The sun., 1902-12-04
HAWKSHAW AT CANFIELDDOOR
STORY THE WILD AND WOOLLY
JACOBS WILL SWEAR TO.

4 Friend OF the Doorkkeeper for $40
Got Him In Twice With His Paint I'd
Face and His WIG Awry-Third Time II
Was Through the window. wayinE Guns
These are great days for the wild and
woolly Jacobs, the cowboy sleuth from
the State Of Washington. who Ia the main
stay Of the District Attorneys case against
Richard Canfield's gambling house. He il
the proudest man who ever showed this
great metropolis what a simple, innocent.
guileless town it Is anyway. He is in
venting DISCUSSES these days faster than
he can wear them. Anybody who has the
great detectives acquaintance Is likely
TO be violently bumped on the street by a
man with green whiskers and a red patch
over his left eye, who upon being rebuked
will snatch of these adornments and cry;
Say. it's only me. Jacobs. You didn't
know me. did yer2'
A great number of different stories have
been told as TO the method followed by
this highly interesting detective in getting
into Canfield's. II has been said, on no
less authority than his own that he was
led into the place by millionaire patron;
on other authority. that he got in as a tool
OF some gamblers who had a grudge
against Garfield: and finally, on the au-
thority of the District Attorney, that
Jacobs got in by virtue Of ten-dollar bill
paid as a fee to the man who introduced
him to Canfeld's doorkeeper.
It is safe to say that the millionaire story
may be discarded. A court of proper
jurisdiction is soon to have an opportunity
Of considering the value Of the testimony
of Mr.. JACOBS under oath. But he WASH t
under oath when he told that millionaire
story.
One who knows pretty much all that
Jacobs told Mr.. jerome about his Garfield
experiences gives this version of the report
which Jacobs will make under oath:
Jacobs told the District Attorney that
he got In with a former faro dealer who
had worked In Canfeld's and who knew
the staff of Farrells place. This dealer
had been involved In some of the bad feeling
that has been enger dered between the
rival gambling clique' In the Tenderloin
and was anxious to get out of town. Like
wise he vas broke. He knew who Jacobs
was and what he was trying to do. He
undertook to get Jacobs past Canfield's
doorkeeper for $40 and did. II may not
seem credible that any nuch looking freak
as Jacobs could get by such censor of
fashion and blue blood as Mr.. Canfeds
doorkeeper-but Jacobs did. He had
stained his face slightly darker than i,s
natural color and wore a grayish wig that
showed his back hair In it's natural color:
had false mustache; pretended TO be a
Javanese planter: and by wayof proving
that he was from Java where they ali speak
Dutch, he talked broken Spanish all the
time. But he got In. He got In as friend
Of the butler in fine house might get
folks were away and there we're no visitors
OF any consequence around.
Now the first time he got in 40 he says
there was no play going on. The house was
as much OF a private residence as 1t was at
II O'Clock Monday night. when Brooks and
Jerome raided il. But he flashed roll that
would have done credit to the fond and
forgiving parent Of an Academy melodrama
II was a Dig wad of green paper with two
fifty-dollar bills wrapped on the outside Of
IL.
-Now. the only way can figure out their
ever letting him in again was that they took
him for a harmlessly freakish good thing
with too much money for his own good II
was absolutely absurd TO believe that any
man OF NJ Jerome's intelligence would
p eDer employ aoybs "an van who Would g., himsei
couldn't be a detective-he had a lovely
and desirable roll and the next time he
came they let him in,haTng hopeful yearn-
ing for the roll
when he got n that time, he says he saw
plares and he lost his stake "a quickly as
ho could and got out again. There is this
much TO bear out his story, too: Jacobs
was followed to Cantields bv second
detective, who says he saw Jacobs go into
the place.
The Individual about whom this account
is told would he worth krowi' about even
hal he never sworn to the evidence on which
TIE Cirtield warrant was graft ted. He
is an urderSi7ed man Of extremely OK
Citahle temperament ard inordinate VANITY
which he never attempts TO conceal He
shav"S about twice a week ard carries H.
q II g under his coat a revolver as big a. a
va ut cannon. He Frequently Affects 2
re wig which Is not held bv those who have
seen it 10 be becoming 10 him. just how
he has over raraced TO make ANYBODY
believe that he was tho sort Of man who
could make himself ircorsnicuous among
mo1 who freGun"t such races as those he
asserts 10 has recer'lv visited il quite be-
rond the understanding of those who GO So
ia as to believe over''ri r 10 saws
Some indication Of his understanding
Of he manners and wavs Of he aristocracv
on whose trail he has recentlv been diver,
ing himself, j. shown bv tho manner Of
his ertranc" into Canfic'd's over the lad1o-
which was thrust THROUGH the window
Of the dnrkor"d parlOr He larded in tho
middl" OF Tn" Moor, waving a run in either
hand and shou'iug hoarscv 10 tho mild
Mr.. Bucklin. who had run into tho parlor
WHOM the crash came.
"Throw up your hands, S'7rd still or
it1' b" the worse for you. Put up your
hands"
Rrckln has n much ovacro~ated Yantec
dra"'l "hon he j. in the midst Of evcite-
mont md he ~a"o T. 'lll swine in his reply
"Hoi Pa~t T., he said in the tone OF mn
anoio-t farr'er cVclaning ovcr the won
de's Of thre" shell game, what the devil
il - oo-1ir' In ho,e9"
"Sh-s-s-h" hissoi Jacobs Don't saw
a word Throw M voIr hands
Thon without WAITING TO soc that Rucblin
did no wNvCi his cur before him and strodc
or' ir'o the hall, struck Hora'ius-nt-,he-
tito ATTITUDE, and exclaimed. This way.
mo-; follow mo
Even tho rolioo"0on who we-e with hirr
End who We're not in nool 20 appreciate
all the humors OF the situation had TO
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