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Updated: June 10, 2025
In the year 1858 the untiring shoemaker had gathered his third and last collection, the finest and best of all. By this time he had become an expert stuffer of birds, and a good preserver of fish and flowers. But his health was now beginning to fail.
The cook, 'Mister Dawson, of Axim, is a sturdy senior of missionary presence: having been long employed in that line, he wears a white tie on Sundays, and I shrewdly suspect him of preaching. A hard worker, beginning early and ending late, he is an excellent stuffer of birds and beasts, and the good condition of our collection is owing entirely to him.
A man on the other side of the street watched Jeff come down and cross to the drug store. Billie Gray, ballot box stuffer, detective, and general handy man for Big Tim O'Brien, had been lurking in that entry when Jeff came home. He had sneaked up the stairs after them and had seen the editor disappear into his rooms with one whom he took to be a woman of the street.
"I don't care, if only it holds off till we get back," returned Andy. They lit the acetylene gas lamps, with which their wheels were provided, and then ran the bicycles down to the roadway. "Have a good time," cried Stuffer, who had come out to see them off. "Don't worry about that," replied Pepper, gaily. "I'll wager you'll have a dandy spread," went on the lad who loved to eat.
MacLennan. My companion set out with faithful Joe, Mr. Dawson the stuffer, and his dog Nero. I did not hear of him or from him till we met at Madeira. My case was different. I could not recover strength like my companion, who is young and who has more of vital force to expend. This consideration made me fearful of spoiling his work: a sick traveller in the jungle is a terrible encumbrance.
It had avenged the deaths of Richardson and King, but it had other work to do. About this time, Yankee Sullivan, prize-fighter, ballot-box stuffer and political plug-ugly, killed himself in Vigilante quarters, evidently mad with fear. Ned McGowan, made of different stuff, arch plotter, thought by many to be the instigator of King's murder, went into hiding.
Pepper had a nasty cut over the left eye and Jack had a lump behind his right ear. "They must have been hit with soakers," was Dale's comment, as he bent over Pepper. "Looks as if Pepper was hit with a stone," came from Andy. "A stone!" cried Bart Field. "Yes, a stone! That cut was never made by a snowball, or a piece of ice, either!" "Shall I get a doctor?" asked Stuffer, anxiously.
"I shall offer a substantial reward," said Captain Putnam, and one afternoon a notice was posted in the school proper and in the gymnasium, offering one hundred dollars for information leading to the capture of the thief. "Say, I shouldn't mind earning that reward!" murmured Dale. "A fellow could have no end of a good time on a hundred dollars!" murmured Stuffer.
Orders were issued for the Vigilante police to arrest certain men and to warn certain others to leave town immediately. A choice haul was made of the lesser lights of the ward-heelers and chief politicians. A very good sample was the notorious Yankee Sullivan, an ex-prize-fighter, ward-heeler, ballot-box stuffer, and shoulder-striker.
But we are determined that no thief, burglar, incendiary, assassin, ballot box stuffer, or other disturber of the peace shall escape punishment, either by the quibbles of the law, the insecurity of prisons, the carelessness or corruption of the police, or the laxity of those who pretend to administer justice; and, to secure the objects of this association, we do hereby agree, that the name and style of the Association shall be "The Committee of Vigilance, for the protection of the ballot box, the lives, liberty, and property of the citizens and residents of the City, of San Francisco."
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