The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-29
FOUND LONG GREEN
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Big Wallet Was Full of Bio
Bills.
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But ALL WERE BOGUS
AND SHORTY LOST A NEW
YEARS NEAL.
A Trusty's Holiday Vacation and
What Came of It-Came Across a
Well-flled Pocketbook Dropped
By Two Counterfeiter Pals-Gave
Comrades a Swell Dinner.
Chicago Inter OCEAN,

Chicago Inter OceaD1
well. Shorty" said the deputy war
den, as he and the head mailman were
sorting the washing which had lust
come up from the prison laundry. "vou
go out this morning, but 1 hope You'll
be back tomorrow for your New Years
dinner. It's going to be a good one
a big tin Of oyster soup, a half a chick
en-, two oranges, two apples and a
shovel full of nuts and raisins for every
man JAG. Now, what do YOU think
of that?"
I'll be up on the first load. sir" an
swered Shorty, thoughtfully assigning
/ an unmatched pair of underclothes to
a dago on the top tier
Il don't quite see how you're going to
do ii, the deputy went on. won know
the old man will lock you up if YOU
/ come in grOggy''-
''Niver fear, sir; this won't be no
drunk and disorderly this time" ex~
piained Shorty. BY walking to s.
l can vag myself t'roo a constable frind
who's glad enough, so he is, to git the
twinty shillins fer brfngin' me in. III
be ON hand all right fer de grub, and
without drop in me skim
Very well then, Shorty" said the
deputy with a glance toward some
mysterious dark blue fabrics .swe'U LET
the sheets go until day after tomor-
Being man of standing in the pris-
on shorty did not march out with the
me CT discharged men, but after
haughtily viewing the disheveled ranks
and bestowing some caustic advice ON
the CiseonsOlats buns who had SO mis-
celcuiate0 their time. he went into the
Ddtn room, once more TO assume the
Sarb Of free born citizen.
SHORTY paused in the office inst long
enough to pass some jOcose remarks
with the clerk, to the effect that he
htedn hotner to get his "valloables"
out OF the safe, and, for matter of that
he might sell them for the binaft of
the naady, so he could" and then he
proceeded llesurely out into the open
+ or rev moments. with that habit so
common discharged convicts he.
hung around outside" gazing critical
~ upon the wall. as if he could teu
something if he chose about its weak
points, and. waving his hand eOnde-
Scendingly to the convalescents. who
being allowed tC take their exercise
up and down the galleries, were peer
ing eagerly through the high windows
Then. with another convict habit equal
~ strong, he crossedeeNer to the Bali
and Chain, the inevitable saloon
winch IS civilizations nearest outpost
to a prison.
Shorty Makes a Find.
Refreshed and lnvigorated. shorty
started on his way to s. A village
about ten miles distant. Shorty reach
ed the village about the middle of the
AFTERNOON and sought Tor his friend the
constable Here disappointment was in
store for him. The man was at ses-
sion OF the United States district court
in an interior city, and might not re-
turn until after the holidays. while the
squire haG taken a vacation and gone
10 town TO recuperate.
SHORTY began to retTace his stems dis
consoIateiy, wondering what he should
90. For the first time in many months
ne mad left the prison penniless. his
latest term having been only ten DAYS
and the local money market unusuailz-
stringent Food and shelter were Of
little account so long as he could hee
more than he needed and sleep like the
dead under a shed or a bank. bur the
remembrance of his pledge to the dep
uty troubled him.
Ihen Shorty recalled how. time be-
lore last when he came out. through a
series of remarkable events he had he
come possessed first of a "rsIe d.
mond, and then of the money result
iHs from It's pawninS; and how. in an /
excess or good resolutions, he paid over
the same to Con O'Reilly. keeper of a /
sailors boarding house. with the I'm /
outstanding that such payment in ad- /
vance would enable him to eat drink /
anu De merry for the winter: but Con /
'ao IuIniled his trust 0y first getting /
drrrr1 I -
pull 10 have him sent up for sixty dave
the same being in full acquittance If 4
all sums received. SO, now. il seemed !
20 Snorty that o Reilly, for the sake of .
ms old time, might be willing to helm
him in his distress
1t was dark when Shorty reached the
,lty and was proceeding down street
lned with warehouses to the alley ,
Nhere Con OReilly's free and easv;'
as situated This street was deserted
ind gloomy for business had closed .
AIRY ana the electric lights had not
yet flashed up As he approached a cor
her there was the first faint patter Of
'apld steps. and then two men came
'Wlnglng around at great pace. and
'Wept by and out OF sight i'm an in
slant. -
Crooks" muttered Shorty. from
laVin their gneaks on. and the wav
aey looked back. Well, I hopes they
lit away"
evidently this wish was a potent one.
or there was no sign of pursuit So
n sauntered Shorty. his HANDS in mis-
)ckets. hia stubby form bobbiny from
&c 10 side. whistling as he went. He
r3s'5sd the walk. over which the TWO
zen had dashed, and Just then the
ig1t on the corner fickered and gIared.
-9rty looked down, stopped short.
ace a sudden SWOop, and u1en thrust
NO MS Jumper fat wallet. which mad
ain on the Tagging.
Surprise For Con o'RsilIy.