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would want your divy and I need it all
to pay my way into the country You
want me to aid you in your scheme
but no help is needed in mine
Your scheme aint ripe yet How
long do you suppose Golden will con
sent to remain in town after working
onr racket with all Chicago on the
look out for him
Lang appeared crestfallen at this
Dont you think he can be prevailed
upon to remain long enough for me to
work it You know he is paid to
bring recruits to the city How do
you suppose he escaped from impreg
nable Joliet unless he had help from
the outside
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K CHARLES MORRIS BUTLER-
Copyright 1905 by C Morris Butler
CHAPTER V
Golden Escapes From Jaliet
Regan had drunk a cocktail during
Louis absence and managed to clear
his brain enough to realize that the
conversation being carried on should
as Louis had suggested be more
secret so -when the youth returned he
was ready to accompany him to the
room engaged
How did you manage to get Into
the club Regan asked in a sus
picious tone
I never got in
Regan started How did you know
about it then he asked amazed
I know very little about it was
rthe candid answer You know I am
supposed to have killed a man It
was during my imprisonment in the
Tombs that I first learned of the ex
istence of such a society r was in
vited to join it but at the cost of more
stuff than I could then raise But
learned enough to know that there
was such a place as the city and I
now want to find out how to get
there
I am looking for a bright confed
erate said Regan Ive got onto one
of thd easiest snaps afloat these days
One of those bold daylight robberies
that only requires nerve to successful-
ly carry it out There is about two
thousand apiece for three good men
who can carry it through
Im your man replied Louis
promptly
All right acquiesced Regan if
j ou really have the nerve sneering
ly to undertake a real job Ill put
you in the way of it
Youll excuse me Mr Regan said
Louis calmly still intent upon draw
ing his antagonist out but how am
I to judge of the sincerity of your
statements A while ago you admit
ted to me that you were making a
good living not by arresting us boys
Why do you suppose Golden places
himself in my power asked Regan
proudly
Dont know replied Lang but he
guessed pretty shrewdly
Simply because it was I Jack Re
gan who got him out of limbo I
was told that by giving Golden this
aid I could save my entrance fee I
am as much a member of the club as
he is but he knows the way to the
city and I dont
Well I must say you have made a
killing How was the escape brought
about
Oh easily enough replied the
flattered Regan I will tell you about
it I engaged the serviecs of a lawyer
and went down to Joliet for the os
tensible purpose of getting Golden to
confess that he had a partner who
was implicated with him in the crime
The judge in passing sentence told
Golden that if he would confess to
having had an accomplice he would
give him a light sentence and we
worked on the plan as if we were after
such a confession and readily ob
tained permission to interview the
prisoner
Golden was brought into the prison
reception room a guard was placed
over him but no suspicion was enter
tained of me or the lawyer so we
were quite free to talk out of hearing
of the guard Golden asked for a
chew of tobacco and wouldnt write
until he got it I was prepared for
this and was the only one who had
any In it was a fine tempered steel
saw for sawing iron The confession
was filled out with the name of a man
whom Golden knew to be dead As
a reward theprisoner was given more
comfortable quarters an outside
room where he was allowed to breathe
a little outside air This room over
looked the stone yard and side track
which ran through it
This was over a month ago In
How was the escape brought about
but by extorting hush money from
my people How am I to be con
vinced that you are not trying to trap
me
You neednt fear me coolly re
plied Regan biting at the tempting
morsel of injured innocence held out
by Louis for I am going to take a
hand in the game myself You will
feel satisfied if I am with you
Yes if you work on the inside But
who is your partner
That is the worst part of the
scheme otherwise it would be per
fectly safe The concoctor the insti
gator the man I want to please in
this is a person who has just escaped
from Joliet A dangerous criminal
with an enormous reward offered for
his recapture and of course the police
are on the look out for him in Chi
cago
Say no more said Lang I know
who you mean Simeon Golden
You know him then
He was my companion in the
Tombs
- This is indeed a streak of luck
saidRegan enthusiastically When Sim
broached this job he had fears of not
being able to find a pal he could trust
I am certain now that he will be satis
fied with you It takes a powerful lot
of money to get into the club you
know but it will take less if you can
interest the seout in your favor You
have as much at stake as I You have
a plan on foot to raise your wind
what Is it
Regan replied Lang in a tone
meant at once to be respectful yet
positive what I have in view re
quires but a single head to work And
in fact no one but me could work it
Should you come in on the deal you
the meantime Golden managed to saw
partially through the bars of his win
dow during the moments when there
was a good deal of noise being made
by passing trains A week ago I went
down to Joliet and engaged a suitable
room and wardrobe for his recep
tion when he should make his escape
At last came a rainy night and dark
Fortune seemed to play into our
hands I saw the opportunity to open
the switch leading into the prison
yard and a freight train backed down
and ran into the prison gate and wall
and was wrecked All night long
workingmen and wrecking engines
were working upon the wreckage to
clear the track
Of course the prison guards were
doubled but that made no difference
with Goldens escaping I managed to
mingle unperceived among the wreck
ing crew At a signal from me when
the din was at its height Golden let
himself down from the window by
means of a rope made from tearing
his blanket into strips and dropped
unperceived into a rain water cistern
directly beneath At a second signal
from me just when a passenger train
hove in sight whose noise increased
the din and attracted attention Gold
en made his run for liberty across the
open space to where conveniently
upon the track stood a car with a der
rick upon it He climbed to the top
of the swinging arm of the hoisting
machine threw the end of the chain
over the wall where I caught it and
held it in place while he drew himself
over unseen I had clothes and dis
guises handy and it wasnt more than
five minutes before I had made a new
man of Golden and he was safe in
the room prepared for him
You certainly worked it slick And
I will have to do something pretty
foxy to outdo you if I go said Louis
with admiration in his tone
Thats what you will said the
gratified Regan And you will have
to do it quick Golden you must
know is not going alone His escape
was planned by one of the agents and
the same party has deputized Madam
Mendom to get together a small com
pany of lady emigrants to take to
the city That is another reason why
he cant stop If you can manage to
rob a bank in the early morning and
assist us in the evening ynu can go
but whether you do or not you can
make a couple of thousand as your
share in our deal
I am certain that you mean your
remarks to bo highly sarcastic said
Lang as a brilliant plan flashed
through his mind But I will show
you that I can rob a bank in the morn
ing just as you say and will be on
hand to help you in the evening I
tell you right now Im going see
When do we three meet to plan this
scheme of yours
We dont have to meet answered
Regan If Golden arrives safely
from Joliet as I am positive he will
I will see him to night and tell him
about you and if he thinks everything
all right in the morning I will go
down to John Alleys livery stable
and charter a horse and light delivery
wagon for the day Should the deal
be on you will find the horse hitched
in front of Pat Karragans saloon
which is next door to Stephen John
sons dry goods store About twelve
oclock whether you make your play
or not you come around and drive
off with the wagon and see that the
horse is well fed and rubbed down
bringing him back about four oclock
During this time I will be inside
the saloon playing pool or cards for
a blind In bringing the horse back
drive into the alleyway facing west
so that when we draw off with the
swag we can trail several blocks
through the alleys without running
across a car track All you will have
to do will be to watch the mouth of
the alley between seven at nighty and
possibly twelve or one oclock in the
morning and at the right moment
help load up a lot of silks and linens
and drive off Golden and I will do
the work unless the program - is
changed
Well if that is all you want of me
said Louis Ill leave you and kind
of get my thinking cap on I must
pull strings for myself
Dont the magnitude and daring of
the scheme paralyze you asked Re
gan gazing in astonishment at the
calm composure of the lad
No replied Lang quietly rising
to go My palm doesnt even itch
You imagine that I am giving you
taffy about robbing a bank While
you are getting ready to work your
scheme for 2000 Ill raise 10000
Do you think I can do it
I am not so sure you cant
And it will be at the Jim Denvers
expense see
I dont see how replied Regan
half questioningly and 111 have to
take your word for it But Ive come
to the conclusion that you are capable
of anj thing
They walked out to the bar togeth
er and Regan took his parting drink
alone while Louis lit his cigar Then
they bade each other good night
If the treacherous detective had not
been under the influence of drink he
never would have made a confidant of
Lang When he began to ponder on
the doings of the evening he could
not but realize the amount of valuable
information he had been foolish
enough to give away And he fully
realized that Lang had in nowise com
promised himself It was a matter of
chagrin to him
What if Lang should play us
false soliloquized Regan What
wouldnt Golden do to me if he knew
that I had given away the secret of the
existence of the city Treachery 1
must not hint at it I must not act
but as if Lang was already a member
of the society In helping Golden to
escape I have gone too far I must
enter the country It is my only
chance of freedom I must make my
self rich and famous it has been the
one dream of my life
What could these words of Regan
mean There is no doubt that Regan
was two faced neither an honest de
tective nor a thief recognizing thd
code of honor among thieves Evi
dently Regan has an object in desir
ing to enter the city Did he intend
to betray his confederates Time wili
make his intentions clear
To be continued
SENSE OF SMELL IN BIRDS
Many Proofs That It Is Not Acutely
Developed
A study of the habits of flesh-eating
birds shows that if they possess
the sense of smell at all it is no
sufficiently acute to enable them to
use it in finding food
All observers agree that when a
carcass is hidden by never so slight
a screen it is safe from the attacks
of vultures and other carrion seekers
but the most remarkable proof of the
ineffectiveness of the sense if it ex
ist at all is afforded by experiences
which Dr Guillemard was good
enough to relate to me Many times
it has happened he tells me that
having shot a wild beast or othei
game which was too heavy to carry
home he has disembowled it ana
hidden the carcass in the hole of an
ant bear
On returning with natives to carry
it to camp he has found a circle oi
vultures standing round the spot
where the offal had been thrown com
pletely unaware of the carcass within
a few yards of their beaks Of obser
vations proving the possession of the
sense I know none unless we are
willing to accept as evidence the be
lief which is very general among
fanciers that birds are attached to
the smell of anise and the similai
belief of gamekeepers in some parts
of the country that they are attracted
by valerian It is said that pigeons
may be prevented from deserting the
dovecote by smearing their boxes with
oil of anise Poachers are supposed
to lure hen pheasants from a wood by
anointing gateposts with tincture of
valerian Ka ture
DESPERATE TORPEDO ATTACKS
UNNERVED RUSSIAN CREWS
LINE OF BATTLE OF THE RUSSIAN FLEET
As Indicated by Cable Dispatches to the United States Navy Department
by Its Attaches in Japan
The first definite news from Russian
sources of the naval battle fought in
the Straits of Korea came from Capt
Chagin of the cruiser Almaz He tele
graphed to the emperor that he had
witnessed the sinking of the battle
ship Kniaz Souvaroff and reported that
Admiral Rojestvensky was wounded
According to his report the Japa
nese torpedo boats played the princi
pal role in the defeat of the Russian
fleet Tlrey were sent in for aciion
again and again under a perfect hail
of shot from the Russian rapid firing
guns
Togo Wins Position
When Togos scouts reported that
Admiral Rojestvensky was heading for
Admiral Togo
the eastern channel of the Straits of
Korea the Japanese admiral steamed
around the northern part of the Tsu
islands and came upon the Russians
steaming in double column with the
cruisers to port Togo enjoyed the
great advantage of tactical position
when he opened fire having the light
est of the Russian ships between him
and Rojestvenskys heavier vessels
thus smothering the fire of the latter
Besides Togo was able to use all his
broadsides whereas the sternmost
ships of the Russian columns coming
on in line ahead formation probably
only with difficulty could use any guns
at all
Nevertheless although suffering the
complete loss of four ships in the des
perate encounter which followed and
beilng subjected to a series of tor
pedo attacks during the night of May
27 Rojestvensky was able to steam
200 miles during the night When
the next morning came the Russian
fleet was divided into two divisions
The faster and stronger division un
der Rojestvensky was met by Kami
mura and Uriu while the slower di
vision under Nebogatoff renewed the
fight with Togo
Each Ship for Herself
With some of the scattered Russian
units it was a case of save himself
who can In the running fight the
Japanese enjoyed the advantage of su
perior speed enabling them to concen
trate their fire and bring every crip
pled Russian ship to bay Admiral
Nebogatoff s battered remnant sur
rendered off Liancourt Rocks while
Rojestvensky with the best remain
ing battleships fought on for the hon
or of the Russian navy
Survivors of the great fight are be
ginning to arrive in Japan clinging
to wreckage or carried by the few
boats which escaped from the battle
A disabled Russian cruiser carrying
200 officers and men approached Ha-
Veteran Many Years Missing
Mrs David Kizer of Springfield
Ohio has been granted a pension of
S a month but she will not begin
to draw it until twelve years from
date This ruling is due to the fact
that she drew a pension for twelve
years on the presumption that her hus
band David Kizer was dead He re
cently died after beingbrought home
sick from Denver He had been
mourned as dead for twenty seven
years most of which time he was in
the Black hills searching for gold
madi which is on the mainland of
Japan opposite the scene of the bat
tle She flew a white flag As soon as
she was sighted a government boat
was dispatched to escort her to shore
and offer the survivors a ready wel
come
Officials of the Japanese Red Cross
society went out in a launch gave
such aid as they could to the wound
ed and carried them to temporary
quarters near Yamaguchi which is at
the southwest of the Island of Nip
pon and the nearest land to the bat
tle
Waters Alive With Slavs
The waters were alive with Russian
seamen desperately striving to make
land in small boats or clinging to
masses of wreckage Small merchant
men and pleasure ships went out to
pick up all the survivors they could
find They rescued several hundred
men many wounded and all in a state
of extreme exhaustion
The men were in desperate straits
The boats in which they sought ref
uge were badly provisioned in most
cases not at all so that to the terrors
of heavy seas were added the pangs
of hunger and thirst
The survivors state that they had
absolutely no chance of winning the
attack of the Japanese was so sud
den so overwhelming The plan of
attack was so different from that ex
pected that the entire fleet became
panic stricken The long range fire
of the enemy was deadly There was
no chance of replying because the
Japanese had chosen their own range
which no Russian ship could equal
Torpedoes Spread Terror
Then came a torpedo boat attack
which completed the demoralization
and the crews took to the boats in
most cases before the torpedoes had
gone home
Those who remained on board were
precipitated into the water by the ex
plosions that followed and many
saved themselves by clinging to pieces
of wreckage
There are endless accounts of in
dividual heroism but none more thrill
ing than that of a young sailor who
gave up his place on a piece of plank
in order to save the life of a lieuten
ant of the Alexander III who had been
a popular officer with the crew and
who was ill at the time of the attack
The captain of the cruiser Admiral
Nakhimhoff and another officer had
been swimming about in an exhaust-
c y
X y
ed condition for many hours when
they were rescued by some Shimono
seki fishermen
Fifty five Russian sailors some of
them wounded were picked up off Mi
shima Twenty three of the crew of
the Aurora were landed and ten refu
gees were rescued in the same vicin
ity
Harsh Criticism of Senators
Senator Dubois was lamenting the
decay of oratory among American
statesmen With only a few excep
tions he said we have in Washing
ton no orators worthy of the name
On this account I had to accept in
lence during the last session an acrid
criticism from a clever woman T at
tended a meeting of the senate the
other day she said and that night I
had a terrible dream What did you
dream said I The lady smiled I
dreamed she said I went again
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Just Discrimination in Railway Rates
All railroad men qualified to speak
on the subject in a responsible way
are likely to agree with President
Samuel Spencer of the Southern Rail
way when he says There is no di
vision of opinion as to the desirabiity
of stopping all secret or unjustly dis
criminatory devices and practises of
whatsoever character
Mr Spencer in speaking of un
justly discriminatory rates and de
vices makes a distinction which i at
once apparent to common sense There
may be discrimination in freight rates
which is just reasonable and impera
tively required by the complex com
mercial and geographical conditions
with which expert rate makers have
to deal To abolish such open and
honest discrimination might paralyze
the industries of cities states and
whole sections of our national terri
tory
This distinction between just and
unjust discrimination is clearly recog
nized In the conclusions of the Inter
national Railway Congress published
yesterday
Tariffs should be based on commer
cial principles taking into account tho
special conditions which bear upon tho
commercial value of the services ren
dered With the reservation that ratr 3
shall be charged without arbitrarj dis
crimination to all shippers alike under
like conditions the making of rates
should as far as possible have all tha
elasticity necessary to permit the derl
opment of the traffic and to produce the
greatest results to the public and to tho
railroads themselves
The present proposal is as Mr
Walker D Hines of Louisville showed
in his remarkable testiraouy the other
day before the Senate Committee at
Washington to crystallize flexible and
justly discriminatory rates into fixed
government rates which cannot be
changed except by the intervention of
some government tribunal and by this
very process to increase the tempta
tion to depart from the published rate
and the lawful rate in order to niet
some overpowering and urgent com
mercial condition New York Sun
Money talks convincingly at time3
and again there are times win n it
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