Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-06-03

eace You'd "a thought she'd been struck
with club. She went down fiat. don't
think she ever got over it. | can't say for
sure, cause / never called there again.
But II you'd IA seen her go down all of
a heap you'd almost "a split yourself
laughin.
II couldn't see any joke. Lizzie was
a-starin at him, her eyes almost out of her
head.
You have a small family, mum, says
he. i always live in a small family
when l can. I've lived in some pretty
large families, though. Your interestin
daughter which have the pleasure of see
in and your young son in the act of pur-
suin knowledge makes up your household,
mum?'
II was that frightened could only say
'Yes'
And what may your name be, mum|
says he, dancn his lantern on his knee.
Williams, says l.
Hal! says he. Williams, eh? Names
is all fudge anyway, amt they, mum? l
don't never keep the same name longer
than three months-if can help it. Last
month my name was Signor Salvino.
And, mum, comm close up to my chair
you think my name was afore that? Guess
mum, guess, says he You won't guess
it if you try all night.
II was so frustrated that when he nudg
ed me again with his lantern, l says Jones
spasmodical like. No. says he, a-spittin
on my best carpet, faint Jones. But it's
like it. Guess again. And he nudged
me with that lantern. Smith, says |,
desperate like 'Pshaw,' says he. Smith
amt no more like Jones than Crumft is
like Salvino. Crumfit and Salyino is
names what I calls far apart. Suppose,
mum, you was to know that man named
Salvino-I say supposin, you know-that
q man named Salvino had done some
murder, srlpposin he had cut up an old
lady into bits and billed her down and sold
her for furniture glue-and such things
| has been done--now, supposin, mum, that
man named Salyino had done this and
| was to call himself Crumfit, would you
see any likeness in the names? OF course
not mum There amt nothing like
| aliases, mum. It's the greatest invention
| that was ever invented, says he. When
| man can get alias which is the exact
opposite of what his name was afore, then,
| mum, he is safe. If you ever want alias,
mum, come to me, says he Now, just
| for curiosity, if you wanted alias, what
would you choose|
4 don't know says l, a-rubbin my
| eyes to make sure was not dreamin. But
| there was this awful man a-sittin in his
| wet clothes on my best lounge and a-spit-
! tin on my best carpet. IT he'd "a given me
a chance, I'd "a sent for the police but he
kept ta1kin right straig ht on.
So your name is Williams, says he.
| I knowed Mrs Williams once who kept
| a gunshop in Boston, but you amt the
| one, for she was hanged. Well, mum, if l
| were you and wanted q alias bad l think
| il you was to call yourself Nine Pivoty
| it would do. OF course the alias must
| depend somewhat upon what you done.
If you only cracked store or pulled a
pocketbook, you might call yourself Skin
ner or any such name as that, but for any
| thing serious Nine. Pivoty would do.
| How do you like the name of Pivoty, mum?
| You'd better remember that name-it
| might come in useful. / see kind of
| wildness in your eye mum, that makes
| me think Of the great French child tor
turer, Mime. Oscar They say she made
| blue children for circuses by feeding 'em
on indigo. She was a genius for putin
children to good uses. She always kept a
stock Of show children on hand-human
skelintons, fat boys, transparent infants
| and such like. When fat boy stopped
| CROWN, she could turn him out as skel-
inton in less than a year. But she couldn't
make fat boys out of skelintons-the
| trainin seemed to injure somethin in
| their insides 1t amt all children that'll
make good skelintons, anyways, says he
| Now, your boy there, lookin at Johnny,
| might do. Mime. Oscar hadn't no success
| one year, and when she made dozen fail
| ures the police thought she was a-buryin
| too many infants and fetched her up. She
didn't last long after they stopped her;
| she couldn't live without her interestin
| work.
| How do you like Pivoty, mum?' says
| he again after .)ittin on my carpet I be-
| gan to suspect by this time that he was a
| kind of lunatic, and l was a-shakin all
| over
| +" It's a very pretty name, says l.
| " Pretty, mum says he. With that
name, mum, you might do anything and
never get found out. You needn't be
afeared, mum, to go ahead. / can see that
| If you was sure of KNOWN enough aliases
| you'd make a name for yourself
ellis sayin this kind of riled me, if he
| was a lunatic, but I was afraid to stir an
inch. After awhile he jumps up and wants
| to go to his room. So l. makes sign to
| Lizzie to go with me, and he followed,
feelin of Johnnys arm as he went and
sayin that he'd make good skelinton.
4 When he got to the room, he shook my
hand and said Good night, sweet angelp
| Then he shut the door, and you could have
| knocked me down with u feather.
cit was 10 o'clock and here | was with
nobody in the house but the children and
big maniac full of all kinds Of murder
| GUS notions. But sent Johnny round to
the police station to say that we had lu-
natic murderer in the house. The police
| captain came in five minutes.
&C Mrs Williams, says he, you we got a
lunatic worth havin. He went crazy
readin dime novels when he was boy,
and escaped from the asylum last week.
His friends offer 81 900 for his capture.
"The captain and two of his men went
up and brought him down. He was quiet
enough and seemed amused like When
they was takin him out Of the door, he
says to me: Remember mum, what
told you. When you gets into trouble
you know what to do
1.-THE very next week 1 was paid the
$1,000. I washed the sign off the from
door, and guess, Mr.. John, that 1T viii
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