Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-13

dropped around at the lawyers ONCE
and asked him about his fair client.
he laughed and told me she wanted
MIN to bring suit against ME for Or
derlng her to take her choice between
the two trains. What did you tell
her? l asked. I told her she had bet
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 tho New Rich.
Thirty and forty years ago, when I
was 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.
ana, what is more, most of them
We're 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. or course there are many ex-
ceptlons to what l have said. No
generalization is wholly true-not even
this one. But the rich young men Of
thls 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 Woodworking young
man rarely has bad companions.
sometimes 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 / 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 a day
than he can in Pittsburg in a 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. l knew Harry Thaw ever
since he was little boy. l knew his
father well, too. So when he got into
trouble it was only natural that he
should send for me. did what l 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 hoy from the time CT h!s
BIRTH"
Record is Distinguished One.
Few detectives have had so many
adventures and been connected with
O'Mara. He became q detective the
first year he joined tie Pittsburg po-
lice force, back in 1867. In order to
round up 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 all
the evidence he needed he placed them
all under arrest. He was the detective
who arrested Alexander Berkman, who
shot Henry G. 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 had
died. O'Mara, retained by the Ben
nett heirs, succeeded in finding evil
dence which prevented Laura Blggar
from establishing her claim
Back in the eighties he captured
Shoe Box" Miller. the famous crook
who escaped from Pennsylvania pen
itentiary in shoe box. Miller had
robbed family named Connors, liv-
ing at Catfish, near Pittsburg, of $751;
600. By torturing Connors' wife Miller
succeeded in learning the hiding place
of the money, and with it he fled to
Canada. O'Mara tracked him all over
tho country and finally brought him
back after one of the most remarkable
man-hunts in recent times.
These are only a few of the cases in
which O'Mara has figured Since he
resigned from the Pittsburg detective
force nine years ago he has been in
business for himself. The greater part
of his time has been spent in getting
the rich young men of Pittsburg and
other cities out of trouble. This is
his speciality.
Boys will be boys" he says, but
he adds that they will be better boys
If their parents give them less money.
fine, kindly old man is Roger
O'Mara, the shepherd Of the black
sheep.
A North African Game Bag.