The sun., 1903-11-20
EASY WILLIE OF SANDY MUSH.
JUST TICkLED TO DEATH WITH
FREE BOARD IN NEW YORK.
Happy People, He says-An Laugh When I
Meet 'Em-Puts Up at the House OF De
tention-Csme Here With el5S Sweet
Potato Money to Buy Green Goods.

Meet 'Em-Puts Up at the House OF DE.
tention-Csme Here With elsS Sweet
Potato Money to Buy Green Goods.
Willie Robinson. who Is listed as farmer
In the business directory Of Sandy Mush,
Buncombe county. N. c., has been en-
joying the hospitality OF this municipality
since Nov. ., Is making money at rate Of
half dollar a day and expresses the
opinion that this town is the finest he ever
did see. He hasn't seen very much of
the town yet. but his boarding place. the
House Of Detention, pleases him immensely
Mr.. Robinson has been there most Of the
time since he landed in New York one
evening about three weeks ago. The sweet
potato business had been so pros porous
that he had accumulated Sl76. and began
to look about him to find good safe in
vestment About the same time there
came to Sandy Mush letter explaining a
new currency scheme by which small bills
could be exchanged for those Of higher de-
nomination with the least possible exertion.
A New Yorker was running the philan.
thropic scheme and it interested Mr.. ROB-
inson so much that he packed up his grip,
slowed the SITS in 1t and started
The philanthropists met him at the
Twenty third street ferry and took to
him Immediately. They had relatives in
Sandy Mush. Mr.. Robinson soon learned,
and one of them Hospitality invited him to
come home and talk 1t all over. While
they we're walking toward 248 West Twenty
first street one OF them kept singing a song
with words that went something. like this:
Are there any more at home like your
and the other new found friend explained
that 1t was a new comic song that made
him laugh every time that he heard It.
At the Twenty-6rst street house Willie
upon which he had banked 90 much was
nothing but a snare and delus ION.
We're detectives announced one Of
the philanthroplste, @and we know all
about what you came here for. You in
tended to o. get counterfeit money .hy and then men
rendering yourself liable to imprisonment.
IN not 80 sure that you haven't some Of it
already. Wen see.
One Of Willie's companions held him
while % the & other extracted tn, ths sia6 ITS ,.
said the man who had the roll. and In the
meantime here's SO for you in case anything
happens. Now you just wait right here
and We'll 60 out and see il We can't fix
iall,r it. all right for you SO there won't ee any
Willie waited. The men didn't come
back and the more Willie thought It over
the more convinced he became that they
wouldn't come back, 80 he told the West
Twentieth street police all about it. They
arrested two men who said they were
Frederick G. Wilson and Edward Williams.
and Willie said they were the right men:
In due course OF time they were indicted
and Willie was sent to the House OF De-
tention
Since he has been there the District
Attorneys Office has learned that an effort
was being made to raise Willie's 500 bail
and allow him to 60 back home, Willie
Is wanted US a witness against the two
prisoners. 80 yesterday Assistant District
Attorney Miner made sure that Willie would
stay little longer by having his bail raised
to 81, ,O0O Incidentally he had Willie taken
to the Criminal Courts Building and had a
talk with him.
How do you Like New York; Willie
was asked.
Beats ess Sandy in Mush e' ali III out. Must be
tol'rable rich town, seems to me. Town
puts me up in fine comrtable hotel. per-
vides free food an vittles, pays my oarfare
and sends one OF tn hands out with me
e zee tn sights and never charges me a
cent.
AN besides tn town gives me Any
make in Sandy Mush Is Si5 month. I
doan want teh 60 homo at all: yeh CAN'T
make money that easy in Sandy Mush.
An say, people in this here town is suttenly
happy Every time / tell EN- who am
and where come from they laugh, Seems
kinder good Z be sroun' where every
body's SO happy .
longer. His new found friends are to be
put on trial in few days. Willie says
that he's IS wears old and that his name
is not William, but just Willie.