The morning times., 1897-01-27
THE OLDEST DETECTIVE
perience with a Fellow Who Had
More Money Than Brains.

perience with a Fellow Who Had
More Money Than Brains.
Mrs. Joe had Just placed the steak and
onions between Banty and Hutchinson and
was drawing the coffee when the Oldest
Detective dropped in the other morning.
Mrs. Joe turned around in surprise. Il
thought we had lost you,'' she said.
Where you been keeping yourSelf?"
echoed Banty and Hutch together.
New York, rhiilie, and Boston" said
the o. ID. Didn't know Travelled some
times, did you?''
What was your graft?'' said Banty,
seeming a story.
Ion, looking for a chap who had more
money than brains. Iis people are rich,
you know Live here III tie city. Tie
man ! was after cont know what TO 10
with his cash. SO Ire biowsftin. lac get Off
on jag. you see. and went skating around
the country His folks get worried and
came down To headquartcrS ana asked Us
TO find him. OF course, it's not IN our
line exactly. but they are pretty good peo-
pie and have pull with the big guns up
stairs. and so they sent me out
The .. ID. bFaceG his shoulders against
the mantlcpIcce and iished down i'll the
top pocket OF his waisIcoat. He pulled
out Il lat, black Regalia, the kind tney
sell at 20 cents straigit, and bit off the
end. Sorry / haven't another" he said
pyeing the boys over the flame OF The
match. This one was part OF the graft
struck while was away
Must nave had pretty good time, -
l2-aFfr a
things like that
Yes, il was a pretty hot one,' said the
@. D., with a smile, but 1 don't care
for those kind much.
You see" he began, setting down in
the big chair by the fire, that's the
trouble with this business. II We had
straight cases all The time it would be
different, but this thing OF mixing up in
other peoples affairs, when it don't be-
long rightly to the department-well,
amt very much stuck on il.
OF course, had a pretty good time off
or this trip, but then, 1 would rather
they had sent some one else. This chap
] got this time, well, his was only plain
case Of drunk mingled with a desire To
spend his coin. They didn't care about the
coin, you understand, but his people were
dead scared he'd hurt himself, and that S
the reason they came Go MS.
Il got him up in BustOn, and you can
bet your weeks salary against a stack Of
COPY paper that he was having one Of those
good times lie came peacefully enough
when I told him who / was and where 1
came from and when had gOtllim sUbered
up a bit we came home.
Its the crazy ones kick gaiust. Some
times you get EN- just right and then again
they're regular peaches I've been mixed
up in a good many of those deals, but
tie toughest ever u rack was u chap who
came over from Baltimore He was a
dandy.
.-Any, he had n oncy TO burn, and what:
mo-c. he was dead stuck on the smell oi
the sL Lokc OF course you know, boys,
that IL would never do to mention names
That wouldn't do at all, but if Iemem-
Her rightly some Of you fellows had yarn
atoIt this chap the time il happened.
"As / said, he came fIom Baltimore,
and what he did TO that town before hc
LEFT was T. orc than a plenty. All the fly
cops over there were hunting for him when
he bI oke loose, and after a couple Of days
they caught or that hc had jumped out and
came over here.
lone day we fot a message to look out
for him, and / was put on the case.
There was n hint out that there was a
god reward III it, and put ii some hard
work locking for the man
i located him finally up at a small
loscl not far from the White House and
when 1 walked in and told 'em who /
was hunting for / can tell you they were
glad to see me.
SAY, boys, but he was just running
things You see, he had 50 much coli
that he could get his checks casheG mos
anywhere, and he was known up there a
the hotel. when his people found ou
where he was they telegraphed over no
90 cash any of his paper, but it was too
late hen, forte' q blown in a fe " thousand,
JUS for fun.
We'll, that chap had a suite Of rooms
with a push button ia every one OF 'em
and all he did was to go from one L
the other and ring for drinks He hat
every one OF the bell boys clean blowl
from running down to the bar and bacl
again.
You never saw so much good liquo
gone to waste in your life. II he didn'
like what he'd ordered, hc throw it ol
the floor, glass and all, and cuss like
trooper at the boy who brought it.
Il went down and talked with the clerl
nnd lie told me the chap upstairs hat
come there in a cab a couple Of days be-
fore. Then L went down to the static
and saw some OF the railroad men an
they remembered him.
Great Jones. l should say they did re
member him!
The way that chap struck the tow
was a corker. That fellow, boys, rod
all the way from Baltimore ON the from
OF an engine. He mad a gun as long a
your arm and he told the engineer anC
fireman that if they didn't like his wa,
Of taking an airing, why, he'd pump 'eT
so fun Of lead that they would drown in {
soup plate
Then hc gave 'em both $40 to squar
matters. The engineer said he did nothin
but iIoller from the time the train pulle
out Of Baltimore till it struck the tunnc
just outside OF tie city here.
THAT came near doing him, sure. The,
said he was mighty glad to see the light
when he got out again.
''Wcll. SIR, when they pulled into tht
station there he sat on the cowcatchrr
black as a crow. He had bottle in on
hand and his gun in the other and he was
wavin' 'em both up over his head an,
yeilin' at the top OF his lungs.
''IIe sneaked as soon as they stopped anC
got out the size way. You sec he was S,
crazy drunk that everybody was scared
Go touch him and he got out to the street
all right.
--IIe tackled a cabman next and toll,
him TO drive up TO the hotel quick. III,
scared that cabnan half to death. Well