The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-02
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night to find their jewel casket strip
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1.-THE man of the house, against the
protests of his wife, stood for having
the effects of all of the servants search
ed and the stuff was all found in the
trunk of this English governess. She
wasn't good at the game or she would
have had an outside man or woman to
take the pinched stuff and lam with it.
1.-The girl did a groveling, rolling on
the-foor act that beat everything of
the kind l ever saw when she was
trapped with the merchandise and she
got away with it. She gave the couple
the kleptomaniac ballad and waltz, and
she had it tuned up so well that it sped
her right along to an easy finish. Her
employers wouldn't stand for having
her prosecuted.
THE girl went from New York to
Rollins, Wyo., where shed obtained,
through correspondence, another berth
as governess for the young ones of .
wealthy cattle man. She swung along
all right out there and had half the
cowboys of Wyoming bear s-greasing
their locks to make up to her, until
one day she got a hankering for a
nice-looking wallet containing $1,000
currency that she saw lying around.
"She annexed the roll, and the ranch
man and his wife would have as soon
accused reach other of collaring the
wallet as TO We put it up to the new
governesS. The CgoVerness was mean
enough to tell them that she'd seen the
Chink cook snooping in the upper part
of the house before the disappearance
| of the wallet was discovered, and the
slant-eye was the one fenced in.
"One of the police officers on this
| case properly doped it out that the
Chinaman actually hadn't had any,
| tking to do with the disappearance of
| the leatheri and ne figured, moreover,
4 that the g6verness had been a little
bit too voldbfe fn describing the move
ments of the Chinan1an on the day the
wallet, turned up missing, So when,
about a month after the robbery, she
| got a weeks furlough and went down
to Cheyenne he dropped down there,
| too. r
He. had his mitt on her shoulder
before she'd been In Cheyenne an
hour. He nailed her spending the
money right out of the missing wallet.
He took her back to the Rollins
ranch, and she fiipped the flap again
and flooded the rug with tears over her
kleptomania misfortune. The stunt was
SO good that again she walked away
with it. - 49,
THE ranchman and his wife fell to
her dodge and sympathized with her
and told her to join the Don't Worry
Club, and then the ranchman passed
her out the price of the ride back to
England Instead of that she went
to Frisco and took to kiting nixy
checks, and now she's wearing a bur-
lap suit and clipped hair in San Quen-
tin.
Interior decorators who emplov
many high-grade .workmen for fine
jobs in swell houses are always ex-
ceedingly careful to run down the rec
ords of men who apply to them for
employment, but for all that one of
them slips in once in a while who isn't
looking for wages, no matter how
high, but loot.
There's middle-aged English wall
draper now serving the last year of
his bit in Jackson Prison, Michigan,
who according to the latest figures.
will be about 317 years of age before
he gets out of the hands of the boys
who'll land at prison gates with pa
pers every time he's turned loose.
"As a jewel CRATER this stolid Brit
ish paster of pea-green silk and such
on swell walls was double width and
all there. He was working in the home
of one of the richest lawyers in New
York in '9S when the lawyers wife's
jewel safe was touched for most Of
its sparkling contents. and when we
brought him down to the Office as the
most likely one Of the lot we ques-
toned, he was frothing so at the
mouth with rage that / thought II was
going to be epilepsy for his.
1--WE didn't curl up any over that
but we couldn't seem to get him right
no matter how hard we tried-he'd
undoubtedly passed the stuff to his
outside pal-and we had to turn him
loose. although all. of us felt morally
certain that he was It.
"Only a year later he got landed
with the goods on while doing some
Withdrawing in the home OF a rich
Detroit 1umbernan, and when he was
tossed up to the Jackson pen the pa
pers from other cities-Philadelphia
Baltimore. Cleveland, Chicago, ali
around-began to litter up the Jackson
warden's office sos he had to pick out
another con-. clerk to attend to 'em.
"The wall-draper had grabbed out
jewelry while working at his trade In
all of the places. but IL wasn't until
he made Detroit that they went
through him before he'd had chance
to chuck his loot to his chum on the
outside " .I