The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-24
In Order to Get Another Man
Out.
WAS WELL REWARDED
HIS PROSPERITY CAUSED him
ANOTHER SENTENCE.
Shorty" Helped a white-livered
Bank Officer to Escape, and the
Grateful Wife Paid Him Well For
the Job-Perddy of a Boarding
house Keeper.
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One day as the old colonel sat reading
in his favorite corner of the prison
hospital. there came a series of screams
and the noise of scuffies from the stairs
and, moment later, gang of hallmen
under the direction of the fat keeper
dragged in a body and strapped il
down on the cot especially reserved for
dellrium tremens cases. Having lost
and found his place several times in his
determination not to be disturbed by SC
ordinary happening, the colonel was
just regaining his interest in his book
when Smithers, the con man, approach
ed with news of evident import.
Shorty's back agin," he announced
with a pair of beaut'us black eyes, and
under the custody of James Preserves,
esq.,
rs his return in such state accord
ing to custom?" asked the colonel
Its most unus'al, kunnel." explained
Smithers. You see, Shorty's lay dur
ing the winter mont's is to be head hall
man. Consistently, his play, when he
has to go out, is to get back agin so
quick ard in sech proper shape that he
finds his posish waitin' for him.
Now. Shorty appreciates his obligatuns
| ginerally, and lets the juice alone arter
he's had enough to make a case of
drunk and disorderly afore the beak.
And so / tells you, kunnel. somethin'
unusual has happened him this time
sure, and If you tackles him when he
gifts on his pins agin, it's my apinion
he'll have interestin' adventur to tell
for your edicatin.'
| 1t took Shorty three full days to get
on his pins again. But. when the fourth
morning dawned, Shorty was himself
|
please. He shook up the coloners bed
for him, and made him special brew
of coffee over the gas. He mopped off
the floor and busted the shelves and
| tucked the old man comfortably in his
rocking chair, with a quilt wrapped
around him. Then, in response to the
| inquiry, You seem to have been ILL
used, Shortly he brought up stool,
| and, settling himself thereon, all twist
J ed into a ball of gray and black, with
his sharp little eyes shining the bright
er for. their cerulean surroundings, he
thus began:
I've had a leasing, that 1 have,
Not only t'roo obsarvin' the full extint
colonel, in the desatefulness of riches,
OF helplessness to which a FORUM may
REFUGE a young man of good material
parts, but larnin' from my own per-
sunal experience how resky it is to take
holt on unexpected wealt'. sence it
may turn on you. and t'run you down,
and jump on your neck, LAWN only the
rimnants you seed the odder day when
came in. Let me tell you, colonel,
that the hobo that sticks consistent to
his graft, workin the bumpers sum-
mers and the soup houses winters,
comes near to reachin' the criterion of
Twin, which l takes ii to be tie great
est possible enjyment with the least
possible care.
His Intentions Were Good.
Il fully intinded. so 1 did. when
went out, to cali on q constable friend
of mine, and by the investment of a few
scads which / had picked up, arrange
for that desir'ble result in business, a
quick resurn. But the day it were
bright and balmy, colonel, and 1 felt
the fever on me. / thought how the
boys would be gathered in the old
freight cars on the sid.ngs. and how
good it would be to talk over old days
round the fire at night. while the can
was a-passin' from hand to hand, and
the pertaters was poppin' in the Goals.
AFTER all. there was plinty of time to
take up the broom and the tins when
the frost began to bite and the snow to
fly; WHY shouldn't l stroll into the in
terror OF the state. where / was we'll
known and RESPECTED by all the aleet OF
the fraternity?
so, colonel, 1 struck the tow path,
and mosied along as free from care as
a babe in the wood, until l came to a
county town, where, if ! says it myself,
there was no snap in the cooler that the
sheriff wouldn't give me.
The fust man l met, colonel, was a
United States deputy named Filkins
who pinched me onct for breakin' the
sales ON a mail car. 'Hulio, Shorty
says he, where We bound; up on the hill
with "a vag commitment in your
clothes?
Nope says L: I've been takin' a
constitootinal; and whin I've laid by a
winters supply of fresh air, I've a par
tic'lar engagement at the odder end of
the towpath.'
It's dry, walkin'. 1 s'pose?' says he,
tippin' me the odd wink; and in
anudder instint we was down in a cellar
with two high ones between us.
We'll, after passin' commits on the
Dutch war and the raperacity of trusts
toward visited int'rests, and such like
populous topics, Filkins, he says to me,
Say, Shorty. as expert, now, 'twould
it be hard job to break out of that
county jail of ours?'
Git down to inderviddle case
says l; fore, so far as I have been
consumed I've allus been
so blamed anx'us to git in, I never
gave no thought to breakin' out. And
then he told me, colonel, as how at the
recent tarm of the deestrict. coort.
there'd been a rich young Teller tried
for raisin, hob-nob with the books of a
bank he was president of. and how,
arter gittin' seven year, he was waitin'
up in the county cooler until his lyars
could argy a stay of perceedin's. 'Av
says he in conclusings, I've no
license to interfere, in the matter, ex-
cept my material sympaty for his wife.
which is as high-sperretted a young
woman as you ever see, who would
cough up the last cold PUNK rather
than see her hubby made a monkey of
N the stripes Mabbe he was fruitful
colonel. in attributin' his int'rest to his
feelings.
Decided to GO to Jail.
You'd better alter your mind,
Shorty says Fiikins arter little, and
make the sheriff about t'irty days visit
You knows says ne, how much he
thinks CT you; why, you'll have the
run of the place. and the fust pick of
the grub, and nothin' to do but to keep
4 sharp eye around so that the night
He'll make you head mailman, all right.
all right And do you know, colonel, as
ne talked. the old days came back to !
me- and / remembered how warm and l
:ozy I'd been in the head hallman's |
,ell there, with all the privileges and |
lone of the responsibilities of a keeper.
lavin' the freedom OF the yard be day, |
md the freedom of the kitching be |
hight, and says says 1. I think l viii. |
AXE anudder bit up there. jest for luck, |
,eein lis you; no doubt, my old friend l
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