The sun., 1908-12-06

NO SLEEP FOR HIM on TIE
ROAD WITH A PRISONER.
Attempts u Criminals 10 EacaDe FFem
Tfains-Twe Prisoners Instead ef One
IAN OveFdess, ef MeTphiae--A TraiA
COaHtsiiip - Beussng q uoniaRee.

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Tfains--Twe Prisoners Instead ef One
IAN OveFdase, sf MsFphiae--A TraiH
COaFtstip - Bsusing o Romance.
retired Headquarters man who
ranked among the star slsuths when
Byrnes was ct the head Of the Detective
Bureau was reading something 10 Q news
paper at his homo the other evening thai
caused bis shoulders TO shake. o
Il never did belong to the push thai
claimed that New York had the only as
sortment Of hy cops on earth said the
grizzied ex-deteetire, putting down the
newspaper. Aand wouldn't for money
be held up as critioislng or knocking
the sleuthing STAFF Of another town. but
they sure must have o swell mob Of hum
berjacls for plain CLOTHES bulls Id q GER
tain big town out West II this fellow that
I've just finished reading about Is fair
sample Of the lot.
This detective from the big middle
Western city was conveying from San
Francisco to his home town @ Glass A
gun who'd been corralled out In the Slope
town. As the train slid through Utah
the bull began to feel like forty winks
or go for himself. 80 he pulled his griddle
forward to shade his lamps and sprawled
down in his seat alongside his gun cap
tive for few leagues Of sIumber.
1T looked all right. it seems. to the
bull. for didn't his man have the brace
let's onf But this gun was q gay char
acter. He waited until the fly cop had
saxophoned along to the fortissimo stage
and got to dreaming Of real money and
then he .frisked >the seuth for his key
ring and its ornaments.
"The handcuff key was attached to
the key ring. which Of course made it
soft for the gun. He unlocked himself.
and with neat sense OF humor snapped
the wristlets onto the sleuth, who still
slumbered on. being some weary-maybe
the dinner IN the dining car had some
thing to do with 1t. Not only that. but
the gun cunningly chained his escort
TO a steam pipe. and still the man with
the badge slumbered on.
Then the captive. continuing to oD-
serve how good it all looked. separated
the Rip Van Winkle from his split seoonc
souper. his three carat blue headlight
and his leather. which contained some
three hundred and odd Of the ace high
This came OFF, the paper says, in the
compartment Of the sleeper. OF
which the badge man and his captive
were the only occupants. At Ogden the
gun raised the beat it banner for him.
self. dropped on the train and vanished
in the chaparral.
Before the train mooohed out Of Og-
den the fly cop. oddly enough, awoke.
He was perturbed, reckon, so that his
story sounded meshy. Anyhow. the new
who came aboard at Ogden.
He was certain that the hobbled detec-
tive was really the prisoner. and 90 he
unloosed him and turned him over TO the
Ogden oonstabulary. The fly cop had
to stick around in the Ogden oalaboose
as prisoner until the Ogden authori-
ties got wired description OF him nom
the police of the town where he worked,
and then he was turned loose.
sd sure have hated to report back
to Byrnes after having been treated. In
that scandalous manner by prisoner.
went on the retired Headquarters man.
Il can see the look in the Byrnes lamps
right now if anybody on his staff had
limpsd in with a tale like that.
1T isn't all wine and song, nor hot
coffee and doughnuts either. this thing
Of fetching prisoner in. The detective
who's got man to fetch in. no matter
how long the railroad hike may be, has
got to have a certificate Of membership
in the sleep tagging and bed hating
that's all.
There was time away back yonder
before the lags all got 80 foxy when at
the outset Of q run home with prisoner
you could ask him: Bill. are you going
TO be good or amt your and take his
word for it il he gave you the up and
down nod, but that time fitted out even
before / backed out OF harness.
Down in Mobile a few years before
l quit snagged one Of the most scientific
scratohers that ever kited big money
paper around this seaboard He oon-
sented to return to New York with me
without the extradition papers. =
"'1'm plumb tired OF all this ducking
he said TO me, and I'm going
10 plead guilty. hand the beak on the
bench the ganelle gaze and try to swing
him. say, fora three speclxer or some-
thing about as light and gauzy az that.
Then after I do my bit I'm sure going
10 nag the scratching stuff. There's
nothing in it,
aNice. lifting line Of Epworth League
hey? OF course. though,
to gulp it as he sifted 10 out;
why not?
And what's more. he went on, handing
me the winsome peek out Of the corner Of
his eve. 'you'n be doing the real ohummy
thing If you don't hobble me on this run to
the big town, The chill Of the wristlets
gives me rheumatism in my forearms.
I'll be good all right, sure am going to
be nice and good. I'll stand watch and
watch with you over myself. 90 you
needn't bother about me.
Wont that be grandl sRya I. and |
snapped the cuffs on him,
He sulked on me then OF course, but |
one OF the cuffs to my own wrist after we |
boarded the northbound train at Mobile. |
[t was day coach for the start of, and I /
gave him the aisle side while took the |
window seab-the window had to be left |
partly open for air, for it was warm /
weather, and wasn't taking any chance |
IN his making q dive out at o slowup,
wen IL had made him my cuff twin.
@When we were in the middle OF Missis-
Iippi q woman whose face was jerry TO
boarded the train at one Of the small sta
ions. She was . pennyweighter and
park palmer OF the first olass. for whom
Ia o;ro,,Iara from Nav Vnrk had 49, |