People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — HAS TO MAKE A LIVING. [ARTICLE]

HAS TO MAKE A LIVING.

A Story of Francis Wilson ami a Hawkshaw From Yonkers. Frauois Wilson says many funny things on the stage, and he seems to reot ognlze a good thing when it is said. I have therefore wondered whether ha has ever told of his meeting with the chief of the Yonkers polioe department wheu thut Hawkshaw was engaged in the solving (?) of the Andrus bomb mystery. It happened this way: Wilson, who lias a delightful littla cottage in Mount Vernon, came across to Yonkers the day after the mysterious death of Mr. Andrus and uooompanied by a friend entered the polioe headquarters. He was anxious to see the fragments of the bomb and whatever else the polioe bud found on the soene of the crime. There were a number of New York newspaper men present at the time. “Oaptain Mangin,” said the friend, “I want to introduce you to Francis Wilson.” r “Happy to meet you, Mr. Wilson.” “Mr. Wilson,” said the friend, “is carious to see the evidence you have oolleoted iu the Andrus case. ” “Certainly, Mr. Wilson,” and Oaptain Mangin displayed tho fragments of the bomb and the splintered desk under which it had exploded. Then an idea strnck*him. “Do anything in the detective way, Mr, Wilson?” “No, hardly,” and the aotor and his friend soon left the police station. “Now, I wonder,” said tho worthy Hawkshaw, a* the door closed behind bis visitors, “what that Mr. Wilson wanted to see those things for. I wonder if he lives here in Yonkers.” “Why, that’s Francis Wilson, the aotor.” suggested one of the newspaper men present. “Aotor, is he? Well, I s’pose he’s got to make a living somehow.’’—New York Commercial Advertiser.