The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-04-28

the White Chapel district, and kept
looking back for fear one OF the men
or women would slit me up tie back
with butcher knife. and laugh like
an insane asylum inmate.
DO you know. those people who
drink Sin anu 80 hungry are different
from our American mlrderers. Our
murderers Will assault you with a
smile, rob you with a joke on their
tongue END, and give you back car
fare when they hold you up, and If
they murder YOU they Will do 1t easy
aud lay you out With your hands
across on your breast and notify the
coroner. but your White Chapel muir
derer wants 20 disembowel you and
cut you up INTO chunks, and throw
your remains head first into something
nasty, and il you have money enough
On your person 70 buy bottle Of GIN,
your murderer is as we'll satisfied as
though be got a roll Some men ia our
country commit murders IN order TO
GET money to lay away 50 they can i've
nice respectable life and be good
ever afterwards. but your slum muir
dorer in London just Kills because his
stomach Graves a drink, and when he
gets ii he is tame, like a tiger that
has eaten native OF India
You may think this letter is a solemn
occasion because tell you about
things that are not funny but If you
ever travelled abroad you will find that
there is no fun anywhere except ia
America unless you make it or buy IL.
We are taking in the solemn things
first in order ~ get dads mind in a
condition SO he can be cured of things
he thinks all him took dad to .Ae
Tower Of London. and when we got
out OF it he wanted TO have America
interfere and have the confounded
place burned down and grass sown on
the site and park made Of il.
The tower covers IL acres of ground,
and there are more things brought 10
visitors attention that ought 70 be
forgotten than you ever thought about
remember attending the theater al
home and seeing Richard the Third
played, and | remember how my sym
pathies were aroused for the two little
boy princes that were murdered by
Richard the Third, but | thought II
was a fake play and that there was
nothing true about IL. but, by gosh, j,
was right here in the Tower OF Lon
don that the old hump backed cuss
murdered those little princes. and dad
and | stood right on the spot, and the
/ beef-eater who showed US around told
us az the particulars. Dad was in
digaant. and said to the beef eater:
do you mean TO tell me you stood
around and let Richard kill those
princes without uttering a protest OF
protecting them or ringing for the po
\ lice? BY the great hornspoon, yoy
must have been accessory 20 the fact
ard you ought TO be arrested anc
hung" and dad pounded his cane or
the stone foor and looked savage.
The beefeater got red in the fac'
and said: Begging your pardon. dom
you know. but hi was not ere at tn
time. This 'islory was made six 'un
dred years ago"
Dad begged the mans pardon ant
told him he supposed the boys wer
murdered a year or two ago, and h
gave the beef-eater a dollar. and b.
was so gratifed think he would have
had a murder committed for dad RICH
! there and then If dad had insisted OF
ii.
You feel in going through the towe
like you was in an American slaughte
house. for il was here that kings an'
queens were beheaded by the dozen
They showed us axes that We're uset
to behead people. and blocks that tn
heads OF the victims were laid on, AM
the places where the heads fell on tn
floor 1t seemed that in olden time
when a king or queen got too gay
the ant-kings or queens would 80 t
the palace and catch the king or queei
In the act and take them by the necl