The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-23

impatient jury, who had business Of
their own which they were not at
tending to, saw in their minds eye
the villain Slifer blow open the safe,
devoted Hooper attempt to arrest him,
saw the struggle, the blows, the CLEAN
of the knife. Finally they saw in
private, with eyes not of the mind,
Slifer's mishandled body. To add
force to these specific arguments, Sill
fer's record, both as "peter-man" and
convict, was produced, and he was
declared to be one Of the most des-
perate offenders in the country. There
was nothing for the intellectual and
wholly impatient jury to do but to
indict him, and he was bound over
till the next term of court.
Francis Prize and James Schell were
two travellers of the under world who
had just returned from Europe to Sc
cure fresh letters Of credit. They had
made the fashionable grand tour. of
the continent, had blown them
selves" at the Monte Carlo Crib had
seen wonderful things in forbidden
Paris, and had come back to "God' 8
country to attend to business until
their bank accounts should permit Of
another trip abroad. Schell had sug-
| gested while they were in Paris that
they recoup their fortunes on the spot
and avoid the seasickness and miscel-
| laneous locomotion, but Prizes coun-
sci had prevailed, and they arrived
in Gods country about three weeks
previous to the murder Of Patrolman
| Hooper.
There's dough on this side, all
right" Prize admitted in reply to
| SchelIs suggestion that they estab-
| lish themselves in the French capital,
but it amt our kind O. dough. !
been rubberin' round pretty strong
since been on this side, an I'm next
to how the money market stands over
here. You remember that fellow from
Vienna It I borrowed hundred from
in Rome, an how he kept tellin' me
to be sure an return it by the time
the whole business: He was a nice
enough bloke, an had the rocks an
all that, but he amt the kind o. bloke
| that let's you an me live an take
trips abroad. When he figures up his
accounts at the end O. the year, every
thing must balance. He'll have a
whole string O. items JUS called man
where them contributions went. See ?
Well. it's the same all over Europe;
| they all got to know where and how
! their dough went, who got it, and
| what they got for it. It 'ud kill 'em
to figure up one O. the columns in
their account books and have to write
after it, Gone, an damn me If ]
know where They've got dough, but
they amt got no dough to lose with
out maxim a hell of beef about it.
See what they did with Bidwell when
he made that Bank O. England touch
in the early seventies. Gave him life!
Why, them Englishmen thinks money
is somethin' sacred, holy, religious
like. I gable a thousand that old
bank could be touched up again for
a million or two, but they'd hang the
bloke that done it. It's not like thai
on the other side; every year there's
just SO much dough lynn around loose
to be swiped, an II it amt swiped
it's put down in the profit column
It's the same kind o. dough that's
lookin, for circulation In poker games
It wants to keep movin' an changin
hands, an guns is there to give Il
rope. See? It's. kind o. Provi.
dence!''
'.An' the coppers is there to make
i the guns trouble retorted Schell
Its all right about the loose dough