The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-09
They Had Net Before.

The drummer had for soma rim. be.r
watching a hashyilooklng city crook play
It's game OF cards with 4 man on the
sleeper who might have been a farmer
ana men again who might have been
S some elnlng else, says the Detroit Free
FrSss; All OF a sudden. as the train
pulled Up al the station. the Sharper
MADE wild break and rushed out OF
the car and of the platform. leaving
everything. The other man simply snliI-
60. and looked over at the drummer.
w nat the mischief was the matter with
. so. Ya 7,.i.L asked the drummer, taking
There's a story goes with that" re-
PL5ed the snl!er, GUILE tly- Want 10 hear
Indeed. 7 do"
Here she goes, then. About ave years
ago nad some cattle TO deliver in Chit
Dy the stock yards in a hotel 7 found con-
Nenlent: II wasn't in a very good neigh
ooIn0od. but l wasn't locking Tor soci-
~ HAlngs, so didn't care much. I had
some money and z fine watch, and once
u lWtce during the evening, as I sat
around the barroom. I noticed was be-
Hls "agched by several of the ioafers
ABOUT the place. When I went M TO
my room I locked the door and bottled
II ana TOOK a look out Of the window to
80 "ndt was outside. l found il opened
OUT onto a sort OF shed about eight feet
1lsJant DeloW, and that ran down 10
Tl tnII. climbing distance of the ground.
l tOOh tnls observation SO as to know
HH1iS was going 20 be in case of q
4Te. Ihen went to bed, leaving the win
a
don't know how long it was after I
had been asleep that some noise awakened
me. At first I thought I was dreaming,
put Just as I tried to 20 to sleep again
l heard the noise once more. and this
uIne didn't try to go to sleep. got
UP ana went over toward the window with
a slx-inch knife in my hand that I
tsnought would come in handy in case
found at the window what I thought l
would 1t was quite dark on that side
OF me mouse, and when l got UP close
tOAA4 near TWO men W-hignaTi1p m he
shed roof l listened and heard one tell
me otner to stoop down and he would
cnIao on his shoulders and from there
pun himself up into my window. By
TINS time l was standing by one side Of
me WINDOW ready to meet my visitor as
soon as ne came. While I was thinkine
whether to kill him or not. I saw fingers
sIlde up over the window sill seeking for
a GOOD grip Then they stretched down
strength for the final pull. At this mo-
ntnL reached forward and with q
sWlsh | whacked two of those fingers
about it, too, but my visitors didn't
tnd they rolled and tumbled off that roof
IN a manner worth Gaming all that way to
see. Ihen went back TO bed. but I fas-
tened down the window Next morning
When got up, which was just at day-
freak, Tor RAJ my cattle 20 look after
/ vent 70 the window to see what was
LETT or the wreck. and l saw two fingers
on the Sill. The owner had forgotten
them in his hurry the night before and
It struck me then for the first time thai
1 ought TO take charge of them, so that
II they were ever called for l could re-
turn them
We'll, I took them along with me. and
as soon as I could get into drug store
/ got bottle filed with spirits and nut
them into it. Until to-day I have nor
Deen able to find ANYBODY that 1 thought
might want them, although l have carried
mem ever since when I go anywhere
and while that duffer YOU saw trvino, 10
work me first shuffled his cards | noticed
tnat he was short two fingers ABOUT
the time he thought he had me I pulled
the bottle out OF my pocket, and. stick
ing II right at him, I asked him if he didn't
thlnk he had better see IL he couldn't fit
Jhem on to the stumps he had II took
hlm about a minute to catch on. but
When ne did-well, you know the rest
/ guess ne must have been the chan that
tried to climb in my window that nigbt >;
ana as the man smiled the drummer Won
uered how it was that truth was often
times stranger than fiction, and handed
the bottle. with its two CHASTITY and silent
witnesses, back TO the owner.