HOW THEY DO IT IN 'FRISCO.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 24 September 1880, Page 2

HOW THEY DO IT IN 'FRISCO.

As one of the most prominent young burglars of San Francisco was walking oat of Court the other day, just a*W having secured an acquittal regarding his latest job, by a prompt and business like " divvy " with the powers that be at the usuaJ rjfes, a well-to do, but anxious* looking stranger touched his arm and i bekoned him its 1 * o 1 a deorwav. Fou are • 1 eddy, the Ferret ,* aren'c you? asked the gentleman, " the man who was tried to-day for s;ife*crncking P "Well, wot of it P replied the hou?ebreiker. Why, just Ihi* — you'll excuse my speaking so lew — but th* fact is I've come all the way from San J.iaquin io look up a party in your line of business. Have^fhP' Yes — I— well, I've a little proposition to makeito you. E sadly, said', iTle Ferret, calmly; you're a bank cashier dbwn> in the foot■iiillß. How did you Know that, stammered the gentleman, mueli amazed. And your cash and accounts are to be q;one over by tlie cKreciors on the Ist, and as you can't realise on your s'ofibs, you want me to pngyou some time nest week, shoot your hat full of holes, find the com* binatinn in yonr brpas-t pot'kef«-book, and 20 through die safe iv the regu'ar way. Gr< j »t ho avens, man I how did you find a ! l that ou P' Wliy, I g'lessed it. Tt's the regular thing, you know, got three orders to ntteod to ahead of y^urs, nfW. Lemmn <cc. Cun t do anything for you next weir, but might give you WVneS'iay in 1 Tl.u-sday of the vpeek f aft'er. HowM that suit rou ? ! The cashier said he Hiought He could make tint, do, and in lcs** than five minu'e* I Icy ha-i struck a b:irg»in and (he vrh )ie n(T'iir cntW. — Amoiican Faper,