The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-21


traces. Take my advice, like p goou
fellow Go down to your Office, Glen
dale, and smoke a cigar. It will act as
an assuasive and steady your tried
Lerves. And when you come home to-
night, Glendale, go to bed to sleep
not to lie half awake looking for burg
lars and thieves. Leave me to look for
them, dear fellow: Leave me to look
for themr'
Glendale stared and was staggered.
He was in contact with man he could
not read-nor could any man.
For one to fairly appreciate, in fact,
the curious work that Mr.. Felix Boyd
was doing, IL Is necessary TO present a
scene which occurred in the municipal
court the following morning, when the
rufiian charged with having robbed
Glendale's house was awaiting hear
ing.
He had been booked at the Tombs as
Michael Solely, and at 10 o'clock that
morning occupied the enclosed pen
known as the prisoners dock, along
with nearly score Of other malefac-
tors. With the exception of one, per-
haps, who CHANGED to sit beside him or
a settee in the deep enclosure, he was
as Misunderstanding a rascal as the
place then afforded.
The other mentioned might by his
begrtmed, unkempt. with a scrubby
black beard, a piInply red nose, and a
hangdog brow; while settled bruise
about one of his eyes appeared to be
the token of a brutal and drunken
fight, probability substantiated by the
pungent OdOr of Santa Cruz rum with
which his breath was freighted.
An opportunity presenting itself while
other cases were being disposed of, this
fellow leaned nearer Solely and ven
tured to whisper, with an ugly scowl:
Dye know when We'll be called
fur?"
Soley's eyes came round to search
those of his questioner, but the mo-
mentary scrutiny was reassuring.
How should I know?" he replied,
with a half-smothered growl. What
are you in for?"
Smashing a covey last night in a
drunken brawl Mebbe I'll get three
months"
Bah! could stand on my head or
stay under water that long," muttered
Soley. Three months-faugh1
And what's yours?"
Cracking a crib. But didn't do it."
Sure not" was the reply, with an
indescribable leer. "The blasted blue
bottles always get the wrong covey.''
"They got the wrong one this time,
all right" srowled Solely. under his
breath.
His companion drew closer to him
after brief period of similar talk, and
his odorous whispers fell a little low
er.
Say, pair he ventured. Dye think
we could work a scheme to blind the
screws out there and give 'em the
slip?'
Solely started slightly, and his eyes
lighted.
What do you mean?" he cautiously
demanded.
ITS a game 1 worked out in Cleve-
land once"
Tell me quickl One of us might be
caIIedP
MY names Jim DriscoH," was the
hurried reply. I'm only in fur a
drunk and a scrap. If my case is called
before yours, you get up and answer to
my name. and take a chance none of
the coppers get wise to it. If 1t works
and you get only a fine, pay it and
you'll be let go. Then you get out and
dust as if the devil was after you"
Before this audacious project was
fully outlined, Solely was fairly SILVER
ing with suppressed excitement.
And what'n you do?" he Kissed,
through his teeth
When your name is called, dye see.
I'll get up and give 'em bluff that I
didn't hear mine"
And them"
'They can't show that cracked any
crib, cause I was pulled for being
drunk. Then they'll have to let me
go fur the same fine they give you,
dye see?"
by God, that's rightw
Amt it worth a try?" whispered
Driscoll, vigorously scratching his I'M
kempt head. I've worked it once with
a covey 1 was in with. Mebbe rtwould
go here If done quick and with plenty
o. crust If"
James DriscollI Stand upr
The summons, loud and stern, sud-
denly came from the clerk of the court.
Driscoll's eyes emitted a CLEAN like
that of living fire, and his fingers closed
for an instant on Soley's elbow.
''Try itp' he Missed fiercely. "Shove
your game hand into your pocket and
try it."
In another instant Solely was upon
his feet and at the high rail of the
prisoners dock.
Yet, strange as it may appear, the
eyes of very few of the court officers
were turned in his direction
"You are charged with being drunk
and disorderly," read the clerk. flames
DriscoIl, what do you say? Are YOU
guilty or not guilty?"
Michael Solely was trembling through
and through with rising hope. He
shrugged his head well into his coat
collar, bowed his dark face from OBJ
servation, and griuly muttered:
Guilty.
Ten dollars."
The machinery of the law moves
quickly. In this case it moved with un-
usual celebrity. Solely shrank back from
the rail, was led roughly into an adj
joining waiting room, where his fine
was accepted after brief time later,
and, within twenty minutes after his
first word with Driscoll in the prison
er's pen, Solely was free man again
and in the city streets
The moment he appeared outside the
court, however, a second man began to
dog his steps
This was the central office man-Jim-
ME Coleman.
Despite that similar attempts to