Evening star., 1898-07-30

and not into the army. He has ALREADY had
his whirl in the army. and left it between
two days without any sort of discharge in
his pocket, good or bad. In the jumbing
up of regiments during a state of war SOL
diers are pretty elaborately distributed and
in the army Funk would be exceedingly
likely to meet up with one or more of his
former army comrades. This would make
70 difference if his former comrades knew
MIN simply as a deserter. They would
never give him away. But if they had
heard that he had added the civil crime of
murder to that of desertion, the sentiment
OF former swaddieism would not save Funk
HIS former comrades would corral him and
4lne MN up before the officer of the guard
IN the quickest double time that Funk
ever marched to-
Discovered In Uniform.
There have been various cases In our
army and navy wherein notable ci IL GRIM
inals have been discovered In the uniform
Of one or other of the layouts. Eight wears
ago the cashier of one Of the big real estate
firms In San Francisco went out to lunch
con one day After he had been away for
three days the members of the firm toos a
peek INTO his books. They discovered that
ne was shy matter of $50 600 in ca ,b
whlcn-they further discovered-he had
sloughed of at the races. The police sys-
TEN OF the state of California was inmetlf-
hteiy put into operation and the co-opa.1-
tion of all of the other American police
SYSTEMS. ana the police system OF MRxico
and South America, was requested Ii was
thought that he had taken one of the PAN
anna boats and landed at one of the mino-
ports OF Mexico or Central America de-
tectlve went down to those countries and
came back in a month with a blank look
on MS face Then it was figured that he
might have gone to Honolulu and thence
10 Japan favored detective was sent on
TINS pIeasurable junket, but he had prls-
oner when he returned to San Francisco.
looking Tat and brown 1t was decided that
the man was, in Police parlance wv -
otherWlSe wis guy, and that mis- alb
seilce was liable - be prolonged
one OF the yOul ger members of the real
estate firm happe ned, four or five months
after the French leave of the cashier to
meet a naval officer whom he knew al IN .
bohemian Club. The naval officer was at
tached 10 a cruise then lying at the Mare
Island navy yaru. Come up and take
luncheon with me aboard ship" said the
naval officer to the real estate man and on
the following Sunday forenoon the real es-
tate man went up TO the yard, thirty miles
away. and hadR jolly afternoon of it with
his officer friend. Late in the afternoon Ine
officer, after showing the San Francisco
man the navy yard, took him aboard the
receiving snip Independence. to show him
how naval recruits are knocked into shane
The men on the Independence, several hun
dred in number, We're doing fine trencher-
man 5 duty al the long rows Of mess tables
on the main deck of the old, housed-over
tub. II was the supper hour The officer
and the real estate man passed fore and
aft along the mess tables, the real estate
man renarking that the receiving ship feed
looked almost inviting enough to induce
him to ship himself. Then there was a
furry OF excitement at the gangway. There
had been a splash in the water when the
marine corporal at the gangway had his
back turned. and a bluejacket was seen
swimming across the stream in the dIrec.
ton OF vallejo, the town across from the
yard. '-'>
Tried to Escape.
Man overboardi' was shouted all owe,
the old frigate. and in a jiffy the crew OF
the steam cutter was in the boat and she
had showed of to the rescue The swim
mer apparently didn't want to be rescued
He had almost made the Vallejo dock:
when the cutter pulled alongside of him
and ne struggled fUrtously when the cox 'ur
and couple of seamen hauled him into III,
ooat he saw that the proposition was too
hard, however, when the cox un gave hin
a tab or two with a boathook, and he sa,
still in the stern sheets for the renainde
OF the trip across to the Independence
gangway.
The officer and the real estate man stoo,
on the platform at the top OF the gangway
watching the scene.
Some quarantined chap desperate L
make q liberty. probably" said the officer.
Then the steam cutter pulled alongsid
the gangway.
''Oh. / guess not" said the real estat
man when he had a look at the counte
nance Of the prisoner in the stern sheets o
the boat That's our cashier, who did ou
firm 20 the tune Of S65. 600. We've spen
another $4,000 trying to find him. II
must have seen me come aboard here an
became scared"
The man was taken to San francisco
tried and got long term at San Quentir
It was foolish move on his part to scran