The Forrest City times., 1905-04-21

the White Chapel district. and kept looking back for fear one of the men or women would slit me up the back with a butcher knife, and laugh like an insane asylum inmate.
 Do you know, those people who drink gin and go hungry are different rom our American murderers. Our murderers will assault you with a smile. rob you with joke on their tongues end. and give you back ear fare when they hold you up. and if they murder you they will do 1t easy and lay you out with your hands across on your breast and notify the coroner. but your White Chapel mur- derer wants 10 disembowel you and cut you up into chunks. and throw your remains head first into something nasty, and if you have money enough on your person to buy a bott,e of gin, your murderer is as we'll satisfied as though he got roll. Some men incur country commit murders in order to get money to lay away so they can live nice. respectable life and be good ever afterwards. but your slum mur derer i'll London just kills because his stomach crayes drink, and when he gets it he is tame. like tiger that has eaten native of India
 You may think this letter is a solemn occasion because l tell you about things that are not funny, but if you ever travelled abroad you will find that there is no fun anywhere except in America unless you make il or buy it..
 We are taking in the solemn things first in order to get dads mind in a condition so he can be cured of things he thinks ail him. 1 took dad to the Tower of London, ard when we got out of 1t he wanted to have America interfere and have the eonfounded place burned down and grass sown on the site and park made of 1t.
 The tower covers 13 acres of ground, and there are more things brought to visitors attention that ought to be forgotten than you ever thought about
 l remember attending the theater at home and seeing Richard the Third played, and l remember how my sym pathies were aroused for the two little boy princes that were murdered by Richard the Third. but l thought it was q fake play, and that there was nothing true about il, but, by gosh. it was right here in the Tower of Lon don that the old hump backed cuss t,l. 1...l and l stood right on the spot, and the beef-eater who showed us around told us al. the particulars. Dad was in dignant, and said to the beef eater:
 Do you mean to tell me you stood around and let Richard kill those princes without uttering protest or protecting them or ringing for the po- lice? By the great hornspoon. you must have been accessory to the fact, and you ought to be arrested and hung" and dad pounded his cane on the stone floor and looked savage
 The beef-eater got red in the face and said: Begging your pardon- don t you know. put h'I was not ere at the time. This 'istory was made six 'un- dred years ago
 Dad begged the mans pardon and told him he supposed The boys were murdered year or two ago, and he gave the beefeater a dollar. and he was so gratified think he would have had murder committed for dad right there and then if dad had insisted on 1t.
 You feel in going through the tower like you was in an American slaughter house. for it was here that kings and queens were beheaded by the dozen They showed us axes that were used to behead people, and blocks that the heads of the victims were laid on. and the places where the heads fell on the floor It seemed that in olden times when king or queen got too gay. the anti-kings or queens would go to the palace and catch the king or queen in the act, and take them by the neck