Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-12-09
PUT HIM OUT OF BUSINESS.
A Mans Lack Of CiYlIIty Gets Him Into a
Most Serious Plight.

Readers of the papers no doubt
noticed, not long since, a very
short dispatch from Spartanburg,
S. c.. regarding a heavy sentence
imposed upon a man for bringing
liquor into the State surreptitious.
ly. He was found guilty and
sentenced for three years. Back
Of this there is quite an interest
ing little story which The WATCH
MAN happened upon in an acciden-
tai way.
A baggage man was approached
by a man at a certain station and
was requested to carefully hardle
his trunk, which had just been
taken on the train. The railroad
man asked him to point out his
trunk ank the passenger did so, at
the same time showing his bag
gage check. The citizen had
spoken in a rather gruff and I'M
civil way and the baggage man
did not take to his style a little
bit, so lie merely told him his
trunk would be given the same at.
tention the other baggage would
get. The passenger got on the
train and the trunk manipulation
went ahead with his usual work.
In arranging some of the local
baggage so it could be put off con-
v~eniently at the points to which
J it vas checked, he had occasion tc
! handle the particular trunk he
had been asked to treat tenderly
He noticed that 1t was exceedingly
heavy for a trunk of it's size, and
} on shaking it about a little he
heard a noise very much like wate1
: or some sort of liquid slashins
around. He became suspicious
and did some hard thinking. The
. more he thought, the more sus'
picious he became, and being of s
: %jovial, companionable disposition
. and a trihe curious as we'll. ht
took advantage of a brief lull il
: business to walk through the trair
f and see if he could find the owne.
! of the trunk. He soon spied hin
S and going to where he was, asked
"Look here, partner, what hav'
! you got in that trunk of yours il
i the baggage car"
why do you ask that" sait
the other.
"Because," was the reply, ''th'
trunk is very heavy and I wa
8 wondering if you had gold o
something in the metallic line il
: it,"
y "Well it's nothing to you wha
d is in that trunk, all you have to d'
}, with it is to see that it is properl7
checked and delivered at its des
t tination."
The other admitted the truth o
: this remark and told the mai
!, that he ment no offence and hat
asked the question merely as
, joke.
The passenger. who did not seen
r at all pleased at the QUESTION
. finally remarked in a surly tone:
There's nothing in that trunk
but my clothes, though I dom
see that it is any business O
yours"
/ "Well, my friend, ali I can say
Is that you must wear mighty
2 heavy Clothes" and the baggage
+ man went back to his car.
At the next station he wired to
Spartanburg asking that a police
man came at once to the baggage
car when the train arrived. Wher
the train pulled IN at the depot al
that place there we1s severa-
, policemen on hand. On asking
} what twas up the baggage NAL
pointed out the trunk and told
, the officers he had reason to be.
!, lieve it was a sort of wholesale
blind tiger. The baggage was
set cut and just then the owner
of the trunk came up. "There's
} the man who has the check fol
this trunk, perhaps he a tell
you what's in it," said the bag
gage man to the officers. The