Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-07-22

0TOpp6u around dI the lawyer D oACC
and asked him about his fair client
He laughed and told me she wanted
him to bring suit against me for or
dering her to take her choice between
the two trains What did you tell
ter choose the $40 for New York,
said the lawyer, for l knew you'd see
that she'd take the IL O'Clock for the
workhouse If she stayed
The Old and the New Rich.
Thirty and forty years ago. when 1
was a young man in Pittsburg, man
who had 100000 was accounted rich
The young men of those days, even
those who had the richest parents, had
comparatively little money to spend
And, what is more, most of tkrm
were put to work by their parents
Nowadays the sons of our very rich
men not only receive enormous sums
to spend, but are not required to do
any real work 1t is no wonder they
cause their parents SO many heart
aches OF course there are many ex-
ceptions to what I have said. No
generalization is wholly true-not even
this one. But the rich young men of
this country would be far and away
better off-mentally, physically and
morally-if their parents made them
go to work and earn their own spend
ing money. The hard-working young
man rarely has bad companions.
Sometimes a father realizes these
things and cuts off the sons allowance
But mothers always take their sons
part. They will continue to send them
money without their husbands knowl-
edge. In fact, the more dissipated the
son the more money the mother will
send him. A mother will never believe
that her son is doing wrong. The
more worthless he is the closer the
mother will stick to him. In all my
experience with black sheep l have
never known mother to turn on her
son.
Lure of Broadway.
broadway is the Mecca of the gild-
ed youth. A young man can get into
more trouble in New York in day
than he can in Pittsburg in month
But it takes money to get into trou-
ble-don't forget that"
What precisely was your connec-
ton with the Thaw case?" was asked.
We'll, I knew Harry Thaw ever
since he was a little boy. l knew his
father well, too. So when he got into
trouble it was only natural that he
should send for me. l did what could
for him, but his lawyers spoiled all
his chances of freedom He's as sane
as anyone in America today. The
trouble with Harry is that his parents
gave him too much money and always
allowed him to have his own way. He
was a spoiled boy from the time of his
BIRTH"
Record Is Distinguished One.
Few detectives have had so many
adventures and been connected with
SO many celebrated cases as Roger
O'Mara. He became a detective the
first year he joined the Pittsburg pc
lice force, back in 1867. In order te
round up a gang of crooks O'Mara
then only nineteen years of age, had
himself publicly discharged from the
police force. He then Joined the
crooks and when he had obtained al
the evidence he needed he placed then
all under arrest. He was the detective
who arrested Alexander Berkman, who
shot Henry C. Frick, and it was large
ly through his efforts that Laura Big
gar, the actress, was prevented from
getting the Bennett millions. 1t will
be remembered that Laura Biggar OF
"a Trip to Chinatown" fame, claimed
she was Millionaire Benefits widow
and the mother of his child, who hat
died. O'Mara, retained by the Ben
nett heirs, succeeded in finding evi
dence which prevented Laura Biggal
| from establishing her claim.
Back in the eighties he captured
'fShoe Box Miller, the famous crook
who escaped from a Pennsylvania pen
| itentiary in a shoe box. Miller haC
robbed a family named Connors, nv
| ing at Catfish, near Pittsburg, of $21,
600. By torturing Connors' wife Millel
succeeded in learning the hiding place
of the money, and with it he fed tt
| the country and finally brought hin
| back after one of the most remarkable
man-hunts in recent times.
| These are only few of the cases IL
which O'Mara has figured Since h
resigned from the Pittsburg detectiv,
force nine years ago he has been il
business for himself. The greater par
! of his time has been spent in getting
4 the rich young men of Pittsburg ant
other cities out of trouble. This il
his specially.
| Boys will be boys" he says, blu
he adds that they will be better boy
| if their parents give them less money.
A fine, kindly old man is Roge
| O'Mara, the shepherd of the blacl
sheep