The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-12
VALET TO THIEF
DOSENRT LIKE
HIS JOB
Says His Hours Were "Beastz
Iy" and That the Police
men Were Very Rude.


MINNEAPOLIS. Mar. 11.-1ohn
Cecil Mckinney was valet to a burg
lar for II whole year without knowing
It, hC said In tho HcnncpIn county jattas
after his attorney. IL S. Cary, startadl
habCaS corpus proceedings in th0tF
United States district court that mayo
bring about his release. eh
And John Cecil Mckinney now
thinks that being valet to a burEiatIl
should be classed as dangerous and9
hazardous calling, for he says, to-
caused him to hn jailed eight tlmeH.N
II he's ever O valet again, he says, ST.
will be to n plumber or q coal deater2S
or wire Taper.
Job Somewhat UnusunLs &
There were certain things ahnutsp
bis career as turnkey to q hpuan-&
breaker that occasionally struck hintr
as unusual, he snId, but he never sos
much MS suspected his dear master
of being anything worse than d big
business man until the latter, Arthur
Achau, was finally placed behind thpf
bars OF saltwater penitenttnfy for
station at Cold Springs. Mimi, mud
taking away express money elders
and such other stun a. he judged he
needed. Here were some OF the high
lights OF his unusual pursuit, he snldf h
Every time his master had a bus
mess deal to handle 1t had TO be TAX n
on care OF about a. IN. This struel n
John Cecil M little strange.
Always after the two had visited
town II was found that some
building had been broken into. This
struck John Cecil US a most extranrT
binary coincidence, don't You knows
but nothing more.
Always Felt in n Hurry.
Whenever they left town they
left in hurry, but John Cecil
thought this was because his masters
business was 80 rushing.
Frequently aftera business visit to
some little inland town policemen
and constRbles and town InarHhnla
and the like would grab both master
and man and put them into Jail. Tilis
struck John Cecil us being evtrenie-
ly rude to say the least.
"Why, said John Cecil Mckinney
in his cell, ~ never twigged to his
being a beastIy lawbreAlser until they
had the chap In the blasted prison
for that terrible affair ait Cold Spring
when the door of the railroad station
was literally shattered.
"I had tho utmost confidence IN
his assertions that he was a business
man. became Mr.. Achen's valet at-
ter answered an advertisements in q
Chicago newspaper. Being valet
was my business, you know. He en-
NJ. z,t4A a EFFs.s an
those business trips Of his We all
ways went TO small towns.
bothered by EARLY Hours.
att was the usual thing for my
master to arouse me about half after
2 In the morning. He would tell me
he had most extraordinary Import
ant business deal TO look after and
order me TO dress him, peastly
hours, these American ibusinefa chaps
kept, thought"
John Cecil yawned politely, beg
cling the reporters pardon the while
as he remembered the early rising
"''Atter these business deals ha
resumed, my master usually com
manled me TO pack hurriedly and we
were off to catch train
Mckinney has been in the county
Jail since December IA as a federal
prisoner charged with tampering with
the malls ,at Utica, Neb., last year.
His attorney obtained from United
States District Judge Wilbur H. Booth
a writ pfshabeas corpus directing the
government to show cause why Me-
Kinney should not be given hear
ing or HIS liberty,
Blooming Inconvenience, This.
tits a blooming shame he said.
III was In Utica with my master. we
were hurting an usual, to- catch a
train. We missed the train, and at
the command OF my master. 1 en-
gagged q motor car to take us out of
town After we left, the chaps that
load the luggage vans at the railway
station found that some one had
alashed open their beastly mail pouch
and taken out the Registered letters.
lIi know nothing of it. Y
John Cecil said that in their bus
inegs trips he and his master went
through Nebraska, Iowa and Mime
sofa. Seven different times before he
fell into his present predicarnent. he
said, he was arrested as d crime sus-
inect. Each time the states own wit
and sproyed conclusiveiy that had
nothing whatever to do with 1t, don't
you know ~ he insisted
Minnesota points where there was
trouble included Avon Little Falls.
Bralnerd and finally Cold Springs. he
said. Achen pleaded guilty to the.
Cold Springs robbery at ST. Cloud.
November 30, 915, and was sent to
prison. p.