Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-28
SFfADOWING HIG4BLNDER
FURNISHES EXCITEMENT

fool who had an appointment with him
had failed to keep it-apparently the
prospective victim had thought better
Of IT, or parents or others had un-
known to themselves prevented the
keeping Of the appointment.
"He eyed me with a mixture of rage
and fear, finding me still following
him, and continued on to Fischer's
theater, where he also at once entered
the porch and pretended to study the
photos there. Seeing that I halted
there and still watched him, he made
for the office, paid for a seat and en-
tered the theater.
thinking for a. minute whether or
not | should leave him there, I de-
clded to stick to him STILL so also en-
tered the theater and soon located him
and took seat behind him.
After the performance he rose hur-
1iedly and by a quick movement tried
to get ahead, but | kept close up to
him. He now commenced to travel
rapidly, half run. half walk. and
turned the corner into Main street. AS
] came up to the corner found he
had stopped, though travelling rapidly
when he turned. and that II was only
a ruse to see IL I still followed.
Keeps Hand Under Jacket
Realizing that it was so, he made
a dash across the road, and travelling
at the same half run and half walk
in an endeavor to shake off pursuit,
made down First street and turned into
Wilmington street. He now kept his
right hand on the front of his hip,
under his Jacket. and | realized that
he carried a loaded revolver.
Passing some distance up Walming-
ton street he made a dash up an alley
way. could see by what light there
was that he had stopped half way
down the alley, so knew that he had
only entered there in the hope that
l would pass.
Seeing me stop at the top of the
alley he disappeared up it.
stepping to one side I waited for
him to emerge. Twice he came out
to near the entrance and twice re-
turned, finding his shadower still there,
and then with a dash he made off down
Jackson street twice doubling down
and up that street.
"Then he gave the sign had looked
for bluff in place of fear. He came
UP to me and commenced to swagger
in a way peculiar to Cinnamon, as
much as TO say, I don't care for YOU
swagger, Then Stealth
IL simply waited patiently, knowing
that when the bluff was off he would
again try to give me the slip, and
intended to let him go this time q had
shadowed him for nearly three hours)
Sure enough. finding tho swagger
had no effect, he darted off again down
Jackson street, and after doubling
once l let him go.
HE probably flatters himself with
outwittng the foreign devil. who,
though strangely and uncomfortably
persistent, is after all fool like all
foreign devils. and no match for the
sons of the Fiowery Land--which, by
the way is a land of evil smells and
all manner of denominations.
An Exciting Game
For sportsmen with desire for sport,
with the added element of extreme
danger l recommend the sport of run
ming to earth few Chinese highbind-
ers. But DO not follow up too closely
alone and be armed well; also be pre-
pared for traps.
1T will require at least three men
to run one highbinder to earth in his
burrow.
San Francisco had many burrows,
and who can say how many hundreds,
il not thousands, of poor victims have
during the past twenty or thirty years
! breathed their last in them and been
buried there, or their remains removed
by stealth for interment elsewhere,
! forgotten and unknown.
First Steps in Trapping
"I may mention that the first steps
of trapping new crib victims COM
mence with the apparently innocent
vegetable man or the laundry man,
generally the latter.
''The crib victim never grows old,
having no chance to, for when too old
for crib service-though yet young in
years-they know too much to be let
out. They fall sick and die. some
times of suffocation, and are buried
mostly at night, without undue cere-
mony.
THE oriental domestic in the home
is another fertile source of danger to
the youthful Caucasian, and it will he
great day forLthe Pacific slope when
the white female domestic universally
supplants the oriental male servant"