The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1912, Page 9

A sv DETECTIVE WRC 24 °*) SHERIDAN A Series of Articles Exposing the Every-Day Deceptions of the Powers That Prey. | “Camera-Eye” Sheridan is regarded as one of the best detectives that ever existed outside of fiction, The feats lof memory which gave him his nickname, when he was | “head of the Bureau of Identification of the New York | Poline Department, are proverbial, It has been said that there is no man in | the United States with so thorough a knowledge of criminals and their ways | as Detective Sheridan. In this series he gives the public many valuable pointers calculated to save them loss by swindling, (Coprright, 1912, by W. Aulick.) NO. 21—“THE CHARITY RACKET.” WINDLING a man who {s himself a would-be swindler 1s inexcusable | of cot as all dishonesty must be, but ft 1s not so repulsive an un- | dertaking as is the sp le of the grafter who preys upon inborn | humanity of his fellows, When you come across one of this latter | class of crooks you strike a creature whom it would be a libel on @ vul- | ture to liken to that bird of prey. And yet the criminal woods are full of these thieves, and the pity of it 1s} that they are of both sexes. Indeed, the chief operators of the fake charity | depend very largely for their success upon thetr women tools. The careless | charitably disposed, particularly the men among them, give more freely when a} oman asks, and so the she-grafter 1s very much in evidence in working this) growing but ancient crookedness. H few male residents of iurge cities—that is, male resitents who at one fme or another enter a barroom—have fatled to be approached sooner or later | ‘vy women garbed as sisters of charity, No Catholic sister of charity is ! sat into a barroom to solicit money—and if any woman of such appearfan: teen in such places she may be stamped at once as an impostor, | Now and then exposure comes, as 4t did not so long ago when the pro- Prietor of a famous hotel in Broadway aroused the indignation of a crowd of sporting men congregated in his cafe by chi « into the street two apparent “sisters” who had been qutetly going through the room and gathering a rich haul, Once in the street the women ran in opposite directions as fast as they could, while the proprietor went back and explained to the crowd the truth about the impostors, James Forbes, director of the Association for the Preven- | tion of Mendicancy and Impostures, later {dentified the crooks as two women who had made a fine living posing as Carmelite nuns. When a criminal who makes his lving out of the kindly qualities of the, rest of the world goes into a town he sets about collecting an array of tools iclent te cover the whole of the community thoroughly, He furnishes the cost 4, which are inexpensive in the ext and the women go ahead In thelr acquired robes and play thelr parts exactly as they would if they were arr n pairs, and to each pair is allotted a cer- y are paid on the percentage basis, and collectively thetr take- Ange. the simple asking of alms tn a barroom by a woman clad in y are uently the hood d wearing a plain cross from the neck is varied by the sale of the the benefit of some imaginary charity or the soliciting of | subscriptions in the high-sounding name of a fanciful organization, chosen for larity to the name of a respected and recognized benefaction, Some ‘ake charity Workers carry little books, and in these the victims are asked to write their names and the amount of the subscription they will give to the fake cause Some of the more pretentious crafters have taken a step further by hiring women of fine presence and supposed position who go among the bankers and brokers and moneyed class of merchants and give them a personal canvass for the cause of “a poor artist Just back from Paris, without funds and in great Need of life's necessaries.” These women must be gacd talkers, good lookers and good dressers and when these qualities are combined and the tale they tell dom leave an e without a considerate cash subscrip- the signatures of prominent men, and these signatures toward uring further business, has subscribed, say, %, and writte woman travels on to the next 11! stand, first taking the precaution to alter the $ into $0, and thus making probable a large take-in at the next place visited. ly an easy matter to convict on the charge of obtaining The Papers Say By John L. Hobble ae ‘obey’ Cover Publishing Co IRL jokes ove and loses flance.” The man who does not understand wife's The New Yor! vote against the suffragist candidate because they don't believe in voting, “G tha! the promise to obey is a joke on him is not fitted to be a hus- band. “Five police captains transferred.” That is the trouble with that line of work, As s00n as a man gets a good business worked up he is forced to move. “Publisher loses He probably forgot to pay royalties on a book submitted without a copyright. memory.” “Freshmen beat seniors at foot ball.” When the freshmen can ez- cel in such a contest what value is a college education? “Mona Lisa reported found." If Mona Lisa is ever found out it wilt probably result in her going to the wall. Ags one might say mercly to fll space. “Women to fight Mormonism in Utah." We don't have to go as far as Utah to find women who have only half-interests in their husbands. Some of the anti-sufragists will @ baby that was bronght up on and it gained ten pounds in wela! “ ought not to tell you such rub A Bride’s Victory. 1 just saw her the other day Ave slie’s as hay 0 pact CR Fish for a Husband. When a merchant! his name and the amount in the tok, the! o kout for these numerous frauds, and when they catch the | World) | STILL WE FIND OUR REGULAH PLACE Quite EXCLUSIVE ae alla October 12, 1912. AN’ THEY HAVE A FERLAH MAKIN “PAN CAM ES IN THE FRONT WINDOW fi 1 SWIPED TWENTY HORSES ROBBED TWo BANKS, Kine TEN FAMILIES AND My MOTHER IN LAW AND AAURDERED MY NING GRAND CHILDREN - But ‘You SEE-, JUDGE, | ONLY SAID KATY SMITH WAS HORRIO= 4- [ @ O. Heeza Boo WHO IN THUNDER. 1S LINGING THAT PHONE ay THIS HOUR OF THE NIGHT 2 | KNEW HE'D FALL Fer DAT PHONE GAG- TINK WE'LL GeaB AND BEAT IT “You “wou'dn't went @ husband that you had rt) (6L€S3'EM) AND 1 DID THIS ALL FOR A WOMAN'S Lov& : SHs WAG A BBAUT, TOO- ALMOST AS PRETTY AS YOURSELF - BUT SHE HATED Mo Add WELL COME OvEerR TO THE STATION HOUSE AND BAIL Me OUT wit vee? "mM PINCHED = (Sure-e'neLt Be BACK Peerry SOon Now BECAUSE HE WAS TUNNIN® WHEN He (leves CP HAVEN'T sou) (¢ y | JUDGE ? i TO0, (Copyright, 1912, by G, P, Putnam's Sons, NG CHAPTERS, val Wert (a your Weutenant tn the Army during the civil wan loves Gertrate a ivern airl, “Certrues. bronher in the ‘Confederate "Army at's sinter, Madeline, ten. former anantian, ina Union of married you at ty has siusngmed Bran, le and ta in Love Haverili,. Hob fiewe whi tractive Aieolate son by a former marriage. Frank, une der another nae, hae since enlisted, “West, "to inant to vl retill, fights « Falward , te oct, The civil war ts at ita height, the reat conten the South's effort to. hold the valle valley againat the Union forces ‘Stonewall Jack- fn wing repeated victoria and menaces the city w on, Prank Haverill is captured | by to Tabby Prison under the 1 ‘There he finde an ond aaset- Union captives, most of whom are gally willing away their Jong imprisooment by card games and by a CHAPTER XI. (Cont{oued,) Libby Prison. T this moment a sudden atlence fell, and a general movemen: and whisper made themsel manifest. Enter Capt. Jack- aon Warner, the prison com- 1 peut, Aloe ary. tvening, Yanks," waa hig groff but sot unkindly greeting. “What devittry ire you up to now?" “Taiking over old times and ot4 eom- rades, captain, that's all,” copied Cox, ntly. “Well, you may have an opportun } of seeing some more o' them ‘ery 011d comrades o' yourn, T reckon, tet. ong." “What! are we gotng to get out? “No; they're coming in here. I eup- poso you've heard the news?’ @ young Heutenant who tly In an opposite corner attentively now the uy “Let ua ner,” urged Cox, haven't got feell: know, What's the ‘Oh, some more fighting in the Valley, you know. Yanks licked out o' thelr boots again, |, More prisoners, more hard J ries.” cried Deacon Mart. More prisonera? Oh, Onprrtcy, 1918, t "Eis New Yor Worl) “You're on the religious, aren’t yout’ inquired the commissary, scoffingly. “I'm a shouting Methodiat these forty years, thank the Lord,” answered the Deacon, holding his hand of cards be- hind bis back, “Well, your shouting hasn't benefited Lincoln nor yourself very much #0 \ far, You'd better swing around and pray for Jeff Davis, I reckon, and be jon the safe side,”” “Never, tll this right hand"—~putting to with the cards, then Jerk- and holding up the right “shall lowe its cunning.” ahead, Deacon, and pray for if they want you to,” sug- “He'll need it before this GEE | FORGOT TO ASK WHO IT WAS ~ Hope it’s)| | NONE OF THe FAMILY | — r n tale with your friends Just front about that," retorted ‘Hore's one of ‘em ina now.” ed tramp fide was heard ap- The commissary the new Union el in between tw 4 and introduced penmit. me Forty-second T am Col. the New iment of New York it. Bedloe, sotto Tammany exclaimed Wow! Gee wiz! OBBED! NOW! SEE THE WHOLE ‘opt, Cox returned the newcomers and responted | “We have heard of you, are right pr tucky, Chaplain own state ‘Tenth Kentucky." c weil shook hands all around, 1 waid lionel, and tror Iam Capt. Cox of why, your the honor of n't suppose re." fortunate to ha ems d out away tn for an Just walt till the exchange," sald the a dozen men Uke m a whole Rebel Ralph Hunt, Ket the ers back end us as going and elsewhere as ned sight worse, 1 Al Civil War Romance of Sheridan By Henry Tyrrell (Founded on Bronson Howard's Great Play.J Played the Stars and Stripes wrapped around his body. “Not all lost, sir. Our colors, by God!” The prisoners rushed forward, ¢hetr eyes bulging and cheeks glowing with patriotic ardor. Even poor Hunt rose excitedly from his couch. “Three cheers, boys," cried Com, “AK together—let her go!" They gave a rousing round of cheers that brought Captain Warner rushing ‘back Into the room. “Come, come, gentlemen! Remember where you are. This ain't Washington, D. C. What are you fecling #0 ornery about?" “We wore just welcoming an old friend,” explained Cox, “And, besides, Cap,” interposed Hart, “ain't this Thanksgiving eve? How about them pumpkin ples we ordered, and paid for in good United States money?" “That's @ fact,” answered the com- missary. “Well, the cook tackled ‘em, according to directions. They ought to ‘be pretty nigh done by this time. Queer that.’ reatest on earth,” declared Har! “And . Warner, evi Slice of that ‘ere pumpkin ‘ll be swee ened with the thought of home. “Home, home, sweet, aweet home; ‘There's no place I!ke—" “Oh, shucks; sing ‘Dixie,’ why don't you. That's a proper tune. Is there any Yank Knows ‘Dixie’? “Maybe Légut. Bedloe can obiige you,” responded Cox, “Eh, Frank what do you say? “Why, yea, I can aing ‘Dizte,’l guess, tiough I'm not quite sure about the words,” repiled the young lieutenant. which had often helped beguile the of the Sorters Shee day: cil too, ing, eding? jay, look away, upon her, Save the Old Dominion's honor. Look ‘ay, look away, look away, Dixie's land. Untur! our country’s banner In triumph there, And let the Rebels desecrate That banner if they dare. Hurrah, hurral ‘The Stare and Stripes forever, Hurrah, hurrah! ‘This Union shall not sever.” It took Capt. Warner some ttle tine to Krayp the significance of this new version of “Dixie,” but as soon as he 4id he turned very red, and shoyted: jold on, there! Cut it short, I say.” ‘Do you want another verse, Cap- tain? fot in that strain. Bedloe you're the ext Yank in Libby prison. That sort o' thing'll elther git you free or shot some day." At this juncture the door opened, and immediately a joyous commotion en- sued. “Plo! Pie! O, pumpkin ple! Atten- tion, all! Salute the pastry! Let the noble pumpkin approach its doom with military honors."* The prisoners drew up in line, oppos site Capt, Warner, while in marched a dignified old negresa with a red ban- danna turban on her head, bea} in both hands a platter contain! an enormous ple, This she solemnly de- posited on the table, then turned and mado her exit in silence, saluted pro- foundly by the company. “Well, I seem to have happened {1 the rignt time,” sald Cot, Coxgswell “Chapiain Hart wilh ask @ blessing— wit! you Join us, Capt. Warner i thank you," replied the commis- making his exit ‘The atmosphere’s sar » then, Deacon,” urged Cox, as red around the “festive " Knife in hand, Hart stood in an atti- tude of devotion at the head of the and disgust o ‘and ths Lord eaten it! Why, ain't gone and put an upper crust on & pumpkin ple! And the pumpkin cut into hunks as big as your dst, without ho mil nor cugar, aga not half baked, x r “The devil! Those Virginia darkies are good cooks, but they don't know what pumpkin pe ts." Deacon Hart carved the ple and dis- crfbuted slabs ell sroun@, remarking pphically: “The blacks must be ¢reed and edu- cated, Think of a whole race in such benlghted ignorance as thist? ‘The attack had scarcely begun when a | hould tthe present momen Capt. Warner once more appeared at Denver News, HEARD that you were going to fy A vy ter | Then.” tnterp Hart, tragteally, the door, making a sign which ll the Explained. | asked one young society woman of “hey epee FENG 008 $8 SeOPOR AAA FOR Making It Worth While. |"). ,...., f i gy ‘anders ooh THAOHED vhs ivi mY him) 1 should sey pall Target. Tack hin, Gace stlnitaed NEIGHBORHOOD bully bad run over 8 piledody nay ake sure that che stir up the. animals, bora! whier A, en Teacup et eng mane, wah im xis fe Get Baines, ae | eta wae ant AQ Tee ea a sath had tre oem wart Hae vor Sming” terrupted by one of “Well,” aaid the friend, “he can swim beauti- State Legislature, was noted for his quicks| "My dear sir," reviled Gary, with @ twinkle in Sonny, when 1 mas & youngster my father 4 1s we f his uniform, which had been out “Wisase, ir)" be oald, "dimay sare be baew fully, you mom Bes at repartee, Ov one gecaslon be bad im+| bie aye, ‘jou’ Gatiar youreel! ox jour marks | uched me every time any Loy did baw not! Dust, tightly buttoned up to bie obin, and dis (To Be Continued. A ' - Cs aT