The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-18
jim HAsklNs DIRE FATE.
rhe Champion Liar Relates Yarn Whic
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Would put Ananlas to shame.
He blew in from St Paul day or
Two ago with a slouch hat and repu.
.ation aa a liar that has rarely been
,qualed anu never excelled He had
capped every story that the ring OF
lrummers who sat contemplative and
,xpectorative in the rotunda of the
3rand Pacific could devise or recollect.
Then the talk turned on the present
.eign of crime and the futility of the
police force, and n weary man from San
francisco had just completed his best
yarn, in which the hero, a detective,
,arried two desperate burglars three
quarters of mile, one under each arm,
iragging, meanwhile, third with his
.eeth. 1t was steep, and the drummers
oolied with some respect on the man
rom the coast. But the champion pre-
7aricator was equal to the occasion.
"That amt much" he said con-
idently and an expectant groan ran
lround the circle.
"Lemmc tell you little something
hat happened up our way year or
.wo ago. There was fellow by the
name of Jim Haskins-Chicago crook
le was-and the police down here
couldn't do nothin' with him; so they
offered reward for him and let it go
Ut that / guess he found it kinder
slow in this place and wanted to strike
/ live town. Anyways, he drifted up
our way and raised Cain for bit
Didn't seem to matter what he put his
=
how or other, he always managed to
slime out the right end when it was all
over. They pinched him dozen times
when everybody llnowed he was the
man they wanted, but they couldn't
convict him. But they caught him in
the act at last, and / was the man as
I Aid it-leastways it was my idea
You see, it was just this way. ! re-
member Jest as well as though it hap
pencd yesterday 1t was one snowy
night, freezin' hard enough to curdle a
furnace, and they was layin' for Jim,
There was an officer by the name OF
| Gallagher an, of course, we called him
Letergo.' lie got pointer as Jim was
goin' to do job at hardware store a
little ways out in the suburbs and
says: You try my scheme, an if il
comes off We'll whacls up on the re-
ward. It's go, says he.
"Well, Jim gets into the store all
right, and didn't suspicion as Gallagher
knowed it. But Gallagher was right
with him. He slipped off his shoes
and crawled up behind jim. Jest as
Jim was reachin' out to try key in the
cash drawer Gallagher slips big mag
net into Jim's pocket and scoots. What
the HIS that?' says Jim, but he didn't
say no more, for couple of feet oi
stovepipe landed on his shoulder. why,
the blamed stores alive he says, and
makes break for the door. He lodged
a keg of nails and a couple of rolls OF
barb wire, and runs down the street
with the whole stock a-chasin' after
| him.
well, you'd aided laughing to see
| it He hadn't run more'n a block, with
all that truck clatterin' after him like
as it would have wakened wooden
man, when there was lamp post
seemed to lay for him. He warm
moren ten feet away from it when il
gives jump and falls all over jim We
gathered him and toted him to q wagor
with two hundred pounds of ten-penny
nails clinging all over him"
81 guess we can swallow that easie
if we take something on the side, F" saiC
the man from San Francisco, and tn
ring adjourned to the bar. ar.-Chicagc
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