Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-01-04
AS DUGGAN EXPLAINS
llIERoSYMUs DUGGAN laid off five

| his WAY 10 the hOikb lutlE was q AbbAA VI AZ
face which should have warned bus trends
to be careful how they engaged him IN con
yersation. Evidently the tlmekeeper dc
not observe the warning signs, for he greet
ed Duggan with: well, when did you gei
your starr
When Duggan had washed his hands and
was putting on his overalls he said to his
helper, who had maintained a discreet 81
lence: Il been wantin' to take crack al
that guinea ever sense he took two swallys
out O. the onK bottle we had at Red Lally
wake | feel Better now"
"What was that he sprung on We just
now?" 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 We make the spiel, honest?'
asked the helper, anxiously, keeping the
boiler between himself and Duggan.
| Male yer neck, growled Duggan.
Would | be here, haven pickle nose
Sob like you holdin hot riyets for me if !
got away with the goods? Wouldn't be
up in Connoly's with the gang, or giyin'
J Shannalan's growler a hot box, if the
/ goods was like the sample? You talk like
| man with a whole mushroom in his
mout'."
80 the stuff's all off, is it," asked the
| helper
Il 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 of my label-that's what they
done
"Why, say" he went on, 81 was lob
sterina from Granville, right from the jump,
but had that swelled head and didn't know
it. / know better now. Say, beau, been
up against a good many hot propositions,
but that joint down At the -Four Courts was
500 in the shade an shown up the top Of
the glass every minute.
4 thought | knowed what | was goin'
against, but / found out | was craps from
the time they started to shake the bones.
You know, Skinny Hoolau told me | was a
white-headed boy amy time / wanted TO be
a copper, ever sence that time ! made
rough house at the primaries an give him
200 majority agin' Schwartz So when this
graft came up / gets my application an
Hoolan has it fixed up for me an ehases me
down to the joint. There's about 10 .000. 600
other gayzabos down there Iookin for the
same graft, an | says 20 myself, holy eripes,
if all them ducks voted the democratic ticket
the last time, they must be about s.. 600 600
republicans in town, or we'd carried the
city with nothin' to it. Ye see, figgered 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, / thought had cinch on the
job. | was hggerin' in my big thick head
what beat | wanted to walk. | was goin
to pick out the beat near the Lafayette
brewery. II was so near einch I'd be
fixed up in about ten minutes that | told
Cocley Doyle, when he asst me out to have
a seuttle O. suds with him, I'd be out before
the barboy could draw mine. An, say,
missed out on that scuttle o suds An
| missed out on a good big jaegerina foi
myself, too, cause Doyle got paid that day,
an what large juicy time aim an me
could a had with that growler Of Shanna.
hans if | only knowed what do now.
"Say, dye know whaty Them p'lice com.
nissioners KEEP me there from Monday till
yesterday before they gimme a chanst to
show 'em what | knowed. They had
regular school there What dye think
O. that?"
How 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. | COPIED one out Of a guys /
pocket with white hair, when he wasn't 1
lookin', an what dye think it wasy Looked 1
like page out O. the directory. thrun il |
in a spittoon.
They was a lot O. guineas in the school \
behind the railin'. The guinea in the mid, 1
die he was a purity guy, with curly hair. 4
Say, he'd be a wonder with the dolls up in 4
Social Turner hall-he'd cop every lady in f..
the bunch-he was a peach. Him an me .
nearly tangled up at the first 60 off, Soon
as our bunch got in some little canary with 4
out no hair on his head hollers out Doc.
gan! an | waltzes up. | 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
house! Just like that. ! says: 'WhyP \
says, i amt been there since last Novem
ber,' | says. You know that says. You
know Butler got me out
+'ANAA WHY EAAAN "a A0ht iitN ANG NA-Nd
an | knowed I'd made a sucker play. liz
was on'y astin' me to see il / knowcd, see
Then | got onto his graft, an | knowed
he wanted to find out how wise was about
the burg, an ! give him plenty rope,
femme tell ye. ] guess he though; he tan
gIed me up, but, say, before he got done
with Hieronymus he had to ast me his
way home
What questions did he asst youy" in.
quired the helper.
Why, I'd be ashamed to asst six.year-old
KID, said Duggan. "He asst me where's
the arsenal. an wien tod him on Arsenal
street he nearly broke his suspenders.
Didn't think was on, see? Then he saws.
Where's the Morgan clubg an | saws:
Now ! got you SAYS. You mean the :
Chelsea club in St. Btidget's parish. when
Johnny Morgan use to be president. That.
N the hog senst Father Walsh give it the
He didn't say nothin', an then be as, !
ne where's Blair monument | knowed /
hat was a catch, an | says: Where al i I
he buried, an I'LL tell YOU where It's AZ Z