Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03
By Clarence L. Cullen.


"Every time catch glimpse of the title
Of that serial story, The Wire Tappers.
now running in The Star, l fall TO
thinking of some wireless tappers I've met
I'D with and heard about" observed
horsen,an, who Is wntering his string at
Banning 1.-THE wireless tappers nave got
away with more big jobs, 10 to 1, than the
nctual wire tappers ever dreamed Oh nuos-
ing through. 1 happened to be somewhere
In the neIghborhood Of st. Louis, back In
se2. when one OF the slinklest Jobs ever
framed up by one of the wireless workers
got by.
zone summer afternoon in that year Ed
die Glade a phony wireless Taper, whose
shoes were running down for the lack OF
trick to turn and trim, edged into the pri-
waite office of Jim Mayhem, who was then
running one of the biggest pool rooms in ST.
Louis Jim wasn't very scrupulous-he had
to lump the country year or so later on
account of some job in which it appeared
that he was after a drunken young MIL
lIonaire's bank roll with mallet. and ne
has never shown up since Euole uidus
knew that Mayhem was on the crook anu
that he would listen to anything tnat kaa
any kind of a money end to II, even IL
piece of gas pipe wadded up in a news
paper formed one of the props Oh the
scheme -, --, ,.,,,,
m.
Eve got an angel with a gosllngs PIN
feathers. He's more than million worth
and he's Just got hold Of 1t. That's TOO
much money for him. Wen, you IN IL
you want to be nice to me.
That means, l s'pose, me for the core
seeds and stem after you've baked the APP
pIe and gulped il. hey? was the cautious
reply of the pool room man.
Nope not that way, said Glade. nan
and half pay or play. I'll make it as good
as that. although, seeing that I'm caging
the angel, it really ought TO be me lot ABOUT
Who's the chick" inquired Mayhem,
after a short think it over.
The Plot Unfolded.
"'Oh. nobody except" and Glade
named a young Memphis chap who had re-
Gently come of age. and who, upon attain
ing his majority. had slid into million
and a quarter stack that had been be-
uueathed to him by his father.
Say, you don't mean to hand 1t to me
that you've snagged that bulgy little
tike?' said Mayhem. warming up, the
greedy CLEAN beginning to show in his
lamps.
.''Oh, 1 only order his clothes for him
and then wear 'em. that's ALL replied
Glade, careless like--he told the story to a
friend Of mine and I'm unwinding it ex-
actly as my friend repeated it to me. I'm
the only court card in the deck with this
little Alcwyn, that's ALL
THE pool room man drummed on his desk
for minute
ravel this kink What are you letting me
in for? How do / happen to swing along p?
Pretty deep one for you, that. hey?'
Not teenchy bit deep replied Glade.
You're there with the bank roll I'm all in.
except for the -dayto-day chicken feed
i manage 10 cop out And this thing Is not
going to be any pikers play-tag. It's going
to be for the swift coin. But there's got to
be money on the side of the party of the sec
ond part for a flash. There's whe:e I'm
minus and that's why I'm offering to let
you in-that Is. IL you want to come In. But
I'm not crowding you. There are others
oh. l guess l can plug over the route as
well as the others put in the pool room
man. hastily. What's the rig-up?
1.-The wire-my wire replied Glade, with
a grin. He thinks that know how to nail
the finishes five minutes before the races
are run. l am going 10 double his million
for him that way-ye-eh.'
YES, said the pool room man. with an
other burst OF caution, but why amt you
working Ii the old way and pinching the
dun for yourself, your heirs or assigns for
ever them
Because 1 haven't got any working bank
roll as think I've observed before, James,
replied Glade. looking bored and Indifferent.
You fatigue me with questions. / guess
you don't want any of it, and Glade made
s'if to get up. stretch his arms, yawn and
depart.
There's no rush. bo-that bowl of SOUP
can wait hastily put in the pool room man.
In a small panic for fear that something
good might get away from him. What do
do? Rehearse me-
"'well, I'll fetch the gosling along to-
morrow afternoon. II you'll be in said
Glade, and you can let him win ten or
twenty thousand. Thatll be the beginning
what he might stand for q lose-out Of a