The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-22

but then he smiled and added that it
was all right and did not make any
| difference. He was the chserfulest man
you ever saw
I'VE jumped for Memphis. and there
he ran right into the arms Of the Off
| GERS and when / found out the reason
1 was glad of it. When my father found
| that the windmill proposition which
| VorouSky had sprung on him was
fake, he determined to punish Vorousky
for it, and my fathers a pretty cute old
imam, I can tell you. He managed to.
get our route and he had everything
ready for Vorousky at Memphis
| when I found out what he had done
l was mad. and Istold him if he didn't
send that money right back to father
would quit him cold. Well, he sent it
and my father relented and got him out
of Jail. But about this time the St.
7 OuiS ticket broker was on the trail,
and at a little town in Kentucky the
prince was arrested This time. how
ever, Verousky was smooth enough to
get away. He seemed so indignant at
being arrested and was so eloquent that
he convinced the police they had the
wrong man, and they let him go.
/ Our next stop was at Cincinnati.
Here he sprung on the brewers a great
underground method of transporting
beer about the city and they bit like
trout. He got several large sums out
of them and stayed right on and
worked them for more. He wined and
dined these brewers and took them to
box parties and in turn We were en-
tertained royalty by them.
It will say, however, that Vorous1y
was verv liberal with me and the boy,
and. in fact. with everybody He was
what they call "a good spender, and he
knew how to get the stuff to- spend 1t
was pretty hard, though, to keep track
of our new names that he would give
us, in going from place to place. My
little Frank, though. could remember
perfectly. and I used often to ask him
( know
the boy never made a mistake even
once. oh, l forgot to tell you that
while we were at Cincinnati we were at
a swell private dinner to which VO-
rousky got us invited somehow. and
there we met the governor of Ohio, and
before the evening was over Vorousky
had got his check for $500 on some
proposition or other.
| But to get back to the brewers. he
trimmed them up for about $1,000. Then
he got tin that they were after him.
and we all had to get into different
clothes and hurry out of there He
went as preacher and he logged
Frank and me out to suit I wore a
heavy veil and all of US were in black.
as if in. deep mourning. While we were
getting out of Ohio officers in search
of us passed right through the car. but
VoroUsky was such a good actor he
was not SUSPECTED.
CHAPTER VI.
'Vorousky now concluded he had
better get out of the United States so
we went straight through to Montreal.
Here he actually o3ened an Office and
passsrI himself off as promoter of a dig
steamship line scheme and got hun
dreds of people of ordinary means 10
put up mercy with him for stock.
After awhile. when he had accumli
lated several thousand dollars this way,
some of his dupes became SUSPICIOUS
and had him arrested, charging him
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
For two months he was in jail.
while The bow and lived in fine stvle
at really magnificent hotel But we
had to give everything up, as the law
yers took all his money and he even
got me to sell my diamonds to help him
get out. His lawyers finally advised
him to plead guilty and 1 sent back to
my father. who had moved to Chicago,
to send me enough money to pay my
fare there and 1 went home and left
But that man was a wonder. He
refused to plead guilty and dismissed
his lawyers and took charge of his own
case. They say there never was any
thing like it ever seen before. He
cross examined witnesses so shrewdly
that he overthrow. every point they
tried to make and was finally acquitted
because the prosecution had not made
out case.
After this he made another touch
somewhere, as he called it, and went to
Chicago and begged me so hard to come
with him again and I hadn't the heart
to refuse him This time we went to
Washington and there he got three well
known senators into a deal on which he
realized $4,000. We stayed there quite a
while. He said he didn't have to hurry,
as the senators couldn't squeal, and we
lived high. can tell you. He cleaned uI
more in Washington than anywhere else
and when he about 5000 ahead we
went to New York and he got ready to
take US all over to the old country-tc
Switzerland, where he said his folks lived
We'll, he got our passage paid and ouI
ba gage on board the Kaiser Wilhelm
and we went aboard, too, but right there
little Frank, who had been as obedent as
lamb all before that, set up such a how
and actually seemed so near going into
spasms that had to give up the trip.
CHAPTER VII.
| "Vorousky went on, but he gave me
money enough to get little Frank and me
back to Chicago 1 heard from him now
and at last l got the news that he made
a bad break at Berne, Switzerland. 1t was
for turning some very small trick, 1 I'M
derstand, but before he could get out OF
it the authorities of Naples took him fol
some big swfndle.
''On the way to Naples he bribed the Of
f1cers to allow him to write a letter
In this he begged hard for me to send hin
a letter certifying that he had always
, been a good husband and he wanted mt
, to get my faith to write in his behalf
saying that, unless something was done
for him soon, he would be sent up fol
well, I thought I'd better drop hin
entirely, so I didn't answer his letter, and