Arizona republican., 1899-05-17
GETTING HURT HIS PROFESSION.
4 Tr.ck5ter's Clever Scheme for Work
 ing the Ralil-cad5 Discovered.

Serving a term fer vagrancy in the i house Cf C-rreGtiCn is a man Wno Is
 likely to have a lively time of i1 when ! he Ccmes out again, a. the representa- tives of some fifty street railways ara anxious to have him put away where i he c.n do no more harm fir some time to ccna and will make every ef- 1 fc.t to that end. lie is said to be one ! Of the sharpast of the trick5ters who are always trying to set ahead of the l rai.rcad and railway companies, and. so far as is known, his method Of op- erai4l-n is unique, and has probably reats5 him a handsome income for come years.
 Probably his fI.zt experience in tho 1 immediate Vicinity of Boston was about two months ago, whisn he board ed q car on the Quincy 6 BCsJon rail- road. He rcde some little distance, and then attamr-sd to get off, but U-hcn he did 50 the corner rail, by which messengers hold fa descending from the car, came off, in his hand. and he fell heavily. He was picked up in Gn inSensible cEp1dition and car ried to the offices of the company in Quincy, where he recovered conscious ness, but was fer some little time ap- par.auty out of his head. He finally recovered, and the claim agent cf the company at once called upon him tH make a eiJItlemenE of damages. The claim was at length adjusted for s2S. which the company gladly r3id. as it was apparently a case Of direct lia.bil- ity Cn Cheir part, and the cost of talk ing tlfe mater irl1-t court would have been much larger.
 a o1z 7o1O Efp VTt-.o1rc- Oc ft0 Quincy 6, Boston received l letter fe2m the manager of tha Birmingham o11eelt railway, asking about the acci- eieTJt, ard stating that enc had Oc- cured on their road, which, Cl con- partscn, was found to have been ex- &Ctly similar.
 Then all the roads near Boston were communicated with, and it was found that on a large propcTtiCn of them 2 man had recently been injured by the pulling out of the corner rail when he was getting off the car. The repre- sentative of the Birmingham company lad the man arrested, and on visiting his room the police f3Ilnd a pair of pliers wound with rope, so that it could be CcrIiCEi in tl-e sleeve without slip ping; a wrench a screw driver and other tG.ol5 all bearing evidences of having been used in brass Wl-l-h. When the man was brought into court there were present representatives of about twenty si.-eet railways in the vicinity Of Boston, each of whom recognized the man as the victim of an accident" cn his line, dUo to The pulling out of the corner rail, but Gs tEeTa had been no iti1me to prepare evidence against him he was c0nmiltsl on the charge of vagrancy.
 His method Of operation was appar- epuy ti0 beard car, preferably CT some suburban line, stand on the plat form Ul1LiI the conductor entered the car when he would unfasten the screws CT nuts holding the corner rail in place and soru after stop tta cdr and Go his littla character skcilch Of falling off and tecondDg unconsctous, and af;sTward delirious. He always compromised for a comparatively small amount. thus preventing his name from being broughE before the public in count, and to make things dIubly sure always gave a different rama Cn every read. In this way he vas able dC' victimize roads only a short distance apart, and. in fact, on the day of the arrest he had success fully performed another accident" on a road in the same town.-B0stca Transcript