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Show CL THE CRIMINAL Tells PARALLEL IIow He Planned the Deed and Sought to Close Every Avenue of Knowledge Leading to His Guilt. The Detective Shows How Futile These Efforts Were and IIow the Old Adage, Murder STORIES jjf had taken a fancy to was Cuban. She bad formerly been the sweetheart of a Spanish cigar maker in Allen treet, and these were a few facts which I picked up which directed suspicion toward him. I did not And the girl or where Chris lived until the day of his funeral, which took place from his sisters home In Delaneey street. The girl attended the funeral and followed Chris body to the grave. After the burial was over, I followed her to her home and sweated her for Information which would throw some light on the case. She didnt know anything of Importance. She told me where her Spanish lover lived, and said that Chris had settled all trouble with him by giving him a little money and getting him a place to work In a gambling joint in the Bowery. She said that Chris left home about noon on the day he was killed, saying he probably wouldnt return until the next evening, but he gave her no hint as to where he was going or whom he was to meet. I went after the Spanish lover to satisfy myself that her story was straight. I found him working In Butch Ellis gambling house, and convinced myself beyond doubt that on the night of tha murder, at the time It must have occurred, ha was spinning a rouletta wheel. Thla ended that feature of the case,' but while working it out I got a tip from Butch Ellla that Chris had been In a gams early In the evening of the day he was killed, at which bad blood had arisen, a few blows had been struck, some pistol shots fired and some pretty wild threats made. Butch wouldnt give me the location of the Joint where the trouble occurred, but I found it in about half an hour from another aource and got what looked like a start In the right direction. It was In Ed Kelleys, and card sharps who among the had been In the game was A1 Livingstone, who was something of a high-rollfrom Virginia. He was every Inch a sport of the gentleman order, and very sensitive on the question of Insults, which be was always ready FAMOUS CRIMES Will Glut, "Always I lolds Good. By HENRY C. TERRY (Copyright by t. L. Nataoa MYSTERY. which he had sent out and borrowed from time to time. Then he became Bowery li atlll one of the a bit reckless he was pretty drunk, too and lost 8,000 on one hand. He placea In New York artificial wickedness, quit the game, and said hed give a to tha metropolis check for the $8,000. He dashed off a check In a hurry, like an angry, drunkparade In fear and trem-- f en man, and said that he would give I sidewalks lta busy j bllng us another battle the next day. p where they Imagine that Then Chrla made a big mistake. J atone la stained with ery the blood of murder; but where they Ha raised the $8,000 check to $80,000 are aa safe aa they would be on Fifth by putting In a letter and a cipher. avenue. Time waa when the Bowery He presented it to the bank and asked aaa not safe; when every other door to have It certified, but the cashier vaa a gambling bell; when every crook refused to certify it without first seeThe colonel In the country depended upon tasting, ing Colonel Wentworth. denied that he had given any such once least a of the it year, delights Ibe street had to offer. But the glory check. Tble started up Chris' temper, f the Bowery haa passed. It la now and he began suit against Colonel a thoroughly moral street given over Wentworth In the courts of St. Louis tQ recover the amount of the check. to business of the cheaper order. The foxy colonel did not make the IlI know of no story that better lustrates actual condition on the Bow- defense Chris expected, but set up ary In the old days and the fierce pas- Instead that the check was a forgsions of life as It was lived there ery. Wo bluffed It out and the case than the story of the murder of Chris came to trial. Chris went on the Berry. It was a nine days mystery In stand, told the story of the game, .and claimed that the $80,000 waa given for BowIts day, the greatest mystery-thery ever produced; the King of the money which he had loaned to WentCard Sharks murdered In broad day- worth during the play. He told a light at the Bowery's buslnest corner pretty story, but on the the colonel's lawyer went for md not a single clue apparently to him The lawyer bad the perpetrator of the deed. It was not until years afterward got some knowledge of our swindling that I bad the privilege of listening trip, and asked questions concerning to the true tale of the killing from the the most intimate relations between I substantiated Chris and myself. tips of his slayer, Lone Jack SinChris' story, but also had to go clair, aa be emerged from his cell In name searching Bing Sing. Knowing that Detective through the After Wentworth had told to resent. Hickey had handled the case and had Chris and Livingston got Into a disalmost succeeded In hanging an inno- his story to the Jury about giving an cent man for the crime I hunted him $8,000 check, which ho was willing to pute over the amount of money there np and naked him to give me his ver- pay, they brought In a verdict against should he In a certain pot, and they Chrla. called each other liars across the tasion of the strange affair. Chris left the courtroom In a white ble. That was the fighting word on heat. He didn't Bay anything to me the Bowery in those days. Living ton JACKSON SINCLAIR'S STORY. till we got to the hotel. Then he flew had plenty of friends, and ao had I don't suppose you ever killed a at me like a tiger and knocked me Chris. Soon not only Chris and Livman, did you? asked Jackson Sin- down with the butt of his revolver. ingston were having it out on the He accused me of giving the Informa- floor, but the clair, who has been known on the our tion and reto about Wentworths too. Knlvee In were friends trip it, as Lone for Bowery many years I must as denied said and It looked It were and lawyer. volvers It pulled, Jack," because of his reticence and hare been done by Seymour, who had if there was going to be some killing dislike of society. disappeared; but Chris had It In for In Kellys. Kelly stopped the row I entered a modest disclaimer. Police! which Well, If you never did. then you ma for some reason, and would have himself by yelling: can never understand the feeling that hot me If he had not been Interfered brought the men to their senses. The row didnt stop any too quick goes with it, especially when the man with. As be was dragged away from whose life Is taken has been a friend me, be said: "The next time we meet, for Livingston, for when It waa called off Chris had a grip on hla throaty to you, no matter what the circum- Sinclair, HI kill you!' All right, said I. Til be looking which would have sent him to the stances may be. cemetery if it hadn't been stopped Well, I killed my friend, Chris for you He went his way and I went mine. Just about that time. This had oo Berry, and I see Chris every day, and I hear his last words ringing In my It was five years before I landed hack enrred about nine oclock in the evencars, Just the came as if It was yes- In New York. I knew Chris was In ing. and It broke up the game, as a terday on the Bowery, Instead of over the city, and If we ever met hed keep matter of course. Livingston was In a very ugly mood, and mentioned sevthirty years ago. Chris Berry was a hla word. About a month after I arrived I eral times, in the hearing of some ol good fellow, and the finest card sharp In the country. 1 was considered the met him one night about nine oclock Chris' friends, that he'd have his life best man on the Bowery with the fare to face at Fifth street and the before daylight. About ten minutes after nine cards In those days, but Chris could Bowery. I watched him like a cat. He had an ugly look, and drew a gun Chris left Kelly's place alone. The hair. a me without turning points give I like a flash. I was close to him and he gambling house waa at the corner of Being In the same business and flashed It In my face. Before he could First street and the Bowery. About something of a crook myself. It was I drove a knife a minute after Chris left several peronly natural that I should run up pull the trigger again Into his heart. sons saw Livingston take a bowie-knifgainst Chris at many a game, and "As he staggered back he cried: It from hla hip pocket and drop those games were always for blood, Then he fell It In his outside coat pocket, then he but on the level. I was more easy- Isn't loaded. Jack! started out quickly, muttering a going than Chris, and we took a kind dead. I fell from as It the up gun picked threat that he would kill Chris when of liking for each other. After a time, In company with Jake Seymour, we his nerveless fingers. Sure enough, he found him. No one followed the went regularly Into the huBlnese of there was no load In It. I knew too men. as Chris was able to take care late that Chris was only Mulling. I of himself, and Livingston, It was running e skin game of cards. The streets were thought, waa only putting up a hit of We had a little poker game at No. looked around. cor- southern bluff. 26 Bowery Seymour did the steer- crowded and the Bowery, at that were we But well ner, fairly lighted. whenwe did while the The finding of the body, as near playing ing, ever the sucker was big enough game. away from tho gas lamp, and no one as could be fixed, was at a quarter The business ran so big and we played waa very near us. Strange as it seems, past nine, which would have given so well together that Chris proposed not a person In the crowd had seen Llvlrigston just about time to have that we should make a tour through the altercation; It haa all passed so caught up to Chrla without running, as Chris had about a block's start the West and South, where we would quietly and so quickly. Half crazed by what I had done, I The wound in the chest, which split have a chance to win a bigger stake. This Just Bulled me. and. with Sey- walked hurriedly away. In less than the heart In two, physicians said, waa Livingston mour, who was one of the best bunco half an hour I was on board a train imado by a bowie-knif:hnd not been seen around his old artists that I ever saw, and had a speeding for the west. haunts by any one since he left Kel-ly- 'i tongue so aweet and persuasive that out of the DETECTIVE HICKEY'S STORY. It would ooax the hank-rol- l with tho threat to kill Chris, and all these facts certainly pointed to pocket of Old Mr. Tightwad himself, we started West. We put up for a The murder of Chris Berry," said Livingston as the murderer beyond was one of the doubt. few days at Albany, where the legis- Detective Hickey, track lature was In session, and cleaucd out greatest mysteries that ever came out I got on to Livingstons every dollar there was In both houses. of the Bowery. When at last it began through a woman he had sent for, We left Albany with 121,000 more than to clear, the crime waa fastened so mid arrested him in a bouse In First we had when we landed there. conclusively upon one man, that, had avenue. He had cent for this woman In Chicago we started on another not developments outside of the reg- to have her pawn his diamonds to tack, and from there we were East- ular Investigation Interfered, an In- raise money to get out of tho city, ern sports making a tour of the coun- nocent man certainly would have been lie diil not seem at all startled at betry. looking for fun of all kinds, ready executed. ing arrested, and when I accused lilm for a game at any time. Sometimes 'When the body of Clirls Berry, who or killing Chris Berry, he replied very we would he together as friends, and was known to everybody In the un- coolly that be had been expecting to then again we would accidentally derworld, was found lying In the gut- hear rojnotlilng of the kind, and said meet aa strangers In some other lo- ter st Fifth street at an hour which he waa ready to go to headquarters. was early candle lighting on the BowI tried In every way to get him to cality to disarm suspicion. Seymour was the greatest drumm- ery, there was r.ot tho slightest evi- admit the killing, even under such er-up of business that I ever met He dence as to the Identity of the muras would make it most was nearly alwaya In the game, and derer, although the street st that favorably to him, hut he positively refused to discuss the murder at all. It frequently lost heavily, but, as either time waa usually crowded. Chris or I got about all there was at The body was flr.t seen by was iry opln'nn that there was a dead the table In the end, It didn't make young man who had just left the old clear case against him. much difference. We pulled a lot of Cooper Institute, lie gave the alartr, It was a very eensatlonal rase, and money out of Chicago, but we quit but nothing had been done up to the when these farts were developed hi- -i when we saw that they were putting time 1 arrived. I had tho body taken fore the coroner's Jury, they brought up a brace game on us. We didn't do to the Fifth street police station. I In a vcnliet accm.Pig Livingston of l much business then till we got Into knew Chris well, m;self, and hun- tha nmnii-rHe was up' In tho St. Louis. Then we struck a game dreds of his friends came to the sta- Tombs to await trial. after we had been there about two tion hou-- c, and also Identified him. Two days later Lone Jack Sinweeks that In the end gave me more They const itutc-themselves special clair walked Into police headquarters, trouble than anything I ever had be- detectives to find out. If possible, w'ho and said that he, and not A1 Livingfore or since. had murdered the King of the Card ston, had killed Chris Berry. This Seymour was on the scout all the Sharps. A dozen or more theories was a thunderbolt from a clear sky, lime, and be pulled an old cove named were advanced by Chris friends, to hut when Jack told his story, proColonel Wentworth Into a private explain the butchery, as he had been duced Ihn bowie-knifand the pistol game In our room In the hotel. Col In trouble many times after his return that Chris Berry had with him on cnel Wentworth was a very wealthy from the weRt, but they were theories, that night, and gave all the details cotton planter and a stiff player. with no evidence to back them up. he knew them, there was no doubt of That which gained the most Its truth. He preferred a game without a limit ao did we. When he began to weight with me for a time waa that "Livingston was discharged from lose, he began to drink. We played Chris had been killed for some quar- the Totnhs, and Sinclair was found all night, and we coaxed him along rel concerning a woman. guilty of manslaughter, and sent away One of the girls that I heard Chrla for a long term." until we bad about 925,000 In money. THE BOWERY MURDER CUE er-lwf- e n half-doze- bare-hande- Free To Our Subscribers. 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