The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-06

Jimmy MCNdlly, lHe IOrIIer ucdu VI the green goods ring once worth s2, ,000, ,0O0, but broken in health by a term in Joliet prison, and so reduced in circumstances as to necessitate his spending the winter of 19OS-09 as a pauper on Hart's Island, has hit the financial upgrade again.
 Jimmy has a job that pays him $50 a week and he has rented three room flat on Sixth street West, Coney Island, where his loyal wife, Mrs. Min nie McNally, has joined him. He be- lieves that his luck has turned at last
 Time was when Mrs. McNally had her $50 600 worth of diamonds, nVeo with her husband in $4O,OOO mansion on Fairfield Heights, near this clty, and had a coachman, a footman and a houseful of other servants. But Jimmy hit the down grade and hlS wealth took wings.
 Their two children, William, four teen years old and Minnie, aged thlr- teen years, are in a private school at Vonkers. N. ". receiving an education from the proceeds of a small trust fund of S25, 900 put aside for them when Jimmy was a national character and too wary for the nets spread TOT him by the police.
 Here Is JimIny's own story or ms present good fortune and an account of some striking incidents in his re- markable past, dictated by the form CT Green Goods King"
 On my feet now, the first time since was discharged from Joliet Peniten- tiary in 1899. with my entire right side paralyzed, the consequence or my being hung by my wrists on the oeV- ;J.. uofe', as a puniShment for not squealing on my pals.
 Wife cooks my breakfast every morning now. Got $500 saved up ana money coming in from honest employ ment every Saturday night. Looks like Easy street for me from now on, and Minnie-she's my wffe-she says she doesn't mind at all about her diamonds being gone, so long as we can Keep up the home. s~A
 | am fifty-two- years old. Fact! Bon fin 1888. right, here in New Yort City. My daddy was a mister mason, and we lived at Thirty-fourth street and Lexington avenue. Graduated from the public schools, and before I was of age I was earning $1O week in a wholesale millinery store at No. BOT Broadway.
 HIS FIRST STEP IN VICE
 One night Johnny Hughes, a school friend, met me in front of Niblo's Garden, as I was on my way nome, and suggested that we go to Bucking- ham Palace, a notorious dance hall. went. That was my big mistake.
 At the Buckingham I met Barney Mcclure, an old-time green goods man. We became friends. I quit the millinery business and put my sak1ngs- -<7o0-into a "coffee and cakes saloon" in sixth avenue. This place was used as a cover for mail sent to Mcclure. Some of the en- velopes addressed to him came open and the money stuck out. l was tempted by a prospect of such easy money. sold out my restaurant for Barney Within three months I had cleared, as my part, more than $70o Then the police closed in on Barney and put him out of business. decided to embark In the same line on my own account.
 Surprise you to know that at one time was g, 000,O 900 clear and to the good? kept my money in the Man haitian Safe Deposit vaults in Broad way No banks for me-too risky.
 In 1898 I branched out bit. You see, I had married, and Minnie, she wanted a home. I had house m Seventh avenue, just above where Hammerstein's Victoria now stands. Minnie wanted a house with land about it, 50 I put $40,0 900 into house near Bridgeport. One hundred acres of land with the property. You see, I was planning to end my days m luxury and ease-just as many an quit the green goods business and settle down.
 Why: I even laid out a half-mile race track of my own, and l had a coachman, a footman and an open barorche for the wife.
 HAD SIXTY EMPLOYES
 My business was so large by that time. I had branch offices in all the large cities of the country. Forty half were letter writers, doing inside work strictly Besides I had over twenty stenographers, in my employ. Twenty of the men I hired were steerers to whom I provided bankrolls of genuine money bankrolls ranging money direct from the Sub-Treasury.
 We always went after rich folks, and I think I can say to my credit that I never delivered a roll of paper salted at the top with few new $1 bills to a poor man. That was why I had such great success for sixteen years We trimmed men who could afford to lose and who seldom squeal- ed
 Among my acquaintances in those days was a bartender in Sixth ave- nue saloon. He occasionally got hold of a live one but not having suffi- cient capital to show possible pur- cha ser of counterfeit money-of course you know none of us ever handled counterfeit money-One day this bartender came to me and in the presence of his brother. I loaned him s1nGO0 This money he never paid hack He is now a baseball financier and big racing man.
 When I got out of Joliet broken in body and without funds, I called on this man at his poolroom headquar- ters in Sixth avenue. I asked him for work. He coOlly told me that he had no place for me, and when I sug- gested that he pay back the s10,0OO he owed me he denied the debt, and ordered me to leave the place This same man later had great influence with the police. and he may have been the cause of my being bounded by detectives wherever I went.
 PARALYSIS A HANDICAP.
 Being paralyzed on my right side when I got out of prison, after my term Of two years and six months the first and only stretch l ever did,