The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-02-12
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tain Brigstock's men a not only
avenged the murder of their brother Of
f1cer, they have demonstrated afresh the
remarkable ability Of the city police force.
1t Is no light matter to protect a city as
large as ours, which In the very nature
of things becomes a Mecca and Medina
for criminals, and 1t is gratifying to know
that our safety Is looked after by so con-
scientious a band Of officers"
The patrolmen ordered before the grand
jury not only distinctly remembered see
ing Slifer in the near neighborhood Of he
scene of the crime soon after it was COM
mitted. but they produced the weapon
with which Hooper la been struck down,
and showed the Jury several rolls of bills
taken from Slifer's pocket which there
was no doubt were part Of the plumber
he had secured in the safe robbery. Free
to indulge his Imagination as to how the
struggle between Hooper and Slifer took
place. the prosecuting attorney portrayed
the villain discovered by the v%irtuous
Hooper in the act Of blowing open the
safe, or In the act of e~ndeavoring to es-
cape, no matter which. The intellectual
and wholly impatient jury, who had bust
ness of their own which they were not
attending to, saw in their minds eye the
villain Slifer blow open the safe, saw
him make his escape, saw the 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, Sl!fer's mishandled
body. To add force to these specific argu-
ments, Slifer'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 n James Schell were
two travellers of the Under World who
had just returned from Europe to secure
fresh letters of credit. They had made
the fashionable grand tour Of the CONT
nent, had "blown themselves" at the
Monte Carlo Crib" had seen wonderful
things in forbidden Paris, and had come
back to Goods country to attend to
business until their bank accounts should
permit of another trip abroad. Schell
had suggested while they We're in Paris
that they recoup their fortunes on the
spot and avoid the seasickness and mis-
cellaneous locomotion, but Prizes counsel
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 Schells sugges-
ton that they establish themselves in the
French capital, but 1t amt our lM1d O.
dough. I been rubberin' round pretty
strong since l been on this side, an I'm
next to how the money market stands
over here. You remember that fellow
from Vienna t 1 borrowed a hundred
from in Rome, an how he kept tellin'
me to be sure an return it by the time I
said I would? Well he shows up the
whole business. He was a nice enough
bloke, an had the rocks an all that, but
he amt tho kind O. bloke that let's you
and me live an take trips abroad. When
he figures up his accounts at the end OF
the year, everything must balance. He'll
AVE a whole string O. items JUS called
man amt made O. wood but he knows
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. 1t 'ud kill 'em to figure up one
: O. the columns in their account books.
q and have to write after 1t, Gone, an
> damn me if I know where They've got
dough, but they amt got no dough to lose
!, without maxim a hell Of a 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 some
q thin sacred, holy, religious like, I gamble
a a thousand that old bank could b.
touched up again for a million or two
but they'd hang the bloke that done 1t
II It's not like that on the other side; ev'r!
year there's just SO much dough lyin
around loose to be swlped, an If it ain
swipcd it's put down in the profit column
~ It's the same kind O. dough that's lookin
for circulation in poker games. 1t want
to keep movin' an changin' hands, an
" guns Is there to give it rope. See? It's
kind o Providence"
IAN the coppers Is there to make tn
re- guns trouble retorted Schell. Its a
= - l~,A 49, so @,,l h,,A hN,
about the loose fly cops? I'd rather TAX
A. my chanst with ten O. these RUDE COZ
IA pers here In Paris n with one O. the fl
Ia elbows In York"
le law, e~verybody's a copper on this side,
20 urged Prize. You remember that gun |
or Berlin tryin' to get away after he'd pickle
a the Moll's pocket, an how the who
~ street sprinted after him? That's the wa
r. they do things on this side-the crowd
he in sympathy with the copper an not wit
O. the gun. In the states they give a gu
at a runnin' chance, an let the copper {
the chasin'. That's what's what an tt
re way 1t ought to be-"
The morning of the day following Il
murder of Patrolman Hooper two me
were in earnest conversation In a gaudi
f. furnished room in ar uptown hotel. Ol
lay on the bed with a bandage around n
Mt head; and from the blood stains on II
~ clothes 1t was evident that he was nur
I'd, ing a wound; the other sat by the bedsid
The two were registered on the hotel
st, books as coming from Sydney, Australi
ok and had signed the names, Richard War
,w person and Jackson Mather.
lid You /put his light out all right t
MS man at the bedside remarked. "Th'
ids picked him up croaked."
it'll Serves the duffer right" humble t.
as invalid. anybody bten COPIED out yet
TT, The 'pipers' say-jes' listen to my fu
a rim edication!-that the police ha
MT, pinched that Michigan bloka, Slifer. '
his done a bit with him in Cherry Hill eig
IN years back-remember ?-the bloke
for made old Bridgestock take that qui
the sneak out of his fiat one day. They're e
My ing to railroad him for fair. The Wol
: a says the police found the Weapon on hi
his an the Journal claims t he had some
lif- the banks dough In his pockets"
lgh Them newspapers is gettin' real wi
What a lot they do know! Seems like
ak gun can't do nothin' any more 'thout be
hin pinched for somethin' else!'
- This comment was certainly ungratef
dly the invalid not having been pinched
ell. late for anything. More than that, 1t "
as unintelligent; the invalid did not und
ing stand the arrangement of things viii
her makes imaginative news columns ind
or pensable.
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