Arizona republican., 1895-10-16
THE W[LES OF A WOMAN Too Much for Even a
 Drummer. A Most Me!ancholy Tale of the
 Road.
The Injured Innocence of a Pullman Porter Brings Mystery
 to Light.

The commercial traveller has the reputation of being an irrepressible individual who is proof against sure thing games, the wiles of designing women and the kindred snares that lie in the path of the ordinary individual. One of these bullet-proof drummers had an experience that came to light yesterday, which shows that they are about the same dimensions of the aver age sized sucker when a woman is concerned in the case.
 Recorder Jobs as seated as usual yesterday morning in his court room when he was surprised by the sudden entrance of Pullman car conductor, followed by portly individual who |. carried himself with the assurance of a thorough man of the world A young, comedy looking woman, hold ing child, brought up the rear. They all took seats, while the recorder looked on, greatly astonished. The colored man in the uniform !, [ Pull man porter, told his honor that he was placed in peculiar fix and wanted the judge to conduct an investigation for him.
 He said that his name was Frank Smith and he was porter of the Pull man car running between Phoenix and Maricopa. He said that the gen tleman and lady who were present had entered his car at Maricopa. The gentleman paid for the lady's berth and then left the car The next morning, on making up the lady's berth, he found her pocketbook and watch lying exposed on the berth.
 He took the articles and was going to hand them to the owner when the man who acted as her escort entered
 and taking the purse from him op- ened it and found it empty The purse
 contained S35 when the woman re-
 tired for the night, but the porter was
 positive that 10 one had entered the
 car during the night.
 The deficiency was made known to
 the woman, but she appeared to take no interest in the loss whatever. The porter felt that he was respon- |sible and when the train reached this city he insisted that the man and wo- man accompany him to the police court and have an investigation made No charges were made against the porter. but he felt that he must be cleared. as he had to make report of the loss to tt1e Pullman headquarters.
 The recorder interrOgated the man who was with the woman and from thim learned that he was a commercial traveller. He said he met the woman | at Bisbee. She told him that she had come from Phoenix with the expecta- tion of getting work. She could not | find employment and as she was desti- ute wanted to return to Phoenix. He said he took compassion on her and promised to see her through. He gave her S75 at various times on the 1 road and made her his banker, he drawing on the purse for their mutual expenses. When they arrived at Mar
 icepa $55 yet remained in the purse. That, he said, was all he knew about the case or the woman.
 The recorder was assisted in the
 examination by the porter, who adroitly gleaned considerable informa-
 tion as to the cause for the mysteri-
 ous disappearance of the cash. The recorder drew up a certificate
 and requested the drummer and the
 woman to sign it, completely exoner-
 ating the porter of any suspicion of theft. Both signed the certificate and
 the woman and child left the court. The drummer remained behind long
 enough to remark that he was the
 "d-st sucker in the profession" and
 that the woman was welcome to the
 money and affirmed that the woman
 had stolen the money herself, but
 wanted to give it the appearance of robbery