' added the detective, by
the way of explanation, cone of the
organized bands of criminals had spot
ted the old fellow the minute they SCI
eyes on his toggery and his guileles'
manner. They set one of their light
fingered members, the one who played
the guide afterward, to rob him. The
'swag, eighty dollars; was much less
than they had expected to get and they
suspected the man who had Robbed
him of lack of honor among thieves
and accused him of keeping back par
of the plumber. He had undertaken t
show them that he was square ant
you have heard of the clever way IL
. which he 1od his simple old victim tt
assure the captain of the gang tha
eighty dollars was all he had lost an'
honor among thieves was once mor'
exemplifed, without costing tn
thieves anything as the plunder wa
soon back again in the gangs treas
ury. IN. Y. Tri bune.