OCR Text |
Show OPPORTUNITIES TOlATTURKEY That's What Warrick Sighed, for and He'll Do It at City's Expense, "A world of opportunities," sighed John J. Warrick in Police court yesterday yester-day afternoon, aa he looked at, and read the inscription on a well-known railroad, advertisement. "A world of opportunities," he repeated, re-peated, as Jailer Parry entered the courtr3om and took his accustomed seat beside the press table. "Opportunities for what?" he asked casually of Warrick. Warrick, who Is said by the police to be a "coke sniffer' a man who uses cocaine as a sort of snuff, looked at Parry contemptuously. "Opportunities to go out in the smelters smel-ters and mines and work for a few months and then coine to town and blow in your money and get thrown Into In-to the brig," said . Waf rick In high scorn. "What were you begging for?" asked Parry. - "Well, I thought I had the right. I worked for awhile and got a bunch of money and came Into town and spent It all. When I was broke I had to have some to eat on. But. still," he said thoughtfully, "there is a world of opportunities." op-portunities." "A world of opportunities for me to eat a fine turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing day, and then another on Christmas, Christ-mas, because I am going to get sixty days." But Warrick had guessed thirty, days short of what Judge Whl taker handed blm. He will do his little shift on the rock pile for thrice thirty days. . - . |