Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-20
Georgia Tourists Inspect
Pottery and Soap Plants
is Guests Of CinClnnatr
NO DIAMOND DICK
STUFF IN METHODS
OF BOY BANDITS
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eyes, and went into the drug store"
Did you feel nervous as you
started?" I asked.
This time it was not May who
answered, and 1 fancy the main part
of the story came out as Taylor re-
piled:
Just Lacked Sense
Move didn't have sense enough
to be nervous. If we had stayed
outside five minutes longer l don't
believe we would have done it. We
Just lacked sense; that was all"
Now about the guns"
well, they weren't much, as guns
co." said May. THE one I had was
sort of house-gun that had been
kicking around Taylor's home for
dozen years. One of the kind you
can hammer the hammer and. it won't
go off. 1 guess that is true. l
couldn't shoot it, know 1t woulon [
work for me-
HE didn't know how to operate
it," explained Taylor. He pulled the
trigger part way back and let 1t
JAM >.
TayIor's "gat" was tiny 25-cali-
Der automatic. II would shoot. lie
shot it twice-once in the Parker
of the heroic negro serVltor, VINO was
closing the safe; and again outside,
to check disposition on the. part
of the crowd TO set chase:
Nobody showed much fight IT, IN tine the
mumbled bad words under their
breath, but they quieted down when
1 swung the gun at them; Inc
women were more composed than
the men. The cashier was evidently
locking us oversize got our oe+
scriptions accurately. I told her not
to be scared, and she didn't seem to
be- sure enough"
Suppose somebody had showed
fight, and started some hing:
Weren't Hunting Trouble o,,
reflectively, "I'd have dug myself
hole and crawled out of there in
hurry I wasn't looking for trouoie.
All We wanted was little money"
HOW, many Jobs have you boys
p" Two" rep replied May instantly;
THE two in Atlanta And he
added with a quick smile. Il guess
that's about two too many, too
Two too many is about right; ana
we'll dressed, with fashionably point
ed shoes; trousers very tight; tstyl-
10" overcoats worried Them
ruined me in that alley the first
night" said May, with chgckle;
I'VE went out of the store and got
into a blind alley with a high fence
at the end. 1 boosted Taylor, who is
bigger than I, and he got over the
fence. had the two overcoats,
and 1 thought 1 never would get
over. 1t took a long time; seemed
like an hour Finally 1 climbed a
tree and got over that way"
Then they walked back down,
town going along West Peachtree on
different sides until they reached the
hotel.
They seem to regard it somewhat
as a lark, only realizing at intervals
the gravity of the situation. They
take it like high school boys after
a Halloween frolic. who have taken
a farmers wagon apart and put it
together on top of his barn. And
yet Taylor seemed to have at least
a working idea of the situation when
he said they didn't have sense
enough to be nervous" when they
started into that first drug store
If they'd waited a few minutes
longer, he said, that first step
wouldn't have been taken. And they
seem to realize that it doesn't pay
that they'll be much longer reach
ing Florida than if they had stop
ped off here and done a few weeks
honest work, and earned their way
instead Of trying to beat the world
out of 1T.