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Show liiiED HIS PATIENT. A DistingnishedlDisciple of the Bnui Union Makes a Descent upon a Sick Man. HE STOOD OFF THE CA3HIEB. Marshal Young Gets a Tip on How to Suppress Fan-Tan-Police Bound up. The bum union is evidently experiencing experi-encing some evil effects from the recent panic iu Wall street when it linds it necessary to rob a man who is on the verge of tho grave. A case of this character char-acter was brought to light yesterday when it was ascertained that the famous rounder "Shorty." who had been employed em-ployed as a nurse to a sick man had vandalized his patient's pockets and departed with a ticket of the vali e of fill), in addition to coin in the sum of The fellow then made his way to Ogdeti, where he fell into the unrelenting unrelent-ing embrace of Marshal Metcalf at that place. Offices Parker was despatched for him last evening, and returned with Ids captive, who will be held to the graud jury. "Shorty's" days on the outside of prison confines are indeed short. Illlkrd th Cook. The services of ,tho patrolman were called into the Tivoli last evening on which occasiou a drunken fellow went in, made a fearful cavity iu the bill of fare and then declined to fee the fiddler. A call was dispatched for police aid biit the delinquent anticipating a night under the roof of the museum, went down into the recesses of his pocket and produced the amount. At a later hour he was cordially damning tho lincst when one of them took occasion to inform him if there was to be any fun the department would insist on naming the master of ceremonies. This brought the distinguished tourist to his senses and he was induced to accompany accom-pany his friends to their lodgings. Tim 1 Bo-Tan Kvil. The department is determined to wipe out this ofi'euse if it has to resort to heroic measures, and a raid will doubtless take' place at any time it lays itself open. In his recent expedition to San Francisco on which city the insidious insidi-ous evil has fastened itself with such fierce virulence, Marshal Young was shown through Chinese headquarters and admitted to all the inner workings of the Pacilie system of keeping the Mongolians sport in subjection. The number of 1 arrests in these raids is unlimited, the number of convictions are governed by the number of coin sacks that may be on deposit with tho weazel-eyed croupier. Kach sack represents a player. He deposits this with the genius who presides over the talismanic roil when he takes his position at tho shrine of Fan Tan's tickle goddess; iu tho neck of each sack is inserted a slip to identify the owner of it. and when it is introduced in couit the guilty man is cauijlit on the hip. In the recent raid these facts were borne out in detail, and while all tho occupants of the chamber, numbering twenty, were taken in tho net, fourteen sacks showed fourteen players and consequently fourteen four-teen sjuilly ones. This is the circumstance circum-stance in the chain that has enabled the police of the coast to handle this class and in future will govern hero. |