Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-06-22

'1FtnS IHC uayS OF his active service
hat find interesting. Some of them
.aprened to him personally. and some
9ere told him by his fellow craftsmen
turing idle hours. This is one of Ath
atoms stories that especially pleased
.ne from the ingenuity ard assurance
2crpetrated by q rogue:
There are two ways by which crooks
work. the one with, the other without
confederates. Both ways have their
advantages. A man who works alone
doesn't have the fear of being betrayed
by his pal. for where one is offered an
easy letting off from hard sentence
il he will squeal he is pretty liable to
squeal. But MAN who has con-
alone.
In one way crook pals, will usually
stand by each other When one is in
danger the other will do all in his pow
er and take considerable risks to help
him out | was once put on job to
track down a man called Jerry Wilson,
who WAS in the confidence department.
of roguery. Wilson usually worked
countrymen. He was one of the most
accomplished swindIers | ever met
He had been an actor and was prof
cient in the art of making up. We
would hear of him one day passing as
stockbroker. at another as clergy
man ana again as cotton planter
with a perfect southern dialect. OF
course we didn't know at the time that
these were one and the same man. but
we often suspected It and in time learn
ed it from Wilson himself
One day countryman reported at
police headquarters that he had beer
victimized by Il man who passed him
self off for an Englishman. The coun-
tryman had come from England TWEEN
ty years before and had never become
Amercanized. Engishmen seldom be.
come naturaliZed. You will find thou,
sands of them in this country, and 9th
er countries for that matter who have
become old men and not seen England
since they were children and are still
British subjects
The man who picked him up doubtless
heard him speak with his British lingo
had stepped up to him and hailed him
as II fellow countryman. One born
he said, under the British flag and
once accustomed to the home accent
could always be placed as an English
man. Then he launched out on the de
merits of this "bloody country" and
won the farmers heart completely.
A confidence man becomes very en-
pert in drawing out Information from
a greenhorn. and the new acquaintance
Henderson he called himse!f-was
evidently an adept at this work. for
the farmer soon learned that they both
came from the same county in Eng.
land and from the same town and
knew the same persons. Henderson.
being later arrival. gave his former
fellow townSman lots of information
as to what had become of many of his
old friendS-who were living and who
We're dead and who had married The
result was friendly drink at pub
followed by friendly game. with the
consequent transfer of several hundred
dollars of the farmers money to the
pockets of Mr.. Henderson. who. when
lie had drained his fellow country
mans resources. slipped out through
back door
We'll, we got on to Mr.. Henderson
but were deficient in proof The farm.
er's testimony might have. heen me,
by an alibi and other subterfugcs. and
decided to capture him at his own
game. Having located him. stood
near him and. adopting the British nc
cent began to talk about dear old
Merrie England The fellow chimed
i'll. and we We're soon hobnobbing to-
ggther: | had my pocketbook stuffed
with marked bills. which passed into
my countryman's possession. Then
tipped a confederate the wink. and to.
sstTher we took him in
hThere couldn't have been Il surel
case against Il man than that. could
there? From facts | gathered and the
mans ability to personate different
characters | believed had got the
Slfnnery Wilson. and intended to put
him where he would trouble the publi,9
no longer, In making up Il Jury to try
him we got nine good men. when
somehow we couldn't get any further.
Some were exempt and some had stuff,
''ient excuses When we got the clev
cntll man Sn much time had been iost
that the Judge was getting impatient
\ gentlcnanly looking man in the
courtroom said that if the trial would
not occupy mnch time he would help u>
out He WAS Immediately served With
4 summons. accepted and sworn in
The trial didn't require or IT was no,
given long time The evidence was
perfect. and the conviction WAS consid-
cred mere matter of form Besides.
there was the gentleman who had vol,
unte"re,l to serve on the case provided
he would not he long detained After
he hfd been sworn in he told the judge
mat he waS really exempt. but wouli.