Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-05-02
! HIS
| CONVERSION !
And What Stood Between
Him and Relapse
By F. A. mitchell

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When | got tired of work conclud-
ed to tramp. But when a man gifts
dissatisfied with hard job and takes
sn easier one the chances are that he'll
soon want an easier one still The fell
Ter that tackles the Job he happens to
have for all It's worth Is the one that Is
most likely to git an easier one In time,
and when he gifts 1t he'll be satisfied
with 1t till he gifts an easier one, and
he'll be goln up hill all the time.
hadn't been trampln' very long be-
fore 1t occurred to me that it would DO
the easiest thing In the world, when
some fool woman was givin' me
somep'n to eat. with no man about the
house. to make her tell me where she
kept her valuables, take 'em and light
out. needn't try 1t on at houses near
together, but separate, so that there
wouldn't be any one to call on for help
and Id have better chance to git
away after I'd done the job. Another
thing | must keep clear of was houses
where there was n telephone, or, II l
tackled one OF 'em, must cut the wire
before | started in.
The first job of the kind I tried l
found dead easy. The men were all
away, and the women was skeered to
death. They handed over all the money
they had In the house SID and offered
me some jewelry besides. / declined
the jewelry cause didn't care to be
traced tryln' to convert 1t into cash.
l got away with the money, and l
don't believe the losers tried very hard
to find me. The amount involved
wasn't enough to pay 'em for dom so.
BY choosin' houses that were unpro
tected and In thinly settled regions
and bein' content with small sums
did very good business and took the
least risk possible. The people l rob
bed considered me their natural enemy
and would have taken any revenge on
me they could. This kept my con
science, and on the whole 1 considered
who slave all day at hard work.
roamed at large and had what money
! needed for an occasional good time
If the persons robbed had only kept
ON hurting their maledictions at me per
haps I'd "a got enough by this time to
set up In some kind O. business, hiring
others to do the work. Strange to say
my run of prosperity was brought to O
standstill by the opposite kind O. treat
ment.
One day after trampin' two or three
miles without meetin' a person or O
team or comm to house overtooh
a gal on the road and played the usua
game Of out o. work, hungry, no home
nor nothin'. asked her II she knew any
charitable party whereabouts who would
give me crust of bread. She was the
easiest fooled gal ever tackled. She
not only believed all | said, but almost
cried over my misfortunes. She sale
she lived with her old mother arount
a bend In the road ahead and II II
go with her she'd give me all wanted
to eat and little money to help mi
eso 80, 20 ~ = anIn,, n,oo,
ond cot ma down hasoro a bright Arc
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a"u nun ,ee' sur VI II '''
" sin~'' WI ,'ie ''o'e, ,
Al 'hS WINE ! was ti,nKll now
q commence ,ne puS'hess ! "as ,"eno
TOT MY nsuh' ghine was 70 hnu ou.
where the money was kept OF at Ieas'
I'D what part Oh 'ne mouse 70 iooh Io'
IL. sometimes ulu .nis Dy rvunu
aDout questiohs' sohetiInes Wy ousei
Vauoh. III couiu Ienrn tnis peiore
hoisuh the pirate mug u hiaue the
soD much easier Ior me- In tnis cuse
u occurreu 10 me INIT WINE inc ea'
was out III the kitchep cookin chcn
en- ior me 'ilht sne couiu SCI, ior 20
cents pound l might go up tne front
stairway ana thke a look inoo INC pu'
renu drawers
Com softiy' turned into ped
room on the second MOOR. Openeu