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 TRUE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES
A MACFADDEN PUBLICATION
Vol. XI II June. 1930 No.3

CONTENTS
WHY THESE PRISO RIOTS? '" .P. E. Thomas, Warden of Ohio State Penitentiary 19
CRIMSO NIGHT Joseph McMeel 20
A fight for freedom, the sil/ister echoes of which rerer/lerat d arouud I/le world!
STALKI G HO OLULU'S MAD KID APPER! Francis McClanahan 30
Gripping inside story of JIawaii's most sensational cr;mel
"HO EY" SARLO and the FIE D P. L. Trussell 38
WHO kiIIed prelly 17-ycar-oid "Uol/ey" SarIo-aud IV IJ Yl
WHAT BECAME of EUGE E BASSETT? Hollis B. Fultz 43
IVhell you have read t/lis, what is YO U R al/swerl
A ISHI G FOOTPRI TS L. L. Bingaman 51
For real deleelive work, this is hard 10 beall
The STICK-UP on the CHICAGO & ORTHWESTER "FLyER" Charles De Lacy 52
A blinding gun-flash, a groan of agony, then-sllddenly Ihe "Flyer's" e",ergellcy cord is pllIIedI
"KID" McCOY'S FI AL KNOCKOUT! .. , , , , , , , .. , Madeline Kelley 56
Pulsating story of Ihe veal prizefiglUer's laSI battlt-the toughest one he EVER foughll
HOW I TRAPPED the BELLMORE BANK BANDITS , Felix De Martini 62
The master-slellth c1o,"s in on his qllarryI
The DIABOLICAL MURDER at the CHATOU VILLA , H. Greenhough Smith 65
What murderer could COIIC<ice a more frightful revengel
CO FESSIO S of FRANK'SILSBY- 'lASTER CRIMI AL , As told by Himself 66
I SAW DOCTOR S OOK DIE! , Karl B. Pauly 10
EW BOOKS and BOOK EWS , , , Edward Dean Sullivan 4
Cover design 'painted by Dalton Stevens

NEXT
MONTH: WHO KILLED CARMEN WAGNER?
The STRA GE FATE of HUGHIE McLOO -
FAMOUS BASEBALL MASCOT
This little hunchback was former mascot of Connie
Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, World Champions-
and he was the idol of Philadelphia's sporting world.
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baffled! What was back of it all? Don't miss this
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The SMASHI G of "LITTLE EGYPT'S" GANG-
STER KING
Merlin Moore Taylor's masterpiece-the - inside
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in the United States, who has daring and a strongly
organized gang of killers back of him. A sizzler!
SOLVI G SAN DIEGO'S MOST BAFFLi G
CRIME!
Mystery all the way through I-the strange disap-
pearance of George E. Schick, wealthy San Diego
business man. 0 reason to disappear-no c1ues-
his friends mystified! Then the detectives began to
leam things! A thriller!
And do not miss HELP THEM GO STRAIGHT, the editorial next month by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gov-
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WHO KILLED BEAUTIFUL CARME WAG ffiR?
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THE GREAT CHAIN GANG ESCAPE!:
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public sentiment, and numerous petitions, that tried
to save Robert Elliot Burns (who stole $5.80) from
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This remarkable story holds YOlt spellboulld with the
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VANISHING GOLDl
It took a full year to plan this astounding robbery
of a fortune being transported under heavy guard
from London to Paris. It was successful. How was
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K aTE: Edward Dean IIllivan, Ilatiollally
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A Chrollicle of Harsh Li-.,cs
SHADOWS of ME
By filii Tully.
Doubleday Dorau & Co.
330 pp. $:!.50.
JD1pugiliTL'LLY has "been around.' Hobo,
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Hi writin i- a merging of machine gun
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in the fle h. ~1en of ca t iron, who e
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at la t under tandable, the objects of a
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People who are victim of the irrita-
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have it whatever the co t in physical mi -
ery. In mo t ca es they haven't got a
thing in the world but the rags on their
backs and their per onal characteristics;
4
Edward Dean Sullivan
but they are at least bo e of their
hadow ; and they'll pay for that privilege
in more de perate coin than any night club
sucker wa ever known to put down be-
ide his check.
Tully know these people and Tully
know how to tell what he know. Hi
characterization are not done in water
color -but in rock. You meet the charac-
ter and you like what you like about him
-h wever little-and dete t what you don't
like about him. But you recognize a hu-
man being and you're inclined to glance
after him with a look that is an amalgam
of di like, interest and respect. For they
suffer-and they won't whine, the e knight
of the road. They've picked their road-
bed and they'll travel with it.
Here's a little example of torture which
typical f Tully.
It wa freezing cold on the de ert.
Tully and a companion, tired and with
aching feet, eye and-swept, have arrived
at a mall way ide tation, Tully' com-
panion ha a little money and a trace of
a jag. Into the ob cure tation come the
most hated railroad detective in the coun-
try," rizona lim," a killer and a liar.
Tully' 'drunken companion did not even
look up, but Tully's heart beat fa t a he
noted the big sombrero, the diamond on
the little finger, the huge watch charm and
the weazened face of the hated lim.
s the door lammed, Tully's companion,
hungry and enjoying every bit of hi badly-
needed food, called out to the detective-
not eeing him-"\Vhoever you are, friend,
you're welcome. Ju t come right over and
have a bite on me. It's colder than the
north pole out ide."
Tully nudged his companion.
"I'll bu)' my own grub," ra ped the de-
tective; "do you know who you're talkin'
to?"
" 0," replied the raggedy friend of hu-
manity, continuing to eat, "an' I don't give
a damn. I'm' yracu e Jake'."
A revolver wa poked into the ribs of
the fami hed hobo.
"Git up an' walk," was the stern order,
The woman behind the counter, know-
ing the relief which the two ragged men
had indicated wh n they at down to re t
and the fami hing manner of their order
for food, poke up.
"Oh. God, lim," she said, "let 'em eat,
They're not doin' any harm, God know,"
. "I'm runnin' thi show," aid lim,
Then to the tramp -"Let' walk."
"\Vell here, boy," said the kindly woman
at the counter, "he can't keep you from
taking food with you. I'll wrap you up
a few doughnuts."
"Ko, you don't," aid the detective. "Let'
walk," and he poked the two tramp with
hi gun.
Leaving their food, they walked out into
the swirling now, miles from anywhere.
"Je' keep on walkin'," aid Arizona
lim, "i f you turn around, I'll put ome
bullet in your dome ,"
Then he went back to the station to eat.
ice?
That i n't the war t thin that hap-
pens to the knight of the road. Thing
wor e than death are borne, a Tully et
forth. Thing indeed which eem to make
almo t anti-climactic Patrick Henrv' her-
ic in i tence upon either liberty or' death,
The e wanderer have liberty-at fabu-
lou co t,
nd even when the solution of all their
trouble come with the la t clo ing of
tired eye they sometimes have need to
set the record traight a did Clark, who
was put to death in " hadow of fen."
Dear Warden:
Many thanks for the killd treal-
mellt. I kllo~ how YOlt feeL, sir
alld beLieve me I can sympatlu'::e
with YOll. I have ollLy a few min-
utes now alld I wallt to say ith 1I1y
last breath that I had 110 more to do
with De SiLva's death tho II yOIL did.
I dOIl't blame the jury-how can
I when the State s wil1/esscs lied 1-
Yes, two of them. The rest told the
truth.
Yes, I had aile prison record alld
two fines of $50 agaillst me. The
rest is jllst arrests-1l0 charge, or
just vagranc)'-11Ot evell a jail
terlll. My prison terlll was for a
$14 check.
Thank Y0lt again TVardell,
and Good-bye,
E. J. Clark.
Oii the margin was scrawled:
"This is true, so help me God. fl/st
a few minutes to go."
And if man's cruelty to man is repre-
sented in the conduct of the tate's wi -
nesse who appeared before a jury of thi
unhappy "bo'" peer let it be aid that
they may almo t be excused when com-
(Colltilll/cd on page 6)
 True Df'tective !l1ysteries 5

"Je t'aime", she whispered as

He Carried
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Without a word he crossed the room nd they tole silently
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the window four floors above, where a flickering night-light
cast a dull glow against the pane. "Je t'aime," he whispered
as his strong young arms suddenly swept her from her feet
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6 True Detective Mysteries
pared with those persons who decide to
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E\'er hear of it? Jim Tully lived through
one-and remember it for you.
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Croo""(/. ,\'01 AI AII-Jllsi Clever!
AUTOBIOGRAPHY of
FRANK TARBEAUX
As lold 10 DOllald liellderson CIa rite,
(/'allgllard Press)
2 6 pp. $2.50.
IofT'Sliterature.
hard to generalize, either in Ii fe or
But this renewer s choice
companions in either group would. be
direct people I' direct writers. Tho e people
who, ha\'ing omething to ay-sh t it!
In the ". utobiography of Frank Tar-
beaux" the reader will enc l1nter-and
thoroughly enjoy-two people of that type.
One i the fabulous Tarbeaux him elf-
with a Ii h ning "draw" and philo ophical
mind. The other i Donald Hendel' Oil
Clarke. one f the most accurate and effec-
tive "w rd· er" ew York new paper·
dom e\'er knew. 0 the book i a natural.
There i' tlO truggling for word, no
literary rollitl'" of the eye. fellow \\"ho
know a I' nd yarn when he hears it g t
intere. ed i the tory of an a toundin"
Ii fe. 0 he \'rote it alld !low!
It's po i Ie that an uplift organization
would he itate to send out thi book, e\'en
as educati tlal matter. Yet it is educa-
tional in a marked and practical degree.
I'm for the fi\·e·foot shelf of b'ooks, a far
a, it oe. but if you've been out on the
street at all lately, you may have noticed
that there are countle thin s that the n\'e-
foot helf fail t explain. Tarbeaux pre-
sent a hel f \\'hich circles the world. He
cra he in 0 life-and he know his wa\·.
Furthermore. the thing which he did.
which mi ht offend the forces of up!i ft.
required uch cle\"ernes that the reader
i not \"itally threatened.
Frank Tarbeaux was the first white bo\'
born in Colorado. He learned from and
taught hi Indian playmates plenty before
he trut ed o\"er that small h rizon into the
hart 0 he \\ e t in it hey-hey day.
Hand-ome, hard riding, not at all afraid
-yet ne\'er mean-he began to learn the
raw de ail of life at a time and in an
area where the niceties were as \"et un-
heard of. He got such a clear per pec-
tive on 1dlOi it's all a/Jollt that later he
found nothing a toni shingly new i'n the
world' fanhe t corner-. He went far-
and he went all. not neces arily liP or dowlI.
so far a hi character went. He was quick
to learn and slow to teach-so that manv
a per on he taught will discover it for the
first time on reading these memoirs.
As a scout he led United States Troops
at tweh'e years of age; he killed hi first
man at fourteen: he was a recognized
gambler at seventeen and got better at it
for thirty years; he raced horses with and
(Continued from page 4)
against the James Boys; he co-starred with
,,' ild Bill Hickock" (who was mighty
critical of his intimates) in: ed Buntline's
,. cout of the Prairie," and he played polo,
rode to hounds and raced horses in u-
tralia, frica, England and the Continent.
And nothing ever came within range of
the white of his eyes that he didn't note
and con ideI'.
His code-II at a good OIle-was by no
means the wor t of code~. He kept his
word, never betrayed a friend, never hurt
a tran er and shot no one in cold blood
I' in the back. ide from that, he wa n't
hampered much.
Friend, en mie and sweethearts pa
in review through seventy-five year of
active world experience. Tarbeaux bvi-
ou Iy remembers frankly-he talks up!
Clarke pull down 110 blinds. nor top f I'
apology. Experiences and ob ervation of
Indian , hoI' emen, fighter , bad men, ten-
derf eet. literary people. people of the tage
-clocked and weighed through a gambler's
eyes and mind.
Tarbeaux wa the gue t of a king for
months, he boat-rowed, or punted, Marie
Corelli at tratford-on- von, was a friend
of 0 car Wilde and an intimate of mil-
lionaires, paupers, beautie . grafters, lord
and ladies of the highe t rank.
He encountered writer and, nawrally,
any writer worthy of the name would
recognize in this harp-eyed world ob-
en'er and astounding. adventurer the
ba is of narrative. ir Gilbert Parker
wrote "Tarbeaux: The tory of a Life,"
and Frank Harris wrote "Gambler' Luck,"
mainly about Tarbeaux. But thi story
of the earth through gyp-gla es ha come
up for the third time, more complete by
far than ever before and as perfectly told
as any story need be. The previous book ,
among other things, indicated that Tar-
beaux cheated at cards.
" ever," he explains, "never alice. I
was born with card sense. I learned how
to play them-not play at them. ever
was it neces ary for me to cheat."
And when you've read what Tarbeaux
admits, you'll be inclined to have faith in
what he denies. For example, there is the
"cutlass case." You get the idea that he
was a bit severe when circumstances made
it necessary to "break the glas; and tear
them up a bit." The two men torn by
the whiskey bottle did not recover. Tar-
beaux, always avoiding useles killing of
animal, frequently found it neces ary-
even highly desirable, to kill men. Yet at
seventy-seven he sleeps like a child. Con-
science clear, he insi t .
Many a time was Tarbeaux in and out
of jails and hi observation are of e pe-
cial interest in view of the recent and un-
precedented eries of de perate prison
breaks in thi country.
He says: "The pri ons of the United
tates have become Old Folks' Homes.
They are the damndest places, with motion
pictures and baseball games; all the elope
you can buy and newspapers and old
women weeping over you. In England
when you go to prison you go to a great
sanitarium; you get punishment and health.
"The moment you are in an English
pen it doesn't make any difference what
money you've got-you are just a prisoner.
You get not a crumb of tobacco, you see
no newspapers, your reading is carefully
selected books in the prison library and
you go to "farming." That's digging I' t
holes and filling them up again. It' work,
punishment-and it's good for you. , hen
I came out I could pan my wai t with my
hands, my eyes were a clear as crystal
and I could see a fly across the street and
hear him stamp around. That' a 'pri on!"
You'lI be glad that Clarke wrote this
book. Old man Tarbeaux, still a fine
looking phy ical pecimen, is seventy-s~ven
years Id. r f h were telling you the tory,
so ner or later he'd want to go to bed.
But you won·t.
A Cross Sectioll of the Ulldcr1.lJorld!
THE PIG Is FAT
By Lot rence Ma)lIlard.
Farrar alld Rilll'harl, Illc.
27 pp. $2.00.
URELY the advantages of. confinement
S in prison are few. It is neverthele
true that such incarceration provide an
opportunity for concentration which prove
a boon to mind which in ordinary cir-
cumstances might never attain con tructve
thought.
Lawrence 1raynard, confined to pri on
for a term of y ar ,and till servin hi
entence, has written "The Pig I Fat," a
very interesting and informative cro sec-
tion of the minor underworld. Detail and
situations which are quite beyond the ken
of the genius of imagination are here et
down in a quietly desperate sequence which
makes excellent reading indeed.
The book is an automatic warning to
tho e who lean to personal interest in the
supposedly glamorous career of a modern
criminal. There is not one dour word of
propaganda in the book, but the serious set-
ting down of a haple s narrative, with ob-
vious basis in fact, provides a lesson and
a wall-shadow of warning.
The central character of the book i a
criminal of no great stature. He is swept
along in the maw of twisted opportunity
built primarily on that great gesture of
virtue-Prohibition-and his tale is a mag-
nificent indictment of the forces which have
made America the crime center of the
world-and of world history.
Young Maynard can write, too. There
is nothing amateuri h in hi chronicle of a
night which this nation will have reason to
recall with a sardonic smile-June 30th,
1919. That is the night, you know, when
liquor and its train of miseries vanished
from America-by law. The principal
character of the book, Benny Wagner, like
many another citizeru-took his fir t drink
on that night, a suming, again like many
another citizen that there would be few
more bowls of the flaming fluid on the
continent. The narrative of that night,
with the foolish and really harmless Benny
wandering around with his childhood
sweetheart, leaning toward proving him-
(Continued on page 8)
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Little trick which have escaped in-
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For example, his characterization -and
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People of desperation are usually intere t-
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~he reader finds himself lighting a new
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back. It's a healthy sign.
The story opens with the before noted
friend on that night that made even in-
telligent per ons neither prophets or good
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the occa ion and of life in general wins
immediate sympathy and interest. Benny
is a person of no importance whatever even
in his home, where his honest, but stupid
fath r, a aloon keeper, is dominated by
Benny' tep-m ther and step- iter.
In the true t en e, this lad never had
a chance, but when hi father's entire stock
is taken from him by a swindle, Benny
takes a chance. He finds him elf a ma-
t rial witne , and i jailed, for a terrible
murder in which he ha a i ted. He' in
jail I ng after the actual layer is free
and not being able to under tand anything
about a top y-turvy world, he is ready to
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there are tho e who peddle advice a as-
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it's all bad I Then the dope gets him-
and away he goes on his criminal career.
The reader can recognize how readily
the thoughtless victim walks into the most
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operation of the drug ring and a very
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(Colltilluedjrolll page 6)
Therefore it was natural that the owner
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for a erie of factual crime torie for
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M"rder M)'steries.
utherland, who found out much in his
po t-I gal inve tigations of the crime in-
cluded in this erie, make no effort to
better the record of the police, who solved
none of them. But he deftly gives the
reader a slant here and there to indicate
hi own point of view without baldly ex-
pre sing it, and the results arc intere ting.
He manages to put the reader to work to
some extent-and it's interesting work.
The killing of William Taylor, movie
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ground. The facts take you along almost
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The story had to do with a woman-
a murdere ---creeping slowly up the stairs
to her victim. The reader was natural1y
following that creature so closely that he
could almo t hear her slipper heels flap-
ping. But once on the stairs the author
went off into a literary brain torm of
this order:
"Like all women, she was intent and
feline. Throughout world hi tory it
has been noted-take the ca e of
Burke, the man who killed for gain
-on the other hand-etc."
Meanwhile the reader was left on the
stairs with the murderess interested only
in the ingle murder at hand and yearning
utherland at-
to call out to the windy author to pipe

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L tained his po ition ill the magazine
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 J True Detective Mysteries 9

How Strong Are-You'

Can You Do These Things?
Lift 200 lbs. Ot" more overhead with ot}e arm; bend and
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I Saw Doctor Snook Die!
of the Ohio State JOUR AL
N OTE:
c(lllsed
a crime ill rurlll yrors has
1IIore discllssioll pro alld Cll/I
IhO/I Ihe brulal 1Illlrdcr, by Doelor James
11m ard 1I00k, of Miss Throra IIi,r, 01-
Iraclive 24-yrar-old co-cd alld 1IIedicai slll-
dellt 01 Ohio Siale lIiversi/}', Colllmbus,
"<,here Doclor 1I0ok 'was profrssor of 'I.'el-
aillar)' 1IIedicille, The crime 'was com milled
01 the .Vcw York Ceulral Rifte Rouge, lIear
Cnlumbus Ohio, all the ('"<'rlliug of 1'I/IIrs-
do)', JUlie 13, 1929.
Theora IJix 'was a bash/ul, allrlelic girl
with a brilliaul gaol ill Ii/c. J ue 10 Ihe
pcrsollalilirs of lire prillcipals ill Ihis case,
aud the circumslauces surrouudillg ils per-
pt'lralion, 'llalion-- ,ide illierrsl "<,'as ('"<'iuccd
for weeks, it beillg the headline fra/ure ill
the press Ihrouglrout the elllin' COlmlry.
Doclor nook 'I.l.'OS incliclcd all Jllue 22ud,
aud all July 24th his trial begau. 011 A u-
gust 141h, 1'1. '0 1IIou/hs O/Id aile day ofler
the crime was com milled, he was fOllnd
guilty of 1IIlIrder ill tile 'first degree alld
sellienced 10 dealh ill Ihe eleclric chair.
The characler of this 111011, his deed, his
aclions whell 1I11drr suspicion, afler his ill-
dietmen/, aud throuf/hollt his Irial 1/07'1'
brl'll dealt· ilh ill pre7';ous issues of Ihis
maga::ille, by Fred Allhoff, "'rlerll/l lIrn's-
paperman, wlro cO'l.'ered this case for tire
hio tate Journal, alld Delecli-e 0110 U.
Phillips of Ihe Columbus 1I0micide quad.
-llany readers 1/O'I.'e "< 'rillell ill sillcr thol
time asking for furlher illformalion alld for
the slory of Doctor Snook's filial hours.
This has beell "<,'rillm for TR 'E DETECTI\'E
::\ry TERJE by all rye-"< ,illless of tire r.rrer/-
tioll alld hrrrwilh folllrws:
E TH H U. E at Ohio tate Peni-
D tentiary n the night of February 2 lh,
1930, was the cene f one of the mo t un-
u ual m al \ hich criminal hi t ry rec rd..
Grouped around a plain w en table
in a r m carc Iy big enou h to hold
them, brin-ht Ii ht glaring down from a
low ceiling on rac which rna k d their
innermo t {elings, at {our men and tw
w men eating a pI nti rul m al pread b -
fore them. At a re pectful di tance stood
two had wy figure.
ne of the ix about the table wa a
man ju t turned fifty, bald-headed, wearing
h rn-rimm d pectacle, s mewhat profe -
rial in appearance. A h at, the had-
owy figur could n t help n ticing his
lw , thin finger - teady, deft. omehow
all the v nt ar und the table eemed to
revolve about him in a mann r made n t
t 0 bviou by the others.
lowly and with apparent reli, h, he ate
a piece of fried chicken, two lamb ch p ,
rna hed potatoe ice cream, cake and two
cup of coffee. By hi plate wa a ci ar
and a package of cigarette. The e he did
not touch. The others ate, too, as they
talked, The whole cene was as if it were
utterly detach d from the world.
But ju t an arm' I ngth away, on the
(th r sid of a thin partiti n, to d the
electric chair f th tate f Ohi~and
10
By KARL B. PAULY
Doctor Snook. This photograph was
taken in the Ohio State Penitentiary
on August 20th, 1929, four days after
he was sentenced to death
the professorial g ntl man toward whom
all looked as the meal was fini hed was
Doctor Jame Howard n k, murd rer
f Theora IIix, hi 24-year- Id paramour.
In an h ur the . tate would take hi life
in payment for hi crime.
t hi la t m aI, the form r Ohio tate
ni"er. ity pr f or of veterinary medi-
cine. had had a hi gue t ,hi wi fe, }'Ir .
Helen Marple no k who had f ught val-
iantly f r him even beyond the la t hope;
the pa t r f his church, the Rever nd Mr.
I aac E. 1Iiller of King venue ~r. E.
church, olumbu; 0 car R dell, Pom-
er r, who in his undergradua e days at
hi tate had ro m·d with D tor
. nook; ::\Irs. Landrum; and Reverend ~I r.
K E. \Vall, the prison chaplain.
Earlier in the day the word had gone
around with an apparently authoritative im-
petu that::\frs. nook had a ked \ arden
P. E. Thoma of the penitentiary if Doc-
tor nook mi ht wear his tux d at hi
la t meal. Later the \Varden' f1ice an-
nounced uch a request had not be n made.
The had wy figures in the background
of the trange dinner cene which pre-
luded death w re two guard of the peni-
tentiary who stayed so unobtru ively in the
back round that they c uld hear n thing
of what wa aid at the table.
According to the Rever nd ~Ir. ::\Iiller,
the repa t had all the air of a "n rmal
meal.' "\Ve all ate heartily; th re wa no
re traint," he aid. "D ctor n ok ate
heartily. The \Varden kindly ent him
cigars and cigarette but Doctor nook,
,; ho ne,'er u ed them, declined them.
There \Va no unto\ ard event. It was all
lIluch a if we were on a picnic."
A T1[r.the\\endall, ::\[rf the. Landrum
m aI, the Rver nd
and Roed 11
bade Doct r no k good-bye and left Doc-
t rand 1Irs. . nook al n with th Rev-
er nd Mr. Miller. In a few minute one
f the hadowy guard came to the \ a r-
den' re id nce and a ked for a pitcher of
unfermented grape juice. "They are goin~
to ha\'e c mmunion," he aid.
The \ ard n' wi fe provided the grape
juice from her gener u larder and the
guard return d to the Death Hou e carry-
ing a ilver pitcher on a silver tray.
"We knelt-Doctor nook and 1[r.
nook and I-and t ok Holy mmunioll
tngether in the mann r which ur church
pre cribe " aid the Iini ter later in de-
cribing the cene. "Then ::\Ir. "no k
aro e, ki cd h r hu band {arewell and
went out. he wa not the lca t bit hy -
terical at any time-even at their fare-
well. A fter he wa gone, Doctor no k
calmly handed me hi pectacle and a ked
me to give hi water to L. \V. Irwin,
another pri oner. Hi cap he left in the
d ath cell.
"IIi la t w rd ? I hall ne\'er reveal
them. They will never be known. In hi,
la t m ment , however, he p ke to me re-
peatedly f his love and affection for his
wi fe. 'It's t 0 bad it to k a bump like
this to make me realize how wonderful
he wa ,'h :>.id. He t Id me, too, over
and O\'er a ain a the end neared, that he
had faith in od and ab lute c nfidence in
{utur Ii fe."
H[LE thi cene wa being enacted.
W another prelude to that cene which
\'a to be the la t in the life of Doct r
nook wa bing enact d in the \Varden's
flice wh re the witne es to the executi n
w re gathering. The hour for the execu-
tion had never been announc d d finitely,
(Colllilll/cd 011 pagc 12)

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(Coll/illllcd from rage 10) .. e\'en three," replied each f the other
phy ician .
gain the guard went to the door at
th left f the chair and signalled.
Then through th do r came the murderer
of The ra Hix-he who had ne time b en
world champi n pi tol h t and renowned
veterinary urge nand profe r.
"lIe wa a rry ight. Though outward-
ly calm and t ely f nerve, hi eye-
minu the fam u horn-rimmed pectacle
which had been part of the und ing of hi
intended perfect crime--were red a if
from weeping. Hi face howed many a
line more than wh n h had stood trial ix
month before in Franklin County Com-
mon Plea Curt.
Hi fir t tep into the death chamb r
brought him face to face with the crowd
gathered to view him in hi dire t extrem-
ity. Quickly he looked to hi left at the
grim, black chair, pa I'd his hand once
over hi eye, twitched hi belt, then wung
wi ftly t ward the in trument. Three
tep brought him to the platform. One
tep up and two m re forward and he was
at the chair. nflinchin Iy, he turned,
Room in the Death House at Ohio State Penitentiary in which Doctor Snook ate sated himsel f with a light tu at his
his last meal just before walking out to his death. The electric chair is but a few
paces from this room, beyond the wall at the right trou er ' leg" and 10 k d over the crowd
much a if he were in a cia room.
but \ C had been t ld to b at the \ ar- d ignated J. c. \ dard, deputy war- Ill' w re black, uncr ased trou er . gray
den' office at 6 :30 P. ),L Jut a we ar- den, to ad a ex cuti ncr. At 6 :"9 \ ood- felt bedro m lipper', a bluing- tained
rived, a f w minute before the app inted ard gave u the si nal and we fell in be- hirt button d at the n ck; but without a
time, a mot r hear I' dr ve into the peni- hind and tartI'd our gru me trip acr necktie. and a habby black ack coat.
t ntiary ncl urI' bef re the eye of a the dark ncl ure of th p nitentiary. Quickly the trap, clamp and electrode
curi u, r tie cr wd which wa c I- \ I' moved wi ftly-alm 5t nile sly \ ere adju ted, the two guard and the
I cting out ide. - \'er the path t the eath II u I' D puty \\'ard n working deftly, expertly,
t 6 :-15 P. ),1. )'Ir. k, heavily which lead thr ugh grim defile of high urel)'. The headclamp, carrying an cI c-
veiled, came int the \Varden' resid nce pri n wall. Window in the cell blocks trode, wa lid d wn it groove to fit he
wher )'fr. Th rna t k her to an up- were cr wded with curi u, ullen fac - top of hi naturally bald head. A trap
tair r om. he pa d betwe n two but there wa n t a ound. t th nd of attached to the lectrode wa pa I'd under
line of u in the c rrid r to the r 'idence, the path I med the Death Hou e. \ ithin a hi chin. Doct r no k pur cd lip
J notic d that a few c nd, the and puffed hi cheek a the trap wa
he \ a weakeninO" witn c o m I' lipped into place.
under the I ng train two- c re f us-all The guard n hi right ide rolled up
f th day. he had had pas I'd within the lit ri ht trou ers' leg and adju ted
b en at the peniten- it c nfine . an electrode ju t b I w th knee. The
(ary early t hat There, at onc, ne mO\'ement r vealed dark, hea\·y-knit. gray
m ming. In fact, it saw the lectric ock and the bare calf [hi leg. Hi
had b en he, who, chair. guard stood feet w re lid into two clamps. ther
calling softly, had on ach ide of it lamps g"ra ped him ar und each knee,
wak n d h r and the deputy war- two circled each wri t and two m rc
hu band fr m hi den took up a po i- clutched his elb w strap wa pas. cd
lat mortal leep to ti n a little to ne around hi che t.
p nd hi la t day ide. A so n a we
on earth. he had
een wi h him aim ~t
had crowded nerv-
ou I)' into the low- W IlE, he had be n in the chair about
one minute, the black lath r ma k
all morning and late ceilinged chamber of wa lid over hi face. ot an audible
in the ahern n had death 0 gha tly in word had been p k n. Th n boomed the
walked with him it brilliant light and v icc of the Rver nd dr. 1Iiller: "JJay
from Death Row in yellow alaba tine IIze Lord be willz 3'01/ I"
ne of the pri n's wall, one f the E\'er '0 faintly, D ct r no k's lip
cell block to the guard tr I' to a were s n to m VI' jut as the ma k
little brick Death door at the left of dropped f re\' r to shut the world fr m
Hou e. the chair, opened it hi view.
bout the time and av a i nal. D puty \ arden \ oodard then ignalled
that she r tired to Then he r turned thr u h a partly op ned drat the right
an up tair ro m to hi tati n, the £ the chair. Beyond that door tood
with ~[r. Thoma, witne e meantime three liard, each r ady to pull a I ver.
the \ arden, who tanrling n tip toe ne of the thr I' lev rs wa wired to
had been iek in bed and craning their throw the witch-which ne, the guard
everal day, came neck, the better to did not know.
down the stair, ap- A close-up of the electric chair at Ohio 1'1' v ry d tail of red light on the wall ju t abo\'e the
parently planning to State Penitentiary, in which Doctor the dr ad in trument chair fla. hed n, signifying tllat all wa
ay the role of Snook, and many others died, showing of death-held back r ady. Death wa humming in the voice
ex cuti ncr f r the the leg and wrist clamps, and the black lr m its awful em- f the dynamo. It was 7 :040 P. ),1.
ne hundr d and leather head·hood brace by a low rail- Doctor nook sat there without a trem-
fourth time in the ing. Quick, furtive or, hi I ng, lean urgeon hand tretche'l
vente n years he has been \Varden. He whi pers ran through the crowd. Doctor lit on the arms of the chair without a
a k d f r hi derby and a cane such a he George \V. Keil, penit ntiary phy ician, qlliver- teely a when he fired the cham-
alway carri to executi ns, but at 6 :50 and three other phy ician c mpared their piorn;hip pi tol h t on the merican
he sank into a chair in his office and watche. " even three," said Doctor Keil. (Colllilll/cd nil rage 14)
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(Colllilll/I'd frolll page 12)
Olympic Icam £ ninClccn hundrcd and
twenty.
L uder came the hUIll of the dynamo.
The red light Aa h doff, thcn on to the
accompaniment f a dul1 rcp rt. The
h( dy in the chair h t forward and down-
\\ ard, training again t the trap and
iron clamps and 19-0 volt struck down
the murderer f Theora Hix in b half of
the pe pte of the late f Ohio. The long
hand leaped into a tight clinch.
Ten cond lat l' the current wa 1'-
duced to 350 volts. Thcre wa Ih ick-
llling ound of burning Ae h and the hor-
rible ight of izzling white foam around
the head Icctrode. For fcrty ec nd th
current was kept at 350 volt. Then it
\\"a returned to the original v ltage f l'
tln c011(1.
At 7 :06 the curl' nt was turned off.

DOCTOR KEIL tcpp d forward as thc

guards unloos d the che t trap. He
in ertcd a stctho c pe beneath the blue-
white shirt. The oth l' phy ician f 1-
low d him and at 7 :09 they agreed D ctor
nook wa dcad.
As his body was Ii ftcd from the chair
and placed in a long, wicker ba kct, the
witne c hurried from the death chamb l'
back acros the dark, chilly pri on corri-
dor which D ctor no k had tr d that
afterno n in the warm sunlight, arm-in-
arm with his wife, on his la t vi it to the
out-of-doors.
pstairs in the \Vardcn' l' id nce, 1fr .
nook, who had stood 0 valiantly by hcr
hu band to the la t, bu yin him up for
his la t ordeal, had sat tearle Iy for a
whilc, then had swooned.
A few block away in an office in down-
t wn Columbu sat a br k n Id man with
his attorney. Pre ently the phone rang, th
attorney, B yd B. Haddox, an wered, then
turned to the old man and said: "1£1'. Hix,
nook is dead."
The old man-D tor • [elvin T. Hix,
Bradent n, Florida, falher of the girl
Doctor Snook had slain- at very still a
moment, then said: "\Ve mu t wir
}.[ ther."
o a t legram wcnt to ).£rs. Hix in
FI rida that the laycr of h l' only daugh-
tcr had paid the xtreme p nalty f l' hi
crime to the tate of Ohio. day or two
latcr D ctor nix bbinO'ly b arded a train
Mrs. Snook is here shown leaving the penitentiary, following one of her last visits
to her husband. Below is the Death House at Ohio State Penitentiary (the low
building) in which is the death chamber and electric chair, a guard room, a room
where the men condemned to death spend their last hours, a dynamo room and a
small switch room from which the current to the electric chair is turned on
to rejoin hi wife and save what he could away in the darkne . At the undertaker'
f two lives so lately filled with de pair. establi hment another cro\ d gathered but
Out ide Ihe penitentiary as we emerged, throughout the night the mortician denied
milled hundred of curious people-men, he had Doctor no k' b dy. Half per-
w men with babe, childr n- urging thi suaded, the crowd final1y di per ed there,
way, then that, torn betw en the desire to alo.
ee the wid w a she would leave the bout 4 'clock the following morning,
\Varden's re id nce and to ee the hear e an Ohio tate niv l' ity tud nt l' turning
which any m ment would come through home from a date, happened to glance down
the gate at a far cnd of the ncl ure. \Ve t Tenth A\'enue where the n ok re i-
Thou and of automobiles c ur d the dence tand facing the m dical college
narrow treets, proceeding slowly a. big- which Theora IIix had attended. There, in
eyed facc 10 ked toward the forbidding front of the hue, he aw a hear e and
gray wal1s. s v ral aut mobile.
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'ne t" and a paramour half his agc, a
crowd of fi fteen men tood oUlside waiting
to trail the body to its 1a t restin place.
hortly before dawn the funeral cortege
tarted away, and pa ing near the heart
o£ downtown olumbu, ped to Greenlawn
Cemetery on the opp ite side of the city.
Th re, ju t a the fir t light of dawn
Au hed the Ea I, the burial service wa
read.
oon al1 about the grave wa sil nt ...
deserted. It wa the nd of the long Irail
for Doctor nook.

The Clue of the Rubber Heel

is a story which will appear next month
in this magazine, written by a Ken-
tucky country lawyer-a story you will
want to read.
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16 True Detective 1I1ysteries

he Crook
Who
Kidnapped
a Cop! Patrolman Dffinis Griffin

CLEVELAND'S CRIMSON MYSTERY

Where is Patrolman Dennis Griffin? Where has John Whitfield spirited him?
Is he a captive, hidden in some out-of-the-way place from which he can escape?
John Leonard Whitfield-sinister figure Or will the men dragging the nearby lakes for his body prove that murder
f the shadows-who streaked through
the Mid West, laughing at his pursuers has been committed?
Mrs. Griffin, rocking nine-months-old Gerald, smiles bravely through her fears
and declares that her man will have the proverbial Irish luck. Every member
Inside tories by of the Cleveland force joins the search. Every citizen is concerned in the
frantic hunt. All Ohio hears the alarm and tries to solve the riddle. What
Real Detectives has become of the vanished patrolman? Hours lengthen into days, yet not a
Each issue of THE MASTER DE- clue develops....
TECTIVE is replete with inside stories
of how the solutions of notorious crimes It was just an ordinary larceny case for which Griffin and his brother officer,
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facts instead of fiction. The cases it car was small and Whitfield, submitting to custody with seeming good humor,
reveals are episodes that have shortly offered to drive his own car to the 14th Precinct station. Griffin rode beside
ago been headline newspaper stories.
While the cases were still "news" the him on the front seat. Hughes, in the police car, trailed closely in their wake.
entire story could not be revealed. It Then fate interrupted the steady, slow driving. A tire on Hughes' car went
might have endangered the cause of flat. There was a gas station handy and Hughes, motioning Whitfield to
Justice. Now that they are official1y proceed slowly, soon filled the soft tire with air and pulled back into the
closed, every interesting exciting in-
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 WHY
These Prison Riots?
By P. E. THOMAS
Warden of Ohio State Penitentiary

NOTE: It is doubtful if there is·a prison warden in the Uni~d Sta~s better qualified to analyse
this vital question now before the American public, than is Warden T.homas. For twenty-five
years he has watched OVtT and minis~red to the needs of the army of men in the great peni-
~ntiary he governs, which houses 4,800 convicts. A human, kindly and friendly man, he has
no use for "sob sis~rs" and "upl~f~rs", but-he doe. believe in giving a man a chance
to make something of hi. life if he has it in him.-Ed.

W HY these desperate men?

Why these bloody prison riots?
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has been given expression during the past ten years in more laws-and laws
of greater severity. Punishment has been the keynote.
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its highest point. Guns of the World \\'ar were sounding, manpower was
essential, and from the prisons men were sent to help.
They did help, and the great majority of those 50 chosen made good and
still are making good. Jt is just as true, we must remember, that at that time
we were willing ·to use all the men that could reasonably be turned out.
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of great change it is but natural to find that all men did not get the proper
viewpoint. Hence-and history records it as a natural consequence of all
wars of considerable magnitude--a crime wave followed.
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50 easily does that inculcated psychology of hate fade. Rather, it changes its
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and the law violator becomes an easy victim.
After the World War various reasons were given as causes for this outburst
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"Easy paroles and pardons."
This reason was quite satisfying-since it took from the rriany the blame
and placed it on the few.
Who cared for the law violator? Who could, with any sense of propriety,
.defend him?
An already easy road was paved with editorial attacks which held up to
ridicule parole boards and pardon· officials. Chicago blamed Joliet.
Criticism swelled and, in various cities, associations were formed to halt
wherever possible the paroling and pardoning of prisoners.
The associations, formed by a few self-appointed uplifters, unfurled their
.flags of public protection, rallied to their side hosts of (Continued on page 113)

)Q
 fOil houses on fire during the Canon City jail riot, in which 13 men were killed and many wounded. Throughout the night of
he besiegers poured rifle and machine· gun fire into the last stronghold of the mutineers. But the I SO desperate men, deserted
CRIMSON NIGHT
Here is the REAL story of that crimson night of horror-
October 3rd, 1929, 'at Colorado State' Penitentiary-a
drama of human futility and carnage that STAGGERS
THE IMAGINA TION
EY. \ U lIat·looted sap, 1'\' 'Ola b II full, (;imme
H
a hance and I'll come out. \nd ju t t how ou
I'm a __quar u, I'll give up my gal,"
\ 1l1{,!isag 'hi f Hugh D. Harp rand hi olorado
pring poli force had waited hour to hear at la t drifted
hrollgh the shattered window of Bu kwald's J wiry tore
II t flloraoo \ \ nue, ju t ea t of a ade v nue,
II Ill'anl !iurr nd r-an end to thi game of hounds and
1,ln'; 1~~lIrance lhat a pitched battl b tw n burglar and
",lief' \\flulo !'no without furth>r ca ualli'; ertainty a
It-~p('rado would be captured, a robb ry thwarted.
\1I1!r\ lhough it wa., and still defiant. the voi drifting
'111 fit the darkened j w Irv tor m ant all of th e thing to
( hId Harper and hi embattled force, ,'ino ! It wa
II
rs were not made ready for them at the outer
time 1l came, :\Iidni ht to dawn-it had b n a long,
o . p rate fight, a 0 tI on, to, with Patrolmen Ben
\Id\1ahon and lin Burton wounded and facing weeks, if
not month of ina tivit , a bu in block riddled with lead,
an un ounted pr perty damage.
"Com on out, u bla ted idiot," hief Harper houted
hack. "Rut k ep our hands up-high, and no trick ."
Two (;erman I.u er sailed thr ugh the jewelry t re
window, or rath r what wa left of the window, and fell in
the street almo t at the hief's f et. The man in id m ant
husine ; he sealed hi promi e wilh hi Rat.
rhe police waited.
In tr nched in olorado venue behind anything lhat
app ared in the lea t bullel-proof. and in the alley behind
 battle flames roared and smoke belched from the buildina:s fired by the maddened convicts. From every point of vantage
by 200 other convicts, battled on, issuing demand after demand, and making good their threat to kill their guard hostages if
prison gate in which to make their getaway
The Truth A bout th e
Canon City Jailbreak!
By JOSEPH McMEEL
of the Denver POST
th j welry store, Chief Harper and hi men had waited-
, waited and were disappointed. nd with each disappoint-
m nt the poured an almo t ceasele rain of riRe, hotgun
and revo!\'er lead into the dark ned jewelry stor. From it
one-story roof, through a skylight that gave it unobstru ted
play, a Thompson machine gun raked the in id of the
tor. But there were no re ult ; none until nO' .
mewhere in ide. amid the havo wrought by incessant
firing-a wreckag of hatt red show ca and splintered
fixture -the wounding of two patrolmen charged again t
him, the man who had just called out hi surrender stood
his ground, firing back when a hit med rea onably certain,
cur in metimes, taunting alwa
.. orne in and get me you yell w-bellied opper if you
think you're tough," he houted when the poli e first hemmed
him in, and Patrolmen McMahon and Burton, displaying
more courage than pruden e, ru hed hi tronghold, onl to
learn ther wa a ting in hi bat.
SHORTLY after midnight in late eptember, 1928, thi
man was discovered in the jewelry store, and now, as the
first rays of a new day's sun fell like a stage calcium or. the
snow-capped summit of Pike' Peak, lifting th rna sive
granite pile from a field of shadows, the poli e began to feel
reasonably certain the long siege would soon be ended.
"Chlorine gas'll bring him out," Chief Harper predi ted an
hour before the message of surrender. He spoke to Deputy
Chief Fred H. pringer, a isting in the command of the
21
22 True Detective Mysteries

(Left) (Left) James

Danny Dan- Pardue,
iels, the man Danny Daniels'
who instigated, closest pal in the
managed, and Colorado p r i son,
ended, at Canon and with whom he
City Penitentiary, planned the jail·
probably the worst break. Pardue had
prison riot in all his- a bad r e cor d . The
tory. Dan ie Is was, sufferings h e had t 0
without doubt, the submit to before death,
"toughest egg" the mod- by a bullet from Daniels'
em West has produced. gun finally relieved him,
When all hope of escape were of the bitterest kind.
was gone, he killed his own He had told the Warden he
pals, then committed suicide would never serve his sentence
poli e forces in Colorado venue at the time of thi iege.
"\Vell," said pringer, repeating what he had told the hief
"I'm guilty. hief," he said. "I \Va rounding the corner
hefore. "Denver's on the way with chloride bombs; but it's
f Ca ade and 01 rado wh n thi guy' lookout fired at me.
•1 seventy-five mile drh'e, and they're oming by auto. They
I dropped on my belly and fired ba k. Th n. from the roof
ntn't fI the Palmer Lake Divide at ni ht."
of the. ational afe, next door to Buckwald' , a couple of
"Ought to be here dir tly; we'lI wait for the gas, 0 h Id
other gents opened up on me with automatic ."
\ our tire." hief Harper decided. " nyway the town's got
"\\'ho's this mug in ide; anybody know?" the hid
III g t orne I ep. an't with all this racket. L ok at the
interrupted.
\ntler Hotel's windows; a guest looking out of every one.
o ne c uld an wer the qu tion, and Kaltenb rger
y. who stirred up this hornet?" the hief asked. taking
continued:
Mlvantage of the cessation of hostiliti s to get the fact on the
"Finally, the guy in the street emptied hi gun and ran.
introductory chapters of an episode that wa to bec me a de-
The birds n the roof took to cover, and J ran up to Buckwald'
partment cia ic. ailed from bed after the battle had
~tarted, hid Harper had been too bu 'y directing the attack
to inquire about the ause. lOW, he decided, he'd like to (Below) In this charnel house of the living dead at Canon City
know. Patrolman eorge Kaltenberger tepped forward. bullets took the place of words, blood flowed like water into pools
darkened cells and corridors, in which was being enacted a story
 Crimson Night 23

(Right) (Right)
"Red" Majors A I f red Davis,
one of the prin- who completed
cIpals in the the "big four"
Canon City prison in the attempted
riot. He had a rec- jailbreak. D a vis,
ord of a successful a former waiter with
break from a Cali- a criminal record in
fornia prison and was
rated amongthe"cons" as New Mexico, was un-
"a crafty guy with guts." der sentence of 20 to 30
That explains why tough years at Canon City for
Danny Daniels "took him a hold-up job in Denver.
on" in a deal where lives were A desperate character, he
in the balance, and a squeal fitted in well with Danny
meant certain death Daniels' scheme
Ihe 1 okout to the bird in ide. racking the safe, eh?"
" 'ra king I right," Deputy hief pringer interposed.
cloor, tripping over the id walk," S<'1id Kaltenberger.
"It might have been a fat haul. There' fifteen thousand
"Tripping--over what?" hi f Harp r a ked curi u now.
dollar in g ms in the safe, or ther wa when Buckwald
"Th wire~," th patrolman an w red, handing the end
c1 sed up last night."
of two in ula ted copper trand to hi up rior,
"Fift n lh usand? Well, if the out ide men didn't get
The hief examin d th m, noted the tr tched acro them, thi guy won't. When the hlorine get into hi ey
Colorado Avenue and upward ov r the corni of the jewelr .
and up hi n ,he'll come out. If he don't, he'll choke."
tore. He was puzzled. He tou hed the copper-exposed
end of the trand, forming a conta t. There wa a spark,
and in th di tanc a faint buzzing. Th wlr were a puzzle
THE di tant roar of an autom bi.le mo.t r, traveling with
it muffler open, ended further dl ulan.
no Ion er to hief Harper.
", und lik company c ming," Deputy hie! pringer
'Humph; ientifi guy," h r marked. ":\ ignal from b. rved.
\\'ithin a few minut a machine came to a grinding top
penitentiary where bodies were piled one upon another, where tn the tr t in fr nt of th jewelry t re and Detectives
upon the stone floor. Tumult and terror reigned supreme in the rge Eade and . \\ ingren saluted hie! Harper.
so frightful that its omnious echoes reverberated around the world
24 True Detective Mysteries
The chlorine bombs had finally arrived from Denver.
" ot a leach, eh, Chief?" Detective Eade ventured.
"Yeah. but he ain't going to stick much longer; much
obliged for these, boys," Harper an we red , thanking them for
the bombs.
In a matter of minu tes, Chief Harper distribu ted the chlorine
bombs, sending a consignment to In p tor "Dad" Bru e in
command of the machine gun detail on the roof.
"Tell Dad to drop a bomb through that skylight eery
time he hear the buzzer," was the message he sent to Bruce.
"Handy arrangement, thi -eh. pringer? Handy for burglars;
handy for cop ."
WITHI a few minutes Detective Bob ~ raith, who
carried the bombs and the message to I nspector Bruce,
returned to report all was ready. Chief Harper ordered hi.
men to hold fire, but to prepare to fight.
" II ready? ow for results," he shouted. He brought
the wire points together. In the distance there wa a faint
buzzing, and a moment afterwards a bang!
erves atingle, muscles taut, eyes alert, the police waited,
their guns trained on the jewelry store. low-moving clouds
of gas billowed through the shattered window. crid,
biting fumes swept out of the store into the avenue. But
there was no sign of a man coming out.
The signal buzzed a econd time, and then a third, and
down through the skylight Insp tor Bruce hurled two more
(Left) Governor
Adams, of Colo-
rado, who sent the
state police post-
ha~te to help in
the fight against
the rioting con·
viets. (Below) A
bird's-eye view of
the burning Colo-
rado State Peni-
tentiary at. the
height of the
battle
bomb. gain the p lice waited, the gas cloud rolled
lazil thr ugh the wind w , den er. more pungent. hort
wait and th cry of urr nder. Then two erman Luger
sailed through the air.
ith hi hands up, hi eye streaming tears, coughing
convulsively as the gas fume bit into tender throat ti u
and penetrated equall, tender no trils, the man staggered
into the treet, fighting for breath. He appr ached Chief
Harp r.
"The name' Daniels," he managed to explain between fits
of oughing." 'Danny,' they call me. My home' Oklahoma
ity. I'm out on seven thousand five hundred dollar bond
for a sault at Bartelsville; five thousand dollar federal bond
for auto theft at Tulsa, one thousand dollar assault bond at
owata. sed to be a bookkeeper; never killed a man in
my life. On my way to \J y ming to r t." .
" ot \\ yomi~g, Daniel -Canon ity; that' where we
nd guy like you for vacations---4ong on , too," Chief
Harper told him and asked:
"Who're your pal ?"
"Pals? Let's see; call one of 'em 'Red' Taylor, the other
'Whitey' \ illiam. That's good enough, I guess," the man
replied, indicating he would give no information about the
men who had escaped. "They got away; I got caught.
That' m tou h luck."
"\\'here'd you learn this racket?" Chief Harper questioned.
"Oklahoma, mo tty; trailed around with the Kimes gang
me," the man b a ted. " ot jobbed and did a stretch;
been sore ever in e." He said thi angrily. " ot a wife
and a kid in Oklahoma-Li ten hief, they won't know any-
thing about thi -will they?"
Daniels stopped talking as In pector Bruce approached.
WHE the gas cleared from the jewelry store, In pector
Bruce and hi detail went in ide to learn some things
'the police did not kno\ .
Coming back out, stumbling over the debris he tated:
" eat job, Chid. They got in through the ational
Cafe, dug a tunnel through the wall to get to Buckwald's
safe. There' a slab of steel out of the safe, but the torch
man didn't have time to complete the job. The jewels must
be safe in ide."
"Yeah; it's a dud for mc," Daniels confirmed.
Ignoring the remark, Inspector Bruce continued:
"This mug worked inside a tent, and in that way concealed
the glow from the acetylene torch. There's two tank of
 Crimson Night
Scene outside Cell House No.3. One by one, their arms above their heads. the convicts in this building were marched out into the
gray dawn to face a semicircle of rifles and revolvers held by a hastily organized group of National Guardsmen, prison guards and
volunteer citizens
in th tent. twent. -four rounds foran automati •
hell for a .20-gaug sh tgun, and an extra lip
for Luger. 0 gun. Left v I)·thing ju t a we found it,
nd the boy are I oking around for fingerprints," Bruce
hni hed, secretly admiring Daniel' thoroughn This fir t
experience with Danny Daniels h wed th kind f metal
he wa made r.
.loriou unlight of an Indian ummer day Aooded th
Pike' Peak region as hief Harper napped a pair of
handcuff around anny Daniel' wrists and ord red him
taken under guard to th EI Pa 0 County Jail. The excit -
ment O\'er, sleepy-eyed gue ts of the ntl r Hot I rawl d
hack into b d to natch a few hour!;>' r t b for golf no-age-
m nt at th Br ad moor or m tor trip up the p ak ompelled
t h m to ri again. Haggard, ragged-nen'ed poli offi er ,
.( d the iege was ended, dragged them Ives home and to
hed until dut again for ed th m to their p t . In the mcan-
lim the pal of Dann Daniels were racing uthward
toward Puebl in a tol n automobile. leaving their pal
hehind to fi ht for freedom th be t he could.
n-
O T HER wa drawin to a 10 when Oaniel • d prate
in the r alization that within a month he \ ould fac a
jury on a charge of burglary, again tru k at the law. Jailer
Frank Bott was hi target.
I) livering the noon meal t prisoner in the EI Pa 0
County Jail. Bott pa sed within arm' reach of Dani Is'
("1:11. The outlaw thru t an arm thr ugh the bar of his cage
,Ind in a downward weep la hed the jailer' throat with a
razor. missed the jugular, but op ned an ugly ga h in the
("ell keeper' n k. Disarmed, he wa thr wn int a dungeol'
Ind thereafter hi k p r were more dgilant.
\nd th n in . '0 cmb r-trial. A jury heard the tory of the
"ll'ge at Bu kwald' Jew Iry . tor and f th for ful entr
of the. 'ational a fl'. The \. rdi t was guilt --on two count.
l)n the m rning of ovemb r 30th, 192 • Daniels stood
hefore the bar in Oi trict Judge \ ilbur M. Alter' ourt
room for nt nee.
'Ha e 'ou an ,thing to say?" the ourt a ked, putting
th u ual qu ti n forward.
. 'othing," Daniels gr wled.
Ju Ige Alt r b gan the pronouncement of nt nee.
'" t is the nt nee of this curt that you be confined in the
penitentiary at anon ity at hard labor for a term of twelve
to fourteen year. n the fir t ount. and that-"
Daniels breathed audibl ,and the Court paused. With his
hand the prison r wiped beads of perspiration from his
for head. hifted hi wight from one leg to the other, and
t od ready to hear the r mainder of th Court's pronoun e-
m nt. Judge Alter ontinued:
and that . u be onnned in the p nitentiary. not at
hard labor, for tw I e to f urteen years n the ond c unto
th nten e to run con utively. :\Ir. heriR', take charge
of the pri oner."
"Whew!" Daniel ex laimed. exhalin thr ugh clenched
teeth. And then: "Twenty-eight years-the work ."
A RO the mountain b a road that wind d wn into
grc n \'all y and up pin - tudded, rock slopes to the
ummit of the ondary range f the R kie, the di tance
from 01 rado • pring to the anon ity Penitentiary is
rift -two mil . Danny Daniel Iflade that trip on the after-
noon of 'ov mb roth, 192 , with the nten e 0 recently
pr nounced ringing in hi ear. Tw nly- ight year in the
penitentiary meant a lif time at his ag he wa thirty-eight.
Hand uffed. an Or gon boot I ked about hi right leg at the
ankl , he made the trip in il nee, eated b tw en two armed
uard. hi f Harper sat in the front t f the automobile
b side the driver.
an n 'ity it on a high plateau. To th north and w t,
th town is hemmed in b an min n e of the Rocki • the
last nc unt red b for the appr ach to the heights of the
. mtinental Divide. Th pri n wh re 01 rado incar-
rerates her f Ion i built on the lope f the north hills. Its
ba k or north wall abut th m. Red sand tone rampart,
thirt f t high and four f t thick, encl e the pri on gr und
and building in an irregular r tangle. Three cell h u s.
known as Tier One. Two and Three, are grouped close
together. nearer the north and we t wall. The we t wall
0\ erlook the \ ard n' r idence and near its juncture
with the north rampart there i a teel-barred gate thr ugh
hi h rdil fr ight car ar admitted to the pri on IWIll/leiS
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In the prison there were many men like him, and he wa

not long in making the acquaintance of these convicts.
(Right) John Pease,
Colorado prison guard. James Pardue. alias Walter J. Holub, was one of them.
"Pease," said the Pardu wa the type that crime experts call an habitual
Warden, "that'll be criminal. \\ hen he met Daniels he was completing the fourth
enough (or now. You year of a ten-year-to-life ntence imposed for highway rob-
go back and tell
Danie//J I' /1 give him bery, in th \\'est ide riminal ourt at Denver, and
rny final answer in boa ted a long and varied career in crime.
five rninute/J." Did s a boy. Pardue wa an inmate of the Mi uri Reform
Pease go back? He hool at Booneville. He wa committed for shoplifting.
did, and in doing so
faced. without a word, Liberated on parole, he wa back again in the Booneville
a prospect that would 5 hool in 1919 under a five year sentence. This time it was
have melted the cour- burglary. He escaped in two months and was at liberty
age of most men until 1922. That year he wa back again at Booneville
under sen tence of five years. In criminal accomplish-
men t. he had progressed; the charge wa armed robbery.
gain he escaped and again he was arrested. tried and
convicted. Too old for Booneville. he was ent to the
Mi ouri tate Prison, which received him for armed
robbery in 1923. In July, 1924. he again broke
away and in the course of a search for a place to
hide he reached Colorado. Within a few months
the Denver police had him in custody for
aggravated robbery-a drug store stick-up.
And in time, Pardue reached Canon City.
"I can't and I won't serve the sentence they
gave me at Denver," Pardue in a fit of anger
once told Deputy Warden William Green.

A D that wa the way Daniel felt about his

sentence. it was that Daniels and Pardue
had much in common. It wa natural that they
hould become pri on pal; that their thought
hould turn sp ntaneou Iy to liberty and to the
day when it would come; legally or otherwi
made no difference to them.
with upplie and coal. o. 3 i a little to th A they contemplated the future, Inaugural Day in 'larch,
uth and ea t of the gate-p ibl fift yard. 1929. held the attenti n of the people of Col rado.
ton turret. each a part f th walls. overlook the pri on overnor William H. dam wa to begin hi second t rm.
ground and building from all sid '. They are the lookout In a messag to the people f th stat, he pI" mi ed, a he had
st9tion . occupied day and night b. guard who patrol th promi ed two year before, th I" w uld be no pardon ; no
wall at regular interval, riA I" ting in the rook of their parole for con it.
arm . Through unknown chan-
On a dear day. a panoramic view of Colorado' penitentiary
is visabl from a promont ry ninete n mil to the ea tward.
The ovember day that Danny IJaniel came over the
mountains f.rom Colorado pring \ a just uch a day. A
the automobile that carried him topp d th la t
hill below the plateau. Dani I glimpsed the pri on,
backed up again t the rna ive granitc hillsides.
He win ed.
"Not for long," he muttered b tween clenched
t('Cth, leaving hi guard to 'p uJatc n what he
ml', nl.

HALF art hour later he passed through the steel

gat of the prison dmini tration Building,
whi h fa the south with its back to the prison
yard and ell house. He wa mugged, printed and
cia ified and turned over to a guard captain to be
a igned to a cell house. Danny Daniels became
onvict . 14,277.
he disappeared into the prison yard, Chief
Harp 1", who had watched hi tran formation from
a man under ntence to a full-fledged convict,
turned to Warden Franci Eugene rawford and
said:
"Gene, there g es a tough (Righ t) Cell HouseIJ
1 and 2, which were
egg; you'll ha e to watch him." wrecked. They are
Dani I carried into the now in ruins, their
anon ity Penitentiary th gaunt frameworks
same hatred of authorit testifying to the
fury of flames, dy-
he had harbored on the out- namite and ma-
side. chine gun bullets
 Crimson ight !-7

nel , the n w p netrated the p nitentiary and spread among

Ih con vict .
\\ ith hop of A utiv d m nc
Ih n tural r ult of th n w wa unr
I )ani I and Pardue, now more re tl
did InU h to fom nt it. B av nu to thi
em' reel, arm w re muggl d into the pri
were fund and conti at d nd onvict
~e ing them wer thrown into the pri 'on 001 r
on a <Ii t of bread and water. B mid ummer
<Ii ipline b me harder to nf rc and unrest
In r pronoun ed.
(twa nowlateJuly,eightm nth ince anieJ
,lnd Pardue, m ved by mutual mpathy, had
formed an allian e.
rh . wer a igned with other onvicts to
IInlo d team al br ught int the p nit ntiary
through the \\' t at. At the same ta k were
\!fred H. Davis. thirty- i ht years Id, and
\1 Ivin (Red) 1\Iajor, lia Ril . thirty years
old.

f tw attempts

1ajor' r ord wa potty.

Father Patrick O'Neil (left) and Marion Keating, Colorado National
lona Reformatory Guardsman, heroes of the Canon City prison riot. It was Father
O'Neil who, with an old miner, faced death to carry 100 pounds of
dynamite under fire, to blow up the convicts' stronghold desperatc
attempt to end the mutiny by one bold stroke

and I hat:ardou. fi Id. in ·o!orado. .\bout the time of hi

arrival t her wa a. rie of huld-ups. ()em'er lHllice w r
n ver abl to pr ve th _ a ain t :'\Iajor , but th ("eased
aft r h tled the ("it) fol\owin th shooting of Patrolman
Jam a . who wa wounded a h tarted inve tigation of
,\ quartet of m n suspected of a plan 10 roh a hank. The
~ang wa eated in an <lulOmo) il parked in front of the bank
at the tim, Thi job wa' n ver fa tcned definitel' n ~Iaj r .
but h \Va . enren("ed at olorado. 'pring for aggr'd\'at d
·"bber ommilled in that city. Den) in th crim, h
at empted to {',plain po e ion of a gun with the
de lara tion:
''I'm all i"~AP rienced young man from the
Ea t. I e 'p led to find Indian in 01 rado,
o I brou ht m ' gun along."

ga\' court-room p tat r

ourt ave ;\Iaj r tw nt t
2 True Detective Mysteries
admlOi tration p Ii
urc unkn wn to
blo k.
There were r p rt of gun, muggled into the pri on by
tru tie who hid them under coal, piled high in the yard.
The oal was moved; ther w r no gun. b ut thi tim
knives were mi ing my teriou Iy from the kitchen. earch
was made f r th m; ell block were turned topsy-turvy,
every n k and cranny probed. There were no knives;
no weapon of any kind.
uddenly a 1m settled over the pris n; there wa Ie of
di ontent and improved discipline wa noti eable. Ward n
rawford breathed easier. uards and ke per wh had
b n nervou and jumpy became calm and mposed. Ther
wa not a man among th m wh did not feel a ri i had
passed. And thcn--
o T B R 3rd, 1929, dawned clear and calm.
ling red in the hill ar und anon ity although autumn
ummer
wa well advanced. 01 ring p uliar to th fall f the year
had only ju t begu n to tinge th foliage on the moun tain
slope. There wa that ab ut th weather which lures one to
the open road and Warden rawford with bu in demand-
ing attention, dr ve over the hill to olorad prings.
Within th pri on. Daniel and Pardue and Davi and laj r
labored with their f 1I0w-pri oners unlc;>ading coal.
'oon wa appr aching wh n Elmer . Erwin, a guard,
climbed a t I-runged kidder to a crow's ne t verlooking
the COI1\;ct m hall. To watch the cond t as they gulped
th ir pri on far wa ne of hi daily dutie . ear at hand
in the row' ne t was a rifle. loaded and read for any
emergen~. This day Erwin foil wed hi cu tomary routin .
fter the climb up the ladd r with a rifle t k und r hi
arm, he closed and locked th door. From a compartment h
pr duced a rifle barrel, which he fitted to the tock. He
broke the weapon, saw it wa loaded, and a he finished a
bla t from a whi tie in the pri on boiler hou announced the
noon hour.
OI1\.;ct laid down their tool , formed line and began a
march for the m hall. Fr m a turret verlooking the
ground and the me hall, 1 r n H. oodwin.
another guard, watched the lines advan and, in
u ual order, file into the m hall. Twelve hundred
(RiAht) Lawrence Roche, guard, (without hat) was
held hostage by the convicts, but in the confusion
he managed to escape. On his right is O. A. Earl,
guard, who was the last hostage held by the mutineers,
and who would have been shot next, it is believed, had
not the mutiny ended when it did. (Below) How
the dining room looked after the riot. These smolder-
ing walls, a bare ten feet from the inside door to the
death house, were what was left after the battle and
the flames had done their work
con i ts sat down to lunch. Apparently all was well.
they ate, Erwin watched from the crow's nest. Other
guard passed from table to table to check every man in hi
a customed pIa e. Two were mi ing-Daniels and Pardue.
The captain of the guard wa advised and a hurried earch
wa made in their cell tier. They wer not there,
t 12 :30, with the search for Daniels and Pardue still in
progress, th convict rose from their meal, formed another
line and mar hed out.
naware that Daniels and Pardue were mi ing, Erwin
broke hi rifle a the last of the convicts disappeared through
the mess hall door. He put the barrel of the weapon back
into its compartment, tucked the stock under his arm, hut
and locked the crow's nest door and tarted down the ladder.
A theH FFLI of feet beneath the ladder warned him of
pr n e of oth l' in the room.
dir tly b neath, poke to him:
", horty, your time has come."
gruff voice,
There wa a hot.
Tt echoed fain tty in the turret where Goodwin focused
watchful eyes on the retreating convi t line. roused
by the sound, the guard peered down iilto the yard. trying
to account for it. s his eyes scanned the yard his hand
held a rifle. He di erned some evidence of unrest in the
convict line. and, as he watched, two men darted for the
m hall. Goodwin raised his rifle, drew ight on the fore-
most of the running figur ,and then--. Out of the corner
of hi eye oodwin discerned another unu ual movement in
the prison yard below him. On the threshold of the mess
hall he glimpsed another figure, with rifle leveled. Instantly
oodwin realized he was the target on which the weapon
was trained. He swept his own rifle to the ide
until the sight drew a bead on the figure in the
me hall doorway. He fired. imultaneously,
another rifle roared. Goodwin toppled backward
into the pent house atop the prison wall fatally
t:I1Ided. The -figure' -the -doorway -phmged
forward into the yard and lay still. A rifle lay
b ide it.
s the shots sounded, twelve hundred convicts
broke rank and raced for their cell block. The
Canon City pri n revolt was a reality.
Within a. few minutes the prison yard was a
bedlam. The siren in the boiler house screamed
an alarm. Convicts fresh from forays on the
prison bakery, the kitchen and their own cell
houses dodged from shelter to shelter as they
scurried towards Cell Hou o. 3.
Guards, running towards the mess hall to
investigate the shots, shouted order. These
were ignored. Lacking arms to enforce their
 Crimson Night 29

command , the guards were helpl . Other guards

in the turrets of the west and north walls, who had
seen oodwin fall backwards into his pent house
a moment after his rifle blazed, telephoned the
news to the dministration Building.
And just about this time eight men dressed in
the regulation uniform f the pris n guards hur-
ried a ro the penitentiary yard towards Cell
House 3. They were bearing what appeared to b
two bodies--{jead or wound d m n; no one knew
whi h.
hurried survey of the situation told Deputy
\ arden Green it was seriou. uch meager de-
tails as he p ssessed he hastened to telephone to
Warden Crawford, who was reaehed in Chief
Harper's offi eat olorado prings.
"\~ e've got some trouble here, arden," he
told his superior over the long distance telephone.
He tried to appear calm. " oodwin's b n shot
and he's dying. There's been three hots fired- (Above) This photograph, taken soon after the riot had
two in ide mewher around the m hall, ended, shows (left to riAht) Mrs. F. E. Crawford, Warden
and a third one that Goodwin fired," he con- F. E. Crawford, R. F. Reed, Denver Chief of Police and
tinued, apparently ignoring some pointed Dennis Sullivant, Denver, one of the Warden's advisors
during the revolt. (Left) Ambulances in early morning
taking away bodies of dead guards through the prison
gates

the ontour I the hills. He knew the peniten-

tiary was still burning, and from that he judged
th riot to be riou.
fter his conversation with his up rior,
Deputy Warden reen made another hurried
survey 'of the situation in the prison and then
proceeded to carry out the one order he remem-
bered receiving from Warden Crawford. He
called vernor dam.
The Chief Executive received the news calmly,
but in a few minutes after he hung up the tele-
phone the e.xecutive offices in the capitol at
Denver were swarming with subordinate state
offi r.
Colonel Paul P. ewlon of the C lorado
question asked by his Chief, who wa listening eagedy. ational uard was ordered to get militiamen under arm
" eah; we think there' two wounded men inside, and a to combat the on ict revolt. He followed instruction b
bunch of guards are capti e . 0, we don't know if the ordering ut forty men f a Howitzer company at Canon
wounded are guards or • on.' The' ons' seem to be ity. \ ithin an hour they had encompassed the pri n
armed, and they carried the dead or wounded men into ell walls, and shortly afterwards were joined by hundreds of
House 3. Didja say, who carried them? ell, we d n't townsfolk-men who re ponded to the siren's call for help
know-men in guard uniforms." and armed themselves at the prison arsenal.
Battery B at Puebl al 0 wa~ ordered to Can n it
AT thi point a guard rushed into the dministrati n and shortly afterwards the forty men of the battery en-
Building where the deputy warden had hi chief on th-e trained fr m their armory in truck for a forty-two mile
telephone and interrupted the conversation. Breathl run to the pri on up the valley of the rkansas. They took
he whispered a message into Green's ear. troubled e.xpr -
with them a large field piece and two machine gun. As the
sion overspread reen's face, and he pIa ed his lip against guard men from Pueblo swung into the valley road leading
the mouth-piece and shouted this message: to Canon City ix pieces of fire apparatu swept by them
"The chapel and mess hall are burning! Hell's broke loo e! in a cloud of dust, and the guard men's commanding officer,
The convicts are rmlning like hell for Cell IIouse 3." aptain ubrey Kief, roared across the mountain in an
Then he hung up the receiver, and Warden rawford,
airplane in the dir tion of the penitentiary town.
turning to Chief Harper, made this peculation:
hief, 1 wonder if you're right about Daniel; someone's "i11-::K~\RrrE, overnor Adams had di patched hief
turned the pen into a hell-hoI ." Louis. T. cherf of the tate Police and Lieutenant Roy
"He's a tough nut, ene," was all Chief Harper said. Best to the penitentiary. The overnor's private retary,
Racing back to Canon City on that tober aftern on Judge B. T. Pox n ac ompanied them as special repr nta-
over a mountain road that is more like the trail of a erpent tive of the chief e.xecutive.
than a highway for motor travel, \i arden rawford estab- hen ~ arden rawford rea hed anon ity after hi
lished a record for speed and reck! daring that will tand record run from Colorado prings, he found the str et
until a like emergency compels another to sa rifice safety crowded. rmed men were everywhere. Military line
for haste. Less than two hour after he received his deputy's had be n establi hed, and uniformed guardsmen patroled
message, Warden Crawford's automobile topped the rise them, holding back the curiou. When still some blocks
nineteen miles east of th penitentiary from which Danny from the prison grounds, Warden Crawford heard the roar
Daniels first glimpsed the pris n almo t a year bef reo He of the flame that were consuming the chapel and mess hall.
looked off acro an e.xpan of mountain meadow and in the When he reached the prison, he ought out istant arden
di tance. above the top of a f r t of pine in the middle reen for a m re detailed story of what had taken plac .
background, he saw great cloud of black moke obliterating " 11 we kn w is what we've en (Continued on page 100)
 talking HONOLULU'S
Hawaii s most sensational cri me-one of the great cases of
all time-the brutal kidnapping of 10-year-old Gill
jamieson, son of the Vice-President of the Hawaiian Trust
Company-held for $10,000 ransom. An epic of suspense
and anguish that has few coun terparts in criminal history
By FRA CI' McCLANAHAN
HE Hawaiian I oland. a full-f1cdged Am ri an territory. of it. llawaii ha. alwa~!' hl' n fr of an racial fe ling.

T Ii about 240 mile

Gate. Th
uthO and w t of th Gold n
are called the" Paradi of the Pacific"
°hl'cau I' of their natural b aut and th d lightful
limate that pre ail °
Hawaii i an integral part f the nitI'd tat ; it i not a
~o-called "colon " nor i it a "po I' ion." :\Ian f the
~tate of the union were territories b fore th w re ad-
11lItled to tatehoOO. and now the Territory of Hawaii is but
un t p removed from tateh 00.
\ccording to former Governor \\. R. Farringt n's 1927
rt'port to the cretary of the J nterior, Hawaii ha a popula-
tion of 333.420. Of thi number 132,243 ar japanc e;
.!4.59 are hin ; 64.94 tare r\ merican and I:.uropean;
~.'i,.'ii6 are Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian; 52,124 are Filipinos;
other race. in Juding Portugue , Koreans, paniards,
Ru ian, Hindus, and Porto Rican numb r 13.93. In
,pite of this con-glomerate population. r perhaps b cause
l\merican ju. tic prc\ il. in th T rritor ju l a urclya it
do . in edar Rapid. Iowa.
Honolulu, on the I land of ahu, i the apital and large t
ci l ' f the terri lor .
It wa in this fair city that onc f the m t brutal rime
of pre nt time 0 curred on th morning f. eptember I th,
192. The fiend did not ev n wait for th hour of darkn
to conceal the horror of hi d ed, bu t ch a brigh t un-
-;hiny morning. with a ettin of Wa\ ing palm in the back-
ground, 0 cia in fact. to on of the world' most famou
hotel. that had n b en list ning, the ream of the ictim
would urely hoave b en heard.
hortly b fore ten o'clo k on the morning of ptember
I th, 1<;)2. 1i :\Iary \Yinne, prin ipal of th Punahou
junior Academ • a pri ate boarding and day hool. wa
called to the teleph ne. The caller told :\Ii \\'inne that
II' . jamieson had b en injured in n automobile accident

M. Yoshioka (with his riAht artn extended) the unsuspecting driver of the car in which the kidnapped boy was taken away
from the Punahou Junior Academy, explains to detectives his exact movements on the morning of the kidnapping. The
woman in white in the foreground (with her riAht hand raised) is Miss Mary Winne, principal of the school, who let the boy go,
wholly unaware of the fate that awaited him
10
MAD KIDNAPPERI
What lay here, under these palm leaves and this crude symbolic cross (under arrow) tied with string? Was this a blind
tomb, characteristic of the mad mind that conceived the diabolical letter of the "Three KinAs?" Or
to find beneath these strange tokens the pitiful remains that would break a father's heart?
and that he was to call for the Jamieson boy at the hool.
Soon after, an automobile drove up and stopped in front
of the dmini tra rion Building. A man of Oriental extraction
stepped out. He wore a'white suit similar to those worn by
hospital internes, dark glasses, and no hat. He had heavy,
black hair. Another man, also described as an Oriental
by Miss \ inne, remained in the car. The man who got out
asked Miss Winne for the Jamieson boy. When told that
there were four Jamieson boys in the school, the man stated
that he had crime for the boy who was the n of the man
who was vi e-pre ident of the Hawaiian Trust Company.
He was asked about Mrs. Jamieson's condition and an-
swered that it was believed that she wa not seriously hurt.
The Jami n boy was called from his cia s and upon
starting to leave, turned and asked Mi \ inne if it was
all right to go with the man. He was a ured that it was
all right. Under his little arm he carried a book from the
school library, "Father's one a'Whaling."
HAWAII, in comparison with mainland United tate,
has always been exceptionally free of crime. This is
due, in part, to the natural air of peacefulne s of the i lands
and, in part, to their phy ical isolation. criminal attempt-
ing to depart from the islands suffers a handicap that does
Dot exist on the mainland. For these reasons the people of
the islands are n t as suspicious of crime as are mo t com-
munities on the mainland, nor a careful. It mu t be noted
also that the chauffeurs of wealthy families often called at
the school for chil<!ren, so the incident was quite in keeping
with a regular practice. othing had oc urred up to the
time of the departure of the boy from his schoo!" that should
have caused Mi s \ inne to uspect any irregularit .
ill was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick \ .
faked
ere the enraged searchers
Jamieson, riding at 2751 Kahawai treet in Manoa Valley.
He wa a smiling, blue-eyed lad, not too strong for a ten-
year-old boy, stood about four feet and eight inches in height,
and weighed eighty-five pounds. His parents belonge-l to one
of the well-to-do leading families of Honolulu and there is
no doubt that little Gill had a rosy future ahead of him.
Shortly before two o'clock that same afternoon, a letter
was delivered, by messenger, to 1r. Jamieson at his office
at the Hawaiian Tru t Company. Telling of the kidnapping,
the letter demanded 10,000 ransom, specifying how and in
what manner to deliver the money. The letter further
wa(ned the father that any attempt to notify the police, or
his failure to follow instruction would r ul t in the immed-
iate death of his son. The letter was signed, "The Three
King ,tt intimating that there were three men .impli ated in
the kidnapping. The letter, which follows, appears to have
been taken from a book entitlei "Six Proud 'Walker ."
Although the police checked the borrowers of thi book
from the public library, no definite clue was establi h d.
o pag 2 and 33 is a photographic reprod cti n of the
original letter from th kidnapper. me parts of thi
facsimile are difficult to d cipher, so we are giving below a
printed copy of the body of the letter:
Will KKK Kin!!S Tuesday Sept. I
God Save The This Day no other
9AM
Mr. Frederick W. Jamieson, Esq.,
Sir,
The fates have decided so we have been given this privile in
writing you on this important matter. We presume you will be
alarmed at first. evertheless, we hope that you get over this
31
 True Detective Mysteries
llrpnse soon and listen to the writers
.. nely. \ hat i it all about?
'Ol R SO IS KID PPED
I·OR RA 0
.'1 US be calm in this-we a sure you thaI
nur on.s at present well and afe. He will
... a 10nR as you obey each and every one o'
'Jl commands. If n the other hand you
()T rarry out ur instructions, you can h p<
'nr nothin but DE TH to your son. W'
\\,,: IT.
'ir: In your business life, you no doubt have
!"und that" 0 FIDE CE" in y ur fellow
llrn. a Rreat factor. Isn't that true? Now,
"'rr III this ca ,we want y u to have the
limon confidence in us. I lave all fears
WI'pt a .de. I what we ay and you will
('r "our n alr-lin. "'iRht u and you will
·,('ver e him, nay, he will be but a shadow,
,fde s. But let us not dwell on th tragedy.
\1 a ke you r decision on the better side of it.
IIc10w are the instructions on which the whole
,'nture depends.
o RETOCARRYOUTTHE
I'OI.T.O\ I G-
[. I\. P this matter a cret. 00 T
'oufv or seek help from outsiders, i..-police
,r d tectives.
Let u remind you this-That every kid-
'lapping case we tudied,"O IDERS"
lave been notified and all with 01 AS-
I'RO 'S r suit on both parties. Do you
ant thi to happen? \ e advi e you that
lny trickery be avoided. s we say: have
~ onlidence and c perate with us.
II. Have TF. THO SA 0 DOLL RS
10.000) on hand TOY, before 2 P. M.
rhey are 1 be entirely of OLD BILLS f
'he following denominations:
~H)O(}·in-TF. dollar and FI F. dollar bills.

At right and top picture on opposite page

.hows photographic reproduction of the
mginal letter sent by the mysterious kid-
napper to little Gill Jamieson's grief-
_tricken father, at his office in the Hawaiian
Trust Company building, at 2 P.M., the
lay after the kidnapping. Note the enig-
matic signature and the weird notations
nd symbols used by the kidnapper
Below} Crowd of enraged citizens gathered
n front of Honolulu Police Headquarters
hen word flashed over the city that little
ill Jamieson had been slain by the mad
ICldnapper. and his body located. Was it
"nly another false rumor'
S4,OOO-in-TWE TY dollar bills.
S2,OOO-in-FIl'TY dollar bills.

SlO,OOO-Total amount-no more no

less.
ow then-These must be free of
any identification whatsoever. ny
attempt to mark or take numbers
or any attempt to trace the money
will render the entire venture futile.
I I I. Have money in plain wrapper se-
surely Iso have all letters add res ed
to you by us wrapped to etber witb
tbe bills. Do not destroy letter. im-
ply return them by that method.-
Do not take amples of this writing
though we have no fear. We are too
cautious--even the "tell tale" type-
writer is not used by us. Remember,
we know our business as you know
yours thoroughly. othing will pre-
vent us from seeking our ultimate
goal--
I . This is the manner in whicb we
take to meet and exchan e our hold-
 Statk~ng Honolulu's Mad Kidnapper 33
players. We are now about to play our
part in our secret drama entitled "TH E
THREE WALKI G SHAOo\ S." ote
that we are but three poor walking shadows-
Righton your receipt of this letter, you are to
be watched by us, your action and your every
detailed movement. So beware. You are
not dealing with a lone hand. We wanl to
make it simple for you. Just do as we have
instructed and all be well with all. We want
clean money unspotted by blood. But any
false move on your part will result in death.
It comes all to this-We are placing your
son's life on your own shoulders. And then
OR'S will be at stake too. Who knows,
perhaps yours too, even. Then your's will
be the decision to decide our fate. A lot of
responsibility for one. Be true and you will
not regret it. What is money compared to
life, sir. WE K OW ALL WILL COME
o TTHEWAYWEWA T. WETR l'
YO .

As a final warning-this is a strictly COIII-

mercial proposition and we are prepar.ed
to put our threat into execution should w
have reasonable grounds to b lieve that you
have committed an infraction of the above
instruction~. However should you carefully
carry out our commands faithfully, we can
assure you that your son will be safely re-
turned to you right on the minute that we
make our prearran ed transaction. Do right
by us and we will do the same. Do wrong and
we will stop at nothing. Too much words
have been wasted but we hope this lonl! letter
will et you thinking straight. After all
"THE THREE H DOW " will walk to
an end. 0 let us do our best as planned.
\! e hope you will lik our "directorship."

Endor"THREEW LKJ 'GSH OO\\'S"

" ever~' as A Kingdom So Poor"
or 0 Foolish-+ + + - "We "King
Without Crowns 'THE TH REE K I .
K+ K+ K+

(Below) Note arrow at left of picture. The

crowd is gazing at spot where little white
shirt and jacket, covered with blood-stains,
were found under the house, corner of which
is shown. Here, then, was where the fleeing
kidnapper was trying to cover his tracks!

ings. The time and place is to be given you

later by phone or letter. Be prepared for it.

C OME along prepared with car (?) time

. (?) stop at directed place, lights out 10
seconds then on. Await-First man will
come to you then. Let him enter car.
His"pu~pose is to see how you are and to
see that there is no foul play. Another
. purpose is to see if you have the right sum
of money at hand. Show and count for
him. If all is.well, he will tell you to BLOW
a horn-a .signal for the rest of u~ to ap-
proach you with your son in another car.
Transaction is to be made then and there
before youI' eyes. Be true and so be i t - -
V. Obey all further instructions when
given you. perhaps by phone or letter. Be
at home at I E o'clock P. M. when we
will either telephone or send you a letter
directing when and where to come for
the meeting.

Sir:
The world is a mere stage in which
we humans are the humble actors or
34 Tnu Detective Mysteries

official. Mr. ]ami >II had been in tructed in

the letter to b at home at nine o'clock that night
at whi h time he would rive further instruc-
tions, ith r b . phoneorlett r. With that much to
go hY,the polic laid plan to trap the kidnappers.

ATrived
eight forty-five that e"ening l\lr. Jamie n
a t lephon m ssage telling him
to drive to Thoma 'quar, a park n t far
from the Honolulu bu inc di trict. He was
in tructed to park hi car opp ite the Hono-
lulu cad my of rt, to take the 10,000 ran-
som mone , to go alon and not to be followed.
He dr ve to Th rna 'quare a dir ted and
parked hi car.
\fter a few minute a rna ked riental you th
cam up and a ked Mr. Jami 'on if he had th
money. R eh'ing a reply in the affirmative,
the Oriental got into the car and in tru ted i1r.
Jamieson to drive on.
F IIowing dir lion', Mr. Jamieson drove a
distance of ab ut half a mile and turned into a
little used dirt road which kirt the 1 Kinl y
High hool athletic fi Id, and whi h lead to
a rather d n growth of tree and bu hes.
. ft r dri"ing a hort di tan e down thi r ad,
~lr. Jami . n wa told to top th car and unt
ut the mone into hi own hat.
He topped the car and a he tart d t c unt
the mone " the riental, wh had been carrying
a hammer all th tim, raised it a though h

(Left) Harry Kaisan, former chauffeur of the Jamieson

family, He had a tough "b'eak," for he was suspected,
grilled by the police and later was found to be entirely inno-
cent of any wrong-doing. His case is an effective example
of the danger of false conclusions built upon suspicious cir-
cumstances only

RiAht) Photo sho",,_

groups of excited citi3ens
that quickly gathered in
front of the Hawaiian
Trust Company building
following a report that a
,uspect had been taken
Inside for questioning. Ar-
row at the left of picture
points to telephone booth
from which the kidnapper
made a call to Mr.
Jamieson, giving him final
mstructions for delivering
the ransom money. This
ct showed the strange re-
ctions of this kidnapper's
mmd. Notwithstanding
he was a fugitive, whom
he police and infuriated
.tizens were searching for,
he chose to come up to the
bUIlding which housed the
rnan to whom he was
elephoning his ghastly
message

I hi. letter mi ht w II have emerged from th
1I11nd of madman. It' tran~ wording, fanta tic ymb I
Illd weird. ignature indi at d that the writer of it \Va mad,
\'1. imulaling madne . or I lhi tran~e mi i,' wa hi
,t!1'3 /If a practical jok. \\'hate\, r th ' fa t may ha, b n. or
11(' n'al mo!i,· hack of it. little Cill jami on \Va mi ing.
\Ir. Jamieson wa , at fir t, inclined to b lieve that th
IpI ter \\'as a joke hut. aft r con ideration, he call I PlInahou
1"11001. .\. soon a he reached i\li \Yinne and told her who
lit, was. ~h immediatel a ked how Mr. Jamie on was get-
11I1~ along. :'11 r. Jamie 011 th n realized th . riOll n s of the
lI.tllPr ilnd ,'C'rv qui tlv proceedNi to ~l't in touch with poli
int nded triking l\lr. Jamie on, who told him to put
it down as the money would be paid. :\Ir. Jami n
t h n a ked to be hown hi 011 before he paid the money,
hul was a ur d by th Oriental that hi on wa in the bushe
11 arby and would b d li\'ered to hi father, p rfectly safe,
dS oon a' th mon wa pai.d. :'Ilr. Jami on then made
haste to g t the mon y ounted, and ounted out _ ,000 in
live dollar hill. Th youth took thi amount and jumped
(Ill t of th ar.
.\ he did 0 ~Ir. Jami on call d out for h Jp. Mainard
D. Austin and \\'Uliam hoic. "i itin friends in one of a
group (If cottage a ro the treet, hard lh erie and ran
 , 'talking IIonolulu's Mad Kidnapper
out of the house. eing a car with headlight burning,
parked on the dirt road oppo ite, they rushed over and saw
Jami on, whose identity they learned later, tanding with
one foot on the running· board of his car. In front of the
ma hine stood an Oriental, masked with a white handker-
hief. By the glare of the headlights they were able t
that he carried a package of bill in his right hand. \,"hen the
two men came up to th car th y topped hehind 'Ir. Jamie on.
For what emed like two or' three minute no on poke.
;vI r. Jamie on then turned to u tin and hoi e and said,
"(;0 back boy, I want to get my boy ba k."
Ignorant of what wa up, the two young men returned to
the cottage aero the tr t, but d ided to call the police.
Thi they did and r turned lowly to the parked automobile.
.\ they neared the car they w th ma ked man slink off
into the hu hes. Mr. Jamie on wa seated in the car and
a th came' up he, id, "H ha gon off to c unt the mone
in the bu he. After counting it he is going to bring my
ho ba k to me."
WAIT of about fifteen minutes then followed, during
which ~1r. Jamie n id nothing. He then started hi
..ar. hacked it into King tr et, and started off toward town.
Choire and u tin did not learn of the kidnapping until the
following morning when they would hay given a great deal
fll'ha\'e had the ene of the night before r Ilacted.
\rrangem nt had been mad to check all telephone
35
(Above) Crowd gathered near the murder spot at Waikiki,
when word was first received that the body of the lO-year-old
kidnapper victim had been found. Arrow points to the
tower of the famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel in the background.
(Left) Close-up of M. Yoshioka, taken for the newspapers
immediately after his talk with the detectives, in which he
convinced them that he was not aware that little Gill Jamieson
was being kidnapped when he used his car to take the boy
from the school
call to th Jamie on home carli r in the vening. When
the message came in Irurting Mr. Jami n to drive to
Thoma ·quare. the call wa he ked to a booth out ide
the Hawaiian Tru t ompany' office. Before the police
could get Ih re, however. the nder ha d disapp ar d.
The p lice had al mad arran~ ment to follow jamie-
son's car when he went to meet the kidnapp r but
omehow or other the 10 t track of hi machine and did
n t arrive at Thomas quare until after 1r. Jamie on
had driven off with th riental outh.
The public fir t learned of the kidnapping when an-
extra wa i ued late that night. The following m rning
thouljand of angry itizen all d at the heriff's ffice
and volunteered th ir n'ire to help find Ih boy, and
ratch the kidnapper. A y temati plan wa laid out by
dividing th dry into small di tricts and d tailing mall groups
of searchers to each di trict. ivic rganization tOPI d their
hu in 0 that the community's energi could be dir cted to-
ward finding ill Jamieson and apprehending his abductor.
On the afternoon f eptember 19th the following letter ap-
peared in the Honolulu Star Bulletin over the ignature of john
R. alt, President f the Hawaiian Trust ('ompan :
Editor
IIonolulu tar Bulletin.
lIonolulu.
Dear Sir:
We will pay a reward of $;,000, no question asked, to
an)'Olle who will retllm Gill Jamieson, alifJe, either to his
parmts at tileir home, or to the office of the IIawaiiall Trust
Co., Ltd., 120 South Kinf!, trut, near Fort trett, /lonolulu.
Another reward of one thousand dollar wa offered by an
unnamed individual, making a total of S6,ooo reward on
th evening of . ptember 19th.
NET thrown out by the police .brou ht in veral us-
re t. A total of ighteen uspect were dressed in white
suit imilar to that worn b the kidnapper and were I rought
bef re ~Iis \rinne for po ible identification. Detecti e
Thoma t. john of the Honolulu Police Department, who
worked on the ca ,and wh good judgment finally brought
the man-hunt to a clo, id, "Mi Winn i a very keen
woman. ..\ he looked at each u peet he was able to note
the cliff r n e between the man before h r and the riental
who had called for the child. When he wa through 1 had a
36 True Detective Mysteries
perfect picmre in m mind of the appearancc of the kidnal /)er." The former chauffeur underwent a 'ri of grillings;
f this numb r of u Jl ·t only two m d to b of any h wa.· giv n a heavy inj ction of hyo. ine hydrobromid
importanc. They were Harry Kaisan, japane , former in an ffort to probe his sub- on ious mind and to mak
chauffeur of thc jamies n famil. , and muel I . Nakamura, him r veal what h knew of the kidnapi inl"{. twilight
also japanese. The latter wa idcntified by Alfr d Ryes, leep i produced by the u of thi drug, during which a
a messenger boy, as th youth who had givcn him the ran m person may b indu ed to talk and reveal truth that h
letter to deli\'er to Mr. jamieson. It \Va also said that would not di 10 while conscious. Kaisan deni d an
>

akamura had previou Iy attcmpted a kidnapping on the knowk-dge of th crime, oT the "Thr Kin~ ," or that h~
Island of 1aui. had wrilten the letter. Another injection wa given him a
M. Yoshioka, a taxi dri\'cr, upon learning of the kid- few hour lat r, but he still did not talk.
napping, went to the heriff' offi e with the information On the morning of September 20th, two day after the
that he had driven a japan se youth, answering to the de- bo wa taken, the foil wing I tt r wa recei\'ed by the
scription gi\'en b the 'hoo1 teacher, to Punahou ho I and Honolulu Slar Bullelill:
there picked up a boy corre p nding to the description of
Gill jamieson. From the hool he had b en directcd to To whom tt may conce",:
drive to Waikiki and had discharged his pa senger in the As a result of ollr recent exploils, we "Three Kings" find
driveway of the Ro al the comnlltllit)' all agog
Hawaiian Hotel. alld ill a stale of suspellse
The body of volunteer and Il'rror for the lost lad.
searchers had grown to many To relieve it we h(we de-
thousands. The military au- cided to clear jllst a part
thoritie pia ed military po- of the mystery.
lice units at the disposal of Mas. Gill Jamieson,
the Sheriff, and offered him poor innocent lad, has
a many men a he migh t departed for Ihe n-
need in the search. Men, known, aforlom .. Walk-
women, and children of all illg hadow" in the Great
nationalities joined in the Beyond, where w all
search. go to when the time
come.
THE acting on ul en- Cirw Inslances prevel~t
eral of japan called upon tiS from giving fllll infor-
every japanese citizen to co- mation in regard to this
. operate and strive to locate body's whereabouts. And
the mi ing b y. Boy . out a to ours, we'l/Leave th
troop oured section of many detectives 10 appre·
the valley and hills. The helld us. Wh u they, the
school nt out details of "pest ," fail to do that,
school children to comb we 'will, as God's in
every squar foot of land and Ilea veil , ret'eal Ollr elve
thicket in their particular to the light of ju ticI'.
district. 11 cars en tering Whm? Life i short
and leadng the city were when Ihouj!,hts of leavillg
topped and searched. Sam- it forever come to you.
pan were required to give The day shall be on the
an accurate acc unt of their 25th, e:xactly a week after
movements. It would have the crime had been C01ll-
been an utter impo ibility mitted when w promi I'
to moye the boy twenty-four to mount on the scaffold
hours after hi taking. This strange paper was found in the kidnapper's room by de- of sin to plead guilty and
The police received many tectives, the kidnapper himself writing it out before perpetrat- the death penally we are
anonymoo all telling them ing his heinous crime. Note he called it "Schedule of Under- to reaiv .
that the b y could be found taking, it being, in fact, directions written out for his own use
II
Meanwhile we hope
in committing the kidnapping
in variou pia e , whi hid that God will walch Oller
to fruit! trip. us as lie has done d'uring
In the meantime, Harry Kaisan, formcr chau~eur of the our advelltures in crtllle. We are bad, bad mId tv 'll
Jamie on famil , was undergoing a sev r grilling in th cit lei !Jim 'decide whelher we shall be caught beforehand.
jail. ccording to the Honolulu Adverliser, sllspi ion wa fir t We will 1101 compla'in but accept 11is wi hes as they befall
directed toward him by th kidnapped bo ' mother wh n sh on tiS.
called the Pan ervice Bureau, the employment agency from The wrong cmmot be righted now. We only regret that
which he wa obtained by her originall to ask if they could we have brought sorrows to the parents of tlte boy and 01/.TS
get in touch with him. Kaisan wa n t hard to find and went and to the community in gelJeral.
to the Hawaiian Tru t Company's offi e willingly nough,
anticipating another job with the jami on. fter being E 'CLO ED with thi letter wa on of the he dollar bill
questioned there, he wa held by the poli e for inve tigation. paid to the Oriental youth by Mr. jamieson (the number
Two handwriting e.xperts, 1r. Fred T. Bail y, handwriting of the bill had been noted) whi h howed clearly enough
expert of to Bank of Hawaii, and D tor D. . Porteus, that the letter had not been nt by om crank.
professor in clinical psychology at the niversity of Hawaii, This communication wa the fir t real evidence that the
compared samples of Kaisan" handwriting with that of the kidnapp d boy wa dead.
letter sent to Mr. Jamieson. Bailey declared them to b The letter had been sent through the mail.
identical, so it was reported, while Doctor Porteus disagreed Shortly before noon of the same day, about fifty hour
with him, at fir t, laiming certain of thc letter lacked ~im­ after Gill jamieson had been taken from his cia ses, hi
ilarity. Howe er, he wa later rep rt d have agreed body wa discovered by arl ickery, a IcKinle High
with Bailey whi h made matters very dark for Kaisan. 'cllOol boy, in a clump of tree and bushes about two hundred
 ·'talking JIonolulu's Mad Kidnapper
feet in the rear of the Seaside Hotel, in Waikiki; about a On one of the new papers that covered the b dy wa a
hlock and a half from where the murderer had dismissed the picture of a movie actre. cribbled across this were the
taxi, and Ie than a stone's throw from one of the city's words: "Ah, these movies. They are too 1II1Ich for me. They
hu iest thoroughfares and the famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel. leave me on the floor in collapse, waiting for the c01lnt." ~
The boy' head had been battered in, hi throat was wollen playing card, the deuce of hearts, torn in half, wa found
from trangulation, while his arms, legs and body were near the body. On one half two lines were copied from \\Jalt
covered with bruises, mute evidence of the awful fight he Whitman's poem, "Oh, Captain, My Captain:"
must have put up for his life. .
Police urgeon Robert B. Faus claimed that death had .. Hilt, oh, lIeart, lIearl,
taken place not less Uh, the bleedil~g drops of red,"
than forty-eight hours
before, which testi- 1
H0N0LUW ACADElhY 0 ARI'S
BERI:'IAMlA STR1'.E-T
o The murderer had waxed poetical himself
mony su bstan tia ted and completed the stanza as follows:
~ --.---.~

the belief that the
hoy was dead before
hi fath rhadpaidover
the ransom money.
THE
1
"Here lies the boy, so im/ocenl-cold and dead."
m _ sq,
These words were written on the other half
of the deuce of hearts: "Fate shall decide
when one skalt die for this but, ok, Goa

1
body lay on
hurlap sacking and
had been c vered with (1) At this spot Mr. Jamieson
new paper. These parked his car to meet the
had

frond .
been weighed
down with three palm
ver these a
crude wo den cro s
masked kidnapper. Dotted
line marks the route taken by
car bearing jamieson and the
kidnapper. (2) Mainard
Austin and William Choice
1
had been pIa ed. This
was made by tying two
tick together with a
were visiting in one of these
cottages when they heard
jamieson's cry for help. (3)
Spot where Jamieson stopped
L
!-tring. The face was his car and counted out $4,000
l;O\'ered with a piece of in cash which he gave to the
folded pa teb ard, in- kidnapper, on the promise
his son would then be re-
~ide of whi h was writ-
turned to him. (4) Where little
ten, .. If you walJt to Gill Jamieson was supposed
die, have you the right to be held awaiting delivery
to kill others so that you of the ransom money to the
will in turn be killed? kidnapper
[t is for you to decide
IS the an wer."
I'he following misquoted selection from the Fifth
\ct, : ene ,of "I\Iacbeth" wa also found:
romorrow, alld tomorrow ani tomorrow. Creeps [his
Pl'l/y pace from day to day and all our yesterdays-light forgil.e its." The p m," Immortali ," by pencer lcGann,
ools away to dusty death-out, brief colldle, life is but a mere on a pa e torn from the Literar Uige t, and cov red with
,had a poor player that frets and stmls his hOllrs upon Ihe blood, wa. elu tched in the b ' left hand. Between hi au t-
\tage alJd then is heard I/O more- It is a tale told by al~ idiot, tretched leg wa the book, "Father' Gone a'\ haling,"
liesh of sound alldfury signifyillg nothing. Three King -KKK. which he had carried with him to hi death, perhap elu tching
it to him in fear as he
wa hurried along by
his unknown captor.
A few feet away on a
rude board Aooring
were the word , "The
sign of the Three
Kings." \n empty
Three Kings cigarette
package and two
(Cont'a on page 93)

(Left to right) Detec-

tives St. john, Chitling-
worth, Luke, and Fuku-
moto. These are the
four men who, accompa-
nied in their car by the
sister of the kidnapper,
searched through the
streets of Honolulu for
the elusive fugitive, and
finally captured him
under most unusual cir-
cumstances, namely, as
he stood idly leaning up
against a telephone pole,
reading a newspaper
account of the man-
hunt that was on to get
himl
"HONEY" SARLO By JACOB K. TRYON
Sheriff of Gloucester County, ew Jersey

As told to P. L. TRUSSELL

A popular, innocent 17-year-

old girl, affectionately known
as "Honey" Sarlo-beloved by
her neighbors and her many
friends. WHO would want
to kill her? And WHY?
MO T entirely covered by the shrubb ry on the bank

A of 1antlla r ek, four mile from Woodbury. 'ew

Jer ey. lay lh bod, of a young girl. he had be n
beautiful-but n t now. . he had b en a happy. inn -
cent girl of sevent en years, a tea her of mall hildr n in h r
unday hool; a girl who had found happine . in her hom
a "girl with no boy fri nd ."
ow, her mutilated body lay stretched b . id the str am,
hol and battered, her face blackened by trangulation cau ed
by two trand of wire, pulled tightly around h r lhr at.
It lay there early in the morning of unday, ctob r 2nd.
J927-in the ordinary run of circum lane to b undi ov red
for months or year-. The girl's form wa hidden in th
shad w of a concrete bridge fifteen feet above, which spanned
the str am.
Only Chan e c uld have brought ab ut the di ver -and
Chance tepped in.
Wilson Edelman, a r ident of the town of \ oodbury,
count eat f
Glouce ter
County, ew J er-
(Above) Sheriff sey, was a con-
Jacob K. Tryon, firmed pedestrian.
who recounts this Daily he walked
sensational case, the country road
and who solved it
through lIOme ex- outside of Wood-
cellent detective
work

(RiAh"t) This is the

Essex car that
played an important
part in the case. A
&irl friend of
. "Honey" Sarlo had
the presence of mind
to note, and write
down, the license
number of this car
when she saw the
doomed girl enter
it with a "friend,"
not long before its
discovery by de·
tecth'es, in a badly
burned condition,
as shown

3
and the
bury b fore lakin up hi
FIEND
la k of the day. .\nd on
, unday he lrctched his
jaunt to farther l rri-
tory. This cia he had left
hi home early, exp ting
to sp nd the day n hi
b I \'ed country ide. He
·t pped ut bri kly in the
bra ing ctober air,
winging down the 1an-
tua - \\' n nah Highway,
which connects the two
uth Jer towns for
whi h it is named.
\s pre iou Iy men-
ti ned, Edelman wa four
mil from Woodbury
wh n he reached the on-
crete bridge over the
:\Iantua reek, a narrow.
luggi h tream, running
between rocky banks
1.'0\' red with tangled un-
d rbru h. It wa about
\'cn o'clock and there
wa irtually n traffic
nth road.

EDEL <1 , aglow

fr m his xer ise,
paused at the bridge. He
leaned again t the para-
pet, ruminating on the
delights f the op nair
and the beauti of na-
tur about him.
he I ked
about him he no-
ticed that the
gravel at one ide
of the roadway
hadbendi-
turbed a though
b ufiling feet.
Interested
trangely, he
look d clo er.
There were eral
dark pots in the
dirt - uspici u
10 king spots
which caused him
to xtend his
arch. The pots,
mall and indi-
tinct a they were,
med to lead
fr m the nter
of the roadway to
the parapet.
Ed Iman I aned Rose "Honey" Sarlo, central figure in this tragic case
from the bridge
railing, scanning th· luggi h watcr of th Mantua 'reek b ·fore him. he ran to a 1\ ighborin farmh u and t lephoned
below. Hi e e wept fir t ne bank of the tream and to ounty D tcctive Andrew J. ott at Woodbury.
th n the other, Finally, an unu ually colorful object caught
hi e e. De p in the undergrowth be ide the tream he dis- I \\A having breakfa t in my home at Pitman, ight miles
tingu'shed a b aten human form-that of a y ung girl. away, that unday morning when, at 7:45 o'clock, my
Edelman clambered down the embankment b ide the bridge t lephone rang. \\'hen I an wered it a v ice said:
to verify hi di overy. After a hurried I ok at th tragedy "This i D tective ott, heriff. The body of a girl ha
40 True Detective Mysteries
insulated copper wire-such as is used in wiring the ignition
sy tern of automobile --;irawn so tightly around h r throat
that the wires had cut deeply into the fl h.
he wore a double rope of imitation pearl -a touch of
vanity in the maz of tragedy-which pitifully cir led her
throat beside the wires which had choked out her lif .
Bide th body wa a box of fried oysters, still intact,
evidently thr wn fr m the bridge with the body. In a
pocket of the coat we found a bank bo k. Thi howed a
d po it f thr dollars made the pre i us night in the
hri tma ving tub f the Farmers and echanic
Bank of oodbur.

THE bank book bore the name of Loui Sari, and when the
name wa read aloud, someone in the crowd whi h had
gathered ried:
"It' Lolli arlo's girl. It's 'IlO1leY' arlo!"
I t \Va Ro arlo, the seventeen year old daughter of
a \ oodbury butcher. he had been known through ut
oodbury a "Honey"-a name which had clung to h r
from babyhood. nd among members of the unday
hool of t. Patrick's Roman Catholic hurch in ood-
bury he wa known as "Little un hin ," because of h r
unny di po ition and general popularity.
With th tabli hment of the girl's identity I left the
body in care of Det tiv ott, while Tro per mith and I,
in my car, hurried to the arlo home at 122 orth Br ad

(Above) Ruth Jones Yarrow, who was be·

lieved to have been the victim of the same
killer who murdered "Honey" Sarlo. This
theory vanished however, when she drama-
tically reappeared, alive and well-1nd led the
fight to save from death the very man who it
was feared had slain herl (Ri,ht) The grief-
stricken family of Rose Sarlo, from a photc,-
graph taken after the tragedy. They are her
brother, Joseph, 19; Louis Sarlo, her father;
Louis, Jr., brother, 16; Mrs. Sarlo and little
Robert, 6 years of age

been found under the Mantua Creek bridge on

the 1antua-\ oodbury Highway. he has been
murdered."
ithout waiting for details I got put my car
and drove qui kly to the bridge. There I met
Detective cott and tate Trooper J. C. mith,
who had r ponded when new of the di overy
reached the tate Police barracks at Berlin,
Camden County, ew Jerse~.
~ e climbed down the rocky embankment be-
side the bridge and made our way into the
shadow where the body lay. The body was
that of a beautiful young girl of seventeen
years. he wa five feet, three inches tall, and
weighed about 135 p und. Her hair was
dre sed in long curl -they were black-which
hung below h r h uld r .
he wore a pink dr and a black coat and
black tocKing, and on herleft foot wa aolacK
lipper. The lipp r for the right foot was
mi ing.

THE girl had been hot twice. One bullet had passed
through h r head entering th left temple and emerging
from the right. The other bullet had pierced the body
ligh tly above the heart. I t had passed through the body
and lodged again t a metal ta in an undergarment and fell
from her clothes wh n the body wa moved. It wa of ,32
calib r.
Her skull had be n fractured by a blow or blows, \ hit
her feature had been mutilat d b rep ated blow, Th
face wa bla kened by cong ted blo d. du to trangula-
tion whi h had been acc mpli hed with two trand of
Street, \~oodbury to interviev the parents of Rose Sarlo.
NEemployof the murder had preceded us. Julius Metzger,
r of Ro ' father, had b en informed of th
tragedy and had gone to the Sarlo home in an effort to
soften the blow to the parent. De pite his effort, Loui
arl had collap d when informed of hi 10 ,and 1r .
. 'arlo wa in hy t ri .
Troop r mith and I began our inve tigati n in the
rio home and it immediate neighborhood. This i what
we learned in our preliminary que tioning:
 "[toney" Sarlo and the Fiend 41

mother, awakening at
2:30 o'dock unday
moming, looked into
Rose's room and saw
that the bed had not
been disturbed. From
that time on, the
moth r had been fran-
tic about the girl's
disappearance, bu t
had failed to notify
the police.

A SEARCH through
effects in
Rose's room, however,
gave us our first work-
ing clue. We learned
that Rose - the
"girl with no boy
friends"-had at least
one ardent admirer.
Tucked away with her
cherished possessions,
including a diary
which t ld of her
conscientious attend-
ance at church and
her daily thoughts
about her work. were
a half-dozen note,
most of them in pen-
cil and on cheap
Have they got the right man? This photo shows Yarrow, handcuffed, in custody ofSbcriff Tryon (with paper.
his arm about Yarrow's shoulder) surrounded by Gloucester County detectives and New Jersey One read:
State police, as the murder suspect is being led over the scene where it was believed Rose "Hooey"
Sarlo was brutally slain "Curky IIead-
Would you like to go
to a sheno with fm
Rose Sarlo was of a pleasant, happy disposition. he Saturday ~ning in Woodbury or Philadelphia? I promise
was enwrapped in her w rk in t. Patri k's hurch unday to bring you home early. Shake your /uad 'yes' or 'no'
hool, h re he had taught young hildren for more 'When I go .by.
than a _ear. he had been a stud nt in the oodbury "I ha.rJe ~r thought of anyone as I am thinking of you.
I have to admi.t I have falk,£ hard. Are you sure you tried
High hool, leaving at th end of her sophomore year in to get out, dear? There must be SOfm way that you can get
1926. out for two hou!s. 1:ArJe."
After leaving school he had obtained a po ·tion with the
Croft oolen Mill Company, in Camden; ew Jersey, A note which bore no date f 1I0ws:
eight miles from her home. nd daily she had made the "I am sorry that you cannot get out and I am disap-
trip to and from Camden by bus line. poinUd. Can you slip away for a 'Whik and meet fm at
R was looked upon as a "model girl." Her interests Red Bank Aver£ue? Tell your tnother you are going for a
apparently lay in her home and in her unday hool work. walk."
oodbury folk in i ted that, d pite her beauty and general
popularity, h had been a "girl without boy friend ." Fragments from other notes read:
Of h!"r mo\'(~ment on the fatal turday night Mr. and II If you 'WiU kt nu, I wiU meet you efJery day after school."

Mr . rio c uld tell us little. Her three brothers, Jo ph, "I 'Would like to give you a note every day 'When I pass at
nineteen years Id, who was empl ed with hi father; 7:31.' I am loving you more ~ry day."
Loui ,Jr., ixteen y ar Id, a high hool tudent, and
Another undated note said:
Robert, ix years old, er also unable to aid u in trac-
ing th girl to the ene f her sla ing. "I am SO"y, litek swutheart, that I could not stop last
niglU to get the note, for I was late. I was looking for you
efJery lifm I passed after lJuU, but you were not around. So,
RO E ne er bef~re had been mi ing from her home try to forgive fm and ru try n~r to be late again 'When I
later than I r 0' I k at ni ht. On the fatal aturday am expeaing a note from )-'OU.
night he had eat n her upper with the family, happy and "Tell Agnes I did not see Chnrks until this morning and
carefree. h had ac pted three d liars from her fath r I gave him the note then, and I suppose he 'WiU answer it
for depo it in hi hri lm fund a unt and said she this afternoon. A re you trying to go 'With me tonight?
would stop at th bank, whi h i located on Broad treet, Pkase try, dear, to go, and then ru tell you heno much I
near ooper treet, in \\'oodbury, do to the County Woe you_ Give fm an answer to the other note also. I am
urt Hou. h I fl the rio home, Ro called ba k anxious to Jutv;e that question answered. So, I will close'
to her m ther: with love."
" 1 th r, I'm g ing to _lop at the bank first, and th n till another mi ive said:
go to lh fiv -and-ten nt tore and get a present for Bob- "Dear Rose-Was so glad to see you yesterday. YOI~
bie. I'll top in and Dad at the market, and then I'm looked real sweet. I hope your mother, also yourself, goes
going to go to a movi probabl to lhe late sho. But to low" again. Don't you think, Rose, dear,lM.t if you were
I'll be home by eI ven 'clock." to ask your mother to let fm take you to a sheno that sJu
Tha1: wa the la t time Ro ' mother saw her alive. The would kt YOI~ go? There im't any harm in that. I do
42 True Detective Mysteries
/lot see why she should refllse you. YOll will go out with a
ellow some lime, so why 1101 now? I am sltre I would be
lUcent and respecl )'011 in all ways. I cannot do anylhing
more than Ihat, I am sl~re. Whal are Y01~ going to do
'aturday nigh/l A re you going to stay home or halle you a
parly to at/end? If JOU halle a parly 10 go 10, do not go,
but meel me. !low willihat be? Wrile me a lIice 10llg kiter
next lim". as you owe me one for Ihl' Iwo 10/lg olles I wrote
YOII. I usually go by at tell 10 one, so walch for me.
" lfy si ler is trying 10 read IIlis. he kreps walking ill
back of IIII'. I have somethillg else I want to tell yOIt, bllt I
nIlIst. u you for a while to do so. I am geltillg nervolls from
Ihe walki/lg around. I am goillg 10 close, sweetheart. and I
hope the leiter you give me is a long one. I cOllld read them
forever. I nrou grow tired of them. I will close with love." Mi weeten watched Ro and the two yout}.. on the
A idewalk, an E . coach passed th 01, th horn bl wing.
T R P.R, mith and I took th notes and other bit of
vid ~Cl' w had found in the arlo hom and dro\'e down \\'h n Mi. weeten had pa sed down Br ad Street as far a
the tr et. preading the not out on th at of my car ~ewton venue, he saw what he b lieved to be the same
aft r we had parked at a quiet pot. E x car, parked in front of the p st offi e. he on-
We th ught that the note might lead to the murder r of tinued down the treet. past the Brewer H spital, he glan ed
the ir\. ur COI1\' rsati n with n ighb rand memb r of ba k again and saw a girli h figure-probably Ro walk-
the dead girl' family indicated I arly that Ro arlo had ing down the lope near the Quaker Cemetery. Then he
b n a good girl. \\'e felt sure that th murder mu t hav saw Ro engage in onversation with another man and
b n com- finally enter the E car.
mittedb 001- Mi wee ten was curi u about Ro e and "wh her
one who had boy friend might be" that she topped to watch the car
the girl' confi- mO\' If. carcely con iou of what he wa doing, he
denc and had looked for the Ii en plate to the number. he wrote
lured her to her
death, or that
for e had been
used, for he
wa. not the
t)'p f y ung-
ter to be
"picked up" by
a tranger.

Yarrow, in his cell, is being questioned by Sheriff Tryon ileft) relative to the disappearance of Yarrow's wife, two years previous.
The prisoner insisted that he did not know where she was, and that they had parted friends

Trooper milh and I pread th clragnet and the ounty
p Ii e and tale Tr per began to pick up bit of evid n e
whi h fitted into our uspicion.
Furlh r lrace f R . mo ement n aturday night
h wed that he had fir t gone to the bank on Broad treet
and made th d p it f r her father. From the bank, ap-
parently. he had gone to the five-and-t n-cent tore. al
n Br d treet, where he had bought a box of little tin
Idier f r her brother, Bobbie, who wa to celebrate his
venlh birthday on.
H r n xt st p ~ a at th bUI her hop of Metzg r, where
her father and bruther. Jo eph, wer employed. .\t the hop
she had hatted with 1etzger and her father, anJ on leav-
in had said to her father:
"Oaddy, please bring hom two dill pi kle for my lunch
it d wn on a lip of pap r and put it in her ha,ndba. The
numb r wa Z-4303.
Benjamin Barrett and William PolJinger, both neigh-
bor of the arlo family, verified a part of Nli weeten"
tory. The., too, had en Honey talking with t 0 youth
in front of the po t office, r a r the street from the
Fed ral Building. They, too, put the time at 10:30 o'clock.
o inve tigating the notes found in Rose's room more
thorou hly, we disco ered one igned" rge." Further
in e tigation showed that Ro had b n acquainted with a
bu driver. Thi led Troop r milh nd myself to I lieve
that the notes had be n written by the clri\'er of a motor
bu on lhe Philadelphia-Woodbury Inter tate l.ine, who e
name wa George and on wh bu (Colltinued M page 0)
 What Became of
EDGE E BASSETT?
On his way to take early ugust, 1928, when
up the position of young Bassett said fare-
well to his father and
Secretary to the mother he was sitting at
the wheel of a splendid new
American ·Admi- blue Chrysler roadster,
1929 model, of a type not
ral at Manila, yet on di play in many
Pacific Coast cities, to
Philippine Islands, which he headed, so that
when he reached Chehalis
Eugene Bassett in . Western Washington
mysteriously van- on ugust II th, people
turned their heads to look
ished! His friends at lh ne\ rar. and paused
to examine it as it stood
all admitted he beside the curb.
had no reason to disappear THE lim ped ,... ihJy-
Bassett was happy. Th
VOLUNTARIL~ What, trying years of his Hying
then, had happened to day in the \ mid
were behind him, and he
ar
(Left) Eugene
him? Had he been kid- Bassett, the man wa on hi way to new ad-
who so strangely ventur and a new job,
napped? ...MURDERED? vanished. This
photograph was
he th ught.
Hi first d
If so-WHY? taken at the time he
was an aviator in the the tate of
U. S. Navy during the was the
World War at Bremerton, just aero
T was an evening in July 192 8. The Tennis Club the bay from the City of

I of Tome Institute, Port Deposit, 1aryland, was

in ion. The meeting was of particular im-
portan e. One of the Institute's most beloved
members, who had been bu iness manager for four
Seattle. Here he was to vi 't in the home of hi
sister, who husband, Commander Theodore
Winters, was in charge of the station.
unday morning, August 12th, the blue road ter
years, had received notice a few days before of his rolled onto the ferry at Colman Dock in Seattle,
appointment as secretary 0 the American Admiral at and two hours later Bassett sat at breakfast in the
Manila, Philippine Island. In a short time he home of Commander inters at Bremerton.
would be on his way aero the continent to take a
boat for the Orient and his new job. A LL seemed well-Bassett had his transporta-
tion to the Islands-he was to sail on a
James Eugene Bassett had made a good record
as manager of the club-his associates were proud government ticket from Seattle on ptember
to honor him-and when the young man reached tho He was a omplete stranger in the section
home that night he proudly exhibited a new wrist where he had arrived, and knew no one except
watch, a token of the esteem in which he was held the relatives with whom he was staying, and who
by his fellow members. When he retired he was very happy. had been instrumental in securing the new position for him.
Several times during the next week or so Bassett's mother, Thus he pent a few happy days with the si ter, of whom he
rs. Frank P. Ba tt, and th boy's sweetheart, Mi Fay was very fond, and then on the morning of September 5th,
Strout, commented to the proud young man, on the beauty Bassett left Bremerton with hi automobile to catch a ferry
of the watch which he wore at all tim upon his rist. which would get him to Seatt;le by 10 o'clock-and was
It was on his wrist when he bad goodbye to hi family in never thereafter seen by his relativ .
Annapolis, during the first week in ugust-but the next On the evening of that same day Mrs. \ inters received a
time a saddened father and mother were to iew it,.the watch telegram from her brother, filed in Seattle, reading:
was an important ex- I·HAVE OLD tV C R
hibit in a grand larceny A 0 MET FRIE 'd.
AM GOI G TO VA -
trial in a court-room at
eattle, \ ashington. By Prosecuting Attorney COUVER FOR A
COUPLE OF DA V .
WILL RET RN FRI-
and the son had dropped OAV-GE E.
from sigh t as completely EWING D. COLVIN- Friday came, but Bas-
as though he had been sett did not return to
swallowed by the sea,
or blown to bits by
of Seattle, Washington Bremerton. Commander
inters, knowing of no
some giant blast friends as repr nted
On that morning in As told to HOLLIS B. FuLTZ in the telegram, became
.3
44 True Detective Mysteries

and law in motion to tind the wh reabouts of the blu roadster.

Ewing D. Colvin, Prosecuting Attorney, Seattle, Washington, who handled the
baffling Bassett-Mayer case and here gives the inside story to TRUE DETECTIVE
MYSTERIES
suspiciou . The attJe authorities were notitied and thus be-
gan a hunt for Bassett which i unequalled in the history of
orthwest Police annals.
Commander \ inters tirst made inquiri of the cu tom
·()ffi er at Blaine on the anadian border, 100 miles north of
:eattl the blue r adster had not passed over the line. The
ommander cau ed a sear h to be made at the hotels in
Van ouver, B. 0 tra e f his mi ing brother-in-law was
to b found.
Ha tt' ti -ket was still in po ion of his ister and uch
Illone a he had wa in a Bremerton bank, so it was with
faint hop that ommander Winters personally went to the afternoon boat.
Presidmt Clevelaml, on which the young man was to sail, and
made a ar h throu h the tater om , conferred with the
officers, and wat hed the vi itor and pa ngers on the ship,
until ready to depart.
B now it was . ptember tho
It was here that I became p r nally inter ted in the ca .
.\Jmo t immediately it became apparent that if Ba tt
had been murdered the motive would be r bbery; for having
no friends out ide the family in the orthw t, it wa not
likely that he had any enemies. With Ba' tt's money.in the
Bremerton bank and hi ticket'in po ion of his iter, the
only thing be had of value wa his car-the blue roadster.
From Commander Winters and his wife I learned that
Ba tt had at tir t intended to take the car to Manila with
him, but on persua ion of the Commander had decided to II
it, and buy a new car in the Islands. V. ith thi in mind,
Ba tt had a "for sale" ad inserted in the Seattle Times, date
f September 1St.
From Theodore Winter, junior, on of the Commander,
I got my tir t valuable information. The boy told me that on
the afternoon of ptember 4th, hi un Ie, Eugene Ba tt
had come to the home in the Bremerton avy Yard with a
man whom he introduced as Mr. lark. Bassett went up tairs
and remained for ome time. Theodore and two
boy friends stayed in the living room where they
were playing cards, but lark walked out of the
r om int an adj ining d n where he remained
with hi ba k t the boys, looking out a window
until Ba tt came down the tairs and an-
nounced that he was taking lark to catch the
late afternoon boat to ttle.
Later that evening Ba tt told Mrs. Winters
that he had found a pur haser for his
automobile. who w uld pay him 1,600
cash therefor. Ba tt told his ister
that the pro p t wa a 1 r. lark, a
bachelor, like himself, a very weB
appearing man who lived with his
aunt some distan e north of the
niversity of Wa hingt n di trict,
which lies in the northern nd of the
City of eattle. Ba tt said that
Clark was very anxious to buy the
automobile, but that b would have to
take it out and show it to hi aunt who
was furnishing the money for the pur-
chase. He said he was to meet Clark
the next morning, and take the car out
to how itto the aunt. The meeting place
had been tixed as the Colman dock.
ntil this time everything wa apparently going along tine.
Mrs. inter cautioned her brother about the danger of
carrying uch a um as 1,600 on hi person, and Bassett told
her that Mr. Clark had agreed to give him a certitied check
for the amount.
o the morning of ptember sth, Bassett left the home
of his sister to keep his appointment with Clark. he
a ked him to make ome purchaseS for her in Seattle, which
he agreed to do a on as he had di posed of his automobile,
saying he would bring the packages back with him on the
If he ever got that afternoon boat no one ever saw him.
That fateful morning, while on the ferry boat, it became
necessary for some reason or other for Bassett, at the request
of th crew on the boat to m ve his automobile. It was
again t the rules of the ompany to start the engine, so the

o auto wa moved by Ba tt, a i ted by a member of the

Ela tchan ewa left- ommanderWintersa ked the of- cr w. Bassett removed his coat, and a i ted by Frederick
ficer of the boat to radio him if Ba tt boarded the boat Tremblay, pu hed the car into a new p ition.
d t ictoria, B. . The Presidwt Cleueland rea hed the anadian II this tended to how that Ba tt was on his way at the
CIt and ommander Winter was radioed that Bassett did not appointed time to keep his date with lark, and no doubt
get aboard. To make doubly ure, the ommander again with death. But at the dock we lost the trail.
radioed the hip at sea and r eived a reply that while Bassett cwspaper tories stated that Sa tt had come to Seattle
wa Ii ted a a pa nger, he wa not on board the boat. to meet a man named Clark who was to purchase the blue
'0 the leveland iled with an empty tateroom and offi ers roadster in answer to an ad in rted in the Hie Times. The
. attle and all through the orthwe t, convin ed that stories brought information both to the police and to the
It had met with foul play, t the machinery of detection m'illl Clark. They al brought to the mind of ir. Eugene
 What Became of Eugene BasseU? 4S
. Levy, living at the Olympic Hotd, Seattle, freshened memories and this, together with the description of the blue coadstf'r,
of dealings he had with a man named Clark, relative to the we broadcast all over the West. .
. e of an automobile. A ribbon of concrete highway stretches along this Western
.e:::;::;Z~n September 3rd, the mysterious Clark met Levy in Coast from Vancouver, B.C., to Tia Juana, Mexico, 1,500
answer to .his advertisement stating that he had a Nash for miles in length and we knew that Clark could go a long ways
sale at once, owner going'to Orient. Clark told Levy he was in a few days. Our greatest hope was the conspicuous blue
buying the car for his aunt who lived eight or ten miles out roadster.
on the North Trunk Road. He admitted that the car was On the afternoon of September 13th, Officer Henry Kamena
exactly as advertiS)ed, and wanted to see the bill of sale. Levy of the Oakland, California Police Department. was standing
on Thirteenth
Street in that ci ty ,
watching- for a
blue ·r~adster.
with a Washing-
ton license, his at-
tention having
been called to such
a car by the De-
partment when he
came onto his
shift that day.

HIS watchfuU·
ness was re-
warded when a
Chrysler road-
"ter, Washington
license No. 336,-
015, bearing a·
young man and
an elderly woman
rolled along to-
ward him. Stop-
ping the 'car he
inquired of the
occupants if they
were from Seattle,
and the answer
was "yes." Plac-
ing the two under
This is the map which Mayer was shown while being ~-examinedwith the "Lie Detector" machine, shown on arrest the officer
Jl8&es 48 and.4!l. It was when being questioned about the two cemeteries. indicated on the map, that Mayer
shawed violent reaction. The two inaets thaw Mayer's "Li~ White HolUC," as it was called. and the back- stepped on the
.yard where the body of the 'missing Eli&ene Baseett was aought. Note proximity of Mayer's house to the running-board .
cemeteries. A Federal operative, of Butte, Montana. said of Mayer: "I have spent too 'many years trying and started for
to recover automobiles this man has stolen and searchina for bodies of missina people last seen the police station.
in his compan) to have an atom of sympathy for him.... Does. then. the silhouette ~ abown below.
indicate what was really goinc on in Mayer'. secret life? . Clark, for such
it was, tried to
rub the officer off
convinced. Clark that the title was good, and ,urange- the running-board by a Chevrolet-he made left
ments were made to meet the next day and consummate hand turns where t 018 hhe beeo made-and he
the deal. ran through tp8ic: in aa au.apt to e8CIq)e the clutches
On September 4th, Clark appearing at the Olympic ex- of the law. The predic:ameot wu obIiIrved by a brother
plained that he had an appointment with a man at the Colman officer, and the lIOOIl bad Out &ad tile IO-CaIIed t in
dock and requested that he be driven there. Levy took Clark the Captain of I tor'. o8ice.
to the dock, where he met some man, whom Levy could not We had the man w bad lbo........, c:ar--.- tlaat wu aIL
identify. Clark 'returned to Levy's car and apologized, stating I t was a long ,. . . this t eo a coavictioa. OD aay
that he had to see this man and that business would interfere charge. 01' the preriouely had been bowa as
with driving out to show the car to the aunt. This day, Clark, ho IIOW aaaae .. Decaato Earl Mayer,
September 4th, was the day on which Clark went to Bremerton had iQ • a boMMt bill of .... the auto
and visited the Winters' home. appareatly signed J.... Eapae a.-tt.
In other w : , . bad bappeoed to BuRtt
HE Levy met Clark the ne.....- t day, to go on the trip to man M.,.-.evicleDtIy Iepl pel '0lIo of
W the aunt's place, he had with him one E. F. Alexander. •
as a chauffeur. They drove east along Seneca Street, pre- a,....... au-.ell wu KOliIII~meaby a womaa w1Io
paratory to heading north from the city, when ClatkaadcleaJy pOle the oame. Mary EDee Salida. Sbe bad . . - . lixty
said he had an engagement at the Colman..Dock. E ently yars o f . aad ......... Mayer'a IDOtMr.
he did not anticipate the presence of the second man in the We were atum~ BuIett'. eipature Oft bill aI
Levy car. At the dock, Clark again met a man whorr Levy _ wu eenuiae (and it wu) there wu little likelihood tlaat
was un~ble to identify. After talking to this man, (;lark we could convict Mayer' aad his mother of aaythiac-
re'turned to the Levy car, and on the way up-town e.'tplained Of coune Mayer' had to IiYe lIOIIleWhere while in Seattle, 10
that his engag t the dOck been a verY important hoping and . . .ininl that Out and Mayer were one aDd the
one .... that lie would DOt be to out to his aunt's that same weaetabout tryinc to 6ad tbeir place of abode, whida.
da day' alive. _' . we felt sure would .be foaad ~ aortIa of Seattle.
e DOW bad a feidy aood dacription of the _ we di.covered from a Mr. C. D. Hill...... proaainent
 6 True Detectwe Mysterus
realty owner that a man nam d Mayer and r embling him, School during minority.
had made a ten d liar down ~ayment on a hou which "1-16-1 Seattle 0.5980 as C. D. Mortaine, charge C. C.
fterwards became famous as "The Little \ hite House." W. Suspended to leave town.
The hou e was in the ou tskirts of Bothell. a small town abou t "1-22-1 pokane, o. 2962 as Mon taigne, larceny 60 days.
eighteen miles north of eattle. "9-14,-1 Kansas City, Mo., o. 7700 as Jas. E. Morgan,
About this same time Do tor J. P. lark. a denti t re iding grand larceny, discharged.
near Richmond Highlands. volunteered the information that "12-5-1 ttle, charge grand larceny as auto thief.
man named Mayer had rented a "Little Brown House," Dismissed.
furni hed, which he owned ju t off the main highway north "2-7-17-Portland, Oregon, o. 3114, as Chas. Daniel
of eattle, in the vicinity of Edmonds, a small city fifteen Montaigne. charge grand larceny, auto, sentenced to one to
miles north. ten years in the Oregon Penitentiary, secured a new trial
Mayer approached Doctor Clark to rent this home on or and was released.
about ugust 20th, 192 . "11-3-17-Montana PenJtentiary, 0.6104, grand larceny
nswering the "for sale" ad which appeared in the daily 4 1-2 to 9 years. Paroled 8-15-20.
paper, under the name of lark. this man Mayer now had "4-1-21-Butte, Montana, vag and inve tlgation over
two houses in the same general vicinity, which he h ld under disappearance of Mrs. I,aCasse.
his proper name of Ma er. 1ayer and hi mother immediately "11-5-21-Ulah Penitentiary, 0.3982, auto theft, Inde-
moved into "The Little Brown House." terminate term. Released 1-10-23.
We got this information of eptember 14th, and on the "6-30-23--Colorado State Penitentiary, 1~ to 3 years,
16th we searched "The Little Brown House." othing wa larceny. Discharged 12-30-25, as Earl Montaigne.
left uncovered, high and low, in garret and ba ement we . '10-31- Broke jail in Canon City, Colorado, while
hunted. We found therein some poison and an old straight being held for Pocatello, Idaho, where he was afterwards
razor. ot a ign of blood, nothing to indicate murder. We tried for burglary as D. W. Monlaigne. 0 dlspo ltion.
ifted the ashes, we probed the ground with irons, we searr.hed "l1-11-24--Holslngton, Kansas, C. C. W. (carrying con-
the wells, we dragged the lakes, but nothing came of it. cealed weapons) as Montaigne, 60 days.
"3-11-2 Received at the U. S. Penitentiary, Leaven-
THE same procedure wa gone through at "The Little worth, Kansas, from Salt Lake City. on crime of White
White House." But nowhere could we· find any trace of Slavery, o. 244995, sentence 3 years."
Ba tt, and in the meantime, with a bill of sale for Bassett's What a record! Twelve years and six months in eight dif-
car in his posse iO£1, Mayer was fighling for his freedom in ferent jails and penitentiaries in California, Washington,
Oakland. ontana. tah, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho and Oregon-and
On eptember 19th, overnor Young of California, granted had e aped con iction on many other charg ,to say nothing
a requi ition for' the return of the pair on a grand larceny of arre t on suspicion for which he was never tried.
charge-no murder charge being filed because the body could constant life of crime, from youth.
not be found. uch \ as the man into whose evil c1utche' fell ·James
In the meantime, I had requested Captain of Detectives Eugene Bassett when he adverti ed hi blue road ter for sale.
Tennant to inve tigate 1ayer's record, arrd although I knew nd yet without the body I could not accuse Mayer of murder.
we were dealing with a shrewd and desperate man I was not I then determined to try Mayer for stealing the car and to
prepared for the confine him if pos-
following report oi sible after con-
~1ayer's crim nal viction. for life,
activities, which I II nder the habitual
wa handed: criminal act of the
•• Following is tate of \ ashing-
the criminal re- ton.
cord as shown in
our files, of De- ALTHOUGH
casto Earl Mayer, the search for
o. 5980, alias, the body went on
Earl ontaigne, unabated I bent
C. Gordon, C. D. all my efforts to
Mortaine, D. E. such clues as
kid more, C. C. would bring about
kidmore, Mon- conviction of the
tague,Ferrls,Rey- pair for grand lar-
nolds, Dean E. ceny and fearing
Mayer, Ear I the "bill of sale"
Myers, Jas. E. might befuddle
Morgan, Ro~t the jury. I filed a
E. Caroll, Conrad second charge
Meyer, J. W. against them,
Du ch, Dean E. based on certain
Mayer, Clement personal eff~cts of
Gordon, D. E. Bassett's which
Montague, Wm. had been found in
Meyers, Wm. t.he possession of
French. Mayer and his
"2-18-12 - Los mother a t the time
ngeles, o. 9255 of their arrest
as Robert Carroll Throughout his
and Wm. Meyers, talks with the
French, charge akland Police
An artist's conception of the entangling web of circumstantial evidence woven
burglary, ent to around the "mystery man," Decasto.Earl Mayer, by Prosecutor Colvin, in the strange Mayer claimed
Whittier State case of the disappearance of Eugene Bassett that the last time
 What Became of Eugene Bassett? 47
he saw Ba tt had the greatest
wa at the Iman reputation as a
Dock, eattle, criminal catcher
after he had paid on the Coast,
the lad for the Augu t 011mer,
blue roadster. He con ultant of Pre-
said he then drove sident Hoover's
to Tacoma alld Crime Commis-
finding it would sion, Professor of
take veral days Criminology at
to get a license Chicago niversi-
through the mails, ty, and formerly a
drove to Olympia noted Chief of
on ptember 6th, Police of Berkeley,
and secured California, in the
a license directly hope that I might
from the depart- find Bassett's
ment. He a ked body.
Police Inspector Professor VolI-
James ood- m~r wen t to the
night, of Oakland. Bassett home in.
to ay nothing nnapolis, and
about the location spent several days
of his residence in there going over
Seattle. the newspaper
Mrs. mith told files, talking with
Goodnight she the Bassett family,
had given h r n learning the habit
' ••000 and that he or' Jam Eugene
had paid .1.500 This ghoulish scene shows detectives digging for the body of Eugene Bassett in the Bassett, and
for the car. dead of night by the aid of flashlights. in the old Swedish cemetery near Bothell tud ing the in-
Count. o. 2 of and about a mile and a half from the "Little White House" formation which'
the inf rmati n had gathered.
charged Mayer That informa-
nd h; mother with the theft of a bill-fold worth four dollar. tion wa tudied on the ba i· of it· relati n to the commi 'on
a pair of gentleman's cufT link, valu tI 0 dollar and a half, f a murder, and the di posal of a bod.. From out 0(. the
nd a wrist watch f the value of twenty dollar. Th value rna of clipping and files th following facts and conclu ion
of the arti Ie con tituted grand larcen , and made the were r ached:
fifth f I ny for Deca to Earl layer, if he were com;cted, Bassett had been murdered for the road ter.
while only three charge were n ry to confine him a a The man who .had murdered him had a long e perience
habitual criminal in \\'a hington. with automobile aDd the theft of automobiles.
Th bill-fold wa found on layer' p rson, a were the He had planned the murder carefuUy and could oot be
cuff link, and even if 1 r. mith had taken the tand her shaken by t he ordinary method .
t timony would not· have pro en very onvincing in the He, or they, had little fear of the discovery of the body
face of the id ntification by the weary, trembling, gray-haired and had taken their. own ~ei urely way of di posing of the
moth r of Eu ene Ba tt. he am thr e thousand miles remains, indicating tbat· they had had experience in the
a ro the ntinent to a ist in the ar h for h r boy,and work they were doing. .
then to identify the cufT link'S and bill-f Id as hi property. Therefore ooly.the mo t scientific method wou:d be of
But most convincing, mo t damning f all the e idence any avail.
against Mayer, was the wrist watch. L t u now I ok back v r the ev nt f the pa t year in
th light f Ba tt havin been murdered.
I H D exp ted Mayer to take the tand in hi own behalf, Ba tt left his home at Br merton on the morning of
and but for thi wri t \ at h, I believe he would have . ptember 5th, wearing hi wri t watch, as hown by the
done ,to wear, as he told In pector dni ht in the e id nc of 10 ph Tr mblay, the \ rker n the ferry-boat.
akland Jail that '" know nothing ab ut it and have ne er He m t layer at the Colman do k, and tog ther they went
n it b for. If it wa found in the car it mu t have fallen to the offi e of a notary, where a blank bill of sale wa igned
behind the at in some way." h Ba tt and placed in hi p k t.
[ b lieve all doubt of Mayer' guilt vani hed in the mind Sa tt, May r and hi m ther were n togeth r about
of the jury when Fred . Peter n, an employ in the ak- I I or I I :30 at the" onella" place, n the r ute to "The Little
land P Ii e Department, working in the arage, took the Br wn Hou ." They bought nothing there and no reason ha
tand, and wore that at the time he found Sa tt' watch, ever been a i ned for the \.; it.
jammed down between the cu hi ns of th aut mobile, ei ht The blue road ter \Va en by a groceryman at "The Little
da s aft r Ba tt wa la t seen, the watch was running alld 011 Br wn House" about noon of ptember tho
correct time. The proprietre far dh u , whi h layer and his
:\Ir. \ inters, Mrs. Ba tt, Mr. Sa Lt, and l\1i Fay m ther had freqllented, w the three about 2 o'clock on the
tr ut all identified the watch as b longin to the mi ing aftern n of ptember 5th. Ba tt med drunk or
man. The jury found Ma er and 1rs. mith guilty on the drugged.
two counts. l\t vari u tim during the n xt five days following ptem-
:\Ia er was sent to V. alia Walla for life and after r maining b r 5th, th blue roadster wa en along the road in the
in the tate Penitentiary a hort time he filed an app al from vi inity of Bothell and "The Little White House."
th c n i ti n. We knew that on eptemb r 6th, while in Iympia, to get
\\"ith ;\-Iayer' record confr nting me, I r alized that I hi Ii n Mayer bou ht a meat w which we found in'
wa up again t a criminal combination too lever for any "The Little Brown Hou ." \\ as Sa ett still drugged, or
rdinary police methods, so I decided to consult the man who was he dead, his body "cooling ofT" before some cold
48 True Detective Mysteries
blooded de iI dismembered it for secretion beyond the eye
of man?
V e found that Mayer had bought a silencer for a gun dis-
covered in the trunk in "The Little-Brown House" and that he
had had the charge reduced in some shells so that they would
not make so much noise. . .
He had purchased from a firm in San Francisco a gas
pistol and cartridge -for what?
He had made a pair of huge tongs, which he explained were
for "fox farming" (but fox farm experts told us that no such
instruments were used for fox farming). These things were
big, and powerful, and could cru h a man's neck.
If the murder was committed in either of the two houses
~ hich Mayer had rented or bought he had "cleaned up" in
information. The scopolamin was administered by Doctor E.
R. House, of Ferris, Texas, an expert in its uSe.
1 had heard of the "truth serum" as every prosecutor must
have heard of it. 1 went thoroughly into its history and use
before 1 decided to use it on Mayer and his mother.
A Texas pQysician, ouring an operation, asked a simple
question of an attending nurse and his patient, apparently
unconscious, spoke out 'of t/te fog that clouded her mind and
answered it. Thereafter the physician made a practice of
talking to his patients whenever they were under that par-
ticular anesthetic.
He learned that the power of speech.is virtualIy the last
power the mind loses before complete :uncOnsciousness. A
moderate injection of the drug, robbed the patient of
reasoning powers but not the power to seek out from
the subconscious mind the answer to a familiar and simple'
question. This was the fundamental principal of scopola,;,ii1J:'

WEserumdecided to use the

on Mrs. Smith, feel-
ing that her mind was, per-
haps, less schooled than her
son's. The experiment was
made in my office at the
County-City Building late
one night in September.
Present were myself, a
Spokane physician who had
once used the drug in a
criminal investigation, one
of my deputies, John J.
Dunh, and several high
officers of the Seattle
Police Department.
Mrs. Smith was brought
secretly from the city
jail to my office. he
was undisturbed, con-
sidering itjust another
of the numerous in-
terrogations to which
she ha4 been sub-

(Above) A c1oee·up photocraph of the coils and me-

chanism of the "Lie Detector" machine, invented by
August Vollmer, one of the leading criminologists of
the United States, special consultant of President
Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance
and Enforcement, and Professor of Criminology at
Chicago University. This is the machine which
was used on Mayer, to try to get the truth from him
in conne<.tion with Bassett'sdisappearance. (Ri~ht)
A part of the graphic record made by the "Lie De-
tector" during Mayer's cross-examination. The
. record across the top of tbe:graph is of Mayer's blood-
pressure and heart action; that across the bottom is
of his respiration while being questioned. Note tha,t
at the point indicated by the word "shoot," Mayer's
heart action was interrupted, while at the same time
the respiration line shows that he held his breath.
The record shows that his h~ action jumped vio·
lently over the word "bury." Prosecutor Colvin
believes that this showed Mayer had shot Ba8llett
and buried his body

uch a manner as to baffle detection. He was not an amateur.
Yet we had plenty of evidence on which to convict if we
could find the body-without the body our only hope was to
get a confe ion. And 1 felt sure that the only way to get that
was through scientific methods.
1 had resorted to the use of scopolamin, commonly called
"truth serum," in March, 1929, the same being administered
both to Mayer and his mother, and had learned sufficient to
convince me that Mrs. Smith knew all about what had hap-
pened to Bassett-but Mayer-the iron-nerved gave me no
jected since her arrest and therefore caused us little trouble.
, Prior to her arrival 1 shut the window in mv office. 1 no':
ticed that my companions were smoking assiduously. -The
air soo~ grew.foul. . '
MrS. Smith began to pale.
"Do you feel ill, Mrs. Smith?" I asked her.
She said she did not. But at the end of an hour she did
admit that she felt "stuffy."
"I will call a doctor, Mrs. Smith," 1 said. "We don't
want to halt this interrogation, now that we are started.The
 What Became of Eugene Bassett? 49

doctor may be able to bra .: you up

and then we'll proceed."
\ e then called the pokane
phy ician, who had been conveni-
ntly waiting in the outer office. He
was very bu in like.
"Y ur pulse, madam; your
t ngue. \ hat you need, 1 think, is a
little timulati n. I can fix that I
think," he said.
nd ju t a Mrs. mith declared
the foil wing day, he injected the
rum with a hypodermic needle int
her neck. he did not resi t.
he began to 10 consciou n
ithout realizing what l\ad hap-
pened, he a ked for the physician
again. He was recalled and gave
h I' a ond dose. The third was
admini tered, after which she I t
consciousn
We placed her on the couch in my
office and sat about her.
" id Earl kill Bassett?"
H es."
"How did he kill him?"
"He hot him."
"\ hat did he shoot him with?"
" gun, of cour ."
"\\ here i the bod ?"
'" t i dark in here." was the
an weI'. "I t is dark in here and I
can't e. I don't know what he
did with the body."
In the cour of the exp riment
he would realize from time to time,
a he regained consciousn and her
p weI' of rea ning, that she was
talking-talking about the my tery
for which she and her son were being
held. he would mutter:
"I hope I haven't said too much:'

THE second experiment was made

at the county jail after Mayer
and his mother had been convicted
of grand lar eny and as Mayer
A friendly "test" of the lie detector by Henry Clay Agnew, Mayer's attorney (seated in
wa making ready to lea'e for the chair). Prosecutor Colvin is holding Mayer's rifle, which, it can be assumed, the
the penitentiary. mystery man used in his secret criminal activities. Mayer is believed to have murdered
The same per n were PI' nt a number· of persons. Leonarde Keeler, operator of the lie detector, is on Mr. Colvin's
with one exc pti n-in tead of the right
pokane ph i ian, Doctor House,
the Texa ph ician who had di vered thi use of the The c nd injection was f rcibly made. A third inj tion
ane the tic. was lh re to admini tel' it. foil wed.
~Iayer wa taken from his cell and told that he was to be But a we u pected. Mayer' mind was well hIed.
xamined by the penitentiary's traveling phy i ian. The He had engraved upon it indelibly hi numerous alibis.
d tor had t up hop in one of the rooms of the jail. ayer
undre sed and the doctor examined him. I BELIEVE that under proper condition the use of "truth
He expr sse<! great concern for Mayer's health. He told rum" can be made very effective. nditions have
~Iay I' he wa a very ick man. to be ju t right and in ayer's ca w w re working und I'
"\Vh ,man," he said. "You'll be winding up in the ho pi tat. v ry difficult conditions, and th re ults were not sati fy-
That' wh re ou will be, n t in any jail c II." ing a they weI' with 11'. mith.
He then a ked 1a er if h ould take a blood test. Mayer The other evidence had fairly comrin ed me that ~1a. er
agreed. killed Ba tt, but any doubt 1 might have had ani hed when
In t ad f ta in blood, howe er, the d tor re ersed the w used the rum on hi m ther.
PI' e by manipulation f lhe needle and inj ted rum. The exp rim nt with the "truth rum" had of cour been
ontained ;n the rep rt to PI' fe I' ollm I' at Annapoli .
T that m ment th re was some di turbance in lhe jail. He gave opinion and ugg tion there whi h were I' layed
A larg numb I' f pri n I' had b n br ught in and it to me. He then recommended th use of hi "lie dele tor"
was nece ry to change the ene of operati n. As the which he had invented and whi h i probably the gl' ate t
pri n I' wa taken to another corner of the jail, he perceived a tride made in the dele tion of crime since the di very of
d puty herifT, clum ily hidden. the B rtillioo ystem.
"I believe they ju t gave me the same dope th y gave my 011 mer I' c mmended L narde Keeler, As. i tant tate
mother," ~Iayer muttered to a guard. Crimin 10gl t for Illinois, a an expert to op rate the machine,
so True Detective Mysteries
and expressed his belief that the machine could solve the - After three sessions of examination, Mayer went back to his
Bassett mystery. cell jubilant.
1ayer was persuaded to submit to the test. "I've got 'em gu ng no. That machine's all wet.
They're just guessing'" he gloated.
KEELER arrived in Seattle rmi tice Day. I took three e found he would not an er any question relating to
days outlining to him every angle of the Bassett case cemeteries. When we worked along, that line, he truggled,
and :1a er's supposed conn tion with it. e began using and thre his arms about. The section h re we got the
the "lie detector" on him n Thursday, 0 ember 14th. strongest reaction included tw ce teries in Bothell, the
All ts took place in an Id court-r om. 1a er had better main Bothell Cemetery east of town, and the old wedi h
treatment, better and more food, than at any time 'n~ his Cemetery, containing about twenty gra es of con 'derable
arrest. He was even given candy, fruit; all the cigarettes, he age, which is about a mile and a half from "The Little White
wanted. Hou "
Mayer at first treated the "lie detector" test as a lark. p We had'a plat made howing every grave in the Swedi h
to a certain point in our se en days of investigation, he Cern tery, and Mayer refused to look at it. He buried his
answered every question, but only with:" es, sir," or" 0, head in his arms, threw back hi head and closed his eyes,
sir." . fought to keep from seeing the map at all.
The entire examination for six or,eight hours each day, had The only force that was used on him was Sunday when
centered around the question: "\ here is Bassett's body?" Keel r had just finished a series of qu tion on the graves
\J e qu tioned him, 0 er and over, perhaps a hundred and cemeteries about Bothell. 1ayer uddenly roused from
tim ,"I it in a lake?" "Is it in the Sound?" "Is it in a "well?" lethargy, sprang like a cat and mashed the machine.
To th questions, if he an ered, th answer was" 0," and Two deputies grabbed him and Keeler ru hed at him. He
,in every case a negative reacti n was registered. was shackled and sent back to hi cell. fter that his examina-
\ e began using maps. tions were made hue he
'lap of California, Ore- lay on a cot, wearing an
gon, \ ashington, then Oregon 'boot.
tern Washington.
"Is it here?" "It' is EELER repaired the
here?" "I it here?" point- K lie detector and e
ing to different sections. resumed questioning un-
We got no reaction ,'e\len day evening.
approaching positive until e gave him one day's
we narrowed down to a rest in that whole week.
map of King County in Every other day we re-
which Seattle is located. viewed all the maps, briefly
ur maps were divided but thoroughly, and ended
into numbered and letter al ays where the big re-
-secti os. The first positive action showed, in the
reaction on the "lie detec- icinity of Bothell.
tor" came when we went On 10nday, May~ sud-
over, again and again, denly looked up at me and
Section 3 including "The ;;aid: "Colvin, I'll talk to
Little Brown House" where you if you'll get these
Mayer and his mother other fellows out."
lived at the time Bassett The deputies didn't want
disappeared. gain on to go, bu t I persuaded
Section 4, the vicinity of them to leave the room.
Bothell, and especially one They insisted on hand-
tract th re where Mayer cuffing the prisoner, and
paid the ten d liar deposit on of them gave me a
on "The Little White mall Derringer pistol,
House," the reaction be- hich ta ed in my pocket
came very pol:itive. and worried me greatly.
ayer was permitted to
WE had more maps
made. Finally we ob-
sit up on his couch. I
drew ~ charr up right'in
tained a large scale map front of him. He talked
subdivided into Divisions low, glancing at the doors,
to K "Is the body in afraid to be 0 erbeard.
?" "Is the body in B?" "Colvin," he said, "will
"Is ~he body in C?" we you give me a trial? I'd
would ask him, and so on. hav a chance to beat cic-
ver a reaction from cl,Imstantial evidence. I
ti n D, but H, includ- wan t a trial."
ing "Th Little hite Decasto Earl Mayer, central figure in this story, one of the most I assured him that in any
House," the town ofBothel m~sterious criminals ever caught in the police net. Every case his fate would be de-
and vicinity, brought re- means known to modern police wor~, mechanical and otherwise, cided by a jury after a
sults. 0 matter which was used on him in an effort" to solve this bafIIing case fair trial.
way or how often we went "I know what that ma-
over the map the needle always registered positively about chine is, Colvin," he said then.' "I know it's recording the
Both II. truth. I can't beat It.
On our questions: "Is the body buried?" and "In the "Let's not kid each other. You know and everybody else
neighborhood of 'The Little hite House' in Bothell?" knows that I killed Bassett. hat will you do for me if I
always there was a permanent positive reaction of the "lie (lome clean?"
detector." "If you'll lead me to that body," I (Continued on page 86)
VANISHING FOOTPRINTS
This detective admitted he had little experience as a sleuth.
Yet he started out cold on ONE OF THE TOUGHEST
CASES ANY MAN HAS EVER BEEN CALLED UPON TO
SOL VE-and without a single real clue. WHA T HAPPENED?

Could you guess correctly who these two persons are in the story? For the time being their names are wi thheld-but will be
disclosed as the sensational developments in this case are revealed

HE fir t ea t
By C. cabo sc, and hurried

T bound freight
leadng Kalama-
zoo, lichigan,
FRED
former Deputy Sheriff,
PUTNAM forward toward the
head of th train.
\\'hen they reached
the ngin, th Y. di -
puffed awa from the
~Ii higan entral yards Kalamazoo County, Michigan covered the cau of
at 6 o'clock on the morn- the udden and unex-
ing of ugust 2nd, 1919.
(t \Va a long train, and
As told to L. L. HI GAMA p ted halt. The head-
nd brakeman had dis-
the ta k of making up covered a broken brake-
the tring of box car b am on one of the
lad n with·th ir cargoes of pap r and other 'ommodities car , aud had ignaled for the ngineer to top. \\'hile the
manufactured in Kalamaz 0 had been an arduou one. for b am wa bein put back int . hap, the onductor and
bOlh the ngine and train crew . Brakeman L kwood walked back along th train, inspecting
Th ~r at, throbbing giant of iron and st el had euled the coupling. and brak boxe a they w nt.
elm n to a sonorou puffing b f re the yard limit had b n
reached. Ea h intake of team nt t el wh I clattering S DOE LV borh men pau d-th ir yes re ting on the
ver t I rails. In the caboo , onductor J. . II scmer me obj t.
nd Brakeman E. . L ckwood had mad them Iyes com· A bundl that at fir.t app ared to b soil d clothing lay
fortable on th ir lealh r cu hioned bench , to watch lh at th foot of the mbankment. They de ended the grade.
railroad yards r ede back down th tra k . I.ying in a huddled h ap in the right-of-wa . ditch, wa the
.\ mile and a half out of the ity, th In, nak -like pr - mangled body of a woman. Both I g and the thumb from
ce ion of fr ight cars cam to a grinding. lurching top. the right hand had he n 'Ul ofT b. the whe I uf a p eding
Condu t rile semer and Brakeman Lockwood, ha \'ing lrain.
uflici ntl rec ver d from the 'ho'k of the il1lpa·t of iron undu LOr lie m r hurried ba k to a hou on the ou t-
coupling with iron coupling, 'Iimbed down from th kirt. uf the cit, and put in a call (Qlllinued 011 page lOl)
5\
 The Stick-Up
By CHARLES DE LACY
Editor Police "13-13"
Chicago Police
Dept.

H E Viking, crack de luxe train perated by the Chicago should have been and a general spirit of satisfaction reigned.

T & orthwestem Railroad was roaring over the

" rails to Chicago'on the night of December 30th, 1924.
ith the peed of some mighty meteor it fairly leaped
aero the horizon, leaving in i wake only faint wisps of
smoke and dying echoes of the long, low whi de. nugly
ensconced in the luxurious upholstery were some eight score
passengers, comprising a fair cross-section of Midwestern
civilization. Some were bankers. Others were merchants,
salesmen, auditors, brokers and lawyers. They occupied their
attentions with books and magazines or the normal activities
within the car, for darkness had come on and only the flicker-
ing lights of automobiles upon the adjacent road "gave any
sign that there was life without.
It was 8 P. M., and the last of the tardy diners were emerg-
ing from the <lining car ahead. They conversed amiably.
Absorbed in the conveniences and comforts of modern
railroad accomm~ations; they accepted the limitations and
confinements of travel with a cheery attitude. The atmos-
phere contrasted sharply with that in the normal metropolitan
train or street car. There was a perceptible tendency to be
friendly and sociable. The con entions and dull formalities
of suburban car riding were happily out of order here. A
stranger seemed to be a friend.
By degrees, the number of passengers dwindled. The
peeding train was nearing its d tination and with each stop
one or more of its riders got off. The train pulled out of
Waukegan, Illinois, with three tops between that station and
home. The remai~g passengers settled themselves for the
final lap.
Thus far th trip had been made without even the slightest
interruption upon the routine operations. There was plenty
of steam and water. The fireman and engineer were crack
trainmen on a crack train. The conductor was happy-the
report sheet tallied perfectly with the number of tickets.
Back in the express car the express messenger relaxed
comfortably in an arm chair. AU was well. All was as it
52
"Working on the railroad all the livelong day" was not
half bad, mused the expr clerk, conceding this on the
condition that thing be as they were at the moment. You
got three square meals and a roof by it. What more could a
man ask?
"All aboard!" drawled the conductor, swinging the ignal
lantern. one, however, got aboard and with a few potent
puffs the bright little town of Highland Park was left to the
pa t.
RU ELL DICKEY, the expr m nger, scanned the
interior of the expr car to award its contents a last
O. K. There were the box labeled Millinery-all in their
places and undisturbed. In the comer was the mall moun-
tain of trunks of nearly every shape and hue. Th y, too,
were in perfect order; and the saf there it was, its bright
steel id gleaming under the light.
Important little container "that safe. ho remembered
how many millions its insid had seen? It had been an
inanimate, but neverthel ignificant functionary in its
day. Let's how much did it have now? hundred
thousand! 100,000. A cool littl urn-that. Ab, what a
hundred thousand wouldn't do for an expr clerk! Man!
Russell Dickey tumed to greet the knocker at the door.
tean e, he thought. Dilzer, the Condu tor, usually came
forward at Evanston. Perhaps he as a little am."ious to get
home tonight. Dickey hot the bolt and pulled at the door.
He opened his mouth to greet--
"Gel. 'em up ~rcl"
A husky voice gave the order. A figure in a gray cap tood
insolently before him. One hand gripped an automati pi tol
tightly. With the other arm the intruder slammed the door
and came forward slowly, balancing him If with the motions
of the moving train. Dickey watched him, hi hands raised
obediently. His gun hung on hi belt, but death perhaps lay
betweeen his uplifted hand and the weapon.
on
the CHICAGO and NORTHWESTERN
A lone bandit suddenly appears in the
express car of the de luxe Chicago & North- "Flyer"
western ~'Flyer," speeding toward Chicago.
men, the VikiKf as "on time," each of the
In the dim light between him and a safe cre at his post of duty-e en to Ru
Dickey. Only over his dead body would
the creed of service be violated.
containing $110,000, a face emerges. The .At Glencoe the train made a brief halt.
Conductor Robert Dilzec alighted and
bandit~ gun is raised . . . he lires . . . The went up ahead to see if all was well. Or-
dinarily the expr clerk engaged him in
train roars on through the night . . . brief conversation during the pauses, but
it was not so this time. Dilzer wondered.
He mounted the steps with the intention of
calling a greeting to his colleague
when he was confronted with an
automatic pistol, thru t bodily
into the expl" car and securely
locked inside. The engine crew
did not wait for the signal since
the Glencoe stop was not for the
convenience of passengers.
In two minutes the Vikint was
peeding south again.
At Winnetka the
train slowed down to
stop on signal. A
passenger had pulled
the signal cord. With
a snort she came to a
"Get down!" snarled the gunman. " t down full stop and the en-
and crawl over to the locker. Keep your hands gine crew waited. A
ahead of you." minute passed and
Dickey kept watching him. Sure, he came for the signal to go
the 100,000, Dickey mused. But he wouldn't ahead had not been
get it! Dickey knew some jiu jitsu. Saw a dem- given. The engineer
onstration of it at the lodge and got the demon- leaned out of the cab
. strator to give him the low down. What a chance and peered from the
to use it, he thought. Dickey measured his front to the back.
chances. The gunman was not heavily built. In They waited again.
fact, he looked boyish. ow was the time. Still no signal. On
A DEEP breath
gunman. His
and Dickey lunged at the
the opposite side the
fireman peered from
hand shot out for the op- front to back. Dilzer
ponent's gun. The other ducked. A terrible was nowhere to be
second of silence except for the noise of heavy seen.
breathing and then an ear-splitting crack. Then There was a com-
another. And another. Fire darted at Dickey's motion about the ex-
eyes. He groped. Something burned. Pains
cramped his stomach. Breathing was harn. He
felt the overwhelming nausea of wounds, slipped
and tumbled to the Boor, the darkness and cold-
ness of death blinding his eyes and numbing his Russell Dickey, 0 ; -
body. The gunman turned, opened press messenger on
the forward door and was gone. the Chicago &
Northwestern F1yer
The Vikinf roared with the speed who was shot dead
of a mighty meteor over the rails. in hiS traclc.s by the
It gave out a deep, prolonged whistle. mysterious bandit
Its wheels clicked mu ically. It before he had a
chance to get his
swayed and rocked. The express cae gun into action.
was a blood-blotched morgue; but the With. Dickey lying
light was bright and the steel ides of dead, the keys to
the safe gleamed the same. . Beside the ezpress car safe,
containing a for-
it lay the lifeless form of Russell tune, were at the
Dickey. bandit's disposal;
Ever on its way, ever in tune with but-What hap-
the song in the hearts of all railroad pened?
53
 True Detective Mysteries
pres car. Pa sengers were gesturing and talking excitedly. pavement. While driving along, the driver thought he heard
[n a moment the crew was on the scene, and from noises hi passenger fumbling in the tool box 'in' the rear. Peering
within it was apparent that some one wa striving frantically into the mirror, he beheld the mim holding a gun in one hand
to get out of the express coach. jimmy was brought into while thru ting a second weapon into the tool box. On wit-
rvice and the door flung open. Dilzer, unnerved and visibly nes ing this, Mr. Kloepfer aid, he promptly increased his
'haken, all but collapsed in the arm!> of the engineer. He speed to ixty-fi"e miles an hour, expecting to be thrown into
could only point wildly to the interior of the coach. Half a the yawning ditch on either ide of the road at any moment.
dozen pairs of eye looked in and beheld the cold corpse of "Turn olll the lights!" yel1ed the pa engel'.
Ru 11 Dickey. The terrified driver hesitated. If he turned out the lights,
\ hen it was ascertained that he wa dead, the door of the how could he e the road? He meant to argue that point
coach was clo d, the engineer took the throttle and the when the muzzle of a revolver was thrust at the back of his
Viking ped on its way to Chicago. Under elevations, over head.
wilches and through freight yards it roared, the whistle "Listen," the man narled, "I've ju t shot one guy for not
hrieking a trange and unu ual alarm. The Viking was now doing what I told him' to, and if you know what's good for
a racing hearse and a score of passengers unwittingly played you, you'll do as I say. ow t'lm out the lights."
the part of mourners. The chauffeur made ha te to comply and in a
nap the car was in total darkness. Only the
ALRE DY advi ed of the tragedy, the dim treet lights served to mark the ribbon of
chief pecial agent of the Chicago & road as the machine plunged on. The drive
orthwestern Railroad had called Lieuten- was continued in silence.
ant]ohn orton, of the Chicago
Detective Bureau, an ace Ion
the Force, with a long experi-
o reaching Evanston the
driver brought down the
ence in the profession of crime speed of the cab. In a few
detecting. In pectors C. M. moments they were wel1 into
Faupel and L. J. Eldridge of the city.
the railway police joined the "Drive to the Davis Street
Li utenant together with a Station," ordered the man in
phy ician in the orthwe tern the back. The cab swung onto
depot. They a sembled on the a side treet and was soon be-
platform. fore the station with its lumi-
Contrary to the customary nous sign, Dar-i' Street. Mr.
procedure, the La\\! waited for Kloepfer said his fare did not
the murder scene to arrive. get out but peered intently out
ear them, -a rubber-wheeled of the cab windows as though
cart stood beside the track. It expecting to see some one' by
was at the point where the ex- appointment.
pI' car would come to a stop. They were shortly off again,
--0--
however, this time to the
Dempster Street tation of the
eanwhile, omething un- orthwestet n Railroad. The
fore en had happened to a cab was topped and the man
resident of the very quiet ham- alighted. earby was a WiIlys-
let of \ innetka. He wa a Knight sedan, its motor run-,
cab driver, Earl Kloepfer, and ning and a man seated at the
the ample pel son of Mr. Kloep- wheel.
fer wa mute evidence of the "Get La hell Ollia here!" the
untimely something. ny- man ordered, appending an-
thing but mute, on the other Detective Lieutenant Norton, of the Chicago Police other threat. The cabbie drove
hand, was Mr. Kloepfer's Dept. He played an important part in solving the off. s he did, the Willys-
VikinA hold-up, after the escape from the moving Knight roared up to him and
breathing when he burst un- train of the lone bandit who had killed Dickey
ceremoniou Iy intothe Evan ton pa ed on. Thoroughly out-
Police tation. He was wild- raged and indignant, Mr.
eyed and disheveled. He lalked incoherently about being Kloepfer could only wear under hi breath and report the
killed, held up and what not. matter to the police headquarters at Evanston.
"My. ott! I chust was held up in my cap! The man "You say you saw him put a gun in your tool box?" asked
aid' 'I've ju t shorone person for not doing wha t I told him Captain Charles Paasch.
(,0, and if you know what' good for you, you'll do as I say l' " "Yes, ir," an wered r. Kloepfer, wherewith they went
. fter much persuasion, Mr. Kloepfer was pre ailed upon out to the cab 'to g t it. In the tool box amid a collection of
to re-compo himself, or in police tation jargon, to "keep grea y loths and tool they found a .32 calib r erman
his, hirt on." ' au er automatic pi tol.
[t emed that the cab driver was waiting at the railroad -0---
depot in \ innetka. ] u t after the train pul1ed out, he said,
a man: fairly young, apPlOached and got into his cab. By thi time Captain tephen Healey, in command of the
.. Drive to Evanston," the pa nger order d, "and tjrive railroad ompany' detective, had arrived at the depot in
like heW" hicago'and went into con-ultation with Lieutenant orton.
uch a beginning was ufficient in itself to fri hlen him, Through a blue haze of cigar moke they discussed the mean-
Mr. Klo pfer admitted. But he obeyed orders, and in a ing of the murder. Both were police veterqn of wide experi-
moment the cab had wung out of the dJivewa/and wa on ence.
the dark road toward Evan ton. :'Ifr. KI epf I' w nt to "Th re must have been .omething in the e:\"Pre car that
great len th to explain to hi hear rs that h did not ap- this guy want&t," began Li utenant orton which was ju t
pro e of p eding on the public Ire ts, but in this ca , he anoth r way f king diplomatically ju t how much money
id, there \ a little choice. was in the coach.
The cab tore at a clip of fifty-five miles an hour over the "E timating it roughly," an wered Captain Healey, "1
 The Stick-Up on the Chicago &- Northwestern" Flyer" 55
(illid say there was as much as a hundred thousand-a cash as being quite thin, and wearing a blue suit and gray cap.
.,llipment from the First ational Bank of t. Paul, Minne- The remaining passengers and trainmen were questioned in
sota, to the Continental and Commercial Bank in Chicago. detail. One Edward J. Smith, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. was
I've wired all points between here and Waukegan to be on the examined more lengthily than the others. When Captain
lookout; but you know how tough it is to catch train robbers." Healey was done, Lieutenant orton cross-examined him.
It was apparent that the Lieutenant was trying to trick him,
AT that moment, the great steel Viking thrust its giant nose but the young man parried the questions skillfully. At any
from around the bend in the yard and dre up 510 Iy rate, he was a diffident witnesS. In the end he was dismissed
along the runway. Two men in overalls stood beside the and the queiltioning of the last few passengers was soon com-
rubber-wheeled cart. Eager hand threw open the door of pleted, much to the delight of the qu tioned and the ques-
the express car and the physician, tethoscope in hand, tioners.
jumped aboard. He listened for a moment; felt the limp
hands of ~ussell Dickey and laid his hand upon his brow.
"This man is dead, gentlemen," he said calmly. '~The COantDUCTOR DILZER was next sought out by Lieuten-
orton and asked about suburban fares that were
body is still a little arm. Judging from the constriction of taken on the Viking. The Conductor disclosed that he had
the body, .the man died in convul ions." not taken any ticket from such a person described by Keir
"Thank you, Doctor." said Lieutenant orton. "I'll have and Davidson. Moreover, no passenger's ticket specified
the coronet·'s phy ician make another examination so yo~ Winnetka as the destination, so far as Dilzer could remember.
"on't have to appear at the inquest. Just "anted to be sure "Have I helped any?" inquired the Conductor.
he was beyond help. How many wound are there, Doctor?" "Some," was Lieutenant orton's only word.
"I see two, but there may be more. One is just belo the "Well, Captain Healey," began the Lieutenant som~ time
belt. There's another just above the heart. I think the later, "I'm going back to the Detective Bureau and make my
lower shot killed him." report. If I hear anything from up north I'll pass it along.
Captain Healey was making a swift examination of the I'll get in touch with winnetka. They might have something
little ~afe. Finding it locked, he proceeded to search the body. by this time. Give me a ring if you get anything."
He held up a little bunch of keys for all to Lieutenant orton turned to go. Then, as though he had
"The keys to the box in the safe," h announced. "Dickey forgotten something, he swung around.
won-and It." "It looks like an inside job, Captain," he said coolly, and
He looked down at the huge frame of the dead express was gone. Captain Healey merely stared after him.
m~nger as though to say: "Bravo, old man!" But some- peciaI messages were awaiting (Ccmtinued on page 88)
thing, that something characteristic of aU policemen, downed
the dramatic impulse, and Captain Healey resumed the (R.;Aht) Edward J.
busin of investigation. Inspectors Faupel and Eldridge Smith, who admitted
to Lieutenant Norton
had been rounding up the passengers to take statements. that the VikinA hold-
o they ere clu tered about the v,.'pr coach, a knot of up "wasn't f>taged
obviou Iy nervou people to whom the formality of statement- right." Just what part
taking was a dreary and miserable procedure. Smith took in the
crime. if he did take an
Qu ti ned at length, most of them did not even know that actual part, was a
a murd r had been committed on the train on which they had mystery to the detec-
,been riding. Others who knew of it said their information tives at first. (Below)
had come second-hand, from the porter or some member of Bernhardt Mylin (in
foreground, wearing
the crew. bow tie) testifying be-
fore the Coroner's Jury
TWO observant gentlemen., however, were evenQlally di - enquiring into the
covered. They were Thomas Keir, auditor for the shooting to death of
Russell Dickey on the
Chicago & orthweston Railroad, and A. R. Davidson, VikinA, in a fruitless
employe of the Illinois Merchants Bank and Trust Company, ..ttempt to get the
Chicago. Both Keir and Davidson volunteered the informa- fortune in the express
car safe. Smith, re-
tion that a lone passenger, a young man, had pulled the ferTed to above, had
signal cord at mnetka and had alighted. They saw him indicated that Mylin
disappear in the shadows near the station. He was described did the killing
 _"Kid" McCoy's
ALL the world knew of "Kid" McCoy in
the days of his triumphs-his fame as
a ring fighter circled the globe. He fought
the best in both middleweight and heavy-
weight divisions - among them Tom
Sharkey and the great James J. Corbett.
He originated the effective so-called 'cork-
screw" punch, and many masters of the
colorful and manly art were laid low by the
clever, crafty McCoy. But how many, who
clapped him to the echo, know of the darker
side, when the law had to step in and lay
its heavy hand on thi~ ring idol? The
story of a part of that part, follows her
a story with a lesson to every youth who
sees only the glamour in success, but not
its dangers

partments by Detectives rthur toll and Jerry Bain of

Wil hire Di i ion, who led us up the tairway to the ond
Boor.
man, who intr duced him If as manager f the apart-
ment house, stood guard at the doorway of a r om near the
north end of the
long hallway. The
number on tJie
door was 212.
"In here," he
said, and we filed
quickly pa t him
into the chamber
of death.
There, in the
'center of the floor.
lay the body of
(Above) Kid McCoy, a woman almost
at the height of his completely cov-
pugilistic career when ered by a hite
money and fame were blank t. Only ilk-
beckoning him OD. (Right)
The beautiful Mrs. Theresa tockinged feet,
Mors, as she looked in 1924, rigid in death, were
a few weeks before she was "i ·ble. pair of
killed by Kid McCoy. This photograph was
taken in the court-room at the time she obtained bl a c k pat e n t
her divorce from Albert E. Mors leather pumps
lay a hort dis-
tanceaway, at the
"WOM hot to death at the ' len- ba of a pedes-
wood' partments, - - L ward taled electric fan.
venue. aptain Taylor." ( OTE:
,I fictitious flame is substituted here, I T the
in deference to the present owner of the apart1Jumt farther - mo t
house where the traged,. occurred.) wall was a richly
It was at 10:30 on the morning of Augu t uph I tered dav-
13th, 1924. that Irene Bell, veteran wit h- nport; one of its
board op rator in the Detective Bureau- cu hion was cov-
nd to whom calls involving matters of life and ered with blood.
death were mere routin made this announ e- Directly in front
m nt a coolly a hough he were r porting a f the d i van,
purse- natching job! die carpet, also,
"Wil hire offi ers already on the way out howed a large
there. 0' he added. blood - stain. A
\Vithin two minutes, Captain Herman line card table. that
(at that time in command of the Homicide had evidently been
:quad, and ince retired hief f 0 tectiv ) converted into a
and I were peeding to the Leeward venu dining tabl , con-
ddr in a fa t "call car:." tained the r mains
We were met at the entrance to the Glenwood of a meal set for
:6
FINAL KNOCKOUTI
By JOSEPH F. TAYLOR
(Left) Showing Kid McCoy after his
"final knockout," thi photograph
graphically tells its own storY e
Chief of Detectives end of the trail for the famous
fighter, With nothing left but
the ashes of futilit:y and failure.
Los Angeles The picture wa~ taken at De-
tective Headquarters, iIi Los
Police Department Angeles, on the morning of
August 13th, 1924, a f w hours
after McCoy's arrest for the
As told to slaying of Mrs. Mors, and at a
time when the hangman's
MADELINE KELLEY noose was staring him in the
face

two, a half-filled whiskey bottle, a

seltzer bottle and a package of cigarets.
Captain Cline bel'lt over the still
figure of the w 'man and gently lifted
the blanket. he was fully clothed.
photograph cia ped by waxen
white hands and
pres$ed close to
the mouth, as in a
dying caress, ob-
scured part of the
w man's featur .
( reprodu tion of
this I?hotograph is
shown in the ba k
pages of thi i lie.)

eLI E, with
. difficulty, re-
moved the pi ture
from the dead
fingers and laid it
on a chair.
We then gazed
down upon a face
that, even while
set in death, was
distinguished by a
full-blown, volup-
tuous beauty. However, the mooth skin of the exquisitely.
rounded throat was marred by purple blotch . Dark irc1es
urrou nded the closed ey .
A maJl black hole, drilled through the Idt t "1ple, slrowed
in tantly the means by whi h th hapl w.oman had met her
death.
nd on the floor a few inch s from the body 'Iay a mall
automatic. I picked up the weapon, with the u ual pre-
cautions again t obliterating fingerprints. One chamber
was empty.
However, the theory of uicide that first fla hed through
the minds of all of us. , as practically di ounted by the fact
that there were no powder-burn mark around the wound,
to indicate that the hot had been fired at do range.
Furthermore, xamination showed that the cu hion on the
davenport wa not merely tained, but completely saturated
with blood. Thi eviden e, together with the tain n the
carpet· beside the davenport, and the fact that there wa no
trace of blood on the floor where the body wa lying wh n
found, made it apparent that it had been moved and "ar-
ranged" after death. Thi last urmise was borne out by the
fact that the dead woman's ey s were dosed, which would
not have been the case had she met violent death by her own
hand.
In addition, the bullet that had crashed into her brain
undoubtedly caused instant death-while we had found the
body with a picture ckJ f>ed itt both ha,uls, almo t covered.
I T R ED to the manager, who was standing in the
background.
" ho i this woman?"
"She came here on the 7th of July with a man. They
registered a 'ir. and Mrs. hields.' They were quiet
tenants and I never had any occasion to speak to them after
they moveO in."
It was then that I picked up the phot graph that Captain
Cline had removed from the dead woman's hand. ·It was
the picture of a handsome man, attired in clothe that were
·the height of fashion some twenty years ago. I looked ...
and looked again! I 'mew that man! Who? .. Where?
hen? ... Then it dawned on me!
"Herman!" I called e.xcitedly.~· k 'here! D'you know
that face?"
line took the picture from me and looked at it k nly,
but no light f recognition dawned in hi eyes.
" ell. who is it?" he finally demanded.
"It's 'Kid' McCoy/ That's exactly how he looked twenty
years ago. \J hat's more, he's in Lo Angel s now. I saw
him ju t a few weeks ago. Been working in the movi s
lately--"
" ure, I know him well," Cline readily admitted, "but
I'd never have recognized him in that get-up," indicating the
57
 True Detective Mysteries

old-time pi ture. "\ ell, we'll find Kid Mc oy," he added I heard no hots.' If I'd heard hots, I would have
0,
riml ,and with a Ian at th lifele s la at our fe t, that in tigat d."
hort time bef r had been a sedu tively beautiful woman. \\ e then a ked him to arrange (or us to questi n employees
"He wa alway trong f r women. Been married ix or and any tenant who might be able to hed light on the
eight time .''' tragedy.
.\t that m m nt, Detective toll, who had been nosing
about the apartment, ailed u into the kit hen. LEVI the death hamber with Detective toll on guard
"" hat do you make of th ?" h a ked excitedly, and we adj urned to th manager' offi e.·
thru t toward u two mall piece of paper. There, we fir t questi ned Da id Hiram, 01 red porter,
none wa written: who gave a graphic account of his discovery of the woman's
THIS I' MY 0 LY WILL. I HEREBY LEAVE ALL MY PROPERTY d ad body.
,\ D PERSO AL EFFE TS TO fRS. THERE A MOR . "I went in ther " he began, pointing a tr' mbling finger
ORMA ELBY.
July 1. 1924. in the dire tion of the apartm nt we had just left-"to make
The other, which app ared to have been ha tily ribbled the bed and clean up, like I do every day. 11 the bed-
wi th p ncil, read: clothes was piled on the floor.
I pi ked 'em up, and there was
LL fY BELO GI G GO TO that lady ad!"
MY MOTHER. MR. MARY E.
ELBY. 6111 MESA STREET. The egr' eyes rolled and
ORMA SELBY. a hudder shook him, as he
'\ug. 12. 1924. seemed to re-live
the moment of
"Tha t ettles making that grue-
it," I declared some find!
rimly. "0, " cared me
we' e got to find 'm t to death-
Kid Mc oy, for seein' her layin'
I ornum elby' is there like that
his true name!" ith a blanket
o er h r and her
. 11 mo-
I ti ned feet stickin' ut
the man- from under it!"
ager forward, and " nd then you
howed him the made tha t bed
picture f lb, up!" line ra ped
oth rwise Kid har hly. "Didn't
~lcCoy. you know better
"Thi i an old than to touch any
pictur" I ex- thing in that
plained, "but do room?"
y u r gnize it The porter
at all a the man blinked appr hen-
you know a i ly." . ir,
"hield '?" 1i ter, I kn w I
He rutinized hadn't oughta
it close! . made that bed up
"\' hy, y . It now, but after I
d I k like him. nly he's called the manager, we thought
mu hider." we mi ht a well put it up. \ e
"\ ell, do you know the ex- knew people would be wantin'
prizefighter, Kid Mc oy, wh n to walk around in th r ."
ou him?"
Joseph F. Taylor. Los Angeles' popular Chief of Detec-
"Kid Mc oy ... " he r p ated tives, who knew Kid McCoy well and to whose lot it fell "A LL right, it can't be helped
w nd rin ly. and th n: "\\'h , to arrest his friend. Chief Taylor. who worked his way now. But the n xt tim "
ure! that' who thi f 11 w up through the ranks, has a long and enviable record as a w man who gave her name
i! I knew I'd n him me- detective of outstanding shrewdness and ability, and has to
his credit the solving of some of the most baffling cases in
a I r. artin. and who apart-
where. I ouldn't think who he Pacific Coast police annals during the past twenty years ment was almost directly beneath
r minded me of until you men- that in which the dead \ oman
tioned his name." was fund, a rted that he,
"Have ou an way f finding out what thi woman' too, had heard the ream. mom nt later there was a
name really is?" I interrupted, cutting hort his monolog. "I muffled r port . . . then a sound a of some h avy object
mean th dead woman." falling to the floor.
"H w hould I know who he is? an I a k p pie for a "I got up and 10 ked out of m window. man ran
marria e Ii en wh n th com to rent my apartm nts?" he around the ide of the hou and when he got to the
demanded wrathfully. "hi ld i the only name I know cem nt driveway between the hou and the garage, he
h r b ." dropped to hi hand and knee and crawled along for a little
"Well, then, did you h ar r e anything unusual in this wa s. Then, he traightened up and leaned again t the wall
apartm nt la t night or this m rning?" f the garage f r a few ond ,a if he \Va too exhau ted
"I heard m thin unu ual, and after what' happ ned, it to go any further. I was fright ned that I climbed back
ula ha e been in thi apartment," came th an wer in a into bed and tayed there. Of course, I didn't know there'd
troubled voi e. "1y wife and I wer awakened about been a h oting--"
twelve o'clock by a w man's ream. I got up, went to our "\ ould you recognize this man that you mentioned if you
door and Ii tened, but the r am uddenly t pped and saw him again?" I a ked.
everything wa dead-quiet. I told my wife to go ba k to " 0, becau I didn't e his face. He wa of heavy build,
I p ... that probably me couple \ as just having a fight. though."
 "Kid" McCoy's Final Knockout! 9
T this juncture we were in-
terrupted by the ringing of
the telephone. The manager
an wered.
"I t' for Captain Taylor,"
he announced, a second later.
I hurriedly picked up the
receiver.
"Hello!"
"Captain Taylor?" man's
voice a ked the question.
" peaking."
"Listen! My name's Thomas.
... I'm Kid McCoy's brother-
in-law'" The voice, surcharged
with excitement, indicated that
the peaker was laboring under
a terrific strain. "Do you
know the Kid?"
"Yes, I know him," I an-
wered eagerly. " hat about
it?"
"I think he's killed himself!
He came over to our house at
three o'clock this morning and
gave my wife ... she's his sister,
you know ... gave her his watch
and money. Said he wa going
to end it all! \ e haven't heard
from him since, and we're
afraid he's committed suicide.
He was drunk when he was
here."
Police photo of the murder apartment, as detectives found it. Note bloodstains on the
"W IT a minute," I said davenport cushion and the carpet. The lower arrow points to the body of Mrs. Mors, covered
with a sheet. '.Below) Left to right: Detectives Art W. Stoll and Henry L. (Jerry) Bain,
firmly. "Try to calm examining evidence found at the murder scene. Bain is holding a woman's rubber kitchen
down and let me get this apron showing two cuts made by a butcher-knife. Stoll has in his left hand the gun which
straight. First, where has was taken from Kid McCoy at the time of his ca~ture while his right hand has hold of the
McCoy been living?" hludgeon that was found in the car used by the slayer
" t the Glenwood Apart-
ments, with a woman he's crazy about. Her name is Mrs. think Mr. cCoy has killed himself. I know him personally
Theresa Mars! I think all this trouble is 0 er her. She's and he doesn't strike me as the suicide type."
just been divorced from Ibert Mors ... you know who I
mean? He run an antique hop out on West venth I W S in a quandary as to just how much I should tell tllis
treet. " man. Evidently, he was unaware that a woman-un-
"Ye, I know--" I made my tone casual, for fear that doubtedly Mrs. Theresa Mors-had been found dead in the
my informant might sense the excitement I felt over the apartment she had recently occupied with his brother-in-
vitally important news he law! If McCoy had killed her, any information given to
had just given me. "Well," Thoma might militate against our chances of capturing him.
I a ured him, "[ hardl On the other hand, it was more than po ible, under the
circumstances Thomas had just explained, that
Ibert Mors, divorced husband of the lain woman,
might have committed the murder.
"How did you know where I was?" I demanded,
stalling for time.
"t don't know where you are. I got this number
from the 'phone girl at the Detective Bureau," he
replied. "Don't bawl her out about it ... I told her
it was a matter of life or death!"
"Oh, that's all right. I just won-
dered."
"I wi h you'd have some of your men
look around the gymnasiums and other
places you think the Kid might be. My
sister feel p itive that he' lying dead
somewhere. You don't know how crazy
he was about that Mors woman.
Jealou as hell, and I think they've been
quarreling lately. He blames her hus-
band for all the troubl~" he went
on, almost incoherently: "If the Kid's
drunk somewhere we want to get him
home, and if he's-dead, we want to
know that, too."
60 True DcUctirJc Mysterus
"I'll get busy on it right away," I told him. " hat's "Hello, Joe," cCoy
your telephone number?" After hastily jotting down the greeted me shakily after
number he gave, I hung up. one swift look of recogni-
tion. "Make this guy take
I. an aside, I relayed to Captain Cline the gist of the these cuffs off me!"
message I had just received. "Take 'em off," I or-
"Doe n't seem possible that McCoy could have done it," I dered Kritser.
commented. "He's a good-natured, easy-going type of "But he's dangerous,
fellow. Still, you can't tell what a man will do when he's Captain--"
in 10ve-especiaUy when he's drunk! tf he blames Mors "Take them off. He's
for the trouble he's had with his sweetheart, he'll probably not dangerous now."
go gunning for him, too. \ e'd better get someone over to
the Mors Antique Shop right away." WHE the offending
I called the Detective Bureau to give instructions to have bracelets were remov-
the antique shop staked for McCoy. Hardly had I men- ed, McCoy at once started
tioned his name than I received information that was startling to launch into a rambling
indeed! recital of the circumstances
McCoy was in custody, charged with Attempt to Commit surrounding his arrest.
Murder! "Keep quiet," Captain
Without waiting for details, I ordered the Detective Cline ordered crisply.
Bureau telephone operator to have the arresting officer bring "What happened, Kritser?"
Kid McCoy straight to the Glenwood Apartments. "I was standing at the
\\ hile we waited, we returned to the room where the body comer of Seven th and
of Mrs. 1:ors lay. Alvarado Streets about
Further examination of the apartment disclosed nothing thirty minutes ago ... must
new that was of vital importance, but several things that I have been just about 11:10
found of interest . . . things that indicated the former A.M." he said, after con-
occupants' rather exotic taste in art. A large tapestry sulting his watch, "when a
depicting a scantily attired dancing-girl hung on ne wall. citizen ran up and said
On a small table stood a bronze statuette-:-a nymph cia (led there'd been some shoot-
close 'in the arms of a satyr-and a book entitled The ing. Told me' to go get
Basis of Marriage. him!" indicating McCoy.
till another item, that I later had occasion to recall most "He was running north on
forcibly, was an octagon-shaped box, of black enamel, with Alvarado. A I gave chase,
the f 1I0wing inscription gold-lettered on its top: I saw he had a gun in his
"The Sins That Ye Do Two By Two Ye Must Pay For One hand. He looked 'round,
By One." saw me and jumped on the
running - board of a mandeered an-
IT was less than Ford touring that other passing auto
minutes before happened by. I com- and just before I
were called into the overtook the Ford
hall, and there found this man dropped
Patrolman R. L. his gun to the
Kritser, linked by street and leaped
handcuffs to a haggard off the running-board. I ordered him to
faced, disheveled-look- surrender and he did. They told me
ing man whom I rec- at Central Station to bring him out
ognized as Kid McCoy. here. Said it was your orders, sir."
"You did exactly right," Cline informed him. "That's
all now. We'll take care of your prisoner."
"All right, sir. But he's l.llready put three people in the
hospital!"
When the officer had gone, I·turned to cCoy.
''What the devil's the lJlatter with you?" I demanded.
"Everything!" He declared wearily. "I got
drunk last night--" .

"D0I you know your sweetheart is dead?"

shot the question at him.
"Dead!" he echoed, dazedly. "Don't make
me look at her, Joe!" he groaned. "I loved
that woman--" his voice broke-- "when
;be died, all the lights went out for me-"
(Left) Kid McCoy in hi.
cell on the evening of the
day of his arrest. Was he
thinking here of the attrac-
tive Theresa Mora of past,
happy days, whom he had
slain within the 24 hours?
The pbotocraph of Mrs.
Mora (above) shows her
as she looked in 1915, at the
height: of her beauty, near
the time when McCoy first
met her
 "Kid" McCoy's Final Knockout I 61

Tenants of the apartment hou ,having learned fMc morning! 'ughta seen tho guys!" he said, laughing.
arl' t, urged into the hallway where we tood, their mouth " hat guy?" I demanded.
a ape with curio ity. " vel' there in the shop! I wa waiting there for Mol' to
[ ught the manager. come in, the - - - - I I'd have killed him on i ht!" His
"Have you a vacant apartment where I can qu tion this e e fairly littered for an in tant with a venomous hatred.
man privately?" nd then a ain, that dreadful, maudlin lau hter." h,
\\ e were at once hown to a I' om acro the hall. I pu h- but tho fellow looked funny!"
ed the Kid in ide, and when my brother-offi ers would have
f 1I0wed, Mc oy voiced a vigorou protest. "LI TE ! You'd better come down to earth! This is no
"I'rp not going to talk to an body but you, Joe," he de- laughing matter! What did you do . . . shoot some-
clared, hi blood hot eyes filling with tears. "Keep tho body over there?"
people out of here!" " id I! I taught that fellow Ro not to walk out on
" . K., Jo," line acquiesced in tantly, "you talk to me! If h 'd d ne what I told him, he'd b all ii ht n w.
him," and closed th door upon u . Had no bu ine trying to et away and tip lor off! But
" ir t," I said to the unkept man before me, "go and say, Joe, they ure looked funny, ittin' there with their
wa h the grime from your face and hands." pants off--"
~I oy turned obedientl and presently em rged from the I walked over to where 1 oy sat and gra ped him by
bathroom I king ~ re like hi nOl'ffial self. the arm.
" ow it down there and tell
me all about it How d it "LOOK at me!" I com-
happen that Mrs. or is manded. "I'm not in-
dead?" ter ted in how those ·fellows
"Joe, I swear to od I don't looked with their pants off, get

Kid McCoy frolicking on the sands of Santa Monica Beach, California, with a group of bathing beauties, all seeming to be en·
joying the fun. This pi~ture was taken at .the time McCoy was playing in moving pictures, when there was not a cloud on the
horizon of his future

kn w! [got lit la t ni ht. \\' were here tog ther, and the me?" [gave him a violent hake for empha is. "I want
fir t thing I kn w, h wa dead! I don't I' m mb I' how it ou to tell me what you did, and why you got free with
h pp ned. Y u've ot to believ me, J !" he pleaded our gun! \ hat' all thi about three peopl being in the
dE' perately. h pital?"
.. L k lik you killed her," I id hortly. "Was any- ", w, Joe, don't get reo I'm tellin' ou what happened,
dyel with you?'" . ain't I? Ibn hunting Mol' all night. ouldn't find the
.. , don't know! I wa drunk, I tell you! . Been drunk all --at home, 0 [ got the idea f going over to hi hop this
ni ht, and till am. Say!" Hi mood abruptly hanged in a morning to wait for him. He didn't how!" Disappoint-
wa' almo t h rrible to and hear. He laughed up- ment and chagrin weI' written all over 1c oy' blotched
1'0 riou I , lapping hi thigh in ming high good humor c untenanc. "Well, I found me people waitin' there for
with him If. "I' e ure had one hell of a good time thi him, and just to make ure that none (C07ltillued on page 6 )
How I TRAPPED. the
T IJIEstmy
Durinf
so far:
1Mrobbery of
First NaJUmal Bad of Bell-
1M (Left) John J. Slattery,
notorious crooIt. De Martini
more, Um" Is14nd, New York, said of him: "We played a
E.r'ru.st L. Whitman, an a-soldier smooth game with each otheI",
atcd Wall Street bond salesman wa.s and I left him feeling well satis·
murdered. Efti4ena points to an fied with himself . the tbought
inside job-the cashier is under that he had won"
S1lSpicw".
Tire batUliJs are belidled to Iuwe
transferred from tire mtlrder car, a Buick,
to a Hudson whicJr Detectifle De Martini told me .about Jack's car breaking
belietJes he has traced atUl fouM. to be down and the two trangers asking if
0fImd by Jack SlaIIery, propridpr of 1M
Old HomesUad, a Umf Is14tUl roadlwvse. he needed help. "They said they were
SlaJUry's charq.cter is fJOtIChed for by his mechani ," he finished.
irUimaJe friends, 1M Wiegaftds, who own "Do you think they were really
another roculhovse, 1M Newbridge Inn. mechanics?" I asked him.
The license plate fouM. on 1M murder car
belongs to an ekdriaJI corIiractor 1Ulme4 Julius " . At least I believed they were at
Presses, who d4ims 1M car was sloletI. from first, but when we got to talking and, well,
him foUl' d4ys before tire commissUm of 1M when they couldn't straighten her out,
crime. The murder cor WG$ 6tOlen three and we had to push her to the side of the
dDy6 before the critne. from in front of 1M
owner's resUkrla on MaIlis01J APe1Jve. road ... and I :had to telephone for a tow, I
Detective De Martiffi contintles his story: believed they were Federal officers, but when
the car came. 1 couldn't get out of offering
P ART Two them a lift inee they liad told me they had lost
LET se era1 days elapse before I again called their way. So 1 brought them here for a few soft

I Mrs. iegand on the telephone.

"Have you heard anything?" r ~ed her.
"About what?" sh asked. .
drink:. The way they fumbled with the car
howed they weren't really mechani . In the
afternoon I w nt to Long I land City and dropped
"Have you heard from lattery?" them off in Flushing." .
"Oh, yes. He was here last night. 00 you want "Where were you coming from?-this is all a mere
to see him?" matter of form you know." 1 said to him as he appeared
"Would it be possible to make an appointment for to be getting confused. He must have' realized how
me to meet him at your place?" 1 asked in a voice I funny it sounded when he told me that he had taken
tried to make sound diffident~ " othing to be alarmed them all the way to Wiegand' a roadhouse-for a few
about, but the District Attorney said I ought to have soft drinks. He mopped his forehead.
spoken to him personally. "I was coming from Hicksville, going towards Long
"Could you make it tomorrow forenoon?" she suggested. Island City," he began.
"Certainly. Any time you say. I'm very much obliged~~ ..•
to you." . EW he was telling the truth there, for in the roving
When I reached the ewbridge Inn the following day, canvass I mentioned earlier in the tory I poke to a
found that Slattery had arri ed ahead of me. certain Mrs. Ann tolz of Oy ter Bay who told me that he
He was a tall, fine looking chap, very well groomed and had seen the car that topped in front of the Bergold's farm
with a personality that should have been worth a big salary' coming from the direction of Hicksville. But I interrupted
as a salesman in any legitimate line of busine~. With him Jack right there. I wanted to see if he were the type of
waf> a shorter fellow, al good looking and well dressed. I fellow who, if he made a discrepancy would grab a sug-
won't mention this man's name. He is quite prominent gestion and turn hi tatement around. If he had been
and was amazed when he learned that lattery was a crook; coming from Hicksville, he might be coming also from
as he was destined to discover much later on. Bellmore, the scene of the crime. If he said he had been
Mrs. Wiegand introduced us, explaining that I was from going towards Hicksville, he would be going towards the
the District Attorney's office in estigating the Bellmore scene of the crime-an alibi.
Bank robbery and murder. "Get this straight," 1 said, looking him right in the eye.
"I'm not working on any beer~. I'm on the Bellmore
"IT is," I explained as we three took seats in· the dining Bank: murder. ere you coming from Hicksville?"
room, "the two men ho were with you I am interested. All nervousness seemed to disappear a he answered in a
in. You seem to be nervous-no needof that." seemingly frank and confidential tone: "To tell you the
When he had shaken hands with me I had noticed that his . truth, I was on my way out from Long I land taking orders
palm was clammily cold, and there was a nervous' twitch for beer." . .
to his lips'as he smiled. . "Can you gi~e me a description of the two fellows you
"I had a hard night-not much rest," he explained some- pidred up?"
what jerkily. . "One had an Irish brogue. He as five feet nine, medium
"Of course he hasn't anything to be nervpus about," the build, about one hundred and sixty pounds and wore a dark
friend poke up, and v.-ent on to tell me what a fine chap overcoat.. The other was five . feet eight, lim, a hundred
Jack was. and forty-five pounds weight, and well.
"I know," I nodded. "The V iegand dressed in a light overcoat. He wore
told me. So far as I'm concerned I am a four-mohand tie and a dark velour
convinced that he had nothing what- By Detective hat."
ever to do with the hold-up. But the He insisted that he could give me no
District Attorney asked me about the FELIX DE MARTINI further information about the men, but
two men whom he picked up, and I said he could identify them if he ever
couldn't give him much on that." As told to saw them again. They didn't, he
Slattery then repeated the tory claimed, look like hold-up men or
Mrs. Wiegand and 1r. Wiegand had ISABEL STEPHE burglars, but rather, he was sure, like
62
BELLMORE BANK BANDITS
With consummate skill Detective
De Martini gradually uncovers
evidence from tight-lipped wit-
nesses and informers in New
York's underworld haunts, on·
the infamous Bellmore Bank
robbery and murder. The net
begins to close . ... the time for
the big coup approaches. . . .

revenue officer on the lookout for bootleggers.

"If you need me for identification purpose ,"
said thi charming ra ai, "I will gladly a i t you.
Do yau want me to go to the Di trict ttorney's
office with you now?"
" 0, indeed," I rea ured him. "You can go
right home 0 far as I am con erned. If you
happen to run acro those fellows any time you
might let me know, though."
"I shall," said he, and we parted tlie best of
friends.

WE had been playing a mooth game with each

other, and I left him feeling well sati fied
with him If-in the thought that he had won.
lattery, like the Wiegands, I wa ure, took me
for a simple rt of soul, not overburdened with
brain. For twenty years I have been ultivating
that mann r. I can go on telling dozens of stories
about how I have caught crooks and the crooks
can read them-but evidently it doe n't convince
them. hich is fine for me, for you can learn a
great deal more by appearing duller than you are
than in trying to bluff or scare people with a sem-
blance of tran endental mentality.
But for the time being I was up again t a tone
wall. In lying when he said he wa coming from
Long Island City, and towards Hi k ville and Bell-
more, he had f rged the link attaching him to the Ml'lI. Ernest L. Whitman, widow of the bond salesman who was mur-
rim a bit tr nger. The next tep wa a back- dered during the robbery of the Bellmore bank. On the right is Miss
ward on to attach him to the t len Ford or Mary Umhauer, Assistant Cashier. held up at the point of a gun by one
of the bandits
Buick cars. Then I would get a decent "bust
op n."
, ot mu h III nti n ha been mad of Fred Fayard, chauffeur but by n of tho extravagantly weird Quirks of fate
for the mall wood who owned the tol n Bui k. The day Fayard b ame one of th character who rved to turn the
after the crime, detective found their re id neon 1adison B Ilmore Bank ca into a drama that rivalled Ham! t for
,\venu cJ sed, but they were finally located in the fa hionable the number of udden and violent death that occurred
Lenori Apartmen t Hotel on Ea t 63rd treet between Madi n befor the final curtain fell.
.\v nue and Fifth \"enue. For that rea n alone, I will take ou \ ith me to the small,
p rativ who had been working that angle had reported neatly furni hed apartment where he lived at 611 \ e t
~lr. 'maltw od to be an Iderly gentleman of much wealth 135th treet.
and lid ial po ition. Hi wife wa an invalid and th
couple lived very Quietly They gave their chauffeur, Fred I LLEO on Fayard by appointm nt, a the operative
Fa ard, an excellent r ommendaton; he had b n with them had reported that the chauffeur wa away from home a
for five or ix year and any thought of connecting him with great deal. few days urveillance had hown that these
th rim med ridiculou . ab n es were accounted for by vi its to a married woman on
Indeed, so far as hi connecti n with the rime at that Long I land-whi h wa none of our bu ine , but would
tag is concerned, we might let him make hi exit right now, have probably I st him his job had his conservative employers
6
64 Tr-ru DdectifJC Mysteries
leamed of the liaison. This was of no great importance. :larjorie Kunz gave us a bad break. he identified "Limpy"
Though his accent was perfect, there was something foreign Loeber as the full-faced, big-nosed man she had seen transCer
in the appearance of Fayard. He had the dark brooding from the Hudson to the Buick! Limpy d slightly re-
eyes of Orientals, though in his dress and manner he was semble dlat man-but only from a good distance. The
thoroughly American. This was my first impression of the Grand Jury failed to indict them and the three men were
mall ood's chauffeur when he opened the door in answer turned over to th uffolk unty authorities who wanted
to my ring. them for another crime.
The room to which he led me was a combination bedroom Hiding a copy of a newspaper that carried the story of
and sitting room, as neat and characterless as a stateroom their release from assau County, I dropped into a speak-
on a liner. Somehow the impersonality of that room waS easy in Presses' neighborhood.
reflected in its owner, cheerful enough as it was with the I t was a drab place in the. back room of a store. 0
late pring sunshine pouring in through the windows. attempt had been made to render it attra tive. I had
"I suppose," he said in a flat but perfectly courteous voice, called there veral tim however,.and had alway found it
"it is necessary to look everybody up in a case like this. well patronized. Evidently the vile hooch they sold over
But why can't one detective ask all the questions?" the old chipped bar was sufficient enticement.
"There are many different agencies employed in the in- The fellow who had introduced me to this "oasis" let it be
vestigation," I explained to him. "I represent the Distri t assumed that I was an insurance soIicitor-whi h was quite
Attorney's office; others represent other interests, the an effective way of discouraging any attempt of the "barflies"
Bankers Association for instance. It is a very serious crime. from making awkward inquiri as to my busin
... and your car was used by the murderers--1l1aS the ",u,de,
au, mfaa," I finished impressively.
T HIS afternoon a big, hulking chap, with a hard, weather-
I had wanted to shock him a bit out of his indifferent .... bitten face was indulging in a glass of beer, as I took my
attitude, but I was astonished at the effect of my words. pia at the bar and laid the newspaper carelessly on the
He gave a short gasp that choked in his throat. One of counter. His eyes were bleery and hi voice husky# He
those quiet fellows, I thought to myself, with all sorts of looked as if he had reached the al holic tage wh~ one m re
suppresSed emotions bottled up tight in him. The Long sip would topple him over into.that state known as "passing
Island lady ought to be wamed-but then, would she thank out cold."
us for interfering? But his small pouch-ernbedded eyes caught sight of the
"How was it that the car was reported stolen from the headline on the front page of my paper.
comer of 31st treet and Lexington Avenue and later stated "Say bo," he grunted, "let's have a I k at that sheet.
that it was stolen from in front of the mallwood's Madison I seen it earlier, but Harry here won't believe th y let them
Avenue h me?" I asked slowly and deliberately. guys off. Bet 'im a hundred
"Just a typographical error, I guess," he dollars 'twam't 'em. 'Twas
said casually. A the guerrilla that tole Pr
keen glint came car-that did it. Why don't
into his eyes. them flat feet find out who
"There was a gun stole it? Broad daylight an'
in the car when it right there 'tween the delica-
was stolen. An tessen and the barber shop
Ithaca shotgun 'twas. Muss-a-
that had been bin so~y seen
used in hunting. 'em. L' see it,
It was on the will 'you?"
back seat. I un- "I thought it
derstand you can was stolen from in
identify guns by front of Presses'
their numbers. I'll home," I said,
try and get that handing him the
number for you. paper.
But that's all I He made no an-
can offer to do. I The First National Bank, Bellmore, Long Island, New Yock, scene of the robbery swer but grabbed
don't know a and slaying the newspaper and
thing about the in turning clumsily
theft of the car. It was stolen about eleven," he concluded. to his compani n he knocked over both gla of beer.
I qu tioned him for over an hour and learned nothing of " 0,' tew' Horan' right," th man n my left said im-
importance, with the e.xception of the presence f the gun portantly, but with ~ neer a h referred to the bet-you-a-
in the stolen car. That, I figured, was the gun that had been hundred informant. "The car wa stand in' between the
used in the Buick as it blazed down the Bellmore road. delicatessen and th barber shop. Presses left it there when
he went in for a have. When he came out again it was gone.
N0 I started to do a lot of work in Presses' neighborhood.
Careful inv tigation had not disclosed a black mark hold-up."
I heard Joe, the barber, talking about it the day after the
.
in his past, but there were the small di repanci I men- Thi was the best tip had had in th Bronx lead up to
tioned before, that had to be explained, and you can't jump that time. The man who had just sp ken appeared to be a
into a lead like a bull into a china shop. You have to tread responsible sort of chap.
as delicately as if you were walking on eggs. As it is always best to get information first hand, I stuck
I mad no n rted dri again t anyone trail for the around th speakeasy for a few minutes and th n went to
next f w days, but gath red fragments f informati n in the barber hop.
Bellm re, Hi ksville, Long Island City and the BrOiL'\[. For picking up information there is no place to beat a
en attached to Captain allagher's taff were .keeping the barber shop in a locality of this sort. In the old days it wa
Old Hom tead under onstant surveillance. the barkeeper who Ii tened to the joys and tribulations of
Captain Jon ,after firing test bullets from the weapons his cu tomer, but the prohibition type of bartender is as
found in th po 'on of the three men picked up in mith- gloomy as the stuff he sells. I t is the wielder of the hears
town, stated that th re Ivers had not been used in the and razor who ha become the chief public deposit of con-
murder f Whitman. In thi arrest the imagination of fidences and sources of new. (Continued on page 74)
 Remarking, "It is deuced dark in here," Aubert struck a match against his trouser-leg and held it up_above his head
THE Diabolical Murder
at the CHATOU VILLA
What a frightful plot this murderer conceived in his crazed
mind! Tortured by jealousy, he carefully set the cruel trap
to which his doomed victim approached unsuspecting. ...
T
HE man, whose name was larin Fenayrou, had been
a shop man to a chemi t, had married the daughter of
the owner, a widow of the name of Gibon, and had be-
come master of the bu ines. Bu t he was far too fond
of drink and backing horses; the customers f II off, the hop'
was old, and he wa forced to take a si tua tion as a clerk.
'1 t was the girl's mother who had made the match. Gabrielle,
her daughter of seventeen, was then fre h from chool, a girl
with little strength of will, but sweet and docile, whose chief
delight was to be flattered, ki sed and petted. he had
mall liking for her hu band, an ungainly monster, with a
rough red beard and the manners of a satyr, dang rous a a
tig r and as jealou a Othello.
\Yhile they were till living at the hop he had fallen in
love with a young man named Louis ubert, a pupil in the
bu ine -a gay youth
of twenty-one, by no A FACT
means a bad sort of
fellow in hi
though somewhat fond
way,
By H. GREENHOUGH SMITH
of giving himself airs. I t is true he was not very handsome;
but, beside her ogre hu band, he seemed almost the donis of
her unhappy life.
One day his master, perhaps su p cting something, had
flown into a pa ion and kicked him out of doors. ubert had
set up as a chemi t on hi own account, and F nayrou had
come to think that, if there had been anything between the
pupil and his wife, it was now all done with and forgotten.
But an intercepted letter had made it clear that they had
long been lovers, and, more, that they were meeting till.
nd now the ogre sat waiting for hi guilty wife.
he ntered, unsuspecting-and the whole brute within
the man broke 100 e. He flung the letter in her face. dragged
off her \ edding ring and bits of jewell ry, forced her to her
knees, and wrung out a full confe ion. On the wall there
hung her bridal wreath
STORY of orange blossJms, a
chalk drawing of her-
(Continued
on page 114)
6S
'Confessions of Frank Silsby
B E TI N
FOREW RD
the law ha be orne
a national arne. 1\0 citizen,
no bank, factory or armored
truck is safe from the sa\'a e
raid of bandits who swoop out
-MASTER house-then approaches him with
a plan to rob a nearby bamk. 1'lsby
asks the deputy what part he would
play il~ the hold-up and the
officer starts to explain--
ilsby continues his story:

CRIMINAL
from the underworld, strike,
and disappear. How do th y
do it? How do the gan ter PART FIVE
get away with robbery and "I'D give you a clear mad,
murder? and see that the r t of
"I have com milled approxi-
mately one hundred and fifty major the boys cha ed you in
crimes and have beell arrested //lore
than two Illtl/dred times," says
As told by HIMSELF the wrong directi n."
"I told him I would let him
if by, "but ill only know. He ga\'e
one· instance did I
'do time'-and tlten me the name of
Ol~ a plea of guilty, the bank and its
What's ~ rong witlt location, I went
tlte system Of deal- over the grou nd
inK with crime?"
It is a que tion and was in-
that national and ter ted. I a ked
state commi ion the depu ty who I
are studying in de- could get to help
tail.
mething is rad- me, He repli d
ically wrong. that he thought
il by here tell I should see a
the readers of th i certain party who
rna azine, in full d -
tail, the tory of hi ran' a place like
crime and the s)' - mine.
tern he used to "He know a
scape punishment.
lot of the boy and
The story so Jar: pulls one him If
Frank ilsby, bom now and then,"
i/lto a Kood home said the d puty.
tUTllS criminal at
sixteel~. Criminal I went to see
"snccess" followed. the party named
bnt he is finally and told him
callKht and sel~tel/ced about my elf and
to AIi1l1lesota tate
Prison. Paroled 011 let him Ii ten to a
good behat'ior, he little deep tull to
Diolates/arole and is ondnce him I
TetUTlle to prisOI/. was on the level.
After two years he is
III/conditionally re- I outlined a plan
leased. to rob the bank
Bitter against so- and he nodded ap-
ciety, he organi~es prO\'al and aid he
his OWI~ gang - be-
comes a master crim- would 1 nd a hand
inal in league with and get the nece •
a bank president. sary helpers him-
Alore success follcrd.'s If.
a/ld tlten a friend of
tltebanker-a "stool" Then he tartled
- almost ca1~ses me by a king:
Silsby's rllin. The "Have you en
banker commits Sili- 'Dint' about it?"
cide alld ilsby con-
til/ues his outrages int who?"
against society. "Dint 01 beck,
IIe settles llear . t. the leader of the
Louis and makes Egan gang."
friends with a deputy
slteriffwho persuades (Contiutted' on
him to bit)' a road- page 119)

SILSBY, shown above, may not look it, but he is a hard man-a tough criminal. Yet he does have at least one redeeming quality
-his willingness to frankly expose the methods of organized crime in its perpetrating of wholesale robbery, extortion and
murder. It is best that the youth of our country should know what is actually happening around them, and learn of its fright-
ful penalty in the end. Not part, but ALL of these enemies of society pay the penalty. Those who do not get bumped off
by their own "pals," eventually land in prison. They escape for a time-yes. But ONLY FOR A TIME.

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"Kid" McCoy's Final Knockout!
of 'em could get out and tip him off, I
took their money and watches and made
the men-I think there was three of 'em
-made the men take their pants off 1 They
couldn't go out on the strect without their
pants, could they?" Once more, the
drunken man roared with laughter. "Then,
a fellow named Ro , that I'd met a time
or two made a break for the door and I
shot him from behind, just to how him
I meant what I said!"
"\Vhat else?" I insisted.
McCoy's eyelids were beginning to droop
soddenly.
"\ hat else? Oh, yeah." He raised his
head with an effort. "\Vell, when I fol-
lowed this guy Ross out on the street, I
couldn't get back in the shop becau e tho e
people in there had locked the door on
me I" he said aggrievedly. ' 0 I hap-
pened to remember that there was a
couple next door named chapp that I
ought to rub out, too! TheY\'e been doing
a lot of talking to Tess, damn 'em, trying
to break us up! God, Joe, but I loved
Te s-" Once mor~, he was in maudlin
tear at mention of hi sweetheart' name.
"Fine t woman that ever lived, Joe, be-
lieve it or not!"
" 11 right, let's hear the rest of it.
\Vhat about these chapp people?"
"\. ell, I went in their place and found
them there. I just took a shot at each
of 'em to teach 'em to mind their own
bu iness I"
"Did you hit them?"
"Don't know! Didn't wait to see. I
beat it up Alvarado Street about that time.
Then. thi copper caught up with me, and
h re I am I"
He eemed utterly incapable of realizing
the eriousness of his predicament.
"I uppose you know what you'll be up
against if tho e people die," I reminded
him grimly. 'With Mrs. Mors already
dead and e\'erything pointing to you a
her murderer--"
"I know, Joe," he replied. almost placa-
bly. "Let' don't argue now, though. I'm
drunk and sleepy and I don't want to be
b ther d. I tell you, the lights went out
for me when I aw Te lyin ther~,
dead. Gee, but he was wonderful! he
made a one-woman man out of me, Joe,
h 11(' t to God!"
Iti Tning
wa all too evident that there wa
nothin<Y to be gained by further ques-
of fcCoy in hi then irrational
c ndition, despite the fact that I wa mo t
anxiou that h should tell the exact cir·
cum tances under which There a Mor.
had come to her death.
ccordingly, I opened the door and
beckoned to Captain Cline. fter a brief
consultation in the hallway, it wa deemed
advisable to gi\'e 1IcCoy an opportunity
to leep off the effect of the liquor that
had cau ed him to embark upon this mad
or y of crime.
\\ e left Detective Bain to guard the
murder apartment and telephoned the cor-
oner to view the body of the dead woman
and have it removed to an undertaking
parlor. Captain Cline, Detecth'e toll and
T. with our pri oner. returned to Central
Station. and a few minutes later aw
McCoy safely locked in a jail cell. He
True Detective Mysteries
(Continued from page 61)
staggered over to the narrow cot a III I
threw himself heavily upon it. A moment
later, he wa noring loudly.
I returned to my duties a Captain in
charge of the Busine s Office, deeply
affected O\'er the tragic situation in which
this er twhile idol of the boxing realm had
apparently thrust himsel f.
1y per onal acquaintance with Norman
Selby, profe ionally known as Kid 1\fc-
Coy, wa of long standing.
I t was in Capetown, outh frica. in
the year 1902, that I first met this man
now under u-picion of murder. He wa'
then a handsome tripling in hi late
twenties, attached to a traveling circus.
howy po ter ad\'erti ed him a an un-
defeated boxer. ready and willing to meet
all comer! I f he failed to "knock out"
his opponent in four round, the circu
tood to 10 e twenty-five dollar to the
victoriou challenger.
/9tJf
, / '
Facsimile of the "Will" found in the death
apartment where Theresa Mors was killed,
and which was written by Norman Selby,
otherwise known as Kid McCoy
I might ay here that in Capetown, at
lea t, the circus u tained no financial
10 e throu<Yh Kid !\rcCoy!
In -ew York City about two years
later. our path had ero ed again. when
I found hiin mana in the ormandie
Hotel. H~ told me then that a European
tour had netted him s me $50,000. Thi
money, I understood, had be n rapidly dis-
sipated by the \'ictorious prizefighter. In-
toxicated by ucce s and the wealth it
brought he squandered a fortune along
'ew York' "Ga\' \\'hite \\ a\·... where
he wa a popular' favorite. t' that time
he wa known a the Beau Brummel of
boxer. Hi wardrobe was said to ha\'e
included a many a eighty uit of clothe
at one time!
nd he had embarked on the ea of
matrimony no les than e\'en time. Im-
petuous. fickle. ardent . . . women always
eemed to find him irre i tibly charminO'.
One beauty, Julia \\ oodruff, married and
di\'orced him three times!
Often-in a club or at some sporting
e\'ent-the kid had regaled me with tale
of hIS former fights.
In 1896 he held the welterweight cham-
pIOnship of the world, ha\'ing defeated
Tommy Ryan and Tommy \ est. Jack
vVilkes,. Peter Maher and Joe Choynski
had all been put to rout by the redoubt-
able Kid.
Although he did not win in a fight he
had with Tom harkey, he laid the sailor
on the canvas with his much-talked-of
"cork crew" punch.
It was in 1900 that he experienced his
first knockout-at the hand of no less
worthy an antagonist than Jim Corbett!
A .theD now, twenty-four years later, in
so-called "prime of Ii fe," when
he should have been re ting on hi hard-
earned laurels, he lay in jail. with a charge
of murder pending against him. And that
the charge would be proved, in some de-
gree. I could not doubt. Even in hi
maudlin ravings he had admitted drinking.
and qU:J.r~eling with Theresa ' . . and
then suddenly she was dead! By whose
hand but his own, unless he could prove it
otherwise.
Late on the afternoon of his- arrest, I
vi ited McCoy in his cell and found him
pacing up and down within it narrow
confine. one hand held to hi head.
"For God's ake, Joe I" he began, when
I had entered his cell, "what ha\'e I done?
\\ hat's this all about! Tell me! My
head's in a muddle. All I know i that
something terrible' happened. \ Vhere's
Te ?" His voice hook a he pronounced
the diminutive name of his sweetheart,
There a Mors.
Quietly. I informed him he wa dead.
He sat down heavily on the edge of his
cot. Face hidden in his hand, 1 heard
him mutter in a voice from which all hope
had fled: " o! It's true, then. It's not
a dream. It's true!"
"Do you want to make a statement
now'" I a ked. I could n t but pity the
man who sat before me, apparently suffer-
ing the angui h of the damned a his tor-
tured brain prodded him into a realization
of the tragedy he mu t have wrought!
"D you remember shootin tho e peo-
ple thi mornin,g?" I began again, when
he failed to an wer my fir t que tioll.
"[ remember something about it," he
admitted mi erably. "I wa drunk ' , .
crazy drunk! I wanted to find Mors I"
E\'en now, his voice took on a belligerent
note. "I wanted to kill him I He caused
all the trouble between There a and me!"
The animo ity 1cCoy thu ex pres ed
toward the man who e wife he had stolen,
could not but strike me. e\'en under tho e
tra ic circum tance. as absurdly incoll-
i tent. ot only did the seducer regard
him elf as the inj ured party, but had
ou ht to wreak vengeance upon the man
he had wronged!
"I loved Theresa!" he went on tear-
fully. "I was going to marry her ju t as
oon a we could get thing right. ide up
again. and now , . , look at me! RII ill ed /"
His \'oice ended on a broken sob.
At that moment. a jail "tru ty" ar-
rived with 'fcCoy' supper. It con-
(Continued on page 70)
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70
i ted of pork and bean and black coff e.
1 placed the porcelain plate and cup and
aucer on a mall table.
"Get up," 1 ordered hem. 'and clean
up a bit before you eat. You'll f I more
like a human being." He 1'0 e ob diently
and donned the coat, collar and tie that
his iter, 111'-. Jennie Thoma, had
brought down to him earlier in the after-
noon, while he lept.
Hi elf-re pect omewhat re tored, he
attacked the meal ravenou Iy, and had ju t
finished when a news photographer ap-
peared at hi cell door and reque ted him
to po e for a picture.
" ure I" aid ~Ic oy obli ingly. "G t
a cigar?" (A reproducti n 0f thi photo-
graph i hown at the b Hom of page 60).
" ow, Kid," I aid, when the photog-
rapher had left. "get your eI f together!
If you're guilty of ~r r. ~rors' murder.
you'll have to take your medicine. If n t,
you II come out all right. But whate\'er
happen, you've g t to act like a man I"
"Then-th e other people, ,the
chapp and that f II w Ro . . . they're
all right?" he a k d anxiou Iy.
"They're all in the ho pital, but it looks
now a if they'll recover. You're damned
lucky I"
"Thank God!' he breathed fervently. ,. I
didn't mean to hurt any of them. 1
mu t have been oil' my nut." Then. !'Ie
said with udden intere t: .. ay, d'you up-
po e I'm going 'pun'h drunk' now, after
all these years?"
"I think you were jut ploill drunk," I
retorted. "Plain, crazy drunk. But what
we're concerned with here i the death of
II'. ~10r. Go back to ye terday and
tell me what you can I' member."
"\\'e \\. nt out for an aut m bile ride to-
gether, Te and I" he began. "\Ve drO\'e
until about eight o'clock in the ev ning,
then returned to the apartment. \\'e had
something to drink. and I mu t ha\'e gone
goofy. The next thing I knew, There a
was lying on the flo 1', dead I he--"
,. 'ow, Ii ten. elby." I interrupted tern-
ly. "~[r. ?-lor died from a gun hot
wound in the head. You ay you w re
alone with her. }'Oll mu t ha\'e fired that
hot. ow, tell the truth."
" o! I know I didn't kill her, Joe
. . . but I can't think how it happ ned.
\Vhen I aw her th re like that, all the
light went out for me. 1 c \'ered her up
with a blanket and went out to find _ 1-
bert 110r! He cau ed it all! I'm orry
I didn't find him."
"You want t get that idea out of your
head," I aid e\-erely. "It' a lucky thing
for you that you didn't find him. I'll lea\'e
you now for awhile. and y u'd b lter get
this thing trai ht in your mind and then
tell the truth. I'll be back later."
"I don't care what happen to me." he
an wered de pairin ly. "I 10\'ed Te ,and
now that he' g ne, there' nothin left
for me to live for!"
"\\ ell, think it o\'er," I coun eled, and
left him to hi bitter reflection.
L , TER that ame night. Detecti\'e
tective Jarvi and Craig-two veteran of T to draw from Mc oy any direct tate-
toll and Bain. accompanied by De- HI. prolonged grilling having failed
the Department who had been thoroughly
schooled in the art of obtainin confe-
ion from u pected murderer -brou ht
Kid 'McCov down from hi cell t the
office of Chief of Detecti\'e Geor e K
T1'ue Detective Mysteries
(Continued from page 68)
Home and th re ubj cted him t a fi\'e-
hour grilling-a bombardment that he uc-
ce fully with tood.
Que tion after que tion was shot at him
by all fi\'e officer.
That the reader may know something of
the o-called "third degree" u ed in uch
ca e, I quote a few excerpts from Kid
rc oy' official tatement:
Q. You killed her, didn't you?
. 0,
Q, \\'ho did?
A. I d n't know, I told you I wa
drunk.
Q. Wily did you kill her?
A. 1 said 1 didn't kill her. 1 10\'ed h r.
\Vhy hould 1 want to harm h r?
Q. \\'ho el e could ha\'e done it?
A. 1 don't know. 11 I' thr atened
her--.
Q. \\'a he there in the apartm nt with
you?
1 don't remember.
Q. Did y u, during any of your fight,
e\'er aet a hard blow on the head?
(Raucou laughter from McCoy.)
Did I? ay, I boxed fellow like
Joe Choyn-ki, Jim Corbett, Tommy Ryan
and a hundred others who were hard
hitter'. nd 1 parred many time with
Bob Fitz imm ns, ma tel' of hitting. I've
had plenty of hard one on the head. ay,
did you e\'er ee me fi ht? 1 wa out here
in 190-1, to fight Jack "Twin" ullivan, the
Theresa Mol'S, from a photograph taken
shortly before she was slain
Boston Ii ht-heavyweight, in Hazard's
Pa\'ili n. Twenty round.
Q. \\'hy won't you tell us about how
~rr . ~ror died?
. Li ten. 1 think he killed her el f.
1 took a butcher-kni fe away fI' m her and
he tried to et hold of my un. That'
probabh' it . . he killed her elf.
Q. AI' you willing to we~r to that?
To prO\'e it?
A. 1 wa drunk, but I know that's what
mu t ha\'e happened,
ment reaardin the laying of Mr . ~10r.,
a more in£..ormal method wa tried,
aptain E. Raymond Cato and Chief
of Detecti\'e George K. Home took ~rc­
oy to a little pani h restaurant, urged
him to order freely, ane then encouraged
him to talk.
He ate much, talked much, but aid
little that wa t the point, except, be-
tween copious helping of 11exican alad,
cold roast lamb and baked potatoe, to
repeat his previous story-and enlarge
upon the uicide explanation of hi weet-
heart' death 1
"There a wa very down-hearted," he
said. "I wa try:ng to cheer her up. t
la t, he aid he couldn't tand it any
longer ' , , that she wa going to end it
all. he took a re\'olver out of a drawer
and I grabb d it and laid it on a table.
Then, he went to the kitchen and got a
butch r-kni fe and tri d fo stab h I' el f.
I can how you her apron, with cut in it
that he made !-( ee photo on pa e 59.)
"WHE 1 finally got the knife away
f rom her, he reached over to th
table, got the revolv I' and hot her el f
through the head be fore 1 could top her!
he di d with my arm around her. , .
trying to peak to m, 1 put my picture
in her hand and placed a blanket over her.
Th n, 1 got another one of my revolver
and tarted out to find Ibert 'Mol' , the
man who cau ed all the trouble. I'd have
hot him down if I'd found him I"
11cCoy pau-ed to sugar a cup of coffee
rather reckle Iy.
"I wandered around all niaht in
There a' automobile," he then continued.
"I wa g ing to marry her. 1 wa going
to kill my elf, but I forgot. Then I went
to leep in her automobile, parked ome-
where around We tlake Park. Early this
mornin 1 woke up and drove around a
little. Then 1 went to the Antique hop
becau e 1 thought [or would be there.
\\"hen 1 got into the place, they tarted
to pick on me and you know what hap-
pened." He reached for another helping
of potatoe. "Let me take Theresa' pic-
ture into my cell. I'm fi fty-one year old
and expect to li\'e for a long time, but I
don't think I'll ever find anyone lik
Theresa I"
11 anwhile, oon after their arrival at
the Receiving Hospital, tatement were
taken from ~Ir. and ~1r, am chapp
and \ illiam G. Ro , all of whom had
erved a target for bullets fired by the
liquor-madden d man. To the chapp,
he wa "fl'. 'orman elby." They knew
him slightly a a frequent caller at th>
ntique hop owned and operated by ~Ir.
and ~[r . Mol'S.
111', chapp, from her hospital bed, de-
clared that the hooting of her el f and her
hu band by elby wa the olltgrowth of a
"grudge" he held against them,
"1 knew 11rs. ~Ior in ew York," h~
said. "he and 1 were the be t oi
friend, \Vhen 1 learned of her infatua-
tion for thi man clby. or Kid ~fc oy, as
they call him, 1 be ged her to give him
up! he mu t have told him what I aid,
becau e one night n t long afterward, 1
met him on the treet and he in ulted me 1
Later, he apologized, and I uppo ed the
incident wa forgotten. Then, thi morn-
ing, he came into our clothing store next
door to the 101" hop, and a ked for my
hu band. Ju t a I pointed to where he
at, talking with another man, elby drew
hi gun and fi red at me • . . then at ~ fr.
chapp I He'd never met my hu band
(Continued 011 page 72)
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before. II he aid wa , ' h! a y u're
am chapp !'-beiore he fired at him~"
Wil1iam G. Ro , next il1len'iewed,
tated he had called at the art e tabli 'h-
ment at ab ut ten o'clock that morning.
The door, which had been I ked, wa'
opened for him by Kid ),[c oy, with whom
Ro s had a ca ual peaking acquaintance.
"I knew a a n a I got a g od I uk
at him that omething wa wrong," Ro"
said. "He had a wild light in hi eye . . .
not exactly a drunken look .. , crazy
would de cribe it better. He locked the
door behind me and a ked if I had any
money. I aid. 'How much d y u want;'
He didn't an wer. but h wed me a gun
in a hal ter strapped 'round hi wai t.
Then he proceeded to go thr u h l11y
pocket and relie"e me f my m ney and
watch. I a ked him what the idea was.
and he hit me on the jaw, twice! I at
d wn. He hasn't forgotten how to punc'"
yet '" Ro laughed rueful1y.
"Then, he told me to take off my trou-
er. By that time my eye had become
accu tamed to the light, and I aw ome
m re people ittin on chair in the rear
f the hop. There were tw men itting'
on one ide of the ro m, and two 111 r\'.
with a lady, on the ther ide.),[ 0 t of the
men had their trou er- off. I t k mine ofT
and at down.
"The stenographer, )'[i France Pear!-
teen, wa at her de k al1 thi time," our
informant continued. "Even' f w minute,.
the Kid would tell her t . call ),[or up
and get him to come down to the ho!'.
The girl c uldn't reach him, howe\'\~r,
luckily for ),[ r.!
"Then me tran er arrived. )'fcCoy
met 'em at the d r. let them in and heir!
them up. one at a time. He g t a diamond
ring from a man named I.e n pinak. and
O\'er a hundred dollar in currency.
Y' hould have .een him! He put the rin~
!1 hi own finger, I ked at it admirin Iy,
and grinned at the man he t k it from.
ne fellow didn't ha"e any money, so the
Kid gave hini a dol1ar r'
"Did you m 11 liquor on hi br ath?"
Ro.. wa a ked.
" '0. A I aid be fore, he acted more
crazy than drunk. nd final1y, when he
pened the d r for a minute to let ollle
air in-it was darned hot in there-I made
a break for the treet! Thought I could
beat a bullet tf) the d or. but I ue eel
wrong. He caught me on the hip! I ran
into a tore a few door away and tal
, m to cal1 the police and an ambulance.
That' the ton',"
tatement ~orrob rating that of ),[r.
Ro were then taken fr m ),[ r. and ),[ r·.
Paul \ auchelet. who had al 0 been in the
11 rs e tabli hment at the time ),fc oy
taged hi emational holcl-up.
ured by ho pital authoritie. that the
three per on injured by ),[cCoy had uf-
f red only fie h wound. from which th y
would peedily reco,·er. we re umed our
il1\'e tigation of the killin of)'[ roO ),[or,.
A LBERT ),[ R.
pre ented him eli
who "oluntarih'
at the Detecti"e
Bureau for que tioning, pre ented a
pathetic figure.
And any u picion that )'for might ha"e
slain hi ex-wi fe wa - di pelled at the end
of the rigid gril1ing to which he wa ub-
jected.
He was torn with grief o"er hi di-
True Detective Myste1'ies
(ColltilllCed from page iO)
This is a reproduction of the picture of Kid
McCoy found elapsed in Theresa Mors'
hands at the time detectives discovered her
dead body
Kid McCoy, after his arrest. Note the
great change in hi appearance, as contrasted
with the other picture of him on this page
-a change that the passage of time alone
did not bring
"orced wi fe' tragic death. and repeatedly
expre "ed the hope that the lay r would
pay for her Ii fe with hi own.
It appea red that the Mor e were married
in Xew Y rk in 191-. It had b en a case
of a man of wealth fal1ing madly in love
with hi' beauti ful ten grapher.
,,[ (Ya\'e There a everything a woman
could a k for," he declared pa ionately.
'·LO\·e. a beautiful home, clothe, jewel
... and ,he threw it all away f r ... I
can't cal1 him a man! ,n ex-prize-
fighter--" \\.ord could not expres
th corn in )'[or' heat d tone. .. he
did wron . yes . . . but slrl"s paid! Xow-
mak I/i/ll pay!"
"Had you ever had any trouble with
)'IcC y. per onally?" I a ked lars.
"Trouble! I\'e told him a thou and
time what a contemptible cad he i! nly
a few week ago he came to our home
in Hol1ywood and butted into a family
quarrel between There a and me that
(Oded with the nei hbor calling the polic .
nd when they got th re, ),fc oy tried to
throw the cop out! You can look up
your record and ati fy your eh'e a t
the truth of what I'm tel1ing you r'
"\\'hat time did you arri"e at your
place of bu ine today?"
" b ut a half hour a fter all that ho t-
ing. My car broke down and I had to
lea"e it in a ara e. If that hadn't hap-
p ned, I'd have been there by ten o'clock,
and n doubt he'd ha\'e kil1ed me. I c n-
ider it an act of God that my car broke
down !"
FRO),[].
geant at
. Page, cting
Hollywood Police
er-
tation,
we received information concernin )'Ic-
Coy' activitie on the night of )'Ir . )'Ior .
murder that placed him in a till more un-
fa"orable light.
"He came reeling into the tation about
tw o'clock in the morning and aid he
wanted to ee fficer Pui e ur," Page
declared. "I told him Pui egur wa off
duty, and ugg ted that he come back in
the a fternoon. He wa a drunk that J
wa afraid to let him dri,'e him el£ home.
o I ent Officer riffin with him. Jut
bC£ore they Ie ft, )'Ic y turned t me anti
.aid: 'Tell that guy Pui egur that when
he read the mornin paper he'll know
how lucky he wa I didn't find him here
tonight !'
"I th ught he wa talking through hi
hat. being drunk and e,·errthing. but now
I ue he meant what h aid. Pui egur
i the officer who an wered a call to ~[r.
and ),[r. ),Ior' home in Hollywood on~
ni ht a few week ago when they wer~
taging a family row. ~[cCoy wa there
at the time and ord red Pui egur to get
to hell out, I'm told,"
"/1'/11'1/ he rl'ads Ihl' 1/I0millg papers!"
McCoy had aid. The ill-timed remark
now a umed a mo t ini ter ignificance.
for it had been made by ),IcCoy approxi-
mately two hour afler the hot wa fired
that nuffed out There a ~[ r ' Ii fe!
),[r . Jennie Thoma, iter of Kid ),[c-
C y, wa reClue ted t ive an acc unt of
her brother' \·i it t her home durin the
early morning hour of ugu t 13th,
Yi ibly haken. and obbing at time '.
. he related the tory,
"He rang ur bell at three o'clock in
the morning," he aid. "He wa drinking,
and 10 ked terrible. He aid to me, ' i .
h re' my watch and money, You keep
them. om thing terrible' happen d to
There a, and now I,<'e nothin to live for.
I'm going to end it all!' Uy hu band and
I made every effort t keep him with us.
but he in i ted on leaving. He only tayed
a few minute. I don't know where he
went."
)'[i ~Iary ),[organ. a maid in the ),[or
home at 6835 Iri ircle. Hollywood. in-
formed u that ome time durin the pre-
.iou ni ht- he wa unable to tate the
h ur-a man wh m he had ne"er een
bef re called and a ked to ee )'Ir. Ibert
),[or .
"\\'hen I told him that ),[ r. ),[or wa n't
home, he in i ted that I locate him and
tell lrim that ),Ir, Mar wanted to ee
him at once. I finally convinced him that
Mr. ),[or wa not in the hou e. and he
left. He looked like he wa out of hi-
head . . . with hi hair and clothes all

mu ed up, and without a hat or coat 1"
Charge of u picion of ~[urder,
au It with Intent to Kill (three count )
and Robbery were formally lodged again t
the defendant, Norman elby, and he was
ordered held without .bail.
I Tshowed
was then that 1lcCoy's former friends
the loyal regard in which they
still held him. 1len famou in the realm
of sport all over the country rallied to
the support of the one-time champion pu-
gili t. Fund poured in by letter and
telegram-more than .enough to adequately
defend the accu ed man.
On December th, 1924, in Department
7 of the uperior Court of the tate of
California, with Judge Charle . Crail
pre iding, Korman elby' battle for Ii fe
and freedom began.
A brilliant array of legal talent was as-
sembled in court for the opening of the
trial. Thi included Attorneys E. L. Davin
and R. D. Knickerbocker, repre enting the
Defen e, with Deputie Charle Fricke
(now uperior Court Judge) and Charles
o trom of the Di triet ttorney's office
a signed as pro ecutors.
Before the ca e was concluded, elby
augmented hi defen e forces till further
by engaging the ervice of several more
of Lo ngele' mo t prominent bar-
ri ter .
It wa a battle bitterly fought, in which
cppo ing coun el exhau ted every known
re ource. . . . the one to acquit, the other
to convict the defendant.
T HEelbyProperpetrated
ecution sought to prove that
the murder with
malice afor th ught, and advanced as a
motive the fact that the decea ed had ex-
pre ed her intention of evering relations
with him, according to te timony given by
State's witne e.
The Defen e, on the other hand, declared
that Ibert lor had been heard to threat-
en his wife's Ii ie, and mi ht have carried
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theory was then advanced that lr. lor
had shot her el f, or that during a scuffle
between elby and her elf, the gun was
accidentally di charged.
On December 29th, 1924, the defendant,
Selby, wa found Guilty of ~[an lau hter,
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Guilty of ault with a Deadly Weapon-
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Sentence was pronounced by Judge Crail
Il January 8th, 1925. And whell motioll5
for a new trial were denied, 'orman elby
departed fran Quentin.
nce in ide the prison, he quickly
adapted him el f to c nditi n , and became
what i known a "a model pri oner."
On NO\'cmber 21 t, 1926, the tate
Bard of Pri on Directors fixed elby's
. entence at twenty year.
La t report from an Quentin indicate
that Kid ).IcCoy, once popular boxer, is
earning the re pect of \ arden J. B. Holo-
han and hi guard, in his new capacity
a "Fire Chief." The title \Va conferred
upon him on January 31 t. 1928, after a
fire within the pri on walls had been
quenched by arduous effort, and at \ hich
time ).IcCoy acquitted him elf mo t brave-
How I Trapped the Bellmore Bank Bandits
Without appearing to be pariicularly
e ger to know, I learned the location f
way he ga\'e me a prize I t to work on.
\\ hat he had told me, tied Pres es up to
this barber' alon and made my way there
at nce.
H IRC T being more conducive to
A c Il\'er ation than a have, I eated
myself in a chair and gave that order.
In the natural cour e of barber 'hop
c nver ation, we met up with the subject
of the Bellmore murder, and I brou«ht out
the que tion: HHow did Pre ses come out
with the in urance pe pIe?"
For a econd or two there was silence,
broken only by the snip- nip of the bar-
ber's ci sors.
"Are you an adjuster for the in urance
company?" he a ked.
\ ithout an wering yes or no, I let the
idea work in through his brain that I was
and veered away momentarily from the
subject. I knew he would return to it of
his own accord.
"Isn't the in urance paid yet?" he
a ked, slyly.
"I don't think so, but I don't know why
they shouldn't pay it righf away," I said
off-handedly. "The car was stolen. That's
a sure thing."
"Well, he's a lucky fellow," the barber
said with a chuckle. "Just a day or two
before it wa stolen the fir t time he was
complainin' about his money troubles
(slIip ... sllip) and the upkeep of the car.
Somebody uggested that he 'lose it' and
collect the in urance. Well, L gue s
Presses wouldn't have done a thing like
that but he didn't appear at all down-
hearted when it disappeared. Then gosh,
if the fellows didn't bring it back (sllip
•.. sllip) and leave it right out ide the
garage!"
Lie number two I Presses had told our
operative that he had never had a car
stolen before.
"I suppose somebody just took it joy-
riding the first time," I offered.
"Well, Presses would have been ju t as
glad if they hadn't brought it back," (slIip,
slIip). "Regular white elephant. I guess
when he paid the first instalment he never
thought of the extras he would have to
pay for repairs and so on."
By the time my hair was clipped, I was
all posted by the garrulous barber, who
would have cut his tongue out rather than
have informed against a customer. Any-
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ly and creditably in e\'ery po ible way.
As 1 picture the Fire Chief in the
little tucco engine hou e, ju t in ide an
Quentin' ma si\'e walls which hut out all
that made life so joyou -the gla that
cheered, the face of fair women, all the
luxuries that wealth could command_I
w nder if Kid )'IcC y, too, ometime re-
call the word on the black enameled box
fund in the room where his illicit sweet-
heart lay dead:
Tile Sills Tllat Ye Do T~ 0 By Two.
Ye .l/llsi Pay For Olle By Olle.
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ole: Tile foll~ 'illg lIews ilem may be
of illieresl 10 our readrrs ill cOlllleclioll wilh
Ille foregoillg slory. It appro red ill Ille
l1arch ]4111, 1930, issue of The Los An-
gtle Illu trated Daily ews.
(Continued from page 64)
HEa h.n.tarted"toI . .hi. Yfeet,u
a lot of lies. He had tuck like a burr
to his original tory-it wa n w time for
the 100 ening process. \ e had nothing
definite again t him, 0 far as the Bell-
more ca e was c ncerned, and for that
reason I wa obliged to handle him with
ilk glo\'es at the beginning of our inter-
view.
Pre se himself opened the d'Xlr when
I rang his bell. \ hen he saw me, there
\\'a a quick flash of anger and annoyance
in his eye.
Evidently he guessed that he was in for
another se ion of questioning, for he led
the way directly to the living-room where
we both sat down on the lounge.
'I don't see why they don't pay the
insurance," he opened up the com'er ation.
There was a worried look in his eyes,
and while he talked he glanced nervously
about the room. But you can't tell just by
looking at a man whether he is guilty or
innocent without taking into consideration
his state of health, temperament, state of
nerves, financial troubles and many other
factors. Presses might have impre sed the
casual observer as expressing every evi-
dence of guilt, but he was the rangy,
high-strung type that gets "edgy" very
ea ily.
So I spoke soothingly to him as I ex-
plained: "I've come for a final check-up.
Then, if everything is all right, as I ex-
pect it is, you'll get your money in a day
or two. ow I under tand that your car
was standing outside your house when it
was stolen. That right?"
"Yes." he said impatiently.
" nd you were upstairs here at the
time?"
'"Ye ."
"That wa the first time you ever had a
car tolen?"
((Yes."
"You never had a car stolen before?"
"No, I told you ," he said gruffly.
I looked at him for a few moments. He
began to squirm uncomfortably. Until he
furtively forced his eyes to meet mine, I
remained silent.
"Jll/iIlS, ~'Oll are Iyillg," I said quietly.
The words had the effect of a stunning
blow. He looked at me blankly. Per-
spiration oozed out on his forehead and
upper lip.
KID McCOY TOO
PEPPY IN PRISON,
NEARLY GETS SHOT
AX Q 'EXTJ" TATE PRJ ON, )larch
13.-(lJ.P.)-Kid )Ic oy mu I have been dr m·
ing aboul his r d work a one of lhe. world's
rna I prominent fighler year ago wh n he raced
lhe prison fire lruck oul idc lhe gales of Ihis
penit ntiary tooay.
)Ic oy has been cbief of lhe San Quentin fire
department for me time and it was revealed
tonight lhat hi n w work alma t made him an
attraction for hullel of guards riRes.
:'ole oy was warming up the engine of the fire
truck. He ran it in circles around the prison
)'ard and apparently tarted dreaming, because he
shot il through the main gate al 30 miles an
hour. \ atchers in the towers st:lred in an13ze·
ment and 1>ec.-1.me active. A guard on the road,
however, waved :\lc oy back ~£ore the use of
bullets to warn him was necessary.
The "chief" received a long term for the mur·
der of Th resa )lors.
his face went
.." he didn't
s em to be able to articulate. \Vith a
h peles ge ture he began to walk up and
down the ro m. ,.\ ho are you, anyway i"
he demanded at la t.
"I repre ent the Di trict Attorney's
Office of a sau County," I told him very
quietly. ")'1y name i De ).Iartini, and I
am ill\'e tigating the murder of 1Ir. Whit-
man, There are everal things I don't
know about the c nnection of your car
with the murder-but one thing I do know,
and that is that you are lying to me about
the circum tance urrounding its theft."
Then I tarted h otin hot hot at him.
"You aid you were in your apartment
here when your car wa stolen. I Imow
~'on '1 'ere /101. You said your car wa
tanding out ide this house when it was
stolen. I k/low il '1 'as /101. You said your
car had never been stolen before. 1 k/low
il 'Z('as. u
If the floor had fallen from beneath
Pre es' feet he could not have looked
more dismayed. His whole face by this
time was bathed ill clammy perspiration.
But he remained obstinately mute. I
could under tand his feelings if he were
innocent of any hand in the murder, but
was suffering the utter humiliation of be-
ing caught as a liar. 0 I helped him a
bit, giving him a loophole of escape from
the me hes of the lie he had woven.
"My information from reliable sources
does not jibe with what you tell me.
There is something you don't want to tell.
I've let you lie your head off with a
purpo e, Juliu. That purpose was to find
ut if po sible ju t why you were lying.
Your licen e plates were found on the
murder car which you claim wa tolen
four days before the murder. Is il possibie
tllat "011 are rO/lcerned '1 'ilh Ilze mllrder,"
Pres e at this point sank down on the
lounge in a state bordering on collapse.
"Or," I went on, noting how intently he
Ii tened. "i there something crooked about
the theft of this car? Here is how you
stand-if it's an insurance ca e-that's one
thing-this murder is another and a much
more desperately erious matter. Tell me
the truth, Presse. \Va the car stolen
with your connivance in order to collect
the insurance?"
He staggered to hi feet and stepped in
front of me, hand clenched. "Don't tell

my mother if I tell the truth about it,"
he almo t whi pered.
the man wa. in no condition to real-
ize the impo ibility of making any uch
promi e, I let him go on with hi
without an we ring.
tory
"Thi ," he aid. 'i what happened.
wa n't doing \'ery well. I got behind in
my payment and there wa Quite a bill
for repair. Onc day I got talking about
it in the barber hop .. :' [I had made
no mention of the ource of my informa-
tion in ca e he would keep on ticking to
hi original tory and then go and ee the
barber and perhap per uade him to recant.
Here, however, he wa taking me right
into the hop it elf, and \'eri fying my
tory 1 "the ubject of the car came up,
I mean, and my fiancial difficultie, and
omebody ug e ted 0 long a it wa in-
ured why didn't I get omcbody to get
rid of it for me. That a\'e me the idea.
I aw thi fellow later. He aid he would
get in touch with me men who wc.uld
take it off my hand. He aid, 'I'll intr -
duce you to omebody that d es that.' The
fir t time they took it they couldn't <Yet a
buyer. The econd time, I was in the
barber hop and omebody beckoned
out ide and aid. 'I ha\'e a cu tomer
it now.' I let him take it."
a voice of calm de peration. h went
I into all the detail which I have um-
marized here.
"\\'hat wa the name of thi fclkw?"
I a ked him.
"Ju t kn w him a 'lim.' I met him
in Bud' poolroom on the corllcr of .6Oth
treet and \\'e tche ter venue. I ne\'er
got a cent from him. That' all I know,
honc t."
"\ ell," I explained to him, "you can
ee for your elf n w, can't you, that it
is to your ad\'antage to help u. Y ur
lie have landed you in a heap of trouble.
ow I want you to get in touch with thi
fellow . lim. Find out hi la. t name and
where he li\'e- and get in touch with my
office at once. Thi i ab ut the mo t im-
portant job you've C\'er been given in your
life:'
That inten'icw took place
aftern nand \·ening. Pre e eemed t
be telling the truth, but we were taking
no chance and kcpt him undcr twenty-
fcur-hour un·eillance.
aturday ni ht. Prc e
lim' full nam and ga\'e u
an apartment hou c on Ea t
I wa in con ultation with
Attorney in )'[incola when the me age
came and an operati\'e from our office
wa immediately di patched to find out a
much a po ible about. lim and hi
family.
O peaceunday morninD' Captain Jonc., a
officer from Na au ounty, and
I drove up to the addr \ hen our car
topped a couple f d or we t of the
entrance, the hadow man tepped up and
informed u that tim had gottcn home
around midnight and had not left the
hau e. He lived with hi wi fc and baby
on the econd floor.
"~[ade any inquirie around about him?"
aptain Jone a ked.
"Yeah. He' aid to be a hard-workin<Y
young chap and only drop into poolroom
once in a while," our perative in-
formed u
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"Probably got into bad company and
fell f r a chance to make some easy
money," the Captain remarked, a he gave
the urveillance man perm is ion to go off
duty for the re t of the day, and we
mounted the flight of stair that led to
lim's door.
Our ring wa an wered by a prelly girl
in her late teen. In spite of the early
lour her blond hair wa neatly gro med,
and her ilk frock and patent leather
pump ugge ted that she wa all ure ed
up ready to go out.
'" e want to ee Slim," I told her.
An ex pre i n of urprise flitted across
her face a he held the door open for us
to enter. \'ery young baby, al 0 with
its .. unday be t" on, was lying on a pil-
low on the table in what appeared to be
the dining-room of the apartment.
Before she called out hi name, a tall,
\' ry lim, rather dandified chap came Ollt
f a bedroom fixing his tie into a four-
in-hand.
He eyed the three f us for only a
second r two before he spat out:
.., hat you want?"
•. e're from the District Attorney's
ffice and we want to talk to you about
Pre es' car." I t Id him.
"Dunno anything about any Presse ,"
he snarled.
The baby. awakened by the an~ry tone
f hi \. ice, tarted to cry and it m ther
picked it up while she looked at us in
horrified amazement.
", e know that you know Pres e ," the
aptain aid in his quiet, smooth tones.
"I don't ee why I hould take your
word any more than you take mine," he
hlu teredo "You can say you are anybody.
I ne\'er jipped anybody's car. I don't
knO\ who y u are, but I don't believe you
are from the District Attorney's office."
"\\ ell, you won't have any objection to
driving with u over to the 161st treet
station hou e and having the Captain in-
troduce us," I said.
But he did object strenuou Iy. Didn't
have time to go on any fool g ose chase,
he said. His wife's mother was expecting
them to spend the day with her in the
suburbs and they would miss their train
and what-not.
I LLY, however, he consented to
F come. ccompanied by one of us. he
went into the kitchen where his wife had
retired with the baby and told her he was
going out, ee, and there was nothin' to
look 0 cared about, see? He'd be back
in no time.
ext he balked at the assau County
car. ~faybe he 'I 'as afraid that he was
going to be "taken for a ride," for he
insi ted on being taken in a taxicab.
Captain Bruckman, who was in the
tation hou e when we arrived. identified
us. but that didn't open the boy's lips.
He was as stubborn a a mule. One of
those "cock- ure young guys" who know it
all. ' e were, according to his voiced
opinion, trying to frame him and he would
ee us all in a hot place first.
"If you won't take our advice and tell
the truth," I said to him, "let us enet for
your father and hear .what he tells you
to do."
ulkily he gave us his father:s address
and an officer was dispatched to brin~ the
old gentleman to the station house. There
was some delay caused by his absence and
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take his on' view of the matter.
As a la t re ort, we sent for Pres es,
who came at once.
"Have you ever een this young man
before?" I a ked him.
"Yes, he' the man who suggested that
I have omebody take my car 0 that I
could collect the in urance," Pres es aid
emphatically.
fter we had gone over every cene
carefully that connected lim with the
nefariou tran action, threatening to end
for the barber who heard the conver at ion,
lim broke when hi father begged him
to tell the truth.
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the jack. I knows a couple of guys that
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Pre ses lets 'em take the car. That's all
I know."
"'Vhat's the names of those fellows?"
the Captain asked.
"I dunno," he said sullenly. "All I've
heard 'em called by is Jake an' Fosco.
I've met 'em in Bud's poolroom."
T byHATonenight Jones and I, accompanied
of Captain Bruckman's men,
drove Slim over to the vicinity of the
poolroom, parking our car on the oppo ite
side of the street and moving it around
once in a while to avoid su picion.
It was nearing eleven-thirty when a
young man of twenty-two or twenty-three
emerged. Slim pointed him out as the
man he knew under the name of Jake,
He was a nattily dressed chap, his c1o~hes
the last word in style, his fedora hat
poised at a rakish angle, his shoes shined
to an enamelled gloss. He walked jaunt-
ily up the street.
Leaving Bruckman's men in the car
with Slim, Jones and I trailed this ele-
gant figure for orne distance in ca e any
of the other fellows in the poolroom
might see u .
In the middle of a de erted block, with
only the foot tep of u three breaking
the midnight ilence, the Captain and I
went O\'er 0 that we reached the ide-
walk a few fe t ahead of Jake, wheeled
about and confronted him.
"'Ve want you," I said, putting my
hand n hi houlder, "for picking a
woman's pocket thi evening. Your name's
Ike Kewmann and . . ."
" s s -ay yyyyyyu're a\ awawawlwet,"
he narled. "~Immmmmmyyyy nnnnname
aaaaaaain't Ike ewwwwwwwman. Its
Jake Cohen, ananananand, I nenenencver
pipipipipicked a wowowoman's pocket-in-
my-life."
"v, ell, tell that to the Lieutenant," I
aid, leading him along toward the station
house. "I f you haven't done anything you'll
be all right."
He went along willingly enough, confi-
dent of hi . guiltle nes of pocket-picking
and entirely uncon cious of course that he
had fallen into a trap and given us his
real name.
S LIM and the officers had arrived by
the time we reached the station hou e.
J ones and 1. with Cohen in tow, joined
them in the detective' room.
"I nnnnneve\'ever pipipipicked anybody's
pocket," he indignantly protested to the
Lieutenant.
"I belie\'e you" I said. "You go in for
bigger game-y u are an automobile thief,
and we want you for stealing Pre es'
car."
Our pri oner' face turned a tallowy
white, and the tell-tale perspiration steamed
out.
To detail Cohen's examination would
take page. He was one of the worst
stutterers I have ever met. This affliction
didn't appear to discommode him in
any way. He took all the time in the
world to get his answers straight. Dawn
was beginning to break before he was
convinced that he was in a bad, bad hole
and had better climb out without wasting
time in any monkey business.
Shriven of all tremulousness, his state-
ment was omewhat like thi : HI was there
when the car was stolen, but Fosco
brought me into this. Fosco stole the car,
if you call it tealing when Fo co took
tlie car on the agreement of Pre e so
he could collect the in urance. 0, you
couldn't say he stole the car from Pres es;
he took it a a favor to Pres e ."
o after ix hours' work. we found the
buck pas ed again.
"And who i Fosco?"
This que tion also took a very lengthy
answer. Jake wore that he didn't know
Fo co' real name. Fosco was simply a
nickname. He thought of everal ad-
dresses where Fo co might be found be-
fore he mentioned the fact that his partner
in the purloining of Presses' car worked
for a certain garage.
The owner of this garage, according to
the local police, had a splendid reputation.
vVe would, they a sured us, be perfectly
safe in identifying ourselves to its manager
and explaining our mission.
Fosco, it developed, was the nickname
of a taxi driver called Ralph Herman.
We would probably find him, we were
 TTue Detective MysteTies 77
told. dri"ing around looking for a fare
a it was pretty early in the day for
pa enger.
Taking the number of the cab. we roved
around for a while and finally picked him
up not far from the po I room.
Jones and I then left our car and
hailed him.
"Drive u to 160th Street and Third
venue,' the Captain told him as we
tepped into hi cab. n our arrival there,
he wa directed to drive u to the 161 t
treet tation hue. He writes:
Taxi driver are accu tomed to taking ''This Prn;e Money wilJ
all orts of quaint order with a poker help us to own our own
face. 0 Fosco. with professional taci- home."
turnity, obeyed directi n . G. F. Wieting
,. 'inety-fi\'e cent ," he aid, as the meter
gave a la t co1l\'u! i\'e hudder and added

1t\1J4~ESOTA wo~
the u ual e.'tra nickel.
...ow come on in with u and make no
fu ," I ad\'i ed him. "There' another
driver from your arage right behind u
in our car. He'lI take care of your cab."
Fo co wa a tocky fellow. well et up.
with rather hard feature and an unfath-
omable expre ion, One glance he ga\'e
$2500°0
She writes:
up and down the block, then whirled hi "Winning this large sum means
meter back·to Xo Dollars. Xo erll/s. a great deal to me. I cannot
"\\ hat's the game?" he muttered, duink,ou enough."
lip twisted into :11l ugly . cowl. Leola L Markus
"You 11 learn that in a minute or two,"
I promi ed. "Comin ?"
\Vithout any re i tance he entered the
Police tation, glanced toward' the de k
and hrugged indifferently as I took hi
arm and 1 d him into aptain Bruckman"
pri vate office.
Though each indh'idual is handled dif-
ferently in an examination of this ort, I
will pa over our e i n with Fo co. To eJllarge our business we have awarded You don't have to buy anything now, later
thousands of dollars to persons all over or ever. Mailing coupon will qualify you
'I ain't d ne nothin·... he poke delib- the country. Each year we spend over for the opportunity to share in our latest
erately when he finally decided that it $150.000.00. Another plan is on now. An !>ittprize distribution - first grand I?rize
11.000.000.00 bank holds the prize fund ~.OO and 149 other J)rizes. Duplicate
\Va be t to gi\'e u hi ide of the tory. -a million dollar institution-36 years old, prizes in case of ties. Lucky winner has
"This man Pre e want to get rid of hi backs this offer. Mail coupon-see how choice of new 1930 four-doorsedanor cash
you. too, regardless
education now have of
theyour age,oppor-
same sex or - -in
- massive
• • • _ •big
• •prize list. _
car. I know a man. Benny. who' in the
market for a Ford and I take it t him, tunity as Leola Markus or C. F. Wieting B. A. BLACK, Room 4113
to win a big cash prize. 500 North _ m 5 _ , Chlco.o, III.
There y'are. I dunno what he d ne Without aDY coet or obUpUon Oft my part~ lb. eotIPOD qualln..
with it." Remember - Leola Markoa WON - C. F. tIM tor th.~P rtunltl' to WIN I203li.OO or ot the oth r pri..-
tn "our b .00 PriM Dt.LrlbutJoo Flail - HURRYI-I'm
Wleting_ WON - and bandreds of otben - aruicMw to iN I
,.\ hat is Benny' full name and Joaepb Banslfek. only 15 yean old. won 1900.00.
t.ewtl J. Link, 75 years old, won a new N••h
addre s?'
~Ji7i to ~Ui =~II·pt;::o~:11':ln; ~
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He hook his head placidly. "I dUll no.
)I ou can u ually find him in a re taurant
~bleaao are oot eligible. nor tormer maior
prize Winnera. An..... TODAY.
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treet in the m rning. SOO No. Dearborn Street CHICAGO

"If we dri\'e you there will you point
him out to u'?' the Captain a ked.
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" ure." he ea ed the an \Ver out of the
corner of his mouth. $1700.t:3300Year ~ .
.
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OW both Captain Jone and I were RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS "'!l-_.'W'

pretty well known in that neighbor- MAIL CARRIERS •~-----------------

FRANKLIN I STiTUTE.
hood. a at one time J ne wa In pector (CIty and Ru.
;! Dept. J·196, Rocbester, N. Y.
of that di trict and I wa one of hi men, WORK FOR "UNCLE SAM'~ ~ P3i~::~k hcor:;fai~;~~OYi~t~~rt~ 1.) g~~;ITm~~·
ur pre ence would immediately tart Many Other Goverment Jobs 8:;) po uion oven to men and women;
full particulars telling how to aet a
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hion.
go ip and above all thing we wanted to MEN-WOMEN 17 UP SHOV~~:':'~\~~~PON ; 9 ame .
keep our acti"itie ecret from the mob Steady Work. No LaYoffs. Paid Vacations. f Addre s
that had held up the bank.
\\'e were gettin nearer and nearer to
the bandit a we linked backward from
Pre es to lim. from lim to Cohen, fr m
S{MONTH
ohen to Fo co, from Fo co to Benny.
The link from Benny, we might pretty
clnfidently a ume. wa the link that would
attach u to the murderer .
t wa finally arranged that we hould
take Fo co to the vicinity of the re-
taurant. He wa to enter with a a au
County peace officer and one of Captain
Bruckman' men. The three were to take
seat in the place and when Benny entered.
(Coli/hilled all page 79)
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(Continued from page 77)
Fosco wa to ignal by pulling out hi
handkerchief.
Our hope then was that by keeping
Benny under urveillance for everal days,
we would learn who hi a ociates wtore-
and through them catch up with the men
we were after. Thi hop wa not far-
fetched. The car wa not tol n the sec-
ond time until Fo co wa a ured by
Benny that he had a buyer- ince the mur-
derers had u ed the licen e plate of the
Pre I' car, it wa afe to as ume that hi-
buyer or buyer had murdered \\ hitman.
But a 0 often happen in detectiv
work, ju t a in all kind of other work,
I suppo e, our well-laid plan w~nt any.
"VI' drove to the re taurant in two car .
scheduled, Fo co and the two offi-
cer with a hadow-man, entered the place.
Fifoteen minute later we knew omething
had gone wrong-terribly wrong.
Fo co came out with the man on Bruck-
man's staff, and a wildly trug ling figure
wa being hauled out by the peace officer.
"Help I Police! 'fhey're kidnaping me!"
hi yell plit the air.
In an in tant the whole neij!,hborho d
wa in an uproar. \Ve didn't know who
Benny wa , but we were banking on hi
being an a ociate of de perate criminal .
\Ve figured that if the re taurant wa hi
hang-out, hi gang would come to hi
rescue in no time. It looked as if we
were in pretty bad.
APT IN JONE drove off with
C Fo co. I aw that much out of the
corner of my eye a I da hed to the
county officer' aid. The latter wa a big
chap, but so wa Benny, and with the
frenzied excitement of the mob that
ought to re cue him we had our hands
full.
\ e were mixing it up pretty thick, three
again t hundred, when ome one in the
crowd had the en e to hout:
'You fools. DOI/'t :\,011 SI'I' thl'ire cops
makil/g GIl arrest!"
Tho e neare t u drew back for a ec-
ond or two which ga\'e the officers a
chance to Aa h their hield. Before they
reco\'ered thei r wi t, w got Benny into
the car and drove off.
Was Benny the connecting link with
the murderer? Had the fraca endan-
gered the tructure of our inve tigation?
We hadn't driven fi\'e block b f re I
realized that in Benny we had a hard nut
to crack. ot becau e he wa t ugh--he
wa n't. Once we g t away from the
scene of the crime and he knew the "'ame
was up, he became quite affable. He gave
us his name, Benjamin Thalro e, hi 01'-
cupation--ehauffeur, temporarily unem-
ployed, and Iii addre in Harlem, with-
out being urged. But behind hi quiet
mile and uave manner,;, th re wa a
determination a unbendahle a steel. He
in isted that he thought th officers who
arrested him were gang ter, but why
gang ter hould want to take him for a
ride he could not explain.
£ter we had delivered Thalro e at the
station, I asked the officer what had hap-
pened in the re taurant.
"I don't know exactly," the peace offi-
cer explained. "But it looked a if Thal-
ro I' noticed Fo co give the ignal and
recognized the man from Captain Bruck-
man's office. nyway he made a break a
if he were to I' cape and pread the tiding,
True Detective Mysteries 79
0 we thought the only thing left for u
to do \\'a to pinch him."
When your
Confronted with Fo co and Cohen,
Thalro e imply denied he had ever een daughter asks
either of them before.
this question
I the early hour of the morning t!,e
three men were ru hed to Mineola and
que tioned by the Di trict ttorney.
Pre es had talked. Cohen talked and
Fo co talked. Thalro I' would not taik-
and Thalro I' wa the "king pin." Re-
porter had been keeping a clo I' guard
over the a sau ounty Jail ever ince
the Bellmore crime, and we were afraid
to let the least inkliug of Thalro 1" arre. t
leak out.
Before dawn, he wa ecretly com'eyed
to the Hemp tead Jail and locked up there.
The following morning, a 0 n a the
court were open, we got "John 0 e" war-
rants from the judge 0 that we could
arre t the bandit without any 10 of time
h uld Thalro I' br ak.
round noon I called at the jail and
took Thalro e out to lunch.
I drove him over to a quiet place noted
for it cooking and seclusion.
"I don't know anything," he aid a Let her read
oon as the waiter had taken our order,
and we were alone. "The Newer Knowledge of
"You know more than you have told u. ," Feminine Hygiene"
I contradict d him quietly. He hrugged.
11 through the meal I kept him talking,
talking, talking, trying to get an idea of I Twoman
should be a source of happiness for any
to have her daughter's coofidence.
what wa in hi mind. I'm no mind Far better that she should go to you with an
reader, but experience ha taught me I·ow
to keep pecking, pecking, pecking away at
intimate question than to ca ual friends and
acquaintances. Far safer that you should tell her
about feminine hygiene, knowing that the cor-
a u pecl' brain until I get some ort of rect information may save her from future di -
a drift of what hi inner thought are. tress. Telling your daughter is made easy by this
Thalro e didn't strike me a a man who frank yet scientific booklet called "The ewer
would take part in a tick-up. But, if he Knowledge of Feminine Hygiene." Send for a
wasn't im'olved, what wa it that kept copy. Let her read it herself.
him from talkin"'? Warning against caustic poisons
The ubject of circum tantial evidence In the past, the only germicides powerful enough
came up. and we di cu I'd that in a de ul- for feminine hygiene were caustJc and poisonous.
tory fa hion for a while. Even though doctOrs realized the importance of
'If I told you certain things," Thalro I' urgical cleanliness, they looked with grave
aid meditatively, ju t a we reached the doubts at the women who insi ted upon using
coffee ta e, "you wouldn't believe me." bichloride of mercury and thevariou compounds
"That would depend on what they are," of carbolic acid.
ow there is Zonite. Far more powerful than a11Y
I returned. "But if you are not concerned dilution of carbolic acid that may be allowed on the
in the murder, you are acting ridiculou Iy. body. But safe. Safe as pure water. Zonite will
It i becau e I don't believe that you are never cause hardened membrane and scar-tissue
involved in it that I don't bring in nor interfere with normal secretions.
witne es who can swear that they saw Complete informatio1l in this book
you meet Fo co in that re taurant, for
in tance." Send for this book tOday. The whole truth
about feminine hygiene given freely and ~rankly.
"Uaybl' you could," he murmured cyn- [ail coupOn. Zonite Products orporation,
ically, a he dropped two or three lump Chry ler Building, 'ew York, . Y.
f ugar into hi coffee. He dropped them
Uu Zonite Oil/til/tilt for btlT/u, abrasions, tender
slowly and deliberately, as if the re ult of feet or skin irritoti01u. Also as an effective deo-
me delicate experiment depended on the dorant ill greaseless cream form. Large t/lbe }OC.
care with which they were depo ited in
the liquid.
Thalro I' was breaking.
"Are you urI'," he said a1mo t in a
whisper, "that 0 long a I wa n't on the
cene when the murder wa di cu· ed and
don't know an actual thing about how it
wa committed, that I would not be
roped in?" I1ZO:-;'t1'E PRODU 1'S ORPORATt
hrYller Buildiue. New York, N. V.
N TR-G6
"Your common sen e should tell you Pl~ue send me free copy of the Zooite booklet or booldecs
that,' I aid watching his brow wriukle checked below.
in thought. .. nil'S you old them the o
The ewer Knowledge of Femioioe Hygiene
car knowing it wa to be u ed in a rob-
o
Use of Antiseptics in the Home
Name ..
bery and murder-how could they impli- (PI,,,,, tri.t """',)
cate you? The elling of the car to the Address .
bandit \Va the only part you played in
the crime \Va n't it?" City Sca"' ..
(Io Cao.dao 165 Duffer;n St., Toroo[o)
I aw Thalro e' eye narrow.
80
"They have swell eats here," he said.
Glancing around in the direction he was
looking in, I aw a young man slightly
over medium height itting at a table
acro the ai Ie from us. He met my ex-
pre sion of annoyance with a fla hing
mile.
IG -ALLED to the waiter and paid
I our bill.
" ee y u later?" the intruder po itively
beamed on me as I pa sed him with a
curt nod.
"The Di trict Attorney want to speak
to you on the 'phone," a waiter rushed up
and told me in a low voice a I was about
to open the door.
"Tell him, I'll call him back in a min-
ute or two," I answered in an equally low
tone.
I had left word when I left the jail
where I could be found in a ca e of emer-
gency. What had ha/J/JclIrd?
I didn't want to return to the jail until I
had recei\'ed Thalrose's statement. Yet,
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I must answer the D. A.'s call at once. I
didn't dare answer it in the open res-
taurant with that man itting here.
The problem wa soh'ed for me.
t that moment, Fogarty, my partner,
appeared on the cene.
There wa an expres ion of chaO'rin on
hi lips. "Have you heard the news?" he
a ked. "orne little boy has tattled, and
the reporter know all about the arrests."
Thalro e had entered the car, and as
Fogarty poke in a whisper, it was
imp ible that he could ha\'e heard
what wa aid. Hi face, however, had
"'rown haggard and I knew if I didn't
get the story from him then, reaction
would et in and he would recede into
hi hell.
"Call the D. on the 'phone," I said
to Jack. "Tell him Thalrose is breaking.
I f the me sage i more important than
that, chase after me. I'll be driving lowly
down the road. If it isn't urgent, I'll
meet you in the jail in half an hour."
,. ure that's true what you aid about
them not roping me in?" Thalrose asked
as I took my place behind the wheel.
"You have my word for it," I assured
him.
"Then," with a hiver. "Here goes ... '
As we drove along the highway, con-
gested with motorists who were enjoying
the balmy pring weather, Thalrose put
me in p e i n of the key which later
opened the door of the death hou e to a
cold-blooded a pair of murderer a I ha\'e
e\'er met in over twenty years of detec-
tive work.
Just what will Thalrose's story reveal?
Who are these two murderers spoken of?
Have you already recognized them in
the story? De Martini will tell you next
month how he put the finishing touches
on this piece of master sleuthing. Don't
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most sensational crimes in New York
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"Honey" Sarlo and the Fiend

Ro e had ridden to and from work. This
man had been di charged, but until three
months previous to the murdl!r he had been
a regular driver on that route.
Hi name was George Yarrow. He lived
in Barnsboro, Glouce tel' ounty, with hi
br ther-in-law and i ter, ~1r. and ~1 rs.
Harry Ha san. Yarr w' aged mother,
~Irs. ~fary Yarrow, an invalid, also lived
in the home.
Trooper mith and I hurried to Barns-
boro. As we drove up to the house we
left my car and went to the side of the
dwelling. Immedia.tely outside the garage
tood the wreckage of a burned automobile,
the interior absolutely burned away, and
the metal work torn and bli teredo The
automobile was an Essex coach. Bits of
broken glass from its windows were strewn
on the ground beside it. Only the tires
had escaped the effects of the flames. I
took the license number of the car and
Trooper mith and I gathered su picious-
looking bits of broken glass beside the car.
We removed a tire, the right rear one,
and then knocked at the door of the
Hassan home. 1rs. Hassan responded to
ur knock. he told u her brother. George
Yarrow, was asleep in his room and we
asked her to call him.
Yarrow appeared, evidently just having
been awakened. He rubbed the sleep from
his eyes as we told him who we were and
explained that we wanted to question him.
Questioned about his movements on Sat-
urday night, Yarrow told us he had spent
the night in Woodbury, after an early
drive to Philadelphia'with friends. Ye , he
had known Rose Sarlo, but he had not seen
her for three months. They never had been
sweethearts, he said, and never had gone
anywhere together.
"Did vou know that Rose Sarlo had been
murdered?" I asked him.
" 0," he responded, apparently little af-
fected by the news. He was not nervous,
only surprised. He seemed only mildly
interested in the details of the murder.
"Is that your car-the burned one in the
yard?" he was asked.
(COlltillued from page 42)
"Yes," was the response. seen lIatteo cross the Mantua Creek
"How and when was it burned?" Bridge, where the girl's body was found,
"it burned up early this morning," Yar- shortly before 4 :30 o'clock on the morn-
rew replied. "I was going to take a girl ing following the murder.
to tlantic City, and as I backed it from Matteo admitted that he had crossed
the garage it back-fired, starting a fire the bridge at that hour, but denied knowl-
under the hood. The blaze pread fa t and edge of the crime. He aid he had cro cd
Gon ignited the interior of the car. The the bridge at that late hour because he
Barn bol'O Fire Company wa called to put had pent the evening in Philadelphia at
out the blaze." a party and wa late in returning to the
Inve tigation di closed that the Barns- J I' ey ide of the Delaware River.
bol'O Fire Company had extinguished the ~Iatteo retained Jame Avis as his at-
blaze, having been called to the scene by torney.
Harry Hassan. Yarrow's brother-in-law. By this time our men had turned up
By the time the firemen had reached the evidence which revealed more d~tails of
Has an home the interior of the car had the brutal crime. James Youngcourt, a
been burned away. friend of Rose' family, who lived on
\ alnut Street, \ oodbury, while walking
ARROW'S story, in our optmon, did along East Red Bank Avenue-a lonely
Y not ring true, so Trooper Smith and I road on the out kirts of \Voodbury-had
formally arrested him on suspicion and noticed badly trampled weeds not far
took him to \Voodbury for questioning. from the roadway. His investigation re-
The body of Rose Sarlo had been resting vealed a small black .Iipper in the
in the undertaking establishment of Atlee trampled weeds-a slipper for the right
B. Adams, a county coroner, awaiting an foot-what appeared to be blood spots on
inquest and autopsy. the gra s and weed, and a girl's bloody
Doctor H. H. Clark, County Phy ician, handkerchief.
was performing the autopsy when we The pot wa four miles from where
reached the mortuary with Yarrow. We Ro e arlo's body had been found-but
took him into the room where the body the slipper and handkerchief were iden-
lay. Yarrow \vas unmoved. tified as Ro e' .
The State trooper and I then took Yar- The only hou e near the grewsome spot
row to the Court House where State and on East Red Bank Avenue was that of
County Police had held three other per- Alexander Taggert, a caretaker for the
sons for questioning. Tho.e under exam- G. G. Green Estate, which is owner of
ination there were Carmen :Matteo, seven- the surrounding land. Taggert lived in
teen years old, and James McCourt, the old farmhou e where former Mayor
twenty-one years old, both of Sewell, J. Hampton }Ioore of Philadelphia was
New Jersey, and Joseph Downs, twenty- born. Taggert had heard no outcry or
two years old, of West Street, Wood- shots on the night of the murder, nor
bury. 1cCourt and Downs soon demon- had he seen a car parked there.
trated that they could give little evi-' But, there had been two unconscious
dence relative to the murder. witnesses of the attack on the girl. Mr .
Matteo, however, was held. He admit- Emily erfaillie, thirty-four years old,
ted that he had been a friend of Rose of Spiegal Avenue, Verga, ew Jersey,
Sarlo, but denied vigorously that he and her daughter, Mary Verfaillie, fif-
could cast any light on the murder. Mat- teen years old, a chum of Rosr Sarlo,
teo had been picked up at his home after had stepped from a motor bus in \Vood-
a mysterious witness, whose identity was bury, near Ea t Red Bank Avenue. be-
withheld, had informed us that he had twren 11 and 11 :30 that Saturday night.

":\ few m:nllH's after \\ e ~ t off the
bu;' ~rr. 'erfailli aid, W (' heard
H ranged. Evid ntly the dri er had knowu
crie of ag ny. \\. th u ht the crie
ame from an automobile we sa\ parked
there. \\'e a\\ a man in the car. He had
neithcr hat nrc at, and hi hirt was
(Ipen at the n ck. Hi hair and cloth-
ing eemed di hevelled.
H' e were frightened. A we walked
pa t, the man started his car and drove
about fifty yards, where he topped the
aut mobile again. \ e aw omething-
~ meon -in the car. It must have been
poor little Ro e, and the scream we
heard mu t ha\'e been her ."
RRIVI TG at her home, ~rr.
\ er-
A faillie told the tor)' t her hu band,
Fr d erfaillie, a carp nter mployed by
Hitchn r Holm in Camden.. \' r-
faillie went to the c ne, but the auto-
mobile had driv n away. 'ither he n r
his wife and daught I' connected the in-
ident with the murd r until they I' ad
f it in the new paper.
\\ hile the e detail' of the crime were
heing worked out and with ome of the
authoritie concentrating on che king the
III vements of y ung 11atteo on the night
of the murder, further corroboration of
: he tory of ~li we ten came to light
Two youth -Antone Letzgu, nephew
of tate A emblyman Charle \V. Let:!-
gu, and ~laurice weeney. b th of
Glouce ter City, Camden C unty-had e n
]{ se . arlo and talked with her on the
night f the slaying.
The youth had one to \V dbury
from their h m sand w I' walking on
the ea t ide of Broad treet \\hen they
met Rose. The thr e topped in fr nt oi
th home of D ctor Duncan ampbell-
almot acr s the treet fr m th \\. od-
bury Po t ffice.
True Detective iltfysteries 81
t mobile could n t have been pI' ar-
her, f r he had called "Hello, Ro e" a
he drove pa t the youth and girl.
The layer, th n, probably had watched
-either from hi park d car in front of
the po t office r from ome other van-
tage pot-while Ro e walked away from
Sweeney and Letzgu to a pot on th
slope n ar the Quaker Cem tery, where
ri weeten had e n her talkin with
the unidentified man.
The evidence di clo'ed on Ea t Re,1
Bank Avenue indicat d that the girl hacl
been beaten-and probably h t-ther ..
alth ugh no one c uld be found wh had
h 'a I'd the pi tol hot. \ hat had hap,
pened between the time f the a. aull
and the finding f the b dy beneath the
Cantua Creek Bridge remained a my •
tuy.
\ e had check d carefully all the evi·
dence relative to the Illy ·terious E' x
c ach on the fateful aturday night. \ e
to k a car of the am type and had it
driven over the gr und de crib d by
~ri. weeten, Letzgu and weeney.
This demon:tration h wed that their
,torie tallied exactly.
tate Tro per • mith, who had tarteJ
\t~··
work n the ca,e with me, now had been '-'
The
tran ferred to other duties. while Tr per ~
fir t and
Kelly, a corporal then alld now a r- (\ onlywhite
geant on the tate force, \\'a I aned t.> ~ ~ cream hair-re-
Clouee t I' ounty a an acting c unt y ,,~ mover now on the
detecti\'e for work on the . arl case. ... market. Del-a-tone
Kelly play d a prominent part in de- c-.'< Cream - perfected
veloping the evidence. ~ through our exclu i\'e
Fly this time y ung Matteo had sat- formulas. 10dern ... on·
i 'fa torily explain d his m \. men\. on venient ... tremendously popular
that aturday nig-ht and orp ral Kl'1ly with tho e women who demand
and I were concentrating on the Yarrow that theirtoiletrequi ites be pleasant
angle. \\ e had taken the bit of gla" to u e, as well as safe and effective.
gathered frolll the ruin of Yarrow' car

A the youths and Ro e talk<,d, :oun;;
1. tzgu aid, they aw an aut om bile
pa~ -a small coach. It was ab ut 10 :30
o'clock. The car was g ing north n
Broad tr et.
As it pas ed them, Letzgu said, the
driver bl w hi horn, I aned from the
car and called, "Hello, Ro. . '
Letzgu and w en y aid the car mu t
hay been driv n ar und the hi ck. f r
liv minutes later it pas 'cd again-going
in the ame directi n-and in a bri f
l.cri d of time, wh n they I oked again,
they aw the ame car parkcd on the op-
]) ite ide f th trect, ncar the po t
Ince.
\\'hen the boy aid' Good night" to
Ro e and left h r, they walked outh on
I\r ad tr ct. It wa about this time
1 ha t ~1 i ten reach d the c ne,
witne 'sing th conver 'ation of Ro e,
Letgu and \\. eney, and later the epi-
. ode of RO'e and the autom bile driver.
Y ung Letzgu , too, c rroborated 1[i
.'w et n' tory £ having een Ro e en·
tcr an automobile with a man. II could
uot id ntify the driv r, however, he aid.
T HE mann I' in which the murder had
b en accomplished n w was clearly
utlined. Ro • arlo had left home with
the intenti n of doing her, aturd...y night
hopping, s eing a "movie' and return·
ing to her hom at a comparatively early
hour.
Sh had. topped to chat n the street
\, ith young Letzgu and Sweeney and
h I' 1ll('etin~ with th dri\'er of the au-
to a chemi·t for analy i of sn. piciou:
looking p t on them. \\'e had found
oth 'I' spot n an aluminum tep fa !ened
10 the running bard of tlte automobile.
The chemi t also look d the ever.
lIe determined that they were blovd
spots.
Then, too, we Itad the tire which
Trooper mith and I had removed from
Yarrow's fir -wrecked automobile. It
had a clearly d fined tr ad. It was a
. rurray ord, worn, but till retaining
tit pattern of the tread.
Traffic on the ~fantua'\\'enonah R ad,
of c ur e, wa 0 hea\'y that it had ob-
lit rated any po. ibility of tracing any
particular car by it track there. Flut
there r mained the trag'ic pot on Ea. t
Red Bank A\'enue, where Ro e arlo s
forgotten lipp I' had be n found, and
wh re ?<Ir. erfailli and her daught r
had heard creams on the fat ful night.
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the gr und at the
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tragedy. The beat n and
blood pot told the trug-
gle there.
But there wa more to be found. \\'e
xamined the I' adway carefully and the
ditch along th ide where the murder
car mu t have tood. Finally our s arclt
\\ a' rewarded.
Ther wa a well-defined print of a
tire-a mark f a familiar pattern. \\ e
t ok the tire which we had removed from
Yarrow' blackened aut mobile and fitted
it to th impr 'ion in the ground.
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It fitted! It was the mark of Yarrow s
automobile at the ccne of the attack on
Rose arlo!
"e were now rcady for our se i II
with George Yarrow.
Troopcr Kelly and I examined Yarr w
in his cell in the ourt Hou e. He was
obduratc. Hour after hour he denied his . thcre,"
guilt, while we rcp ated to him the chain
ot evidence we had woven. \Ve pointed OUt
the damnin fact that blood stains had
been f lind on his car. \\'e showed him
"And thcn wher did y u go?"
.. ut n the dirt r ad out there:'
·'How far did you travel after yOll
w nt under the railroad brid ,.,
"I don't know. \bout half-a-mile,"
"\ hat happened next r'
'\Ve had some kind of an ar urn 1lt
"How did thi argum nt lart :"
"1 don't know how it started.'
"" re y u a kin h r t do thin
h hould not d ?"

"Why, Bill- that hi car could not ha\'e been ignited by

a back-fire, a h had said, f r the blaze ov r:'
"1 don't ev n rememb r what it start d

here's an extra S20!" had originated within the body of the car.
\Ve howed him that we had estab-
"\Va the car I pped during thi ar-
gument:'·
"YES, Betty, I've had another raisel Twenty dolla", lished the fact that he had written the "Y "
-think of it! That's a thousand more a year. We
ran have the new furniture now, dear, and save more notes to the girl-an older man trying t "\\ hat did you do?"
than ever, besides. You certainly were right about Icad a young girl on, and how ~[i s "1 hit her face:'
that International Correspondence Schools Course. You
said I'd make some headway, once I had the training. wectcn had seen his car-for Z-4303 "\Vilh what?"
And studying at borne in my spare time wasn't bard. was hi licen e nllmber-st p and had eell "~[)' hand."
"Remember I said the Boss bad been talking to
me about tecl.nical points, and that I was able to Ro e arlo enter it. ""'a your hand opencd r closed :"
answer bis questions? He told me today that the And we told him, too, how the tire from losed,"
I. C. S. people bad written bim about my course.
He's been watching my work, and be decided this week his automobile had fitted exactly into "Did you get out of the car, ither of
that I was ready for promotion. the impres ion in the ground on East you ?t,
"This is only the start dear, for I've got the train-
ing to handle my job anal the lob abead." Red Bank Avenllc. ""·e were utside the car:'
anlhi::S;~:dO~~ fh:UgrU~~n;:.tr~l~ ~~~~g .f:~O~~~ \Ve tried to impre s on him that w' "Bolh of y u :.,
f~~r:rb\~~~~~~~I')'~~ g~t ~t lees )·ou ha\"e tbe trainlng I'ad an iron-clad ca e against him, with- "Ye .n
0"" hour a d:\y, apent wlLh the I. C. . In tho Quiet of
,"our mm home. win prepare you for IUCCtlJl In tbe work;
out a confe si n: but he angrily refu cd "How mam' time' did you hit her?"
)'OU hlte brst. Put it up to us to pro\"f~ 1t. \' n to admit that he had seen Ro e ar- "Ju t nc:
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At la t, howevcr, he br ke.
"I'm ready to talk," he told us.
\\'e gathered in that room in the ourt
"Did you knock h r d wn ?"
"Ye ."
"".as it necc' ary for y u to pi k h r
up after you knock cd her down?"
WIthout tost or obllgation nn tnS part. please send me
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nulldlng Fore.man .'tumbrr and 'leam Fitter Lewis and mith of the State Police, G, He did not answer.
Concrete Builder Plumbing Inspector
Contractor and nullder .~oremln Plumber R. chenck, Doctor H. H. Clark and my- .." hcre did you Pllt her in the allto-
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truelur.} Enl;lneer 'heet.·Metal \Vorker _elf. mobile?"
ElectrIcal Enltlneer ~team Engineer
"~Iectrlcal Contractor 'Marino Endncer "[n the back eat."
1~leclrlc Wiring ll.frlger.tlon En;lne.r ..\\ hat happened n xt ?"
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Y RRO" sat most of the time with his
head in his hand, rarely looking up.
I conducted the examination. The con-
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"Did you continue ut to th Del a
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Mechanical Draftsman Xa~tg.tton 0 Assayer fcs ion, in part, follo\\s: Drive?"
i~f~:e~boP l'nctlce J.~~r~c:,~e~e~~:~~PL "Yarrow, do you wish to make a vol- "I rode a little way and then turned
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ClTU Engineer \Voolen l!anufaeturlng untarv tatement conccrning this crime:"
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"On the day of the crime y u tartcd "W HEl\" did she bcc m nsciou :"
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wcnt to work." t· lIlsciou ness r"
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~~:eJ'~r~vort ~::1Ca~1 !lublecla 'per after work r' locked up,"
,panlah 0 French llI;h School S"hJ",,'
S8leamanllhlp lIIustratln~ 0 Cartoonln ··Ye :' "For triking her ?"
Adrerllaln; Lumber Dealer "Yc·."
"\"hat time did you tart out in the
l\tlme . vcning?" nd whcn she aid he was goin~ to
f'lreet
Addre . .. round sevcn o'clock." have you locked up what did yOIl do?"
"\Vhere did you go from then on?" "1 turned around-oh, I can't think."
Cllr State ..
""·ent up to \Voodbury," (Putting his hands to hi face,)
Occullatlon. _ " nd when he aid he was g ing t
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International Corre,pondttu'fJ 8rllool. Canadian_ Limlte'-
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"After you left your friends what did and from ewell ov r t )'1antua and as
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 True Detective Mysteries 83
"1 did not ay anything." th oth r nd f \\ 0 dbury and cam
"You mean y u rode al n in il nc
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without aying- anything to ne another?"

Th re wa no reply to Ihis qu lion.
. "Did you 'top y ur car al1lhe lime you
h t her?"
"Ye ,"
"Tell u your own word ju t how
you h t R
the driver' eat? '
arl . Did y u get out of
"1\ , I at ther and 1 reached around,
he wa lying on Ih back at.'
"The fir t hot you fired--did that go
into her h ad or inlo her back?"
"I don't know, 1 didn't 10 k 10 e."
"\\hat did you d n xt?"
He did not an wer,
"\\ hen did you lie Ihe wire around
Ro'e arl" neck?"
"I d n't rememb r when 1 did."
"Did you put th wire around her neck
before or after y u hot her ?"
"I don't e\'en rememt er pUlling the
wire around h r neck."
"Just settle your, el£ Ihere and think.
You must know, Did you put the wire
around her neck n Ih bridge b tween
~rantua and \Ven nah b fore you thr~\
the b dy 0\' r th dg f Ih bridge?"
h 'me then,"
"But you had the body in your car,
didn't you?"
"1 put it in Ih back eat."
., t what tim in the morning did this
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.'I D I\T kn w what time it wa ,"
"\\'hen y u met R e arlo where
did y u teli her you were taking her?"
,,[ didn't tell her anything."
"\Vh re did h think he wa in '0'
"I d n't know."
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.. nder the fr nt cal."
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" 0, T reach d down for it."
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found guilty in Penn ylvania on charges
of highway robbery and breaking and en-
tering.
"Why did you kill Ro e arlo :"
"I don't know."
"\ hat kind of tire did you h8\'e on
your automobile?"
"r don't know."
"Did you have Iurray ord tires on
your automobile?"
"I never looked at the name."
"I . how you a 1[urray ord tire, ize
thirty-four by four, and ask you if you
ever saw that be fore ?"
"I don't know if it i mine or not."
"This tire, which I have ju t shown
you, came off your automobile, off the
right hand, rear wheel. Does that re-
fresh your memory?"
UNo."
This was the tire which fitted into the
impression in the road at the scene of
the fir t attack on Rose Sarlo.
", ere your hand bloody when you
got home?"
"Yes."
"\,yhere did you wash your hand ?"
"In the bath room."
"'" hen did you fract\tre Ro e Sarlo's
skull ?"
"I don't know."
"What did you hit her with?"
"I didn't hit her with anything.'
"How did you get the body of Ro e
Sarlo from your automobile and throw
it over the bridge?"
"1 1ifted her out."
"And what did you do after you lifted
her out?"
"Ju t dropped her down.'
"Did you think you wer dropping the
body into a deep stream?"
"I don't know. I didn't look."
"Yarrow, this tatement is made of
your own free will and accord, i n't it?"
"Yes."
"Yarrow, I am going to read a war-
rant to you," I said.
I read the warrant charging Yarrow
with the murder of Ro e arlo. He dis-
played no feeling and wa led back to
his cell.
Three days later Coroner Oran A.
Wood held an inquest, before which we
placed our evidence. The jury verdict
wa that Rose Sarlo had met death by
strangulation and bullet wound inflicted
by George Yarrow. The jury recom-
mended an early trial.
the day between the coroner's jury
ICorporal
action and the trial two months later,
Kelly and I continned our in-
vestigation to strengthen the case against
Yarrow. We talked with the pri oner
daily, and a week before the trial he at-
tempted to repudiate his confe ion, de-
claring that another man had murdered
the little arlo girl.
Thi is the story which Yarrow then
told to orporal Kelly and myself:
"I met a tranger on Broad Street,
Woodbury," Yarrow aid. "He told me
he wa in South Jer ey to deliver some
·stuff'. I don't know whether he meant
liquor or dope. He asked me to get a
couple of girls for a party and J prom-
ised to meet him that Saturday night in
Woodbury-at ten o'clock.
"I met him and we picked up Ro e, but
no other girl. This fellow, I only knew
him a 'Slim'. was in the car when we
True Detective Mysteries
drove out to Ea t Red Bank Avenue.
lim was caressing and bothering Rose
and made me top the car and leave it.
\Vhile I \ as away from the car I heard
cream and when I got back to the auto-
mobile lim wa in it and Rose on the
ground.
•. lim pulled out a gun and made me
help him put the girl back in the car.
lim hot her and, still wi-th hi gun
pointed at me, made me help him throw
ihe body out. I drove lim to the Kaighn
Avenue ferry f the Reading Railway in
amd n and he left me th reo He said
he would kill me if I quealed on him."
'" e did not belie\'e Yarrow's econd
story, but Que tioned him more about the
mythical lim. Yarr w said they had
met in a pool room near Eighth and Vine
Streets, in Philadelphia. \Ve communi-
cated with the Philadelphia police and
they combed the neighborhood of the
pool room, arre ting one habitue of the
neighborhood who wa' known as Slim.
Thi Slim wa taken to the Philadel-
phia ity Hall and questioned and hi
picture and fingerprint were taken. We
then took the photograph to Yarrow, who
declared that it wa not the Slim of his
story.
T HE Yarrow ca e did not come to an
end with his trial. It was a case in which
ju tice had a hard road to travel. At the
preliminary hearing young Antone Letz-
gus, who testified he had seen Rose enter
the E sex coach on the night of the mur-
der, confronted Yarrow and refused to
identify him as Ro e's companion. That
was a blow to our ca e-a momentary on'c,
at least.
At this juncture came still another de-
velopment. Mr. ylvia Michaels. of 1624
uydenham treet, Philadelphia, Yarrow'
mother-in-law, appeared in \Voodbury and
reported her belief that Yarrow, in addi-
tion to laying Rose Sarlo, also had mur-
dered hi wife.
Mrs. Yarrow, her daughter by a former
marriage, Mr. 1ichaels said, had disap-
peared my teriously two years previous,
after a Quarrel with Yarrow. Her daugh-
ter had married Yarrow when she wa only
fourteen years old. ~[rs. Michaels said, and
the Yarro\\ s had a four-year-old daughter,
Ruth, now living with 11rs. Michaels.
"Yarrow killed my daughter," Mrs.
Michaels dramatically told the Gloucester
County and Philadelphia Police.
The Camden County Police Department
also was drawn into the case when Mr .
Michael declared that she believed her
daughter to have been the victim in the
my terious "Hilltop Murder" in Camden
County about the time of Mrs. Yarrow's
disappearance.
The Hilltop mystery concerned the find-
ing of the hacked body of a woman, to-
gether with part of the clothing. in the
Hilltop ection of the county. The my -
tery never had been solved and the identity
of the victim had not been e tabli hed.
Yarrow denied that he had killed his
wife and in isted that they had parted
amicably. But when the effects of the Hill-
top victim were brought to \,yoodbury by
Lawrence T. Doran. Chief of Camden
County Detectives. if. Michael at fir t
identified them as her daughter's property.
Later a denti t examined the skull of
the murder victim. after learning the con-
dition of Mr . Yarrow's mouth from her
mother. The examination revealed that the
victim wa a woman of probably forty
year and the extent of the dental work
precluded the possibility of it being Mr .
Yarro\\'.
Thi removed the su picion that Yarrow
had been guilty of the murder ot this
woman.
YRose
RRO\'
arlo
trial for the murder of
opened at the , oodbury
Court Hou e on December 7th, 1927. It
wa a en ation weeping thr e counties.
upreme Court Ju tice Frank . Katzen-
bach pre ided, and core of tale men v'ere
examined before a jury could be obtained.
ttorney Lewis Lieberman was Yarrow'
lawyer and he offered this defen e-tlwt
Yarrow was a Jekyll-H:yde persollality-
that he had slIffered a temporar)1 illsallity
becallse of a shrapllel wOlllld sllffered dllr-
illg the war.
Yarrow's sisters, Mrs. Hassan and ~li .
Mary Yarrow, sat with the accused man.
Evidence brought out at the trial ran
along the ame line as has been outlined
in our development of the case. The jury
heard of the broken glass with the blood
spots; of the tire which had fitted the in-
dentations in the road on Red Bank A ve-
nue; of blood stains which had been
found on clothes worn by Yarrow; of the
meeting between Rose and Yarrow on that
aturday night when the girl took her
death ride.
All of the evidence was followed by the
introduction of Yarrow's confession.
Then came the bombshell of the trial.
Attorney Lieberman offered no defense
wime es, not even an alienist. As the jury
r tired he announced that he would make
an appeal on the ground that the Court had
refu ed permission to po tpone the read-
ing of Yarrow's confession for a day, so
that the defense might produce witne es
to prove it was not a voluntary confes ion;
and beeause, in the opinion of the defen e,
the Court had made out a stronger ca e of
llremeditation than had the prosecution.
In hi closing arguments, Prosecutor
Jo eph J. Summerill, Jr., reiterated his de-
mand that Yarrow, the "ex-bandit, ex-
robber, now a murderer, be sent to the chair
for the most atrocious murder which ever
di graced the records of the state." Sum-
merill called Rose "the standard bearer 0 f
American girlhood" and said "he sacri-
ficed her life on the altar of virtue."
Dangling the strands of wire which had
strangled the girl, Summerill pointed out
wi ps of Rose's dark hair which still clung
to them. He declared the autopsy had
shown Rose had been unsullied before the
attack which cost her life.
A feature of the trial was the changed
te timony of young Letzgu , who, at the
preliminary hearing, had failed to identify
Yarrow a the man who had occupied the
E ex coach with Rose.
t the trial Letzgus did identify Yarrow,
saying. "I didn't want to get anybody into
trouble. Later I decided to tell the truth."
The jury was out only an hour and ne
half. It brought in a verdict of guilty f
murder in the fir t degree, and Yarrow
\Va entenced to die in the electric chair
at Trenton Penitentiary in the week of
January 8th, 1928.
Yarrow wa immediately sent to the
death house at Trenton, but effort to save
him were continued. His aged mother.
Mr. 1ary Yarrow, eriou Iy ill at her

home in Barn bor ,wa not told f her
on's trial and cOlwiction. rews of the
di grace wa kept from her f r fear that
it might bring ab ut her death. he wa'
told that her son wa in the \ e t.
b gged to ee him, but wa told that he
he
had gotten into ome di -agr ement 0\' r hi-
<"lltomobile and could not come Ea t at
Ihat time.
HE dramatically, Yarrow'
T wife-th u ht "dead' for two years-
appeared. nannounced, thi prelty y ullg
weman of twenty- ne, accompanied by her
f ur-year-old baby, went to the death hou e
in Trent n Penitentiary and a ked to ee
h r c nd mned hu band.
"I've c me to help y u, Gorge:' he t Id
him. "1 wa in :Uiami, Florida, wh n 1
read of your plight, so 1 imm diately cam
n rth to to a\'e you."
:-'[r. arr w btained the en'ic of
Edi on H dge, one of the att rney for
the def n e in the n toriou Lilli ndahl-
Beach murder ca e, to carryon the la t-
h ur fight to ave Ge rge Yarrow. he
went to G v mor A. Harry :Uoore and
pi ad 1.1 with him to commute the sentence
f d ath to life impri onment.
The G \'ernor explain 1.1 that und r the
Xew J r y law he did not have the power
to do thi , but promi ed that he would all
the Board of Pard liS to c n id r the ca e.
Mr . Yarrow th n went to th grie\'illg
moth r of Ro e arlo and begged her to
join in the plea for mercy. Gazing at the
picture of her lain daught r, )'1r arlo
rcfu ed.
n January 5th, 1928, Yarrow' execu-
tion wa halted by an appeal fil d by :-.£ r.
] r dge. Technical rrors in the trial wer
the ba i for the app al. The date for the
executi n wa 111 Yed back to Friday, Jan-
uary 13th. Hed e fir t a ked hancell r
Edwin R. \ alker to order a f Here is why: Th
the ca e by the upreme Court. Thi mo-
tion being 1.1 nied, Hedge filed the appeal
and the urt of Err rand ppeal t sta is (delay). The
F bruary 1 t a the date of hearing of
his ca e.
Hedge argu 1.1 that Yarrow' c nfe i n
was invalid; that it had been obtained by
f rce and intimidation.
n March 22nd, 1928, Yarrow' pica
wa refu d by the Court of Errors and
pp ai, and the date for hi executi n
wa et for June 1 t, 1928. The ex cuti n
wa et for nine o'cl k at night. An h ur
before that time till another de prate
effort was made to a\'e Yarrow from th
chair.
Warden Tim thy J. Murphy of the
Trenton P nitentiary announced that a bri f
re pite had been grant d. Hedge had tele-
phoned from tlamic City. The attorn y
had a ked a 1.1 lay, aying he wa trying to
reach Goyernor :-'1 ore to make a la t
appeal for a repric\·e. pending a plea before
the ourt of Pard n f r commutation of
the death entenc to life impri nment.
Forty-five minutes later-only a quart r
f an hour before Yarrow wa to be Ie-! to
the electric chair-Hedge' cretary called
the pri on by ~elephone, .aying the GO\' r-
nor could :lot'J reach d and a king an-
olher hour of ii e for Yarrow.
Murphy refu ed, and promptly
o'clock fifty witne es aw Yarrow
into the death chair.
few minute later George Yarrow had
paid with hi life f r th life of Honey
arlo.
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What Becan1e of Eugene Bassett?

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OVERNMENT (CQlltillued/rom page 50)
told him, ..then I WIll not charge your
JOBS! .. m Iher with murder, but I'll charge you
nd then, ju t a we were hoping for
cumplete ucce , a judge of the uperior
with murder, and your fate will be f r ourt of King County, Ii tened 'to th\:
$1:160 to $~400 Year a jury to decide." plea of an attoroey for )'1ayer, and
PICK YOUR JOB "I'll tell you," he aid, "my mJther ha we \ ere forced to stop u ing the "Ii
RAILWAY POSTAL CLERK never done anything criminal exc pt that detector."
Railway Postal lerks get $1,900 the first year, which I cau ed her to do. he'· done I firmly belie\'e that if while looking at
being paid on the first and fifteenth of each
month. $78.00 each pay day. Their pay is anything he' done olely on my account. the map ~Iayer himself could tell when we
quickly increased, the maximum being $2,700 a If you charge her with murder, I'll take hovered over the exact pot where the
year. $112.00 each pay day. the tand and clear her mysel f. ' body of Bas ett i buried, hi reaction
CITY MAIL CARRIERS. POSTOFFICE CLERKS
lerks and carriers no\\' commence at $1,700 a I bargained with him. would have been 0 po iti\'e that we c uld
year and automatically increa e 100 a year to ""'ith the ri k that a jury mi ht not ha\'e walked directly to our grue orne ta k.
$2,100 and $2,300. They also have 15 days paid
believe your te timony, I'll give you thi and have l\Ted the my tery of what hap-
\aeation. COVERNME T CLERK
(Open to men and women 18 or over) opportunity." I aid. "You lead me to pened to lame Eugene Ba ett.
alary $1,260-and $1,440 to $2,100 and $2,500 a that grave and I will not charge y ur I am convinced too, that the "lie detec-
year. Plea ant clerical work in the various gov- m ther wilh murder." tor" t Id u how Ba ett wa killed and
ernment departments at \Vashington, D. C., and
throllghout the country. •. II right, nl go out there with you;' how the body wa di po ed of.
CET FREE LIST OF POSITIONS he aiel. The detector record i dual. It con i I
FiJI Ollt the following eOllpon. Tear it off and
mail it today-now at once. of a erie of que tion a ked ~Iayer, to-
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE,
Dept. J213. Rochester. N. Y.
BUTand when I got up to call the deputie
tart, he quit c Id. He feared
gether with hi an wer thereto, and a
tape record recording his heart action.
the deputie already had overheard him. blo pre ure and re pi ration at the time
t)fRty~h ~~i:r;~ ~::k~~ t,~~:: (l~) \-r~~l1 g:).c~rt~~~ I took him to the door to how him, he wa a ked each que tion and ga\'e hi,
I>:uce book. "How to Get a . S. Go\'crnment Job;"
(3) A Jist of U. S. GO\'ernment Jobs now obtainable: op ned it, and there they were, Ii tening. an wer.
o Rallway Postal Clerk ($1900.$2700)
, e look d t ward the other door a gla Here are some of the que tion and
o Postoffice Clerk ($1700.$2300)
B ~~~al M~~II CC~~r .::::: ::: :: ::: :: :~m~:m~l
o Ceneral Clerk (Census Clerk) ($1260.$2500)
one and the hadow of a deputy with an an wer :
o Ins_tor of Customs ..•............. ($2100 up)
ear c k d appeared on the gla • layer Q. Did you tab Ba sett with a knife?
tame ...........•.....•••••••.•••••.....•...•.•.....
grew cold. A. 10 • ir.
.. uppo e I how you on the map,' he Q. Did you poi on Bassett? 0, ir.
welch d. Q. Did you dope Ba ett? 0, ir.
He followed one road, then another, Q. Did you hoot Ba ett? 0, II'.
leading through Bothell to the ea tward. ( t thi point the machine indicated th
His hand m ved clear off the map to the subject' heart mu cle contracted and he
a t. He acted confu cd. he itated. Twice attempted to contr I hi reo pi ration more
he decided to go with me and twice we than he had been under the previou
tarted for the d r, only to flinch back question. and that hi blood pre ure
when he aw the deputi He in i ted went up.)
that he wa n't ure of the road, but knew Q. Did you trangle Ba ett? A. '0,
i, wa east of Bothell. 5Jr.
ORBECT "You put me back on the machine." he Q. Did you destroy the body? A. -O.
7ourNOSE said uddenly. "The machine will tell." Ir.
68,000 men and wo- \ e did. He wa very calm, apparently Q. Did you burn the body? 0, ir.
men have used the willing t work with us f r the moment. Q. Did you cut up the body? A. ):0,
M'o{ITA Nose Ad- gain the "lie detector" regL tered in the ir.
juster to improve vicinity f both cerneteri we had platted Q. Did you de troy the remain with a
the i r appearance.
hapes flesh and in Bothell. But he would not look at the chemical? . No, sir.
cartilage of the nose map f the cemeterie . Q. Did you catter the remain? A.
-quickly, safely and t the neJl.1: e ion we produced the plat No. ir.

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oainle ly, while you
sleep or work. Your age of the wedi h Cemetery. but ~Iayer had Q. Did you bury the body? . No, ir.
doesn't matter. Results had a day in which to think. He threw ( t thi point the machine indicated great
~ ~ are lasting. Doct.onl praise hi head n the table, refu cd to look. emotion of the ubject in variou re pect .
it. Small cost. Money·back
guarantee. The deputie th n eized him by the Hi heart action altered. Hi blood pre -
Send for FREE BOOKLET houlder . held hi head up, even opened ure tarted to go up again, and hi
: .. .
"n. N.....J Its ~ lf~aJs••,." his eye. but he inverted Ihem downward re pi ration wa affected.)
ANITA INSTITUTE, 6SS Anita Bid••, Newark, N. J.
~o that he couldn't ee. \Ve were forced Q. Did you get rid of the remains near
to give up. He refused to an wer, fought, Clark' "Little Brown Hou e?" A. . 0,
and gave a po itive reaction at the lea t ir.
mention of a grave- t ne or lab. Q. •ear "The Little \ hite Hou e" near
To the ycry la t. that \\'a hi conduct, Bothell? 0, ir. (While intervening
whenever we w uld how him the map of que tion had hown little or no reaction
a cemetery. He would not look. by the ubject, the tape here howed great
YOUR money Mdt U you \Vhen h pleaded exhau tion and delib- agitation, a reflected in breathing, heart
less ~~~~'ii~::nOdfy~:r:::; ~ erately hook a though in a convul ion, action, and blood pre sure.)
the watch for your troublet
Solid R'old effect case, auaranteed we u ed the hypodermic needle he after- Q. Kear one of those two hou e in
25 years. RJchlYetlSrra.ed. Time-- Cathcart? 0, sir.
keeper dial. R. R. style. Hand· ward complained of in court, and on an-
somel Accuracy 2\laranteed by
100 rear old MIWon 00llu FiDO
other uch occa ion, the ane thetic. Q. Did you drop the body in a well?
Watch Factory.. The hypodermic contained n thing, and 0, ir.
SEND NO MONEY
P.y BarK'aln Sale Price
on arrival and pOStawc.
Your money back
'3 73
_
the ma k was perfectly dry, with no ane -
thetic whate\'er; but each quieted him as
Q. Did you drop a concrete slab on top
of the body? 10, sir. (More agita-
"tlaraDtced and keep the f
he would have been calmed by the narcotic tion on the part of the subject was indi-
watch. toot That's how sure
1 am that you'll be deUe-hled.
he thought he wa getting. cated by the machine.)
se postal and wear It teD Through the r cord on the graph of The ame heart and re piration reaction
days at my expense.
the "lie detector" we had narrowed the to the incriminating que tions wa gh'en
--COODYEAR---', m.tchlfyou
region in which Ra ett's body mu't by "Mayer not once, but dozen of time.
Newton, MASS••_ •• __ ._::~:~~~
H-328
be buried down to an area of two quare B th my elf and Keeler believe the
Send Wateh. Knife and Chain. I Rhlr Notllhog.
mile including both Bothell cemeterie,. above reaction to que ti n prove that
Namo .
deep wood adjacent to one of them, and layor h t Ba elt; that he hot him
Addreu _ the lillie white hue. at "The Little "'hite Hou e" near Bothell;

and that he buried hi" b Iy under a con-
crete lab, in the cemetery near Bothell.
Leonarde Keeler de cribe the lie detec-
tor a follow:
"The 'lie detector' which we have been
u ing in an effort to learn the truth ab ut
the murder of Jam Eu en Ba sett fr m
I)eca to Earl 1fayer i called in cientific
terminology
graph.
a pneumocardio- phygmo-
"It is imply an instrument t record
the respiration, pul -beat and arterial
blood pre ure of a ubject.
"The e three phy ical functi n, which
are reactions of certain timuli, arc re-
corded in the form of pen and ink cun'e
on a lowly moving trip of paper.
"Every motion give ri e to a certain
bodily respon e, and in the ca e of fear,
anger, hate and various other emoti n
certain increa e or decrea e in pul e rate
and blood pre sure will inevitably f llow.
"A per on who is accu ed of a crime,
whether inn cent or uilty, will how
crtain nen' us resp n e continoldy
through ut the record. nd an inn ent
JlerSOIl may react lightly t certain qu -
lion pertaining to the crime of which he
i: accu d.
"However, an innocent p r on will quiet
down, becoming Ie emotionally e..'Ccited
a. the te t pr gre e, wher a , a guilty
pcrson will become more and more e..'Ccited
a the te t progre e and a we t uch
upon certain vital point in hi case."
Tme Detective Mysteries 87
Young Widow
With 3 Children to Support
Starts ~~Fortune"
With 2c
A drcmwlic sl.ory more thrillillg Iholl /ictiolt
because it is Irue. ow he reveals her
amazillg secret so that other tClomelt may
enll their mOlley UJorries. Get ca h pay for
just saying 20 magic tClords to 10 lallies.
o IIeell to sell allylhi,~g.
As Related By MRS. W. L. EARL
"WHAT will I ever do?" she sil(hed. Atone.
wilh 3 children to support. penniless. and he
left no insuranc I What a pitiful. hopeless situation
for a younl( mother I "Oh, how dark th days.
and but little sleep at night I ['ould,,'t help lying my other local "partners?" To prove that I feel
awake at night wondering how I was going to earn sure of what you can do ~ will even pay you a a h
a living for myself and three children." penalty if you don't make big money from the v ry
Then suddenly the shadow vanished. She read first day. To show that I do things in a Ileneron
about the president of a million dollar institution way I will cvcn scnd you 13 worth (retail valu )
in Ohio, ~[r. urtis \V. an De Mark. who has of my products to start you. Don't end a cent for
founded an unusual plan for h Iping worthy people. this daring off r. JUSt rush application below.
The vast busine of this great institution, scattered This cash pay offer will bring thousands f appli-
all over America, requires so mu h attention that cations. If you delay it may be too late. Tell
many people are necessary to look after it in full me how much you want-SIS'in a day for full
or spare time. Busin ss experi n e is not e ential- time? $3 in an hour for spare time? I will gladly
there is nothing to do but follow a simple, easy plan. s nd you my written cash pay agreement. legal
"This man must be sincere." she said. "for he and binding upon me. urtis W. Van D Mark.
d~sn't ask me to risk a single penny buying any- D pt. 2004-FF. inth and ycamore SIS., Cin in-
thing," So she a pted tbis gen rous. unusual nati. Ohio.
way oUt of h r money trou bl s-and the 2 cents
she inve ted in a stamp to write proved the start of
her "fortunc." Her moncy worries were over. Her Curli. W. Van De Mark
family was safe. gi::in2:~:~F6hi~inthand Sycamore Sh.

Il ended on of the longe t and * * *

This true story of Irs. Earl is but an example of [ he.reby apply for th openlng in my town to start on
T trang t third degree in the criminal
hi tory of the United tate, but a this
the many letters Mr. Van De Mark ha received.
Now "Van" has openings for more women and men
and actually off rs to pay them cash for just calling
lJ'\\~~~I'(~~ana~a~~~)'of y~,~r ~~8g t~ ~~~~lo~:~
ritlk nothing. This ill not a.n orde send nothing
Of
.0.0.

at bomes and saying 20 magic words. You don't J will wnnt per hour.
is written the earch for the body of need to sell anything to get this cash pay. I nOt
llas ett ti 11 goe on. only pay you a tual ash if your first 10 calls do not
get you big monCl', but I allow you to make 50% Addre88.
Each day e med to bring ome new on every order my ustomers give vou. So what is
to stOP you from making 30 in a day Iikc some of City _
hope, and although Ke ler and I person-
ally im'e tigated every inch of "The Little
\\ hite Hou e" we were unable to unearth
a ingle ub tantial clew of murder.
For days and days deputie earched
thr ug-h the t\ 0 cemeterie in the vicinity
"f "The Litt! \ hite Hou e." Every
CCOUNTING
the profession that pays~
grave wa uperficially examined for Accountants command big in- ing knowledge unnecessary-
marks of having been opened. come. Thousands needed. we prepare you from ground up.
It wa a weird ight, particularly a trip About 9,000 Certified Public Our training is supervi ed by
to the Bothell cemetery at 3 o'clock in Accountants in U. S. Many Wm. B. Castenholz, A. 1.,
the morning. Fla hlight threw the tone earn $5,000 to $20,000. We train C. P. A., assisted by staff of
monument in bold relief. Before the youthoroughlyathomein your C. P. A.'s. Low cost-easy
name f Erick en, the earchers stopped. spare time for C:P.A. exami!la- terms. Write now for valuable
tlons or executIve accounting M-pagebookfree,"Accounting,
Thi lot seemed to be near t the center of positions, Previous bookkeep- the Profession That Pays."
the r action on the "lie detector" chart.
The family con ented to ha\'e the grave LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY
opened. Jame Eugene Ba elt did not lie Dept. 67f-H Chicago, Illinois
therein.
It i my belief and that of Chief of
Detecti\' s Charle Tennant, and heriff
laude Bannick, that some time between
n n on the fifth day of eptember, 1928,
and midnight of that ame day, the life
of Ba ett wa cruelly snuffed out, after
h had been rendered unc n ciou by drug,
or choked to death with the tongs found
in the blue road ter.
On the day that the judge wa
110unce sentence on Mayer there tood in
the courtroom a federal operative fr m
nutle, ),{ontana, who aid he had come all
the way fr m the mining city to hear the
judge peak the words which would put
),Iayer behind bar for life. "It 1 rill bc
(J. p1cosol/I Ihil/g for mc 10 hl'or Ihol SCI/-

trllce," aid the operative, "for I have SPCllt

too 111(11)' )'cors Iryillg 10 rccovcr 01/101110-
biles Ihis 111011 has slolclI alld searchil/g for
II,c bodics of missing pcoplc lasl scell iii
88 True Detective Mystel'ies
Deformities his co III pCIII j', 10 have Ollj' 010111 of SjllII-
palhy for /zilll."
of the Bac
Thousands of M R. ).IITH remains an enigma t
my elf and the detecti\'c t fir t
Remarkable Cases it wa doubted that she wa ).Iayer'
An old lady, 72 years of mother, but Chief Tennant know he wa
age, who su(fered lor many paired with Deca to Earl, when the lad
years and was absolutely was arrested in eattle in 1915. H re-
helpless, found relief. A
n-embers how like a lione s he fought for
::'W~ ~~h~s:~~o~l~li~"c'b~~~ him. It has b en like that ever ince-
I was riding borseback anrl
. _playing tenni8 within a where\'er the n, if he wa her on, was
I year. A litlle child, para- in tr uble, If r. mith appeared on the
'. lyzed was playing about.
the bouse after wearing" Philo Burt Applia"ce ccne to fight for him.
three weeks. We bave succe""fu1ly treated over Mary Ell n French showed up in \Va h-
fifty_ven thousand eases in the past 29 years.
ington in 1927 while Earl wa till in the
30 DAYS' TRIAL FREE penitentiary. Throu h a matrimonial ad
We will proveils value in your own case. Tbere
is no reason why you 8hould not accept our he took for a hu band one \\. E. mith
offcr. The photographs 8how how light, cool, of Tacoma. In July, 1928, ).[ayer came
elastic and casily adJu8ted
the Philo Burt Appliance to the home of his mother. oon after
i -how different from tho the pair left the hu band and )'Ir. mith
old torturous plaster, lea-
tber or ateel jackels. asked for a divorce. I think it lucky for
Every 8ufferer with 0. mith that accident insurance was the only
weakened or deformed spino
owe8 i I. to him8elf' to kind he could get.
inve8tigate thoroul(hly. In a ca e of this kind, where it seems
Price wi thin reach of all.
Send For Our Frae Book
so plain that an unholy alliancc of criminal
Descrihe your ca e; it will mind exi t , the th ught of the il1\'e ti-
aid U8 in giving definite in- gator naturally run back to other famous
formation at once.
criminals. • . ..
PHILO BURT MFG. CO. Iany people ha~e mentioned to me that
136-6 Odd Fellows Temple
JAMESTOWN, N. Y.
thi woman re mble Belle unne, the
arch-murdere . I w nder if it was e\' r
d finitely e tabli hed that th b n found
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I y method is the best way to prevent
the superfluous hair from growing again. The Stick-Up on the Chicago and
Home treatment saves you money. Write
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teach beauty culture. (C 0111 ill lied f rO/ll page 55)
D. J. Mabler, 7Q6.A MJhltr Plfk, Providence, R. I.
Li ut nant K orton when he r ach d de-
tccti ve h adquartcrs.
" aptain Paa ch f the Evanston force
call d," announc d the secretary to
'aptain of Det ctive John St ge.
""'ants you to call him soon a you
come in. ays it's very important."
In a moment Lieutenant orton I;ad
E\'anst n on the wire and the story that
wa relat d by Mr. Kloepfer wa re-told.
The men at Evanston were r qu sted to
bring the aut matic pi tol to the Det c-
tive Bureau in the morning and the Lieu-
tenant would I k it over. Right now he
was going home to g tome sleep.
\RLY the following morning Li u-
STEADY MONEY
weekly ..Oil\« lhill eombhled liD4l. PubU. Sen'ice 011'....
E tenant lorton was rapping vigorou -
the bett. money.mall:.r In the OOUDUy fot fWi tlm. or epa"
tim. worlue.r..
lyon the d r markcd Caplaill of Police,
Splt'-nd.id Fifth An. Styled .hb't&. •. s...ut.lful labriol '-0
..ds(y en,,. Lute. 8eU on eicbl. t.o me-Q and womea .,
C. & . IV.
flW:&ory pzkiM, -Si.qe.\ -...ortme.Dt in the bualD.... Col. A ter 'e gr eting-then the inve tiga-
~W!lUr~m:::.~:::::.,.~\u:::'W~r:%gA\~~ tion into the killing of Ru - II Dick y
. PUBLIC SERVICE- MILLS. Inc.
52S M-30th Street, W"t Now York, N. J. wa re umed.
C.o.ad.iaA om". 110 DIolAd.. S"-. LoDdoa.. ODt&rio. Cacada "A I aid last night, aptain, this i
an in ide job," the Lieut nant reiterated.
" omeone kncw about that ne hundr d
thou and dollar and that omeone
SMOOTH OUT wa n't uppo ed to know. Obviou Iy, it"
YOUR omeone in the cmploy of th railroad.
I'll have to have your help Captain, if
WRINKLES we're going to get anywhere."
"I'm ready for anything," was aptain
,:i
Mi•• Ida :1. Tray•• of Bri.to). Tenn., write., Healey's an wer. 'I told the hi f pe-
"I !Zurely do not want to be without Rinkle Oil. It cial gent what you aid last night. He
is the only thing I h3\'(" ever lri d which accomplish s
results and 1 am very much pleased with it." . ay go ahead. The publicity won't do
sq~rn~~c;<'a~'ri~k~no~~~~ 1Ju~~U~~~O\Ri:~k~C ~y the railroad any O'ood, but thi i murder.
at nhcht as you aPfllh cream and in the lIIornin~ your
\\ hat do yOU want fir t?"
8k~i~~~ ~l~~t~C("~e~a~~7:~'~~';.;~~do n'.or, l \i~hr~,Wy '\ ell,'" r ponded Li utenant T rt n,
Illm~::l~d.iI~n~ r:.~~:;trn :ri~kp1!ka'~~ton8~:I~i.(";?r~·oo "I think it would be wise if you'd check
Ti~~-~; L~~;;:ai~~:~~ii 3S u~~e~~. B~d~~.rci::~t~~~oti~ up on the crew of the V ikillg, both pre '-
in th ruin' f the unne home a her it
burned, were really th 'e of 1Ir. un-
n'
I or ollder about thi
othing i known of 1Ir. mith'
whereabout and action except for the
la t twenty year. he i a wonJan of
my tery, more than sixty year of age
and a my tery attend every action of
her el f and her on, 0 doe the mystery
of "\ hat Became of Jame Eugene Ba
s tt?" remain unan wered.
In ofar a ).Iayer i concerned, unle s
he hould manage to cape, hi career of
crime is ended, for on Decemb r 18th,
1929, the upreme Court of the tate of
\Va hington, confirmed hi conviction and
be is n w confined for life.
It is not likely that the tight, thin lip
will ever peak the truth about what has
happened to Jame Eugene Ba ett. It is
more than likely that when the tall, gaunt
frame of ).[ayer is laid to r t in th
pri on cem t ry he will take with him the
only complete tory of hi criminal career
-unle . ).[r. )'Iary Ellen mith, who
mu t now again tand trial for grand lar-
ceny and pr bably for murder, ee fit to
gain cI m ncy for her-elf by revealing the
location of Ba' ett' body.
The hand of Tim runs on-it ets
again t a olution of the mystery-but
. till ha\'e faith that "murder will out."
ent and former. You might inve tigate
every employe who kn w anything about
the hipment, too. \Vhile you're doin
that I'm going to trace thi pi tol by its
number, 293126. It's an importation from
G rmany and if it wasn't smu gled in we
might trail it to it owner-or hould I
say u er? He might have tolen it from
somebody el e."
"It look like the only chance," com-
Illented aptain Healey, who eemed a
little dejected. ''I've nev r seen uch a
case as thi: where a man board a
train. make his way into the expre car
without anybody se ing him, hoots and
kill th cI rk, cize the conductor when
he om f rward, lock him in with the
dead man. waits to pull the signal for
the n xt top and then jumps off only to
be 'een from th back a he di appear
into the darkne . Deuced qlll'er, I call
it."
"Que r-but not impo' ible, aptain,"
aid Li utenant -ort n. "F w people ob-
en'e thing like p rhaps you or I or any
other policeman. I've known ome pri -
oners to :it in a cell for two day and n t
rememb r when they got out whether they
sat on a t 01 or a b nch. This killer
mi ht have walked right through all the
coache filled with pa . engers and still
not be seen. nyway, I gue we'll have
to do without witnes e in thi ca e.
Well, I've got to be going. Let you know
what's up a oon as I hear from ew
York about thi gun. S'long."
ew York' preeminence a a cen-
ter of hipping trade and importa-
tion render more than often a great ad-
\'antage to any or all eeking informa-

Apparently not a pleasant anticipation, judging
from appearances. This sho,¥s, left to right,
Bernard Smith, Edward Smith: Ralph McKee and
Bernhardt Mylin waiting 'for' the verdict of the
Coroner's Jury investigating the death of Russell
Dickey
tion about registered imports or exports.
In fact, Lieutenant 'orton concluded he
had one chance out of two in which to
trace the owner hip of the Mau er pi tol.
If it wa muggled past Cu tom authori-
tie, there would, of course, be no record
of it, and con equently no pos ibility
whatever of linking it to the murderer of
Ru I'll Dickey. If, on the other hand, it
had been imp rted by the proper route,
there would be a light chance that it
would be identified.
fortune would ha\'e it. through the
gun' erial numl r the imp rter wa
found. wholesal p rt good firm in
New York. he I arned, pur ha I'd it from
the },[au er manufactur I' in ermany.
Rec rd. of th . -ew York firm howed
that the )'fau er had again b en old-
thi time to .'. hurl' and ompan)', lo-
cated in Chicago. The trail had ome
home and wa getting warm.
aptain Healey and Li utenant 1\ orton
promptly vi ited the ecr tary of hurl'
and ompany. Thr I' week had lap. I'd
ince the murder of Dick y on December
30th. uch progre a wa mad was
pr mi ing, th oretically. n the other
hand, it wa much of a gambl , for all
now depended up n identification of the
weapon. Failur would mean the di i-
pation of the only tano-ible clue and
e\'entual collap I' f the inve tigation.
,.\ e're d tecti\·e,." ann unced Lieu-
tenant Torton, after introducti ns. " orne
few day before Decemb r 30th you old
a German ).[au er aut matic pi tol num-
bered 293126. \\"ill you look that all'
up ;"
In a m ment the clerk wa reading
from a p neil d notation:
nt . .D. to F. ]. Kilmer, hardware,
Oronto Fall. "'i con in."
Before the ~t"rtled clerk could av
m 1'1'. th detecti\'e, had mumbled thei'r
thank and wcre gone.
Their .lldden departure wa mo. tly im-
pul iw. Lieutenant Xorton' 001 r jlldg-
m~nt overcame his excited optim' m and
in a moment h wa. conver~ing again
with the clerk. The interview PI' vcd to
he important. The Li utenan learned
that tw sih'er nlatter. of TifTal1\' manu-
facture wcre in~lud<'d in the pack'age tha
contained the MatN:r pi tol. Having n-
True Detective 1ysteries
tained a de cription of the platters, Lieu-
tenant Jorton and Captain Healey took
their leave. ' Abeoluleir without obli&alioo 00 my_ pa'b..8eod +1"0W' I
Within an hour the foil wing telegram
\Va bing sent over tlle \ estern Union
wire to the police chief at Oronto Fall;;,
Wi con.in:
1. 'm'IRE OF F. J. KIL~IER. HARD,
\ ARE DEALER nr YOUR T \ N A
T
TER
WHETHER TWO ILVER PLAT,
WERE RECEIVED FRO I N.
H RE CO,. H1 AGO, I DECEMBER.
INF Ri\lATl DIP RTANT TO MUR,
DER I \'E TIGATIO:-l. PLEA E WIRE
A,' \ ER UDlEIHATELY OLLE T.
LIEUT. J HX X RTON.
CHr AGO ETE TJ \'E BL'REA .
aptain Healey meanwhile wa can-
ning th record and ref rence of such
of the expre employe and train crew
a would have or be in a po ition to have
knowledge of the 100.000 hipment. on-
tin lied examination of the employe'
record' failed to yield anything upon
which criminal uspici n could be ba ed,
and the aptain wa about ready to dis-
mi that angle of the inve tigation as
worth Ie. on id ring the list from the
tandpoint that veteran mploye would
Ie likely be involved in a crime of this
kind, the aptain, on ec nd thought,
elected the name of two a worthy of
re earch. ne wa a brakeman, living in
filwaukee, and th oth I' wa a clerk in
th railroad office. He di patched pic-
ture of th two to Li utenant Korton
who in turn relayed them to the Bureau
of Identificati n.
Triumph or dismal failure now prom-
i d to i ue fr m either of the I' point
of im' tigati n. Two ilver platt rs and
two employe' rcc I'd h Id for the mo-
ment, it eemed. the tnl tory of the
murd r f Ru ell Dicke\·.
Four hour after nding
to "·i. con in, Lieutenant
handed the telegraphic I' ply:
F. J. KIUIER ORDERE) FR ~I X.
• JJ VI{ E " CO.. TWO ,I eVER PLAT,
TER A:-\D OXE .32 GER)IAX MA',
ER PI Toe. II x T RE ErVED
o
"y OF THE E Ann LE YET,
9
YOU CAN
EE BEAUTIFULI
t do , .... tbinp. I oorroch...ry defoot. I
develoD hidden btovlJl. My ltartliraa reeultll
with more tbAn 100,000 ....omen provo that
anu one can be civen beauty. No matter boW'
'bopeleu.1Drit."... My way of makina: womoo
over eompkul., ie ama.incly dil!trtnt. Thou-
~ic:t.y;~o~C;;t:cffi'ou~~:~m:;~l~n~entifio--knowtl
to ~t fo.r Gil alike. That is why I can auaroKUe your abeolut.o
aatt.rachon. Not. peIl.D¥ to pay unIe. I aivo ~h. SlOW
. y a.N monclov.l.
BE RID Of I ZlNGLY QUICK
~t.Wt..", No Zona toa&lin". In a Itw
yOur .kin. End pimpl • f~ldee.
do.,.
d~
c..r.. PMU blackhead., whitcl1oad8. muddy."an.
Wri.. &e, oily ,kiD, dry akin,lh·erlpolJJ• .-oUIh-
Mudd, 510.. nc., redol'!M. ..now a~pearaDce.
S.Uowne••
n.w-.
fat
:r:ki:~ ~~~u:;b~t:ub:J~~ ~;. tr:ik{
.efawny flaure to bee.uly. Orow eye-
laehee., eyobroW8. hair. BoaulUy COtfti-
1'kt<1".
FREE TRI L
You ean try all of ..... beau ty aIdo--<>e
Jut. the ODe8 you need moe~NlelJl
witAout rUkino G ~nn~. I \Cont 1"OU to
make me prOM that. I caD lake aoy del'l'M
of bomelineee aDd imoart.bNut.,iru,"d.••
or take 'OMe pnlt.tioNe aDd impan. .~nni"o
::'~t.~~i:l:u-;l~~~~:~:~tz
ooaditiooa.lltrinaa, escueee. You are t.he M>le
Iud..,
_ If no~ d Ii.htod,,.ou lua~ ..,. _ n d
_d"Jlnol.
And I Teach You F"""inatlon
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90 True Detective Mysteries
WERE TO BE D LIVERED BY URI T·
;\IA '.
II, E. BA ·;\IGARTE. ,
,III EF OF POLICE.
OROXTO FALL, WI
ann unc d Li utenant
"r the telephone to aptain
Healey, "Kilmer in \ i con'in didn't g t
ither the pi't I r the platter. And
come t think of it, aptain, they mu t
have been shipped ov r the hicago and
orthwestern Railroad. Right now I'm
going up to the B. of 1. and see what
th y have to report on the e two. , e're
gelling warm. ood-bye."
T HE clerk in the Id ntificati n Bureau
v,,· d that h' could find nothing on
the office empl yeo A for the brakeman,
he informed Lieut nant . orton, there
wa in format i n and plenty. He was one
You Can Learn Edward J. mith, having a p lice record
for robbery. Hi Bertillon measurem nt ,
th fae f her aller' check d her.
")'lr. mith," began Lieutenant 'orto"
with more eriou.ne in his tone, "we'r'
d tective. The e gentlemen are detec-
ti, es for the •orthwe tern Railroad an I
1 am from the hicago Police 0 part-
ment. The e platt rs were taken out i
an xpre car-slo/ell, in other word'.
Perhap' y ur 1m band can explain. Per-
hap he an't. Your husband will be
arre ted in hicago when he reports off
duty:'
1Ir , . mith, bviou Iy innocent of any
u picion f her hu band, became emi-
hy t rica!. Aft r regaining her compo -
ur, h wa' allowed to call a iter wh
would come to take charge of the chil,
dr n whil he accompanied the det c-
ti,' back to hicago.
Ag nt· of the railroad arre'ted mith
a he cam out of the timekeep r'- office
that aftern on. mith profe ed aby mal

HYPNOTISM
fingerprint and de cripti n were on file.
Lieutenant orton took them.
Edward J. 'mith was shown to be
thirty-two y ar old. He was marri d
ignorance f the cau e for his arr t. d -
spite whi h he was conducted to the 0 -
tective Bureau for que tioning, pending
the arrival of Captain Healey and Li u-

.uorNo Cost and lived with hi wife and three chil-

dren at 7432 ati nal Avenue, Milwau-
tenant orton.

TryFREE 5 Days! kee, \\ i cons in. He had only recently

b en employed by the orthw 'tern road.
Lieutenant Korton, Captain Healey and
L ATE that night the detecth'e and
1f r, mith app ar d at the Det ctive
Bureau and \\' nt into an office wh re
two railroad in:pect r , early the follow- mith wa~ bronght for qu tioning. Th"
be unpopular. lonesome
D ON'T
minute tonger. ow you can
or unhappy. a
mak«: your !I(e
ing day, t ok up the trail of the Mauser
pi tol which wa now w nding it way
f rmal it ie. of greet ing of hu band and
what you "tRot it to b~now you an wIn admira-
tion. su ces and popularity-through the tran.;e to Milwauk e. By noon they were in that
pow r of Hypnotism. I'll show yoU ,to u~e thIS
great force to help you rna ter m st SItuatIons or city and the b,iective was the home of
The F,u Day Trial is FREEl Edward ,mith,
In just a few hours I'll teach you the hidden v hen they called, a woman, apparently
s r 18 of Hypnotism-the m thod used b~' the Mrs. mith, came to the d r.
$:treat ope.rat rs-th amazing things. )rou. can
accomplish on e you understand till mIghty "I 1\Ir. mith home?" a 'k d aptain
J)ower. You can use it to vercomp obsta les. Healey.
a hie\'e your ambition and b ome MA ,TER f
yours If. for yourself h~~ H~pnotlsm can "~[y hu band working today," she
,anish fear worry and oppotullon-Improvc Y ur replied.
memor)"-i~crca e your e:lTnings--and get the
good things in life you deservel "\ ell, Mr. mith," aid the aptain,
"we're bu ine a ent f r the new Brak -
In this st"'tling 'EW book. Tht Scient:< of
fll'Pnnl;sm th world famous hypnotist-Prof. man' "Gnion and we'd like to get your
L: E. \'ou"'~r veal the most car fully guarded hu band signed up:'
ret of lhis fascinatinll subi t. He not only
,plains th methods of n ted hypnoti ts. step by " ome in won't you?" the woman in-
8l p-bul tell learty all. abou~ the nin stages of vited. "r w n't promi e anything but
Hypnot;sm. the Hypnollc IIr~or. Mental Tele-
».'\lhy. how to teel your sub} lS•. method of maybe Ed would like to hear ab ut it."
hypnotisinK. how to waken. the subJ t, how to "Thank ," returned one of the "busine
mak mon y oul of Hypn u8ml
ag nts." '" e w re und r the impr :sion
that your hthband worked nights and we
Try SDay FRE Mysterl of thought we'd find him home:'
nd TO 10ney Hypnodsm They were all ated in the mode tly
Revealed furni hed parlor which the d te ti,"
confident are w that clo ely . crutinized ,hile th y alternat d
Prof. Young and his greal How to Hypnotize
book wi!! Qui kl)r l a It you at a Glan in offering ound r 'a on why Mr. mith
th i nce of Hypnotism that 'uo«"dble Sub- hould a"ail him~ If of membership in
we will s nd you a COpy with- How iecu
out one enl in advan cl
to Hypnotize the Brakeman' nion. Clo e-up of Mylin
imply clip and mail the cou- lt~ ~el~i~~nean Li.:ntenant orton ingled out the buf-
pon below. When the book EnterlaJnment
arrives pay th postman the !low to Mak th- fet and ey d it clo ely. He judiciou Iy wife "er, Mrs. mith wa conducted t.)
n Respect You
special low pri of $2,50 plu. \. rcomlng Bad s I cted a chair a little nearer to the china another quart r of the building and Lien-
f w cents postage. Then test f1abl'"
the power. of Hypnotism 5 ] row to do Dozens helves. au er,. dishe and r\'ice 'n nt -orton began to grill mith.
day I If not amazed and de- of Hypnotl ];eau plate wer rangcd along the back of the ay," he began, "I've een your face
lighted relnrn the book and ee of Hypnotism
money will b refunded at in Operations buffet. The c ntral figure of the design . Let me ee-you were one of the
on et :Mail th oupon now. con isted of 17<'0 sih'eY Nalleys, The witne.. es n that train the night Dickey
Li utenant did n t mis them. He leaned wa killed. Right?"
FRANKLIN PUBLISHING CO. cI . er. "Yes," mith admitted, • r wa n my
" ome nice platt r- you have there, way to work. 1 wa going to the yard-.'·
Dept. G-710
~fr~. mith. Thev 10 k like Peacock' ." "And you didn't ee anything?"
seo . Clark 5t. Chit.go~==~~,=:!- "Oh, no," correct d ),Ir, mith, "they're " ' thing' unu ual:'
r;r::;;;i;:-;'::I==::: - ; : ; ; - : ; ; ; - - ( Tiffany plate. 1[y hu band gave them "Hear any -hot ?"
I 00 . Clark t., hlca~o I to me for a Chri tmas pre en I."
"Oh, ye," aid Lieutenant orton,
, O. t

"Didn't ee anybody u piciou ithc-r 0"

I T1n. wnd me
-'. }"rol. YOllnc
OUt
\\
~ . . . .mc nl'. b001r-TA,. .'Vtt'fU" OpfWllti..""
h~n tM book .n'Y
1"11 pAy ltMo po.lm. .
I coughing in a nonchalant manner. He U "'0. t
.m
II,:::, .'~~~tn.~
nnh' '..$0 phi_ eel I!'. If I not. ..tis6ed .ft.... 5 d.) . Ulal.

... lH.~'~.~:~ :.u:. • .~.~d.U.~.~U nl(~I~: ..... I took one of the brightly-poli. hed platters
in hi hand, turn d it over lowly and read
"Didn't hear anything about the hoot-
ing at all ?,
I .Iit,,,, .d '... . . . . . • ..•.•..... I
....•....
the engraved in cription: Tiffa II y. 'Vhen " h. y .. A pa eng r who Wa5 up ~
I T.~.)~~aDd.~~. ••;~.~:.~ o~·: .h':'hat•.
: ·~:t~a::::;~ . ~n~' ;.~..·i~~ I he picked up the econd, the woman the front of the train wh n they op Ilt'd
l"Oupan
h.nhord.. .
·n ~\
'.;
('". t·
d ..h\"".., .. I
~m .. O~ l;. S. twitched nervou Iy, and was about to the door later told mahout it:'
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mut nl ..
peak, but a 0111mon ominous look on "\\-rapp d up in the e new papers,
 True Detective ~l/.ysteTies 91
mith, i a .32 caliber ).Iau er pi tol and
two ih'er platter! Ever ee them be-
fore? Take a good 10k."
The man winced and only tared blank-
ly at the obj ct laid b fore him. His
cool demeanor wa deserting him. Hi
eye became un teady. Lieutenant or-
ton aim 'd hi finger at him and a ked:
"Did you hoot Dickey?"
". - 0, no; my God, no:' mith fairly
shouted, quirming in hi chair. He did
n t hold up hi head for a moment.
"Li ten, Smith," hot back the d tec-
tive, "come clean 1 You stole the e plat-
ter and th's gun that killed Dickey. Y u
tole them out of the baggage car while
you were braking for the orthwe tern.
ow give me the goods."
mith eemed ready to give it. He
he ita ted, began to mumble and then an-
nounced:
"All right, Lieutenant. I'll tell every-
thing I know. I swear I didn't kill
Dickey, but I know who did. If I do--"

"I DON'T ha\'e t make any bargain

with you," broke in Lieutenant -ort n,
Speechless,,:when a FewWords
"You hay the right to be told that what
you ay now will be us d again t you
later on. You ha\'en't got me, mith. I've
Would Have Made Me!
got you." But now I can face the largest audience
"All right, all right, Lieutenant. I was
in on it. I'll tell anyway. The whole
without a trace of stage fright
thing wa bungled from start to fini h
and 1Iylin can take the c nsequence .
1--"
T ndHE annual banquet of our Association-
the biggest men in the industry present
without a word of warning the Chair-
now are when called upon to speak, you can
quickly bring out your natural ability and
become a powerful speaker, Now, through
• \,"hat' )'[ylin' fir t name?" the Lieu- man called on me to speak-and my mind an amazing new home study training you
tenant interrupted again. "And gi\'e me went blank! can quickly shape yourself
his addre ." I half rose from my seat, into an outstanding, influ-
"Bernhardt • hlin. He liv s at two bowed awkwardly and mum- ential speaker able to domi-
What 20 Minute a
hundr d and si~ Michigan treet, Mil- bled, "I'm afraid you'll have
Day Will how You nate one man or five thousand.
waukee." to excuse me today," and
dropped back in my chair. How to address busi- end for This mazing
").[ylin wa n't uppo ed to hoot the ex- Speechless-when a few ness meetings. Booklet
pre me enger ri ht off the bat, was he? words would have made me! How to propose and This new method of train-
That' where he bungled the job eh ?" The opportunity I had been respond to toasts. ing is fully described in a very
"Ye ,that' right," confe ed the pris- waiting for all my li~ and How to make a political interesting and informative
oner, not yet fully aware that he had I had thrown it away! If I speech. booklet which is now being
giv n the detective the information they could have made a simple How to tell entertain- sent to everyone mailing the
little speech .ving my opin- ing stories. coupon below, This booklet
wanted mo t. "1 planned the job. I How to write better
knew the one hundr d thou and dollars ion of trade conditions in a is called, How to Work
concise, witty, interesting letters. Wonders With Words. In
wa' coming from t. Paul. There were How to enlarge your
way, I know I would have it you are told how this new
lour of u in on it. B rnard P. mith, been made for life! vocabulary. easy method will enable you
n relation of mine, wa' in on it too. Always I had been a vic- How to develop self- to conquer stage fright, self-
B n mith i a detecti\'e right here at the tim of paralyzing stage fright, confidence. consciousness, timidity, bash-
Bureau." Because of my timidity, my How to acquire a win- fulness and fear. You are told
Th wide eye of the detective indi- diffidence, I was just a no- ning personality. how you can bring out and
body with no knack of im- How to strengthen develop your priceless "hid-
cated that the la t tatement had taken your will-power.
th m eompletel)' off their guard. but pressing others-of putting den knack"-the natural gift
myself across. No matter How to be master of within you-which will win
mith wa permitted to go on with his any situation.
how hard I worked it all for you advancement in posi-
try. went for nothing-I could tion and salary, popularity,
"The other one in on it," mith contin- never win the big positions, social standing, power and
ued, "wa 1IeKee. He's a baggag man the important offices, simply because I was real success. You can obtain your copy
lor the orthwestern. Lives in Milwau- tongue-tied in public. absolutely free
kee, too. And then like magic I discovered how to by sending the
").Iylin came to me fir t and aid )'Ic- overcome my stage fright-and I was coupon.
Kee told him there wa a lot of ea y amazed to learn that I actually had a
money to be had. aid that a lot of it natural gift for public speaking. With the
wa being shipped between orthwest
aid of a splendid new method I rapidly de- Now Sent
veloped this gift until in a ridiculously short
citie and Chicago every month. Well,
IeKee gave me the tip on the gun and
platter. He arranged it so I could g t
time, I was able to face giant audiences-
without a trace of stage fright.
Today I am one of the biggest men in our
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92
job we met III the deput, ~[ylin, ~JcKee,
-Ben mith and myself, and talked it over.
Because he wa handling the gun, }'Iylin
bo' 'ed the plan, He aid he would
bard the Vikillg in Highland Park, stick
up the expre' messen 'er and get the
dough and then hop off at Evan ton.
mith wa to meet him with the \Villys-
Knight at the Davi treet tation. Then
they were going to bring the dough to
l11'y place and we were to split it four
ways.
"1 wa suppo 'ed to help }'lylin off at
Evanst n. \ ell, s me time after we left
1[ighland Park, I ju t caught a glimp'e
of ),[ylin a he was coming ut f th
express c ach. All he had in his hand
was the gun. Although I was one coach
up ahead, I could tell it wa' him. Right
away I knew omething w nt wrong. 'In
that case,' I . aid to my elf, 'it's every
man on his own,' I th ught at fir t I
would hop off at \\ innetka, but I finally
decid d to tick where I wa and act as
though I didn't kn w any thin ,"
"The la t I 'aw of ),[ylin wa when he
~ot ff the train at \ innetka. I don't
think he aw me at all. I rode on and
"ot off in the depot in hica o. That
The line-up at the inquest proceedings; (1) B. Smith, (2) Edward Smith, (3) R. McKee
and (4) B. Mylin
was when I talked to you, Then I read
in the morning paper that Dickey, the
me eng~r, wa killed:'
L IEthe TEconfes
'A.·T
'or
ORTO informed
that ina. much a th~
lllinois criminal c de hold an acc s-
.ory to murder, ither before or after the
fact, equally guilty with the murderer,
• mith and the oth r three w uld be
charged with first degree murder which
would mean death by hanging or life im-
pri onment, up n conviction.
Edward Smith wa. then delivered into
the hands f the I ck-up k eper who was
admoni hed not to p rmit any ne to vi it
(r talk with the pris nero
Bernard mith, the accu d policeman,
"a' next ought out. n rep rting for
dnt)' at midnight, mith wa taken into
cu tody and held incommunicado in the
same cell he had put many an ther. Hi
,tar wa taken from him and a report or
Ihe ca e ubmitted to the hief of P lice.
\ hile awaiting a deci ion from the head
f the department, Lieutenant orton con-
ferred with the railroad inspector to plan
for the arrest of 1fylin. ccording to
state law. )'fylin could not be arrested in
\\'i c n in <111'1 tran ported to Illinois to
answer to :I crim:n I charge. On the other
True Dftect·ive Mysteries
h' nd. e,,:raditi(JI) pro eedings would mean
di closure f the evidence to the de fen e
and thi the detecti"e' wanted to avoid.
To get around this, a special agent of
the railr ad wa a 'signed to trail Mylin
in ),Iilwaukee and wait f r or create an
opportunity to get },[ylin acro s the state
line voluntarily.
By tactful que tioning of several of
),Iylin's friend who loafed about a Mil-
waukee ci"ar store, the ag nt learned
that )'Iylin had b"('n in an automobile ac-
cident in \\'aukegan, Illinois, ev ral
day' before. 'Cpon this inf rmation was
ha cd the ruse for u:h ring the fugitive
into the state that wanted him for mur-
der.
According to the ch me, )'fylin wou u
he . erved with a ubpoena to te ·tify in a
civil suit growing out of the automobile
accident. Thu', he would I gi ally have
nothing to fear a far a elf-incrimi-
nati n was concerned and there would be
n cerci n. It did not matter that the
whole ch me was technically ill gal.
The I'appy thou Yht wa' that ),[ylin
w uldn't know thi .
.\ccordingly, a bailiff the next day ap-
peared at )'lyl"n's home, . ummoned the
latter to the door and read the" 'ubp na."
nfortunately for 11ylin, he consented to
g-o along', whereupon they et ut in the
bailiff's car.
The rear wheels of the machine in
which th y were riding had hardly pa sed
ov r the legal tate line when a police
('ar drew up alonl;" ide and f rc d them
to halt. Uylin was too urpri 'ed to
move and was handcuffed to a deputy
sheriff before he c uld collect hi en e .
EYents subsequ nt to ),fylin's arr t
were ingularly undramatic. If he wa
the man who murderously shot Ru. ell
Dickey in the bag-gag-e coach, hi c nduct
under the e circumstanc s betrayed the
man he thought he wa. He wa t tally
cowed: he whimp red and ridiculou Iy
d nied one moment what he thought he
could explain away the next. He 10 t no
tim in fixing the entire blam for the
crime on the two miths and :McKee.
\\'hen thi failed to impre hi hearers
he began to hint that the dead baggage
cI rk wa in on the deal and that he had
tried to double-cro. s "hi. paL," and had
paid for it at the hand of Mylin, the
Mvlin down who. cheek now were
cO~lrsing the tear of fear and remor e.
),fylin and the two. mith w re lodged
in th Lah ounty Jail pending grand
jury action by the State' Attorney. Only
1cKee remained to be caught.
The sequel to 1:Iylin's trange account-
of the crime which he recited originally
was his final and complete confession.
In it he blamed Ed, ard mith for con-
ceiving the crime and planning it, which
did not se m unrea nable in view of the
fact that mith, rather than 1fylin, wa
in a po ition to know of the $100,000 ship-
ment. ),Iylin's tory of the shooting was
simple and straightforward:
I came into the expres car," he
aid, "I told Dickey fir t to hold up hi
hand. which h did. Then I told him to
get d wn on his kn e and crawl ver
to the locker in the far corner. In tead
of ding that he tri d to draw hi' gun,
lunging at me at the same time. I fired
three hot at him and he fell face d wn-
ward. He aid nothing.
"I tarted to earch hi clothe for the
key to the safe, but quit after a few'
minute. I de('ided not to tay any lon-
ger. T len I heard the Conductor v ice.
\\'h n . nduct r Dilzer tar ted to come
into the expre car, I grabbed him,
JlU hed him in and lammed the do r
which I locked. I pulled the cord for the
('ngin er to -top n :ignal at \Vinnetka. I
jumped off there and took a cab to Evan -
ton. H
Mylin's confe . ion wa being r ad to
1h Lake ounty rand Jury when sp -
cia I agent of the railroad finally caught
up with UcKee whom they arre ted iu
filwaukee. McKee denied ever having
talked to }'1ylin or the miths but he wa
b oked a an acce .ory t the murder
nev rthele .
ot the lea t aff cted by the crime was
the father of Bernard mith, al 0 a po-
liceman of high ,tanding in the hicago
1'01 ice Department.
II four defendant w nt to trial,
)'larch 16th, before Judge laire . Ed-
"ard and w re vigorously prosecuted by
- lonel A. V. mith, tate' Attorney.
Dc pite his confession, 1ylin had nt red
a plea f not guilty and the other three
had done th ,ame.
On the stand Edward mith repudiat d
hi' c nf s ion and charged that it wa,
obtained by third degree method. The
d fen e al 0 endeav red to h w that
Ru ell Dickey had help d to plan the
hold-up, but nothing more than the qu -
tionable "'ord of the defendants could be
produced.
After being importuned to "hang them
or free them" the jury retired April -tth
to determine the fate of the defendant.
The up -hot wa a hope1e deadlock
and on the following day the jury was
discharged and a new trial et.
The jury in the second trial convict d
B rnhardt Mylin and Edward mith and
entenced them from one to twenty·fi e
y ars in th~ tate Penitentiary. B r-
nard mith a 1d :'IcK e were acquitt d.
Thi la t act i n n the part f the jury
wa not urprisilig because, although the
finger f eircum tantial evidence pointed ti)
their aiding in the r bbery pbns, no definite
pI' of of their participation :!1 the robb ry
wa e"er made.
During his incarceration in the County
Jail )'Iylin almo t went in ane. Often in
the night he wa . ure he could e the
gho. t of Ru ell Dickey beating at his
c 11 hars.
 True Detective 1ysteries 93

Stalking Honolulu's
Mad Kidnapper! Win Nash Sedan and $500
(Continued from page 37) or $~,84S Cash
hah'cs of a king of club and a half of the
king of hearts were other clue di c vered
Seven Brand New 6-Cylinder Cars Given
(To obtain new friends) J am going to r.he absolutely free n brand nc.v ~ix-("ylindel .. pedal ~:j)." 'a"h (our-
here. door Sedan. an Idsntobile two-door Sed:m. a De Soto lwo-door . dan, a Vontiac two-door Sednn. an ~x
The di covery of the poetry with the two-door Sedan, a \Vhippet two..door sedan. and a 'u'vrOIl'l lwo-door Sedan. all 'x-<,ylindE'( btcst model
Sedans, abo 4 splendid new console type radios. a Victor Orllt phonic Victrola find other valuable prizes.
body narrowed the field of earch. The ny person living in the . S. A. outside of hiCOlgo may enter an aJlswer to ,hilt I)uzzle ('xcept e:nploy~ of the
murderer mu t have been a person of \ . n. Boyce ompany or members of their families or \\ioo rs of automobile.. or fiNt pri.t"s in any of our pre·
,~ious offers or mcmhers of th"ir fUUliJi~. You owe it to yf\ur'l;(.'tf. ect the comph.'lc details of this ('on test now.
ome educatiol1J and literary taste.
ince "Macbeth" wa one of the re-
quired enior subject of Hawaiian high
~chools, attention wa turned to IcKin-
ley High 'chool, a cho I of more than
SOLVE
2,000 enrollment which included children
of at least eight races, and the only public THIS
high chool in the city. Detecti\'e held a
meeting of the faculty and questi ned the
teacher clo ely about the enior of the
TRAFFIC
pa t few years. Information gained from
thi ource led nowhere.
ews of the di covery of the body
PUZZLE
spread with unbelievable rapidity and
thou ands of the morbidly curiou reached In the picture there ~ re 1 can in a bad traffic jam. Non(" of them can mov(" fnnv'lrd. for each rnr is blocked
by the one in front of it. One of these cars will h:.we to be backed out. \Vhich one? The t.rnffic poU~mal\
the cene of the crime before the coroner seems to be 8tUmped. an you 8tmighteu up thi8 tangle for him? Only 011(" enr may be mov£.-<! backward.
and II you pick out the right one. you will see that it 18 not ne<:e883fY to back up any of the olhen. nd the
arrived to arrange for the moving of the number of the car which when back~"(1 out will n-lic"c lhi8 traffic tic-up. and if your an8wer is correct you "ill
body. Public indignation wa arou ed to be Qualified for U,lH oPllOrtunity.
the highe t pitch remembered in the Terri-
tory. Thou ands of enraged citizen milled $500.00 lor Promptness
about the police tation, compelling the
police to use strong-arm method. Real-
izing the seriou ne of the situation. the
authorities decided to remove Harry Kai-
san to Oahu Penitentiary for afe keeping.
Hawaii may well be thankful for it in-
herent re pect for law and order for, on
that day, a young man later proved to be
innocent, might have been lynched. MaRVEL Compact
INSTANTLY REMOVES
SUPERFLUOUS HAIR
FU D of more
A raised in the ne..xt few days as a re-
a. aim ply .. ~r ..inl a ~ndl tn.rk. No liquid. cream
:~rrk:i: inod~~: t.alr ·iy1>:~~~rl:C'...th::uca,."pptr;
] "r2Se
PoI"1 BOYS
b,. llcht. clnlut., molion-an) where•• ")'tllne. ...." ..
ward for the capture of the murderer or Min amooth and hairleu. Di8C-ouracN crowH..
Sen' direel from maker. Money back &uarant.ee. p.lci~ "Silver Only" B I r. Fu N
I:k.ut C.O. D. if preferred. Liktrature on ~uu", only
murderer. . Vigilance Committee wa You ~~pareo~_ ... thru-Ootbu: Wood. Sk)ne aDJ' objtot. 8M
MARVEL COMPACT CO., BoIlN 10 Fleeb. fltlElE-PKCl. RADIO PICTURE FILMS. Takee piotun
formed by a number of leading citizens, Dept. T-U 9 East 14th Street. New York ~~~rMR3. ~'l:~'U '''" ~.;;. 71. pka. W:::~"C:vl=~~~1..';:
osten ibly, "to a ist the sheri /T." E /Torts
were redoubled to trace the fiend or fiend . G:ornerYour1'lctures..Aib:'m
wben ,"00 eao ."0 &bIa MI. au. ~ FIN6ERPRINT INSTRUCTIONS
The serial number of all the bill paid to .aJo" &hem as• .,•• IN ONE VOLUME
the Oriental youth by fr. Jamie n were 5 En~.1 Become a FlNCER PRINT EXPERT,
now publi hed in the new paper 0 that a Sty1.. I~rtG:oners'eofo... earll big salary·rewards-or go into the
.t
. N GO . . . . Sapp" aDd
Pbo&o Identification business (or yourself
careful watch could be kept all over the , " A1:':b-'e.:\~=.-v:~~trtl~l~ part or full timel And. because this Is
Territory for their appearance. It wa lO ¥it:=-.t-.
~.T No Fold ..., to mounl
mot&. A cUma brl.... 100
in olle volume tbe cost is amazin&,ly
small; Write (or details.
by this method that the fir t clue to the Buy.r "'=G~~1':tl~O. American Finllerprint ra.titute
murderer's identity wa obtained. ~OO Dep\, 6O·F, 4711 N. Clark 51.• C.I.... B01< 2398. Loa Anllele.. California
On eptember 21 t, funeral rite were
held for little Gill Jamie on. m ng the BEAUTIFY YOUR FEET
cards detached from floral piece. was A Shapely Foot I. a Joy Foreoer
found one signed "The Three King." traighten Your Toe. Bani h
Make $30.$35 a Week that Bunion. Any other foot
Public entiment had reached the danger You can Jearn at home tn Ipare trouble?
point with the finding of the body. but ::~~ ,f:::::n~ngfr::~dU~{e•.p~sst -The uP.fedieo" Toe Sprine
this act of cruel mockery so inflamed the 31 year.. One graduate haa cbarge REMOVES THE ACTUAL
or a ten·bed hospital. Another 8Ived CAUSE of the BUNION
people that the city was in a near frenzy. UOO whlla le.mlng. Equipment Included Open to all or enlarged ioint. Worn
If the fiend, or fiends, obtain d their pe- o.ar 18 an(M~d~G301~U~o~08V-b~tkR~~~&ment.. at night, with auxili-
ary appliance for day
culiar form of pleasure from seeing the Pl.... s.nd ma your Crea Ca..ln.tlng bookl.t. "AmazIng
Opportunities In NuralOlt." Rnd 32 sample lenon page!!. use. ~O~~~r
"community all agog," they were more Out.
N.me 5006 421 8. Ashland Boul.vard. Chl.ago, _III. end ou.tlin. of !OOJ.
W,iujorjullparlieular$
than amply rewarded now. C. R. ACFIELD. Dept 249
Cit. State AKa_
Hitherto peaceful Honolulu wa under-
going a reign of terror. Parent, fearful
that the murderers might natch their Travel On $1900 Year to Commence
child next, lived in fear and horror and
either kept their children \Vith them or
·"Uncle Sam's' SEE YOUR COUNTRY
placed them under lock and key. The Pay Roll ,r -F;A-;'~L;;;;;;';'ITU;:-E~:;;;~-~':;7~
Man Coupon Befot'"e You Looae It

ordinarily sober-minded eemed to be los- Rocheater. N. Y.

ing their head and there \Va much talk
of lynching. Everyone had reason to fear
an outbreak of mob violence. Vigilance
was increased, wherever po ible, to pre-
vent the murderer from e caping from
tht island. 0 hip \Va all wed to de-
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94 True Detective 1)steries
part until thoroughly in p cted. Editorial
in th local pap rs warned the p ople
again t mob violence. Out in Oahu Peni-
tcntiary meanwhil, Harry Kai an tead-
fa tly maintained hi innocence.
uddenly, in the mid t of thi turmoil
and panic the marked five d liar bill be-
$12,60 to gan to make their appearance in yariou.
part of thc city. A Japane e woman wh
S3400Year owned a little flower hop on Kuuanu
MEN-WOMEN treet reported p se ion of ne of the
.8 TO SO bill. It wa fr m her hop that thc
PICK YOUR JOB "Three King" had ent the flower to
RAILWAY POSTAL CLERK
Gill's funcral. The},fo e Office Equip-
Railway Postal lerk8. Uk,e aU Gov foment mploy 8. mcnt C mpany of Honolulu rep rted hav-
~:~:).a }]-e~:~Yt~~~t~l~aO~a~ ,~~o::i~::ua.1:~~':It~ ing taken one in for the ale of a blue
lhf' country. \\'hen away from home they get allowan::e fountain p n to a Japane e youth, the d -
for botel.
CITY MAIL CARRIERS, POSTOFFICE CLERKS cription of wh m tallied with that of the
They also have 15 days' paid vacation. City reside.nce kidnapper. A t reke per in Kaimuki, a
la UDoeceaaary.
COVERNMENT CLERK
(Open to men and women 18 or over)
di trict o{ II nolulu, reported having re-
Pleafmnt cieri. 1 and filing work in the \'3riou govern- cl'ived one of them. In both the latter
111 ot departmentA at \Vashinaton. D. ". and other cities
throughout tJ1C country. case the cu t mer had deoarted before
CET FREE LIST OF POSITIONS the serial number could be· ch eked. It
Fill out the coupon. Tear it off and mail it loony-
DO IT O\V-This invcstm ot of two cents (or a was ncouragin to note that the "Three
earch of the boy s ro m revealed the
conclu i\- bit of evid nce needed to c n-
nect him with the murder. Thi evidence
wa a map f the ea ide B'otel gr und
at \Vaikiki, with a cro marking the pot
where the body of Gill Jamic on had
bcen {und and the word in cribed,
"Refugc of yictim."
fern to h then left Detective
and t. John at th hou e t guard
the murdercr' return. At the
tlli time wcr nited tate
car ox. Pri\-ate Detective If r d
Luke and Kcd Chillingwcrth; L. Vi cr,
conductor f thc train on which Fukunaga
had returned to Honolulu and ~Ir. aito.
proprietor of the eaview Inn at \\ aialua,
one of the place called at by Fukunaga on
the day befor. The e last two men, in
company with ~far hal Cox, had p nt the
day trying to run the murderer to earth.
Cox had received hi tip early that morn-
ing a hc wa coming through \Vaialua and
had enli ted the aid of the other two men.

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FRA KLiN INSTITUTE.
Dept. J204, Rocheet.er t N. Y.
Kings" were leaving a trail behind them
of recognizable currency.
Jed hillingworth had received a tip that
had put him lin the right trail.
R"~h to mfI:'rM
of ('''''ree (Il " full d r{l)llon Ilf Ib_ POPidcm ..h«ked
~~j~~~ (~)1 ~~~:~tl·tt·Gt:'~~~::"J~t.iDO~·c:iJ;.~:~l!rD-
aa Railway Po ..a' CI.rk....... -- - -- • ($19OO-$27°O1
Poat-office Clerku u.uu ._~S1700-S2300
the afternoon of eptember 21st, the
O
tation ma ter {or the Oahu Rail & W RD wa n bruited about the
neighborh od that detective were
Land Company at \\ aialua, a small t wn making a earch of the Fukunaga home
ga C.n.ral
i~~.~;l~ifc':;:i;;:::::::::::::::: :ll~I::l~~gg
CI.rk. __ .... __ • .... __ $1260-$2100 about thirty-five mile fr m Honolulu, di - and a crowd began to gather.
a Prohibition Aaent.. u __ . .$2300-$2800\
Detecti,'c t. John wa certain that the
NaJne _ covered that he wa in p sse ion f one
f the bill of the ran m money. He re- murderer would not return to hi home
membered having received it {rom a Japa- after eein« thc crowd, 0 he decided on a
ne e youth who had purcha d a tickct to m ve that wa. d tined to bring grcat
Honolulu {or the a herno n train. credit to him. He prevailed upon the par-
The { Ilowing morning word wa ent
from \Vaialua to In pector of Detecth-es,
John 1rcIntosh, of the Honolulu Police \fh~n lieu", GUI
Department, that a ,Tapane e youth, an- Jund.'wn ,.·n
wering to the description f the kidllappcr Jlome tor 84:'11001
) "~t~rda~' 1 I ap
of Gill Jamies n, had purcha cd a ticket at pearancc we.
\Vaialua and had paid for it with one o~ much a, ""'0\\11 I
the mark~d five dollar bill _ Detective the al'rOmpall:,Jn,
phOlo~",pll8.
~IcInto h then dispatch d Detective John He wor~ n. ll~hl
Troche to \Vaialua_ The police were now C"olorM'l hnY'A !'Ipor
fthlrt, Jll:ht ft81lrit
working on olid ground and the my tery knef' brrt"t:ht
surrounding the identity of the "Thre • :"Int'1 ":'1 "lthout

B
E POPULAR AT ONCEII5
minute If\Iannteed Ukelcle
Course with this full abe
Koawood finish Hawaiian Ukelele.
King" began to unravel.
Upon arri\-ing in \\ aialua, Troche
h.:lt. IlhOt
~to<kln~••
Gill I 01 D,C-
or

t rich melodious tone sure to amue started to work in earncst. He learned tllum build. :lp-
and deUilht. RClfUlar price cut one-halL
Send NO Mon.,,-Pav $2.8. an4oostaifC: on 3r- that the Japane e youth \ ho had pur- pro"Ctnlnt,t, rour
",,-at. Guaranteed ourse and Pick in luded. J\oo Oriental r""t .'~hl and
rina given ir you orde-r'J ODA Y-:Moncy back if not delighted. chased the ticket to Honolulu had al·" IJne.. )'a.lf Incb.. I
S.n4 pOIlal 10 BRADLEY. BlDG_ H-33&, NEWTON. MASS. vi ited Yamada' tore, and had been h~lht aull wI'I;:l,
waited on by a girl who wa acquainted obOut 85
IJOUllds. Wh",n
with him. From this Japane e girl, the stand'": or
fir t real identity f the "Three Kings" ,rlllkln~

was larned_ h t Id Detective Troche l,...,ble itthaIIs nn..

he
tmldq hlnl "If
that the b y' name was ~fyle Fukunaga trttt with
and gave him the addre of the boy's !IIhouhlf"r "",.11
drawn b:u~k.
parent in Hon lulu. he also told the His baJr I, or
detecti\·e how Fukunaga had done ome 1I,(lItJ'Ih hrO\l"D
copying {r m a book while eating food he hk/l~. HI.
ryes aft- blue
had bought. The copying was done, . he In COlor.
aid, with a bluc fountain pen. As blu CI!IPII.d rrl'C>t
was the color of the fountain pen pur- t(\otb, ('au d
b)' A r~f"nt
cha ed {rom the ~f e Office Equipmcnt taU, f the
Company and paid {or with ran om 1no t m"rkf'(l
ld.nllft...llon.
money, Troche {elt confident that he was
finally on the right trail. He also learned
that Fukunaga had graduated from the
\Vaialua Grammar ch 01 in 1925, and Newspaper photo broadcast at the time
JOlC:w many people there. the hunt was on for the mysterious kid·
napper. showing the boy victim and giving
Returning to the city, Detective Troche his description
rlported hi finding to ~rcInto h. who, in
company with oth r d tecti\'e , went to the
home of Fukunaga' parent on onpareil cnts of young Fukunaga to allow their
Lan.e, jut off Ber tania . treet. Herc hvelve-year-old daughter, Haruyo, to ac-
Tn pector ~[cIntosh learned that the bov company him n a ride around town.
had not been home for e\- ral day , b~t ot having a car, he told Chillingw rth
that hi parents expected him home that of hi plan. and together they went in
night. Chillingworth' machine. They were ac-

companied by I fred S. Luke and hi op-
erative, Harry Fukumoto. After visiting
th!' Central and uuanu Y. M. C. A.
Buildin ,and the public library, common
haunts of her brother, the murderer's little
sister directed them to the theaters, which
were just then di charging their matinee
crowd. They had driven by most of
the e without any succes when little
Haruyo uddenly spied her brother leaning
again t a telephone pole near the inter-
ection of Fort and Beretania treet, one
f the bu iest corners in the city. He was S EInDonmethe
reading a new paper and probably at that women everywhere are making 58 to Sl5 In a day- 1 to S2 an hour
moment was studying the proce of the erages I CO E TRATED FORM.
i land-wide man-hunt that he had caused,
little dr aming that it would now be ter- ..de.
minated in a matter of seconds.
Driving on for a few feet, Detectives
1. John and Chillingworth left the car
and approached the boy. They grabbed
him, one on either ide, but were met with You don't need previous selling experience. capital
no oppo ition. The pri oner admitted at sational
once tliat hi name wa Fukunaga, and sa.mple right in YOU! pocket. Just show to hou e-
even before hi arri\'al at the police ta- 'you,wives and take thClC orders. T hlY ,"ust buy from
tion, where he was taken immediately, ad- atone get the profits on an business from your
mitted that he had committed the crime territory.
alone, and that he wa the "Three King ."
A . the detective' car swung into Mer- This is a wonderful chance to make some amazing profits
chant treet, in front of the police ta- with
tion, an angry mob ru hed to the auto- $125 in a single week. John TYle~is0~r:tf:;.n~r~'bn~~'iJs ~~ ~~~a~::gy~~n~an~ 3g~~:ela~iaTI\'~~ d~u~~
mobile with crie of "Get him, he's the
guy." Detective t. John called to other
officer to hold back the mob. The mur-
derer eemed unmoved by this demon tra-
tion and was heard to remark, "Let them
get me, I don't care. I'm ready to pay
the penalty."
In tead of the viciou -looking, thick-
fingered trangler the police had expected
to capture, the elf-confe ed murderer
\Va a delicate, round-faced, dreamy look-
ing youth, who tood but five feet two
inche in height and weighed but one
hundred and ten pound. His hand were
delicate and slender, more like a girl's than
tho e of the brutal fiend he was. Except
for his coloring and hair, hi feature were
almo t Caucasian.
Upon que tioning Fukunaga, t. John
learned of a room in the erene Rooming
House on uuanu near Kukui treet. He
obtained the key to thi room and went
there immediately. There he found all
but $60 of the 4,000 ran om money in
an old vali e, and se\'eral scrap of paper
which, when pieced together, pro\'ed to
be a "scenario," an early draft of the
ran om letter, and a " chedule of nder-
taking." A calendar hanging on the wall
of his room had the 25th day of epteIn-
ber marked with cro ses. Thi was the
day menti ned in the ec nd letter as the
day on which the "Three Kings" would
surrender ~hem elves. Among his effect
was found a photograph of himsel f on
the back of which, in his own handwriting,
was the following:
--alld silentl)', skiI'Ping
I shall go,
With alit a footprillt
Thro' the snow
This was written in longhand and signed,
[yle Yutaka Fukunaga, hi full name.
\Vhether the poetry wa of his own com-
po ition, or copied, wa not determined.
I the meantime, some 20,000 people had
gathered in front of. and in the streets
leading to the police station. Excitement
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ran high and th r wa great danger that
the m b mi ht reach the breaking point at
any minute. The ational Guard wa
called out, and while awaiting their arrival,
City and County Horney, Charles Davis,
and heriff Patrick Glea on, made short
speeche to the crowd , pleading with them
to disper e and t allow the law to take
its cour e. The arrival of three com-
panies of militia with bared bayonets
brought the first relief to the tired and
worn police official.
The crowd were then forced back and
the streets were roped off. The militia
maintained guard along the e barriers
throu hout the night. Two engine. a
ho e wagon and thirty m n wa the con-
tributi n of the fir department. H es
w re led out and connected in readine s
to a i t in maintaining law and order.
T HE foll wing intere ting ac ount of
Fukunaga's full c nfe sion a dictated
by Judge William H. Heen and written
by Th rnton Hardy. Honolulu new paper-
man, which appeared ill' the H nolulu
Advertiser follow :
. I am not crazy. in any en e of the
word. I k'TIow the difference bet, een right
and wrong.
" ince early boyhood, I ha,'e been a
great reader of b k and magazine. I
tudied with intere t the L b-Leopold
and the Hickman kidnappin and Illurd r
ca, es. It wa from the Loeb-Leopold case
that I g t the id a of demanding ten
thou and dollar.
"My motive was revenge. imp ronal
re"enge again t the Hawaiian Tru. t om-
pany. and de. ir to end back my poor
parent to Ja!lan.
"They rented an apartm nt in Heretania
• tr et from th Heen E tate. Th Hawai-
ian Tru. t ompany wa agent f r the es-
and c 11 ted the rent.
"~Iy parent were poor. Th y could not
me t the rent. ~r y mother had to put off
the collect r. Early thi year they were
evict d.
"~Iy thou ht was to avenge that hame.
Fir t I th ught t kill J hn R. Galt, Pr i-
dent of the company.
"But I knew ~r r. Galt. and I did not
, ant to kill anyb y I knew. an eleva·
t r boy, orderly and clerk at Queen' Ho-
pital, I had m t ~r r. Galt.
" 0 I put a ide my thought of him and
look d in the dir ctory for some th r
ffi r of the ompany. ~[r. Jamie, n. I
found. wa a "icc-Pre ident. He w uld
do for what I wanted.
"Thi idea of avenging my parent's
hame I f rm d la t March. ince then
until this month I have be n turning it
ov r in my mind.
"When I decided to act on it, I kn w I
mu t learn m re of the Jamie n' family
habit. I did not know the Jamie. on. I
did not know h w they lived or how many
6 of them there were.
"T get my information I called ~Ir .
Jamie n by telephone. I called from a
ing Engli h. They could not under tand
me.
"'Hello, 1f r. Jamie on: I ay, 'I'm
Board of Health Inspector. \ want cor-
rect tati tic y u give u. v e think got
wrong.'
"~rr . Jami 011 ay one boy. ten years
', .
old. . Tame, orge Gill Jamie on:'
o E HEE~' tatement wa imer-
by the arrival of Frederick
ill' father. illy.
lid on arm over the father'·
he said, "at II :15
away.
For a mom nt the Judge looked traight
at the de.k in front f him.
··Phew·w-, I" he aid, and re umed his
dictati n.
"1 got my idea of the Punahou .cho I
ground and the location of the elementary
ch I fr m r adin the school editi n' f
th Honolulu new papers.
"The letter to ~rr. Jamie on, I wrote in
my room a the erene the night ber re
the kidnapping. That was ~I nday night.
Tu day m rning I hired an automobile
at the Ir ha tao i land. There I thought
I wa not kn wn.
"J n my pocket I carried a pair
m ked gla e and orne candy f r the
boy. I did n t wear the gla es while \\ e
were riding to Punahou.
"The we k bef re I had ordered a white
coat ;"ade from a tailor at the corner f
Tuuanu and Pauahi treet. He had cut
it, ju t like I tell him, It looked like h pi·
tal coat.
"Lu k wa' with m all the time. A t the
ch I. the children were c ming out for
rec . E,' rything go perfect.
"I t Id the teacher, ~Ii s \Vinne. ~[r.
Jamie on ha,'e automobile accident. he
wa ' lightly injured: I aid, ju t lik thc
pap rs print.
"Th re wa n trouble. \ e got away
smo th. mooth.
"That b y, h wouldn't eat the candy I
bring, . () I talk to him. Accordin the
n('w. paper account. I didn't talk that y
much. \\ herea. the truth i I talk that
boy all the time. pretty much.
"From Punahou. we drive straight to
Royal Hawaiian grounds. At the fir t
walk. we get out.
"Before that time. a fter I lea,'e the
ho pital, I work d at a ide Hotel, pan·
try boy. 0 I know that country well. all
the urrounding, what you call vicinage."
J DGE HEE:-J dropped his dictati n to
let fall a mar inal note, 0 t peak. on
th c nre i n.
m ng the paper found am ng Fuk-
unaga' effect wa a map of the ea·
ide ground, howing the locati n of the
en'ant' quarter, the cottages and the
thicket at the r ar.
"He had made up hi mir.. aid the
Judge. '·to do murder when he dr w that
map. -nd rn ath a mark corre ponding to
th p t where the body was found he
had written:
"Refuge of'victilll."
, oon a we got out of the car, I paid
the chauffeur. I ga"e the chauffeur two
d liar and he ga"e me back fi fly ent-
change. It wa all the money I had.
"\\'e cro cd Kalakaua Avenue, then
cro ed . ea ide ~rounds and entered the
thicket at the rear.
"The boy gr w frightened and began to
scream. I threw him down and held him
face to th ground with my left arm while
I . truck him four. five times on the head
"ith a 111t1l1 in<irument like a chi I.

"It surprised me that the blows did not
eem to quiet him and I drew a napkin
from my pocket. That napkin I had from
the time when I wa pantry boy at the
. ea ide Hotel. \ ith that napkin I
trangled the boy. . . .
"\Vhen he wa quiet, I looked at my
wri t watch. At that time, it wa 11 :15
o'clock, n other.
"1 looked at my clothe. ~fy coat, my
trou er, they \ ere rumpled and bloody.
'But luck \ a with me. all that day.
In ide the bloody coat, my hirt was
clean.
''The coat I got rid of underneath an
empty cottage near the refuge of the vic-
tim. Then I entered that hou e and sat
down to think with my elf.
"Tho e trou ers I had were dirty, bloody,
crumpled. That would not do. I mu t
change them.
" n1y way to do was steal trousers ome
per on not looking. 0 I enter servant'
quarters behind ea ide Hotel.
"Luck was with me that day. obody
was looking. I steal trou er and make
quick chan e. Then I take Kalakaua
A venue treet car.
" t my room in the erene, I get my
loter to Mr. Jamie on, the ame I write
the night before. Text I telephone fr.
Jamie on from nearby tore at hi office
in Hawaiian Tru t Company.
"I want
DID not want to talk with him. I
know i he there. \ hen he an-
wer, 'Jamie on talking,' I ay: 'Beg par-
don, mi take. I thou ht Hawaiian on-
tructi n ompany number.'
., 0 next I went Japane e Y. M. C.
luuanu treet. There I telephone me-
enger boy come Y. ~L C. . He want
thirty-five cent, I ha\'e no change. 0 we
go hine e store acro treet and there I
buy package gum.
"Between that time and night time, I in-
spect the capitol grounds. At fir t I think
that g d place. Then I see ational
Guard drilling and d dde no good.
"\ hen ni ht time come, I telephone fr.
Jamie on from public booth, in front
Hawaiian Trust Company. \ e make ap-
pointment at Thomas quare. I tell him
drive around and round, light on, Ii ht
off, ten second each time and top in
center.
"By in center I mean under the banyan
tree. But he mi under tand. He drive
Another view of crowd of the curious near the spot where Gill Jamieson's body was found
True Detective Mysteries 97
round and round, ju t like I ay, Ii ht on,
Ii ht off, ten econd each time, but he
top center of Kin treet side.
NOWAmazingly Easy
''Too many people there, too many ma-
chine pa . I'm afraid. "hen he stop, I
f ~Toge
- (/
into
wave my hand. I try i nal him. Appar-
ently he could not r ad my i nal, or 0
I interpret hi action.
'Bimeby he top ri ht in front of
Academy of rt. Then I put handker-
chief over my face and draw near.
"'ARE you prepared?' lay.
"He say 'Ye , I am pr pare.'
" 0 then I think fast. I did n t know
that country, but then I think 1fcKini
Lane. Quiet there. 0 people, or n t much
people, and plenty bu h .
"In my hand I carry hammer for de·
fend my elf. I have n other weapon, but
I keep one hand my back pocket, pretend
gun. Bluffem.
"\ hen I tell hi m top, he a k
boy. I tell him right nearby in bu he .
Fir t he count the money, then we
boy.
"At that time, he hout for help. • carf'
me plenty. B y wa dead, I have In 12 week and with.
gun. World War n)'er out previous experi·
'I tell him shut up and count money or win Tral. T_ ence or edu<.ation,
Major Rockwell is a. you can rna ter every·
he never see hi b y. '0 he take off his principle of Ground
hat and count money, ju t like I say." ~~:nte'::o~~~d ~Yt~~ ~r.; Training w hie h i s
Le-gion of Honor and neces ary before you
"How much money did Mr. Jamie on the \Var ro s. De i are ready to take your
now teaching viati n place in any branch of
have with him?" Judge H en wa a ked.
"Ten thou and dollar in currency," aid
the Judge. "He'll tell about it if you Ii -
and will train you as
only 3 \'l~tl'r3n war fly-
er can. \Vith Rockwell
Training, your furure
Aviation. My Hom~
tudy Course is the
ea ie t, Quickest and
in Aviation is:1 ured. least expen ive way for
t n. Have patience." you to get into Aviation.
The dictation wa re umed.
"It was dark. I could not ee the money. I'll Train You UntU You have
I did not know if he wa counting fi fly an Aviation Job paying
dollar bill , or ten or five, like I said. $300 to $400
"\ hen the hat wa nearly full, I thought
You don't need a high school or college edu·
that mu t be all. I wa terribly excited. I cati n to know anything about airplanes. motor
told him wait, we would brin the boy, and or mechanics. ?\ly home urse is thoroug~
and complete. Everything i so clearly ex·
I jumped out. Int the bu hes. plained. that in a few short months you will
"I did not know that country. I scram- be :able to gra p every fundamental principle of
Aviation ground work and you will be well on the
bled through the bu he in the dark, be t road to qualify for any impOrtant :lviation job
way I could and came out as happen. P01ying SJOO to $4()() a month. My Home Iud,.
CoUT e will give you all the knowledge necessary to
" n Keaumoku treet near the Puritv pass the government's written examination for me-
chanic . or .,ilols· licenses.
Inn, I got taxi car, telling driver goo by
way corner of uuanu and Kukui Streets, I'D Help You Get Your Job
nearby my room at the erene, where I
Learn at home in )"our spare hours. In 12 short
live. \~eek you can be ready to take your flying instruc·
"1 have no small chan e. So I give him tlons at greally r~uct'd rales at any airport near
)'our ~ome. or ri'fht here in Daylon. Or you can
one tho e five dollar bill. I su peck they ~:~rJ~~~e a~ ~;de~i~c~ gr~::3ti~~ :~~h ~e ~:~~:
take number th se bill, but I have no AVI3tl~)o-lhe f.ute I gr\lwing indu try is calling youl
choice. I am force. r.?e
U
~~~ n~~ri~nfig~ If art~~
"My stronO" impulse wa run not wait. completing my course "11
refund your tuiti n. Take
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I ha\'e 0 much m ney I think what' u e on his bosom, wa covered with flowers,
waitin a your chang ? L u y three d liar, a hi funeral cortege of o\'er fi fty cars
But mething tell me more better wait, lowly wended it way to the Japanese
and 0 I wait. take m)" chana, Duddhi t cemetery.
"In my room, I count that m ney fir t few day later hi parent collected
time. \\'hen I c unt only f ur thou- his 1,000 life in urance policy, the premi-
and dollar, I am thund r- truck, amaze. um of which had been kept up by the
" urely I think, I mu t dr p that money . friend of the murderer.
while I bru hing thr ugh tho e bu he in The 27,000 reward for hi capture had
that country I do not know. I must have beep paid out long bef reo A committee
Pediform hoes conform to the natural 10 t 'em. wa appointed to con ider the claims,
shape of the normal foot; at th same "That night I couldn't leep. All night I which were numer u, that came in for
time permit the abnormal foot to be fitted didn't Ie p, Xext day I buy new cloth - part of it. Thi c mmittee placed a
and give free a tioll of ev ry bon and
muscle. They allow perfect circulation, ock, irou er, hirt, ten dollar worth valuation up n the ervice of each in-
correct joint articulation and develop from K pp Brothers. And I paid with dividual who played a part, or contributed
the su taining mu I to highest tand- h e fi\'e dollar bill . toward the captur, and the reward
ard of effici n y. 4,000 phy ician and
urgeon helped to make it the perfect "\\'edne day night, in my r m at the ley wa· dh·ided accordingly.
health hoe. r n . I wrote my lett r To Whom It -00-
~[ay Concern. Th next morning, I mail I : /11 cOlllleelioll 1,illr Il,e forego-
The Pediforme Shoe Company illg lory, Il,e followillg, frolll Mr. Roy
36 Weal 36th Street, 29 W ••hinllon Place,
it in the p toffice.
ew York Ea.t Or.nee. N. J. "I am not afraid. From the fir t I have .I/. FrisCll of HOIIOIIIIII, is added ill lire be-
322 Livin,.ton Street, 2474 Morrh Avenue, b n willin give my If up, ju t like I lief 11101 il will be of illterest 10 ol/r
Brooklyn Bronx
275 North Avenue, New Rochelle writ. I am willing to pay the penalty, renders, Ed.)
m unt up the cafrold of in, ju t like J
Wrile lor FREE Book
TODAYI writ.
"Xo. I am not crazv. I know the differ-
MYLE Y
th a e
TAK. F KU GA, at
of twenty year, died the
This 48,,.,,< book shows h"'" /()
ence b tween right a~d \ r ng. I am not mo t ignoble death allotted to man-on the
be comfortable tu,d Irai" )'Ou1'
Jut to do lMir work .urwm-
afraid.' caffold-at tweh·e minute pa t eight on
plaininrly. P.dl instructions
on pro~,. "re au ~urcisu for the morning of Tue day, ovember 19th,
1M ftd. Also illustrates PE()l· 1929, in expiation for the crime of kid-
FORME s1uH.s /01' ,",n. U'Omen
and childreN lor eouy purpose.
Ask lor Book T. Tourt,HE murderer wa gi\·en a peedy trial.
D f n e lawyer were appointed by the
a hi pe pIe were unable to a ff rd
napping and murdering ten-rear-old
, orge Gill Jamie n, on eptembv 18th,
1928.

•I ecret Investigations !
Earn Big Money. \Vork home or travel. :
thi expen e. He wa found ane, con-
Yicted f murder in the fir t degree, and
entenced to die.
Fri nd of the boy obtained a Japane e
\ hile in the pri on, the youth expre sed
complete penitence for hi act, deplored
th terrible orrow and uffering he had
Fascinating work. Experience unnecessary. i cau ed hi aged parent and other members
0.-----.
)-----Partic:ulara FREE. Write Dept. lawy r who appeal d the ca e n the
of hi family, and embraced th Chri tian
! AMERICAN DETECTIVE SYSTEM I ground that Fukunaga had n t had a fair
trial. The upreme ourt f the Terri-
r ligion. alth ugh he had been brought up
; 2190 Broadway New York : in the Buddhi t faith,
• I tory upheld the verdict of the lower curt,
• I In di cu ing hi crime and puni hment
; Name .. ...............................•• : The ca e wa again app aled and went to
with the Reverend T. Komuro, Pa tor of
:L.-
Address ... ". "" .......• , .•.• , ..... J; the Xinth ircuit Court in Cali fornia,
th Harri ~Iemorial Japane e 1Iethodi t
which upheld the verdict originally given.
Epi copal hurch. of Honolulu, who first
The ca e then went to the upreme Curt
gave him piritual advice and comfort in
of the unit d tate, which refu ed to
hi cell, Fukuna a declared him elf as
review it. ~r r than a year had elap d al ne, p r onally, to blame for thi horri-
Bow LeiS ince the crime wa committed.
A petiti n ign d by a thou and Japan e
women wa ent to His Excellency, Law-
ble act. He made n eff rt at elf excu e.
n October 10th, 1929, forty day before
he went to hi death, young Fukunaga dic-
THIS GARTER (Pat'd) renc P. Judd, G vernor f Hawaii, re- tated a remarkable tatement or me age
M•••• r .......... a .....'r."h.
IF Lao• •&ND 1M OR OUT
<tu tina him to h w I ni ncy t wards
Fukunaga' 'indi creet acti n," a they
to the Reverend Komuro. The tatement,
however, wa not r c ived by the mini ter
Fret; Booklet-Plain Sealed Envelope termed it, and to commute hi entence to until aft r the y uth had been hanged.
TIle T. GARTER CO. life impri.onment. Thi tatement of the elf-confe sed
Dept. D. lIoutb . . . . . . . . .
The ao\"ern r did n t hange the en- murderer follow :
tence, 0 on the: "1 rning of _- vember
19th, ]929, thi ]apane e youth, who had LET YOUR LIGHT SHI E.
A FAMOUS ASTROLOGER e n hi ca e fou ht through thr e curt,
In the (Ollrse of olle's life a great
Makes a remarkable offer and who had I t hope only when the
upreme Court of the nited tate had a~ 'aRellillg dawlls sllddellly, that
Ramah, the famous makes the ';lIdh,idllal look above
Astrologer, has recently refu ed to review hi ca e, mounted the
arrived from Paris
where his studio had I
caff Id to pay hi debt to ociety. Thus spellballlid. It 1Ita). be an a1 'aken-
become the m a for ended Hawaii'. "Hickman case." illg to a Sllccess, to a love alld to a
lovers of occult Science. sOIlI. Jlille is the laffer, an a'wal.'ell-
K a letter addr d to the young people illg of mj" stagllallt sOIlI. And this
Were you born
under a Lucky I of Honolulu, thr ugh the Re\'erend T. has (Ol/le abollt < hen ill my 10llely
Star? Komuro. written a few week b fore his
d ath, Fukuna a blamed. in part, the
prison (e!l T lived 1 ith my thollghts
\ ill your futllre be ala lie. Hadll't it bee II too late?
happy( Prosperou , movie, too much reading of cheap fiction,
fortunate? Do yOIl and hi enn- f the rich f r the attitude of ~I.v experiellce, the)' sa)I 1 'ith bellt
know what )'our star
of destiny decrees for mind that I~d him into crime. heads, is allother ' traged)' of )'ollth."
you and those born Fukuna a. thou h born a Buddhi t, a The)' blame the modem yOllth alld
under your parti ular
sign in Love, marriage mo t of the ]apane e in Hawaii are, ac- <l'olldcr <l'hat is to happen 1/ext.
or busine ? cepted the Catholic faith with f r\' r afte:- H01 can they stop this rising 1'e~olt
I have made astrology my Iife's work and offer a
most intere ting a trological interpretation of the he wa entenced. Fath r Bruno. the pri on of )Iollth? They canllot cOlltrol it
Zodiac sign under which rOil were born. To in- chaplain, aa\'e him the final rite of the 1t11less ),011, the )'ollllger generation,
troduce my work to Am rica, I will send YOII an
interesting informative reading for only 25 cents. church on the mornin of the execution. do )'0111' part alld cooperate with the
Send exact name. addre and date of birth and After he \\'a pronounc d dead. hi body
year and receive your aSlrological interpretation in wa gi\'en to hi parent who held funeral elders. Alld rel/lember this, if the
plain sealed envelope postpaid. A great surprise 1'orse comes. )'011 alolle arc at fault,
awaits you. Enclose 25 cents to cover C"'l.t of ervice for him according to the BuddhU
this notice and mailing, Address me per onally. rite. Fukunaga' body, clothed in a white jllst like I alolle '(toas blamed for my
154 East 12ht St.,
RAMAH Suite 103 New York City. kim na. Buddhist tyle, but with a r ary 1'( olt alid folly.

They placed before 111)' eyes a
block of marble, a 7.vhole set of tools
alld a book of helpful hillts alld di-
rcctions on how to sculpture the 1'eal
lil.'eness of myself out of that cleo 11,
spotless block of marble. Ho7. did
I proceed? What did I do? What
7.,'as the result? laly hallds carved
out a ,'ollgh form of my figure. I
follo7. 'cd the directiolls alld my 7. 'ark
'i,'as good so for. Bitt the tedious
labor bcgall to tell on me; the tools
pere becoming dull. I lost courage
and 7. eal.'ened. IVllOt's the use, I
said, alld gave up. The result?
Angry and: discontellted, I poured
forth 111)' "ath alld 7. ith one last
strugglc I lwocked tllC half-formed
figure to the ground alld there it lay
lit scaffered picas.
Theil the "eali:::atioll! As the figure
of marble crumbled to the groulld,
so my body crumbled to ruill. After
the dcrd, a lIe7. soul a'i 'al.'elled in 1IIe
G1id filially callie to rrgret the mis-
take I made. Why did I 1I0t hm'e a
li:tle 1II0re patiellce in my task? A
liffle more courage and 7. 'ith that
al/gered strellgth that kllocked the
figure d07. '11 combined, I 7. auld have
fillished the 7. 'orlt perfectly, i11 ti1lle.
I had bee 11 fortullate. Thr)' gm'e me
materials tools alld directiOlls. I had
eve"y chance of 1IIaking good. It
7.,'0.1' left for me to do the rest. rr hy
didn t I aslt for help or a word of 11-
courage1llent from those about me?
Thrrein 3'OU filld a .. eak, discon-
t!'lItrd 7. 'orl.'er 7. 'ho broltglrt about his
07.1/£ do7. nfall. Arc YOlt goillg to bl!
m'e hi1ll? 0, 110t 011 3'our life!
Leam his mistakes G1ld profit there-
by. Blame 1I0t they that gave him
c7.-'ery opportunity and guidance, but
bla1lle him alolle.
Life illdeed has mOllY disappoillt-
111ellts and trials alld it is hard to
measure olle agaillst the other, for
they all hurt so much and so variedly.
But 3'et tlUlt is the trial that sepa-
1"Otes the strollg from the 1 calt.
01lleti1lles it 1IIakrs the former colt
alld the latter strollg. It all depends
011 the individual alld his 1 ill PO'l cr.
1I,'s 1 rll for 3'01£ to accept this search-
illg trial as a test of 3'our endurallce.
COllqucr each ol/r alld the strollgrr
3'our 'l'ill 1'01 'er brc01lles. The after-
math of good 7. orh of a hard, lOlly
trial, 07. er-riddclI, leaves 3'ou ill a
state that 1IIakes 3'OU feel like. moving
a 1II01l11taill sillgle-hallded.
HlllOt agencies 11U1de me fall at
cach trial alld 'llhat 1 eakened my 'l ill
power? First, there 1~'as too much
n'ading of fiction 7. 'hich 11U1de me
'li.'ish to llOve a. life like its characters
alld thell leadillg me to dislike my
01 11 life. J shollld llOve 1'cad it for
rlltertaillmel1t alld perhaps leamillg a
lcsson 01113" Jt was the same case
with the movies. They are whole-
.wme--if aile takes them ill the right
spirit.
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cxt is rm'y. I ellvied Ihe rich
and 1'Jell-ojJ proI'll'. It poisolls your
milld just as chrap 1IIaga:::illes from
the lIe'l s stallds do. There is the
harm of 1 alltillg thillgs 3'Olt canllot
get instcad of beillg colltellt 1 ith
1'hat 3'0lt have. ~V hat call be 1 'orse
thall self-pit3', pityillg yourself? That
alolle is a crime. 1f llOt did I get b)'
tl:illf.oillg 01l1y of m)·self alld 1I0t of
others? I got death! Their 1 elfare
is just as importallt as mille, I found
alit later. You must give a thought
to 3'our neighbors also, alld cOllsider
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I find that all these tend to bring
about sin-pride, ellvy, covetouslless,
lust and anger. I t is best for 3'01t to
a'void them.
Mv soul is out to Cod now. I llOvt!
placed my faith ill Him through the
teachillgs of Jcsus Christ. Y rster-
day J 7. 'as 'l'itlLout allY aile religion,
but today J am alls1 1erillg His call.
I hrar Jesus sayillg."I am the way,
the truth, and the life." Alld what
w1IIforts I h01H! in these 1 ords-
HI am the resurrection and the
life; he that believeth in Me,
though he die, yet shaJJ he live;
and whosoever liveth and believ-
eth in Me shaJJ never die."
Fukunaga's la t word, uttered a few
minutes bef re he stepped on the fatal
scaffold, were addressed to a Catholic
priest: "Plrose give 1IIC l'Ollr blcssillg,
Pother." \ ith these words on his lips,
the boy entered Eternity.
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murder of George Gill Jamieson, a banker's
10-year-old son, photographed at Honolulu
Police Headquarters Sept. 22, 1928, four
days after the kidnapping and a few hours
following his capture.
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and heard," Green informed him. "And
that i-n't very much. on(;' come out
to tell u what's going n in ide. \ e got out to \\ e t Gate."
Goodwin out of the t wer, but we had to
drill through the teel bar of that wicket
in the outh wall to get to hil11. \\'e car-
ried him down a narrow pa age-way lead-
ing f rOI11 the tower to the treet. He' hit
bad. Goodwin sar he drilled a convict
before he wa ho't. They fired together- don't go back with an an wer they won't
Goodwin and the 'con.' \\. e don't know
who he is."
"How about the guard in ide?" the question."
\Varden a ked anxiously.
"Oh, ye. I gue. they're prisoner -fif- 'Crawf rd a ked, deciding not to pre s the
teen of them. At lea t they ha\"en't come
ut and we haren't een any of th m-none
except Joe chillo. ome ne saw chillo
\\'e're pretty ure there' another w unded
they"'e g tone riAe and we think they've
goot se\"eral gat -how many we don't
know. The man Godwin dropped in front
of the l11e s hall had a riAe."
"That' either the riAe fr 111 the crow's
nest or one that's been smuggled in" the
\Varden aid. .' nd if it' th crow's nest
riAe it mean Erwin's been shot."
"\\'ell, maybe," reen a reed, reluctant
to admit what he felt mil t be a fact. "\\ e
aw two men lugged into Cell Hou e 3.
That was ju t before the fire started.
Guard, r c 1l\'icts dre ed in uni form,
carried th min."
"'What ab I1t th r \'olt 1 ad rs-who are
they?" Crawford a ked.
Green hrugged hi h ulder , and said
he didn't know, adding:
"Daniel and Pardue w uld be in a mess
like thi ."
\ arden Craw ford nodded affirmatively,
and started to a k an ther que tion. A
shout from a corrid r of the Admini tra-
tion Building jut outside his office stopped
him.
,. ome ne's coming out of Cell House
3," a guard exclaimed. "Coming acro s
the yard thr uah the smoke. He's got his
hands up. ),{ust be a me en er."
R \ FORD hurried to a window over-
C looking the pri on yard.
wa approaching, but whether com"ict or
omeone
guard he c uld not tell. He watched the
man ad\'ancing I wlr throu h the moke.
Ten feet away {rom the window where
the \Varden sto d, the man stopped.
Crawford recognized" lippery' Dell Han-
lon, a stick-up, sent up from Denver for
life.
"\\ hat' on your mind, Dell?" Craw-
ford asked.
"I\'e been sent ut wilh a l11e age, and
th re' a riAe trained on my back right
now. I'm not a party to thi \\·arden."
"All right, let's ha\'e the me. age;
what' wanted?"
"I'm in tructed to tell y u, ir. the lead- the hot that echoed through the prison
ers want two automobile put at \ e t Gate enclo ure after Hanlon had gone back with
for their u e at sundown. They mu t be
good machine, and their tank mu t be guard had been lain? These que tions
full of ga oline. nd they want a guar-
antee that the men who get into the ma-
chines will not be molested."
" nd if I refu e?" the \Varden asked,
noting it was 3 :30 P. 1.
"The guards who are pri oners \ ill be
killed one at a time and their bodieli en\
" omc clean, now D II, and tell me.
\ ho sent this mes age?"
"Warden, I'd like to t 11 you that, but I
can't. I\'e got to go back with your an-
weI'. I f they u pect that I told any-
thing they'll kill me. And Warden, if I
wait until undown to kill the captive
guard. 0 you ee I can't answer your
"How many gun ha\'e they got?"
convict further.
"I d n't know exactly. The men who
ent me out have a revolver each; and
theY\'e got the riAe. Y u know about
that. don't you."
'The one from the row' n t. They got
that when they killed Erwin; shot him a
he came down the ladder. Joe chillo aw
Erwin Iring at the fo t of the ladder."
"\Vhere' his body?" and when Hanlon
said he didn't know, \Varden Crawford
asked:
"\ ho' the wounded man?"
"I didn't ee him, and they're not tell-
ing me much. They figure I'm a friend of
your. But I heard the wounded man
groaning in Cell Hou e 3. They've got him
in a bunk.·'
Crawford wa silent as he seemed to be
preparing a reply to end back to the con-
vict leader. Pre ently, he p ke.
"II I'll. Dell. [10 l'ock GIld II'Il Ihem I
cOl!lIol cOlI/promiS£' "«,ill, crimillols."
"But they'll kill the guard ," Hanlon
warned.
The \\ arden gritted his teeth and
turned away. indicating the interview wa
at an end and that hi decision had been
made.
Hanl n walked back through the smoke
to Cell Hue 3. He di appeared through
the door.
111 a few 1IIillllies a shot echoed II"ougl,
lite I'riSOll ellelosllre.
\ arden Crawford, on his way back to
his office, topped when he heard it.
"Hanlon or--!" he gasped, and before
he fini hed hi speculation on the meaning
of the shot another cra hed.
T HE me aae convict Hanlon had
brought out of Cell Hou e 3 wa dis-
turbing. peculating on the import of the
hot he had heard as Hanlon passed int
Cell Hou e 3. \\'arden Crawford ~ank
dO\\'n in hi wivel chair to try to formu-
late a plan of campaign. How far would
the cOI1\'ict re\'o!ters go? \Vould they
make good their threat to kill the fi £teen
guard if their demand for automobile in
which to escape wa not met? Had they
already tarted on their slaughter and did
the \\ arden' me age mean that othH
cour.ed through the \ arden' mind and
a he tried to find the answers for them
hi office filled up with men willing and
anxious to a i t him in olving his prob-
lem.

Among them was rather Patrick ' eil,
a monk from the Benedictine Abbey-the
pri on Chaplain.
Two problem confronted the \Varden.
JIe must deal with the convict -suppre s
their rebellion. And he mu t fi ht the fire
which was reducing the mes hall and
chapel to a pile of smouldering embers, and
]Jrcadio rapidly to ell Hou e 1 aod 2.
The \Varden reasoned that the ta k mu t
be pedormed simultaneou Iy. One crew to
fight the convict while another f ught the
flames. As matter stood at the moment
it wa extremely dan erou to end un-
armed m 0 into the pri on nclo me with
fir line. They would be <:hot down. The
fire e\'idently wa a part of the convict
revolt plot, and the desperate men in-
trc:nched in Cell Hou e 3, armed and ap-
parently prepared to with tand a long
siege, would not permit it to be extin-
ui hed without making it co tly. The
\ arden rca oned it would mean m re
lives, and 0 when the fire companies from
Pueblo reported for duty, Warden Craw-
ford directed them to tand by and wait.
feanwhile, the fire would have to burn re-
gardle of con equences.
W ITH hi advi ors, \Varden Crawford
concentrated on a plan of attack
again t the convict stronghold. ariou
projects were ugge cd and as quickly
rejected. Po ible effectivene s of a con-
certed attack by an armed force converg-
ing on Cell I-Iou e 3 from \Ve t Gate was
di cu. cd. hief Lou ched of the tate
Police volunteered to lead an attaekinA'
T1'ue Detective Mysteries 101
morale of the revolter. \Ve'll try it."
As the Warden fini hed, the trucks bear-
ing the guard men of Baltery B rumblel!
vel' the cobble tone outside hi office,
and Captain Kie£ hurried from the confer-
ence room with hief ched and gave 01'-
d I' for mounting the machine guns.
"Tear out that we t wall with a charge
of dynamite," someone remaining in the
conference room sugge ted.
"A great idea," \Varden Crawford
agreed, "but who'll carry in the dynamite.
It will take a hundr d pound to tear ut
that wall. Who'll cro s th~ fi fty yards of
no man' land between" e t Gate and ell
Hou e 3 with one hundred pounds of dy-
namite in hi arm? o. men, it can't b
done. A fall, a carefully aimed convict
bullet, the slight st friction might set the
dynamite off. nd then--" The \Var-
den covered hi eyes as if to shut out a
gha tly sight.
"Terrible I Horrible! A man
bits," the \\ arden exclaimed,
mi ed the idea.
His ad vi or were silent, and after a few
minutes someone of the group di puted the
\Varden.
" ot .0 terrihle, Gene," a "oice said;
"not so horrible for a man prepared to
m('et hi God; a man without a family. I'll
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party. But the po sibilitie for slaughter
were too overwhelming.
"If we only knew their strength in
weapons," varden Crawford sighed.
Practical ad"iee, ~ giyen to the con-
ference by an old time campaigner after
aptain Keith, commanding officer of the
Battery B et his plane down at the Canon
City airport and hurried by automobile to
the \Varden's office. He su gested a triple
plan of action-an attack from the air, a
bombardment of Cell Hou e 3 with tear
bombs and a barrage of lead laid down
f rom machine guns mounted on the west
wall.
"Good suggestions," agreed the \ ar-
den, "but with their elements of danger.
Dropping bombs from a plane on Cell
Hou e 3 unque tionably would be effective;
too effective, in fact. It would defeat our
rurpo . Bomb are no I' ~pccter of in-
dividuals. They would kill guard a well
a convicts and revolters. \ e can't have
a slaughter of convicts, many of whom are,
like Hanlon, out of ympathy with thi
mutiny, but compelled by circum tance to
remain in Cell Hou-e 3 and appear to give
th ir sanction to thi thing. FlIl'ther the
cloud of smoke ri ing from the burning
buildings would make a campaign from
the clouds extremely hazardous for a flyer.
And, besides, we haven't any bombs.
"Tear bombs would be effective if we
could et near enough to the cell hou e to
get them in~ide, but to do that we would
have to face fire from an unknown number
of· guns. That would mean more live.
But we might mount the machine gun on
the west wall and rake the corridor of
the cell house. Locked in the cells, the
guards would be out of range, but the bul-
lets might find marks in the worthle car-
casses of the ringleaders. A steady stream
of lead from machine guns might break the
could not believe his cars. nd then in an
instant he knew his gravest fears were
confirmed. There before him were th
moving lips, the smiling, good natured
Iri h face, the Roman collar showing white
around the speaker's neck.
Father Patrick 0'. eil it wa who Yol-
unteered to carry the dynamite into the
prison yard and plant it beneath the sturdy
stone wall of Cell House 3.
"Father Pat; you can't do that!" the
\Varden exclaimed in horror.
". nd why not; I'm able bodied. The
weight of it would be nothing. And the
bullets-I won't be touched. I'm single,
and the only man qualified for the mi -
sion; I'll go."
The door of the \Varden's office SWUIl!~
open. and a guard ru hed in. He wa ex-
cited, out of breath.
". omeone el e coming out." he stuttered.
Again Warden Crawford hurried to the
window from which he had watched Han-
lon advance from Cell Hou e 3. The sun
was gradually slipping down behind the
hills, and he wa con cious that it would
soon be sundown-the hour of the threa-
ened slaughter of fourteen guard remain-
ing in the convict's clutches. He saw a
man stumbling throu<Yh the smoke clouds,
and he noted Cell Hou es 1 and 2 now
were burning. The flames were already
con uming the roof .
"Joe Schillo," the \;Yarden exclaimed as
he recognized the advancing figure. " ow
we'll get some real in formation."
Guards opened a double set of barred
doors to admit chillo to the Admini tra-
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\Varden's office. As he closed the door
two shots sounded in the direction of Cell
House 3.
"God," he groaned, "he did it. There's
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nIan, and Bob \\'iggin ."
"\\'hat do you mean, chillo; explain
your elf," the \Varden demanded, and the
liberated guard proceeded with his tory:
"Th y told me if I didn't come back
with an an weI' they'd kill Eele and \\'ig-
in. The\' aw me come in ide and they
j; 'ured I 'w uldn't c me back. \ arden,
her' f ur dead m n in there now; they
want th e auto ."
"]7 ur dead:" the \Varden que ti n d.
,.y . four: Eele and \\·iggins. if they
ju t killed them. and Erwin and R. P.
Pol' wn. He hot Brown after Hanlon
came back with ,. ur an weI' f 'no c m-
pI' mise.' ~Iaybe' you heard the hot. He
called Brown ut f a cell and hot him
thr uO'h the head. 'That' for Pardue,' he
aid."
"\\,h said:" Crawf I'd interrupted.
" h. I th ught y u knew-I mean Dan-
iel. He' the leader-with Pardue. But
Pardue i w unded. He's lying in there n
a bunk in his cell. Hit pretty bad. Dan-
iels killed horty Erwin as he came down
the ladder from the cr w' ne t, and Par-
due natched up his gun t ck and key,
climbed up to the crow's ne t and g t the
riRe barrel. Then they had a riRe. But
Pardu didn't use it long. omeone shot
him from ne of the t wers-Goodwin, I
upp se. Daniels ays Pardue got Good-
win: is that o?"
The \\'arden nodded and ur cd chillo
to c ntinue,
"What happened in the me shall?" he
a ked.
"1 was alone in \Varden Green's office
next to the me s hall at lunch time. I
heard a hot. That wa after the 'cons'
had marched out. I went in to inve tigate,
and Daniels and Pardue were tanding
over horty. They c:overed me. I begged
them not to let horty die like a d g and
to allow me to go to him.
"Go ah ad.' Dani 1- . aid. 'but no
trick.' He pre ed hi re\'ol\' I' again t
me. 'Don't you believe I'd kill you, Joe?'
he a ked, I nodded, and he aid: 'There
may be ome yellow guys in thi , but I'm
not. I'd kilt you in a minute.' I said I be-
lieved him, and he let me go to horty.
He \Va dying. 'Joe,' he aid, 'it' all off
with me. Tell my wife I died fighting, put
omething under my head and take off my
sh es.' Then he gasped; he wa dead."
HE guard paused in his recital to urge
T th Warden to immediate concerted
action to qu II th riot. and l' ,cue the
guard, mpha_izing that the eonvict~ w 1'(>
d _perat and th laught r of th ir pri -
on l'S wa immin nt unle_~ th ir r I a
wa IT cted befor . undown.
,.\\ e've ot to know what we're up
against, Joe; tell u what you aw and
heard and try to remember how many
weapons you aw and what talk you heard
about them,' the \\'arden informed him.
"Then we can handle thi ituation intelli-
gently. 0 far we\'e been gr ping in the
dark."
"\\ ell," chillo continued. "as I wa
leaning over horty ju t before he died,
Pardue ran to the mess hall door. I heard
two hot. one near and one far off. They
seemed to come together. Pardue fell out
into the yard, and Daniel ~aid he had
be n hit. He told me to go get hj body
and carry it into Cell Hou e 3. But when
I got to the dOQr four convict in guards'
uniform were car~'in'" him away. Dan-
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iel made four more 'cons', al 0 rigged out
in guards' uniforms, carry 'horty's body
into Cell Hou e 3. , II the captive guard
were herded into 1\;0. 3 cell block and
locked in the cells. Daniels was ore at
Drown."
"Xow J , how many guns; who lias
them. and who are the ones a sisting Dan-
iel ?" the \ arden prompted.
"Let me ee, Red ~rajor and A. H.
Davis had un, and they were doing what
Daniel told them. ~rajors al 0 had a
uutcher knife, And Leo ~IcGenty had a
un. Daniels gave it to him. That \Va be-
fore he accu cd ~IcGenty of poi ling his
piay by tarting the fire. Daniels didn't
want the fire. He had other plans. Then
there was the riRe and I heard some talk
f ther "'uns, but I don't know who has
them."
":\ny idea where they got the guns?"
"Xo, but I think they had them hidden
in Pardue' cell. There are two hole
drilled through the cement veneer over a
\"ntilat I' sha ft. The holes are near the
b ttom of the haft. Guns could ha\'e been
dropped into the ventilator through an
pening at the top. They could al 0 hide
ammuniti n there."
"How about ammunition; how much
have they t ?"
"Their pockets arc bulging with it; Dan-
i Is bra ed about the amount they have,
but didn't pecify what it is."
s chillo concluded his narrative in
A the Ward n' office, a me--en er rae d
t ward it from the \,yest Gate. three city
block di tanto Out of breath, he burst in-
t the office, his eyes dancing with excite-
m nt, his lip. qui\" ring.
"Two bodi .~rJ the m _ nil: l' manag I
to blurt out a the urprised group leaped
to their feet and gath red ar und him. The
man lab red to get his breath before con-
tinuing.
"\Ve t Gate; two bodies; convict just
threw them into the yard; two bodie : see
them fI' m the \Vest Gate," the me se!1-
gel' exclaimed, jumbling his words in his
eagerne s to get his story tId.
" h, y I I forgot" ehillo intel:po d.
"Daniel aid he'd ,kill Eeles and Wiggins
and throw their bodies out of Cell Hou e
3 if I didn't come back with an an weI'.
The e bodies explain the two shots we
hl':U'd when I came in here. Thcy\'e killE'd
Eelc. :lI1d \\'iggins."
"The de\'il ," exclaimed Father O'Neil.
and \ arden Crawford, pacing the Roor in
thought, pre cd an lectric witch, Rood-
ing hi office with light. The udden
brightne seem d to arou e him from h!s
reverie. He turned ano looked out of his
ffice window, noting' the long shadows
ca. t hy thf' _un a it dropp d low l' be-
hind the hill. Turning to Father 0' eil,
he said:
..It. undown, Father Pat. I gues you'll
have to go in ide the wall with the dyna-
mite."
"I'm ready, vVarden," was the priest's
reply a he touched a match to his half-
moked cigar.
T HE
t
next two hour wa a period of in-
n~e
activity. Captain Rief and the
men of Battery B labor d cautiou.ly, but
speedily mounting the machine guns on the
west wall. This work was undertaken
with due consideration of possible niping
by the convicts in Cell House 3. Chief of
Police R. F. Reed, of Dem'er, and Cap-
tain Frank Campbell, an ex-gunner oi the
'nited tates r\avy and the pistol mark -
man of the Denver P lice Department, 1'-
dered an armored car ru hed to the peni-
tentiary from Denver. The field piece, al-
ready aboard a truck and ell route fr m
ihe Pueblo Armory f the Xati nal uard,
would arrive oon. A tank wa bing hur-
ried by truck fr m the National Guard
RiRe Range at Gold n, near Dem·er.
D puty Ward n Billy '1' n had proeur d
Ule dynamil which Fath l' O'X il wa- to
carry inside, ir m the pri on ar ena!.
Electricians were hurrying to complete
battery connecti n to xplode the powder.
An attacking cr w under the lead I' hip of
hief Scherf wa rganized and upplicd
with tear bomb" n th hill id - back of
the n rth wall earchlights were in talled
to illuminate the pri n grounds when the
Rames of the burning buildings died d wn,
The convict had put the electric lighting
system in the cell hou s out of commis-
sion.
By 8 o'c1 ck the preparation f l' the at-
tack were almo t c mpleted. No me -en-
gel' had come ut f C 11 Hou e 3 ince
chillo carried Daniel' ultimatum to the
Warden ju t before und wn, and no more
shots had been heard in ide the pri on en-
closure ince Eele and \ iggin were
killed. The bodie of two guard till lay
where the convict had to ed them. They
could be een dimly from \\ e t Gate in the
light reRected by the Rames ho ting ky-
ward from th burning cell hou e. The
chapel and mes hall were in ruin. X th-
ing remained oi them but glowing embers
and blackened walls. moke clouds hung
over the pris n like a f g,
N 1t weI'
E 'clock truck in a nearby church
when aptain Kief reported
he was ready t lay down hi fir t bar-
rage on the c nvict tr nghold. He re-
cei\'ed hi order to rake the corridors with
lead, firing through the only pe.ning -the
teel-barred window. Battery B gunners
manoeuvered their weapons into po ition
and were about to open fire when a harp-
eyed watcher aw a figure moving about
near the west wall of Cell Hou e 3.
The fire was withheld as the figure
groped about in the emi-darkne -, tooped
over one of the bodie, lifted it from the
ground and with the burden in hi arm
staggered acro the fi Ity yard of no
man' land toward \Ve t Gate. \ arden
Crawford waited at the ate to recei\'C
what he knew would be another demand
f rom the com'ict -a repetition of their
previous ultimatum. Ten feet from \\'e t
Gate, the figure with the grue ome burd 11
stopped.
''I'm John Pea e, a guard," the man aid.
"I've come out with a me age for the
\Varden, and I hold in my arm the body
of Bob \ i gin ; he' dead."
"All right. Pea e come up to the gate,
and we'll take poor \ iggin off your
hands; this is the \Varden peaking."
Pease ad\'anced, handed the body of hi
comrade to a group gathered around
Crawford, and turned to hi uperior.
"\Varden, they want those automobile.
Daniel says if you don't do what he says
pretty damn quick he's going to kill e\'cry
guard that's left. He ju t called John ~[c­
Clelland and Charlie hepherd out of the
cells, and he told me he'd kill them if I
didn't come back with an answer.

"'You two screws better start prayin ;
he told them, and to the other he said:
'The re t of you guys go one at a time if
we don't get what we want.' "
"Pea e," said the \Varden, "that'll be
enough for now. You go back and tell
Daniel I'll give him my final an weI' in
five minute. Tell him to end you back
for it. And Pease, there'll be some firinO'
from the we t wall after you get out of
mug. The minute it tart I'llce for the
gate; we'll have it open. Rememb 1', five
minute ."
HEERED by the thought that he and
C po ibly the other guard mi ht soon
be liberated from terror tier in which he
had been held captive for nearly nine
hour, the guard tarted back to Cell
Hou e 3 with a smile on his face. He dis-
appeared in ide.
In five minute he wa advancing to-
wards \Ve t Gate. Fifteen feet away, he
stopped. Warden Crawford, in an under-
tone, ur ed hin:t to come forward. Pease
gave no ign that he heard, and the
\Varden, guessing the convic~s su pected a
plan to lib rate the guard and had ordered
him to receive the message on the pot
where he now tood, ent in tructions to
the machine gunners on the we t wall to
start firin , but to aim high. He rea oned
the attack would divert com'ict attention
from Pea e and drive the rin leaders to
cover. He guessed correctly.
A the iiI' t. crack of the machine gun
fire rent the night air and bullets struck
tone wall and teel bar with a peculiarly
sounding P;1I9, Pease stood as if in a daze.
Then, suddenly, he eemed to remember the
in tructions the Warden had given him.
He da hed towards "Vest Gate. As he
neared the portal, bullets from Cell House
3 kicked up the dust at hi feet or spent
themselves harmle sly again t the prison
rampar . Pea gave th m no h ed. In
a matter of minutes, which seemed like
hour to the agonized watcher, the gate
swung open and Pea e wa out.
"I'm the luckie t man in the world, but I
can't smile," he told the varden.
"They've killed five," he continued in
respon e to a question by the \ arden.
"Brown's lying in there near the cell
hou e-dead. You know about "Viggins.
He's dead, isn't he? They called Jack
Eele out of a cell where they held him
captive with some of the other boy, and
told him to say his prayer. Then they
shot him-a bullet through the head.
Shorty Erwin's in there, dead; so is "Val-
tel' Rinker."
"Rinker dead '" the Warden exclaimed,
and Pea e nodded. Then he went on:
"Daniels told me when I went back just
now that you better show some speed with
tho e autos or he'd bump off every o-uard
that's left in there."
The Warden made 110 comment, but
asked: "\Vhat guard were alive when
you came out the last time?"
" hepherd, McClelland. E. J. Holli tel',
E. F. Osborn, Marvin Duncan. Lawrence
Roche, O. A. Earl and Jack Shea," Pea e
replied, pau ing after naming each man
to recollect another.
"Is Pardue alive?"
"Just alive; he's suffering the tortures
of hell and Daniel has promi ed he'll kill
him, but only a a la t resort. They figure
you'll supply those autos."
U ever," the Warden shouted, and at
True Detective Mysteries 103
his ignal the machine un, which were
ilent during the interview with Pease, re- u. s.
sumed their attack. The hilltops echoed
with the whine of bullet. The effect of
Government
the machine gun fire on the convict morale .lobs
was di appointing. It was expected to
drive them into the open, but ';vhen none
showed themselves in the yard back of the
cell hou e, Captain Kief again gave an
order to cease firing.
$1260
HERE was a short conference with
T the Warden. The machine gunners
scaled a ladder to the top of the west
wall to again man their guns. And pres-
ently, out of the darkness, two men ap-
peared and hurried towards West Gate.
One of them was carrying a burden-a
heavy one. In a moment, West Gate
swung open, the two men passed inside
the prison enclosure, and the machine
guns poured a leaden stream towards
the convict stronghold, and Father O'Neil
advanced towards the west wall of Cell
House 3 hugging a burden of 100 pounds Railway Postal Clerks, Cily Mail Carriers,
of dynamite to his breast. Beside bim, Cily Postoffice Clerks, General Clerks,
dragging two strands of wire, attached Castoms 'nspec/ors
to percussion caps, was an old miner-- STEADY POSITIONS
These :lre sle3dy POsiti os. Strike. r business
The machine guns kept up an inces ant conditions. lockouts or politics will not affect them.
fire. Particl s of lead, shattering on the $1,900 TO $2,700 A YEAR
Railway Po tal Clerks "et SI.900 the first year. be·
stone wall and bars of the cell house. ing Ilaid on the first and hfteenth of each t1I nth.
$78.00 each pay day. Their pay is Quickly increased
showered the prie t and his escort. And the maximum beinJt $2.700 a year. S112.50 each Day
with only half the di tance to go before day. Early examinations 3re eXDeCted.
planting the dynamite again t the cell TRAVEL-SEE YOUR COUNTRY
hou e wall and attaching the electrical
connection which would set it off, the
convict leaders, safely concealed from the
machine gun lead, caught sight of the ad-
vancing figures. They opened fire. Their
PAID VACATION
bullets whined above the heads of the priest
and his companion or struck harm Ie Iy in wwork ~e~~~a~a;~S~~')()~I~r~ J~"vSe),3 l)~a~lJn;'at~~et;o~~~ll;
3 days and have J days off duty or in the
the dnst at their feet. same propOrtion. Durin~ this off duty and vacation.
their pay continues JUSt as thouQ:h they were worl:-
ever flinching, they advanced, untit iog. They travel on a pass when on busine s and see
nearing the wall they were protected from ~lFo~g~~~r~or\~~\ee1. a~"e~r~~eilo~~wthgrd~t1teyex~~;
the convict' bullets, but exposed to the retired with CITY a pension.
MAIL CARRIERS
machine gun barrage. Their dal er was POSTOFFICE CLERKS
greater now. "ould they complete the Clerks and Carriers now Ket SI,7oo for the first
r:aS2s~:rl:~da$~.m.to~11~~al~fs~n~~~~et S$I~y; ~~d
t.1sk they had appointed for them elves? vacation. Examinati ns Will be held in man,. Cities
Those who watched doubted that they could during AURust,. ity re idence is unnecessary.
ucceed. They saw Father 0' eit place GENERAL CLERK
Open to _ and wo_ U to SO
his burden again t the wall; saw him at- w;r~arrn Stb~60 v~io~IO::o;er~~:~t PJ:;::tn':'e~:~ric:~
tach the wires. Th'y sawall this dimly 'VashinKton. D. C.• and at various places tbrou5thout
in the faint illumination that came down tbe country. IS YOUR JOB STEADY1
from the hill ide where the search-lights Com03re the e conditions with your pre ent or your
were playing. And then, after what seemed prospective condition. perhaos chan5tin5t positions fre·
an age, they saw the figures of the priest f:e~I:thtkif~;n~iko~xt [&fJf ~~~I~~~~~~' rr~~~~~f:
and the old miner racing back towards y~,~. ofob ~Oiljo~A'R1. t~I~9Mafe.EaRva~Hi'i~rk~Vf
YOU ANY ASS RANCE THAT A FEW YEAR
West Gate, again under fire of the con- FROM NOW YOU WILL GET $2.100 to $2.600 A
YEAR?
victs. WORK FOR "UNCLE SAM"
The deed was done I ow to set off the Theae ()OSit.lons are nol hard
to a:et. Country residents
dynamite. and cit,. residents . tand
In a moment they would know the out- eaual
I
chance. Political in-
fluence is not oermitted.
come. Would the blast tear out the entire GET FREE LIST OF
facade? Would it expose the cell hou e POSITIONS
and it corridor to the machine gun fire- ntn~1I ~'~;rthi~ fg~o,;~n! :a~i
·a they thought it would? it ti3da~TnoN6\~~.y.r.~;· in-
vestment of two cents for
A man at a plunger switch put all of a t>QstaKe st3m" m3Y result
in you a:elt ina: a Govern.
his power into the effort. There was a ment Job.
roar. It echoed from one mountain top
and then another. The earth quivered. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
Dept. J·280. Rochester. N. Y.
Glass fell in showers. The blackened walls
of the burning and burned buildings
sc~~~1:,ntool"eth~nt:;;~rti~~eec1?~~~rlt~J~: ad:'IlF~~
1ly of 32-o3a:e book. "How to Get a U. S. Govern-
rocked on their foundations. Frightened now ment Job:" (31 A list of the U. . Government Jobs
ohlain3ble: (4) Send schedule of the August
convict screamed in terror. The machine 31>ooinlment.
Clerk-C:urier Examinalions: (5) Tell me how to $tet
guns kept up their incessant rat-ta-ta-tat- o Railway Postal Clerk 'lSI900.S21oo1
tat, adding to the din and the confusion, o Postoffice CI..-k. . SI700-$13OO)
and the dancing figure of Militiaman Mau- oo City Mall Carrier
Rural Mall Carrier
'111700-$21001
$2too-$33OO1
rice Keating appeared on the north wall, o Ceneral Clerk........................ $1260.$21ool
o Custom Jns_tor ($2100 up
hurling chlorine bombs. But the west
wall 0 f Cell House 3 stood solid and un- Name · ···· ···· .. ···· ·
harmed. The sacrifice of Father Pat had
been in vain.
104 True Dete~tiVt/ Mysteries

The ;)l1ly visible re ult fr m the xplo-

What Made His sion of 100 pounds of dynamite wa an
men who milled about \ est Gate. Onl'
sent Pardue thr ugh the gates of eternity.
immen e hole in the earthen floor of the
Hair Grow? prison endo ure. The chlorine b mb ,
Hadn't Daniel promi ed to kill him?
Well, he had kept faith with hi pal. nd
Read His Letter for the Answer exploding in and near the cell hou e, sent the seventh h t? F or him elf, of cour e.
Mr. H. A. \ lid. whose a half dozen convicts, one of them The re\'olt was ver, and at what a
fel;~t1sraf~o':!'~h6:t,~::~ wounded, scurrying towards the Adminis- co t! omeone r membered 1ajors and
acknowledge complete salis·
faction from the use of
tration Building, their hands raised in Davis. uppo e the ixth and eventh
Kotalko. token of urrender. shots had not di patched Daniels and Par-
'"New hair caine .Imolt
immediately after 1 began due, but ~Iajors and Davis in tead. Or,
usin5 Kotalko." he writes.
RDE CRAWFORD was cha- perhaps, two other convict, Ibert [or-
~as';.or~eB~~nl""~dY~n:PI ~~
did head of hair, which hal
W "'rined at the failure of the dynamite garidge, for in tanc, \ ho had defied
been perfCCt ever since."
Thi. alatement by Mr.
charge to open up a hole in the cell hou e. Daniel ; and Leo ~[cGenty, \ ho fir d the
\Vild is but one of many H r. con f rred with his advi ors. chapel and mess hall again t Daniel'
which "o)untarily all At
that Kotalko has SLOPped The arm r d car had arrived from Den- \\'ishe. If this urmi e wa correct, the
falling hair. eliminated
dandruff or aided new, ver. It was ent into the pri on yard with revolt wa not at an end. len re umed
lulCuJ'"iant hair growth where ix armed men behind its armor-plated th ir preparations for the daylight attack
the roots were alive.
Hair TOOlS that remain
in the scalp long after the
wall. It toppled into the hole gouged by now half an hour off.
surface hairs are lost the dynamite and r lied over n its side, Thu en a ed, none noticed two figures
may reV;;in their original
holding its occupants temporary pri ners. steal cautiou Iy from Cell Hou e 3 and
::;;':a ~n-:n~~h ~~g~~~~ A large field piece was rolled into po iti n tagger acro the pri on yard to \ e t
~~ ~~rhaf:o;::ot:a :~rti~: at \\ e t Gate when guard men decided Gate. A weak voice crying for help and
nourishment they receive.
Women also repOrt new hair g r 0 \V t h through
KOTALKO. ~Iany testimonials from men Bnd women
hells would open a pathtway for bullets medical a i lance wa the first warning
whose health was undoubtedly &ood and whoee hair into the cell hou e interior. of their pre ence at the barred portal.
fOOLS were not dead.
Ie your phyaic.1 condition equnl to theirs? And are A the e preparation were being made, 'For God' ake let u out; get a doc-
)'Our hair roots alive but donnant? If flO, they may be tor," one man pleaded.
lIlimulated intO growinFt hair thrOuFCh Kotnlko, the right the revolt \ a tretching into it thirteenth
Mln of invigorant. So d !J>;. b';.~~v~ru:~~.h~ffic.cy of hour. The machine guns, which had poured Guard men patroling the area whirl d
Free BOI Kot.lko, for m.n'., women'.
and children'. h.ir, the pro--
ducers are giving Proof Boxce.
8,000 rounds into the c II hue without
rc ult, now were silent as their cr ws
on their heels, leveled their rifles and ad-
vanced cautiou Iy. Again t the rays oE
Kota. Co., W-355, Station 0, New York awaited additional ammunition. nd a the potli ht they aw two figures cling-
Please lIend me FREE ProoC Bo:< oC KOTALKO. they waited, a sharp-eyed guard man dis- ing to the bar of We t Gate.
cerned a figure lipping through the cell "\Vho are you," a militiaman challenged.
Full Addre ........ _ u u u _ . _ u _ u u u u __ u _ h • • _ hou e door. Another me eng r? the "H lIister," came the weak reply.
man approached vVe t Gate, two hots rang "Osborn," aid the oth r, inking to his
ut in the cell hou e. The man wa near knees.
HINDU SERPENT n ugh now for tho e out ide t ce he was \ arden Crawford elbowed through the
a guard. group now congregated at \: e t Gate. He
"I'm Jack Shea" he announced-"with looked do ely at the two men, turning a
a me a e for the Warden." fla hli ht on their faces. But he could
The \Vest Gate was opened and the tell nothing. They were smeared with
gnard came out. Face to face with the blood.
30 D&:Y5'Free Trial.~
on all MEAD ./oJ/c/••
\Varden, he said:
"Tho e two shots were the end oE
omeolle wiped tlle blood away with a
damp cloth. Tlle Wardell recoglli:;ed tlle
New RANGIR Mo.1s DOW J' ad, tor dell...",,.,.
direct trom our tactor)". A.to"i.Il'Ng new prk.s
and 1.erIDa. Do not bu, unUI )"ou get them.
hepherd and McClelland. Daniels ays iE guards.
R'OEA ACENTS WANTED to rid_ and exblblt you don't do om thing he' going to kill "Let 'em out," he ordered.
ympl•• S..e bie moDe)". ManY mod I•••tyle..
all the guard that' left. There's five f o born wa uncon ciou when they car-
~
",beel., lam~. borna. equJpment at
"01./ pr-icu.
MJt1rIol E.sy P.y....n...
WnW orourm-rve.ousprlc. . . ndterms. them-O born, Hollister, Roche, Earl and ried him ut, but H IIi ter managed to
~ea4CYC101
..
COIOUY r~~~:r
DEPT, p.263C111CMO 'r• .cat.loa
Duncan. I think Daniels hot Duncan dur- ga p out a me age before he sank into
ing that bombardment, but the bullet didn't a coma. "All dead inside," he said,
kill him. He was alive when I left. He
BE A DETECTIVE \I' n't kill Earl becau e oE a favor Earl
ollce did Eor one of the leader. But the S OON there wa another summons to
\\ e t Gate. Two more men stood
I Make Secret Investigations i ther are doomed. Daniel u ed me to there. "Op n 'er up boy and let us out,"
I . V. ork home or travel I take out what he aid was his last warn- one demanded.
gain the challenge of the guard man:
I Excellent opportunity I ing."
\Vatches howed 4 o'clock when hea "\Vho are You?"
Fascinating work fini hed his story. In a little more than 'Roche ~nd Earl," came the cheery
I Experience unnecessary I an hour it would be daylight. Preparations reply.
I DETECTIVE Particulars FREE.' for a renewal of the attack on Cell Hou e \\ arden Crawford stepped up to the
3 moved apace. A silence, brok n only by gate. He peered at the men's faces, now
I Write, GEORGE D. WAGlER I the . huffiing oE feet, ettled over the fairly vi ible in the fir t streaks of dawn.
L.2190 Broadway, New York-J pri on. 0 E a udden. a hot ran'" out in- "You alive!" he ga ped.
ide. _ pause and then another, followed "Very much, \Varden, but there's plenty
BEAVTlFUL PORTRAlT a fter an interval by a third. Then two more. oE dead men in id ," Earl aid.
'nla~ements ~f en out ide, busy with the ta k of prepar-
ing en"'lnes of de truction for what all be-
Then Roche poke.
"And we'd have been among them, but
F,om Any SNAPSHOT lieved would be the final bombardment at we fooled Daniel ; played dead our elve .
o,PHOTO YOUHAYE
Now I. your obance ONL yo ~ daylil!'ht, topp d. They found them elves For hour. an eternity, it eemed, we lay
~o Iire'like~9:r
lIet apboto
Bromide en- naming name, counting them off on their in the cell where Daniels put u, dead
largement at an . fin er a each report ounded. men all around u , the place !oppy with
unusual bargain. blood-Whew! Dead men and blood. A
Reprod""ed [rom "Holli ter," they counted, waited, and
any clear photO'-' nightmare! Will I ever forget it? It
graph. tintype, then: "0 born, Duncan, Roche."
~aP8bot
picture
or lfI'OUp EACH
10U send. Four guards slaughtered-four more hurt to breathe. I lay there so long
t!!;)f.~et~J:~;t:~n~:~ SiZe1S.14Inch. . added to the Ii t of dead. 0 Daniels had scarcely breathing at all; afraid to. AmI
retum of your original pboto. Send a. many pbotos kept his word to Earl, but he had ent the cramp in my legs. I hurt all O\'er:
88 you wisb at tbe blU'lfBln price of 49 eents eaolL _
S&~D NO MO~EY 9~r;.o~~1~: =\~T:; another bullet into the body of the wounded hurt from lying there on that cold cement
~~~~ e:nlaljfi~~~te~~'::~lll';,UIC
tramee. F'Tom thi. circular ,au caa cbooee •
I' ~en:
rame.~••
Duncan. TIm men peculated, And then floor, never daring to move."
Daylight wa . coming fast as Roche fin-
::.::~?':lRE~;i~.e;.~ enlarl::::~t~;~:: ~nf:,~e:
a fifth hot. That wa Earl. Daniel
." 6Oc: _.j~ o~ we .111 prepa,
t>Oetaae or ...
G'VEII havt"'- C.rved Fra.... *A••• pee .llooucemeat
F!...... hadn't kept his word after all. ixth i hed, The cene on which the un ro e
III tsotm. to acquaint 7oo.~ the ~b Q~t, 0 our wo~ •• hot and a seventh cra hed inside. \Vhat \ as in many re pects a duplication of that
~etyGlw.~~~~:\,.on,.f,:ayO-:~~~~~~n so- did they mean? They were easily ex- cene in Colorado Avenue at Colorado
JWEW ERA PORTRAIT OOlllP.4NY
10 E. Erie St. Dept, 345 Chicaao. m plained, at least to the atisfaction of the Springs two years beEore when Chief of

Police Harper napped the bracelet on
Danny Daniel' and ent him away und r
guard to the EI Pa 0 COllnty Jail, and
eventually here to pri on. un'eying it in
the early morning light n aw again a
cene of deva tation chargeable to Danny
Daniel -blackened wall, moking ember,
hattered window, bullet carred build-
ing, and the great hole gou ed in the
earth by the dynamite Father ,.eil had
carried in, The armored car till lay on its
~ide in thi hole, and Captain Frank Camp-
bell, Detective Arthur \Vachter, of Den-
ver, and four other men, forg tten, al-
mo t, ince they toppled into the cha m,
crawled from their pri n ju t as a lin
of convict. hand above their h ad , filed
Ollt of Cell Hou e 3.
The riot was indeed over; now to count
the co t. \Varden Crawford led the way.
In ide! What a sight 1 The floors lick
with blood. And dead "con" and guard
everywhere. Dead men in bloOOy pile,
and singly.
Off there ~Iorgaridge, a bullet in hi
back, lying alone where Daniel
dropped him. He gave hi Ii fe in defiance
had
f the terror rule of Daniel. And here,
the bOOy of Daniel , a pi tol clutched in
his hand. nd beneath him ~Iajors and
Davi -shot through the head.
The tory was plain enough. They were
the la t to go. Daniels di patched them.
Davi fir t, perhaps: then ),[ajors. And
his last bullet for him elf. He had kept
his word. Pardue? They found him in
hi bunk, a hot through the groin. That
was Goodwin's bullet. Another in hi
head. That wa Daniel '. Again, Daniels
had kept hi word.
And the uard? There they were, too.
Eele , the \'eteran hangman, dead in ide a
cell. The door wa ajar. Duncan' body
wa in-ide a locked cell. The key was
one, and a detail of the re cue corps
labored with a blow torch to reach him.
horty Erwin was there. too, lying close to
Duncan. ,nd 0 was Rinker, and hep-
herd, and )'feClel1and. AI1 dead! Brown's
body was out ide where it had been to ed
with \Viggins' corp e.
T HE blow torch cut thrOll h the la t
bar of steel. The cel1 door wa flung
back, and the re cue squad filed in, their
fla hlights playing on the a hen face of
the dead,
Duncan blinked-a slight mo\'ement of
the eyelid,
"There' life in him:' omeone houted,
noting the quiver of the eyelid. Down on
their knee in the blood and litter, men
examined him. He was whole; not a bul-
let in hi b dy. but cared almo t to death.
A tretcher wa ha tily ummoned.
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"The 'c n '," he screamed, almo t insane
with terror, as they Ii £ted him to the
tretcher. And then he fel1 back, limp.
Fighting convict -figment of hi imagi-
nation-they hurried him to a ho pital.
But the other guard -they were dead,
every man hot through the head.
The re cuer counted them. There w re
ix. \Vith \ iggin , whose body was car-
ried out, there were seven. And later,
though they didn't know it, there would b
eight. G OOwin was doomed.
"Eight guard and five convict: \Var-
d n Crawford groaned, a he turned a ain
to look at the corp e of the man re-
SEND10,J
p n ible.
A big black cat lapped at the bloOO c n-
<Tealed on the a hen face of Danny Daniel,
and hi b ny fi t til1 clutched a cheap six-
shooter. There he lay on the cold prison
floor--dead in a charn I hue of his own ONLY .,,'
creation, He had died fighting a in.dicated
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omeone col1ected the weapon u ed t
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"At about 4 o'clock in the morning,"
said the terror-numbed convict who stood
next to the cell in which Danny Daniels
snuffed out the lives of his aides and his
own, "Danny, who had been walking up
and down the corridor in Cell House No,
3, called Red Riley and A. H. Davis to
him in the cell where Jimmie Pardue lay
wounded.
"'Boys: he told them, 'we're fighting a
losing battle. What will we do?'
"Pardue spoke up and said: 'Danny,
end it with me before the screws get me.'
"Davis and Riley agreed.
"The two stood up. Daniels went into
the cell, shot Pardue in the head, then
shot Davis and Riley in succession. They
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106 True- Detective Mysteries
Vanishing Footprints
(Contil/lIedjrom page -I)
hr the sheriff at Kalamazoo nearby.
In a little while, heriff Elton Eaton,
myel f and everal other officer, includ-
ing oroner Ralph \ . Cook, were making
a hurried examination of the body, and
Thi. new •• lC-m ••••a(ng b It the ground near which it lay.
~lhitnn~~lyl sTlNTley~l~o:'t.k The woman appeared to have been about
quickly tak •• off roUe of forty year old, and weighing around 160
eae••• fat..
pound. The hair wa brown and the eyes
Dl~ij~:;~~:~~~~ were blue. he had worn a blue coat
ou reducing exerd I :u-e
hallie to tram your heart. uit, of a wor ted material. The under-
A sale method of re·
du ina: ~ m~
method 1et8 up n
• Thi.
vh:or·
wear, cor et and ho e were of the heeret
OUI circulation that ilk, indicating the dead woman had been
ms to 111 It away l~e
a per on of me mean. he had worn
tf:3~~n~a~1~:~n3~e~ high-top h ,after the fa hion of the
pedal reducing rub·
bel'. produces exactly time.
tlte 8.1.me ulta o.a a
" ilIed
fJuicker
ma.saeur,
and
only
cheaper.
n the middle fin er of the right hand
I~Yery move you make wa a gold ring, in which ome kind of
call the Well Uelt to
s;ently tun your abdo- tone had been et. The etting had been
men. Results are rnpid be.
('Dute this belt 1L'O,ks /0' yOM
pried open, it appeared, and the tone
nn-y s,co"d. taken. Either that, or the tone had fallen
Fat Replaced by Normal
Ti•• ue out when the b y rolled down the em-
From 4 to 6 inche. 01 flabby fat
U lIally YaD!sh in jll t a few weeks. Only solid. normal bankment after being truck by the train.
Ii u~ remains. The \! eil Reducing B..lt is codor:lC'd by It wa evident that a train had struck the
physadans becauBe it not only tnk oR fat, but hel~ ('or.
r stomach di rde,.. constipation. backache. shortness woman, for not only were the leg ev-
of breath. and pu gging internal organ. back into place.
Write For to-Day Trial Offer ered from the tor 0, but mo t of the
fro~ ~i:=r..:~~~o:, ~~.d~Zf::l:; moalala bone in the b y w r broken.
THE: WE:IL CO •• 1556 H'" Street. Ne. aven. Connecticut.
o hat wa found, and none of the
KNOW B.~~S~~I?y!:~t~~~~
and lnarri:H~e.
pane. s. prosperity. La,·e. court blp
Home, family, etc., etc. Your
other clothing bore any mark or label that
might give a clue a to where they had
b en purcha ed. There wa nothing about
MPLETE A'trological forecast-N T LESS the body to identify it, nor wa anything
TIIA ! 25 LARGE PAGES-month by montb.
givin~ eX3~l dates :tnd occurrences. Your Ulucky found in the vicinity of the horrible di -
<lays'. end birthdate and 75c. or sent .O.D. covery that would erve to hed tight on
(plus posta!l'e). M NEY BACK IF 'aT MORE
THAN PLEA ED. when, or exactly how the woman had met
THURSTON. L-ZS. 20 \Y, Jackson Blvd., Chic.ago death, although it wa rea onably certain
that he had been killed by a train, we
believed.
Doctor Cook. the coroner, gave it a hi
opinion that death had come orne four
hour previou Iy. The body wa still
warm, it being in the summer, and the
blood with which the mangled corpse wa
drenched had not yet entirety dried.
To HE b dy wa removed to the Field
ndertaking Parlor, where Doctor
k proceeded to perform a po t mortem
examination. The findings from the au-
top y added little to the knowledge already
g-Ieaned from the fir t di covery at the
foot of the railroad embankment, with the
exception that the fir t impre ion regard-
ing the woman' general de cription were
found to be wrong.
The dead woman, aid Doctor Cook, had
been in excellent phy ical condition and
the clothing she wore, while not shoddy,
appeared to have been the kind that a
person of suburban residence might have
owned. A number of clothing expert
GIRLS- were called in to view the body, and it
Know Your Color! was the opinion of a buyer for one of
the Kalamazoo department store that the
Many who are really beautiful fall far blue coat uit wa of inexpen ive material
short of the admiration they justly de- and workman hip.
serve because they fail to wear the "The woman probably wa a clerk in a
colors that bring out their true loveli- dry good tore," aid one man with more
ness. We specialize in perronal color
analy is. Send us your name and ad- than ordinary knowledge of women's
dress. approximate height and weight. dre s. hoe dealer examined the foot-
and one dollar. stating color of hair and wear of the victim, and declared that,
eyes. and by return mail we will send while the shoe were of good material,
you a col r analysis that will enable you they were not the style of footwear that
always to dress your best. Enrico's a woman of wealth would wear. The sale
Mode Counsel System. P. O. Box 1048, of the shoe howed hard wear, and it
ew Haven, Conn. was the belief that the wearer had been
accustomed to standing on her feet for
a number of I n~ hour at a time.
I give thi pha e of the early inve ti<Ta-
tion into thi woman' death to show how
nearly correct were the gue es as to the
manner in which he had lived. For the
ultimate re ult of the inve tigation that
wa to follow not only bore out many of
the early urmi'':, but the very opinion
that were given proved of ine timable
value to u in our work later on.
othin wa found in Doctor Cook's
po t mortem examination that eemed to
di prove the original theory advanced by
virtually every officer who worked on the
ca e in the early tage of it pr re ;
namely, that the woman, whoever he wa ,
had either fallen Ollt of the window of a
speeding pa en er train and wa man led
by the wheel of the very train on which
she had been riding; or had fallen from
the ob ervation platform of a pas enger
coach, and wa run oyer by another train.
That i , nothing wa found to that effect,
un Ie a I ng ga h on the left cheek could
have borne evidence of another kind of
death. The ga h, aid the coroner, ap-
pear d to be older than the other wounds
that were k"llown to have been inflicted
by the wheel of a railway train, and
the wound, that were made when the body
rolled from the railroad grade to the ditch
below.
At the end of Doctor Cook's examina-
tion, a coroner' inque t wa ordered, :lI1d
a jury empanelled. The jury was com-
po ed of George oung, Jo eph \ ilbuy,
Calvin Mohney, \ illiam now, Jerome
Borden. now heriff of Kalamazoo County,
Michigan, and harle Cro by.
That wa perhap the mo t extraordin-
ary coroner' jury ever to it on a case;
for the juror returned a verdict attribut-
ing death to injurie u tained by being
truck by a train, and then, individually,
the jurymen refu ed to give credence to
th ir own findin The re ult wa , an-
other phy ician wa appointed to perform
an autop y.
D OCTOR BL CHE EPPLER, a
woman phy ician practi ing in Kala-
mazoo, wa appointed to perform the sec-
ond examination. Doctor Eppler made
the following di c verie, and it will be
well for the reader to commit the woman
phy ician' finding to memory:
That the dead woman wet death beneath
the wheels of a raih 'ay train,. thai she
as lI//married, or apparently so, since tI,e
condition of certain organs indicated she
1/evel' had give" birth to a child.
The fir t indication that the train acci-
dent theory of the woman' death was
wrong, came, hen heriff Eaton, myself
and other officer returned to the place
where the body wa found in the after-
noon of ugu' t 2nd. It wa the heri ff
him elf, I believe, \ ho di covered a pool
of blood in the middle of the track, some
seventy feet ea t of the spot where the
corp e lay.
From the quantity of blood found, it
seemed to u that the W0man mu t have
su tained some kind of injury that would
cau e death instantly, and the injury did
not appear to have been inflicted by a
railway train. For the blood was not

spattered O\'er the rails and the ties, but
wa in a round puddle.
Early the next morning, Doctor Cook
return d to the death cene with us, and
he wa walking up the track, when he
.topped abruptly, and knelt down. Ri-
ing, he called to u to come and see what
he had found.
On the left of the track, at the end
(of the tie, we aw footprints, which
plainly had been made by a woman' hoes.
The fir t tracks were found me yard
l'a t f where the puddle of g re had
been di cO\'ered the day previou Iy. ' e
followed them farther ea t for orne di -
tance, where they eemed to di appear.
, e back tracked, and traced the foot-
prints to the pool f blood.
heriff Eat n ent ne of hi deputie
to the morgue to bring back the h s
worn by the dead w man. \\ e c mpared
the Ie with the track found by the
side of the railr ad tie, and found that
tho e hoe had been the nes to make
the impr ion in the soft dirt. There
wa no doubt in our mind then that the
woman had been walking we t on the
railway roadbed when he was killed.
, e were borne ut in thi theory that
ame afterno n, when fficials of the ).fich-
ig-an Central Line reported all their pa -
.enger train w re accounted for, and no
pa nger had been reported mis ing from
any train. X or wa any baggage, or other
effect that a woman pa engel' would be
traveling with. found aboard the train
to be unclaimed.
On Augu t 4th, more than ne hundred
and fifty per on viewed the body at the
Fields l:ndertaking mpany morgue, but
none had ever een the woman alive. he
certainly had not been a re ident of Kala-
mazoo. or of any of the other mall town
and citie around Kalamaz 0, el e he
would ha\'e been mi ed by her relath·es.
who would have come to the morgue to
a certain whether the dead w man wa
known to them. A de cription of the
woman had been sent out over the new
wire to every paper in :\fichigan and
Indiana.
T HE fifth of Augu t dawned. and we
till had not identified the rather good
lo')king w man who e death promi ed to
remain a my tery. Late in the afternoon
of that day. heriff Eaton having a igned
me to the ca e, I decided to make one
la t vi it to the cene of the horrible find.
I tarted at the pot where the pool of
blood wa found, and covered e\'ery inch
of ground for a hundred yard in either
direction. I de cended the embankment, to
the ditch in which the body had lain, and
crawlin a on hand and knee, examined
the ground for ome di tance with minute
care.
I had crawled farther than I had in-
tended to. for looking up to the t p of the
grade, I di CO\'ered my po ition to be
directly down the embankment from the
pot of blo d in the middle of the track.
I tarted to ri e, and climb up to the top
of the grade. when a dully gli tening object
attracted my attention. I picked it up,
and found it to be a tring of black bead,
of an onyx-like material. The thread on
which they were trun a wa broken at the
clasp, and ome of the bead were mis -
ing. I began to look about on the ground
for tho e that had fallen off the tring.
I failed to find any more of the beads,
True Detective Mysteries 107
but I fund omething el e that intere ted
me ju t a much. It was a powder puff;
ju t a plain chamoi.s puff, with a little pink
ribbon attached, but it meant a great deal
t me. It, and the broken tring f beads
meant that the woman whose mangled
tor 0 wa found in the :\fichigan Central
Railroad ditch was killed exactly where
heriff Eaton ran onto the p 01 of blood
in the middle of the tracks-a/ld that she
z,'as /lot killed b.v a trai/l.
It was born to me forcibly, that he had
bC'en murdered there on the track, and
left to be run vel' by a locomotive, to
CO\'cr up the crime. I re olved to have a
third autopsy performed n the body,
1,lan for the burial of which already had
b n completed for the following day.
I got Doctors borne and :\fc air to
go back to the morgue with me, and re-
que ted them to make a minute exam ina-
ti n f every inch of the body. There had
been one phase of the two post mortem
that had truck me a being rather trange,
but I hadn't aid anything about it, taking
it f I' granted that the d ctors knew what
H ERE'S your
chance to own
that brand new Genuine
they were about. Model 3 Corona you've
I refer to the fact that apparently wanted-on the easiest
n ither Doctor Cook nor Doctor Eppler terms ever offered - at
LOWEST PRICE ever offeredt
had turned the body n the lab, face Complete in every detai~ack
downward, to xamine the back. I a ked ~acer. et«-~¥.~UFA,",lUR·
ER'S GUJUUU'lTEE. Recog·
the two physician to do thi now. They nized the world over as the finest, s~ongest,
did, and the three 0 f us stood over the sturdiest, portable built. Try this wonderful part·
!,ble typewriter-the same machine that has sat·
c rp e, gazing at two tiny round punc- isfied 500.000 users. ,:
tures, one behind either houlder.
"Bullet hole ," wa Doctor :\fc air's
Yours lor 10 Days FREE-
urpri ed ejaculation. Send No Money I
'" hich mean that thi w man was EltJ)erien... the JOY thl.~ jlenonol ....Itlne portoble
tJpewriter un al.e ,oul Ute it 10 da,. free I See bow
e..y It 10 to run ODd the oplendlclJy t1ped lettero It
•hot down, and her body laid acro s the
track for a train to cut to ribbons," I
'B
turno onto Ideol for tho 016... d.. borne. trovellnw.
~~1j.eeomJ8~e~111~ar:·::O~·~~S~U:;t:'=d;::~~~
aid, my mind going back to the day h••• tb~Corona at loeb a low price or on loeb euy
termo. Remember throe ON brand ...... mochlllee r1Wht
Doctor Cook found a pool of blood several oat of the Corona faetor,..
yard fr m where the body wa found.
, ith the the ry f murder definitely ~ng ClUe lnelded
establi hed, beyond the hadow of a doubt, -If You Aet Now
we began with a ort of grim determina- Loatborold earrJlnw e..... oller. Inotraetlone free 011
tbt. offer. Send DO mone,-ju.lt the coupon. WIthout
tion sifting and re- ifting all the detail
of the di covery of the body, earnestly
10 doYo. If ,on
deley or red to"" we will oond ,on tbe Corono. TrY It
deolde to keep It. oend 00 onl, $2-tben
II a montb ontll oor oprelol priee of.539.9O .. pald.
Now I. the time to boy....11 eclUPOD toda,t
earching for ome thread of a clue upon
which to ba e an inve tigation into the ac-
tivitie of the victim prior to the laying.
The fir t thing that we wanted was to
identify her. For without kllowing who
the woman wa . or omething of her life, •••••••••••••••••••••••••••
we hadn't the lightest chance of trailing
her murderer. I again went over the
ground in the vicinity of the fatal pot
along the railroad right-of-way, but made
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ualll tboUl." balaaco ofAl.80 prie.l. paid: th. tlu. to nmaJo •
•
wltb7douuntU lbeo.'am loba. . JOda"olOtf'Ytho t~""'tn. J1 •
no furth I' di coverie that would add to ~ee••:=~~~.;~:;::~d.r~:,~==:::
my meager tore of information.
The ca e by then had gotten into my Na_ n _ n u u u _ u u _ u _ n . . . . . . . _ . . . . __ . u _ n• •
blood, 0 to peak, and I re olved to ex- Addr.... .. __ u __ u . u u • __ u .
I
hau t every re ource that I po sibly could
command, to bring to ju tice the cowardly
killer who hot his victim in the back,
then placed her body on the railroad track
to be mangled beneath the iron wheels of
a train. Be A Detective
Ma/(e Secret Inrestlgations
G OIXG into the vault where
thing were kept until the proper
uch Earn Bi~ Money. Work home or travel.
Fascinatll1.S work. Experience unnecessary.
time for their di po aI, I secured the DETECTiVE Particulars FREE. Write
clothing that wa worn by the woman, and
began a methodical earch of every thread
GEO. E. WAGNER, 2190 Broadway, N. Y.
f the garments. The hoe bore no mark
of identification, not even a label show-
RAISE CHINCHILLA
AND NEW ZEALAND WHITE
ing where, or from whom. they had been FUR RABBITS
purcha ed. The h iery, of cour e, wa In Your Back Yard
al 0 valuele to me. ~o:;",."~~8:".l:.~dll~=:'k~,~l~e
The hat \Va a little inexpen ive felt,
rn'l;""~~%l'~~ft~o~o~.I~c,F~~-
such as a woman who had been traveling, rabbitJI8ue:eeaaroll,. all for 10 ""ntJI.
might ha\'e worn. It bore no marks. 'Vhen "."L·S OllTllOOI D1TUPBIIE CI.•
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 10 True Detective Mysteries
I came to the Llue erge coat suit, I the di tricts we intended to work, and
turned the sleeve of the coat in ide out, call on every place of that kind until we
and found on the lining what at first ap- either had found what we were looking for,
peared to be an ink smud e. Looking or had satisfied our elve that Detroit wa.
more clo ely, however, I made out the not the city from which the murdered
blurr d remain of a laundry mark, or a woman had come.
mark uch a dry cleaning e tabli hment For everal days, we worked fr.om carl)'
attach to the leeve linings of $arment mornin until late afternoon, canva ing
received by them. The mark had been the City of Detroit with the thoroughne ~
printed in ink on a mall marking ta . of cen u taker. t every place at which
The mark wa, or had been "68-T." we called we received the arne an \ er.
There eemed to ha\'e been more to it That the mark, "68-T" had never been
than that, but the ink had been blotted, u ed by any of the laundrie vi ited. ]u t
leaving only a mudge. Thi wa s me- when the call\'a wa beginning to ap-
thing, although I had to admit it didn't pear hopele ,I ran onto my fir t piece of
hold promi e of being much, since, even luck, which looked to me like I at last
had the laundry or dry cleaner's mark was on a warm trail.
been plain and complete, I till would be I wa talking to the proprietor of a
in the dark. For I had no way of kn w- small dry cleaning shop in an outlying dis-
in even the town or city in which the trict of Detroit, when he uddenly had an
mark had been attached to the sleeve of in pi ration.
the coat. And even had I known, I prob- "Here' an idea that might help you,"
ably w uld have a great deal of trouble he aid. "There i a whole ale laundry
in I eating the laundry that had handled and dry cleaner ' supply hou e downtown
the garment. that might be able to help you. !\[uch of
I rem ved the tag, and wrote the mark the mi cellaneou equipment, such a mark-
in my note b k. though, and continued my er and the like, that i u ed by mo t
e-'{amination of the clothing. I next came mailer places. and many of the lar er
to the skirt of the blue uit, and found one in the city, is purcha ed from this
that it contained a tiny p cket, 'on one concern. It i just po sible that the peo-
ide. I ab ently in erted one finger in the ple there will know the e tabli hment that
pocket, not knowing whether I expected u e marking tag like this one," my new
to find anything. A small piece of Aim y friend aid, returning the tag that I had
cardboard attracted my attention. It was taken from the sleeve of the Kalamazoo
cru hed down in the bottom of the pocket, murder victim' coat.
and had been overlooked b fore. I thanked the man, and hurried out ide
Taking the object out of the pocket, I to where I had parked m)' car. Getting
examined it, and found that it wa the . into the machine, I drove to the address
tub end of a theater ticket, the kind that that had been given me. The manager
~~"';llrOf·"~~~Y .'00. &e1.=t~t::1U.1
i torn off and returned to the patron at of the whole ale supply hou e wa very
C".lbI. 1~0Cf"r'IIIIi.... .... 'fOffi.er and C'b picture hou e. On one ide wa the erial obliging. and took me into his office, where
.-.l~ad..r: Wall r lie.. AU.uhm nl.
btlrrup 1M ~ muwlN: ".0
Grip", for d.,,"opi,.. . ,.." h rw:b. .rnu:
lw,or number of the ticket of which it had b en I told him my busine ,and what I hoped
\1'11.""«1. A(hu table II ...~ OfOat' IOf
uildinc pnwf'rful Df'oI'k: Rowin. Ma·
a half. On the other wa the name of the to find at the end of my canvass.
chin. Alwhmol"nt.ll: 12 .~Ir. .. lIoma In·
etrut:don ('Oil"" in Rt-ienlifie nnch"' theater at which the ticket had been pur- The fellow went over his books
Hui! t1q and .'RI g Enc)'elopedu. of
H.,lth .nd ~I",ft.tl~ cha cd. It wa the Plaza. thorou hly, trying to find the account to
net • '0 .In...." Ju.t. m"lil totlpOO
TOO,\ Y (or lb. woaderful barp-lA. ow mo t citie , I think, have a Plaza whom the peculiar cloth markers had been
GUARANTEE Theater. Knowin thi, I began to won- sold. At the end of an hour, however, he
der what, after all, wa my infinite care gave up the ta k a hopele . Being anxiou
in searching the clothing of the dead to be of ervice, though, he offered the
woman going to profit me. I had found sugge tion that I call on Kaufman's Laun-
nothing but a half blurred laundry or dry and Dry Cleaning Company, one of
cleaner's mark, and a ticket tub from the the larger concerns of it kind in the city.
Plaza Theat r. \Vhat laundry, or dry Kaufman's, aid the manager of the
cleaner; what Plaza Theater had the supply hou e. did a great deal of whole,
lain woman patronized before coming, or sale dry cleaning for the small neighbor-
Michael McF.dd.... Dept. R-1Sl. being brought to Kalamazoo to be hood cleaning and pres ing shops, and if
55 Ealt Uth St.,'No. Yort<, N. Y. murdered? anyone could help me, it would be the
~nd me ON" TRI L. comol.
dUtri.'led. I w~I""y POJlm n unl
8·iA·' OuUit
3.1)Q
lUI
plu. arlUA!
Was the Plaza Theater that she had people at that place.
). " " rDODey b
1)0"""•• on .rrl.a1. tor .nclo
It it 1 I'Cturft ou\6' ill lU d
,5..00 and
)a.
W. D'" attended the Plaza in Chicago, in Detroit, Arrived at Kaufman's whole ale clean-
or \Va the theater located in one of the ing e tabli hment. I put the same questions
to;alfto •••••••• _••
many smaller cities urrounding Kalama- that I had a ked no Ie s than sixty times
AJl zoo? I wa not very well acquainted in ince going to Detroit.
TJo..n •••••••••••..••••••••••••••••••.••••• 8'" •••• Chicago, or in any of the small town Almost immediately, the man who
o MiJ. U. s.. Mod eMIl wilb onl r
and citie , but I did know Detroit. I knew handled incoming bundle of garments to
there was a Plaza Theater there. I had be cleaned. recognized the marker that I
attended the playhou e many times, and I showed him. He wanted to know if I
My Love Life with decided to try Detroit. had brought the coat f rom which the tag
had been taken. I told him that I had it
the President I Let an Britton tell TOU her
\VE T to Detroit on Au u t 6th, and
called on Henry Eggbert , an old fri nd
with me. in my car, which was parked at
the curb out ide.
("Iwn amazing story of her ecret of mine, who was connected with a drug
relalionship with President Hard-
company in the automobile city. He knew HE I had brought the blue serge
ing. Truth is stranger than fic-
tion in this daring account of
their forbidden romance and
their child born out of wedlock.
the treets of Detroit better than I could W coat from my car, the man at Kauf-
Nan Brltton's 51artllnc Book ever hope to learn th m through studying man's took it, and examined it closely.
The Prestcle.nl·s Dau,hler maps and directories, and I a ked him to "Yes. I know the coat; that is, I recall
WU $S .1.....
Now 70a ~ II eel lb... uto\1.Qdinc hum.&JI doeum...' cd
WI pnell Send ~ '1 85 for /t0ar e007 of t.hil serve a my guide until the work I had having handled the garment a week or two
Now Only $Z.98 r8~~~ bo..~'t.••lol.~ epiood . . planned was finished. I told him about ago. It came in with a batch of cleaning
~i?I'~AB~T~'l~ c~~LI~~yIn~·taf&p~~alf~:i the dead woman in Kalamazoo, and ju t from Ferndale," he said po itively, giving
11 We.t 42nd 51.. New York City what I hoped to accomplish in his city. me the name of the pre sing shop in Fern-
Name••••••••••••••••••......... We decided to cover the entire city in dale. a uburban residential district of
sections, each taking a Ii t of the laun- Detroit.
ddres .
dries and dry cleaning e tablishments in Needless to say, I made quick time from

Kaufman's Laundry and Dry Cleaning
E tabli hment to Ferndale, and wa 0 n
interviewing the pr prietor f the little
shop that had pre ed the dead woman's
coat uit ju t a few days prior to her
untimely 'death. The fellow had no diffi-
culty in identifying the marking tag as
well as the coat it elf. Going to a de k,
he c n ulted the pa e f a ledger, turn-
ing thcm until he came t the entry he
wa I oking for.
"1 d n't ha\'c thc name of the lady who
scnt the blue uit in, but her i her ad-
dress," aid the pre ing hop propriet r.
"~Iy driver picked the uit up at 2259
\\ hittaker trce!."
I wa exultant. Closing my eye now,
I can aim t ee my elf, tandin there in
the d rway of the little pre ing hop in
Ferndale. cribbling an addre in my note-
book with a haky hand. I mu t have ap-
pared rather ridiculous to the man who
had given me the informati n that I had
gambled a great deal n. The hunch that
had ent me off to Detroit, n nothing
more tangible than a frayed theat r ticket
tub, wa the vehicle on which I r de to
wilat eem to me the rate t victory of
mv career a a law enforcement officer.
'I do not r memb r leaving the Ferndale
pre ing e tabli hment at all. The next
thing that I recall after hearing the ad-
dre s of the woman who lay on a slab in a
Kalamazoo m rgue, a yet unidentified,
wa topping my car in front of a trim
little bungalow, and getting ut and walk-
ing toward the front tep, on which sat
two mall boy.
The little fellow at, one on the top
tep, and the oth r on the tep jut below,
their tiny, pud y hand upporting their
chin ; two hock of t u led hair, two
dirt- treaked face, at there on the front
tep of the trim little hou e at 2259
\ hittaker treet, waiting for the mother
that would ne\'er return.
A lump cam into my throat, and I
slackened my tride a I came clo er to
the forlorn little figure louched there
in front of me. I hadn't expected to find
anything like that. How could I tell them
that the mother they were waiting for
wouldn't be home? I knew that the dead
woman in Kalamazoo wa the m ther of
tho e two mall boy. Their very dejec-
ti n, their attitude of expectancy. of wait-
ing, eemed to be peak a ort of analflgy
to that other picture back in Kalamazoo,
at the foot of an embankm nt along the
right of way of the ~[jchigan Central
Railroad.
I much
APPRO, CHED the
the same a a
step cautiously,
tr pa er might
teal up n a holy man at prayer. I felt ome-
thing like a tre pa er; felt as though my
pre ence wa acrilegiou, evil. I man-
aged to •peak, but my voice mu t have con-
tained a hu kine that wa not natural. I
know that the ca ual jovialne that I
attempted to affect fell flat, and I suspect-
ed that even tho e tots detected thi ,
"Hello, sonny," I addre ed the larger
of the pair, in an effort at cheerfulne s.
The boy merely rai ed hi brows. and
grunted a greeting. "I your mother at
home?" I a ked. and cur ed myel f for the
irony of the que tion.
The elder boy did not repl)', but the
smaller of the two, who, I learned wa
but six, blurted out, innocently:
"1 o. 1{y papa is down town looking
True Detective iVfysteries 109
f r mama. ~rama has been gone a long
time, and papa aid he took hi money."
Turning my back abruptly on. the two
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little boy, I walked acro s the lawn, to
the hou e next door. The woman there
told me, in an wer to my que tion, that
h had looked after the children for more
than a week, ince the di appearance of SEND
their m ther, who e name wa ~rrs. Be ie
\'oeth. The father, John Voeth, had been ONLY
frantic since hi wife left, the neighbor
25
.aid, and had not taken a great deal of
intere t in the boy.
I learned from the woman that ~[rs.
B ie Voeth had taken with her all the
ca h that the family owned, which wa in
the nei hborhood of 500, and the family
CENTS
automobile. ~[r. Voeth had drawn the
m ney from the bank, and had al 0 taken for a
her jewel, a number f diamond which
were valued at everal hundred dollars. Satnple
~[r . th had been employed for ome
time at the ~feDermott Candy tore, on
\Voodward Avenue, in downtown Detroit.
I very tact fully queried the woman regard-
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The woman naturally was curiou to pare your che t tr ngth with your friends.
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and I c uld ee that she su pected that This is a special offer. The reltUlar price is
mething had happened to the mother of one dollar. Take advantalle of this great
th e two mall boy acro s the way. opportunity and send 25c today. Thi offer
is good for 30 days. \ ith it I will give
I managed to get away, however, with-
ut b trayin my bu ine , by saying that F~EE. ){y mallnillcent illustrated
.,.. • book "The Thrill of Being
1 might have some word of ~[r . Vocth, tronll," full of famou strong men and splen,
although I wa not positive. I a ked her didly built pupil. who tell you the true secret
to watch for the return of John Voeth, of how to Itet Itreat strenllth and a shapely
and have him come to my r m that body with big, powerful muscles.
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Going downtown, I called at the ~Ic­ Fill in the Coupon and mail immediately to
Dermott Candy tore, where ~Ir . Voeth
had worked. The manager of the place The Jowett Institute 01 Physical Culture
had not een ~ rr . Voeth for everal day , 422 Poplar St., Dept. 52f, ScraDtOD, PL
and he had left no word that he intended
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\Vhile I wa talking with the manager, for a sample Strength,O-Meter and a copy of "The
one of the girl cI rk in the tore, having Thrill of BeinS Strong."
o\'erheard me of the conyer ation regard- Na.me ~ ~ ~ _ -
ing ~r r . \'oeth, bru hed pa t me. and in
doing 0, lipped a note into my hand. Add, .
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wa tryin to clear up. The note wa
brief. It add ed me to interview a woman
who had been Be sie Voeth' mo t inti-
mate friend. The name wa gi\'en, but· I
do not feel that her identity hould be
re\'ealed, even at thi late date. The candy
tore clerk, in her me age. al 0 had pro-
vided me with the re idence addre s of the
woman who could give me valuable in-
formation on the matter in which I was
interested.
Before calling on the close friend of the
late ~rr . \ oeth, however, I topped in at
a telegraph office, and ent a wire to
Sheriff Eat n, informing him of the prog-
re that I was making in my investiga-
tion. That done, I hurried to the addre s
iven in the note, and found the party
I was eeking.
She wa a WOman of about middle age,
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wh had seen much of life; not nece -
sarily what one would call callous, or
hard, but a \ oman who Ion ince had
Yes, he said, in an wer to my Ques-
1~
tion, she knew Be ie Voeth. Had been
on partie with her a number of times.
he was more than mildly intere ted in
my purpose for interviewing her.
I parried with her, not caring to tell her
at that time that Be sie Voeth wa dead.
fter some little beating about the bush,
the woman told me of a secret love affair
that 1r. eth had indulged in. he
life.
For in tance, she knew that Mrs.
octh's lover had served in the Army
during the World War, and had been a
military policeman. She al 0 furni hed
me with other information about him.
r
After leaving my informant, I returned
to my room at the Ma onic Club, where
I was staying in Detroit, to receive John
Vocth, husband of the dead woman.
E of the keenest mindcd deputies
on Sheriff Eaton's staff was Harold
Sharpstein, a former new paper man.
harp tein po ses ed that rare quality of
being able to make certain deduction from
certain incidents; a Quality, I dare ay,
which is characteristic of many men of
the press, the world over.
In my telegram back to Kalamazoo, I
hinted only vaguely of the rapid develop-
ments that were unfolding for me in
Detroit. I did not deem it wi e, at that
time, to give any definite information as
to what discoveries I had made, for rea-
on that only a trained officer would
understand.
But in the wire, Deputy Sheriff Sharp-
stein read a hidden meaning. He knew,
from the very nature of the mes age that
something of tremendou importance had
developed in Detroit, and he had a hunch
that that something had an important bear-
ing in Kalamazoo, he told me later. Hop-
ing to aid, in some way, the inve tigation
from his end of the case, Sharpstein de-
termined to go himself to the scene of the
discovery of the woman's body, to see if
he could uncover anything that would
tend to hurry along the solution of the
murder.
He drove alone out toward the spot
where the corpse had lain, but as he drove
pa t the home of George Hocknoll, an old
war buddy of his, Sharpstein stopped in
to ask Hocknoll to accompany him.
The two went over the ground thorough-
ly, Sharpstein told me when I returned
to Kalamazoo, and spent quite some time
examining the railroad tracks and the
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right-of-way for a distance of several
yards in either direction from the ditch in
which the freight conductor found the
mangled tor 0 of Mr . Be ie oeth. They
found nothing, however, additional to what
all of u already had learned from pre\'ious
similar searches.
Di couraged, harpstein returned to the
heriff's ffice, Hocknoll going to his
home. Jut what he expected to find out
there on the railroad tracks, Sharp tein did
not know, he said; but he had a feeling
that some hing big was breaking and he
wanted to be in on it, or at lea t do
everything he could to h Ip me. Know-
ing that hi old friend, George Hocknoll,
had done some police work him elf, both
in the army and in private life, Sharp tein
had felt that it might not be a bad idea
to have the former military policeman ac-
company hin,.
John oeth came to my rooms late in
tlie evening of the day that I found the
woman who had chummed with his wife.
He was terribly di tracted, and showed
si ns of much worry and 10 s of leep.
He apologized for hi rather unkempt ap-
pearance, explaining that the di appearance
of hi wife, to ether with the problem of
trying to be a mother, as well as father,
to his two small ons, had sapped his
energies, both physical and mental. He
added that he had about gotten to the
point where he no longer de ired to re t.
or eat. He only wanted to know something
about the woman who so strangely had
dropped out of ight, leaving her two
children to do the best they could for
themselves.
" 1r. Voeth," I said to the man, in the
calmest voice that I could command. "I
may have orne information for you, but
first, I would like for you to answer a
few questions. Don't be afraid to talk
to me, becau e my interest in you and
your wife is of a man who has a duty to
perform."
He looked up at me quickly, with haunted
eyes, hi lip parted as if to speak-but
he as quickly glanced away and was silent.
I did not wa te any words in further pre-
amble but went right to the heart of the
subject that I wanted brought out.
"Ysome
OU say your wi fe apparently
two week ago and that
left
you
have had no word from her since that
time," I aid, adding in the same breath:
"and did you have a quarrel, or any mi -
understanding immediately prior to that
time?"
" 0, we never quarreled; that i , nothing
serious. Of course we had the usual little
spats that go with most all marriage, but
nothing really eriou, a I aid," he re-
plied quickly.

"You were jealous of her, weren't you?"
I asked, watching his face. He he itated
for a full minute, before an wering. \ hen
he did speak, it wa to give me a real
shock.
". 0, I was not jealous of Bessie.
never had any cau e to be. She was a
g od woman."
I had expected Voeth either to answer
eva i\'ely in the affirmati e, or to blurt
right out that he had known that she had
a lover. It wa hard to believe that any
man could be fooled as fong a oeth's
neighb r aid ~Ir . Voeth had fooled her
hu band, without the husband having orne
inkling r u picion of the unfaithfulne s
of his wife.
We talk d f r po ibly fi\'e minutes
longer, and after satisfying myself that
Voeth wa telling the truth, and that he
really had known nothing of the double
life of the mother of his two little boys,
I told him, a kindly as it i po sible to
deliver uch new :
")'Ir. Voeth," I said, "I am afraid you
will never ee your wife again. She is
dead-murdered."
"Oh, my God. ~fy wife, my Bessie.
.lfurderl'd! \ hat is to become of our
babies ?"
I have never seen a more pitiful picture
in my life, than John Voeth, when I broke
the new of his wife' murder to him.
"Take me to her. I've got to ee. You
surely are mi taken. It i n.'t her," he
hrieked, tearing at his hair.
He managed to collect him elf after a
bit, howe\'er, and pleaded to be taken to
the undertaking parlors in Kalamazoo. He
then told me of having read in the Detroit
new paper of the finding of the woman
in Kalamazoo, but the descripti n. given
in the papers had not tallied with that of
his wife, he aid.
I told him to go on back home that
night, and be ready to make the trip to
Kalamazoo with me early the next
morning.
After Voeth had gone, I ate a hurried
. upper, and returned for a second inter-
view with the woman who had told me
True Detective Mysteries 111
not over 150 miles seemed the longe t I
ever took in my life. The train eemed
to crawl along at a nail's pace, such was
my eagerne s to get back, and put the
handcuffs on the murderer of Bes ie
I oeth.
back in Kalamazoo, I
U POa ked arriving
one of the other deputies to
accompany oeth to the morgue, and,
calling heriff Eaton a ide, I told him of
what I had learned in Detroit, and of my
conviction a to the identity of the secret
I .ver and murderer of Be ie oeth.
The man we wanted, I a sured heri ff
Eaton wa in Kalamazoo, or had been
that morning. I had taken the trouble to
a\'ail my elf of in formation of hi where-
abouts before leaving Detroit, without ex-
po ing my reasons for wi hing to know.
\ ith a quadron of six officers, the
heri ff and my elf included, we drove to
a place near a small residence on the out-
kirt of the city.
\Ve topped our car about a quarter of
a mile from the house, out of sight, and
held a hurried con ultation among our-
elves. Deputy heriff harpstein, one of
St!IIIIDYou;.
~Iye!!" 1JO~
the party of officer, said that he was ac-
quainted with the man we were a fter, and
uggested that he go alone to the house, the world'. most famous Under-
and take the u pected murderer unawares. wood Typewriter (or 10 day.' Trial.
\Ve all agreed that that would be the mo t :::;~~l~~.dayT<;3se,:y tr;::n~~:?:
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expedient procedure, ince it was pos ible, keyboard. manufactured to sell oriiP-
or even probable that the killer, if our man nally for $100. Fully Cuaranteed.
was, in fact, the slayer of )'Irs. Voeth, Famous No.4 Underwood
would either tart shooting the minute he Thi. \a~e model nde')Vood ••pecially priced at only $39.90
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discovered us approaching the house, or menu Including 4-row keyboard. two-color ribbon, back-
spacer, ribbo!, reverse, tabulator, release, shift lock and
would turn hi gun on himself. And we ~~~~~h~kf~~de~~~~ies ~k:b~~~Yn::,~niShed and
wanted him alive.
heri ff Eaton gave Sharpstein permis- FREEl FREE! IO-Day Trial
sion to advance alone, under the pretext Send coupOn for lO-day
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of a friendly call. Sharpstein did not it pay only $3 a month until
special pnce of only $44.90
he itate a second when he reached th':) (term price) i.! paid. Umited
offer-act at once.
place, but walked boldly upon the porch,
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knocked on the door. I f:odoee I
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From where we watched, we could see I I
OftHl for l~a1 TriaJ. II 1 Am not. Ptrf"eLlt _aa....6ed J UD reLUrQ
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the woman who came to the door in an-
swer to the knock, and saw harpstein
disappear within. In a few moments, we
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f the love affair between frs. Voeth and
the other man.
I pre ed her for additional details about
the dead woman' lover. "Can't you recall
any out tanding characteristic of the man;
what he worked at, or something of his
regular habits?" I a ked.
he thought for a while, and suddenly
remembered having heard the man ay he
was, or had been, an inve tigator for the
Pinkerton Detective Agency.
I brightened in tantly.
"What did you say he looked like? Was
he a lender fellow, swarthy complexion?"
I shot at her.
"Yes, I believe he was. I am sure that
he was."
I left immediately, hurrying to my
r om , fairly burning with the conviction
that I knew the man who had alienated
the affections of John Voeth's wife. The
instant the woman mentioned the Pinker-
ton Detective Agency, the name of a
man flashed to my mind. I had spoken
the name that occurred to me, and my
informant had said that it sounded
familiar.
aw Sharpstein emerge through' the front I I
door, and behind him was another man. L::~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~J
The two walked away from the house,
toward the railroad tracks, in the direc-
tion of where we stood behind a little
shed.
harp tein and the other man were
walking ide by ide, up the tracks, talking
a casually a two very close friend.
They reached a point parallel to the shed
behind which we waited, and topped. The
shed itself at just off the railroad, and
Deputy heri ff harpstein and our quarry
now stood not more than fifty feet from
us.
Sharpstein gave us a signal, and all
five of us tepped out at once, to face the
man standing beside the officer. The fel- ~,:~U~a:~~'O~~~S:t1j;ftl:~i:,~n~h:~!::~~~~~ng
teach you to master them quickly. Pictures
low cast a furtive glance behind him, as show how. Everything explained elearly.
if considering making a break, and his pa.yln H.lf Hour
After )'ou eel lh.
. Easy L•••ons
Even tr )'ou don't
face went a hen. fou.r •• a, mollona
70U play harmonioua
know one note from
an 0 1 her. the 52
rhotda wit h ve')' printed Ifuona and
"Just stalld right where :\'Oft are, Hock- IiUle prartlee. No clear picture. make
pr• .,loua mualc.' ite.. ytol.arnQulck·
lIoll," I said, drawing my revolver. knowledl'e needed. I,. ~.7 •• )'ou pia,.
"\Vhere ha\'e you been? How did you
get here? I thought you were in Detroit."
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live offer and eaa, term•. A . Valae St. to Sa.
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Early the next morning, I caught the
train back home, taking John Voeth and
his two little boys with me. That ride
from Detroit to Kalamaz(l"l. a distance of
man, and profe ed investigator for the
Pinkerton Detective Agency stared blank-
ly at me, and puttered.
look of urpri e, mingled with grief,
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overspread George Hocknoll's swarthy
countenance. nd no wonder. When
harp tein took the ex-military policeman
with him t view the pot where the body
of ~:rs. Voeth was found, the deputy, all
unknowing, tipped Hocknoll off to the fact
that big devel pments were unfolding at
my end of the inve tigation, in Detroit.
HOCK aLL hadn't expected me back
o soon and it i doubtful that he had
any inkling that I would ever find out
about him elf and the woman I su pected
him of killing. lIe hadn't intended t~king
any chance, howe"er, for when we went
te his home, we found all hi bags had
been packed, and some of them already
taken to the expre office and addre e I
to him elf in another city. We found
still other ba gage of hi at the Columbia
Hotel in Kalamazoo, where he had gone
preparatory to fle ing shortly after leaving
harp tein, following the trip to the mur-
STUDY MIND CONTROL der scene.
Ama_ aDd EDtertalD Tour Frle..... In his hou e, al 0, we found hi re-
2.5 Le"On1 In nypnollAm. Mind Readinc and lacnelic tintina:. TeltJ;
how uptor h) pnoliM at. • ltla.n«. m.... otbert r"~l their t'Ommllnd,
110- to o.. ~m" bad h"bl\.4l" how &.0 d ••• home J)t'r{ormanre. • tt on
voh'er, a .38 caliber re ulation army gun.
the fll .e. eto. lI~pful \00 mea and women. ett'Cuu"u. •'e-men. doeto,... The gun that killed 1r. Voeth had been
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C. O. D. plu. PMt.&ao). Oua'"n\.eed. a .38 caliber. \ e took him to the county
Educator Press 19 Parte; Row, New York. O..-t. M.. 66 jail, and locked him up, later grilling the
pri oner for several hour. He denied ever
MYSTIC DREAM
having known Bessie oeth.
BOOK :;,~~ o~·~~~ p n investigating George Hocknoll's
mean. Interpret dreams for
)lour ttl.ad... Tell t.bem wbn tb.,.
will m"'7 aDd _hom. &ad otb~ In- police record we learned that his criminal
tet..lID'\, phnom.a.. Telb "'or.
lun.... ,. cud., kaeup. taJmUikT. acti,'ities dated b:lck to 1913 and that in
J.t'o,.Lt·.~~::::'~~t"C. w:::t. ~:!:;
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the three years following his first arre t
book and brochure than II would buy
anywhere. a..uta, II ..alUI. Send onl, in 1913, he had been arre ted eight times.
UcUI... colnor .... lJl~•• b.t·.all. Sat"
(acUon.Ou..,uteed. 8miUl.r book 2(,c. fost of the e arrests were made on lar-
GIVEN ~~~U'Hi?J~
"'Ith .'...,y order. ceny charge .
MAGNUS WORKS. BOlll12.
Varick St•• New York. Dept. TRCG Returning to the Hocknoll home, we
searched the place from cellar to garret.
HOW TO OBTAIN
Our search wa not entirely a waste of
time. For in a cranny near the roof of
A Better Looking Nose! the house, behind a ceiling joi t, we found
Impt'Offe your /HIrsonal .p/HI.r.nH
My new 1I.1odet 25 Nose Shaper is the stone that doubt Ie had been set in
designed to improve the shape or the ring that the dead woman had worn.
\~eU~d ~sr::~~~~~~~~fY~:~d \\ ith thi evidence, we again confronted
paanl ssly. This is accomplished
thru the very fine and precise ad- Hocknoll.
4':t.m~h1cb OD~ry-:':.=~. Mod': After a while, he admitted he had known
~o:,ornrel:~d~1t:hb o:otdu~':f ti~ :f~; the woman-had even brought her to
thin.v daY" ulal. Write for free booklet to
M. TRILETY Kalamazoo in her car. But they had Quar-
PioMfr N... $MpiA1 SPfdolift reled when Mr . Voeth learned that Hock-
Dept. 134 Binah-amton. N. Y.
noll already wa married, he told u , and
he had sent her back to Detroit. She had
driven back in the same automobile, he
,·owed. That wa the la t he had een
of her.
\Ve took him to the morgue to view the
mutilated body of his dead lover, hoping
the sight of her would snap something in-
side him and loosen hi tongue. He walked
unhe itatingly to the marble slab, and
I aned over the corp e. ot a mu cle in
hi face moved, nor a flicker of hi eyes
wa apparent, as he said:
"Yep, that's her all right."
He wa led away, and thrown into hi
cell. Later we had him on the mat again
for a thorough grilling, but he maintained
his avowed innocence. \ e repeated the
que ti ning of him two or three time
each day for nearly a week, but he stuck
by hi ver ion of the affair.
In the meantime, damaging evidence, in
the nature of sly tips, was trickling into
the Sheri ff's Office.
One man reported that he had seen
Hocknoll and a woman in Jackson on the
day preceding the night of the murder.
:A~:lW'lf:~~~'t~e
..~:·.ud& .. Rochester. N. Y.
They were Quarreling. Hocknoll got out
Pleue lIend me• • ithout ohHuUOQ. )four frft book "noW' to of the car once arld started to walk away,
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but the woman, shrieking a stream of
Add _ ..•.......•.. oaths, slid under the wheel, and lettinJr in
the gears, teered the machine a fter her
deserting lover. Hocknoll leaped a ide
ju t in time to avoid being run down, and
jumped on the running-board as the car
hot past him. He climbed in, cursing
loudly, and struck his companion in the
face.
Hocknoll took the wheel, and headed the
car back toward Kalamazoo, we were told.
From Jack on we traced IIocknoll and the
woman to the out kirt of Kalamazoo,
where, under cover of darknes , the pair
had parked by the road ide, and engaged
in a heated argument. v e found a man
who had witne ed the cene, and be-
comin intere ted in the pair of supposed
lover, the witne s followed 'the car bear-
ing Hocknoll and 1r. oeth to a place
ju t oppo ite the pot where the body was
found.
The car wa topped thpre, our in-
formant told u, the woman etting out,
and running up the railroad track. The
man Hocknoll, followed at a parallel with
the fleeing figure, in the automobile. At
this point in the little farce, which de-
veloped into the mo t gripping tra edy it
ever has been my duty to p:\rticipate in,
the man who had watched the couple for
so long, decided that he wa witne ing
nothing more than the outcome of an un-
succe ful petting party, ga"e up his sleuth-
ing, and headed back to town.
Had he waited a few econd longer,
he would have witne ed the mo t brutal,
cold-blooded slaying in the crime annals
of outhwe tern 11 ichigan.
With this evidence, and much more that
would be ju t as effective in court, we
weren't worrying a great deal whether
Hocknoll confessed, or remained silent.
But it is the ambition of every officer, I
think, to obtain a confe ion from a
criminal lie know to be guilty. 0 we
continued to work on the pri oner, but to
no a,·ail.
Hocknoll once had suffered from a very
serious di ease. and had ue"er enti rely re-
covered. \Vhile in jail, he had a relap e,
and it became nece sary to place him under
the care of a phy ician.
W come
HETHER it was becau e he had
to like Doctor IlIgenfritz. the
phy ician who attended him in jail, or
whether he had a premonition of death,
probably will never be known, but on ep-
tember 8th, Hocknoll broke down.
Looking Doctor IIlgen fritz squarely in
the eye, he told in lurid detail of the sla)-
ing out there on the 'Michigan Central
Railroad tracks. He killed Be ie Voeth
becau e he grew tired of her nagging,
George Hocknoll confe ed.
He said he had taken her from Detroit'
to his horne in Kalamazoo, and later e -
tablished her as housekeeper in the home
of a relative. Hi wi fe learned of the
other woman, and went to where she was
working as hou ekeeper, and forced her to
leave the cit).. Hocknoll and his wife took
Mrs. Voeth to town in Mr. Voeth' car,
Mrs. Hocknoll getting out. after demand-
ing that her hu band take the woman back
where he had found her.
Mrs. Voeth had ref u ed to go on to
Detroit without her money and jewel,
which she had entru ted to Hocknoll, re-
sulting in the Quarrel in Jackson. When
Mrs. Voeth got out of the car t1~at night
they were seen Quarreling and she started
up the tracks to Hocknoll's home. !
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with him a length of leaden ga -pipe. lung
round hi houlders in a c iI, like some
gigantic hunting-horn.
n arrivin at the villa he spent an hour
in beating out this piping with the hammer
into a flat ribbon tw nty-fi\'e fe t long.
Then. out of a trip f linen he made a
....ag. which was fa tened by a bra afety-
pin. Thi he laid up n the pari r table.
Next, with the pi k and pade, he tried
to Ii ft a paving ton in the kit hen, s
a t dig a gra\'e there. But thi he failed
to d , and wa c mpelled t aband n the
attempt.
Returning to the pari r. he p nt me
time in muffling the carriage wheel with
trip of c1 th, that they might make
110 ound. Then, laying a candle n the
mantel helf, t ....ether with ome match s,
he placed the word-cane n the table, and.
takin off hi b t, t ok hi tati n behind
the pen d or, with the hammer ready in
hi hand. He wa tr mblin , but it was
n t with f ar; it was the avage joy of the
avenger. Hi wife and her c mpanion were
now almo t due.
At the la t moment he decided n t to
u e the wolf-trap. For this he gave a
curiou rea n. "I prderred," he aid, "to
kill Aubert simpl)'!"
\Ve mu t now return to follow the move-
ment of his wife. . s n a the two
men had left her. he went r und to Au-
bert' pharmacy. to make a ignal which
had been agreed upon, to inform him that
the appointment for the evening still held
good. He wa to meet her, at eight ·clock.
in the station-hall of aint-Lazare. Then.
while waiting for the hour to come, he
went into the church of aint-Louis-
d·Antin.
The time had been when he had 10\'ed
to go to church, and at h me to read the
Bible, until her hu band. who wa an
atheist. had f rbidden her to do so, And
now. in the du k and ilence of the building,
she knelt and prayed to Heaven that by
me miracle she might be kept un ullied
with the guilt of blood. "ho can depict-
who can imagine-the agony of mind of
this poor, pas ion-driven creature, who. to
cure her children from destruction. wa
constrained to lead her lover to hi d m?
\Vhere is the scene. in all the fanta ie of
ficti n. which can urpa in horr r thi
e\'ent of actual life?
t eight o'clock he wa at the tation,
where she wa join d by Aubert. they
sat together in the train for Chatou her
di tre f mind mu t have been terrible,
Flut he had to force her elf to hid it-to
smile. to' bandy light remark with her
companion, to act a part that mu t have
cru hed her but for the c n tant image of
her little ons.
T la t the train arri\'ed at Chatou
A tation. It wa now nearly nine
'cI k. They walked O\'er to the villa, A
they went l;P the little a\'enue Aubert
howed signs that he wa nervou, "Thi
eem all a my tery to me," he said, "You
know, Gabri lie, 1 am no hero of adven-
ture." he pu hed open the front door.
"Oh!" aid Aubert, a he entered, "what a
plea ant mell there is here!" "C me in,"
he an wered; and they pas ed into the
\'estibule. Aubert perceived, by the half-
light from the door. a hat-rack. and hung
up hi hat. "This way!" she aid, and the
two tepped into the unlighted parlor. Re-
marking, "It i deuced dark in here." Au-
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bert truck a match against his trouser-leg
and held it up above his head. At the
ame instant Fenayrou. starting from be-
hind the door, the hammer lifted. brought
it down upon hi head with all his force,
The victim. with a stifled cry, went cra h-
ing to the grollild.
He was only tunned. howe\·er. The
next moment he \ as up again and, wounded
though he wa , had caught the other in a
d a(lIy grip, This the murderer had not
f re een, H is plan had been, to strike the
victim down and leave him helple s with a
ingle blow. and then to light the candle
and t gloat upon him. with the s\ ord-
stick ready, until the moment came to make
an end. But now the man was at hi
thr at,
The match \\'a not unequal; for the vic-
tim. though the weak r. was fighting for
hi Ii fe. The other could not u e hi ham-
mer at clo e quart rs. for the two were
locked together in a truggle to the death,
Fenayr u b an to pant. All at once he
raised his voice. "Gabrielle." he ....asped
ut. "come here! Light the candle.
Quick'"
His wife. who wa waiting in the ve ti-
bule, ru hed in. truck a match upon the
mantelpiece and held it to the candle. By
its light he saw a fight of furies. Round
and round the room went the assailant ,
training. raving. narling. like wildcat in
a cage. A they reeled in her direction.
ubert with hi back towards her, he
clutched him by the houlder and drew
him back with all her strength, \ hich
of the two men he meant to aid, in the
wild terror of the moment, who can say?
But the action forced her lover from his
hold and hi pponent wa set free. In a
fla h the hammer flew aloft and came down
upon him like a thunderbolt. With his
face a ma k f blood and the bones broken,
he went down, and ro e no more.
But even yet he was not dead, though he
was pa t resi tance. The a a in took the
sword- tick from the table, and with his
knee up n the victim' chest. poured out
upon him all the venom of his soul. "I
was ta ting," was his own expres ion, "the
avage joy f my revenge." The scene
la ted for ten minutes. Then. fearing Ie t
hi enemy hould lap e into uncon ciou -
nes, he exclaim d, "Your la t hour ha
come. By my heart you tortured me-it i
by y ur heart that y u shall die '" With
that, he plunged the blade into his rival'
heart and, a a la t t uch of horror,
twirled it r und within the wound. The
\'ictim gave a la t c nvulsive cry-and all
\Va o\'er.
T HE a a in pu hed the body with his
fo t before the fireplace, and with a
pair of cis or cut the clothe off, s
o n a it wa tripped he drew the knee
upon the che t and, \ ith the leaden ribbon
which he had prepared, he wound the
corp e into a bundle a a spider wind a
fly. Then he forced the gag into the mouth
and fastened it with a brass safety-pin, It
wa designed to prevent the water from
entering the body,
Next he fetched the goat-eart from the
kitchen and. laying a straw mat upon the
bottom to keep the blood from dripping. he
tried to Ii ft the body into it. But the
leaden bonds had rendered it too heavy for
his trength, and he was forced to call hi
brother. who was watching in the garden.
The two together got it stowed and cov-
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ered with a counterpane, all ready to be thought at fir t it wa a dog, but it' a
taken to the river. man all right." The other pu hed off in
HIs!h School It wa now eleven o'clock. But it wa
A cen ion Day, and band of reveller were
his boat, and on arriving at the pot di -
covered there a corp e, half-Roating, hal f-
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cart, and proceeded to the villa. There
l~ enayrou changed hi clothe, which were
drenched from head to foot with blood,
and made a bundle of them and of tho e
of the dead man. The hammer he put into
hi pocket. The three then left the hou e,
locked the door behind them, and et off
for the tation, to catch the la t train back
to Pari. Having a little time to wait.
they partook of some refre hment at the
buffet. Fenayrou drank three bock and
Lucien one, while Gabrielle to kala of
Chartreu e. One can fancy he required it.
Finding an empty carriage on the train,
they traveled econd-cla to Pari .
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body wa brought in. ubert' si ter, who
ince hi di appearance had moved heaven
and earth to find him, identified him a her
brother. The police, who had suspected
Fenayrou, but had found no evidence
again t him, went traight to the a a in's
hou e.
It \Va early in the morning, and Fenay-
rou and hi wife were till in bed. n
the ummon he came down tairs in his
dre ing-gown. His manner wa quite
ea y and unruffled, a if he were about to
greet a friend. "I have been expecting
you," he aid to the chief detective. "1
knew that ubert's iter would denounce
me. I am innocent, 0 f cour e. I need
hardly tell you that."
M. face, the chief detective, was a keen
ob erver. He noted that the skin beh een
the peaker's right forefinger and the
thumb had been recently stripped off.
"That i nothing," Fenayrou explained. "1
hurt my elf in lipping on a tramway."
It might be so; but the detective was not
taking any chance. He put his man under
arre t and sent him under guard to the
police headquarter at er aille. In the
train the pri oner talked freely to hi
guard.
, ubert," he said, "wa a woman-lover,
a Lothario. 0 doubt he has been mur·
dered by ome inj ured husband. And erve
him right. I f I had caught him with my
wi fe I \\ ould have killed him lik-e a dog.
Thank Heaven, he never gave me rea on to
u pect him!" Hi manner wa so natural,
so entirely free and ea y, that the officer in

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Fenayrou threw the hammer into the river,
a \. ell a ubert' hoes, which were full
of blood. little farther on, he Rung the
dead man's hat into a field, fir t ripping out
the lining, which wa marked with hi
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On reaching home Fenayrou hung up
the bridal wreath again and re tored her
ring and trinkets to hi wi fe." 11 that is
over now," he aid; "we are going to tart
afre h, a on our wedding day."
T HE next morning, Friday, they returned
to Chatou, and all that day, and atur-
day, were hard at work in cleaning up the
..
parlor and getting rid of every vestige of
the crime. They crubbed the Roors and
goat·cart, burned the traw mat and the
Ag._ counterpane and tripped the walls of
paper-on which the pattern was a dance of
hepherd -which were plattered thick
with blood. By Sunday morning they be-
lieved that not a trace of any kind was
left. Fenayrou was so ea y in his mind
char e of him was convinced that they had
taken the wrong man.
In the meantime the chief detective, who
had remained behind, had ent a me age to
the murderer' wife to dre herself and
come downstair . soon a he appeared
he took her und r hi own char e. he
aid nothing at the moment, but in the
carriage of the train to Versaille , in which
were hal f a dozen other pas engers, she
eemed to waken from a kind of trance in
which he had been itting, and putting her
lip to the detective' ear he began to
whi per to him. If the other per on in
the carriage could have caught the mean-
ing of that troubled murmur it would have
thrilled them throu h and through. For
she wa pouring out a full confe ion, down
to the minute t detail, of the tory of the
crime.
A oon a 11. Lace had got hi prison-
er together at er aille -Lucien having
al 0 been arre ted-he took the train alone
to Chatou and paid a vi it to the villa.

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General Clerk Poettnal!lte,r Eleven day after the crime, a sand- and between the window, hung a Ii fe- ized
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ailor. "There i a body over there." the picture bore a curiou record of the crime.
DRE8B . ailor aid. "und r the boat yonder. I Between the woman' knee and ankle the

can"a had been la hed, and purt of
bl od had pattered through upon the wall
behind it.
EXT the detective interviewed the
agent \ ho had let the property to Fen-
ayr u. It wa arranged that the murderer,
without a warning, hould be confront d
with him face to face. The detective ent
a m age to \' er ailles that the pri oners
hould be conducted to the pot. They
came; and a they were led into the villa,
the nerve of the a sa in, for the fir t time,
ialtered. Hi throat went dry-he begged
for water.
Th n came a cene of drama. All at once
hi ye fell up n a man who t od before
him and who fixed him with a teady stare.
In a moment, as by in tinct, hi arm flew
up to hide hi feature. The act revealed
hi guilt.
He knew that he wa reco nized and
that the game wa up. Bluff wa u ele
and he changed his tactics on the pot.
"Ve ," he aid to the detecti"e, "it i true.
I killed Aubert. And I will tell you why."
Henceforward, to the end, he et him elf
to play the part of the inj ured hu band
who, tung to frenzy by the jealou y which
i as cruel a the grave, had truck to death
the wrecker of hi home. To uch a crime
of pa ion the laws of France are very
lenient-but not to the low atrocitie of a
c ld and grim revenge.
Hi confe ion-he till knew nothing of
hi wife' -he aft rward fill d ut in de-
tail while in pri on. Their two acc unt
are independent, but they only differ
lightly, and the il1\'e tigations of the
police confirm them both. They may be
accepted, therefore, a an accurate account
of what took place. nd h w vi"id is the
tory which they set before our eyes 1
The chief detective at once et to work
to r con truct the crime. "'ith a gendarme
in the part of ubert, the a a in howed
how he had lurked in hidin , h w he had
.truck down the victim, how th y had c me
to grip in a truggle to the death, how he
had beaten do\ n his enemy, how, over the
pro trate form, he had "ta ted the ~a va e
joy of hi revenge," how he had driven
the word-cane through his rival' heart.
Then the g at-cart was produced, a gen-
darme wa tru ed up with rope in place of
:\ubert's body, and Fenayrou, with hi wife
and br ther following, wheeled the car-
ria e to the bridge. There the r pc was
cd ben ath the "body'" arm and it
lifted to the parapet-they could hardly
rcc n truct the fall into the wat r. It
hould be n ted that the a a in made no
ccret of the m t atr ci u detail. In-
deed he cern d to glory in them, a the
la t touche of an arti t to a rna t rpiece
of h rr r.
crowd of watchers had collected, in
the my teriou way in which, n uch oc-
ra in, pectator eem to pring out of
the round, and, gue ing already what wa
in the wind, received the pri oners with
yell of fury, and pelted them with stones.
Gabrielle wa so terrified that he had to
be r tored with sm lIing- alts.
Then they were taken back to Pari , and
ked up in pri on to await their trial.
The trial took place in ugu t at the
A> ize Court at V r aill. Th x-
citement throu hout France had been in-
ten e. The crowd out ide the court was
o normou, and 0 threatening, that the
pri oner ran a ri k of being torn to pieces.
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s i u ua) in uch ca e , the \ omen were
the mo t relentle ; and it \ a a hard ta k
for the polic to bring their charge afely
through the horde of t rmagant who,
\ ith hooked claw and fiery face, were
waiting, like a flock of furie, for their
prey.
In ide, the court wa crowded to the ceil-
ing. pcctator lodged up n the window-
ill and held n by th bar. Below, the
cene wa like the fir t night of a play.
n very hand were well-known face-
actor, arti t, enat r , ·philo opher and
wit. There wa Albert \ olff, the cele-
brated painter; and a gr ater arti t till,
Ifred te\'en. There \ ere Lafontaine
and oquelin the eld r, the mo t brilliant
figure on the tage; and there was ),Ieil-
hac, who wa writing plays for all the lead-
in theat r in Pari. now to be the pec-
tator of a drama m re inten than any of
hi own. Ther, too, wa a galaxy of
laclie, with their fans and cent-bottles
and I rgnette .
Before the pri oners app ared, the eyes
of all were fix d with thrill and murmurs,
on the trange xhibit of the crime et
forth up n a table in the centre of the
court. There w re een the wolf-trap, the
coil of leaden ril bon, the cord, the gag,
the pick and h vel, and the goat-cart-
and, leaning again t the judge's de k, the
empty frame of Gabrielle' p rtrait from
which her hu band had torn the canvas in
hi jealou rage. But what truck every
ye and ent a thrill through every nerve,
wa the kull of the dead man, gli tening,
white a ivory, broken in three place by
the hammer which wa lying by it ide.
Th n the judge entered, and the pris-
oner were br ught into the dock. Fenay-
rou, dr d in a coar e blue uit, which
. e med to have b en made for someone
Ise, with hi red beard tou led and his
eyes of ull n fire, pre ented a forbidding
figure. Gabrielle, lifting her black veil,
howed her face, a pale a death, with
eyes that held no lu tre. h eemed, the
gazer whi pered, like a thing of wax.
for Lucien, he looked like a copy of his
brother, only dirtier. From time to time
he bleated like a lamb.
The Pre ident began the interrogation.
Fenayrou wa taken, step by step, through
his confe ion. nd now the audience
heard, for the fir t time, the tory in its
detail -or, rather, saw it acted. For the
a. a in howed a c rtain gift for tage
effect, like that of a crude actor in a melo-
drama. "hen he told how he had treated
Aubert a ,a on, and how ubert had re-
quited hi ag ction. ., h!" he cried, "the
wretch! The villain I" nd he threw hi
arms above hi head with a roar that hook
the rafter. \Vhen he de cribed how he had
stabbed his enemy, his voice went caling
upward, until, a he came to the appalling
word, "and then I drove the sword into
hi heart," he nded in a cry of exultation,
half-yell, half-laughter, like the scream of
a hyena. By the time he reached the end
of hi recital the audience was limp with
horror.
T HE came the turn of Gabrielle-in all
re pects his opposite. She gave her evi-
dence like a woman in a trance. Every
word and motion eemed to come from a
marble ima e half alive. he added little
to her hu band' tory. he wa orry for
her fault in taking Aubert a a lover; but,
as to the part which she had taken in the
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crime. he had acted for h r children-for
her children! That wa all she had to _ar.
\\ hen e\"eral witne e had given evi-
dence, the coun el for the pro ecution rose
to peak. The audience expected some-
thin fine-and what they got wa very
fine indeed. In fact, the trial, which i a
cia ic of it kind, i noted for the peeche
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cour e of a ingle ca e, can three uch
plendid effort ha\'e been heard.
The Pro ecutor fir t went through the
e\·idence, and then ummed up the ca e
again t the pri oner. Fenayrou, he said,
had hown no ign of acting in a fit of
udden pa ion, uch a may weep a man
to murder unaware, but had laid hi plan
of low rennge with cold deliberation.
for Gabrielle. he de crib d her a a ca t-
off mi tre - he had heard, according to
hi theory. that her lover was about to
marrr, and, with all the fury of a woman
corned. had thrown her el f into her hu -
band' plan of vengeance, heart and oul.
"Gentlemen of the jury," he concluded.
"i f \'ou are cOI1\·inced that thi man i a
hu band who ha ought a jut revenge, I
will not a k of you to trike him without
pitr. But if rou feel, a I have hown
you, that his crime i nothing better than a
gha tly murder, it will be for you to do
your duty. for his wi fe, ah, gentlemen,
I think the fitte t comment in her ca e is
ilence! e\'er a mon ter more complete.
more hideou ,ha at upon the b nche of
thi dock. Thi woman i the perfect type
of liar, wanton, coward and deceiyer! he
at 0 ha de en'ed the penalty of death.
,. nd now, gentlemen, one word and I
ha\'e ended. \\'hen, in the hours to follow,
the ilver voice of eloquence i lifted, to
blind your rea on and to way your heart
-ah, then, I charge you, gentlemen, that
while, as men, you pity, as judges, you
condemn I"
-"O with that amid t "prolonged en a-
AThen
tion," the orator at down.
came the turn of the defending
coun el-first, Maitre Oemange for Fen-
anou. The way in which he put the ca e
i" \'ery triking:
"Gentlemen," he said, "there are certain
hu band who, when their wi\'e take lov-
er , re ign them elve to be the happie t
of the three. The e are philo opher ; but
who re pects them? This man ha taken
hi revenge-taken it in avage fa hion, a
a half-wild mountaineer would take it, re-
oh'ed that the wretch hall suffer who ha
poiled hi life. You may condemn him.
gentlemen-it i impo ible to de pi e him.
Let me recall to you the tragic torr of the
knight, ir Raoul, Lord of Coucy, who died
at the Cru ade and who charged hi quire
t bear his heart to tngland and to lay it
at the feet of the Barone de Feyel, the
lady of his 100·e. It wa her hu band who
receh'ed the heart, and he forced hi wi fe
to eat it! It i in the pirit of thi baron
of the :\[iddle ges that Fenayrou ha
thought fit to carry out hi ~hem~ of v~n­
f(eance in the pre ence of hi gUIlty Wife.
It wa to be her expiation.
"Gentlemen there are three solutions
open to yO~ : death, penal servitude,
acquittaL"
t the word "acquittal" a deep murmur
of re entment came from certain of the
crowd. The peaker hot hi fla hing eye
around the court.
"Ah I" he cried, "the crowd is cruel-
a the crowd is always cruel I But you,
gentlemen, you do not form your judg-
ment like the crowd, but with your rea on
and your sen e of ju tice. nd never will
your lips decree that a man who ha
avenged 0 foul a wrong against hi name
hall wear, throughout a life of pri on, the
green cap of the a a in, or, like the vile t
criminal, hall climb the ladder of the
guillotine I"
finer piece of special pleading ne\'er
thrilled a court.
Then followed Gabrielle's counsel, Clem-
ent de Royer, with an appeal that stirred
the heart of all who listened:
"Gentlemen, thi man had threatened that
he would kill her children. he knew that
he would keep hi word. he wa like a
mother who, when the hou e i burning,
throw her el f out of the window with her
children in her arm. What matter if he
peri h, 0 her children may be saved I It
wa from this brute and bully that she
strO\'e to save them-from thi demon,
tanding over her with a revolver crying,
'Obey me, aid me, or your son hall die l'
You will have pity, gentlemen, upon thi
mo t unhappy woman, who was a wife no
longer, but a lave-remembering that what
for him had been the joy of vengeance, for
her had been the horror of despair 1"
T HEgreat.effectWhat
of the e speeche had been
would be their effect
upon the verdict? s the jurymen filed
out, the audience were agog with excite-
ment and expectation. 0 great wa the
tumult of di cu ion that when, after an
hour' deliberation, the jury reappeared, the
Pre ident had some trouble in re ·torin
order. But it wa in the mid t of a dead
Hence that at last the verdict wa de-
livered.
II three pri oner were found guilty of
murder; but Gabrielle and Lucien with ex-
tenuating circum tance. Fenayrou was
entenced to the guillotine; Gabrielle to
penal ervitude for li fe; while Lucien got
off with even years.
Fenayrou walked calmly from the dock.
Gabrielle, thou h a white a marble, di -
played no ymptom of emotion; while
Lucien wa led out, bleating still, supported
by two warders.
This verdict, in the ca e of Fenayrou,
\Va clearly right. If the trial had taken
place in En land, he would certainly have
hanged. Gabrielle's entence ha been much
di cu ed. The plea put forward by her
coun el eem to u the ound one. In
England he would, we think, have been
acquitted.
But thi wa not the end. The Court of
Ca ation, on appeal, descried a legal flaw,
and ordered a new trial. Thi took place
in the ize Court of Paris. The ame
evidence wa called; the arne facts were
brought to light; but the verdict 0 f the
jury wa a new and trange one. Fen-
ayrou, like his wife, received extenuating
circum tance, and, like her, wa ent to
penal en'itude for life. That i to ay,
the a a in and torturer wa no blacker
in uilt than the girl whom he had
forced to choo e between her lover and
her on.
A for Luci n, who had no kind of griev-
ance again t th" man whom he had helped
to butcher in cold blood, he was acquitted
altogether-as if he had been as sheer an
in trument of his brother's will as the

hammer or the goat-cart. The pectators
in the court received thi trange deci ion
with a ga p of tupefaction. nd well
they might. The yerdict i , perhap , the
ma t ridiculou on record.
Gabrielle wa ent to erve her term in
Clermont Pri on. There, her weet and
winning natur made her many friend.
_he rose to be the mi tre of the laundry.
It is a y to ima ine that her life in
prison was far happier than her life with
Confessions of Frank Silsby-Master
Criminal
(COIl/j1lttedjrom page 66)
"No. \ hat do I want to ee him
ab ut?"
"You'll have to get his anction before
we can pull it."
HERE are a lot f surpri e in the
T career of every crook, but the greatest were howling all ver the place-that we I
urpri e of my life came when the man to
whom I had b n referred by the deputy
heriff and with whom I wa planning
the robbery of a t. Loui unty bank,
informed me that I would have to a k for
"permi ion" to carry through the project.
The per n, he aid, who would ha"e to
place official approval n my propo ed un-
dertaking was \ illiam P. C Ibe k, then the 1 'e pull this job? I'm n t g ing to cut
leader of the Egan gang, a power in city
and county politic, and di rector-general
f perhap the greate t criminal organiza-
tion in modern police hi tory.
Colbeck, now a pri oner in tlanta Fed-
ral Penitentiary, wa then at the height
f hi power. The crime which wa to
end him and his cohort to pri on for
twenty-five year had not yet be n com-
mitted. I heard of Colbeck and hi gang
before moving to t. Loui , but I had not
e\'en u pected the kind of a trangle-hold
which he a ually had on the city and
county. I later learned, his word was
almo t law. And now my pro p ctive c n-
federate in a robbery wa in i ting that T deputy pals to hoot u dO\ n a we came
II1U t get Dint' anction before we could
pull the job. I talked and arguell a ain t
uch action, but my friend wa adamant.
"Y u'll ha\'e to a k Dint," he in i ted.
"\\ hy do we have to a k him?"
" a that the Egan gang will get it cut
out of it,"
"The gang' cut on our job?"
,. ure, Dint and the boy et a cut on together e;'(cepting when, properly rna ked,
everything-beer, booze. gambling, graft,
j b . road-hou e , and all the re t of it."
"They w n't get a cut n thi ."
"Li ten-if you pull it with permi ion
and ther' a big quawk, it' II be quar d
(fixed up). If y u pull it with ut the
nece ary ay- 0, the gang ,ill find out
who did it and end 'Chippy' around for
the cut anyway.'
"\\ ho' Chippy?"
"Chippy Robin on, the head of the gang's
firing quad."
" ow you Ii ten to me," I told him.• I'm
going to pull a lot of tuff in t. Louis and
t. Loui County, and I'm not going t
a k anybody' permi ion. I'll tell you a
tory: Once upon a time I wa in a town
and I had to a k a big politician for per-
mi into pull a job. He told me it was
O. K., to go ahead, but that if there wa
a loud quawk, I'd have to turn the money
True Detective Mysteries 119
her ogre hu band. he wa released in
1903.
for Fenayrou, he wa com'eyed to the
penal ettlement in ew aled nia. fter G
a while, he wa et to manage the di -
pen ary, but being detected in an act of Eam money at home
theft wa reduced to the po ition of a
ferryman. In the end he- died of cancer
~£W easy method. In [
a few short weeks, r i l t h t '
.'
•
of the liver. nd with him pa ed away at home through the Wo-
man's Institul , you can
a viler wretch than any fiend of the learn how to make all
Inferno. your own clothes in lhe
very latesl style for a
half or a lbird of wbat
Ib¥'h~O:u~t~o~ com-
p1~e t~at4bO~ ~~e:a~
a vi iting dressmaker or
leacher, or open a _hop
and be independent.
Just mail the coupon
and we will gladly t 1\
you about the Woman's
Institute and how ir can
belp you to have more
back. I told him that wa agreeable. I and prettier clothes and
wa a little gr n th n. I pulled the job earn money at home in
and wh n I got back to my quart r an spare time.
hour later,' the teleph ne bell had been I~----------------,
WOMAN'S INSTITUTE, Dept. 91·F, S"••ton, Penna. I
ringing so long it was hot. It ,as the I pI i~1t~~~:r~l~O:r a~~ltgll~~~r:: g~::~8t~d ::n:O~~ I
politician. He told me that the authoritie. I lho lubJec< I hove checked below: . I
0 Heme D.....m.klng
o Profe..ional Dr...makln. 0 Cook I••
0 Millinery I
had be n 'made' by a policeman, and ~hat
un Ie we turned the dough back we would
get a rap.
I
:;.m·· ··ir;iei••·.l.l."betber'iii.:·or·iliii'j'·..· ·..· I
I Addr · ·..·..·..· I
"I took it back. Two weeks later I I Tile lvoma"/~II~n:~~:t~H;:a:'~OC~: ';if:", ""4 ,,"der I
fund out that th re had be n no quawk-
that the politician had put the money in
hi own sock. "er again f r me. The
L__
~~~~~=~~~~~~--~
Que tion for you and me to d cide i do
with anyone except the boy ,ho pull it.
Do we, or don't we?"
He agreed to take a chance with me on
the r bbery and w went ver all the' de-
t il. Two or three day later he brought PHOTO ENLARGEMENTS
a couple of hi f ri nd to my road-hou e HAND PAINTED IN UFEUlE COWlS
n the Big Bend Road. They were Cuckoo SEND NO M.0NEY $
8dO In.
1
48
gang ter. V e again went over the plan Juel mail p'etw-e. film or . . p belt., Iltac.-
and called on my n wly-made friend, the in.. eoLor 01 hair••, .. aad dO'hlaa. 0.
deputy heriff, to talk with him. He wa =.~ -::~·:~.~·~itt":r:uf-:Drr;::
pal" pCMta,... You'll be plueed with Ol,D' WOI'k.
too eager, and after he departed we came REX • • T. D••t.T.R ••
M S. l~arborn L JI1 AGO
to the conelu ion that we were taking a
long chance-that perhaps he was planning
to make a reputation for him If by double-
cro ing us and enabling him elf and his
out of the bank. "VI e call d off that par-
ticular job, but the deal wa not without
a development that wa ati fa tory to me,
becau e the f 1I0w I wa planning the rob-
bery with and the b ys he brought along
with him decided to play ball with me.
We agreed that it would be b t not to a -
ociate with each ther, nor to be seen
we would pull a job.
the week that followed we gave the
I
police plenty of work and the in urance
companie can iderable grief. In the mean-
time, I wa getting acquainted and had
made numerou connection. I had met a
lot of the be t known profe ional bonds-
men, ome tip ter, orne c ntact men, pol-
itician , fixer, and other ra fter. I had
been out to ),Iaxwelt n Inn, headquarter
f the Egan gang, and had met Colb ck,
Ray R nard, Oliver Dou h rly, and a lot
of other. I had becom acquainted with
"Jellyroll" Hogan, and ome of hi boy
friend , and had met " h rty" Rus 0, who
later wa a sa inated. I al 0 made the ac-
quaintance of the men at the Central Dis-
trict Police tation, having be n picked up
a time or two a a u pecl.
C Ibeck had not bothered me, and dur-
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Tn,te Detective 1ysteries
ing my t. Loui operation I ne\·er had
one run in with him. I went out to .lax-
wdton Inn one night as the gue t of e\·-
eral young men. ne of them, unknown to
me, wa the worn enemy of Chippy Rob-
inson. Chippy had worn to kill him on
sight and only a few week· before had a -
saulted the young man and lacerat d hi
scalp with the butt of a gun. hippy had
not fared so well in the fight and had
vowed to kill him.
\ hen we entered the Inn that night we
all checked our pistols along with our hats,
as was cu tomary. " 0 gun in the dining
room," was one of Dint's rules.
\' e were sitting at a table, sipping a
drink, when Colbeck came running in. He
addressed me:
"Get that bird out of here quick '" he
said, pointing to the young man with the
lacerated scalp. "Get him out of here be-
fore Chippy kills him. You ought to know
better than to bring him here '"
"I didll't bring him in here. I came with
him and his friends, but if there is going
to be a shooting scrape I'll get my gun,"
and I proceeded to do just that. Then I
started back for the table. . . .
Dint glared at me-but there was no
shooting.
Chippy, out in the barroom, apparently
had calmed down.
I sold my road-house and moved to a
West End apartment. The connection
I had made with the Cuckoos continued
to be a good one. Pay-rolls and banks in
51. Louis, St. Louis County and acro:;s
the river in Illinois were robbed.
I was now being arre ted with more or
less regularity, and was cla ified by the
police a a uckoo gang ter, although I
wa merely a ociated with some of the
boys who wcre known as Cuckoo gang-
sters and who operatcd more or Ie under
the protection of a t. Louis minor poli-
tician, who is well, if not favorably,
known in police circle and around the
~[unicipal Courts Building.
W S beginning to feel the sting of
I the prof ional bond man, and what
a ting tho e St. Louis bond men carry I
\Vhat a hole they make in a crook's bank-
roll.
I wa in and out of the holdover, with
free entrance, but the exit, that always
had to be opened by the bond maR, cost
from Z-O to 1,000, depending upon how
badly I wanted out.
I wa en aging in numerous crime, but
I seemingly wa losing money. I had
$.t-,OOO on my arrival in t. Louis and
this had bee.n reduced to 30,000.
Then came my fir t t. Louis experi-
ence in beating the law. A bank had
been robbed of sev ral thou and dollar .
For my own protection I have declined
to give the name of the bank. I wa ar-
re te.d a short time after the robbery and
taken to Central Di trict Police tat ion
and was placed in the "shadow box."
umerou witne es to the bank hold-
up looked at me there and one of them
gave me a shock by aying: "That's one
of the men. I'm po itive."
The grand jury was in ses ion and I
was indicted on a charge of robbery in
the fir t de ree. Bail was fixed at 25,000.
I tarted my campaign to beat the in-
dictment, and e capc without puni hment
by ending for a well-known profe ional
b nd man.
I at in a cell in the t. Loui jail
awaiting de,·elopment. I had been po i-
ti\'ely identified as one of the bandit, who,
a fcw day before, had swooped down on
a bank and, threat ning to kill any per n
who might re i t, had e caped with
thou and of dollars in ca hand ecuri-
tie.
In addition, some of the stolen bonds
had been seized, identified, and were to
be u ed as evidence again t me. I had
been promptly indicted, but the hue and
cry was over so far as the public wa-
concerned and I wa now ju t an ex-
convict who had been caught with the
goods, and who wa afely locked up and
in due time would be tried. But I had
no intention of going to trial if I could
avoid it, and I believed that I could beat
that indictment out of court.
I Topening
will again be recalled that in the
in tallment of this series of
articles I promised to supply the an wers
to a number of questions which were
asked by A. B. Bussmann, a St. Louis
business man, after his place of bu ine s
had been robbed by pay-roll bandits.
During the course of these articles I have
answered all of the que tions but one.
That question is: "How do 0 many ban-
dits I arn the names of witne e when
ca es have been submitted to the grand
jury and, learning their identity, how do
so many robbers procecd to eliminate
such witnesses?"
It is my intention to an wer that que -
tion in this in tallment, and, in addition,
to di clo e, stcp by tep, the in ide d -
tail of how, by bribery, trickery and
fraud, with the aid of a prof ional
bond man, an unethical lawyer and a poli-
tician who is known to the police a a
"fixer," I defeated the end of ju tice and
wa et free.
My fir t mo,"e, following my tran fer
from the entral Di trict Police tat ion
to the City Jail, \Va to end for a well-
known profe. ional bond man.
"Your bond ha bcen fixed at t\Venty-
five thou and dollars," he aid. "Ten
percent i two thou and five hundred.
Give me two thou and five hundred and
I'll have you out of here in an hour."
"Get the bond fixed and I'll have the
money for you when I sign it," I told him.
I then sent for a friend and gave him
an order on - - for 2,500. - - \Va a
St. Louis busine. s man, hone t and re-
spectable, who always kept my bank-roll
for me.
A crook mu t know some individual to
whom he can entru t his money. He can-
not carry it, for some thug may lug and
rob him. He cannot u e a checking ac-
count. nor a avings account, nor a afe-
de po it box, for all those thing are ub-
ject to the proce es of law and his bank-
roll might be put in as evidence again t
him.
I got the money, the bond wa igned
and approved and I was relea ed from
cu tody. Had I been in a bad financial
way. I would have arranged a robbery a
quickly as po ible, but I had money
enough to devote my time to squirmin
out of that indictment. The next day I
consulted my lawyer.
"How about a nice little alibi?" he ug-
ge ted. after I had admitted that I had
participated in the robbery. ood
alibi i the be t defen e in the world and

I have a couple of fine idea on original
one. Right now alibi are going over
in great hape. The jurie are eating
them up and within the la t few weeks
jurie have 'walked' (acquitted) several
men who were in tighter jam than you
are."
o have Ii tened to him talk you might
T have mi taken him for a alesman, or
a modi te, trying to ell omeone the
newe t Pari fa hion .
"1 don't want an alibi," I told him. "In
the first place. I've been identified. In the
econd place, there i the be t of cor-
roborative evidence again t me-they got
some of tho e bond we lifted. In the
third place, I don't want to take any
chance on what a jury might do. I
want to beat thi ca e out of court."
"Who identified you ?"
"How do I know? If I knew. I prob-
ablv would not have called on you. I
wa;,t to find out who identified me."
"I gue I could get - - to find out."
"That' what I'm here for. How much
is it going to co t?"
"Thi look like a tough ca e. I'll take
a five thou and retainer and if we put it
over. it'll co t you five thou and more.
You'll have to pay all other expen e "
"That' 0. K. with me. \Vhen will you
see - - ---?"
"I'll call him now." He called a tele-
phone number and found a man who is
known a a politician and a 'fixer." He
outlined what wa wanted and after tell-
ing the man to hold the 'phone, turned to
me and said if we wanted to know the
name of the identifying witness at once
it would co t 1,500.
I told him to go ahead.
N hour later the man came to the
A lawyer's office with a lip of paper
for which I paid 1.500. On the paper
wa. typed the name, age, occupation and
addre of the identifying witne He
wa an employe of the bank we had rob-
bed. and, for the purpo e of thi story,
we will call him" mith.'·
"There is another matter we would
like to have you get bu yon,' my lawyer
told the "fixer." "There i ome evid nce
again t it by. ome ecuritie. I believe,
that we would like to get hold of. Can
you get them?"
The man whi tied.
" ot 0 easy," he aid. " 0 so easy."
"Five thou and dollar i our price and
you can plit it any way you have to."
"I'll get ·em.'· he aid. "For ten grand
I'll get you the ~Iunicipal Court Building."
\\'hile the "fixer" wa working that an-
gie I had orne friends ound out friend
of the bank employe, mith, on the ques-
tion of my identification.
\Ve learned he \Va not 100 percent pos-
itive, that the police had encouraged him
to make his identification po itive. but, at
the ame time, he wa not the type who
could be cared out of town by intimida-
tion. We e tabli hed likewi e, that hi
connection were uch that there would
be a terrible roar and real trouble cau ed
in the event he should be "taken for a
ride."
After analyzing the situation, my law-
yer agreed the thing to do wa "to ap-
peal to hi en e of ju tice" and and to
arrange a pecial occa ion for his bene-
fit at which to make the appeal.
True Detective Mysteries 121
\\ hat a ham we impo ed on young STUDY TO BE A
'fr. mith-and how he fell for it. Fir t,
I got one of my friend, a Cuckoo O'ang-
ster who bore a light re emblance to
DETECTIVE
me, and taught him hi line. Then the A complete
coura. in mod-
lawyer got two young attorney to act ern eecret aer-
a wTtne e. yice with. hl.-
tory' of crime
It wa clo e to midnight when the three and criminal ..
FormerlY .old
lawyer. my imp r onator and my elf lor $36.00
drove out to the mith home. I remainer\
in the automobile, while the rest of tht
Thb I.moue
book on the
Science of
party went up to the door. The young Crime Detec-
tion by John D.
man an wered the door bell. My lawyer Connen, F.P.E.
Now in new
g«ve him a preliminary thrill by announc- re•••ed form
only
in in a gruff tone: 'We're here to ee
you about that il by matter." $2.98
A co m pl. t .
1M GI E the young man' immediate handbook for
I impres ion wa that he wa going to
:~~nt~nrlld::
teeth·••.
be hot, but my lawyer, to relieve th Endor.ed and
ituation, handed the young man hi approved by
prominent d ..
card. mith invited them into the hou e. teeth' ••.
1y attorney, pointing to my imper ona-
tor, asked: "Ir. mith, do you know PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION
EREll you willnudy and I.arn the m.ntal qualiti••
thi man?"
0, I do not know him," Smith re-
H aMorYalion.
that a detective needs, how to train your faculty of
how to d.t., min. the mollve from the
plied. truthfully. .neel, how to conn.ct cru.s by realanln" how to shadow,
how to repor~ the habits and characteristics of criminals,
'Did you ever ee him before?" the laws of arrest, identification, methods of handling
,. TO, ir. I never saw him before." easel. tracing and roping criminala.
Full of valuabl. information for oci.ntific Itudy. Full
"Are you certain?" 01 p.ychology 01 human nature. Information that will
'Po itive." ..rv. you w.lI in .v.ry walk 01 Ii!•.
Th.r. i. nothing .1.. like it. Th. book i. lully copy-
Then my impersonator got his cue-a righted-c;lOnot be imitated.
nudge from the lawyer. The Conners System teache. and trains you how to de-
v.lop the qualiti.. both mllllal and physical that are
'Then why. Mr. mith, did you iden- neccasarr to become a detective. \Vhen you finilh this
tify me a the robber? /'111 Fro/lk Sils- cour" 0 hom. Itudy and malt.r all 01 the valuabl. in-
formation, you are better prepared to become a detective.
&\,1" It il easy, pleasant reading. You will be amazed at the
. mith was badly confu ed. revelationl it containl, altounded at the way the PlY-
chology of crim. i. rev.aled.
"I didn't get a good look at you," he Wh.n you fini.h. you have advanced youn.lI. have
aid. greater power, a stronger pertonality and k.nowledge.
" TOW that you have had a good look PITT DETECTIVE AGENCY
at il by, would you identify him as one o.pL 44T. 153 Courl St., Now H..on, Conn.
of the robbers?" SEND NO MONEY-Sian below-then pay po.tman
on receipt of book $2.98 plu. a few centa po.ta, •.
" -0, iI', I would not." U not entirely aathned return the book In 5 day.
"You do not want to do this unfortu- ~S-ENwD ;;.~riNYOADVANC~AoND'\v~opR£p~"y
POSTACE.
nate young man a grave injustice and
send him to the penitentiary, do you?" Sign.d ..
" o. sir."
"You under tand that the e two young
men here are attorney, and that they
have heard and witnes ed what tran -
pired here toni ht, and are prepared to
te tify to all the detail in events you
should take the tand and identify il- ACHES & PAINS
Quick R.elief Wlth
"'L
by?"
"I under tand."
" nd you are prepared to renounce your
ori inal identification?"
HYe, ir."
dAttAN£SE
"Will you ign thi statement, and will
you inform the police and circuit attor-
ney of your mi take?"
"I will. b cau e I am hone tly orry.
It wa an hone t mi take."
He igned the docum nt and kept hi
word to the lawyer. There wa a pretty
row at the detective bureau and in the
office of the circuit attorney. But the cir-
cuit attorney wa not beaten-there wa
another ace in the hole, tho e eized e-
curitie. \\'hen he went to look for the
securitie they weren't there. The "fixer"
had takl'n care of that. He had dangl cl
'2,500 under omeone' no e and that per-
son had produced the evidence. Thi
hould how the reader clearly ju t how
crook with money beat the law.
M ydictment
ca e \'a never tried: and the
wa eventually di mL ed.
It co t me 20,150 to di po e of the
ca.e. Here i the itemized expen e, all
of which of cour e, wa paid with money
I had tolen at one time or another:
122 Tme Detective Mysteries
Bondsman . $ 2,500 tion . and the poor, deluded citizen,
Attorney fee . 10,000 ju t out for a lark.
6])on't Give Up To fixer for obtaining name of
witness . 1,500
\\ hat a picture! \ hat a commentary
on American life I And om one a'k ,
the Good Things To two attorneys who acted as
witnesses . 400
·'1.vllat price crimer"
~Iaxwelton Inn was not only the
tronghold of the Egan gang and
in life To friend who posed as me .
To fixer who obtained the evi-
250
fhe playhou'e of good folks from the
dence . 5,000 city, but it wa ,a well, a place f con-
YOU CAN HAVE Incidentals . . 500 tact, and anctuary, for crooks and
thieves from all part-of the nation. The
A HEALTHY POWERFUL Total $20,150 proud boa t of the joint wa that no pri -
oner had ever been taken from Iaxwel-
BODY The expenditure f thi big urn had
cau ed a serious hrinkage in my bank-
ton Inn!
On the night to which I have referred
A TR.AINED EDUCATED roll. I needed money and wanted to get a I went out to the inn for the purpo e of
MIND robbery lined up a quickly as po sible,
o I drove out to the Egan gang hang-
finding orne means of r pleni hing my
bank-roll. I had jut beaten an indict-
AND SUCCESS IN WINNING out at Maxweltori Inn to see what was ment for robbery in the fir t degree "out
going on. of court," and the prof ional bond -
FOIlTUNE man, the 'fixer," and my lawyer had
nicked my roll for a total of 20,150,
I HA E often wondered jf the citizens
who took pride in their ability to obtain as I di clo ed heretofore. I wanted to re-
admittance to the old Maxwelton Inn- cuperate, and as wiftly a possible.
Don't bobble .Ioog througb life
envying tile real man or woman who the armed tronghold of Dint olbeck' A I at at a table, I recognized on
has a body to be proud of, a brain that Egan gang- ver realized that by their of the mo t notorious crack men of thl:
compels success. the money to enjoy the
luxuries or life I Vou can h.:",e them too if
you go at it right. And ·O\V you can easily very pre ence they became Colbeck's day, and I beckoned for him to join m .
learn what it 18 that givee health. wealth and dupe and that after he let them in he "\Vhat's the lay, Boots?" I a ked him.
ioflu nee to J>eO'ple who started with nOlhlng-
a~~i~\~Oy~;:"o~~n:n~~fd'o~~rhidden powers and wa in po it ion to trade on their names "The lay? . K. But the bank-roll's
and influence? I wonder if they ever gone to the bookies. What are you do-
knew how he boa ted that he had "hood- ing?"
HOW TO WIN winked" them into believing that he wa~ "I've got a job in the making."
AGAINST ALL HANDICAPS their friend and that he wa proud to
have them patronize his fortres, eat his
food and drink hi liquor.
\ hat a pe t-camp I I have seen mere
boy -nice clean kids- tepping out in
"THE TRUE STORY OF their fir t long pants, examine the weap-
ons of ociety" wor t killers and feel
BERNARR MACFADDEN" the mu cle of degenerate strong-arm
This obscure boy. sick. poor, unschooled. won men.
health education. wealth; became one of America '8
greatest busincu pioneera--eotirely throueh his I have een hone t, re pectable, law-
own efforts. Now he wante to help YO by reveal· abiding citizens \ ho would think but lit-
inl' all he has learned in the hard school of ex·
perience. tle of a breakfa t in the \ hite Hou e,
glory in mingling with the ri ffraff that
In This Fascinating Story trailed along behind olbeck, and I've
You Will Find the een them introduce hippy Robin on to
their friend with a patronizing gu to
Secrets of Success that wa ickening.
For the first time the nmazing career of I've at at a table out there when the Here is a statement which Frank Silsby
B<"rnan ~ladadden is recorded-his plan of wrote out and signed, and which he says is
sel£~eveloplllent. his conqu t of sicknC88. Jobber-lipped members of the gang's
his business methods. his fight for finan iat lI1urderou "firing quad" returned from true. This depends, of course, on the
power. his way of acquiring influence. his individual, and is a condition all good police
creation of one of America's Itreale tor· the bloody mi ion of bumping off omt'
gl1nizations. nrl it is all told in a way that departments try to stamp out where they
makes this book a luide to 8Ue<:e88 for YOU. human being and dumping his blanket- know it exists
\ 'rapped body in the weed -to be a-
What This Man luted with friendly lap on the back by The job wa the robbery of a bank in
Has Done , a ho t of admiring t. Luis and t. IIIinoi at a place I hall not name.
Loui ounty citizens who, \ ith out-of- Boot wa ready to join me.
YOU Can Do. town friend frequented thi hangout. \Ve le!t t. Loui in a stolen car in
.\8 he overcame bis handicaps, 80 There wa Ray R nard, "the Fox", the company with ome carefully elect d
can you. .\8 he (ouJI;ht hie way to
success, 80 can you. Read Lllis book cool, cigar- m king pet of Dint Colbeck; a' i tant. It wa winter and now
and it will open 3 (ulure for )'OU
richer and more 8ucce&8(ul than you Oliver Doug-herty, the good-natured; threatened and the temperature was fall-
eve.r dreamed was possible. teve Ryan, \he good-Io king, bu ine - ing. \ hen we reached the town it was
This Coupon Is like chap who knew the bank and pay- dark.
roll bu inc ; Chippy Robin on, the Th bank was entered and it vault
Your Opportunity ieared; "Colt n" Eppel heimer, the tool- wa op ned without difficulty, and with
-an opportunity which may not and all the reo t of them, surrounded by but little noi e. The robbery netted more
~~l~~.a~~i~he~~~i~:~ft3h~~~~ toadyin , drink-buying bu ine and pro- than $40,000.
may open your eyes to your own
powers. mny be the turninJl point fe ional men who thought it mart and
of your ClfCer. You have the HE return trip to t. Loui wa be-
making! or success in you. send
the COUOO" today and learn H \\'.
,----------------------------~ I've
I1I1U ual (which it wa ) to a
an ter and gunmen.
ociate with
T gun. A few miles out of town now
began to fall and within a few minutes
I Lewb A.. Copeland Company, Dept. TD-6
en d cent g-irls, who went out
r 119 Wed 57th St., New York. there with fooli h, hrivel' ouled e cort·, we were all but 10 t in a blinding now-
: nd me • cot>r, of THE TR E TORY OF merely to look and hiver-and I've een torm. The car wa worthle , becau e
,I 0~1~~t~\t\~. ~~Pl~~\ook prepaid.
seod . O. D. I will pay tbe pOOtll1.n $2.50 plu8 a
them again, as orne gunman's "moll" we c uld not ee the highway. \ e de-
,I few <"ents postage. ( weetheart). cided to abandon it, and take to the
w d. Good fortune wa with u , and
I Na.me •••••••••..•••••••••• _•••••.••••••••••.••• . ..Grafter,
I taking a petty toll for favors
policemen, out for their whi ky . . . we found a road leading from the high-
II Addre....
_ h n __ n h __ n _ lawyer, looking for busine s . . . gam- wav. \\'e followed thi a h rt di tance
I bier and road-hou e keeper paying the and ditched the car. Walking me di -
: City n __ tate
_n •• shake-down money ... politician., talking tance in the wood, we paused and, aided
by a fla hlight, counted and divided the
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money. Each man wa to go his own
way. If we remained together, all would
be caught. undoubtedly. epara I'd, orne
of us at lea t, might e cap
It wa a trange cene, there in the
woods, a we counted the tolen money,
divided it, and then epa rated.
I have heard much ab ut the "ea y
life of a criminal." For the benefit 01
the young men wi have n t f 1I0wed
my tory from it inception, and who
know nothing of the horror of the tw n-
ty-one day of torture which I uffered
in the dun eon of linne ota' tate
Pri on, when I wa hung to the wall by
my wri t , let me call attention to the
tortures which I uffered following thi
robbery. :\[uhiply the agony o[ the e by a
thou and, and you will know a little of
the hard hips of a life of crime-bllt just
a little.
The whole county wa' alarmed. Posses
were searching [or u. The now was
blinding and the temperature was below
zero. I was cold and all but tarved. I
had more than $15,000 in my pockets, but
I could not buy meal nor a bed. It was
walk, walk, walk, and hide! 0 Ie p. no
food. I tumbled through the wood , trying
tG keep a clo e to the railroad tracks as
po ible, 0 that I would not 10 e my
direction. I fell into no\ drift, tore my
clothing, brui ed my body. I 1I ed now
for water, and ate dried corn and corn
stalks. For four night and five days ]
did not sl ep, nor did I ta te food. At th~
end of that period I reached Ea t
Loui -a living carecrow. Even at that
t.
I wa more fortunate than my fellows. It
took one man five and a half day to
get back to the city, and Boot , who wa
old and \ orn, came in n the ev nth
day a £tel' the robbery and then pent two
11I0nths in a h pital.
R next robbery wa to be in a
O we tern city. I did not wait for
Boot t recover from hi experience.
but, getting the informati n fr m him and
promi ing him a quarter-cut f the loot,
I tarted out with 1\ 0 companion. The
di tance wa too reat to ri k the use of
a tolen automobile, 0 I purcha ed a
u d car under a fictitiou name.
\ e loaded hotgun, pi tol , diamond
drill and hammer under the rear eat
and pulled out of :\[axw hon ] nn, ell route
to Kan a City, our fir t top.
1'0 ing the :\fi ouri River at t.
Charle, we dro\'e on throu h Fori tel,
\ entzville. rulton and into olumbia.
Jut a we dro\'e thr ugh that city we
had a pnncture. I dro\'e to a ara (;
clo e to the Daniel B one Tavern and
in tructed the garageman to repair the
tube.
In tead of one of u I' maining with
the autom bile we all walked acro s the
street to a little re.taurant to get a and·
wich. I wa the fir t to fini hand. bein u
the dri\'er, I returned to th arage to
get the car. I wa about to enter I
ob erved that it wa urrounded by P(I-
!icemen and civilian. no y mechanic
had di co\' red a pi tol in a ide pocket
and, inve ti ating, had al 0 found the
tools of our cra ft.
I saw that my companions were leav-
ing the re tau rant and I gave th m a ig-
Jlal that everything wa wrong and
tarted walking in the direction of the
tate highway. I had a pi tol in a hol-
True Detective Mysteries 123
tel' under my left arm. v e reached the
highway. my pal concealed them elves,
and I walked into the middle of the road ROlli etlHIget"
to t p the fir t automobile, regard Ie •
of the direction in which it wa bound. into .Aviation?
The fir t machine wa a . a h with a Read This Answer From
'ew York licen e, and, pretending to be
an' officer, I flagged it. The dri \'er A World-Famous
t pped. Trans-Atlantic Pilot
''I'm orry to intrude," I began. "but yo can aet into one or Aviation'.
I'm in tr uble and I have to get to Kan- ~~-~i~fte~'io~~;~~:5~~~ci~
in
a Ity, I've orne friend with me who ~~i~r:tr ~;y.emX~~~~~n f8relllg~
are in the ame fix. \ e want to be nice
~ri~bue~~~".PI~J~~'.~~
Walter Hinton
about it. and we'll pay you for your for empty bands or empty heads. Pilot 01 lb. Fa·
The feveli h race for the coIl8t.ruc- mous N now
trouble, but of course, if you want to be tiOD of new airpof'"ta. the buildina of devotee bUt en-
tire bme to train·
na ty--" ~~cfl~~esJ:d m~~iP~~~u ~e- ing men at hom
\\'ith that, I di played my pistol. velopment any industry baa evu fof'" A,·iation. Mod
seen-trained men, and trained '"4'" theoh IVing
.. et in," the driver aid. "Call your only--are in tremendous demaodl them to t real
Here DOW il the Quick and ~naio
friend -as many as can get in. \\ e're way to get the right kind of training
on our honeymoon-I've got a job in ~~F!oe~:~=o~c;~~o:et'di~~~~
California-we love each other-and I lio,* 01 Wolin Bi"I0". Hla famous
homt-atudy cou... in the fund a-
hope nothing will happen." ment...'\1s of Aviation is gc-tting CA ..t
RESULTS lor hundred. of m.o
He was a nice young man. fter he reo right now. because it', sdeDu6c. it',
thorough, it's practical.
covered from the nervousness of having
a gang of armed bandit in the tonneau ~~~'r ~bo~ulr~to~~n~u~.~:
hls l;"ree Rcsult·..ettina Employ...
of hi car, he was real plea ant. 'We got ment Service.
along fine. We paid all the expen e and Walter Hinton, Pre.iJent
ga\'e him 50 when we reached Kan a'i Aviation Institute of U.S.A.
City. He was so plea ed he wanted to 1115 Connecticut Ave.
Waohington D. C.
take us to a theater that night, but \ e
declined, and caught the first train for
t. Loui ~
l Walter Hinton. Pre.ident ..
[ Aviation In.titute of U. S. A. I
I 1115 Connecticut Av•• , W •• hinlton. D. C. J17-H 1
S :\IE weeks later a Chicago man was
not 0 lucky. I had a tip on a job in Send me yOUf'" Free Book H\Vlnp of Opponul"ity"
[ howing how 1 caD act. my around-traimug right at II
hica 0 and had gone up there to look [~~ I
it o\·er. I wa giving it the once over,
when the unexpected happen d. I stood
watching the tran fer of 200,000 when a
I Nam· • ·_ .. • J· .. ·(M~;t~~~-C;;-o;
..r) .. 1
J treet _ I
man walked up and opened fire on an-
ther man. I had never before een
either f them. The unfortunate victim Lc~.::.:.:::~:::=::: :..:..:-.= .::~::: :..:..::..:..:J
f II dead within five feet of me. It was
ne of tho egan killing. I wa known
to the hicago police and did not want
a "rap" for a murder about which I knew
nothing, 0 I ran from the cene. Da h-
The famous cartoon book, only . AI 0 ~tutt
and Jeff, Bringing Up Fath.r. Winni Winkle,
)[oon Mullins. The Gump, Harold T ••n, The
ing around a corner I aw a bi adillac N.b. All lor $3.00 by .xpr., .nd stamps
with a lone driver, moving lowly. I or money order,
I ap d on the running-board, climb din· P RK. P B. 0 .•
15 Beekman creet, Dept. C-7S
to the tonneau and shouted: "Get me
away from here."
The driver, very indignant, turned to
argue.
" et out of my machine," he ordered.
"Beat it, quick!" I responded.
He lammed on his brake and turned
to argue. I hit him with the butt of a
pi tol and told him to drive ahead.
roanin , cur ing and threat ning, he
proceeded. He talked about a life term
in pri on. about lethal gas, the no c and
lectrocution. but kept on dri vin. eveJl
mile from the cene of the hooting r
got out. He S\ re he would have me ar-
REDUCE-You Can, Easily
rc ted, but I advi ed him to forget it and Fat enters th body when food is (onsumed
in exe s of onc's ne ds; it can be removed
told him to have his scalp dres ed. by Ie s ning the fat-makinll food intake or by
Failure followed failure. We had a tip IllU cular exercise. There is no other way for
it to get in or gel ut.
on a pay-roll robbery. Jut a we
tarted on the und rtaking I threw the The Real Solution Is Simple and It Work.s
All other ills of th bod I' mal· om time
car in fir t and the gear handle napp <:I fail to re pond ('\'en wh n the best known
off. gain. a few day later, I had a methods ar applied. NOl 0 with abe it)!.
The cau e and limination of obcsit)· i a
narrow e cape from death at the hand. matter of mathemati and thel e is no argu·
of the police durin a bank robbery. On~ mcnl about it.
In Hi. N w Book Entitled
o[ the men dr pp d hi pi tol in front
of th bank; another on the in ide, di - "How to Reduce Weight"
Bernarr Macfadden
co\'ercd hi automatic wa empty; a third Riv(' you the complct rC>gime for weiltht
rcdUCli n, il1c1udin~
full dietary in tructions.
seein a bank employe run out a reat neulal mrllus. food c1as iflcations and reducw
do r, pur ued him, cha ed him three lion excrei e .
bl ck and e caped arre t only becau,' Price 5 ,postpaid.
MACFADDEN BOOK CO., Inc.
we picked him up on our eta way. That Desk T.O.6. M.cf.dden Suildinl. 19Zti ....dw.y. Now Y"k Cily
getaway, incidentally, wa to the tune oi
124 TrUe Detective Mysteries
police pistols and one of the bullets cut
the button from my cap. The job netted
each man Ie s than $500.
There wa a tip that a bank in Col-
umbia, ~1i ouri, would yield 18,000 or
$20,000. 'We went to orne expen e and "-
great deal of preparation and swooped
down on the bank at 9 A. I. a it open d.
As we neared the bank we aw a large
crowd gathered in front, and believing
there had been a tip-off, da hed back to
t. Loui . Later we learned that a lone
bandit had beaten us to the money by
ten minutes.
Then, after thi long cries of failure.
came a real propo ition.
I had met a t. Loui man in govern-
ment mploy and had been to hi home
a number of time. He had introduced
me to his wife and children. I was under
'the impres ion that it wa a long time be-
SAVE OVER HALF fore he learned the nature of my
ON THIS OFFER
But you save 8ull more bu in s, and then one night, without
1/~~~tr.'J ~hr~~'~'i~cl~d~df~·tI~; prompting on my part, he called me
special low price offer.
Hig, ruued 10 able Ex... illto a b droom in hi home and said:
r...;.1OtJi12:illia ib:.i~::i a~jnU;~bl~)I~~p~~ ' - --I "Frank. I've been tudying about this
Wall Exereh'n .. P.rh for Back and boulder develop. for a long time. I work like a slave for
menl. Hand Grip thatbuilda husky\Vrists and Forearms.
Head Gear to brinl.t out lh06e dormant l'\eck ~fu8Cles. a mall wage. and I'm ick of it. I have
:~d\~f~it~rU:cl~. Re~~i:J~~t..r:::~o~i~ni\:~.C~~ in my cu tody from time to time a lot 01
~~;n:fu'i~.~~;::~i~':.,.ndA~n~~i~~lf~~teg~1~u8~~;~~ bank depo it. Once a week I carry one
Take advantage of this temporary low price otter NO\V.
Juel .end your name and addre... We'll .hlp
that runs from 125.000 to 150,000. ow,
every thine out by return man. Pay tf.0atman only if you'll giv me a full share, I'll let you
~J~~~ ~~:hPO.rtd~r~h.r.e.. Ouhid. niled Stal••,
take it and it won't be much of a job."
INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. Inc. I have repeatedly referred to the amaz-
13 Ea.t 22nd St. Dept. F-21 New Yor1<. N. Y.
ing number of o-called hone t people who
will connive with denizen of the under-
world for financial gain. uch relation-
hip have ended in many murder my ter-
ie, and al 0 have re ulted in numerou
killing in which employe were uppo ed
to have died heroic deaths defending the
property of their employer, but who were.
in actuality, the victim of bandit bullets
becau e they were fooli h enough to scheme
with robber. They were hot down dur-
ing the execution of the crime, not because
Seed .....'o they appeared to have offered re i tance,
sod odd.... tor t... booklet ~IOIenel!Dlr....
formation aDd ltal tllCQ aboat Ad..-ertialD.8'. Flo oot ow.e r~r'
. . .t hom.. In .our ~ tim., tor tlle_o...rtDol' ee ope. '0 Ulle but becau e they were the "in ide" men-
~ ue.~.tiq bOliDe....fof':Uea. work. No text booh. Old .Itab,:.
I : . aJ~O:~fo0~~C:-Wrl~:~~~:~~DC:JIlIC \be PIaD no
PACE.DAVIS SCHOOL OF ADVERTISINa
the upposedly hone t employes who, in
reality, gave the crooks the "tip"-and the
Dept. 1341' al01 Mlchle.n Ave., Chl_o, U••• A. bandits, fearing to tru t uch weaklings
\\ ith knowledge which could nd them to
HAVE SHAPELY LIMBS •. pair $5.75 pri on, turned around and killed them.
OR SLE DER ANKLES . , pair $4.00
Relieve I!IwelHng or varicose veins and reduce
)"our limbe with Dr. WALTER'S famous moo·
icaled (creem colored) gum rubber hOle.
'Vom next to the skin th y fit like n glove
I REC LL one t. Louis bank robbery in
which a man wa murdered.
nnd you enn see the improvement at once. "\Vhy did they kill poor --?" other
For oyer 25 ye8rs th y bave helped thou-
sands of people, and are worn allover employes a ked. "It \Va uch a brutal,
the world. nd ankle and calf mea&- want n murder. He did not even bat an
ure. Pay by check or money order (no
c8.!h) or pay postman. eye, let alone offer re istance."
Dr. JEANNE T. D. WALTER The truth about thi murder i that the
389 Fifth A.... New Yor1< man lain wa the "inside tip ter" who gave
tlte needed information to the gang that
robbed the bank. Thi gang did not trust
him and, to eal hi lip, killed him.
When you hear of a killing under imi-
lar circum tance you will be correct. nine
time out of ten, if you urmi e that the
I.owest ...._ _ "rtllt victim knew too much.
1boo..nd. of ..til6ed tire Olen all o.er
tbe U.S.A. Oar 15 7-.n of bualoesa apeaka
for ltaelt. ThIs hie r ponalble company_iIt
H ne t men. dealing with the under-
aoppl, yOU with RCOOltnlc:ted l!ltand.ard world. hould always take into con idera-
makelfru at lowett pricee fo billtory-
Cuarenteed to &lYe 12 months' 'ervlee
tion the po ibility of a violent death.
Don't Delay-OrderToday
CORD Tlr.. BALLOON Ttr••
-'ro k regard uch men a weakling and
SIz. Tir••TubeS
80d 52.20 $l.tO
Slz. Tires Tubes
291:4.4052.30$1.10
do not tru t them.
g~~~ I:~I ~:~ =:::18 J::: l:~g , hen my friend in Government ervice
fact, I never took chances on trouble with
the Government. Every crook know that
the motto of the po toffice in pector is
"get your man, no matter how long it
til.kes."
I wa a tounded when my friend made
hi ugge tion. He aid he \ a . tired of
w rking like a la\'e for low \ age.
He own d a nice home and an auto, and
wa_ not in debt. et now, he wa trlling
me of a huge um of mon y he carried ne
day each week and that it wa never Ie .
than 125,000. He wanted to get part of it
and had ea ed hi con cience with the
knowldge that the m ney wa in ured.
He figured too, that becau e I wa his
friend he would be taking no chance .
It did not occur to him that the moment
he poke to me I was no longer jut a
friend and a gu t in hi home. I wa a
crook recei\'ing information from him a
~he "tip ter." How could I tru t him now?
, a n't he offering to betray the tru t that
hi employer placed in him? He didn't
know it, but at that moment he had begun
tv ri k hi Ii fe, home, friend and reputa-
tion!
I wa in a bad way financially, and his
sugge tion wa most alluring.
"How can we pull it?" J a ked.
"A ea y a tepping off the curb," he
answered. "1 can tell you the day I will
have the package and the xact minute at
which I will be at Ead Bridge. You can
tie me up and then make your getaway in
an auto and give me my share of the
money later."
"H \ long have you been tudying about
this; , I a ked.
"For month" he replied, excitedly.
"List n. Frank, 'I'm oing to tell you the
truth. I knew f rom the beginning that you
were a crook-that' why I cultivated you.
I wanted to meet omebody that could pull
thi thing off. \\'ill you go through with
it ?"
I Tmycertainly wa a hock. I had wormed
way into the friend hip of a lot f
hone t men in my day for the ole purpo e
of getting information, but thi wa the
fir t tim I had had the experience of be-
ing cultivated by a uppo edly hone t man
who wanted a crook to pull a job for him.
I told him I would go through with it.
"Do I get a full hare?" he a ked.
full hare:' I promi ed.
"How many men will be in on it?"
"J ust three. You, my elf and a man
will get."
"Can you tru t him?"
,. much a you can tru t anybody, I
gue ."
T wa careful in my election of the
third man and finally got an Egan gang-
ter.
"There are a lot of angles to consider."
I pointed out to thi man. "~1y informant
on thi job i ure to be Que tioned at
long-th by brainy leuth who will know.
f cour e, that it i an in ide job. \\ hat
\ ill he ay? \\ ill he tick to the tory
w '11 outline f r him, or will he break
do\ n and con fe s? I think he can get by
that part of the rdeal, but then what?

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38d 2.9. ].15 2 ••5 1.85
28J:li.2li made me a propo iti n to rob the bank de- 'Vill he go out and buy a big automobile
stx4 3.50 ].16 801:6.26 2 ••• 1.85
3.20 1.45 8ld.26 3.10 1.85 po it in his cu tody, he did not realize he and tart pending the money the minute
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was katin on thin ice. I liked him and \'!e pay him ff? , ill he Quit his job?
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All Other all:•• his wife and children. They were my good \Viii he do anyone of a dozen thing that
D .AL • • • ~~~'::~e~i~~cr.Ilr.tr:.\'u~ friend . and in thi particular in tance T will cau e him to be O"rabbed? uppo e he
WAN T • D pereent If c:aah In tull Accoml)(Ulfea orde.r. j arre ted n u picion, will he quawk,
Tiru fal1ina to gi•• l.2montha IlerYIce will be replaced at bait price. had not cultivated hi friendship with a
YORK TIRE" RUBBER COMPANY. 0. 2M iew of getting a line on a robbery. In turn tate' e\·idence and get us forty
1354 S. W.....h Ayenue C IUln'"

)'ear ? \\'hat do :ou think about it?"
"He' your bird, Frank, but there' only
one way to handle him. '
',\\ hat' that?"
"Kill him when you get the money,"
\\'e hook hand on it,
H ..... T night I went out to - - --'s
T home, He wa unu ually happy and re-
marked.
"The money i a good a in the
bank ri ht now:' He then ga\'e me th~
final detail,
I at down to dinner with him and his
family and afterward played with the kid,
The e kid laughed and tumbled around
True Detective Mysteries 125
'·Ordinarily. the bank carrie- about • rty
thou and. But once a week, in addition.
they handle the pay-roll money for the
- - - - Company, and it amount' to
about fi fty thou and. The job will be "'ood
for at lea t ninety th u and dollar'."
I a ked him the name of other- who
were t participate and learned they were
bandit- whom I tru ted. I agreed to take
the job and met the bunch next day, at
which time we arranged to meet at a
hou'e on Ea ton \'enue the following
unday and work out all detail, On un-
day I dro\'e out with another man, J FRANKLIN PUB. CO." N.Cllrk SI. Dept e-517 Chic'eo
parked the automobile at the curb I aw

me and climbed into my arm and on my
back. I never aw uch a happy house-
hold.
The ight of tho e children and the ring
of their lau hter unnen'ed me, and I went
out to meet my companion-the Egan gang-
ster.
a man come out of the hou e and get into RAVE YOU
a car and dri\'e away. I knew him as a
" tool pigeon" for the t. Loui police. -
I wem into the hue and found the
bond man and me of the bandit pre'ent,
"\o',h wa the man who ju t left?·, I
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''I've got cold feet on this job," 1 told
him. "Doe he know about the ).Iound City
"\Vhat about?" he a ked, job?'
"I can't kill that bird.' ,. ure, but he' 0, K."
"That' all right, I'll kill him. You • He' a' tool' for the police," said my
drive the car, , compani n.
I tudied the whole thing over, If 1 just "1.' u're mi taken,' aid the bond man.
hadn't monkeyed with tho e kid I "You can count me out," I interjected.
I finally called off all bet and I'll say The bond man in i ted we were wron .
this for my friend, the Egan gang ter, he but we withdrew from the job, 0 did
aw my point of view. But I had the three other who had planned to go in on Fortune Tellers'
devil's own time with the father of tho e it. But the b nd man, refu ing to belie\' Globes lor g~~SITA~
kid, He in i ted on pulling the job. In me, went ahead, I don't know where he aeauiae 'IOUd eryn.t ban. ILl UMd by prof","
the end I c Il\,inced him he ou ht to qui .. t hi bandit, but, with one exception, \onal ee.f1 for aMwerial: 'belt clleau' Qu.lioaL
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arguing with that fellow in an effort to
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I never told him h w clo e he came to arri\'ed from downtown but got 4,000
a funeral, and I expect he will have a cold that wa in the bank. On the other hand.
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whole in ide line:' tailor hop neJ\:t door to the bank havine
g,~~p~~~k.~ ft~~t : f~,. ~':t id~::tot
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the board would fine him for being caught
in that po ition at uch a crucial time, but
he al 0 knew he would never live dm n
the ridicule of attacking a bunch of bank
robb I' minu his pants.
The "stool" had given the police a
"\ ho's 'Who" of the gang involved in the
. found City job and all that the detec-
ti"es had to do wa to make arre t
Tine per on were detailed and "third
degree" methods were applied. One of th
bandit was in a badly battered c nditi n
and hi attorn y promptly photographed
him. \Vhen thi man and another of the
gang went to trial the jury took a look at
the photographs and promptly acquitted
both men.
Another defendant had a new variety of
alibi that appealed to the jury and he went
free. I don't recall how many were tried,
but I do know that Pat Scanlon, a Hogan
gang tel', was the only one of the men ac-
cused who had any real brains and he got
five years in the pen.
T HE day of the "third degree" is done.
It has no place in modern police meth-
od. I've been the route. I've suffered all
the tortures of the "third degree" and I
know whereof I speak. tarvation, lack of
sleep, and brutal beating will make any
man confe s any crime, whether guilty or
innocent. Juries have begun to realize thi
and a defen e that charge u e of the
"third degree" and which is backed up by
rea onable corroborative evidence is cer-
tain to obtain freedom for a pri oner.
I'll ay this for the St. Louis Police De-
partment: It has made great steps forward
in the past few years both in methods and
in personnel. There is Ie s of the rough
stuff, and less of the grafting. There is
more efficiency and more honesty. There
still are men in the department who are
willing to accept a "loan" from a profes-
sional crook and there are plenty of others
who will take an occa ional gift. There
are sergeants who will permit a profes-
sional. bondsman to pay their grocer's bill
jr. return for favors they can be tow.
Police department graft has its begin-
ning in the lowest form-the patrolman
who accepts free drinks and the "traffic"
policeman who accepts small gratuities
from chronic violators. It goes upward to
men who search prisoner and pinch their
money and to detectives who for a fee will
n.lease a known crook whom they have
arrested. I know one of our boys who had
1,800 when he was arre ted, and only
800 when he was released, and I've paid
for my own release following arre ts on
numerous occasion. But, to be wholly fair,
it should be noted here that the big major-
ity of policemen are honest.
I have had much to say about hone t
citizens who connive with crooks, and I
who hoped he would be robbed so he could
cheat his insurance company. He was a
construction contractor and he had a
weekly pay-roll of about $6,000 which was
in ured. Each time he withdrew money
from the bank he would return to his
office and divide it into four package. He
would take one package out at a time, al-
ways hoping that he would be robbed of
a fourth of the 6,000 so that he could re-
port to the insurance company the los of
the entire sum. A girl in his office who
was sweet on one of my friends told him
about it. After a time, when nothing hap-
IlL
pened, the construction contractor allowed
his hold-up in urance to lap e and then we
robbed him of hi entire pay-roll.
Bobby Burn wrote that "the best laiel
/'lOllS of lIIice alld mell gallg aft aglee."
E\·ery crook knows thi to be true. I re-
call that I had a "tip" on a 51. Louis bank
'job that would net in excess of 100,000.
t no time in my entire career did I plan
m re cautiou Iy. I elected Cuckoos and
Eganite for the work and did 0 with
the utmo t care. Another man-a college
graduate who had one wrong-was taken
ill on the job and hi work wa to cIa ify
the employes f the bank and to figure out
to the be t of his ability their probable re-
action to a robbery.
\Ve arranged for automobile to take u;
to the cene of the crime, to get us away,
and for a relay car to which we would
transfer the tolen money. Mechanic
checked and in pected every piece of
mechanism on the automobiles to be used,
and examined the tires, batteries and other
equipment. Each man was rehearsed a
half dozen time in the part he wa to
play.
n the day and at the appointed hour.
we swooped down on the bank. Each
man did his part to perfection. The work-
ing time was less than ix minute. \Ve left
with two sacks of money which we trans-
f rred to the relay automobile.
Then I dr \'e to a t. Loui ho pital,
where I had ananged an alibi in advance.
The robbery wa taged at about 9 :30 A.
.1'., and the records showed I had checked
in at the ho pital at 8 A. ),1. I hurried to
my room, undre ed and wa a patient in
pajamas before the police reached the scene
of the crime. I I' mained there several days
and then checked out, confident that I was
not even u pected.
few day later four detectives came
to my apartment in niversity City anti
arre ted me on a charge of robbery in the
fir t degree in connection with the bank
robbery. At noon the next day I again
Hood awaiting identification in the .. hacl-
ow box" at Central Di trict Police Head-
quarter.
But thi time I wa confident that an
identification of my elf as one f the par-
ticipant in the I' bbery wa impos ible. I
had been masked perfectly and my whole
face had been hidden. I had burned the
clothing and e\'en the h e I wore on
the job. A I walked up and down in the
"shadow box" I mentally defied the world.
Twenty econd later I heard a man ay:
"That's the guy. He's one of the stick-
up men. I'd kllot him all.}'t ,here."
LOWLY but urely there wa- begin-
S ning to dawn upon me a realization
that crime wa wholly unprofitable. nce
again I wa tanding behind the mi t-Iike
creen of the brilliantly lighted "hadow
box" in the Central Di trict Police ta-
tion. few feet away were the detec-
tive , policemen and witne e to thi la.t
robbery-person who could ee me plainly
but who were invi ible to me. They were
walking, talking, whispering.
My mind played with the thought,
"Where will it all end?" Would I wind up
in a prison, on the gallow, or would I go
the way of Red, Jesse, Gabe and Big Bill?
\'\There were all the mart criminal I
had associated with a few month back?
I knew the an weI'. They were dead, or
worse still, buried alive in some penal in-
 True Detective Mysteries 127
stitution II"here they could do no harm. ride," but a reed not to kill him unle-
•011" I heard a man' loud voice aying, intimidation proved ab olutely impo ible.
"Tlrat's tire gil)'. I'd Imow Irim 011)'< Irere." I had learned that the man frequented a
I had been identified again-the ame old home brew joint out in the northwe t part
story. The next tep would be to take me of town and that he \'i ited the place al-
to the office of the chief of detective to 1110 t nightly. Four Cuckoo as ociate and
be bullied and brow-beaten a they ought myel f went out there one night. I dro\'l'
to obtain a confe ion. \Vith that over, the car and the Cuckoo tationed them-
back in the holdo\'er to await the action of elve in the dark to await the coming of
th grand jury, the man we wanted.
I wa indicted for robbery in the first He walked ri ht into the trap and
de ree and now with my tran fer to the thought it wa a hold-up. \ hile he wa
City Jail I forgot about my failure and prote ting that he had but little money, we
the poor dividend paid by crime and
t trned my thought to way and mean f
put him into the tonneau of the car and
d~ove away. I wa at the wheel of the
There's the Man Who's
eliminating that identi fying witne
had aid 0 emphatically "Tlrot's tire gil."."
who car.
\\'e got out into t. Loui County and
Holding You Down
Yes, sir! There's the man. You
profe ional bond man greeted me at I followed the Olive treet Road to see him every time you look in the
th~ jail. I did not e\'en ha\'e to send for pring \'enue, turned north to Page and mirror. His name isn't Brown or
him. gain bond wa fixed at 25,000 went we t to a lonely ection. The man Smith or Jones but Y -O-U. He'.
your real boss. He's the man who
and once more I paid the u ual fee of wa wondering what it wa all about. He decides whether your salary will
2,500. had not recognized me and had not su - be $35 a week or $100 or $150.
Relea ed, I set in motion the machin ry pected he wa being "taken for a ride" be- IF yOU want to get ahead there's just one sure way
to a certain the identity of that witne . cau e he had identified me as one of the to do it-train yourself to do the day's work better
I did not call on a lawyer, but went to bandit. Pre ently, as had been pre-ar- than any other man in the office. Ability is bound
the office of my "fixer.' The police and ranged. one of the uckoo aid: to counL Your employer will he glad to pay you
more money if you show him you deserve it.
pro ecuting official had taken e\'ery pre- t'\Vhere' the be t place to bury thi --?" A home,study course with the International C~
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a ecret, but fifteen, nice, new cri p 100 "\\'hy-that-what are you going to )'QU want in the work you like best. All it takes is an
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bill got me the information. kill me for ?"
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Miles Miles Miles . Mlle. Another's profits as high as $100.00
BuIck 28~ Esssx...•••••..••. 32 N.sh ...........•• 30 Pierce Arrow 22 a day.
C.dlll.c 21~ Ford (Model T) .42 Oakl.nd 31 Pontiac 31 VIX 8'~1ls itseU !?y 8 STARTLING
Chevrolet....•.... 41 Ford (Model A) 40 Oldsmobllo 34~ Reo 26~ demonstrations - BIG, STUNNING,
Chrysler 30}~ Hudson 23~ Packard 21 ~ Studebaker.•••... 29 A TOU DING DEMONSTRATIONS.
Dodge 31 ~ Hupmobll 24 Plymouth 29 Whippet.••....... 41 uccetl8ful VIX men make MORE MON-
Duran~ 41 ,.. Marmon 21 Gr.ham-Palge 23~ Wlllys-Knlght. 29 EY tban tbey ever made before.
And H~ndreds of Other Wonderful Records on ALL American and Foreign Makes

Try this wonderful VIX Moisture Humidifier and Carbon Eliminator AT MY RISK on YOUR OWN
CAR to prove that VAPOR MOl TURE (drawn from Radiator to Engine) gives you that wonderful
night driving effect ALL THE TIME with MORE mileage from gas and oil-e1iminates hard arbon
accumulation - gives MORE power, a. SNAPPIER, PEPPIER motor. FASTER acceleration, a
S mOTHER. QUIETER running_ engine and HIGHER top speed.
VIX will pMVE ITS MONEY SAVI G MERIT on your own car by 8 DEMO STRATIO S-
conducted by yourself AT MY RISK-the most SE SATIO AL, most ASTOU DING, most CON-
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your tests that it does MORE than I claim, return it and it COSTS YOU
NOTHING. I want wide-awake, hustling, County, State, Province
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filling the great DEMAN D for this wonderful InventIon wherever Introduced. Write
for my FREE TRIAL and MONEY MAKI NG OFFER. Use coupon below.

WALTER CRITCHLOW
Inventor and Manufacturer, 3$3-A Street, WHEATON, lit., U. S. A.
Pictures here and at·
top show Model "B"
VIX attached to my own
New Model A Ford. This
car is wonderfully im-
proved in performance
with the VIX Moisture
Humidifier. So is every
Auto, Truck, Tractor.
Taxi, Bus, Marine, Sta,-
tionary and Aircraft En-
WALTER CRITCHLOW
INVBNTOR and MANUFACTURD
313-A Stl'eet, Wheaton, IJJ., u. s. ~
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gine, both American and
all Foreign makes. Please send me without obli ation or charge.

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