The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27

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10 New York Oh tho biKe, car cams tearing
10 the station In cabs. and they danced
around In front ~ my cell. mailing hob
goblin faces az me, treatinR mo M q horrible
example, and mailing terrifying cummcnt
on tho awful evils of the bowl Then Lwent
With them "a the hotel. and ! slept for ak
teen hours
Sos tho Metropolitan Handicap Soc
nothingi I didn't want TO 500 II. What I
needed was rest and a chance TO cool out
against tho city Of Now York, and " was tho
little white bed Tor mine.
"In tho meantlme those fellows had taken
Ia tho Metropolitan and started back for
Washington Immediately after and when
they got hefe they industriously spread
the report that I had run amuck on Broad
way, with q bolo in each hand and n machate
In my teeth and that II had required eight
large, beefy policemen Of the Broadway
squad to cit on me and hold me down on
my way to the station In a patrol wagon.
Yesterday afternoon n couple OF WASH
ington detectives, friends Of mine. strolled
Into my office here with serious counte-
nances.
TOO bad, old man. one Of them said
to me, and, Of course, you fully under
stand how we hato to do ii, But these
things happen, you know. Afraid we'll
have TO take you along with us. We haven't
any idea that you did it. but you can ex-
plain all that TO the chief
Il couldn't penetmte their Internal
gravity, and I became alarmed They said
that a jewelry robbery had occurred at an
Atlantic City hotel a couple Of days before.
and that the robbery had been traced to a
man In a certain room at the hotel.
The suspect had escaped 80 hurriedly
that he'd left his valise behind him. The
valise bore my name and Washington
address, written on a slip pasted on the
inside Of the bag.
Those two detectives kept 1t up until,
feeling pretty shaky, if l didn't look it, I'd
got my hat and stood ready to accompany
them, and then they broke into a roar,
and one OF them vent out into the hall and
brought In my bag. The sneak thief who
had taken it from my hands had really
been captured at an Atlantic City hotel.
AN too SCATTERING, experiences of that
kind. Hot little old Washington for mine.
and the cider cart, now and forever. I
used to think the stories OF those traps and
pitfalls OF New York were exaggerated,
but now ! know d~ifferent-Ive been
shownl"