Show r. r 1 O Nos r r I 1 7 I f 1 r r rI I r 1 1 r 9 i f t I 11 I f t i- i I l' l If I II P I Jn M fl r J t t 1 t p r rA t J j ff i. i 4 A N S 'S r t S a Y 7 C f 11 1 i I 1 f v 10 r I l I L P 7 O r JO I. I t 07 g n h. h 1 r S a l 1 P l f 1 a t zd f r a t M Murderers eggs and Swindlers Still Stil Stilla a at Large of Whom a Whole Nation i iMay May Mav lav VI Well ell Beware 1 HAT has become them l o of all all all- IT I. Jv the swindlers crooks thugs gs and aud audo o murderers whose zose names lames and minute mil descriptions arc ere in iI police archives in i invest i s scores cores of the e big biggest vest cities o of the United Ji J States whose whereabouts nobody nobody- nobody knows knows LS L'S whose zose cells in countless jails gape for fOl or them hungrily yet et el in 11 vain Y Yon iron irla may open your Oil mornings morning's s mailand mail mailand v. v and ald find from one Olle a of I them hem a let letter fer coarse or 01 courteous which invites you to 10 meet ec t I the he writer and receive J the Ire hat half million dollars let left b brother you by your our lost long-lost Y You Oil ou may a slid suddenly hold 1 up p your lw hands in iii your our 01 parlor chair dzal o of the dr room drawing r r car cal at the terse behest Zest o of another and you'll a keep them there Ilter until ctrl he has afier tl and expeditiously c. frisked risked you for your roll your watch and all an any little lit odds and ends he lie thinks worth taking Y You Oil rata ma may as suddenly sudden run into him hurt o oa of ofa a dark night and be shot up with Zt no preliminaries pre- pre at all merely because he lie had a drink or two more than his customary dose and happens to feel eel that way i rl And id you ou Oll may be doing business with r f- f another o of them nt every da day and finding him hint the SOil soul 1 o of honesty who need only on to as ask If HOSE IlOSE missing men are arc not attractive T topics to the tho police and the tho detectives who guard life and property in the great treat cities your detective especially if he be ho a good one no no more enjoys talking about the murderer the Jegg or the swindler whom he hasn't caught than a doctor likes HItes to refer to the virtues of the patient who has slipped through his hands into the tho undertakers It isn't good policy either to talk about them Of course when the notorious up hold man or the wanted murderer stands charged with ith his crime immediately after its commisSion commission commission commis commis- sion the hue and cry is raised vociferously on the chance that if a whole community can be be- put on the qui vive some one may prove pro observing observing ing enough and quick enough to recognize him himl l' l c and cause his capture But when years go so by the m myrmidons oft of t the he law however unrelenting they may mar be bc realize real criminals criminal's ize that they must depend solely on the thc crimi criminals criminal's CrImi- CrImi nal's nals own heedlessness to betray him some him some f unguarded boast some communication with old ld associates and more commonly some sonic active f resumption of his peculiar specialty in crime crim ml any of these thee may y g give the patiently await awaited d clue lu I and they nab him quick as lightning f. f t i tI I I Noise publicity even crew the barest mention of ol his name may servo serve as the hint to him that hi his existence is remembered cre and he lie burrows i into rt his retreat or flees yet set further or seizes oil on- Some Rome fresh alias and crookedness with all dispatch dis dis- patch The Tho police never forget Olg t but their best chance for catchin catching the criminal lies in the fact fad that o oftentimes Lo ho persuades himself they do t They forget so little that when he lie cracks a n safe robs o s a mail nail train works a swin swindle lc or breaks a jail they turn to their thc catalogs of crooks and come conic pretty close to j identifying illg the rascal the they i have never novel seen simply from the methods method r r I b he ba uses No o they th never forget But they the can be b r merciful Five years ago a l noted detective met meta meton a on the the streets of an ah n eastern cit city where he way was stationed a noted crook who for as many ninny years h had ld been vainly sought by y the police ce of a larger Jarger city less than miles away The Tho crook had hadi l- l i S a jf 1 ohn t Ga p H 1 Ap os F arz Prost Pros f S t i Ta tae a lz h P I AS' AS AScue cue toast j d' d your indorsement for or his note to to get et it it j nor will you 1 0 ev ever ever r regret the tent T J No o 0 one olle can call tell with even evert so much as asa asa a r suspicion where all any particular one of of- those lose dangerous ls o oftentimes s dead j criminals crimi- crimi nals is to be lie f found today This This' one ma may have rc reformed with that real brand 0 of rc reform form or which stops only at surrender for or jail terms lerms amounting to 10 ilia rest o of his life That lal one mil may y be a couple o of thousand ll miles away from front the scenes v of his former c crimes mes on others other's yet et more dan dan- ous il And nd the thc ul type men meat o of tlc the class who require 0 opportunity or 01 provocation provo provo- ratio cation to explode c. into murderous violence may be living 5 their lives under aliases 1 themselves unconscious lS o of the he devilish pos pos- possibilities dormant in ill their natures The whole nation may well vc beware ben o of them all all- allbut but only a very few among R us its know kIlO them then well enough to 10 recognize the danger signs r lived shaven dean and clean handed clean for all all those years unrecognized og The detect detective c kner kl e him however at sight but he lie affected i ilia hin U ranee The ho criminal went his way unsuspecting unsuspecting ing and made no effort to forestall wrest arrest Nemesis put one of his trailers on him with instructions to report speedily and aud justl justly lIes Hes living Jiving on the level was the verdict in a good business under another name Hasn't made a single break since he broke jail trusting wife happy happ family all family all that sort of thing Want y him I Z I. I exclaimed his chief Oh no I I 1 haven't anything on him And as for you ou forg forget for for- g get bet t him Understand That has been all except all except one incident A Ac Afew Afew few c months afterward the tIll detective meeting ther tho the thod thor d rJ r r- r J rJ r y 1 II I I F 0 rr o i r t. 1 J Y Wt 7 4 1 J W fJ 1 t. t Ji 4 i tf Iy v 7 I N S 'S oj 1 o. o lw Y n 1 t y ij i. i l y jj J i lq h I r f. f I m r li A 11 B. B W fM t f i VJ I J l t r WJ 1 R 1 j Tail 1 E Jn- Jn 0 t R 1 t A 4 0 fo I I I n s J rs rJ rI Y t f I t I t S W I s 1 e err S. S j rr 1 1 c 1 1 t I Lr 4 4 t a s k c PS t a N A I 1 Ss s S 1 S T. T i I Yr r I h I Sr 1 I m nied convict with a a compau companion o l who vh knew him was introduced The mans luaus face went white The detective made mode an excuse se seto to speak sneak to him alone alono for a minute I recognized you months ago o. he lie said I had lead you looked up Youre You're living lhing straight I could have tipped off the thc people who want you y u any time timo since r PH y m I r. r I z f v 1 r r Y l fJ fi i v m ml 7 h fJ I- I tt to 7 J f f f 0 J J i i hOi hO to I q t 4 or r t s 's 4 c j jc c A. A r 1 A t y 4 h ji l 9 J I 1 J r 1 v j H W e 1 ui v Ft yi y 4 i a. a S S1 q j i J. t f. t I a L I h. h tSi 1 JiP T V v r rm y m d 1 I r Y o oi k i J j f r I ti- ti i A. A 4 Ml i d va r S cJ Z P O 7 sa p a 7 r r f Dar I 1 J. J Yes f the crook breathed ins IllS anxiety alLiet trembling in the wordWell word Well Vell it seems to me youre you're worth more to yourself your family and tho the community where you arc are than you'd rou be where the they'd thed d put you And so long as you ou go on as you Jou have thus far for I think youre you're le none of m my business The honest crook is going on as he was then luck prO providence ence his own bol bold course in living bring within arms arm's reach rench of his foes of the law lav whatever cr it mn may rany be be Las has preserve preserved him under some cloak of in invisibility which will protect prote t thim him hum until he dies ies The jw man main who spared rim him is one one of those who believe belie that not a few of the worlds world's I most dangerous criminals vanished from tho the laws law's ken al' al are arc living r just lust such honest industrious lives But yet get him or 01 any mw other chief amon among detectives es talking i 1 rg h in ill confidence and every one oho will show the gl glitter of the eyes und and the set sot hard lines Hues around the mouth that tell of pet pct pursuits they have hu cherished year in and amI y year al' al out omit for a dozen men of df I crime crane whoso whose names they will win not utter until the handcuffs Ts arc on omi th the captives' captives wrists And it seems that sooner or later somehow sonic some how and Hud somewhere Nemesis does docs find out these wolves und loud tigers however secret their lairs if the they do not forsake utterly tho the ways of crime At best est like HIm Adam Worth they may Reappear their former dan dan- mere e harmless shadows of selves too innocuous for the law to care careo care 0 o punish them tl em severely se Until they are jailed there is is not a genuine detective in tho the latH land who fails to watch with argus eye cye every ery stray mention of a crime however how how- ere ever r distant which may a carry cany tho the irks of their t cir r methods Murderer swindler as they he slink slag in in their hiding places or plan their fresh onslaughts on omi society every crr one among them then can have the satisfaction satisfaction and and it is both a satisfaction and a pride to them them them-of of knowing that there thero are important police chiefs and astute astute astute as as- tute detectives everywhere throughout the United States who grit brit their teeth in chagrin at every thought of the way they have been outWitted out out- witted Take Chappie Moran l if you or an anybody body else can ever eer take and hold that brilliant gadfly of the mails and c curb long enough to o stick Jick a 11 pin in ill him Others m who once hoped to rival In in obtaining g easy money mone from front the proletariat an anthe and the rich near take off their hats to the man who can always s so plan his game that the police when they get bet him wonder whether the they'll have to release him with apologies and salaams No Nonet Nonet net seems ever eer to have been heen woven close enough to 10 draw him into a penitentiary He has hos walked into a police station with the remark that hed he'd heard ho lug was wanted wanted- and aUlI the police have rejoined rejoined rejoined re re- joined emphatically You bet But he lie finds his way out and fines and costs at worst seem to be bo his fortunate fortunato lot He is out now or ot was wasat wasat at last reports and amI the postal inspectors detectives detectives de de- and aud police still wonder under which n new w guise complicated with to legal al forms of will fin extra extract act thousands thousands thousands thou thou- procedure 1 his next attempt sands of or dollars from the gullible He TIc t turned up first many man years ears ago as a aLor aboy athe racetrack at Gloucester N. N J. J boy boa of or lG 16 at ata the for stock who quit the game a a boy boa bo r bookmaker scheme known as the Great Gleat Eastern Company which lasted until its patrons began begau patronizing the thc police hug Hugh h McGinn ono one of them then a solid citizen of Pawtucket K- K KT T T- T put Ins his us losses CONTINUED ON I INSIDE SIDE PAGE PACE |