The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-12-21
Experience Teaches Him to
n Put Little trust in Promise,
Of Prisoners.
MUST BE EVER
Though There 10 Much That 10 I'm
pleasant m the Cal. ns. the voea-
= ton Also Has It's Brighter
Side.
From the Washington star.

Congressional Limited. n few after
Moons ago.. I came upon n we'll known
New York headquarters detective. He
was on his way 10 Philadelphia To pick
up n New York absconder who had been
gathered in by the fnr from slumber-
some Philadelphia sleuths. At the mo-
ment I happened into him the New
York detective wns rocking with
laughter in his buffet car chair over a
news story he had bcen reading In n
of the New York evening papcrs. IL
was suggested to him that the best
way 20 get IL all out or his system
would be TO tell somebody else all about
Il. Which the New York detective.
when he managed to uct his face
straight and the stitches out OF his
side. proceeded To do.
IL wouldn't care to be held up as
'criticIsing or knocking the slcuthing
stan OF another town." he said, but
they sure must ave n swell mob 81
rpud-pcelers for fly cops out -. Loo wny
IL this one that I've just finished read
Ing about IL n fair specimen OF the
cork-ghOd. suspcndcr-badgc ilashcrs or
the -. Louis staff.
Here's the story. the way they print
II In this paper: The 81. Louis detect
I've vas conveying from Snn Francisco
To 81. Louig on the vanished cars. n
class 4 seCOnd-story man who'd been
~ AAtFN bhA III NlAF tttAif WV u ~
81. Louis slCuth became real forty
whisky. so he did. as the train slid
through Utah. So he pulled his grildle
forward TO shade his lamps, ana
sprawlcd back In his seat alongside the
vcranda man for a Few leagues OF
slumher. II looked all right TO the st.
Loo ny bull-didn't the lag he was
conveying have the bracelets on But
b piazza man was n gay character.
He waited until the gum-shoeist with
the So. Loo badge had saxophoned along
10 the fortissimO stage and GOT Ia
dreaming OF ~surc-cuough money, and
then he friskcd the 81. Louis detective
for his keyring imd.its ornaments.
THE handcun key was. attached 10
the key ring. which made IL right
handy for the lag. He unlocked him
SELF. and. with n neat sense OF humor.
snapped the wrlstlcts onto h slcuth.
who still slumbcred ON. being some
tired. aS the paper states several
times. Not only that. but h balcony
climber cunnlngly chained the hist
eureka Cap. Collier from st. Loo TO n
steam pipe-and will the Crafty Sran-
ston from the So. Loo office dozed on.
Then the piazza boy. observing how
good IL looked. separated the RIP Van
Wrinkle terror TO c~vil-ioerS from his
split-second sOuper his three-karat
mazarine-hu headlight. and his
WALNUT NbUNAiilHk Nbll4f lohE NuithlNh
and odd nce-high coonskins.
Crook Vanished in the Brush.
AN OF thu cnmo of I'm the smoking
compartment OF the chair car. OF which
the ST. Loo sleuth and his captive were
the only occupants. a; ogden the lag
raised the 90 for me- sign. dropped OF
the train. and vanished In the bruHh.
Also at ogden the chained slcuth.
strangely enough, awoke. The con-
AsgaWag gaNNtNVsN aAm ~. - IN IL
tecctive's story. The conductor was
certain that the nobblcd detective was
really the prisoner. and - he turned
him over to the ogden ~Constabulary,
The 81. Loo detective finished his sleep
In the ogden ~Calaboosc ms "A prisoner
until the ogden authorities got "A wired
description OF him from the 81. Louis
police authorities, when he was turned
loose. The lag Is stlll in the Chaparral.
hitting Just occasional places, maybe.
I'D sure hate TO hay to report
back TO headquarters after having been
treated In that scundalous manner by
n prisoner" went on the New York
detective. I'D be afraid the old man
might feel like gazing ut me ~rcproach-
STTfcrc isn;tS anything more dead
sure In these foxy days han that a
man In clargc OF a prisoner. no mat
ter how Ions the hike may be. has got
To IAFt ~ Ntt AllANhAN VI hlNAiAbfA NAiAl III
| the sleep tagging n bed hating as
ISOLATION.
THE old days when. At the beginning
OF home with n prisoner, YOU
could ask him. 'Bill, are you going TO
he good or not?' and take his word for
Il II he nodded affirmativcly. have
passed. q
out In Colorado Springs n few years
ngutI nailed one OF the most scientific
f.sCrltchcrs that ever kitcd big-money
checks around the Atlantic scaboard.
He consented TO return To New York
with me without extradition documents.
Tn tired OF this duCking around.
he said TO me. ans I'm going To plead
guilty. Civ the beak on the bench the
antelope gaze. and try TO swing him
for, say, "a thrcc-spcCker. or something
about as light ns that. And after / do
the bit I'm sure going TO quit scratch
Ing Pretty lifting line OF f.pworth
league conversation, h hey? OF
course. I pretended to gulp it--why
Promised to 30 Good.
whats more my scratcher went
on. co~nidenually. you'll be doing the
real winsome thing " you don't hobble
me ON the run In to New York. The
chill OF the wristlets give me the rheu-
matism in the foreaTms. It'll be all
right. I'm going 10 be good. I'll stand
"aANh aAla NJ NANA sSNs sN@
worry .
"'Oh, what laTks!' I said 90 that one.
and I snapped the GUNS on him real
quick. I knew that he was going 10
stand by for any old kind OF "A chance
20 lose me. for the south breeze OF the
brand he cxuded wasn't the first of
that kind I'd listened TO. lie suiked ON
me then. OF curse. but that idn't pre-
vent me. FROM fastening n OF the
cuns TO my own wrist after We boarded
the ~cnstbound train at Colorado
Springs. IL was n day coach. and ]
took the window side and gave him tho
aisle seattle window had TO be left
partly open. for 10 was hot weather,
and I wasn't taking any chance OF his
making a dive out OF IL nj n slow-up,
even IL l had made him my Siamcsc
twin.
when We were "A few hours out OF
Council Bluffs and In the middle OF
Town n woman whose face l knew
boarded the train at n OF h small
stations. She was n New York penny
weight worker and q spark palmer oi
the nrst class for whom the circulars
had been out for over n year. She had
been "A crook from her gtrlhood. and
=. L,auy the uhnie puHh. male and