The Youth's Companion/July 19, 1860/Paying Dearly for Bad Company
Paying Dearly for Bad Company.
Recently, a young man employed upon one of the railroads leading out the city, went into a gambling saloon on Brattle street, and engaged in a game of “props” with a miscellaneous company there assembled. He soon lost all his money, some $24, a portion of which was a twenty dollar bill. As that bill was about to be pocketed by the winner, the young man seized it, and ran from the place with a speed about equal to shat of his favorite engine, and was followed by the crowd of gamblers, who were joined in the street by half a hundred loafers and boys, and one or two policemen, all shouting—“Stop thief! Stop him!” The fugitive was likely to outstrip his pursuers, when a policeman headed him off, and stopped him in the Sudbury street Market. The person from whom the money had been snatched, soon came up, and the young man was so frightened that he at once gave him the bill. When the police learned the particulars of the case, their sympathies were with the prisoner, and they looked after the gambler to make him restore the money, but could not find him. The young man was discharged, no person appearing to make complaint against him. Perhaps this dear lesson will prove a benefit to him.