| Show A politician bank robber ti piKe II ennessy formerly a policeman last season when the stowaway company which will be seen at the aroyo opera house on november 27 waa playing in denver a party of gentlemen among whom were the chief detective and several other city were bein around behind the scenes at tabors opera lionso by manager thomas II 11 bavis when they met the two ex bank robbers spike hennessy and kid mccoy who had just blown open the safe in the second act and were on their way to the dressing room with their arma fall of tools mr dayis proceeded to introduce his denver friends to the two cracksman cracksmen cracks men when the chief of detectives was presented hennessy like a chinaman who has called the turn at bunco loo why demanded the of his robber in chief why thie unseemly lekity at the mention of this gentle mans name this is a detective and perhaps aa good ae you are no offense softly spoke brother hennessy Henn ossy I 1 know the ant aho uld he stop to think maybe hed remember ma your face seems familiar remarked the fly cop cert there s plenty of people who know aliis inns of mine a whole lot 1 knew you alien you were carrying timber on a beat ont in frisco yeara ao I 1 came in town once pretty hard passed by some people alio wanted to see me worse than I 1 wanted to see them I 1 was pretty near bedink run into a hole when I 1 went to a friend of mine an alderman who had a big pull at the city hall and asked him to et me a job aa a cop sly friend knew I 1 was in a tough lix and ho worked hard for me As a result of persuasion I 1 got the job and was assigned to the sixth precinct where I 1 chased hoodlums and drew my pay for over three months without making a single pinch things simmered down then and I 1 determined to go eat one evening I 1 laid my star no 1307 and my billy on the captains desk and skipped out 1 I remember that case well paid the denver detective reflectively it excited a nood deal of comment awine to the fact that 1307 was the first policeman who ever voluntarily in frisco I 1 was generally believed hat you had either become insane or had committed suicide |
