Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1897-06-26
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An T,usunI Experience wen luz =
Nnn Used to Surprises.

,su,I Experience Even io1
Nnn Used to Surprises.
The mar who was talking to inc ot"l
man WAS a burglar, and not oil Ihe
-orormed kind, either. He was NO.
prosecuting his profession JUST u. tn"
,a~rticnlor time, owing to the fact that
5s the result of a prosecution by 'h'
,tote he was making himself more USE
,nI than he had been in a long time
In other words, he was doing time III
, n~enitentiary, and his dress SUIT was
continuous reminder to the repor''l
hat \ zebra must have been sklhheu
,nmoybere in that neighborhood'
"Well," he said, in the language ota
nan who had seen better days, ana III
.esnons to a suggestion from the re-
%nortcr: 81 suppose | might tell you "
story if there was going to be anything
n it to me-" ru,-
What a heartless wretch he was! Try
inc in this calculating manner 10 rop
he STRUGGLING reporter out OF a part
# his hard-earned stipend. However,
.be renorter wasn't mean, and after d
orief bargaining the inactive burglar
proceeded. -,h.
"1u at the beginning ne
,aid "and tell you how | got my start
all GREAT men get their start some way
~ other, YOU know, and I'm no eNcep-
ion. When | was IL years ola ran
away from home in the country, Where
I lived with my uncle, n school teacher,
md if I do say it myself, l was n OF
his brightest and sharpest scholars l
rot TO New York as the usual runaway
Bows does, and, unlike most OF them' l
succeeded in GLIDING pursuit, ana set-
fled down to business as a newsooy'
# was congenial work, and used togo
ia nipht school, and soon was a leader
among the boys. BY the time was Il
had n position in a restaurant as n
cashier. and the handling of the money
wos too much for me, and one day
skinned out with 500 and went to San
Francisco. For the next four years
kept getting a little worse, but never
fell into the hands of the police.
"Then | got sick, and they put me in
city hospital, and one night died
mean" explained the burglar, that as
far as they knew ] was dead. didn't
have any friends, and as the young doe
tor who attended especially to me
didn't get any pay for his trouble, the
authorities, to recompense him some
what, and to save funeral expenses
J turned my body over to him, and hi
: took it to his Office for the usual pur
pose. He laid me out on a table in {
back room about one o'clock one morn
2 inc. and left me there in the cold, while
+. he adjourned to some other part OF hi
house and went to bed, | suppose. II
fact. | know, rs you will see presently
l 81 don't know what time in the nigh
4 it was or what was going on around me
but after awhile | began to come to
/ and in a few minutes | knew that wa
: not in the narrow little bed at the hos
ritol and in q rcyv more minutes.
began TO be scared nearly to death, TO
S I knew rlobt AWAY that | was in tn
hands Of tbe doctors. and in a fair wa
n 70 he chonned nm The FRIGHT gave m
STRENGTH and cot nm from the table
and was about to break away anywhere
S en- lo,r nc oot AWAY when the obsenc
J. Of clothes SUGGESTED that I get som,
S and ! beoan TO look around a bit.
It soon got info tbe doctor's wardrob,
e and If wasn't Iono until | had dresse
e myself very we'll for rcody-made thing,
If ond yros,,t half nc Ind scorcd nc | ha