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Show t of, his funeral, a Ulch took place from jtkis sisters home In lelancey 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 FRESH EGGS IN GOOD DEMAND gambling Joint In the Bowery. She said that Chris left home about, noon on the day he was killed, Little More Attention to Details Will Result In Profit, Repaying Time saying he probably wouldnt return and Labor. until the next evening, but he gave her no hint as to where he was going or whom he was to meet. I went (By PROF. A. O. PHILLIPS, Kansas.) The demand for eggs seems practiafter the Spanish lover to satisfy myI cally unlimited, more especially for self that her story was straight. the better grades. The growth of the Ellis Butch In found him working storage Industry has tended to equalconvinced and myself gambling house, ize prices by Increasing the debeyond doubt that on the night of the mand In summer when fresh eggs ochave muBt murder, at the time It are and supplying the defiplentiful a roulette was he spinning curred, In when fresh eggs are winter ciency wheel. scarce. of the feature "This ended that Since the demand Is greatest for case, but while working It out I got the best grades, It seems obvious that bad a tip from Butch Ellis that Chris been In a game early In the evening a little more attention to details will of the day he was killed, at which bad result In a profit amply repaying the blood had arisen, a few blows had extra time and labor Involved. It Is not the purpose here to enter been struck, some pistol shots fired Into any discussion of the ways of and some pretty wild threats made. the' production of eggs, but Increasing locame the Butch wouldnt give tion of the Joint where the trouble oc- simply to point out the possibilities curred, but 1 found It In about half an hour from another source and got what looked like a start in the right direction. It was In Ed Kelley's, and card sharps who among the had been In the game was A1 Living- THE CRIMINAL Tells How He Planned the Deed and Sought to Close Every Avenue of Knowledge Leading to His Guilt. The Detective Shows How PARALLEL STORIES sf FAMOUS CRIMES Futile These Efforts Were and How the Old Adage, Murder Will Out, Always Holds Good." By HENRY C. TERRY (Coprritbt by F. L. Nelson THE BOWERY MURDER MY8TERY. and he began suit against Colonel Wentworth In the courts of St. Louis recover the amount of the check. to Bowery la still on of the The foxy colonel did not make the In New York places defense Chris' expected, but set up artificial wickedness, instead that the check was a forgVisitors to the metropolis We It out and the case bluffed ery. parade In fear and trem- came to went on the Chris trial. bling its busy sidewalks of the told the game, and stand, story where they Imagine that y was given for claimed that the $80,000 stone Is stained with Wentblood of murder; but where they money which he had loared to a told He the worth during play. are as safe as they would be on Fifth on the but story, pretty avenue. the colonels lawyer went for I know of no story that better ilhim The lawyer had lustrates actual condition on the Bowsome of our swindling got knowledge ery In the old days and the fierce of life as It was lived there trip, and asked questions concerning than the story of the murder of Chris the most Intimate relations between I substantiated Chris and myself. Berry. It was a nine days' mystery In Chris had to go also but story, Its day, the greatest mystery the Bowsame the through searching ery ever produced; the King of the After Wentworth had told Card Sharks" murdered In broad dayhis to the jury about giving an story light at the Bowerys buslnest crrher which he was willing to $8,000 check, and not a single clue apparently to pay, they brought In a verdict against 'the perpetrator of the deed. It was not until years afterward Chris. Chris left the courtroom In a white had the privilege of listening He didnt say anything to me S' to the true tale of the lulling from the heat. we till got to the hotel. Then he flew lips of his slayer, Lone Jack Sinme at like a tiger and knocked me as In he cell clair, emerged from his Sing Sing. Knowing that Detective down with the butt of his revolver. He accused me of giving the InformaHickey had handled the case and had almost succeeded In hanging an Inno- tion about our trip to Wentworth's cent man for the crime I hunted him lawyer. I denied It and said it must up and asked him to give me his ver- have been done by Seymour, who had disappeared; but Chris had It In for sion of the strange affair. . me for some reason, and would have shot me If he had not been Interfered JACKSON SINCLAIRS STORY. with. As he was dragged away from he said: "The next time we meet, me, "I dont suppose you ever killed a I'll kill you!' Sinclair, did Sinman, you?" asked Jackson "All right,' said I. Ill be looking clair, who has been known on the Bowery for many years as "Lone for you. "He went his way and I went mine. Jack, because of his reticence and It was five years before I landed back Alsllke of society. In New York. I knew Chris was In " I entered a modest disclaimer, "Well, If you never did, then you the city, and If we ever met he'd keep can never understand the feeling that his word. "About a month after I arrived I goes with It, especially when the man whose life Is taken has been a friend met him one night about nine oclock to you, no matter what the circum- face to face at Fifth street and the Bowery. I watched him like a cat. stances may be. Well, I killed my friend, Chris He had an ugly look, and drew a gun Berry, and I see Chris every day, and like a flash. I was dose to him and he I hear his last words ringing In my flashed It In my face. Before he could ears, Just the same as If It was yes--t pull the trigger again I drove a knife terday on the Bowery, instead of over Into his heart. As he staggered1 back he cried: Tt thirty years ago. Chris Berry was a Then he fell Isnt loaded, Jack!' good fellow, and the finest card sharp in the country. I was considered the dead. I picked up the gun as It fell from best man on the Bowery with the bis nerveless fingers. Sure enough, In cards those days, but Chris could give me points without turning a hair. there was no load in It. I knp tiwv P1lg, I "We had a little poker game at No it ed around. were B6 Bowery streets oo The . Seymour dijyWYeer-Ingcrowded and the Bowery, at that corwhile irr lYii7rpTi lull when-evthe wurfjjrwag big enough game. ner, fairly well lighted. But we were TnTVMiness ran so big and we played away from the gas lamp, and no one so well together that Chris proposed was very near us. Strange as It seems, that we should make a tour through not a person In the crowd had seen the West where we would the altercation; It has all passed so have a chance to win a bigger stake. quietly and so quickly. Half crazed by what I had done, I "This Just suited me. and, with Seymour, who was one of the b;st bunco walked hurriedly away. In less than artists that I ever sbw, and had a half an hour I was on board a train tongue so sweet and persuasive that speeding for the west .. out of the It would coax the bank-rol- l DETECTIVE HICKEYS STORY. pocket of Old Mr. Tightwad himself, we started West. The murder of Chris Berry, said "Seymour was the greatest drummof business that I ever met He Detective Hickey, "wras one of the er-up was nearly always In the game, and greatest mysteries that ever came out frequently lost heavily, but, as either of the Bowery. When at last it began Chris or I got about all there was at to clear, the crime was fastened so the table In the end. It didnt make conclusively upon one man, that, had much difference. We pulled a lot of not developments outside of the regmoney out of Chicago, but we quit ular Investigation Interfered, an Inwhen we saw that they were putting nocent man certainly would have been up a brace game on us. We didnt do executed. 'When the body of Chris Berry, who much business then till we got Into known to everybody In the unwas we a Louis. Then struck St. game after we had been there about two derworld, was found lying In the gutweeks that in the end gave me. more ter it Fifth street at an hour which trouble than anything I ever had be- was early candle lighting on the Bowfore o since. ery, there was not the slightest evi"Seymour was on the scout all the dence as to the Identity of the murtime, and he pulled an old cove named derer, although the street at that Colonel Wentworth Into a private time was usually crowded. The body was first seen by a game In our room In the hotel. Colonel Wentworth was a very wealthy young man who had Just left the old cotton planter and a stiff player. Cooper Institute. He gave the alarm, a preferred game ,"He without a ut nothing had been done up to the began to time I arrived. I had the body taken lose, he began to drink. We nlavfid to the Fifth street police station. I knew Chris well, myself, and hun,000 In money dreds of his friends came to the sta' V"? hvd about had sent out and from time to time. Then be became tion house, and also Identified him. themselves special a bit reckless he was pretty drunk They constituted to find out, If possible, who too and lost $8,000 on one hand. He detectives had murdered the King of the Card quit the game, and said hed give a Sharps.' A dozen or more theories check for the $8,000. He dashed off a Chri, W!?Tan!dwbT rtnds. check In a hurry, like an angry, drunkthe most ,wlned en man, and said that he would give w.iU?hW a time was us another battle the next day. Chris bad been killed for some that qua "Then Chris made a big mistake. rel concerning a woman. He raised the $8,000 check to $80,000 "One of the girls that I heard Chris by putting In a letter and a cipher. hod taken a fancy to was a Cuban. He presented It to the bank and asked She had formerly been the sweetheart to have It certified, but the cashier of a Spanish cigar maker in Allen refused to certify it without first see- street, and these were a few facts ing Colonel Wentworth. The colonel which I picked up which directed susdenied that he had given any such picion toward him. I did not find the pheck. This started up Chris temper. girl or where Chris lived until the day CUE ev-er- cross-examinati- bare-hande- pas-.slon- s cross-examinatio- - "-P- er and-Sout- h, -' s ? ca V M-ff- l-p, half-doze- n stone, who was something of a high roller from Virginia. He was every Inch a sport of the gentleman order, and very sensitive on the question of Insults, which he was always ready to resent "Chris and Livingston got Into a dispute over the amount of money there should be In a certain pot and they called each other liars across the table. That was the fighting word on the Bowery In those days. Livingston had plenty of friends, and so had Chris. Soon not only Chris and Livingston were having It out on the but the floor, friends were In It, too. Knives and revolvers were pulled, and It looked as If there was going to be some killing In Kellys. Kelly stopped the row Police! which himself by yelling: brought the men to their senses. The row didnt stop any too quick for Livingston, for when It was called off Chris had a grip on his throat which would have sent him to the cemetery If it hadn't been stopped Just about that time. after nine "About ten minutes Chris left Kelly's place alone. The gambling house was at the corner of First street and the Bowery. About a minute after Chris left several persons saw Livingston take a howle-knlfand drop from hjp.h'p-pock- et Hrhrht outside coat pocket, then he started out. quickly, muttering a threat that he would kill Chris when he found him. No one followed ths men, as Chris was able to take care of himself, and Livingston, It was thought, was only putting up a bit of southern bluff. The finding of the body, as near as could be fixed, was at a quarter past nine, which would have given Livingston just about time to have caught up to Chris without running, as Chris had about a blocks start The wound In the chest, which spilt the heart In two, physicians said, was made by a bowie-knifLivingston bad not been seen around his old haunts by any one since he left Kellys with the threat to kill Chris, and all these facts certainly pointed to .Livingston as the murderer. I got on to Livingstons track through a woman he had sent for, and arrested him in a house In First avenue. lie had sent for this woman to have her pawn his diamonds to ralBe money to get out of the city. He 'did not seem at all startled at being arrested, and when I accused him of killing Chris Berry, he replied very coolly that he had been expecting to hear something of the kind, and said he was ready to go to headquarters. "I tried In every way to get him to admit the killing, even under such circumstances as would make it most favorably to him, but he positively refused to discuss the murder at all. It was my opinion that there was a dead clear case against him. "It was a very sensational case, and when these facts were developed be fore the coroners Jury, they brought in a verdict accusing Livingston of the murder. He was locked up In ths Tombs to await trial "Two days later Lone Jack Sinclair walked Into police headquarters, and said that he, and not A Livingston, had killed Chris Berry- - This was a thunderbolt from a clear sky, but when- Jack told . his story,, proand the pistol duced the howle-knlf- e that Chris Berry had with him on that night; and gave all the details as he knew them, there was no doubt of rough-and-tumbl- e, e -- e. - Its truth. Livingston wais- - dlschaiged-2ro- the Tombs, and ffnclafr was fou3j guilty of manslaughter, and sent awa for a long term." AWFUL. The Listener That fellow plays ths cornet to beat the band. The Musician Thats right; he cant keep time. ECZEMA RED IN BLOTCHES 205 Kanter Ave., Detroit, Mich. "Some time last summer I was taken' with eczema. It began in my hair first with red blotches, then scaly, spreading to. my face. The blotches were red on my face, dry and scaly, not large; on my scalp they were larger, some scabby. They came on my hands. The inside of my hands were all little lumps as though full of of an Inch shot about under the skin. Then they went io the outside and between and all over my fingers. It also begfln on the bottoms of my feet and the calves of my legs, and Itch, oh, my! I never had anything like It and hope I never will again. The Itching was terrible. My hands got so I could scarcely work. I tried different eczema ointments but without results. I also took medicine for It but it did no good. I saw the advertisement for a sample of Cutlcura Ointment and Soap and sent for one. They did me so much good I bought some more, using them as per directions, and In about three weeks I was well again. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment entirely cured me." (Signed) BenJ. Passage, Apr. 8, 1912 Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each Skin Book. Address free, with 32-Cutlcura, Dept. 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