The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-27
COBBLER TAYLOR'S VAIL
NOW HE WAS GULLED BY PoLISH
AND a BAD CHECK.

One or the victims or Young Philip BANKS Ne
tails the Colsred swinaierNs Family History
and the circumstances which Led to
His UndoinG-Banks II Now SAFE In Jati.
Philip Banks. a young negro. was arrested on
Seventh avenue on Friday night charged with
forgery and swindlinR. His capture wns directly
duo to information furnished to the police by
George Taylor. a negro shoemaker. who has o
shop on the ground floor OF 113 West Forty
sixth street. Taylor told a Sun man all about
1t yesterday afternoon. As he talked hoi finished
off q pair OF shoes that he had been half selling.
He emphasized his wrath against the Banks
boy by vicious raps at the shoe between his
knees.
Deed I Is glad that boys been put in the
lookup" he said. "wish to Gawd ia get
something out of his being In tho lookup,
which, II 1t hadn't been for mo telling the Gap
tain / seen him refreshing himself in q saloon
near about Seventh avenue and Thirtieth street,
he never would have been come up with yea
How much is he bailed for T.
He is not admitted to bail yet" said TIE
Sun man. "Do you want to bail himT
"Soo him daid first" exploded the shoe.
maker with a terrific whack at the shoe. see
him daidi Daidi Daid! Yes, sir. Mister Man,
that 1 would. What he done to mel Don't ask
mo, man. What he done to mel What amt he
donei Ask me that. Smilin', smooth.speeched
yellow coon With permixtious clothes, what he
c%eitful. l known him ever since he amt high
enough to climb on this here bench. His mother
formerly and at one special time a good friend Of
mine. he was married TO a white woman. Since
boarding house for West India coiored persons
on Thirty .hrst street.
brownstone house down here on Forty-siIth
s ssSIst dead head T Sfd fb seEvan a'n end eu hsd wine me on ma the
in society myself. but used to drop in there OF
and on sometimes, That's where this here boy.
siiS af iwhnaesf fln ,whaicfil got All his, polish. For
he most certainly was polished; He was as pol
lsnsa :" 'De ssdy 6 seV Was s ssat. Alter y that seI he Went av 70
q 'sylum to be admonished. Whyn't 1 remem-
what he do to mel Mister Man, jeest you
cum yourself and I'll tell you all you wants to
n snGyi tSis sele eys sTSsef Phifip a S yea. san ssG In l %s
place all smilacious and polite and ceremonious
as a dog sitting beside the dinner table looking
"'Pahden me, II you will please to DO so kind
he says to me, smiling like one Of them second
fore he eI lays hands on /! you. Would You 'q please !,
to noE DC SO kind I'm tha ne s,, says, v ,@s +, 70 "a ae Sfbd, a i ad pp a
70 my father in the pastf
His father have at one time been indebted
and accountable to- me for the sum and su INSTANCE
paid. Part OF it he have not. So whom that
yellow thief come smiling SO cordial in hero aek:
hh NA"a - NSNSPs op e
payment. l just naturally warmed to the hound.
He says. says he, slick and smiling right steady.
My father he say, regret that he have
to ask you to cash a check. This here is for $28.
Ny father he say tell you give me SIS and pro
serve SO for yourself, Which ! did Jest 30 quick
as I could f~elicitate the operation. l sends tho
check on through a friend; Next thing 1 knows
they is after me to come down to the bank and
a-shouting for a sight of his yellow hide ever
since. He went on down to Philadelphia and
Baltimore. he only just lately come back. Deed,
1t did me good to see him come to judgment this
ddH id{.' | d inil' into sps htm no h spith a ,ss at al him good I
You low.lived. kn Ssl yellow,facsd
I says. .ain't you ashamed to be caught in gar.
ments that is merely passable, when you In
made plenty enough money robbing honest peo-
pie 70 array yourself in silk and goldr" ,,,,-
Banks at Police Headquarters yesterday. but
Of a hundred or more persons, whom the police
believed have been deceived by Taylor, ten or
twc.ve wcrc su1crnoned there &c take u look "
the prisoner and tell their stories. All had
fallen victims to the bland smile and glib tongue
OF the young cheat, and had yielded up thor
money to him in amounts ranging from 81 to
$40.