Thirteen years ago Henry Campbell, a blind Negro, bought a nice new fiddle for a few dollars. Henry was a lively hand with the ragtime bow. He knew a black boy who had an old fiddle. The blind man tried the old violin and liked its tone. He traded the new fiddle for the old. The other day in Baltimore this same Henry Campbell haled William Hill, colored, into court for stealing the old violin out of the trunk in its owner's room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was...
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