What was Soapy’s first plan? Why did it not work?

Soapy’s first plan was to have a dinner at a fine restaurant and then he would tell them that he does not have money to pay for the bill .He thought that by doing so the cops will arrest him and then the judge would punish him for three months in the prison on Blackwell’s Island.
This plan was not successful because when the head waiter saw his broken old shoes and the torn clothes that covered his legs, he didn’t allow him to enter the restaurant. Rather the head waiter turned Soapy around and made him go out of the restaurant.

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