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Show A SLICK HOTEL BEAT. As a Schemer lie Could Give the Cleric Points and Not Half Try. The fellow had no baggage when he registered first at the Slarkham House Saturday, but had a very glib tongue and told such a plausible story that he was permitted to register and given a room. He was well dressed and a very- pleasant spoken fellow, and his bill for extras soon assumed startling proportions. propor-tions. The hotel people became alarm- i ed, and after ho had been there several days a party stopping there told them he was a beat. The clerk fixed up a scheme, and that evening he got into the fellow's room on some pretext after he had retired, and calmly gathering up the fellow's coat, vest and pants told him they could be redeemed at the office for the amount of his bilL The fellow's nerve did not desert him even in this extremity. He borrowed a mackintosh coat from the clerk which reached to his heels, which he put on over his underclothing, in order to go after some money, and walked to the Kimball House, where he boldly registered regis-tered and was shown to a room, leaving leav-ing word that when his baggage arrived it was to be kept until he got up in the morning. At about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning morn-ing he came, jumping downstairs, making mak-ing a great noise of a tale of robbery, in which he had lost his clothes and $85 in cash. The hotel management, without with-out stopping to investigate the fellow, got him a new suit of clothes and paid him $85 rather than have such notoriety notorie-ty attached to the house. The fellow then walked back to the Markham house, paid his bill, obtained his clothes and jumped out of town. Chattanooga Times. |