Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-09
AS DUGGAN EXPLAINS

ed Duggan with: "Well, when did you get
your starr"
When Duggan had washed his hands and
was putting on his overals he said to his
helper, who had maintained a discreet ST.
lence: II been wantin' to take crack at
that guinea ever sense he took two swallys
out O. the on'y bottle we had at Red Lally's
wake. feel better now"
"What was that he sprung on ye just
nowg" asked the inquisitive helper, stand
ing out of arms reach.
"Tryin' to git gay with me, cause lost
out on that police graft, said Hieronymus.
Didn't ye make the spiel, honest?'
asked the helper, anxiously, keeping the
boiler between himself and Duggan.
MAKE yer neck" growled Duggan.
Would l be here, haven pickle nose
slob like you hodin' hot rivets for me If
got away with the goods? Wouldn't be
up in Connoly's with the gang, or givin'
Shannahan's growler a hot box, If the
goods was like the sample? You talk like
man with whole mushroom in his
mout'."
80 the stuffs all off, is it?' asked the
helper
81 tell ye, they packed me in ice an laid
me away on the top shelf behind last years
goods. They lost my tag an scratched the
trademark off my label-that's what they
done
"Why, say" he went on, IL was a lob
sterna from Granville, right from the jump,
but had that sweled head and didn't know
it, / know better now. Say, beau, been
up against a good many hot proportions,
but that joint down at the Four Courts was
800 in the shade an showin' up the top Of
the glass every minute. 7qt.
II thought knowed what was goin'
against, but found out | was craps from
the time they started to shake the bones.
You know, Skinny Hoolan told me | was a
white-headed boy amy time wanted to be
a copper, ever sence that time | made a
rough house at the primaries an give him
200 majority agin' Schwartz. So when this
graft came up l gets my application an
Hoolan has it fixed up for me an chases me
down to the joint There's about l6, ,0O0, 900
other gayzabos down there lookin' for the
same graft, an | says to myself, holy cripes,
if all them ducks voted the democratic ticket
the last time, they must be about 81, coo 900
republicans in town, or we'd carried the
city with nothin' to it. Ye see, iggered it
out they was nobody goin' to git nothin'
| from the board but them guys that could de-
liver the goods. wasn't wise then, but am
now.
why, l thought l had a cinch on the
! job. l was figgerin' in my big thick head
what beat l wanted to walk. was goin'
to pick out the beat near the Lafayette
brewery. 1t was so near a cinch I'd be
fixed up in about ten minutes that told
Cockey Doyle, when he asst me out to have
scuttle O. suds with him, I'd be out before
the barboy could draw mine. An, say, l
missed out on that scuttle O. suds An
| missed out on good big jaggerina for
myself, too, cause Doyle got paid that day,
an what a large juicy time him an me
could a had with that growler of Shanna-
hans if l only knowed what do now.
'Say, dye know what? Them p'ice com
mssioners KEEP me there from Monday till
yesterday before they gimme chanst to
show 'em what l knowed. They had a
reg'lar school there. What dye think
O that"
'"Ifow did they work the graft?" asked
the helper.
"The bunch / went in with, / seen 'em
all have a piece of paper in their mitt,
an they was studyin' it like it was their
catechism. l copped one out of guys
pocket with white hair, when he wasn't
lookin', an what dye think it was? Looked
like page out O. the directory. / thrun it
| in a spittoon.
They was lot O. guineas in the school
behind the railin. The guinea in the mid
die he was purity guy, with curly hair
Say, he'd be wonder with the dolls up in
Social Turner hall-he'd cop every lady in
the bunch-he was a peach. Him an me
nearly tangled up at the first go off. Soon
as our bunch got in some little canary with
out no hair on his head hollers out boo
gan! an waltzes up. l tells him my name
amt Doogan, but Duggan, an if he's goin'
to put me on the force he better get my
name right, so won't have any trouble get.
tin my 90 per on pay day.
"Then this purity guinea he gets up AN
hollars at me; he says: Where's the work
houseY just like that. / says: 'WhyY
says, Il amt been there since last Novem
ber,' j says. You know that says. You
know Butler got me out
"Then the gang all gave me the ha-ha
an knowed I'd made a sucker play. He
was on'y astin' me to see if | knowed, see
Then 1 got onto his graft, an knowed
he wanted to find out how wise was about
the burg, an l give him plenty rope
lemme tell ye. ! guess he thought he tan
gled me up, but, say, before he got done
| WIN illeIoily mus ne hdu 10 asI me MA
way home"
"What questions did he asst your" in
quired the helper.
"Why, I'd be ashamed to asst sx-year-old
kid" said Duggan. He asst me, where's
the arsenal, an when told him on Arsena
street he nearly broke his suspenders
Didn't think was on, see? Then he says
Where's the Morgan. club? an l says
Now got you ] says; You mean the
Chelsea club in St. Bridget's parish, wheI
Johnny Morgan use TO be president, That
on the hog senst Father Walsh give it thu
rollickaboo'
'He didn't say nothin', an then he as
me where's Blair monument. | knoweC
that was a catch, an says; Where at il
he buried, an I'll tell you where it's at,
an he didn't say nothin', so knowed haC
him. Then he says: Where's the Rialtt
buildin'| An | says: '0n the Rialto,
cause | heard about that one time | wal
in the gallery of the Olympic. So he as
me a whole lot O. more fool questions lik
that, but he never asst me word abou
how to cross out ballots, or scratch a re
publican's name, or slug a challenger o
anything at all like that, an sized him uI
for farmer. When he got through h
says: I'm send you postal card when
want to see you and put you through thu
physical examination
Then | went out and saw the dubs tina
were giving me the hunch, and then tn
stuff was all off, sure Jee cripes, the!
made a roar, an | thought they was goin
10 tear the shack down an build new
department on the shingles, but, say, wheI