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Show rV I I i i N r THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH Forgets Cynic Code; Is Killed ? r- - j e ! - 1 if ' i- ... . i ; I ' e t , ; ; , i : code : . "Never accept any man as your friend !" Forsaking that code Hilliard died recently, a bullet In his brain, tired 'by an unknown hand. With his death, San Franciscos In the dank, underworld chortled. criminals where planned places smelly and plied their trade there were smirks that bespoke a grim jest. For the underworld had won a long and cunning race with the police to lead "deal justice" to this er of its realm. It had evened the score with Clyde automatic. Hilliard's Long ago' the dapper had set cold lead as the penalty for those who should seek to cross his path, and he paiJ the same price. They found his body, face down. In "the dirt alongside the Skyline luiule- vard, south of San Francisco, early A on the morning of September 20. bullet wound was In' the hack of his head. Clvde Hilliard had never had a chance. Half a mile distant, crawling on her hands and knees through the brush, blood streaming- from a bullet wound in her temple, they found Gladys Fleming. Hilliard, dishelieyer in men, was never without his woman. Identification of the two was not Immediately established on the morn- Ing of the crime, hut when police had wiped aside the shroud of mystery they nodded knowingly. Well, hoys, the scores tied! said one of them. . Hilliard had gone the way he had and sent Gene 'Bowen, member of the formers gang of nms- ter cracksmen, in a Green street apartinent on the night of August 5. Gladys Fleming, by chance of fate. had taken the same medicine that Hilliard meted out to the dashing Dor- otli.v Wilson on the same night lie killed Bowen it bullet in the temple. Both women lived. Score Is Tied. in the main at least, So tlie was tied, so far as the undorwoHd went. But this same underworld was now a good jump ahead of the police. True, long ago the police had cornered Jim Fleming, second husband of tlie wounded Gladys, and sent him away to the lhg house'' at San Quentin for tlie killing. of a copper," but in this race to "get Clyde Hilliard tl,e "element had won 1, amis down. With a combination of hair dye, an alias and native cunning, Hilliard laid slipped through tlie police net when it seemed that naught could save him. lie had moved for a time in tlie circle that knew him best, undetect-- I ed. He hud played ids game with the affections of women, and well. But Clyde Hilliard discounted fate, and once placed on tlie defensive, lie forgot tlie code by which he had lived : "Never accept any man as your self-style- . d lady's-man-croo- I ? ; 5 I . k - J s I ? t j I i 1 I I ; - j y , i i s - . friend ! Then they got him." The murder of Gene 'Bowen and the (hooting of Dorothy Wilson in the Green street apartment, police said, had been plain slaughter. The vic-- ' thus never hud a chance. It was a failing out of thieves, the detectives held, and later Mrs. Wilson bore them nt. Hilliard, she said, bad not liked Eugene Bowens division of tiie spoils In a recent gem robbery. So lie took method of settling his such disputes. Knocking at tlie door of the apartment in which Bowen and his sweetheart lived, lie had spoken his greeting to the two within with a fusiltule of pistol shots. Bowen fell dead. Dorothy Wilson, lapsing into a state of coma from tlie effects of her three wounds, was de long-avowe- d I to get" Hilliard if it took her dying effort. Reaching u pencil and a piece of paper and dropping to tlie iloor she . safe-craeke- r, i termined Beau Brummel Safe Cracker and Outlaw Among Out laws, Slain in Revenge. ' San Francisco. Clyde Hilliard, Beau Brummel outlaw amongoutlaws, und feared for his trigger- finger, lived by a strangely cynical : scrawled : . Clyde done It 330 Post stre " When the police came she was But they knew the rest of the unwritten story. Clyde Hilliard had done It. Drag-Ne- t Thrown Out. Tlie dragnet was quickly thrown about tlie city and a systematic search of tlie underworld iiaunts was begun by the homicide squad. They found that Hilliard and a girl named Gladys" had hastily left their apartment at No. 16:15 Polk street, Vvhere they lived iq luxury as Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bronson. Two days later Dorothy Wilson had sufficiently regained her strength to identify positively rogue's gallery pictures of Hilliard as tlie slayer of Bowen.And if you don't get liiiii, we will!" she told the police. But Clyde Hilliard had not played liis game so long for nothing, and lie fooled both tlie police mid tlie underworld. Fooled (hem until tlie game got loo easy," anil lie threw caution lo tlie four winds. That was along in September. On tlie night of September 16. Charles Brown, dapper but gray of hair, and somewhat sour of disposiSacramento tion, gave a party" in-street apartment. Liquor flowed freely and the general hilarity became obnoxious to other tenants in the buildTlie police were called when ing. Browns nervous trigger finger let loose three shots through a door panel. Charles Brown and ids six companions four of tlfein wonfbn were jailed. One of the women was named Gladys Grayson." Wlmt's the charge?" Brown asked tlie desk sergeant, Disturbing tlie peace, was (he answer. "What's tlie bailT asked Brown. Two hundred dollars apiece," answered the sergeant. Charles Brown planked down $1,400 in currency on Hie sergeants desk. Five minutes later lie and ids companions walked out of (lie ball of justice and disappeared into tlie night. That was the beginning of tlie end of Clyde Hilliard. Twelve hours later tlie police fingerprint system had revealed that Charles Brown, released on hail for disturbing tlie peace, Was none oilier than Hilliard, long sought as tlie murderer of Bowen. It, was the first clue tlie police had been given, but also i( was the first clue that bud come to the underworld friends of Kugene Bowen and Dorothy Wilson. Knew Water Was Hot. Hilliards hand had been tipped." Ilis new iiaunts, his new make-up- , his new aliases ull had been bared. And tlie limited slayer knew that the water was hot. hours later and Scarcely forty-eighliis body had been found by the Skyline boulevard, liis wounded girl companion neat by. a t, I (?) (?) Hunter Rides Deer Two Miles in Bush s Kault Ste. Marie, Out. To ride two miles through tlie busli on a deers buck is tlie thrill Ku- () ing experience narrated by (!) gene Guzzo, 5S2 Albert street, West, who has just returned from a bunt at Goulais bay. We were walking along a trail not far from Goulais bay," Guzzo said, when we saw a (!) deer lying under a tree. At first (!) we thought it was dead. On ' going close to it, it did not stir, and then we decided., to., roll it over. (! I got bold of it by the horns. (Vi Immediately Hie deer jumped up, with me on top as though I was riding, horseback. The deer (?) gave me a merry ride for tw miles. (!) - jf! g Mammoth Collection Is the de Hilliard? Gladys Fleming, recovering from tier wounds in the Sun Francisco hospital, reluctantly gave the answer days later, after hours of grilling. "Clyde forgot his code," she said. We knew we were in a dangerous position after our arrest In the Sacramento street apartment," she told the officers. "Clyde knew he hadn't a minute to spare. So we planned a quick getaway to Los Angeles. Just how to make the grade was a tough one to figure out and Clyde seemed worried. We were living In an apartment in the downtown district Well, nboui two oclock on the morning of September 20 there came a rapping at the door. With his gun to his hand Clyde answered. A man who seemed to be our friend declared the bulls were on our trail and that wed better sneak fast. He had a machine, he said, and would see that we got' to Los Angeles. It was a stolen car, he said. Clyde always maintained that no man In the world was his friend, hut this time he forgot his code. So we packed our grips and Jumped Into tlie mans car. We were headed for Los Angeles and when he took the Skyline boulevard it seemed reasonable enough. It was as we were riding along that he made some pretense about engine trouble, stopped tlie car. whipped out a revolver and opened r Modernization of tlie United States battleships. Texas and Arkansas lias completely changed the traditional ap- pearance of those historic vessels. The busket uuists (or cages), as In the lop silhouette, have been discarded and us shown In the lower silhouette replaced by tripod masts, single central spurs, supported by two spar-leg- fire. Clyde fell first. Then he got me. He threw us out and disappeared." Gene Bowen lmd been avenged. Refuses to Tell. Gladys Fleming, wife of a murderer, consort of another, lias steadfastly refused to bare the Identity of tlie inan who killed Hilliard and shot her, although they are satisfied that she is aware of his identity. No! Inderworld ethics? Just fear! said tiie officers. Hilliard's death reveuled the strange complexities of Ills nature. In tlie suitcase into which lie had hurriedly thrown Ills belongings tlie police found mute evidence t hut tlie mar, lie had been accused of killing was none tlie less his friend. In a double-backepicture frame they found two pictures. One was . of Hilliard, the other was of Eugcne-BowenBack to back. Big Jim Fleming, second husband of llilliurds wounded consort, appraised of tlie shooting, in his ceil at San Quentin, enjoyed his own Inward chuckle at tlie gunman's fate, and bared his reasons for it. Hiliiard was a crook among lie was a robber crooks, lie said. of robbers, and lie plied a rotten trade with a high hand." Who fired tlie bullet that wrote finis" on tlie last chapter of Clyde Hilliard's life even the police do not expect to discover. will never tell. Tlie underworld Gladys Fleming will never tell. Dorothy Wilson received tlie news of tlie slaying of Clyde Hilliard with an smile. Well, Gene still lias his friends, I see ! she said. Tlie Wilson woman has declared, however, that she is going straight." The law never did have much success with Clyde Hilliard. Seven times between 1913 and 1925 lie had been jailed in connection with as many robberies, burglaries ahd safe crackings. But the underworld king" always had uncanny luck. His record shows nothing more than a scattering number of county ' jail sentences. d Laura," tlie German police dog of Louis Arbeit of tlie Lronx, Now Ion., with her Inter of 14 puppies, said to be a record in dog circles. Tlie pups were seven weeks old when tlie photograph was taken, and they weighed ' 140 pounds. John LITTLE D. on Florida Links Again Cleveland, Ohio. Under some circumstances it seems to he a good tiling for a young lady to tilt back in a chair and put her feet on a desk. Miss Frances Perking, an official welfare worker of New York, delights in doing so. She says that it Is hene-fimul for workers who stand a lot, In that it makes the blood rusli the other way, and some factories use the idea in rest periods. John .John D. Rockefeller, Sr., has returned to liis winter, home at ' Ormond Reach, Fla., nnd is here seen about to make his first drive ou ills private golf course. He still shoots q good game. London Shop Windows Are Shrinking SPEAKER $SSS$S To Tax Bachelors M. Rnlisinu. Jr sun of Rep- resentative Robslon of Kentucky, who sat in tlie speaker's chair at the opening session of (lie little congress" In Washington.' This body Is composed of congressional secretaries and other Capitol attaches. Meetings are held In the caucus room of tiie house of representatives. HOLDS UNIQUE POST nation Italy is a nnd intends to remain prolific, says Mussolini. Therefore he is going to tax bachelors, beginning New Years. Rome. Moncks voyage to the Hudson hay in 1619-20- ; a Map or General Carte-othe World, drafted In 1669 nnd dedicated to' King Charles II; a Map of the North Pole and Parts Adjoining," drawn in 16.80, dedicated to the Kail of Plymouth; maps of tlie Great Lakes 'lmd Michllimackinac forts. 1744. f I Girl Fights Off Cougar Moscow, twelve, Idaho. daughter of. Laura Hamm, and Mrs. James A. Iiariiiii of Deary, a short distance from here, was 'attacked by a full grown cougar, which sprang upon the neck of the pony upon which she Mr. was riding to school. Tlie girl with but a few scratches, and have been scouring the woods big cat and two others seen vicinity. escaped hunters for the in the Tlie first and only professorship m psychiatric nursing has been created at Yale university and Prof. Efiie J. Taylor (ahoVe). director of tlie army school of nursing durii g Hie world in Welcome Tourists Indon. Tourists from tlie United States to Europe In 1924 Spent a sum estimated at 70.000,000, tiie Residen- tial Hotels and Caterers was told. (osHlatioo Smaller display windows are hemming tlie rule in London. Above is shown one of tlie new shop fronts with decidedly small windows. Tlie place Is owned by a cousin of tlie prince of Wales. ! ( s, Laura Makes a New Record in Canine Circles jg la Cosh. In 150(1, eight years after Columbus discovered tlie New world, is a remarkable reproduction. of Columbus Appear. It is ip sections, upon which an attempt to be outdone was made to represent forests, beasts, Winnipeg. Mitrr.-N-by St. John's college here, which birds, bouts, etc., in order that it boasts of a collection of ancient books, might I'e a compendium of genera! many of them dating back to 1500. Dr. description as well as a chart of disCharles N. Bell claims to have the tance ai d locality. The oldest original map in tiie colmost complete set of ancient maps outside the walls of a historical imi-- . lection is an Ortelius of 1570, represcum. senting the earth. Tlie existence of Doctor Bell's collection of maps has the north and soutli continents of a continent-wid- e known, of course, distinction, one. of Amcih'u Labrador having been consulted by but rariograpliers were a little vague authorities in connection with tlie about the' shape of Soutli America. privy council hearing In London con- In the old Ortelius map It is shaped cerning tlie ownership of that hieuk and timed like an orange. Dolphins counyy. sport in mid Atlantic, with here ami I'erliaps the most curious map iu there u caravel; ail the physical feathe collection is a reproduction of the tures are named In Irtin. first mail of tlie world in which AmerComing down the centuries, there Tills map, drafted are, to mention only a few: An origiica is represented. I bv the Spanish cartographer, Juan nal map illustrating Capt. Johu His F'rst in Which the Discoveries American Battleships Change Their Silhouette Good Idea ANCIENT MAPS ARE HOBBY OF NOTED MANITOBAN SAVANT In Two hastily filled suitcases found yards away added to the story. The victim had been shot and hurled for dead from a speeding automobile. Identification of Hilliard satisfied the police of the motive for Hie killing. It was revenge. But how d'd tiie underworld "get tiie wary 500 I tlie war, has been appointed to the post She will teach nursing of the mind. |