| Show if J i oy 1 r. r A e. e mi 1 THREW AWAY HALF MILLION DOLLARS J NOW WORKS IN CHEAP RESTAURANT T o l i. i J d 1 1 11 h ay Owl 0 y I 4 O old s Goods ai 00 TJ-r TJ ff James McNally the green goods king once worth is earning his living acting as a waiter in a cheap Coney Cone Island N. N Y McNally y is now back to his old Job the one at which he earned an honest living twenty-five twenty years ago before the he discovered how easy it was to exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change sawdust with credulous countrymen countrymen countrymen coun coun- for their real gold No longer young his great fortune gone the mark of th the prison in his bent form and his gray hair he returns re- re turns tarns to his old ways a broken man McNally began his career with which he had managed to save out of ofa ofa i a small salary and in ten years had w won n such success that he was acknowledged acknowledged acknowledged ledged king of the business He Ite kept many offices and employed many men He spent his money lavishly had a splendid mansion in the part of Boston supported a string of fine horses and had a magnificent country estate in Bridgeport Conn No banking magnate ever spent money more freely For the notorious Nellie who deserted him when he was sent to prison in 96 he spent in jewelry alone in one year He has the bills bUls for this now and exhibits them as evidence of his past grand grand- eur McNally himself says that his present present present pres pres- ent position is only temporary He claims to have tied up la is iW I lW a safety deposit vault which he cannot get at for two years Im a waiter and I expect to be a awalter waiter walter for two years yet said McNally McNally McNally Mc Mc- Nally and Im I'm used to the work and dont don't mind it any more I dont don't think at all of the times when I used to sit at tables and order champagne and wear fine clothes and roll around in carriages Ive I've got a little home up in Yonkers and my two children are there and all I want to do is to earn my bread until the time comes when I Ican Ican Ican can lay my hands on my It is a queer story about that mon mon- ey I suppose you are wondering why if I I have it in cash in a safety deposit vault I cant can't go right down there and get it I wish I could You wouldn't be to able to see me for dust if U that was possible But it is this way I was caught in Chicago in 1900 charged with using the mails malls for fraudulent purposes They had me right I had been sending green goods circulars through the mails I was sentenced to three years Now before this time I had placed the money in a safety deposit vault in New York At first there had been in inthe inthe inthe the box but I invested about half halt of it itin itin in farms and other things and while I was in prison the property was taken form me roe in a lot of different ways ways- attachments for small debts and that sort of a thing I have some hope but not a great deal d l of getting some o j r of that back But after all there ther was a big lump of cash in the safety deposit box and that was what I was r depending on when I 1 got out of prison But when I was arrested I was afraid they would try to confiscate this this- cash so I threw away the key to the box And then I put in my three years in Joliet J And then I had been heen a heavy drinker drink drink- er and I had used opium These things were suddenly stopped short in jail My mind was affected Half the- the time I went around in a daze My memory became almost entirely a blank so much so that the very things i I I wanted to remember most I 1 could not remember at a all ail l. l These things are the number er of my box In the safety deposit vault the password and and the fictitious name that I had given when I rented the box T f have never been able to recall these these- things The lawyers told me that I would have to wait walt seven years years from from the time of the rental of the box The seven years will be in 1907 The law I suppose takes this course because If in seven years no other claimant to the property comes forward forwar l that constitutes constitutes constitutes con con- in a way proof that my claim to the ownership of the money is all allright right When I get this money I will take take- t it and buy a quiet farm somewhere i and live there with my family andI and I hope folks will wUl forget all about me i I Y 1 x I |
