Show IJ 7 i V. 11 This work would the ne dime had of say a nog novelist been moment but as the i I ow 11 r ks k's ba n d i Are 1 r I I I 1 Daring Ups Hold-Ups and an Took his bag of money pushed him hem into info c t the street and then drove away awa f 4 I Thrilling Pursuits u r su rs spa in in the victims victim's own carl car l i Are Everyday R. R 14 4 h i vif f 1 Occurrences 0 in inthe m the Metropolis t lis 41 Where Real It i n J S k i ir 1 J r Life Bandits I A Are r Doing o r Things the Dime Noveler Novel Ir f Desperado Desper- Desper er- er NEI r ur L ado d I 1 r F 4 i f r 7 T Never lever Even Even f B By r Phoebe I Tart nr TJ i 1 r N r s i 1 nf ONE is the bible of the small boy r r GONE Nick Carter with Carter with his thrilling exploits that held the boy in fearful fascination way ivay into r school hours or perhaps late into the night locked in the bathroom away from front mother mothers mother's s seye of 0 f eye is eye s passing J r What about the stories of the Wild West Hest you OU sa say as you grab your Carter your our Fireside Com and all the other time old thrillers that made you shiver in frightened fright fright- ened cued e ecstasy tas Shucks feed Iced them to your our baby sister and Ill I'll tell you some sonic things that will really c make your our hair stand on end tr Things are happening in N Nen York every day in broad daylight that chat will make the stories r of the western train ups hold of stage coach sticking of 01 the galloping into small towns up th the steps slept on horseback into the very centre of the wicked dance hall with nth the frightened women nomen and tJ men en huddled in the corner their arms extended high in air air while the strutting horseman flourishes long theatrical pistols looking more like pistons and a rolling Tolling sombrero sombrero sombrero-in in another minute t Of V look Jock like lice a cocked hat fN rr 5 T TAKE AXE your Jesse Jease James Cole Younger tho 1 Jennings boys Bob Butch Burch the Daltons Dalton ir it you t I must have them and play marbles with them They are h harmless For it ii is In New York that centre of some me souls and end meeting me-eting place for tor the civilized civil civil- ife f and the crude for tor tho the honest and the unscrupulous un un- i scrupulous where everything reaches a n top notch and nothing is done by halves that there is developing de de- de a system of at crime which for tor daring aring and may be called the thelast last Jast word in iny 1 y crime annals annab There are two novel features in the new guide guidebook guidebook book or Dr hand manual of crime Be young as r r h r 1 well wen as criminal and ADd Can the dark lantern stuff r J the daylight for ours ours i f t Oar first big play is staged in full faU daylight f. f on one of the most populous streets in N New cw York j 1 city if not of the tho world Boa Broadway of or the big to H I hotels big theatres big electric signs and crowds r rand and its big place pInce in the heart of those crowds ds I L furnished the scene for a spectacular burglary burglars t which as ns a movie scenario would very likely have been rejected as being too wildly t able And the fashionable luxurious Knickerbocker Knicker booker backer Hotel added the setting I 1 Jewels worth squirt guns with f tabasco sauce for ammunition a small regiment t of patrolmen armed armed with nightsticks and re revolvers re re- t a fusillade and barrage race and bombardment bombardment bombard bombard- ment of shots chips of brick and plaster and f graystone wall and through it all nU the tho two rob rob- I bus bers cool and imperturbable and walking up and IJ down m the perpendicular facade of th the magnificent hotel botel like liko flies ie are some of the tho mere details J Running the Gauntlet i Kindly note what followed Did the most thrilling dime novel of the daring deeds of Sure Sura Shot Sam the tho Texas T Terror ever unfold untold such a sc ics of rapid fire exploits I Even in his best I moments the author of Three Three Fingered Fingered Jack or orThe orThe jC The Rocky Mountain Robbers Robber's Revenge nc never cr invented such thrills as 83 these The dime novel f fin in other words is dull unemotional and utterly I j c lacking in action when compared to the real rent life I bandit business as New York city now knows it 1 Up tip to tho the desk of one of New Yorks York's best and 1 most fashionable hotels walk two desperadoes s I 1 They dont don't look like villains villain To a nIl all Il appearance I th they Y are arc Spanish gentlemen visiting the metropolis metro metro- polis polia for the first time and they desire to make mako the tho hotel their headquarters during their brief stay in iu the city They are particular about the tho l' l location of or their rooms and are finally accommodated dated dated with a cosey coley suite adjoining that of or a Mr Mr 3 1 L and Mrs Irs Broderick of Dallas Texas Mr Broderick is in the oil business He went into oil at the thc right time and has bas been most suc sue So one one day recently he lie le came to New A York and brou brought ht Mrs Broderick with him to see the big city and to do a little shopping And among other things that the tho oil man bought tor for his wife were some me very fin fine diamonds 0 Now trio the plot begins to thicken The Tho Brod Brod- tricks Bricks may have been followed during their shopping shop ping excursions It may have been observed that they were wealthy and that Mrs Broderick had some Ome very verJ valuable jewels Once in their rooms and safe fare from Interruption tion the two to desperadoes first firt nH make ke sure that thoI tho the I apartment is empty Then they quietly t I 4 V P pick the lock of the closed connecting door and arid JI t pd fix it ready for work Rork ahead of them t Mi J I t ll r Sf Q f m And hours later when bur Mr and said J sure enough nough p l r Jr- Jr Mrs Broderick were sound asJe asleep p the d des despera desperadoes spera- spera era era- 4 J J tc k Je C W r We does the door and walked in 1 l' l opened In Y h. h Z The They were vere a after ter the jewels ewer s arid and other yalu- yalu mm i l p I CJ I t Jt j jg P. P r 7 f t y f I nl r yr o t tr V r H n. n r e 1 7 t r. r lr t i-t- f y f fP j t P If f. f t f q 3 r l Jo ll t I. I t. t pJ i u tt i. i I mp fJ o. v i t tt t r A i I. I j JI r 1 I. a IJ 4 to x- x r 7 I. 4 f fd Y Pt y it J I. w n J J t 0 r Rt i r Wv t So r it 7 I l f d i i 1 J 0 3 v I 1 r i. y JI 1 l W t. t ts i. i f i t y r T t o- o t 1 f f- f J Y n l r f t r 0 jI j- j i b h 1 Ni f fJ fb k I J i J 1 p t s r. r r t Q uM x Jf a. a v f r r ea ca l to prevent t h ha d i tf 67 1 3 h Own Own- 0 tl t r 0 L 7 Y i 0 71 7 rk i mhO t li e IN oo d' d Sli SK d l f J X t Y jd i i Vr yr r I d S j vr tl t 1 r Jt Ya o Jf I. I In J i l h l 1 is rt f WJ V Vl I. I y p 1 J Not r 1 t 11 t. t Y 41 I o 4 it T 1 11 n r 4 r r I. I I 1 I 1 1 7 J. J l I Jj fiU Ii I. I i If I c. c 6 J t 1 c. c i g H 7 s x 4 C t N t r V 1 d HA t d 4 Man an e t IUa f 1 i i. i I fI been eft t t 1 e SH or t r y I owner o had mo y a U his bis K clec So r S J it i J r t fV l Some om n eI lse h b rou t t tb e lt oJO t ts 0 1 OP oar i O h l k- k s K r ft arid and rid S tone o had bad be been ri casual caS casually l I lq p ji 1 J t o. o w one n x If- If Q r rK i t the windows window's in s when h he n nat t d Nick rte a tt r rt o v t r v l j rt Vj t s rt at i j 4 ion with 4 the coast x- x r 4 X ard IF W CV pt l Sf 4 as r t lie A. A looked l q l iO i i r 1 k lit L I oL t f J S' S oJ cry And d this is the centre of c busy docks car Uk U- U lines automobiles I y k and traffic New York breeds a super II 1 NI U S 1920 10 j 1 k 1 i r 1 i f 1 fh rt eta 1 S. S 1 1 j r f oj I lj ables h but t bur Mr Broderick being a n light sleeper woke voke up and had to be hammered into Insensibility It ity to keep him quiet Mrs Broderick was chloroformed This had been but the work of a moment as ns the tho di lc novelist would say But nevertheless the desperadoes are now in a n hurry hum They have havo been been making more noise in the Broderick apartment apart apart- ment than the they had intended to Even now tho the telephone b bell ll is ringing Somebody may be bo giving the alarm arid add the hotel detectives will be hammering at nl the door any moment now So thc they hurriedly gather all the Broderick jewels they can lay Jay their hands hands' handson on and beat it for the elevator On the way down their sago cago passes es the bound up-bound cage full of ot detectives and police and bellboys Stop the car and you die is the desperadoes desperadoes' threat to their elevator boy against whose brow they are pressing their revolvers The car goo goes down to the sub basement and stops cally Out jump the desperadoes to find the palice police police po po- them lice assembling to capture Into the car and up again they shoot Then begins begins' a n game of hide and seek along upstairs corridors out of windows along tir fire escapes u up P the fronts of the sky skyscraper rap r like human flies down the elevator shaft cables like acrobats inand inand in inand and out of guest rooms windows elevators air shafts sk skylights lights along copings coping ledges and chimneys vs until until until- Fleeing 1 g through one of the dining rooms the two desperadoes are nrc met by a head waiter armed with ith a cup of tabasco sauce The sauce is thrown and down go co the desperadoes firing blindly as ns they fall falt Now N w they thoy th y arc nrc in In jail ail How N New ew York Bandits Work For continuity of or action surprise situations an rind sheer daring the dime novel has little that still ill compare with the above And while one is 10 cent 10 cent fiction the other is real life bandit business business busi busi- ness stuff of the kind New York city is g getting quite used to The next big hold up up occurred at o'clock in tho the morning in one of or the most exclusive residential residential resi resi- sections of the city Now Mr Ir George Alexander Washington Market poultry dealer had passed a n very ery thankful thank ful fut holiday indeed As why should he not not hay hav- r T J JT- JT IL J-ii- J V l n air N rV l t 74 r J IIo F r 4 i r. r f I E Ing not only onty dispersed i thousands of turk turkeys throughout as man homes but ho bo earn earny carrl I blay bla J y in a little y to ba mg s 0 as a n visible result of his bis sali sal sal sail i Of course the next morning u 11 having haTing st stepped into his waltin automobile pulling the rug Q or ovi his knees in the tho luxuriant atti attl tulle tude t of waiting to start he dMa feel so thankful any my more mon w wb f with nth a pistol at his head and andi a 3 Not a word or Ill I'll snuff your life out he be saw first one then two three a and four up hold-up men r. r They took his bag of money pus pua 7 hIm Wm into the street and then the crown V hurt hart of all an drove away in his own ear leaving him gaping and dazed dared on the sidewalk You all an know what a longshoreman looks tik tika a big powerful giant of a man Well Wel Imagine of these giants fortified with more imm by all standing in a n line Une before the par PI p f window so 80 petrified with awe beo before four sUm cucumber cool bandits that they actually It U them get away with all aU of their money ab money they had worked for for a week without batting an or raisin raising g a fin And this in the centre of busy docks and pier pic with car lines automobiles and humming bumming trail all aU around New York breeds a super bandit New up Hold-up Devices I Th There rc Is simply no end to tho the ingenuity the employ nowadays In separating the wise man maD manwell manwell i well as ns the fool from rom bi his money Pepper thrown in to the eyes of bank me mess mea gers in the daytime on lower Broadway but f fo i the vigilance of or tho the accompanying guards 1 frs the bank would have resulted in the tho robbery o 0 with hundreds of persons passing passing- a in full sight r Taxicab drivers driver with prison records drive the fares into lonely side streets or remote corner corners of the park and then beat and rob them 1 In another instance the robbers tied 16 18 tam fain Mies in in their apartments at nt the same time b means of clotheslines tied around doorknobs an and locks JOcKe while they systematically looted the spar apart apartments m ments nh seeing to it that no one summoned aid One of the thc very newest devices is to go u up IM the elevator with the intended victim usual usually l payroll hold up as was actually done in the tho ca of the young oung stenographer of an nn important fi fil of clothiers Hardly had the elevator started noon in a crowded building in the heart henrt of t- t business section than the elevator operator atthe an anthe anthe at- at the other passengers were wera covered by two rill looking automatics Tho The poor frightened f gi was then relieved of the leather pouch containing and the operator ordered to run the thed down to the basement from which the bandi bandit still brandishing their revolvers made mado th the getaway tawa That burglars loft looters thi and h hold up men of or every description have a from their more favored neighbors neighbors' New York within the last year in cash a at goods at least is the thc estimate given out by officials of the 32 bur burr burgl k insurance firms of the city And the great majority of ot all these thi caught ht arc from 14 to 20 years can old cat c |