The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-20

| gram dealers. lie wanted 10 DOTTOW
money. He would give his note and
chattel mortgage on his cattle. He
only wanted twenty or thirty thous-
and dollars. Each millionaire invests
| gated, found that he was all right, that
| the cattle were free and clear and
FASTENED to make the loan at the high
est rate of interest. After he had OBJ
tanned three lots from as many mil
lionaires, and had given up three chat
tel mortgages, and after he made
. little round of calls upon the grain
dealers. he said good-hy and went
| back to his cattle ranch. That is
| where he said he was going. Where
| he actually went no one exactly knew
| except, perhaps, one man. That
man was Clancy, Chief of the Police
| Department.
| the millionaires communicated with
| John Billings at his far West address
| He answered each letter with alacrtty
| He stated that he had never been IN
! the town of Lorraine. He had just re-
| turned from grain-buying trip, II was
| true, but all his time had 0een spent
in the city of Chicago eventually
some one secured photograph OF the
| real John Billings. Alas! he was not
the cattle king who had maze d nylhs
| visit to Lorraine. In the mast Oh II
all the only man who maintained ms
composure was the new CHER OF Foe
! lice. He called one day at the ONCE or
the Liberty Bell" This was theIr
I subsequent announcement:
syndicate of Swindlers Swiped'
Clancy Caught Counterfeiter.. Cont1-
d4nce Man and Cattle King.
At this announcement the town was
wild. It swarmed to police headqusr-
ters. But there it found out notnlhs,
Clancy instead. simply notined every
man who had been swindled TO attend
him in person at o'clock on the Iol-
lowing day. There were several OF
these men, and they each OF them We're
invited inside the railing. Then Can
CIV opened up the doors to the clalnor-
:; ing crowd AS soon as quiet was re-
stored, Clancy signaled to an oHlcer
who stood at an inner door lmme-
diately there sauntered INTO thS o sn1
| a. well-dressed man with smooth race.
: At his entrance young Mr.. P. Toler
} Andrews gave vent to an involuntary
: exclamation of surprise.
, whats the matter. Andrews" said
the chief mildly.
Andrews spluttered in his excitement,
"T-t-that's the fellow that did me up
that Tracy fellow from New York"
The chief raised his eyebrows. Are
you surc?" he asked. Andrews was
sure, and so were dozen other men.
The chief waved his hand. The strang-
er jauntily walked back by the way
that he had come.
There was a buzz of conversation. II
ceased when shabby sort Of man, who
seemed little. entered in the custody of
an officer. He bowed nervously to Mr..
James f. Wallace, who glared at him
like a Gagged tiger. He was identified
at once by willing concourse of COM
plainants. He, too. was retired. Two
policemen then appeared, leading be-
tween them a bluff. hearty. powerful
looking man.
This man had no sooner entered
than there was a wild hub-bub.
LET me get at him!" yelled one of
the millionaires wildly. The cattle
king, for it was he, folded his arms.
Come on" he said with twitching
mouth. IT can take care of you
guess"
1t is to be noticed that this was the
first of the three swindlers who had
spoken And when this man spoke,
three men slightly started. One was
young Andrews, one was James F.
Wallace and the third was the mil
lionaire. The cattle king went back.
Now gents" said the chief, "all this
here is just bit OF by-play. Bring IN
that Tracy fellow" he announced. The
Tracy fellow came in. Tracy" said
the chief, you're made up. Undress."
Tracy looked around. "Here?" he
asked uncertainty.
The chief answered him gruffiy. "I'li
save you the trouble he said. He
motioned to two officers, who seized
the well-dressed man, and jerked from
his head a wig. They stripped him of
his fashionable coat, and there stood
before the crowd man who looked
more like a jailbird than anything
| else.
Now you see" said the chief to
Andrews, lust what you run up
against. Take him away for a min
ute, till we see the others again"
The next swindler was brought in.
He, too, was stripped. And this one
looked like--like--. The crowd
stretched forgard and rubbered as be-
fore. John Billings was led in as soon
as the other had retired. His wig
and superfluous flesh were hastily re-
moved-and wonder of all the wonders
he, too. was the self-same man.
He sruiled a smile large enough for
three men. And then the Chief smiled.
And after the Chief smiled he reached
back of him and opened a large safe
From this safe he took out several
large rolls Of bills.
Gentlemen" he began, II started in
to cure this town Of swindlers. Bein'
| around to vaccinate a few to prevent
the spread of the epidemic. Several
of you gentlemen have lost some
money but 1t was for the good OF the
| community. Now I've caught this
three fold jailbirl, gentlemen. and I
made him cough up what he had left.
I've Just about divided IT up in the right
proportions. And now" he added, hold
ing out the bills to the several victims.
Each grasped his own and began TO
count IT, The first TO complete the job
was p Toler Andrews. Why, why,"
he spluttered, I've got It all back"
Mine, too" a dozen voices shouted.
The Chief smiled again.
Gents" he said, you're right. !
| guess. / started In 10 cure this town
OF swindlinR, and by the help Of the
police, and by the help Of the newspa-
! pers, / done A.. But gents" he went
on, that help wouldn't have amounted
| % a row Of pins all by itself. The man
who done the trick h old BOneset
Smith. the slickest detective IN the city
| " New York. and the greatest Eleuth-
/ hound in the world. And that man
Boneeet smith, gents" concluded the
/ sheriff, with "a broad grin, IS none 9TH