Putnam patriot., 1916-05-12

"Then l looks up and l says nix. he's a
 eumshoe crook.r
 wake up, as was comm out oI dream. and she clutched at his arm and began to cry. 'Jamesr she says, James Pollock And the man he laughs. So that's what's eatis' you. is it.. he says Well. fergt it. My Gawd. you aint guilty just because you was in the hotel. They can't connect it up with you. I give you my word Oh. thank God. thank God,' she whispers and begins to cry hard>r than ever, and the man shook her again. Gut out the water works. he says angrily. and get into this seat. unless you want the bulls to pull you m.
 "What did he mean by this seat'F Could you seeI'
 Yes. scr The rope that the man had let down had d sort of q swing al the end of it. and he made the girl sit in that, then he whistled again and the other man pulled her up and she disap peared in a winder.
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 He waited till she was gone. then he went on down the street and round the corner Then 1 saw Denny comin np the other way and l went to meet him. and found he'd been watchin too That was why couldn't see him when come to the gate.
 '.That is all thank you. Miss O'Neill. I I f.tIt ha loaned forward with nn areSting gesture
 And having seen all this. he said harshly. didn't you read the papers the next morning? Didn't you see that a girl was missing, or connect her in any way with tie occurrences you had witnessed?''
 Well ain't sayin' but what l had my suspicious" she admitted readily.
 linen why didn't you tell someonef'
 .Huhr' she reterted And let that ould divil of a Mrs. Watson know | was meetin Denny and maybe givin him a bite. and lose me job? guess not,'
 "Then why" persisted his Honor have you told now
 Sure. and it's me that's bein' mar ried this week. yer Honor and I'm after lavin Mrs. Watson last sanr day" she said amid a stifled gale of mirth from spectators and jury alike
 Even the prosecutor smiled. waivns his right to cross examine. for the mo ment at least and Lanedon. with a eheery and encouraging nod towards Mary. called the second of his three new witnesses:
 "Dennis Gallagher"
 Denny. whose collar seemed to have shrunk to even more torturing tight ness during the interim of waiting. took his place on the stand with ! face the hue of his tiancees bonnet, and cleared lis throat noisily between each sentence as if the linen band About his neck were somehow pressing his vocal chords.
 He was. he admitted. private watch man who had most of the block near the Hotel Republic. and he usually paid a visit to the back gate of the Watson boarding house once or twice during the course of his rounds
 He ve.ified all that the buXom cook had aiready told. since he himself had watched proceedings from dark cor oer little further along the alley. but bis account was amplified and more definite as to detail.
 Did you" asked lAngdon. know who resided in the house into which the girl was lifted by means of the rope swingY
 q did. sor. he answered. Tt was Barker's, the gambiin' place, you know, sor They kep' it dark in the back and in the front but it was bright enough inside. begorra."
 Were you watchman for that build ingf"
 "No. sor. They had their own man to keep an eye ont for the bulls, but 1t was that very night they were pulled. Tim. the policeman at the corner, had wised me up to it only an hour before "'Stick around. Denny says he. 'there'll be big doin's soon. They're goin' to raid Barkers,' Sez he. and I'll bet we pull few big bugs. or my name is mud
 "So I was kind of hangin around waitin' when { see this other fellow posted in the alley. First off. l sez. he's a plain elothes man. Then looks at his feet and I says nix. he's gum shoe crook. and then the girl comes down the fire escape
 When the girl bad disappeared into Barker's. what did you do?r
 T joined Katie and says to her. said !. its goin' to be big night. and that girl has jumped out of the fryin' pan into the fire And begorra. sor. I'd no more than said it. then l heard the sig nal blow and saw the blueeoats march in up the alley and across the street