The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-24

and the Police Department there was
no compromise. The department had
Deen fooled too often, and there was
war on that was war to the teeth.
~ get you, Shifty," old Boneset
smith of the department would say
Il II get you last, if l can't yet you
first"
Shifty laughed. Say, now" he re-
piled, I'm bet you don't" He pulled
OUT roll of bills, filched probably
from his latest victim. Say, what'il
you bet? bet you don't, now. Not
you. Nor yet the Chief. Nor all of
you put together. See if you do"
NOW and then. and here and there,
human nature harks back to savagery.
James L. Blenkinsop was a millionaire,
put, at the same time, he was a bar
paIIah' He was mad clear through.
ne mad been bearing a certain COM
modify. Everybody knows now Just
"ndt ne tried to do with Great Ameri-
can And another gentlemanly dealer
HaVlsham By nane-had succeeded
III pulling it. The means by which he
dCconpllshed this seemed, in the eyes
oL Blenkinsop, the bear, to be little
snort or breach of trust.
bienhnsop, the bear. believed in the
uoctrlne of getting back" his creed
for a tooth.
ANA as Mr.. Havisham had succeed
ca IN cutting Mr.. Blenkinson's eye
oSe'n, and in discOloring his financial
= Mr: Bienkinsop, in a rage, deter
, a,I mat the eyes of Mr.. Havisham
anu MS teeth. also, should suffer in
very real and physical sense.
e. IL was in this wise that Mr.. Shifty
Siilt came ultimately to consider one
Cd al me greatest problems ever present
~ ~ 70 MS astute and versatile intellect.
ttiioW When and where, is the safest
oLne' place and method to knock out
ole millionaire at the particular re-
T rIesV OF another? This was the ulti-
H. H. question. The first question was,
+Io ~" much is it worth? Having set
~, me hrst, the answer thereto be-
'5, entirely satisfactory. Shifty Shift
esuuIessed himself to the other. and
i l.oIy succeeded in arriving at a sat
, ,gr.act0ry conclusion. And the result
- IN the first place, Shifty concluded
~ leaVe the gang out of this thing. In
me second place, in view of the strenu-
- eHorts of the New York Police de-
t t'l I,lhent, he concluded to turn the
- elsewhere than in the great me-
F3POHS. Circumstances favored him,
oI Mr.. Henry p Havisham had a
,,IjalIilsome country place just across the
b,s !; Where he spent a good deal of
a week later the countryside was
terrified by the report of dastardly
SSffsdult upon the Great American bull,
~ henry p. Havisham. 1t seems
Lar N'dt Mr.. Havisham had started out
lone on an early spring day to whip
~ out stream on his land. He had
~ come back. A search was made,
r"u ne was found unconscious by the
ao1uslde, hidden by the brush and I'M
gt growth. The chief of police of
NJ Siiohroe. the little Jersey town where
r Sil, Havisham lived, started in imme-
es.,ately TO investigate. He discovered,
list that Mr.. Havisham, fortunately,
. us not seriously injured. He discoV-
90 also that farmer jogging along
H. tne distance had seen a burly look
s individual cross the road and dis
,ppear. Several other men. had no
sged stranger about the town-a
,ol OF burly makeup and muscular
, ppearance. The chief secured a de-
lption Of this man, and found out
'er that he was seen swinging