The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-05
EXPECT TO Be ROBBED.
ITS PART OF TEE GAME FOR
SOME VISITORS

in New York-It's No Use to Warn
| Them.
"There are plenty of fellows who
! occasionally visit New York from
other cities and towns who con-
fidentlv expect to be frisked every
time they come here, and their conf
dence is rarely abused at that" said
a hotel detective. They're the chaps
who took to New York from all over
the country for the deliberate and ex-
press pnurpose of taking the lid off.
About nine out of ten of these get
rolled at some stage of their whoop
/ generally the final stage, when
/ they're about all in.
I'm interviewed every morning at
different hours by bleared, dazed and
tired looking chaps, guests of the
house, who want to be staked to bit
of advice, and the frisk thing is al
ways the burden of their lamentations.
Not that they lament so anybody else
can hear them. They're careful not to
do that
ut happened here or there or the
other place, or they don't just exact
ly remember Where-tb frisking
They're sore as butchers over it-all
these who don't come here with the
confident idea of being rolled, that is.
They say it's a dickens of a town
where man can't pop in a few drinks
and go out for little whizz Just to
lop few of the gray edges off of life,
and so forth and so on-a string it.
IF the man who comes to me with
this kind of narrative of grief has
only a vague sort of an idea as to
where and how he was frisked and
who went through him there's nothing
on earth to be done for him-and not
many of them remember much of
what happened to them They unreel
the names Of a whole lot of places
where they went on the previous
night. Most of the places are joints
where they had no right on earth to be
unless they were drinking vichy and
milk poured out of the original mack
ages right under their own eye, They
all know this perfectly we'll
Well l tell them when they UNI
coil 1t in this indefinite way, that's
about nine places, all of them the
toughest of the tough and the worst
ever, that you blew into last night and
this morning, and you were probably
drinking with about ninety different
mark snarers at these nine places,
weren't gou?
yft,a, tn t6a
mouth enough to admit all Of this, but
they invariably claim that they got
the knockout drops. 1t doesn't make
any difference, so far as concerns get
ting back their stuff, whether they
were staked to the quick sleep Aolus
| or not. The point is that they were
trimmed of their junk at some dump
that they haven't the least idea Of, and
by some. roller of rollers that they
couldn't identify under the violet RAYS.
remind them that New York is big
| place, with large, teeming and some
what careless population and when 1
add something about the needle and
the haystaek they've got pretty fair
line on it.
T" Then you don't belive I'll be able
to get my stuff back?' is the slow mu-
sic question that they put to me.
Not a chance on earth, have to
tell them, and they go away numb
ling about New York being helluva
| town. where stranger within the
1 gates can't take step out Of his hotel
without being set upon by pack Of
thieves. They generally wind up by
swearing that they're done with New
York forever All of which Is just
pinkish, They all come back some
more if they live.
"The thing isn't a particle more
satisfactory when the man who comes
to me with his woe story has a pretty
| definite idea Of where he got rolled
and who did it. The last he reneln-
bers of the whirl, he says, he was at
such a place, and he was drinking
with a couple of sharp eyed ducks who
looked thus and so-he is there with
pretty fair description of them.
While with these fellows his light
went out all of sudden. and he
knows that it's a perfect pipe that
those two fellows took him for his
roll and his jewelry.
All right, I say to the man who
uncoils it that way, there's a chance
for you to get piece of yours hack,
anyway. I'll drop down to the Ten
| derloin station with you and you can
! tell 'em down there what you remem-
Der of the looks Of the pair Of rollers
who frisked you. They'll probably
have line on that pair and will know
just where to go out and get Them
and in hauling them in they may drag
down at least part of your stuff.
After your pair are pinched, though, of
| course you'll have to go into a aolce
court and make your complaint
against them and tell you what you
know about how it happened You're
willing to do that, of course?'
This is the spot where the craw-
fishes-they all do.
What, he gurgles, and 1t get in
to the papers here and then telegraph
ed out to the papers in my home town
how 1 was rolled while fizgigging
around lot of New York dives and
have my folks and friends all read tt
and me going back home in couple
days? Not muchl Not in a thousand
years.
"And that usually settles it. I
should say that not more than one
man. in five hundred win put his name
to complaint in such a case. They'd
rather stand for the loss, no matter
how big that loss may be, than show