The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-25

N with whom he had happened to do lit- tie trick up the road, or stand for headquarters pinch every twenty min utes or so long as We remained on the staff. We told him. additionally, that he was going to cut out all of the bar neying and throw away his little list of producers that he had the edge on, or that inside of a week there'd be an all- around headquarters frame-up to hand car him up to that plant where he h>1 on several previous occasions sported stencilled number on his back.
 He was old lag enough 70 know what headquarters frame-up meant, and he went to quaking at the promise of that kind of a deal. He chucked the barneying and went back to his graft he was a moll-buzzer. 4 month later he was snagged while trying to lift woman's duff Heather in a department store.
 That's about the only way we can nab barneys-get wise to them, stalk them. and then corral them crimson mitted. The trouble is that We haven't got much time for that sort of thing, and so the barneys hardly have to take our game into consideration at all.
 'The barieys butt into sunken rocks of another kinf once in while, thoughs at that. There was one of them, an old time con man, who made a bad spring time day of it couple of years ago.
 "One of his producers. whom he had been tapping for years for good money, had, after his release from Auburn for juvenile bad-check transaction, worked sis way up to the position of manager of big wholesale china and cut-glass establishment. He stood for the heavy and constantly hunched digs of the bar iney until the time whirled around for him to get married to nice Brooklyn Igirl, and then he made up his mind that lwith domestic surroundings and con- ditions, he was going to need the money that he was dishing out to barney.
 'So one day he told the proprietor of his store that he wanted to have talk with him after business hours, and, working his nerve up to tension, he came right out flat and told the boss lthat he'd once been Jagged and nar- rated the circumstances of the case. Then he told his employer how the bar ney had been preying upon him for Iyears.
 "'Hes got two knives hanging over me- the young man told his boss. You're one of them, the other is the girl want to marry. I want to know how I stand with you before tell him to do the worst he knows
 This young man was in lusk, for his employers smile broadened as the story G,.s1 ,a1 he said:
 You'd have saved a lot of money if lyou unreeled your story to me years ago. I'm an ex-Iag myself-they had me in Joliet for more than a year for larson, and I was only released after it had been conclusively proved by my friends that I hadn't burned up my Chicago store for the insurance.
 "I'm your friend and I'll help, you to get shut of this dog. The next thing you want to do is to tell the young woman you're going to marry, as well as her father, just what you've told Ime, and if the girl is worth marrying and the old man worth having for father-in-law, they're not going to hold it against you. Put on your hat right now and I'll go along with you
 And that's just what they did iwent to Brooklyn together, the em- lployer who had had his little hard dose himself and the employee who was still taking his bitter medicine. The young man told the girl, and she gave him hug and asked himif he thought such a thing would ever make any differ fence to woman who honest-Injun car led for him.
 'The employer told the girls father land he replied that he wasn't bothering about what kinds of devilment young whelps had figured in when they were t1S or 19 years old-their records since they had been able to raise hair on their faces was what sut ice with him.
 "The barney came around to the store a few days later to make a dig. The lyoung man took him up to loft, where ithey held these conferences, in freight elevator, and then he almost beat the barney to death. Then he booted the dog all the way down the stairs to the street, and told him that he could go las far as he liked.
 "The barney knew that the young lfel!ow had made clean breast of it Ito the people that he cared anything Iabout, and he scatched the young fel- lows name off of his list. He went on barneying other hard-luckers for six lmonths or so however, until a Null berry lariet was pulled taut on him lthat he landed him over the road for a lten-speckef.
 "The vilest type of barney is the one who threatens to expose his victim to the victims wife. There's plenty of this kind of work. The right kind of Ia woman isn't going to turn down a iman who has got square enough gig gard to come to the front and let her lin on the story of how it happened to him. But few of the fellows whove worn the numbers of the bad breaks of their youth have the nerve to do this fearful that the girls'll pass them along and that's where they make their mistake.
 "A man who lived with his wife in a pretty, cosey Harlem flat a few 3years ago used to be visited two or three times a week by man whom the Iwife didn't like. The visitor made him. self pretty free around the flat, con- ducted himself in an arrogant foshion toward his host, and even attempted to |put himself on familiar terms with his hosts wife.