The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25
FUN WITH SHADOWS
AMUSING EXPERIENCES OF REGAL
CITRANT SENATE WITNESSES.
Attending Society Functions I'm Cus-
tOdy of Omcers-Broker Chapman
and MoneyIess Deputy.
special to the 1naianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, Jan. a-An amusing
situation has developed in Washington in
connection with the recent decision in the
case of Broker Chapman. of the firm Of
Corson g. Mccartney, and John s. Shriver,
were turned over to the United States mar
and Express of New York These gentle
men, as soon as the opinion holding them
recalcitrant witnesses rendered
were turned over to the United States Mar
shall by their bondsmen. 1t was not consid-
cred proper or expedient to put them in
Jail, as they had committed no offense for
which Jail confinement would have been
considered fitting punishment. and as
their crime is purely technical in character,
and their trial solely test of the law in
the case, they were not to be submitted to
the indisnity of sleeping in cells with the
Weary Willies and raZor-carrying crap
players in the District jail. In consequence
they were each provided with portable
jail in the shape of United States deputy
marshal, who was instructed to follow
them about and remain with them day and
night so that in the eyes of the law they
were practically in Jail and under the eye
of a watchful jailer who never left them.
This arrangement had its disadvantages.
1t became ludicrously annoying after few
hours and almost unbearable before the
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first difficulty in obtaining admittance for
his shadow to the press galleries at the
Capitol. The legal gent was not news
paper man and had no right to enter the gal
lery, and it required long siege of coax
ing before the guardians of these sacred
precincts would allow Mr.. Shriver to take
up his days work of supplying the Mail
and Express with it's daily quota of Wash
ington matter. When the jailer once got
inside, however, he soon established friend
ly relations with the other newspaper men,
began to talk patronizingly of .-e mighty
influence of the gallery, and actually lost
sight of his charge for period OF hve
minutes while he waxed eloquent over the
merits of a newspaper man with whom he
had once been intimate terms and who
turned out to have been the sporting man
on local paper.
1t was when Mr.. Shriver began to attend
to his social duties that the deputy began
to pail. He persisted, of course, in the per-
Torrance of his duties in accompanying his
charge everywhere, and would not let his
man out of his sight for minute at a time.
At the many pink teas that Mr.. Shriver
attended yesterday afternoon the deputy
could be seen. He didn't seem to know
whether to throw down a gun on the man
at the door who attempted to sidetrack him
into the region below stairs while Mr..
Shriver was with the fair ones at the tea
table, or to assume an air of easy familiar
ity with his charge that would compel the
respect of the serving people regardless of
his semi-uniform and soup plate badge. He
finally resolved upon the latter course, and
for the rest of the afternoon became a So
ciety swell, became bored, looked trifle
blase, attempted to discuss the new wom-
an and the sociological problems presented
by Grundy's Sowing the Wind, and made
himself generally at home. Last night,
however, the unpleasant features of the
game We're strongly pre-. presented n d to Mr..
vide quarters for his jailer in his apart
ments at the Cairo. This pushing the
limit, and while he had not objected while
the deputy assisted him in getting inter-
views on the burning subjects of the day or
in jollying along the social game, he did at
least want to rest without feeling that the
eyes of sleepless jailer were fastened on
him. compromise was finally effected by
which Mr.. shriver was locked in his room
merrily off to another part of the building
to seek slumber
periences with his jailer, but got even In a
way that was Indianlike in its ingenuity
and cruelty In going J., to his his office yest s
market and had the satisfaction of seeing
him broke in twenty minutes. As they
started home Chapman took cable car,
and seating himself on the open grip pulled
out a single car ticket.
You'll have to, pay, for me-" said the
jaier; I'm out of cash.
''That cuts no ice.' replied Chapman jocu-
larly; I'm not supposed to pay your way
but / can't get. word to the marshal
Office now begged the poor jailer II cam
get any money until l go to the Office in
the morning
.SThen get off and chase the carr said
chapman, and the badly ratified deputy was
about to do it when the broker relented
and loaned him money enough to keep up
his end until he could call on the marshal
mistaken for a private detective by all who
saw him.