The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-10
one of the uean.., Men.

Once upon a time" said a western de-
tective. 10 the Washin gton star II had a
friend named 10 Swartz. 10 was as crook
ca as dog hind Lex. His speciality was
painting diamonds. 10 could take an or
dlnary salt crystal and by the time he
nad got through with IL you would think
u was the kohinoor. But II was not about
20 diamond painting / was thinking, il
was another little trick he turned
. 10 lived in Kansas city and does yet,
u MS residence has not been changed to
the penitentiary. Down in the bottoms, be-
low the blum, IN this city by the kaw.
mere abode q POlander by the name of
MilkoWski- WitkoWsld was from Warsaw
and, doubtless. his ancestors shrieked
when KOsciuskO fell After the family
alarm at the fan Of Warsaws last cham
pion mad subsidized, they evidently emigrat-
ed- At any rate, their descendant, as
stated. had business and social existence
IN that part of Kansas City known as the
bottoms As a way TO live he kept pawn
shop, and he knew 10 Swartz.
one day WitkOwsh came TO 10 and ex-
plalneQ now ignorant he was on the sub
lect or watches, and he also told 10 he
had frequent opportunities to loan money
on watches, and II 10 We're willing he
would like 10 form an agreement OF a
friendly sort, whereby he could bring
these prOffered watches TO him and learn
their value before he loaned money on
them. 10, too, kept great big pawn shop
and secondhand jewelry store on Main
street. in Kansas CITY After knitting his
brows. he advised Witkowski not TO loan
money on watches. but in every possible
instance UQN the LlmeDlece outright. 10
advised-as Witkowski had himself sug-
gested-that as a primary step he could
T priing an watches to him. lie would tell
what he could afford 10 pay for them.
WitkOwsli returned.
10 had about two bushels of cheap sill
yer watches which he had bought from
some Connecticut company outright to
make a part of his stock. These watches
mad not been good sale. They were
very cheap silyer-plated sort. The next
TnFOrfNh "a u known "a.
Wltkowsll, sent five of these watches to
be sold. Witkowsh deferred purchasing
until the next day, meanwhile insisting
on beng allowed to bring the watches up
town to be valued. The man said he had
several hundred of them. 10 looked at
them and told Witkowsk he could easily
afford to pay Sl5 apiece for the watches;
that he. Swartz. would take them off his
hands at SlL50 and buy all he could of
them. Witkowsk was delighted He went
back and invested all the money he had
and bought some ~ odd watches at SIS
each. lie was to make $3.50 profit on them
by selling them to Swartz for $3.50 This
slept well that night.
The next day he went up to see swartz
ana told him he had purhased about two
pecks of these watches and paid the man
SO each for them. He now stood ready to
transfer them to SWartz at an advance of
SZ.50 per watch. Swartz said he would be
right.
But said he, sinking his voice TO
whisper full of gloomy fOrebOdings since
you were here some detectives have been
IN mere looking over my stock. They re-
port big robbery of watches in the east.
They say that over 1000 silver watches
were stolen from factory in Connecticut
Ihey have left the numbers of the watches
and description. l hope none of these
watches you have brought are a part of
this robbery; but we can very soon tell, as
| took list Of the numbers from tho de-
tectiVe'
"Withowski felt little billy after this
and chiller still when after investigation it
was discovered that 10 had the number OF
every watch in his possession. 1t was in
dubitablc proof of MltkOwsl1 that he had
been buying stolen goods. 10 tod him
that he must wash his hands of the trans
action and could not possibly buy the
watches at any price; that no was afraid
he would get into the penitentiary If he
touched them. Witkowski wrung his
hands and tore his hair; he was ruined.
At last 10, pretending great sympathy for
WltkoWsk, ana beauSe, as he confessed,
he had ways of working them Oft that
Witkowsk didn't possess, and could there
fore handle them with more safety, con-
cluded to risk s. a watch.
1t thus transpiyed that 10 gave Witkow-
ski about $500 and recovered back his own
watches, which the day before he had
sawed of on Witkowski for 1850. When
the matter ended the sage Joseph had his
watches again and about $1,000 OF the
money of the trusting Witkowski. War
saw had fallen again"