Show r THREW AWAY HALF MILLION DOLLARS NOW WORKS IN CHEAP RESTAURA 4 Strange Career of James McNally Once Famous Throughout Amer l n L < Green Goods King James McNally the green Roods king once worth 000000 Is earning his living acting as a waiter In a cheap Coney Island N Y resturant McNally Is now back to his old job the one at which he earned an honest living twent > flve years ago before ho discovered how easy It was to exchange ex-change sawdust with credulous countrymen coun-trymen for their real gold No longer young his great fortune gone tho mark of the prison In his bent form and his gray hair he returns re-turns to his old ways a broken man Started with 300 McNally began his career with 300 which ho had managed to save out of ft small salary and In ten years had won such success that he was acknowledged acknow-ledged king of the business lIe kept many offices and employed many men menHe lie spent his money lavishly I had a splendid mansion In tho arlstrocratlc part of Boston supported a string of line horses and had a magnificent country estate In Bridgeport Conn No banking magnate ever spent money more freely 50000 for Jewelry For the notorious Nellie Maroux who deserted him when he was sent to prison In 96 he spent 50000 In Jewelry alone In one your lie has the bills for this now and exhibits them as evidence of his past grandeur grand-eur McNnlly himself says that his present pres-ent position Is only temporary lie claims to have 80000 tied up In I < a safety deposit vault which he cannot get at for two years Doesnt Mind Work Im a waiter and I expect to be a waiter for two years yet said Mc Nnlly and Im used to the work and dont mind It any more I dont think at all of that e times when used to sit th-at tables and order champagne and wear fine clothes and roll around in carriages Ive got a little homo up In Yonkers and my two children are there and all I want to do Is to earn v 0 Q00 I fr = < + n 1ih r F ° Iv t I aG G fie l I w j + oNC jwBEY BEY Y JHiEJ W M WRLLY r 1ou r GnP Goods Maw frit i N ° N rINCING t7RS HRJH my bread until the time comes when I can lay my hands on my 80000 It Is a queer story about that money mon-ey I suppose you are wondering why If I have It In cash In a safety deposit vault I cant go right down there and got it I wish I could You wouldnt bo ablo to seo me for dust It that was possible Placed It In Vault But It Is this way I was caught in Chicago In 1900 charged with using the malls for fraudulent purposes They had me right I had been sending green goods circulars through tho malls I was sentenced to threo years Now before this time I had placed tho money In a safety deposit vault In New York At first there had been 160000 in the box but 1 Invested about half of it In farms and other things and while I was in prison the property was taken form me In a lot of different ways attachments for small debts and that sort of a thing I have some hope I I but not a great deal of getting some of that back But after all i was a MB lump of cash In the deposit box and that was what B1 depending on when I got V out ont0f pd Threw Away Key PrlJI But when I was arrested I J afraid they would try to confiscate J cash so I throwaway the key to li box And then t I put In my three In Joliet lhreeltt And then I had been ahcavvdn drti or nnd I had used opium n things wero suddenly stopped shot ire Jail My mind was affected Halftime Half-time I went around In a daze memory became almost entirely blank so much so that tho very tb I wanted to remember most I w not remember at all These things are tho number my box In the safety deposit vault password and the fictitious name t I had given when I rented the boi have never been able to recall tl things Must Walt Ten Yean Tho lawyers told me that I 10 have to wait seven yearsfrom the boi l time of tho rental of seven years will bo In 1907 The J I suppose takes this course befl If in seven years no other clfllmW the property comes forward that stltutes In a way proof that my c1 to tho ownership of the money U right I will LIt When I get this money It and buy a quiet farm somewt and live there with my family u hope folks will forget all about me |