| Show o ii3 > oGo < OOCCC c < GO ossi IP OF If mWN I Eriest Schroder thp erring musician whom Captain Eslinger captured on Thursday night upon information from Denver gave a concert at police headquarters head-quarters last evening which was thoroughly enjoyed by the department and others connected indirectly with criminal circles < S > Schroder begged for permission to do some practicing and finally won the consent of his captor who brought him into the reception room of the quarters The wandering minstrels cello was placed in his hands and then like the ancient bard his fingers caressed the strings until they responded to his finely attuned ear The bow felt Its I way lovingly across the bridge of sighs and the divinest music ever heard in the musty corridors 6f the station I staton I filled the place and floated from the j windows I Schroder had been the veritable Pied Piper of Hamelin he I could not have woven a more artful spell over his custodians Scraps from the great masters followed softly then I j furiously from his gliding or flying I how interspersed by snatches of the more popular modernisms on down I through the whole list to those touching touch-ing negro melodies of old times I 0 0 I The quarters filled up with persons who were attracted by the music and each one nudged the other and whispered j I whis-pered that the artist was the forger I I I wanted in Denver the wiley bogus check man who could turn out as I I artistic checks as he could notes from the instrument he was playing During Dur-ing theconcert another character happened I hap-pened upon the scene some music mad reprobate who had ditties leaking from his very fingers arid toes This i new comer was possessed of St Vitus dance until some one procured an harmonica then the audience of bluecoats blue-coats were more than ever bewildered The fellow with the mouth organ puffed out everything on record and accomplished the feat with such tate I and fancy that Schroder heartily applauded ap-plauded and struck up a friendship with his free brother musician After a half hour of this treat Schroder and the unknown parted with many fervent expressions of friendship the unknown promising to meet him in Denver at his trial 000 Schroder isthe man taken in by Cap tain Eslinger for forging checks of 500 on Denver people < 5 > 00 Monroe Salisbury the noted horseman of California Is at the Knutsford The old warrior in horse flesh demurs to any further connection with the turf but professes his allegiance to its memories He is now directing his attention to min ing and will visit Mercur that rendezvous of all keen Investors before returning to his home in California Mr Salisbury has always been a firm exponent of harness har-ness racln and never became enthusiastic enthusi-astic over the running of blooded animals possessing all of the trotting and pacing antipathies to that son of snort He reports the coming racing season in California as one of unbounded joy to tfoe lover of blooded stock The two tracks one at San Franctjvo and the other at Oakland cost 1O00 each are very fast and possesses all of the mod era equipment These belong to the running associations the trotting men are not in the ascendency The gentleman is I brother of Hon O J Salisbury of this city |
