The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-24

None Of your business" replied
Where did you from?'
None of your business"
Il think hSr4ves in Captain Coopers lodging
house nterjetted Wells
~You are liar" said l.
Murray" said Pierce you've got nasty tongue .
Away went to the lodging house. where my
room found and in it the unsea1ed letter to a
supposed criminal and the two parcels of counter
felt money
Murray" said Pierce, the best thing you can do is
TO make full confession and tell the names of
those from whom you got this counterfeit money.
You look like young of some intelligence, and
dislike see such man continue to lead criminal
life Better make clean breast of it all and perhaps
regain your own liberty by exposing those who are
guilty than you are
For reply ragged at him. denying that the trunk in
which the counterfeit money was found was mine or
that the room was mine To settle the question,
Captain Cooper, the landlord summoned.
Captain Cooper, former federal soldier was of
dininutive size and peaceful spirit Caring to be
neither an aggressive northerner southern
sympathizer all he asked was be let alone He did
not want to be embroiled in the quarres of either side
So when the captain, having entered the room, was
asked to whom the trunk belonged he was placed in
an awkward position. For moment he hesitated,
and then he pointed finger toward me.
you are liarI said /, springing at him. And
poor old Captain Cooper, believing his life be
danger. leaped out of the and jumped down
short flight of stairs
Murray" said the marshal, you've got a gall to
deny that this trunk and this counterfeit money are
yours"
Then the district attorney. his assistant, the mar
shall and I went to get something to eat. Pierce,
however, did not eat. He stood at the head of the
table with his right hand in the pocket in which l
knew my revolver During the meal Wells told
Pierce that, owing to the overcrowded condition at
the jail at Holly Springs he wished he would take ME
to Oxford.
And while you are about it. said Wells, you
might we'll take old Jim Hanford, too"
Pierce readily consented, and it planned that a
negro deputy should take us the train that was to
carry us to Oxford. The marshal, however, never
suspected the real reason why to be incar-
cerated in his home instead of in Holly Springs
The fact that the Holly Springs prison was too
strong to permit anybody to break oft of easily,
while the Oxford jail weak / wanted to be put
in Jail that could get out OF when wanted to.
While Wells and Pierce, who were to accompany
us to Oxford were preparing for the trpI was locked
up in the Holly Springs Jail. met Hanford, who
pretended recognize me, and stood around per-
haps half an hour when big negro deputy marshal
locked Hanfords left wrist to my right and started
with US through the fields to the railway station.
Wells and Pierce had not yet appeared
Now you gemrncn go about 70 feet ahead OF me-
said the negro, "and walk jess as fas as do. And
don't you try to run or shall be oced to shoot you
down-deed will"
We walked 10 feet ahead of the negro for perhaps
five miles, when wheeled around and said to him:
Now, Sam, you do not want to take US to Jail I've
got S. that I'll give you if you will let us 60"
Instantly he pulled gun on u.s.
Nov you genlInen go on" he said. Use an officer