The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-30
JOURNEYING In HANDCUFFS.
TINE " HEN THE THIEF-GATCHER
MUSTN'T GO TO SLEEP.
Parlor Car "Reminiscences OF a Sleutlt-Lady
VINO Won tho Bracelet She Helped
tO UnlOck-A DOpe-Mixer's Rnsc
The Gentle Art Of Plural MatrimOny.

peeIers for fly cops out Chicago way il this
one that I've lust finished reading about
is fair specimen of the cork-shod sus
pender-badge fashcrs Of that town." re-
marked a veteran Headquarters detective
who wore tho sleuth's mutt throughout
the Byrnes regime. HE was conveying
from Oregon TO Chicago on the vanished
cars porchcimber of Glass A, a toppy one
that we Jagged here couple OF times
when he became real dossy as the train was
sliding through Wyoming. So he pJ He'd
his straw griddle forward to shade his eyes
and sprawled back In his seat alongside
The veranda man for few leagues OF
slumber.
-0f course it would be all right--didn't
the lag have the bracelets on2 But the
piazza man was a gay dog. He waited
until the gum shoeist with the badge had
double-saxophoned along to the fortissimo
stage and got to dreaming of money, and
then he famed the Chicago detective for
his key ring and its ornaments. The brace
let key was attached 10 the key ring, which
made it right handy for the lag.
He unlocked himself, and, with a neat
sense Of humor, snapped the wristets onto
lhe sleuth, who still slept on. Not only
that, but the lag cunningly chained the
hist-eureka Cap Collier 10 a steam pipe
and still the foxy Ferdis from the Chicago
Office dozed on. Then the piazza boy
separated the Rip Van Wrinkle terror to evil
doors from his split-second super, his four
Karat mazarine-hued headlight and his
leather, containing some 800 bones.
All Of this came off in the smoking COM
partment Of chair car. of which the con-
voy and the captive were the only occu-
pants AT Laramie the Lag dropped off
the train and vanished In the slgebrush
Also at Laramie the chained sleuth. strangely
enough. nwoke. The conductor wouldn't
take any stock In his story. The con-
ouctor was certain that the chained de-
tective was the prisoner, and turned him
over to the Laramie constabulary. The
detective finished his sleep in the Laramie
oalaboose as prisoner, until the laramie
authorities got d wired description of him
from tho Chicago headquarters and turned
him loose. The lag is still III the chaparral.
I'D hate to have to report back to head
quarters after having been treated in that
rcandalouS manner by prisoner. I'd
really be afraid that the old man might
threaten to hand ne a spank on the pulse.
There's nothing more certain than that
IN these crafty days detective in charge
y
land hike, has got to have n certificate
OF charter membership In the Sleep Duckers'
Association The old days when. at the
beginning OF a run home with a prisoner
you could ask him, Jack, are you going to
be good, or not| and take his word for it,
one way or another, have passed.
Il once nailed, in Omaha. one of the most
scientific soratchers that ever kited big
money checks around New York. Tie
torger consented to come back to New
York with me without the extradItion
papers.
I'm tired of ducking, he told me, and
IN going to plead guilty give the beak on
the bench the antelope gaze and try t.
swing him for, say, a three-specker, or some
thing about as light as that. And Tn
Bit.
That was pretty lifting line of Fpworth
league conversation. and | pretended TO
Gulp it--why not?
You'll be doing a real winsome thing
if you don't hobble me on the run in, too
he added. The chill of the bracelets gives
me the rheumatism In the forearms. It'll
he all right, I'll stand watch and watch
with you. You needn't worry
oh, what larksP / said 10 that one, and
| snapped the cuffs on him real quick. |
knew that he was going to stand by for
any old kind Of chance to lose me, for
llded wasn't the first Of the kind that I'd
listened to.
He sulted on mo then. OF course, but
that didn't prevent me from fastening
one Of the cuffs to my own wrist after we
boarded the eastbound train 1t was
day coach, and took tho window side
and gave him the aisle seat--the window
had to be left open for air, and I wasn't
taking any chance on his making a dive
out of 1t at slow-up, even if had made
him my Samese twin.
We were a few hours out of Omaha
and In the middle of Iowa when a woman
whose face ! knew boarded the train at
one OF the stations She was n New York
pennyweight worker and sparl-palner
of the first class for whom the New York
circulars had been out for more than year.
She had been crook from her Erlhooo,
and knew the whole push, male and female
in every branch of il.
Il was pretending to doze when she
entered the car, but from the quick ex-
man IA soon IA she picked him out ! saw
through the Sits Of nv eyes that she was
there on business. She had had a wire
from the crook or some of his pals.
She took the vacant seat right in front
of us-we were in the last seat in the car
and then, curious to see what she thought
sne was going TO do, I started in TO snoring
than mile out of the station before. with
out turning in her scat. she passed NV
scratcher, over tho tor Of her seat, a bunch
of wristet keys, which be nailed with his
loose hand.
He looked me over carefully, figured it
out that was az good as engaged in build
ing up tissue in a back flat on the outskirts
Of Philadelphia, and began to try the KEYS
that she had passed him-on his own cuff,
Of course. Well, I let him pick it. loose.
7 wanted the chance to use both Of my
hands.
He was just stepping over me when
put him to the bad with the best I had in
stock, square on the point of the jaw. He
fell back into the seat, limp, and then
grabbed the woman and snHW.ri The flap
ping bracelet, one Cu~ , Hl'cN was still
wearing myself, onto uCr wis, She tried
to stab me with knife that she had in her
loose hand, but twisted that away from
her. loosened the cuff from my wrist, and
then Cutfed the two of them together.
The result of the woman's play was that
| brought the pair of them to New York,
and copied out, something easy, the $1,000
reward which the jewellers Protective
Association had been Offering for couple
of years for tho woman's apprehension
The woman had the nerve TO set up the long
wall about my kidnapping her out Of the
State Of Iowa, but she got her little ten
speaker all the same.
About the sappest thing that | ever
did in connection with run home with n
prisoner was when | let tho prisoner treat
me for neuralgia. He WIS young New
York medical man who had let drugs get
the upper hand OF him, and who, when
he found himself losing out on account
OF his habits, had scratched lot of phony
negotiable paper; signing the monakerS Of