St. Tammany farmer., 1905-12-30
ger reveal the abiding place Of the men
only to repent bitterly and weep hyster-
icaJ1v when the arrest follows

ger reveal the dDlQluS pldCe Ol tuc MCA
only to repent bitterly and weep hyster-
ically when the arrest follows. Q
Then there is the professional desert
er-the deserter for revenue only, who
enlists with the intention of deserting
at the first opportunity, even though he
has to make it himself, and trusts to his
own cleverness not to get caught-and
who almost Immediately reenlists
somewhere else and again deserts. Ev-
cry time he enlists he is furnished with
a uniform and outfit worth $27 and
almost as soon as it is given him he
plans to desert and sellit. One man. Rob-
ert Maccullum, gave the authorities a
great deal of trouble in this way, enlist
ing and deserting; enlisting and desert
ing first in the army, then in the navy,
under, Of course, variety of aliases.
He had II such desertions to his account
before he was finally rounded up.
Deserter Captured Through Dream.
1t was Miss King who did it, and,
curiously enough, she lays his ulti-
mate capture to a dream. She says
that always she has had very vivid
dreams, seeing very plainly certain
persons and localities. certain houses,
streets and numbers. OF late years
while she has not dreamed these
dreams so often, they have made up
in vividness what they lacked in fre-
Quency. While she was hunting this
man one night she dreamed that she
was singing and dancing in the street
when from one of the houses came
the man she. was looking for. She
in 1t, and the next day found the
neighborhood of her dream.
She got one of the young men in Mil
ler's employ to help her out. He played
an accordion, and she took tam
BOURNE, and in the guise of stree.
musicians they repaired to the neigh
b<,rhood in question in the early even
ing. After awhile her companion
passed his hat and got about $50 from
the crowd that had collected, but no
sign of their deserter Some one sug-
gested: "Give US one more," and the
pseudo musicians agreed. Just as
they finished house door opened and
out came their man. Miss King let
her dancing feet lead her aimlessly in
that direction, her partner following,
and in a few minutes handouts had
done the rest.
Experience in Chinatown.
She tells, too, of an experience in
New York's Chinatown, when she was
after a couple of deserters from the
revenue steamer Franklin. Matters
were simplified by the arrest of one at
the entrance Of Brooklyn just as she
arrived on the scene. She took her
cue from that, and dressing for the
part went over to Chinatown and
raped on a certain door. A shrill
woman's voice answered from within.
asking who was there and what was
wanted. A hesitating answer came to
the effect that Harry Eldriksen had
just been arrested on Brooklyn bridge,
and she was his girl and had a mes
sage for his partner.
Her interrogator opened the door a
little and peered through. She saw
slouchy young person with untidy
hair, a battered old sailor hat set well
down over one eye, a sailor waist Of
one-time gaudy. color, but now faded
and soiled, and sagging untrimly over
her skirt around the front and gaping
widely behind. She concluded that
this looked like the right sort, and
invited her in, saying that Preston
was rot there. but perhaps she could
tell where to find him. Then she
volunteered to lead the girl to GER
tain resort of the ..navvies,' and even.
in . burst of generosity, to introduce
her to some Of her own gentlemen
fren's. She took her into q room
full Of smoke and bad language and
half-drunken men,