The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-05-25
NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES

looked at it just once spat on it and re-
marked: ) IL +. IL.
I" 'Nothin' dom in the rock candy line
Just now. Stop your kiddin''
saThe crook who hadn't collared the pin
looked tremendously surprised and the
crook who had collared the pin simulated
tremendous surprise.
:" DO you fellers mean to tell me that
you don't know this is phoney?" said
the fence, holding up the pin
well, sure enough, the pin was bogus
Just fairly-sawed Brazil brilliants Tha
crook who hadn't swiped the pin looked
disappointed and gloomy and said that
his eyesight must be failing-that he'd
xuasT been twisted before in ptping Off
tile proper sort of rocks. The other crook
cnimed In: and remarked that he'd never
felt 50 cheap in his life. Then the two
| spark-grafters separated. .....
THE one who'd collared the pin, and
who had it in his kick all the time, took X
to another fence and got $l5OO for it with
out airy hitch. You see, he'd had a
bogus of the genuine pin made and the
bogus was the one he run in on the first
| fence when he. went there with his pal.
The pal got next after somewhat long
period OF thoughtfulness. When he found
out that his suspicious were correct he
chased after his ingenious pardner and
angrily demanded his bit. All ne got fer
his was tile mirthful boot, and that part
nership was dissolved. The crook who
had thus been done by his pal passed the
word around about it among his frien.ls
In the profession. They handed him the
| chortle, and the other crook was looked
upon by all of them as the real hing Cor
his foxIness.
You take a bunch of leather ~ orkcr.;--
the kind that go through crowds at
circus, or in fair grounds, or In a grand
stand when a big parade's going "n-aa,d
you'n find that they watch each other
Ike hawks that they're always Suspicious
q each other. and that they're always
quaTreEing 1Mong themselves. The wise
guy Of push OF leather workers is the
fellow to whom the pocketbook is pas sed
by the dip who nails it. j Hes geS1eT ally
the head chief Of the gang. but he's al
ways under suspicion. TIE rest of the
crowd always feel that he skins the ieath-
ers. before they join him, and a:
simple matter of fact, he generally does
"I've known bank sneaks to dunn each
other time and time again. About nine
! turer was standing at the head Of the hne
before the receiving teller's window OF
an old East side oank He was waiting
for the receiving teller who 1ad stepped
back for moment to resume his place
at the window. It was warm ana the
candy manufacturer wanted to mop his
forehead. So he laid his bank hook,
which contained between its leaves u
| 80 ;x,4 1orr =
counter and reached back for his i,and-
kerchief. >.- -"
1.-The sneak standing right back Of him
! called his attention to the fact that he
had dropped bill, and sure enough. when
he looked down the merchant saw the bill
at his feet: He stopped for it, and it
| was then that sneak No. = collared the
handbook resting on the counter and
slipped out with his pal--the one who had
! informed the merchant about that bill
lying on the floor. When they got QUO
they took cars going IN different direc-
tons. -~. 49,.
1.-THE sneak with the dough didn't turn
| up that night at the place he had ap-
pointed to meet his pal, nor the night
after that. Then the other crook got the
| bunch that he'd been ditched by his part
| went right down to headquarters and
made his holler. The other sneak, who
was on the walk ALL night, was collared
on a Union Pacific train somewhere in
Nebraska just two days later with all but
| about $500 of the goods on him. He did
a stretch Of three times the length his
! pal got. "
/ Even the green goods workers of the
| old days used to give each other the
boots whenever they got a chance. Ill
| just mention one case. A two-handed
team Of the green goods statesmen sprung
| "a come-on In Pennsylvania who wanted
| $50, 900 Of the stuff for $1,000 Now, that
was a pretty neat transaction, even In
| ing sold here like so much yellow laundry
soap. RI - .'.s.. .,.--. -.
| "Well, the game was beginning to get q
! bit in the shade then, and the head of
this team was only waiting for a chance
to make a proper yank-down before get
| ting under cover for a while. The come
on turned up all right, tie switch in the
| valises was made as per schedule, the
good thing walked out with his bag of
waste paper, and it was up to the team
| to make the equal divide. they had a
drink or two out of the cabinet bottle
before getting down to business. and the
head guy .of the partnership let his pal
have the Knockout drops in lis liquor.
When the pals light weat out the other
one waltzed away with the come-ons
I good $1,000, damned West, and thus that
| firm was dissolved.''-NewY or TX Sun.