Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-18

i Volume ana promptly paid over Sill. He
then showed her the pages in the book
left blank for the inscription of births,
deaths or marriages. The woman stated
that she had a list of these occurrences
made out on a slip of paper. Would the
young man write them in the book? The
| young man saw a chance of more money
~gllmmerin2 on the horizon of tina Bible
sale.
mo, he would not dare to write them,
he stated, because his penmanship was
far from first class, but he had a friend,
a teacher of writing, who would inscribe
this chronicle of events in the book in
characters like steel plate. Did the lady
wish 1t done? Of course. she did! How
much would his friend charge? the lady
inquired.
Oh, nothing answered the young fell
low. He'd do anything for me. I'll have
to buy him a few cigars, I suppose he
added in an offhand manner.
THE lady handed him a dollar to buy
the cigars, n the agent departed with
! the Bible. the eleven dollars and the ex-
ira dollar. He sold the Bible a half hour
later IN a State-street secondhand store
for 81, n left the city.
NOW" unused the detective, "if you can
show me any one that young man over
looked in hat Bible sale I will be thank
full.
The bookseller who had trusted him
with the Bible and the woman who had
bought 1T both reached the police sta
ton at the same time with their COM
plants. but we never caught him.
Another case in point is that of a
young Napoleon Of finance who met his
Waterloo in the shape of a trunk strap in
the hands of his enraged mother, after
she nae discovered his misdeeds. This
young fellow is a Cincinnati product,
aged IA, and had been employed at q
bakery to deliver pies, cakes and bread.
1t was afterwards a~scertained by the
baker that the boy had collected all Of his
smaller bills n used the coin to pro-
Vlde s~ustenance to the voracious nickel
in-the-slot machines One day as the
X was buying some chickens, soon to
De converted into succulent chicken pies
the boy remarked:
why don't you buy chickens from my
mother?'
"The baker replied that he was not
aware that the boys mother kept chick
ems, but if she did he would just as soon
buy them from her as any one else. The
next morning the boy appeared for work
he brought with him a hall dozen sprirg
chickens. which had been leaned. The
baker noticed hat the breasts Of the
chickens seemed to have been torn open
instead of cut, and told the boy to inform
his mother to clean the fowls more neat
ly. Two days later the boy appeared with
q dozen fowls, neatly cleaned, for which
the baker paid him.
THE boy was then sent out to deliver
bread, n a half hour later his mother
appeared in the store, and, approaching
the baker, said:
"Could you let me have that go cents
now, sir? My boy won't be home unit
evening, and l need the money
What SO cents?' asked the baker.
"'Why. Freddy brought - chickens
from your coop to me this morning, anG
said that you would pay me five cents
apiece for cleaning them,' explained the
woman.
"Well, Freddy lied!' answered the
baker. He brought me - chickens this
morning which he said you wished to sci
to me. I bought them and paid him fol
them
"The woman left and returned later ir
the day, and the scheme was unfolded
Freddy had stolen the chickens from his
mothers stock of poultry, cut off theil
heads and carried them to the old lady
who, not recognizing her own fowls, hat
cleaned them for the baker at the uniform
price Of five cents a fowl.
"And," concluded the baker, at is {
1O-to-1 shot that that boy will wind vi il
the penitentiary or own a trust som
day." ...