Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-05-19
ON A SUFFERERS TRAIL.
How the Failing Is Frequently Cured ana
Identity Lost.

How the Failing Is Frequently Cured ana
Identity Lost.
"a good many folks believe that slut
tering can't be cured" said detective.
81 used to think so myself, but found
out differently.
81 don't know whether they're ever
going to nail Willie Schrieber, that New
Jersey bank kid who blew a couple OF
hundred thousand in the Tenderloip a
few wears ago and then drilled, but l
figure it dollars to doughnuts that, IL
he's alive, he's had himself cured of the
bad suffering habit that marked INN
so strongly, and that must have made
it mighty hard for him to accomplish
his getaway.
mine or ten years ago was sent OH
the chase after a Des Molnes BANK
cashier who went on two weeks va
cation and forgot to return. HIS Tor
getfulness caused all investigation OF
his books to be made, and it was soon
discovered that he was 100000, or
some such matter, shy.
"He had a good start, of course, Dut
because of the fact that he was nope
less sufferer who had to go through
all sorts of wrigglings and contortlons
before getting out the simplest sen
tence, I figured that, good start as he
had, it would be like pie to fall into
his wake and catch up OH him.
at was easy enough at first. l
traced him through Mexico, Central
and South America. Then | lost him.
and was only about fortnight be-
hind him at that at Callao, Peru.
"He hadn't sailed from that place in
any of the steamers, / found out, but
he was absent from Peru all right. 1t
looked pretty cinchy to me that he
had shipped or taken berth as pas
senger on one of the sailing ships that
had left Callao before my arrival
| there.
"There was nothing doing in a case
like that, and so l skiddOoed back to
headquarters, feeling pretty cheap over
nv failure to nab a man afflicted with
such a telltale popularity as the slut,
tering habit
"Two years later was walking
along Mission street in San Francisco
when l ran smack into man whose
resemblance to the photographs l had
of the Des Moines cashier was start
ling.
HE did the You wrong me- gag
from the jump, and when l found that
he talked as straight and unham'
pered as I did, without the least indi
cation of suffering, 1 had lonesome
feeling that he couldn't possibly be my
man, for all OF his remarkable re-
semblance to him. But his facial re-
semblance to the photographs was
so strong that | took him along. any
how, and planted him at San Fran
cisco police headquarters.
81 never let on for a minute that
didn't believe that he was my man. al
though / felt heap doubtful about IT,
but had him taken back to a cell. !
shot him through few of the third
degree kinks there, but he continued
his protestations that he was being
outraged, and when 1 left him l fell
that as much as he looked like my
man, he was probably telling the truth
about himself.
"Fact is, I was only waiting around
police headquarters for the arrival OF
the chief of police to have the man
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from my prisoner that he wanted tC
see me, and l hustled back to his cell.
He had caved, and he confessed the
whole thing to me. N
"He had, as surmised, shipped in
a sailing vessel frop'Callao for Japan.
In Japan he met1p with japanese
medical sharnrwho had mastered the
science or curing Sufferers and who
had Suffering patients all over the
Japanese Empire.
"The Jap doctor had cured the Des
Moines cashier Of his stammering DIFF
ficulty inside of three months. and the
cashier, confident that the remover of
his popularity would mean immunii?
for him, had returned to the United
States. Yet 1 would have turned him
loose inside of half an hour had he
kept his head closed. New York Sun.