Show A VERY SLEBK YOUNG MAN Frank Barretts Experience in the Wild and Woolly West Frank Bennett alias Barrett the self confessed thief who turned states evidence in the case against himself and F E Blake is a smooth young man Although but nineteen years of age he has served a term in the Oregon penitentiary for grand larceny and is an allround professional crook He has been heard to say that he would take desperare chances to keep out of the pen again would sell his own brothers to do it There is no question of Bennetts guilt in tho Greenberg burglary and that he told the truth when ho gave away bis pa Blake In doing this however how-ever he worked on the sympathy of the court and got hIs bond fixed at 350 a paltry sum to a majority of the professional crooks in the northwest and it will not be surprising if friends bf his from Portland Seattle or Tacoma appear in a day or two and put up the needed cqsh to secure his freedom Being in possession of some of that honor among thieves so often talked of his scheme is then to skip and assist his partner out of the box he got him into by destroying the testimony against him |