The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-05

only likely to be rolled, they know but
they're pretty apt to be pinched for in
volling around too unanimously. In
any case they've got their fixed up
names to fall backv upon.
The assumed name is a great thing
for the rolled man who, when it's all
over. experiences the bunch to get his
stuff back. He can mako a complaint
in case his rollers are nailed and not
have any fear of the consequences.
He's an anonymous individual, and
there's no way of proving that he isn't
the man he says he is. Whenever a
rolled guest of this house tells me that
he is willing to go the limit of making
a complaint, I just about conclude
that the guest is sailing under phony
name.
There was one case here not long
ago that didn't nudge through easily
the register under an assumed name
The name he scrawled on the book
was quite a common one,, but he wrote
out his home address as town in
Kansas. He tanked up and went out
and got frisked according, presumably
to his expection. and then he went
with me to tibet Tenderloin the mex
day to put up his holler and make
out his complaint against the fellows
who had taken him. The friskers
We're grabbed and they had the ring
and pin of the man with the fixed up
name from Kansas The story got
into the papers, and on the following
day the actual wearer of that common
name, who was also from that identic-
al little town in Kansas, appeared at
the Tenderloin station and made many
different kinds of Shrek.
"TIe was stopping at hotel only q
little way up the street from this enc.
end he was very sedate proposition
who didn't tour New York's bad
dumps o. nights and who was there
with the heaviest kind of a kick ever
the Tenderlon's giving out the story
that he'd sailed for his roll and sunk
while hurtin' around the dives. was
Immediately tipped off as to what had
happened, and | dug up our guest who
had thought out the fictitious name at
random and advised him to vamD at
once to save bother. He drilled be-
fore the real owners of his @ctitious
name showed up here to confront him.
GAS | started out by saying, though,
any number of men come here Cor
their jamborces who. when they get
out to look the town over. never have
the least idea in life that they're not
going to be taken for everything
they've got on them that's worth
while. They look upon the frlsking
thing as a regular part of the per-
Torrance, the coffee and cigarettes of
the feed, as It were, and they don't put
IN any holler at all. They drop
around to where I'm standing, Of
course, and they say, Well, they've
taken me again but they don't 0sk
any advice about what's to be done
they're old time victims and know all
aB@ut it.
"These men don't get trimmed for
sparkers, though, more than a couple
of times in their lives, for. they get
J into the habit Of stripping themselves
of everything Of value they've got and
placing It in the. hotel safe before they
get under way. taking with them Just
what they think they're going to need
in the way Of coin.
"All the same, these complaisant
4 ones are always taking q big risk.
Even If a man has all Of his valuables
except the mere spending money salt
ed :. a hotel safe, he's out of luck
when he falls into the hands of New
( York crooks. They can do whole lot
4 Of things to him that are likely to hurt
him lot IL they have mind to.
4 They can neck, him or stake him to
the doss drops, or give him the boots
4 If he gets a bit, surly with them. They
can hash him up generally; and these
friskers are a good deal Inclined to
get a crouch against man whom
they've nudged along to his all-in
point for a good thing, and who when
they get to the point where they're
rolling him, has fooled them UP by
tuckin= away his stuff where they
can't get it, They are good deal in
favor of heeling in the face the mark
] who fools them up in this way
but we'd get fat warning them. A
hotel scout doesn't dare take a chance
trying to warn visitors from the out
side. Why? Well, becuse they'd take
/ it for granted that the hotel sleuth
suspected them Of being Rubes unable
to take care Of themselves in New
York. and if there's anything calculat-
j ed to give a RUDE a sure enough
crouch it's the suspicion that some
body in New York suspects him Of be-
ing one of the breed-New York Sun.