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Show if I If THREW AWAY HALF MILLION DOLLARS; NOW WORKS IN CHEAP RESTAURANT Strange Career of James McNally, Once Famous Throughout America as "Green Goods Kind." James McNally, tho "green goods king." once worth 1000,000, is earning hU living acting as a waiter tn a cheap Coney Island, N. Y. rcsturnnt. McNally Is now back to his old Job. tho ono nt which he earned nn honest living twenty-live years ngo, before ho discovered how eniy It was to ox-change ox-change sawdust with credulous countrymen coun-trymen for their real gold. No longor joung, h.'s 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 Legan his career with $300, which ho had managed to save out of a small salary, and in ten yenrs had won such success that ho was acknowledged acknow-ledged "king" of tho business. Ho kept many olllces nnd employed many men. Ho spent his money lavishly, had n splendid mansion In tho aristrocrntlc part of Boston, supported n string of flno horses und hod a inagnlflcont country estate In Bridgeport, Conn. No banking magnato uvor spout money moro freely. $50,000 for Jewelry For the notorious Nellie Mnroux, who deserted him when ho wns sont to prison In '90, ho nmt $50,000 In Jewelry alone In one yenr. He has tho bills for this now and exhibits them ns evidence of Ms past grand-our. grand-our. McNally himself says (hat his present pres-ent position Is only lompoiary. Ho claims to have $SO.ooo Hod up In a safety deposit vault which ho cannot get nt for two years. Doesn't Mind Work. "I'm a waiter, nnd I expect to bo a waitor for two years yet," said McNally, Mc-Nally, "and I'm used to the work nnd don't mind It nny more. I don't think nt all of tho times when I used to sit at tables and order champagno nnd wear line clothes nnd roll nround In carrlnges, I've got a llttlo homo up In Yonkers, and my two chiMron uro there, and all I want to do Is to oaru - '-' Ssaafaal. rwi lfr.i Harriot s "Gnrer Ooocs" siar? fg MSO 9 my bread until tho tlmo comes when I can lay my hands on my $80,000. "It Is a queer story nbout that money. mon-ey. I suppose you nro wondering why, If I have It In cash In a xnfety deposit vault, I enn't go right down thero und get It. I wish I could. You wouldn't l.o ahlo to see mo for dust If that was possible. Placed it In Vault "But It Is this way: I was caught In Chicago in 1900 charged with using tho malls for fraudulent purposes. They had me light. 1 had heon Rending green goods clrculurs through Iho mnlU. I was sentenced to three years. Now before this time I had placed tho money In a snfoty deposit vault In Now York. "At first there had been $160,000 In tho box, but I Invested about half of it In farms and other things, nnd while I wns in prison the property was taken form mo In a lot of different ways attachments for small debts and that sort of a thing. I havo Homo hope, I but nut u great deal, of getting somo of that back. But, after all, thero was a big lump of cash In tho safety deposit, box, and that was what I wns depending on when I got out of prison. Threw Away Key. "But when I was orrested I wns afraid they would try to conflscato this Cash, so I threw awny tho koy to tho box. And then 1 put In my three years In Jollot. "And then I had been a heavy drinker drink-er nnd I had used opium. Theso things wcro suddenly stopped short In Jail. My mind was affected. Half tho tlmo I went nround In a daze. My memory became almost entirely a blank, bo much so that tho vory things I wanted to remember most I could not rornembor nt all, "Theso things nro tho nuniLer of my box In tho safety deposit vault, the password and tho fictitious namo that I had given when I rented tho box. I havo never been nblo to recall those things, Must Walt Ten Years. "Tho lawyers told mo that I would havo to wait soven years from tho tlmo of tho rental of tho box. Tho seven years will be In 1907. The Inw, I -fiiippott. takes this course, because If In seven years no other claimant to the property comes forward, that constitutes con-stitutes 'in a way proof that my claim to tho ownership of the inojiey Ih nil right. 'When I get this money I will take it and buy a unlet farm somewhere and Ihe there with my fatnlly, and I hopo folks will forgot ull about mo." |