The Washington times., 1909-02-08
BY
ROBERT CARLTON BROWN
Written Expressly As Serial for The Washington Times
dramatic Translation and All Chec Rights Reseryed)

thought he might have heard Of snow
iu ihs travels.
so I turned back and stood before
him for several minutes. He was sounc
asleep. There was forlom look on
his face and I was rather fascinated by
it, He was the seediest tramp ever
saw, and about as eloquent snorer as
j ever heard,
Excuse me just a second, Mr. Cor
don. Bess put i'm. How long after
/ had gone was Jhis2'
1t was the next night
Thanks, so on"
s.Weu. having watched aim for some
. time, debating whether or not 1 had
better waken the fellow. L decided ID
would be best To do so. and. picking uI
stick. I raped the soles OF his shoes
with it, j knew he would be familiar
with that kind Of an alarm clock, fol-
that is the method used by the police in
the city parks 1t worked all right. He
awakened with start, and when he
saw me leaning over him yelled out.
II didn't like his face nearly so well
when his eyes were open. They were
small. mean and shifty. His whole
face was weak. L knew from his looks
there was nothing very bad about him,
but that he must be a sneak.
Where are you bound for I ask
ed. He looked around vaguely and
then replied, Lookin' for work, boss
L assured him that he was pursuing
a very queer method Of finding it and
he seemed bothered by my remarks.
Want 10 earn half a dollar 1 went
on 'Doin' WHAT was his surIy
query. Telling the truth for few
minutes
Dat is pretty aard work, but de
pays good, ne grlDned, trying 70 ap-
pear at ease, although / readily saw
that something was botherlng him.
Il thought # would be wisest to
surprise what 'aformatiorf he had
feeling certain that ne would lie 20
me anyway So / asked abruptly If he
knew Harvey Snow.
AT the mention Of the name he
started, and I knew that ne had heard
OF the man. but he denied it,
did YOU hear OF q burglary in
Marshall recently 1 queried. His
eyes said that he had, but his tongue
lied.
I asked half a dozen more ques-
tons leading in the same direction
and a frightened look suddenly came
over his face. You know, Miss Brown.
if a tramp ever Overhears anything
about d crime, OF sees the act itself
he viii never open his lips about it,
Tor he can never prove an aubi and
II is the custom Of policemen in small
towns to pin every crime that comes
along on the next tramp that arrives
in town So. from his manner, knew
that he had guilty knowledge of the
burglary"
"GOod!" cried Bess. $50 you had hlm
arrested, 20 keep him on hand so you
could question him further and per
haps break him down.
That's Il. / have been putting him
through the sweat box regularly. but
he is a willy Old fellow and I haven't
been able TO learn anything as an actu-
al fact but his answers have convinced
me taat he could parr with some very
interesting evidence about this case
-rou see. he's afraid OF me because
arrested him With my deputy sheriff
star he thinks I am an active Officer
instead OF having the star merely SO
that ] can shoot game with q little
more freedom"
How long viii ne be in jaiI2'
7 got the judge 10 give him three
weeks without any trouble. They re
very strict about Migrants since The
burglary. YOU know"
u must go and see If can DO any
thing with him IN tho morning said
the girl
''Vell. I hope you can, but he's a
pretty tough custonser," was the re-
ply.
Possibly a woman could do more
with him than q man." ventursd Bess
Wen maybe" doubtfully.