The Washington weekly post., 1900-04-17

..Tere IS just one bet where you can
I'D, r-s~ whole roll and play Il Omen"
-~.-srt the Old crook, and that Is that
.r.~-Ea.I-G Ch.namau IS a bad man.
J5rv- Fay enough. There is only one
.-.-- srr-t 0f mob violence. that induces
rr.r.m-n 90 part with mis- wlg-waE.
.--st .s when De gels caught up and shaw
- f- tHr pen. So yoJ can bank high on
that slort-haired Chink has done
.-a When that happens. they show up
.ts mission joint ana say they have ex-
-.,sacad d change OF heart. and then
-rsr s.srd tie rest OF their days singing
v..ly and Sankey hymns and coming
ne .ly pilots.
That leads up 20 what / was Just say
s-g about murder coming out. Maybe It
lTrs and maybe it don't. There's one
,t.-g sure. if takes a way-up good man
o.. MAKE a Play Of that sort and get away
v-F L.. and one 5f The few cases I've met
f- the course Of long and generally-con-
.a5sd-to-haye-b.en iIl-spent life was that
"a ehoTr haired Chinaman.
he Vss running a Mott street laundry
and leading a Unitarian Sunday-schooI
class when I mot him, and he helped me
,rava.y a.gg consignment OF old Satsuma
ware ..d Iewelcd antiques from the home
fsta. E.laE la5y who was just initiating
nm MO class IN higher criticism. IL
rs 90, been often | have handled easily
tr.a..r.e goods of that sort, but this was
o. easy / could not resist the risk. How
ever nat don't bear on the subject.
"Th., Ch.Ek had made up hts mind he
was going % do for a cove who had gold
I-ck,d him on a gambling house deal.
te.l y0u. rs pretty mean sort of a Grim
irsl Who will thrown down a fellow-crook.
and this guy had put Ii over Moy Sing
good and plenty, so i didn't have much
sympathy with him. lie was the most
csltemaniy sort Of a crook. had been in
The business for years, and the police had
never got close enough TO him TO levy
lackmsil. He was a member Of the same
church with Moy. and they used 10 meet
30 A social way about once in so often.
tt5ugh there was never any great show
Q! intimacy between them.
LaHded the Cigar Holder.
This was about as :he Chink would
have Il, because it was close enough TO
pgt him next 10 all of this guys curves
and not near enough to bring him under
suspicion in case there was any hitch in
Dis plans. He told me about it after
ward. This mark of Mcy's was a pretty
fashionable proposition and very choice
at0u, his cigars He never drank, but
be vas a hard smoker, and he always had
4 very nifty-lOOhng meerschaum and am
Der holder that he carried in a case in
bis vest pocket.
"One night they were invited to some
slrt OF an ethical gathering with a whole
lt Of very good people they knew, and
vhO thought they knew them, but didn't
]. was a case of talk first and feed after
7sri, and then a general symposium on
Tie sins of your neighbOrs, and amt you
g1i yours are different? 1t was a very
lshi0nable house where il was held,
gike-tails for the men and tenderloin
b0dicts for the females, and there was
a returned -from-India guy to give a spiel
in the parlor on the crying need for pep
touized milk in the founding asylums OF
Southern Burmah.
'M0y laid for his man when he first
came In, PISSED the time o. night with
him very pleasantly. and touched him for
his cigar holder. knowing il was in his
vest pocket, and being deft at larcenies
Of that brand. Then Moy takes a turn
out in the conservatory and does things
TO he cigar holder. He never would tell
ne just what il was he used, but 1t was
something he brought from Canton with
him to be used in case of emergency. 1t
vas all as deadly as prussic acid and
little or no smell or taste to 1t. He had
sense enough not TO use anything that he
had 10 buy at a drug store, so that If
there ever was any question of poisoning
IN The case the police or the newspapers
needn't stumble across his trail right the
nrst crack out of the box.
We'll. he dosed the mouthpiece of the
cigar holder as l say. and then returned
il the same way he got it. so Mr.. Man
never knew it had been missing. The
FeS Was plumb automatic.
After the feed was over the men all
adj1urns to the library for a smoke,
and the first thing MOy's friend does is to
stick Z II cents worth of Cuban insur-
rec,i0n into his amber holder and begin
70 enjoy himself.
A few minutes later I guess he found
out Just how the Recording Angel regard
el that transaction of his with Moy about
lle gambling Joint. OF course. there was
.
tli there was "A brace Of doctors in the
punch and they looked him over and gave
me coroner 2 certificate of death from
heart failure right away quick, which was
PERFECTLY correct, according to my no.
ions. as ! never heard of anybody dying
H9m anything else"
Cigar Which Was Deadly.
Well, how about Moy's hair If they
aln't get next on the deal?" inquired the
Safe Expert.
Oh, that happened long before this
Replied the Old Crook. "It was just lit
je thing about a fiatiron and a mug that
u.ei Co rough house MOy's laundry Moy
only Iur him in the hospital for about six
maAihs. when he ought by rights 10 have
Killed him"
NgarS are pretty deadly things" re-
marked The Gentleman from Arizona, who
was Eas. on a trip for his health. That
l-.heNe pipe dream OF yours puts me in
l". oi something that really happened
-'"h IN NY section. pointing the same
.''''a- which is that Shakespeare was
wrong in his views about murder
.-'N'-y having only a limited acqua!nt-
az among low order OF crooks.
! "aa friend down In Catalina COun-
""' was working in a new stamp mill
.-+3 mad just put up east OF Tucson. I
..''i ali rightly understand the start of
-' ieu1, but he had II with the local
.-Isi'hl,ndrnt good and strong. Strikes
r " remember right, there was a
-t.'er Of % section boss on the S. p.
l'.A'+ up in b. but that don't matter
1.azi.rs was this chaps name, and the
tr''.'raH'ni name was Heaton. Con
-''' A.IH know a whole lot about min
s 0-, they hired him principally be-
"r could talk Spanish, and put hiIc
'.afE" OF the store, where he had 10
rl'l.f all thc stun for 300 Greasers and
'll.s'e- alI Chinks.
mere was the girl at the bottom of it
seem 20 Tocouect, and then Hearon
-s"l him up pretty sharp for doing a
I Nl" line business in time chez KS
'.- '-" MrNlcdns on the works. Anv-
''"zaic5 makes up his mind that
~.'A Is TOD good FOR this world and
I.r-'s {" help him 10 a change OF venue
.' D Dren IKE most Mexicans he'd have
- ,' SHOOTING and cutting right of the
"a. 1-l 90. aas more Than average crafty.
''-. Ae apn is 10 get months leave
-."n 10 AlJar. across the line where
=, "asH. kIawn, and learn cigar-makiug
~-'.ls hls hohday.
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