The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-12
sI8KERs BEEN BUSCoFIED.
Nan Up Against . View Discovery In Crime ss
Cooney's Island.

Ran Up Against . View Discovery In Crime 1t
Cooney's Island.
When Sarsaparilla Reilly sat down in the little
re'taurant the sinker man poked his head
through the kitchen doorway and shouted:
Hey. Reilly, I'm it. What you call me 10
light. Call 1t some moro und yet besides dots
me. I'm q boiled-faced lobster-a pickle mitout
der green scraped o1-mebbe I'm q damn fool q
hundred tlmes-call 1t to me. Reilly; kick me;
push my fnce in, Reilly; den I need yet worSer."
You're gettin' wheels, sinkers," said Reilly.
60 ahead" continued Sinkers; wheels,
crazy, dumber as a cow-all dots me-"
"Why, Sinkers, what ails yerf
Ach my. Reilly. I've been buncoled," SOL
EMMY declared the sinker man. "vhat a sor-
rowful story. Really, Reilly, II my wife heerd
bout dot she'd put me der house oudt before I
come home"
Let us hear the story" said Reilly.
we'll, 1 must begin init der commencement"
answered Sinkers. You know dot I vent to
Cooney's Island. Dere I ride NIT der icicle
merry.go-round business, und drink q coupler
beers und eat some frankfurters. After dot I
sec der ~teeatre, und ven / watch der peoples In
der bathtub I seemed Herman. der baker from
First avenue. We said hello togedder. und he
WINNIE in do water like he we're q merrymaid.
Poorly soon, when he come der water oudt.
We had q coupler beers, und Herman took a shot
oh U phoolih uuShh bOLu
shot dot a big crowd comes round und talk dot
he knocks der target outen the bullseye., und
den der crowd bets dot a fellow named Skinny
Flynn shoots better bullseyes as Herman. Ach!
my Reilly, dot make me sick TO hear SIGH nom
sense talk, cause | know Herman were Captain
oof six SchuetZen companies in Hoboken. Really,
Reilly. mebbe l cant toll some more, cause it's
so s~orrowful. Chickens ,Maginn could tell it
better. cause he found 1t oudt after when no
Yes" said Chickens, II was on ter der hull
push as soon as i got me peppers on TO der main
guy, lie was dc mug what der monies call
Hank. Hank is dc shinyest bead on de ocean
t sinEEeT. d amS s none VIII b;ta KIN fr6 beat I him; We'll.
vile met at de Island. SO dey shook paws an
hit a Few high hats; den dey went to der shootin'
It foated along dc beach, so dey, wanted a sllce
an followed de two mixers. Den when de
f e 2 Sorp ,se, 6 hM got Up esin de targets
M Mas paa fass about sSi II lis ak EiRe i irisnd. the s, shsTp.
shooter. De bqnco guys closed IN and
Skinny Flynn could knock more bullseyes dan
dc hike could. Dcy had no money. to bet, SO
Gentleman George walked up an got in dc
his prince was buttoned like he was a minister.
He did do velvet act by, talkin' slick. an Hank
offered TO- pet Sinkers a bone DAT skinny Flynn
George said he'd hold do stakes. Yer see he Was
S$s,,'EhI Hank %.' 9 Ell p gave an fssiS s ions hand q
george, VINO hcteu Us uo sraRehOlder.
gped, George slipped do stakes to skinny, an
Skinny shouted dat he'd bet two dollars on him.
self. Sinkers took him up. Den de stakeholder
had four dollars. an slipped de four plunks to
Red Casey; Red got In dc push an bet de four
bold eight dollars. He slipped dc eight TO
Hank, SO Hank shouted dat he'd bet eight dol.
lars more on skinny Flynn, Sinkers took up dat
bet, and each Of de bettors handed over eight to
to skinny, and skinny shouted dat as long
IA IN IFlHnha o NJ hi1 hAfa hAlI
20 fifteen more on himself. sinkers Just
had seventeen dollars left, but he was game and
put up fifteen OF 1t. Den George held thirty dol
lars, Sinkers wouldn't bet another PUNK on 1t;
so while skinny Flynn gave him a game OF talk,
Hank whispered l. in de ear Of de Schuetzen corpse
sharpshooter, an made a deal TO trow de match
TO skinny Flynn. Hank slipped de hhArpshooter
hvc dollars OF do stakes. tei.lln' do hike dat dey'd
de shhrpshooter took dc five spot an t'rew dc
match to Flynn. Den dc gang laughed at Sink
ers an went down on dc beach todivvy Sinkers's
dough, after dey paid back dc borrowed dollar to
dc thimblerigger. Den ! KEN along an heard
dem tell how dey had discovered a new bunco
game"
We'll. l we're dc first TO play 1t init d en- said
tho sinker man when Chickens got through re-
lating The story. -,
trayed yer for foive dollars. None but a Dootclr.
man would stand in wild bunco min for tn pur-
pose NV dom Il trind."
Nov Yer commencin' again." said sinkers;
AL der bunco mems we're Irish."
We'll, nm lrishInnn IL always fly enough ter
do n D~ootchman," said Reilly, "an'if YER say
another word about the Irish III do you meself.
Dyer hear T.
Il hear. said sinkcrs; "den ven drop Il. II
l get a blue eye mebbe Lenall find oudt how /
BOmebOdy awning"