The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-14
|IN CRIPPLED CONDITION SEARCH ING FOR OLD MASTER IS
 CAUGHT BY POLICE.
clothes Filled wftA Evidence of Lar. ceny Prom solomon Rueso's
 Store

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 Charlie Brooks negro, is in the scity lock-up . confessed housebrealxer. Shortly before sunrise Sunday morning he was found In the freight yard of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
 by Special Officer J. J Mount, with his pockets stuffed with chewing gum
 cigars, raisins, fruit, canned sardines and other stun he had taken from Sol-
 onon -Russo's store, POS Dexter Ave-. nue. little earlier in the night. He
 was brought to police headQuart rters
 where he pleaded guilty.
 Charlie Brooks is an old man. nearly
 70. and his. woolly pate Is as white as cotton. but as thick as 1t was when he
 was young. His left arm and right leg are severed at the body and he is mis- erably clothed. Chief Taylor asked
 him, after the old fellow had confessed
 his guilt. how he lost the limbs. and
 he was told the following story:
 ''Mausa. was raise in New Orleans.
 an wuk dey cen de mausa house on-
 tel de war bruk out, an alter my mausa
 say him guine light, gone wid um. Us
 At troo de war fuh two ears onteil
 Mausa Rober, what been de glnrul ob
 all de soJers. took we to Pinsulwanyuh
 by leetle town wha name Gettyburg.
 We git to de town long bout de fuss
 ob July an us camp top long string
 Ob uAtt0 8A Ht9nt w GhauOu tDuA 09
 top. All de fuss day dem gun been
 day dc shoot and de. shoot. Clar to
 God. mausa, een all de yuther fits day
 aln't been suEaucha noise I aln't been
 yerry 90 we'll sence dat day, my. years
 been sorter oncapacitated.
 Well, suh, de next day dat same shootin' been stat agin, but de msn ain't gone out to fit one nuther cause Marse Robert been do walt fuh GinruI
 vk f<. Ia NA hAm \. o
 been want de hoss fuh gone roun'
 packer dc Yankees an rout urn out frurn de back. but when de second day gone by an Glnrui Stuart ent come yet,
 us been know rum de way MauBe Rob- ert fite fo dat dat us guinc. to see sum sho' nun htin'. It been jess dat way. de order come down do line bout 9 o'clock dat us guine chage dem Yan- kees, an boss ain't shame fuh tell it. but de sweat stat out on rnuh hald an
 I feel cole. It been long way to de yuther side way dc Yankees been an nuttin tween dem an, we fuh kbvver but one leetul beech orchard.
 well, suh. my mausa long to de Lusiany Pagers, an dem ain't gone In dat movement. but my mausa been a l orsifer, an nuttin' mus sute him but he ask leve fuh hine gone long wid l Marse Pickett what guine mach on to l de enemy. At he gone anywhere. | guine wid um an das all day was to I ut, but when stat fuh go day tell me | say dat chage ain't no place fuh nig- | KerS, an tell me fuh stan back. Boss,
 I seen dat eolum faum. de pickest men what been cen de yarny, nose oh dem
 been de young mans and day all been | itchin' fuh de nte. I ain't zackly been | one O de soldier. I been nay nnausa
 vaiay, but iebry now an den when day been in close place day gin me uh 1 gun fuh shoot wid.
 "'Long bout afternoon CT bugle | sound heseIf and dc eolum what been sorter back O de hill cress, stat for | ward same as day was goin' on p-rade, l an den de orfuilegs cannon match stat
 so dc smoke would kibber dc move l msnt. At day pass de cress de win | sprung up an blow de smoke way. and day went de colum. de mems legs I woFkln' like day been one solid ma
 chine, de sun shine on day DO old close Il and day aint look so much like soJers
 desc days, but day haids been back
 and day foot been day swing same like dem been gone fuh dance.
 "At de sunshine on un when de win | blow de smoke way de emmy open up | on dem, an great God, mausa. dc mans | fall ebrywhers troo de coln. but de | res broke into a trot close up de gaps i and push on. can't stan dat so ] l jess hise muh foots an gone at unl
 lickety split You see mausa. day been ! 90 fah by dat time can't tell eff my mauBa been one ob dem what fall, so l | lick out alter do colm.
 1 T run on fuh try fuh ketch 'um, an | all to wunst sompn hit me on his ahm l an de member jess drop. 1 been ! hold my gun in dat han an feel same | like one strong man jess wrench way | de gun. tek my well han an stuh | de one what been hit cen my posked l to keep up from swing so he wudn', 1 hut so, an I kep on. By dat time Il reach do fuss ones what been day fall
 but ain't see my mausa, so I keep on l foiler dat colrn right up to way de
 Yankees been, but de noise been such
 ain't heah nobody talk, cepn fuh 6