Show ii MY LIFE IN THE rHE UNDER WORLD LD By Jack Ja L Ros Rosa oS Ii The Price Pr ce of L Life fe in New York City Continued From Preceding Preceding- lD PagA way n without risk tho gangster ha has still tot got to 11 o. o It Is 15 then that he ha has to resort to StickinG up tip a pedestrian Is 1 usually tho last There 18 Is another kind o of stickup not FO t-o risk risky hk- hk It I Is to stick sUck up one of ot theman the tho man many nany that the tho east cast side In Selecting tho the place r the thc gangster with th pointed suns guns uns back tho the men In Inthe tho the place agaInst the tho wall all and anti tako take their mono money Tho The ganster then 1 order them to turn tarn about and face the I 1 wall and remain In that for 10 jo 0 minutes mInutes' until tho the gangsters male make their getaway f This form of ot rat raft grow grew so 80 popular I amon among tho the gunmen that tho the stuns S game g-ame ame amer r men combined for mutual protection and antI It en ended ed h by ly their selecting BIg Biff lg I Jack to protect them at so much t n ft week He lie was wa-j ca to avenge o every eveT stick up Tack Jack earned hi his hk first weeks week's salary ular vor or very prompt promptly At 3 o'clock one OD afternoon ho was notified b by hIs Ills employers em fm p o er that Frank Prank Niece 2 had Just stuck up tip a game frame At 4 o'clock was dead Dig Tack Jack shot hot him hir himat himat at avenue mue und and Ninth street I In Inthe Inthe the presence of or hundreds H of or Zelig's activity In this case caso and on one or in two similar ones soon ended his u uc ic- ic c- c 8 to tho the game men for lor rival I gangster r r were wore afraid of DI flig JaCl JacI Jack and let th the MUSS men alone n n. n How little tho the gunmen think of ot taking talc tak IIIi lilt ing human life lire can hardi hardly b be be- better bette r Illustrated than Ulan b by telling tb the st stor story r of or how nl nig Jack killed Julie I. I bouncer at nt the cafe calc Jack If was as floor Claar manager at n 1 Ilance In tho the Stuyvesant Casino on ov Second n nen en avenue ue b Th Boys floys o of f fth t th the an or organization consisting consist In ing almost entirely oC of pickpockets an and 1 I I other of or tho orld While dancing a waltz with his wife I who always s a attended l these functions function S with her husband In tho the belief bellot that her het presence afforded some measure O L protection to him In th tho event of or the tho ending up with I a fight as thc they thel usually did nl Big Jack was vas called aside asId and told Julie Morrell was downstairs S gunning for him rolling Tolling his wife he would be bad badIn back In a 3 minute Dig Big Jack started down down- stairs lie met Julie Morel Morell at th the entrance of or tho hall hail Without a wore word or P. P shot through the tack and anc I killed lIp him upstairs he be entered the thc ballroom and heard the orchestra stra still BUll i playing the waltz he ho had started with ith I his Jils wife and he lie finished It with her I Jack Zelig danced tho the bod body of ol Ids 1114 IH wa was still Mill warm lOLl TOLI Ja Jack k k himself was at la last t shot b by a a. gangster an ster named While Iring ly lying lyIng ly- ly ing In hospital on what he lie believed to be bc his deathbed BI Big Jack sent for mo me and there ho he told me mo some I of ot the tho events of or his life lIfo He Ho had comI com com- I man mai many crimes He was arrested time and anti tini limp a again aln aa ns a a. pickpocket and served servel his sentences For his greater crimes ho usually succeeded In n escaping ont Ills victims if JC lived of his the they and lUt any eyewitnesses Co crime r feared the vengeance of ot his friends It If they testified against him and when they vera werA put on tho ilie stand developed a suddon loss o of memory or positively declared that Dig BIt Jack was not tho the man they thoy had seen commit the crime for While Big DI Jack had no regard o human life lite ho seldom Idom committed murder murder mur mur- der himself for or private persons mur-j mur al although a- a though thouC-h he could always furnish men for the tho purpose DD DIDN'T T EARS fO It was two of ct Jack Zelig's gang sanS who for 50 n agreed to beat up Sam wits business bu n agent ent of tho the Mineral Water Workers Workers' union They got him on Delancey street and anti slugged lugg-ed him him but they thoy paid only 25 because the tho Job tho they thoy did was n a poor ono havo have to Oto o oto to tho the hospital A barber who frequently gambled at nt atone atone one of m my houses had a n. very ory cr narrow narro escape I r was 19 ablo able to save save- his life Ute A ArA I. 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I t I I I hb u. u u gangsters C s at nt atan an opium layout talking over o their plan to cut this barbers barber's throat The They had been promised 2000 for lor tho tue Job by a man who had reason renson to believe bellevo that tho the barber was responsible on sible for lor certain rumors that th had been bean spread around about tho mans man's wife Ono night while whilo the barber was war playIng playIng play- play Ing lag at my ray house I got word from a n central central cen cen- trat office detective o that two gunmen were la laying for tor tho the barber I looked ed out of the thc window n and saw gaW two men skulking In the tho doorway opposite I Ilent sent lent a messenger er out for tor the gangster who had Informed mo me of ot tho the plot anti and when ho appeared I pointed out tho the thomen men opposite and asked him whether ho f knew them Ho lie said the they were themen tho the thoI men he had overheard at the tho opium la layout out ThEM n on Through of Zelig's m men n I was ablo to make a deal with th these 80 gangsters gang gang- storE tho the barber bought them out It Il cost him 00 and even and e cn then ho he knew know It was only a n. matter mattor of or time before hired do 10 tho tue Job others would bo be to I these men hind hall turned down don I The Tue Idea worried him so o that ho sold out hI his business an and left town for or good Thorn Them was a printer I knew who oc occasionally oc- oc played at my house He came In there on one night evidently o la laboring laboring la- la boring under great t rc excitement At midnight ho lie was cleaned out As S ho went out I asked him what tho the trouble was He told toM me inc that his home homo had been heen wrecked and anti that ho was having baring all he could do to keep himself from murdering the tho man who did It with his own hands Suddenly ho lie turned to mo me and said gald Jack dont don't you yet know lenow some ono one who would get et ono one of ot these gorillas to do tho Job for me I tried to him He went aWI way awa Tho The next night ho was back again with tho same sarno request More to get rid of ot him than anything else I Introduced him him to Big Jack Jl Zelig and Big Jack turned turne him kiln over o to Kid Kurt ono of ot his gunmen llEN 11 ns That night nl-ht tho the printer came canle into my pIneo to play taro faro bank Ho lie had 25 P. P Thero was vas a 1 light lIs-ht In hi his e eyes c which told me plainer titan than words that more titan than his 25 5 was at tako In the tho game lIe He won He Ho went on playing His luck never nO turned Whoa When he lie was ahead ho quit Ho lIo called mo mc aside aido and asked mo inc whore ho could set ct Kid iId I told toM him I didn't know arid and suggested sUG that he lie get set hold of or Dig Big I II Jack tt I Th The Tho next night tho printer didn't show up but Kid Kurt did and he lie had a n roll roU with him Ho lie dropped 50 at roulette ho Ito quit Of Ot course I didn't question Kid as to the tho source of hla his wealth but I surmised It then and afterward I learned that ho had done ono tho the Job for tor forthe tho the printer It was some Borne years ago since tho the Monk lonk Eastman went to Long Dead Beach Deach and beat bent David Da Lamars Lamar's coachman up n 1 1 O IU lIua v V I by tho the hundreds although h It ft is ont only rarely that the real facts acts become known J OJ or 1 CE lien ren are aro frequently found unconscious In tho the streets of ot New CW York slugged Ii h by some unknown thu thug Examination Ex Ex- of their pockets reveals no rio possible motive for tor the tho crime When Whon tho the victim recovers consciousness and finds that his hla bank roll rot is intact ho tie realizes that robbery robber was not the tho mo- mo U tivo for Cor tho the assault and concludes es that malice must havo have prompted It But tho the man who struck him was a stranger er Clearly ho could have had bad no malice Then tho the conclusion Is forced force home that tho the thug must ha have been hired lured b by some sonic one ono who had a 0 grudge STudS against tho the victim and It doesn't tako take him long to decide who it was who had reason to do him 1 h harm r Obviously however It woman t ao 00 u in inmost most cases for or tho the victim to squeal to tho the police To give 0 tho the name of ot the theman theman theman man believed responsible for the tho as assault as- as sault and to havo have him arrested would Invite publicity and scandal which tho the victim would much rather avert avort Tho The victim thinks It all over and suffers In silence That Is fA why tho the gorilla has little to fear It if he can once make a safe sate get get- away avay Thero is ver very little chance that ho will 1 bo Lie caught through any clew clow the victim is in a a. position to furnish and It t Is a a. squeal on tho the man mm ho lie knows Is responsible for or the assault NOT OT or HARD HAnD TO SECURE How Ho Hodo do peaceable law abiding citizens citi elU- zens absolutely un unfamiliar with the unknown to toa toa ways was of tho the underworld a a. single one of ot its men who perhaps havo have never oven even seen a real criminal how do such men mon when whon the I occasion arises manage to procure curo cUFo an ann n agent nt to commit murd murder r for lor them for forCash forcash i cash Time Tho task tuk la is not riot t w fin difficult as It ml might hl lI seem em An Any one who anything any thing about tho underworld knows s that every o crook from Crom tho the petty ICU sneak sneak- thief thle to tho the for hire spends i most or of hid 1118 time and anti mono money In pram gain am- am I bUn houses tho cafes of or tho the 12 EaRt Dast Side and opium layout layouts I It la is through tho the keeper of or such a resort then thon through whom tho the Inquiry must he be pursued d No Tso er very embarrass Ing questions would usually bo ho asked If It Iteen even en tho the most r citizen should asic through a 11 friendly policeman politician politician poli poll or newspaper man the entree to such a a as this It might ho ob obtaIned obtained ob- ob tamed under tho pro pretense tense of gaining experience That Is 18 the first step tep and the tho most Important one From that point everything everything every o thing else Is comparatively cas easy By Dy Bytho tho ho uso use of a and tho the spendIn spending spend spend- In lag ing of ot a few dollars tho the respected citiZen citizen citizen citi citi- zen In a n few days das will HI have o gained tho the cn n if 4 r et th 1 I t f 9 t fun tin r to to u cl such n an o n extent t nt- nt at t any m i ito rate rato to- to ii that i iho ho ma may p now broach bronch tIme the subject nearest his hla heart a IL L little moro mora openly A mooting meeting with a n gang anS' 1 leader ller Is tho next step arranged by tho the rc resort ort keeper Time The citizen for Cor b by his Ills newly made acquaintance can cnn begin begin be be- begin gin to Bp speak plain The Tue final details antI and tho the meeting with the gorillas for detailed Instructions Instructions usually Il comes off ort In tho the back backroom backroom room of some saloon to which tho the citizen citiZen citizen citi citi- zen repairs with moro more or IC less ies 9 misgivings h ings lags because of ot Its ita apparent shady ap rip rip- Ho Is la afraid some sonic ono one ma may maj maysee see him enter it nc IS SURPRISED D Quieting his fears with n-Ith the thoughts that no ono one who knows him Is apt to tobe tobe tobe be aroun around in this low neighborhood ho he enters entera and there in the back room loom whore where he lie is la Intro Introduced to tho the men who ho are aro to do his work he meets tho the biggest biggest big big- gest est surprise of or his life I bl-I Instead of oC two rough necked heavy heavy- Jawed shouldered bulging toughs built on tho the lines JInes of or heavyweight prize fighters fight fight- fighters ers two slim pale faced young Joun men are aro presented to him Neither one appear to bo he big enough or strong enough to give gle a good account of or himself with any man of ot his size Ize and neither of ot them theta is The truth is that the tho average erac gunman gunman gun gun- gunman man Is a n coward lie He wouldn't stand for tor a fair fight with an any one his size sire because he knows ho he would get the worst vorst of or it Tho The life lito he lie leads heads late hours dissipation and the smoking of or opium puts him In no rio physical condition condi i tion Uon to put up any am kind of or a fight ht even een If It ho l knows no 8 tho time rudiments of ot pugilism pus But that Is not riot necessary The Tho San gangster gangster gang gang- ster doesn't fight with his hands any nn- way A gun brass knuckles a blackjack black black- jack or a simple piece of lead pipe are aro tho ho tools ho favors and armed with on one L si 1 I p d' d a ltd r TWO SLIM PALE PACED YOUNG ARE PRESENTED TO HIM I of or the these e he ho Is read ready to do battle with anyone rom Iron from behind TO FORGET The Tho arrangement concluded th the mone money for tho lie Job is posted with the ti-ic saloon keeper to bo paid when tho the wont worle is done dono That en ends e It as us far tar as tho the S IK is concerned Ho can go about I his business without even cs-ca looking at nt atthe atthe I the papers to see whether the they contain an any of ot a barbarous murder Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps that is tho the better Wl way for tor or It Is Js not unlikely that down In the time heart of or ortho tho the citizen lurks a a. fear that somehow his own complicity In tho the murder ma may como come to light Ush t. t But Dut he hears no more about It Jl and anti L r It 1 h is only when ho realizes that tho the mi m who troubled him before seems to ha h hay dropped out of ot existence that ho he know that th the Job joh Ko ho paid palt for tor has haa been do doi an anti and l done clone well When Whon I was In tho the gambling b t ness nes I knew hundreds of gangsters wat W Wat at a a. word from mo mu would havo have domy domy do doa my bidding with WIll or without pay nay sa ea eat for a a. reasonable amount to matte mako sli sui of or their getaway or to pa pay ex expend pen whilo the they vere trailing tho victim leUm If It one ono of tho frequenters of ot my pI wanted something of or this sort dono didn't J havo to go Into particulars wi wit me mc lb know as R well as l I dill did willor will of or tho men nien he mot met In my place cou best help holp him out and ho hp went dir to them If It he hind had any doubt a n qu tion hero and anti there ju Judiciously p 11 would sot him on tho the right track t What that feller foller they call all Rod ned d Jack ho might ask asIc Oh he's hes a n dip and antI a gunman unman Won War Io I might answer l That would be bo enough COSTS NOW XO i Spanish Louie Joulo Is 19 dead Boo Bloo j Miko is dead Kid ld Twist la is de de Frankle Niece is dea dead Julie MarIs Mar Moril Is dead ead Dig Jack clig is dei de' Lofty Lefty p Louie Loule Dago Frank t Blood and Whitey Io Lewis ls tho the f fc I gunmen aro arc in the tho at SI Sir Sing SIng- ILls Has the tho lie fate rate of these notorious g men to whom |