The Butler weekly times., 1897-10-14
MAGiCIAN'S BURGLAR STORY.
How he Did Few Tricks for His Noe
iurnni Visitor.


he one of the most skillful prestidIg
itstors in Amerlct, and for several
wears he Travelled, as Keller does
now. aud as Hermann did before
he died not long ago While he was
IN the road Mr. Hsr'z had many al
ventnres. some Of them amusing,
som. ridicul ,us and some rather ex-
citing One story that he seldom
tells deals with an experience he had
in the far west. He had given
perform ance before large crowd,
made up of frontier characters, and
carried a whole sachelful OF money
hack to the hotel after the show He
noticed that big, rough looking
clio was paying pretty close at
tantion to hlm when he made his
settlement at the box office, bat
thought little of it
= 81 did a trick with heavy iron
links" said Mr. Hartz 10 telling of
his expertenc S, and l always car
ried them with me TO my hotel, IA L
didn't cara to have theater attaches
damage them in trying to find out
how I put them together and took
/, them apart These links 1 carried
ID eachel similar to the one In
which / had put my money, and
owing to the fact that the hotel safe
ha bean shut up for the night be
70 my performance was over, |
to * both sachels TO my rof III.
Il had been asleep quite awhile,
VIII suddenly felt hand placed
&C oss my mouth. The first thing l
saw when 1 looked up was a revol
yer. aud heard somebody say that
would have my head blown { # if |
made u noiss of a,y kind | was
then ordered to get up and deliver
what money l bad in the room.
was as cool ss l ever had been
in my life, aud sitting up on the
edge OF the bed, told the fellow,
whn was masked, that if he would
Just lower his gun l would look
ab Ut and see what l could find for
him I knew, by the way, that be
was the same man who had watched
me make my settlement at the box
Office. Then got out the sach. |
containing the links and asked him
what he thought was in it
"Ssveral hundred dollars" said
he, "and I want it quick"
II you can find anything in there
but lot OF iron, I replied, 'you can
have it.
I then made few passes over the
sacnei, mutteriug little gibberish
for the purpose of arousing his su
perst,tion, and finally, with a sud
denuess that he was not looking for,
threw pile of rafting links at his
fees He jumped as if he had been
sh t, and his chin began to quiver
/ made few passes over the links.
which had been separated when ]
threw them out, grabbed them up
aud strung them together IN the
form of an immense chain, which !
, flung around his neck.
Now, said I, i could choke you
in half minute if I wanted to, bu,
I'm not quite ready, See if you eau
sc. yourself free
: He raised HIS hands to take hold
Of the chain, and l took advantage
OF au opportunity to fasten hi.
wrists together above his head. BY
that time he was the most frighten
ed man l ever saw. Sweat was
standing out all over his face. and
7 he WAS shlverins like person with
chill.
After 1 had kept him standing i,
tha' way for awhile l gave the links
asap with one of my fngers, aud
they fell away, setting him free.
Now, l said, I'm going to takt
= your head frcm your body and pu,
it in that wash bowl over there l
to- is the least bit Of water in tn,
bow 1t will he impossible to put You
to-, ether agair; iut if, The bowl /,
, perfectly dry, can connect youi
head aud neck all right. Please lool
nj tho bo,rl arj xna = - !, - ~.