Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1913 — Page 4

DAILYDEMOCRAT Published Every Evening, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. JOHN H. HELLER. Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Ter Year, by mail $2.50 , Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. at. the postoffiee in Decatur, The day after, and the general ver-1 diet is that the day was all that was) < 'aimed for it. The visitors had a good time and the local people did a ! good business. Albert .1. Beveridge in the leading 1 article in this week's Saturday Even-' ing Post, says that the idea of the ] republicans and the progressives re-1 uniting is preposterous, and that the ' 1 epublican party has outlived the average life of a imlitical party, thirty years, intimating that its chances to do good are about over. Bluffton gets the convention next , I I year and the Decatur boys helped them to get it. It's a funny thing that we have our little scraps and I contests, but politically we are neigh-1 borly and mat's the way it ought to! be. We hope that the 1914 convert-I tion in Bluffton will be a complete Fiiccess and we believe it will fer p they have a community which dies ‘ things, are hospitable to a fault an l we like them even when we are dis-1 puting their rights to a ball game | <r a waler battle. The senate committee has, we tiiink, showed much wisdom in the i changes it has made in the tariff bill. 4>e far there have been no signs of a reactionary tendency. On the contrary many duties have been lowered, and there have been some additions to the free list. All of which j goes to prove that two legislative; bodies are better than one, even w hen the one is as honest, efficient and patriotic as the present house of I representatives. We have no high opinion of the principle of retaliation in tariff legislation, for such action! usually injures the nation that re- ’ sorts to it as much as it does the na-| tion against which it is directed. But , it is to be said for the senate committee that while it lias given the' president power to retaliate, it hasl carefully defined and limited that power. The articles on which the, higher duties may be imposed and! the increases in duties arc alike set forth. All that the president has to decide is whether there is discrimination against this country.—lndiar::;>olis News.

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SPECIAL NOTICE. The schooj board will receive seal- . ed bids for 200 tons of 2,000 ]>ounds each of White Ash domestic lum coal j to be delivered in bins at the Central and Ward school buildings in Decatur,' Ind, not later than August 19, 1913. Sealed bids to be filed with the I secretary not later than 8 p. m. on June 30. The successful bidders to file way-bills of loads hauled with I * bill after the coal is delivered; also show the number of tons put in ] ' each building. • Tlie board reserves the right to re-1 j ject any and all bids. o. L. vance, IRVIN BRANDYBERRY, FRED J. FRUCHTE, 130tC School Board. I ° ' Ft. Wayne & Springfield Ry. Company. TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur at 5:50, 7:00,1 8:30, 11:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 9:30; ar-1 rive at Fort Wayne at 6:53, 8:10, 9:10,1 12:40, 3:40, 5:10; 6:40, 10:40. Southbound. Leave Fort Wayne at 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 11:00; i arrivtwin Decatur at 8:10, 9:40; 11:10, 2:10, 5:10, 6:40, 8:10, 12:10. Connections are made at Foit Wayne with the Fort Wayne and | Northern Indiana Traction Co., The ‘Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Company, the Ohio Electric, and Indiana Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash, Nickel Plate, L. S. & M. S._ C. H. & D„ and G. R. & 1. railroads. FREIGHT SERVICE. Freight service consists of one train each way daily: Leaving Decatur at 8:00 a. m., and returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 m. This enables shippers to telephone orders! and receive shipments promptly. —— B W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, General Manager, - Decatur, Ind. HEALTH OFFICERS' NOTICE. 11. E. Martz has made arrangements ’ with the city board of health, which! has given him authority to clean out’ .all private vaults within the city of Decatur. All work w ill be strictly in i compliance with the health board. All i parties having vaults that need clean-1 ing will leav e their calls at Schlickman & Son's feed yard. So govern yourselves accordingly, as the City Health Board will enforce the law to the letter. 125tf FOR SALE AT SACRIFICE PRICES. 9 rooms and bath, modern residence, good barn, full lot, 4 blocks of court house. 9 room house, full lot, on Marshall street. — 8 room house on South Tenth St., good barn, full lot. t 7 room house, good barn, plenty of fruit, full lot, on Monroe street. We must clise these out soon. HARVEY & LEONARD. — —o - MAKE US_AN OFFER. We hav e for sale a 10 room house, modern, good barn, full lot, 4 blocks from court house. This property is well worth $3,000. We must sell this property quick. Come in and we will show you a bargain. 144t3 HARVEY & LEONARD.

The Obliging Juryman He Had Just Time to Serve Before Taking a Train By ELLSWORTH TOWNSEND 1 like to talk with John Atherton, a retired detective friend of mine, for ho has a fund of incidents that occurred during the days of his active service that I find interesting. Some of them happened to him personally, and some were told him by his fellow craftsmen during idle hours. This is one of Atherton's stories that especially pleased me from the ingenuity and assurance perpetrated by a rogue: There are two ways by which crooks work, the one with, the other without confederates. Both ways have their advantages. A man who works alone doesn't have the fear of being betrayed by liis pal. for where one is offered an easy letting off from a bard sentence if lie will squeal he is pretty liable to squeal. But a man who lias a confederate can do w hat one man can’t do alone. In one way crook pals will usually stand by each other. When one is in danger the other will do all in his power and take considerable risks to help him out 1 was once put on a job to track down a man called Jerry Wilson, who was in the confidence department of roguery. Wilson usually worked countrymen. He was one of the most accomplished swindlers I ever met. He had been an actor and was proficient in the art of making up. We would hear of him one day passing as a stockbroker, at another as a clergyman and again as a cotton planter with a perfect southern dialect Os course we didn't know at the time that these were one and the same man, but we often suspected it and in time learned it from Wilson liimself.

One day a countryman reported nt police headquarters that he had been victimized by a man who passed himself off for an Englishman. The coun-' tryman had come from England twenty years before and had never become Americanized. Englishmen seldom become naturalized. You will find thousands of them in this country, and other countries for that matter. Mho have become old men and not seen England since they were children and are still British subjects. The man who picked him up doubtless beard him speak with bis British lingo, had stepped up to him and hulled him as a fellow’ countryman. Qne born, he said, under the British Hag and once accustomed to the home accent could always be placed as an English-: man. Then he launched out on the demerits of this “bloody country” and won the farmer's heart completely. A confidence man becomes very expert in drawing out information from a greenhorn, and the new acquaintance —Henderson lie called himself—was evidently an adept at this work, for the farmer soon learned that they Ixith came from the same county in England and from the same town and knew the same persons. Henderson, being a later arrival, gave Ids former fellow townsman lots of Information as to what had become of many of his old friends—who were living nnd who were dead and who had married. The result wns a friendly drink at a "public.” as they call a saloon in England, followed by a friendly game, with the consequent transfer of several hundred dollars of the farmer’s money to the pockets of Mr. Henderson, wire, when lie had drained his fellow countryman’s resources, slipped out through a back door. Well, we got on to Mr. Henderson, but were deficient In proof. The farm- : er’s testimony might have been met by an alibi mid other subterfuges, nnd I decided to capture him at his own game. Having located him, I stood near him and. adopting the British accent, began to talk about dear old Merrie England. The fellow chimed in, nnd we were soon hobnobbing together. I lind my pocketbook stuffed with marked bills, which passed into my countryman's possession. Then I tipped a confederate the wink, nnd together we took him In.

There couldn’t have b<;cn n surer case ngainst a man than that, could there? From facts I gathered nnd the man's ability to personate different characters I belie red I had got the slippery Wilson, nnd I Intended to put him where he would trouble the public no longer. In making up a jury to try him we got nine good men. when somehow we couldn't get any further. Some were exempt and some had sufficient excuses. When we got the eleventh man so much time hnd been lost that the judge M-ns getting impatient. A gentlemanly looking man In the courtroom said that If the trial would not occupy much time he would help us out. He was immediately served tvlth a summons, accepted and sworn in. The trial didn’t require or ft was not given a long time. The evidence was perfect and the conviction was considered a mere matter ot form. Besides, there was the gentleman who had volunteered to serve on the case provided he would not be long detained. After he had been sworn in he told the judge thft he was really exempt, but wou|d .njtJclaim exemption’provided he wijs issured that.be would iu eveyy probability be discharged within a couple of hours sipce'he was waiting for a train that would leave at the expiration of that time. I think the judge must

have '.rad an engagement himself, for ho seemed to be In a hurry. He held a consultation with the prisoner's attorney—whom lie had assigned to .defend him—who said that he had little ] or no evidence for the prisoner and did not think what he had would require ten iiilnut»>s to bring it out. Upon tills the judge told the obliging Juryman ■ that he wns very sure he would have plenty of lime to make his train. “I'm glad of that, your honor," said the gentleman. "There’s nothing I i dread so much as waiting tor anything. especially for a train." The judge's opinion as to the period of the trial proved quite correct. For awhile it seemed that it Mould be put through at railroad speed. The charge wns rend to the prisoner, and he was asked to plend. He said he was a Brit ish subject and asked if that would make any difference. When told that it would not he pleaded not guilty. I gave my account ot how I bad trap ped him, and his victim testified against him. The accused declared that lie was a British subject from i Australia and if his home were not sc far away lie could easily prove spcctability. The twelfth juryman ini paneled asked him a few questions about Australia, which he answered evidently to the juryman's satisfaction. But this didn't cut any figure because it didn't matter where he came from We had the deadwood on him. We expected the jury to convict him without leaving their seats, but they didn't. Then we thought they might be half an hour, but the half hour passed, and they didn’t come back. The judge went home to dinner, leav- ■ ing instructions to be called when a verdict was reached. He wasn’t called. The jury remained out the rest ot the day and all night. In the morning they sent word thai they would like to be discharged since they couldn't agree. This made the judge angry, and he sent back word that the evl- : deuce was absolutely convincing and they must agree. Indeed, they were given to understand that they must bring hi a verdict or they would be I kept where they were till the crack of. doom. They stood out till nliout 10 o’clock the second night, then sent word that they had come to an agree ment. The judge was summoned. and I they fled into copit. The judge asked the customary questions. “Have you arrived nt a verdiet?” "We have, your honor.” "Do you find the prisoner guilty or' not guilty of the charge?” “Net guilty.” ••What!" “Not guilty, your honor.” There was nothing to do in accordance with the law except to dis charge them. Convinced that there had been some rascality practiced. I; stationed myself at the door and scru-, tinized every man as he went out I noticed that the twelfth juryman, who I had volunteered, led the rest out of the courtroom, and I heard him descending the sfairs three steps at a time. I was convinced that he had imposed : on us all with a view to getting on the! jury, then standing out for an acquittal. I learned that he had told his fellow ! jurymen that he had lived in Australia and had known the prisoner there and could vouch for his being a respected citizen of Melbourne. He was sure] that he bad been mistaken for some one else and would not ou any account | vote for a conviction. Not until the others became convinced that the man was not to lie moved did they conclude to bring in a verdict of not guilty rath-1 er than disagree and subject the state ] to the expense of another trial. There was no way of holding the man who had lieeu tried. He had been acquitted of the charge of which he was accused and could not be tried! again for that crime. Bo we made a virtue of necessity and let him go. Six months after this two men were arrested for confidence work. I went to the trial for information and a look at the prisoners, since it wns my custom to keep track of the rogues brought in. The moment I looked at the prisoners 1 recognized both of them. One was the man who had swindled the farmer and wbotn I had supposed to he Jerry Wilson. The oth or—would you lielieve it?—was the twelfth juryman who had forced his acquittal.

But this wns not all of my surprise.Al the trial of the two men it came out that this twelfth juryman. Mho I Mas willing to help us out if it didn’t take t«o long. Mas none other than Jerry Wilson. He ami the other man. . Tom, Murphy (and other names), had 1 long worked confidence games together, and when his pal was in trouble Wilson had made himself up for a gentleman, had gjne into the courtroom to watch the impaneling of the jury and tn the nick of time bud offered himself ] to help us out I confess that in all my experience 1 never knew a clearer case of one rogue standing by another. Wilson run ar awful risk. Had 1 known when he left the courtroom that he had single handed "hung" the jury I should have kept him in sight, trumped up a I charge ugalnst him and held him-till 1 i could find out who he was. That he feared something of the kind was evident front the haste with which be gut ! away. After the conviction of the two.men ! (they Mere sent up for twenty years) I Visited Wilson in jail, and he told tue much about his operations. He said that Mhen he played the twelfth juryman tri, k he M-ns more afraid of my getting ou to it than any one else, for I had completely outwitted his pal tvitb my marked bills r ' When be saw me station myself nt the courttpom door to wateb the outgoing of the jury, men he thought it was all up with him. The moment be reached the i street he run like a deer, entered an alley and was. soon beyond capture

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