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Show Jp-M? I ' c- v ff Iterit g jiff- iV hA, ' If J9ress Coat and Top Hat, Ray Daniels Harrigan, Scion of a Distinguished r Family, Member of Exclusive Clubs, Was Known as a Successful Young Man and a Devoted Husband; With Cap Pulled Low, MufKered Neck j and Finger on a Gun Trigger, He Was "Red" Hannigan, the Bandit Leader Whose Gang Terrorized the Entire State. "S His Principal Confederate Was an Underworld Girl Known as "Red's Wife." EVERY once in a while something happens hap-pens in everyday life, among our neighbors or in the very next block down the street, which is stranger and more exciting to the imagination than the most stirring plots of the novelists. Just the other day, in Denver, Col., the climax cli-max was .written to a chapter in real life which, with its romance and tragedy blended into an amazing case of "double personality," personal-ity," is quite as thrilling and surprising as the famous case of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." For many years the police of Denver and other Colorado cities had been baffled and mocked at by a mysterious young "tough" of the underworld, who 'was known to them as "Red Hannigan," leader of a daring gang of thieves and cutthroats, known throughout the State as "the Hannigan gang." Nighttime Night-time raids, carried out with the dasli and spirit of the old time James boys, and city robberies which have netted, in the aggregate, aggre-gate, more than a hundred thousand dollars in loot, are laid at the door of the "Hanni-gans" "Hanni-gans" by the Colorado police. Occasionally a member of the gang was caught. Once in a while one of the "Hannigans" was sent to prison but none of the gang ever helped 't the police trap the elusive leader, "Red annigan. Tbout all the police really could find out about the gang leader, was that one of the prettiest young women of the underworld was supposed to be his wife or at least his "girl." They tried to trap him by watching the girl. She boasted the police would never catch him. During these same years one of the most popular of the younger couples in Denver's smartest circles was Mr. and Mrs. Ray Daniels Dan-iels Harrigan. The young husband was the scion of one of the oldest Colorado families and appeared to be unusually successful in retrieving the family 's, scattered fortunes. His pretty young wife, who had been a concert con-cert prima donna, was the centre of a gay social set. Their palatial home was in the exclusive residence district. Being close to the State Capitol, this home was the scene, almost daily, of luncheon parties, at which Mrs. Harrigan was the hostess and the Governor Gov-ernor and other Slate officials her guests. She was often accused by envious friends of establishing the English, custom of brewing politics over the. tea table. Finally, a few nights ago. the Stale police captured the lonc-soutrht "Red" Hannienn. The gang made a successful early evening raid in the northern part of the State. The police gathered at a bend in the road near Denver along which the motor car in which the gang had disappeared would have to Pass. At midnight they heard 1he car up. preaching, lights out. rushing at great speed tojirfrd the city, r-l'he ambushing police were certain the i How Death by a Policeman's Bullet Revealed. the Astonishing Aston-ishing Double Life of -One of Denver's Most Respected CitizensBy 1 0i: Day, Ray Harrigan, Leader of Fashion by , ; , Night "Red" Hannigan, , f Leader of Outlaws ' - Vhat Colorado's Secretary of State a ' ; i Thought of Kay Harrigan. ' By JAMES R. NOLAND, ' Secretary of Slate for Colorado. :jv;i.M 'v.; I have not yet recovered from the shock - ' gy with "which I learned that Ray Daniels Hannigan, Han-nigan, society man, business man and a highly high-ly honored, progressive citizen, was also a member of the underworld, a desperate, hunted and widely known police character. I knew him intimately many years. I counted him as one of the most representative citizens of the West. I was his house guest with my family many ; times. There Tmet persons of the highest social standing. I considered him one of the most valuable and charming friends a State official could have. ,yhat "Red" Hannigan's Gang Leader Thought of Lrm By "BLACK BEN" JUDELOVITZ," . A Member of the Denver Underworld's "Hannigan Ganc" "Red" Hannigan, the chief of the gang, was one good guy. I was as slick as they make 'em, and square. . That's what made tl crooks like him. He always said the police were a lot of four-flushii boobs, and he proved it. They'd never got him except by accider He knew how to gather in the coin, for himself and the bo; without ever tippin' his mitt with evidence against him- It'll be long time before the boys get another'leadcr like him. We was all surprised to hear he had a straight wife and a home amongst the swell guys. Pretty slick of him, I say." '. leader of the "Hanmgans" was iii the car with his men. They decided not to risk a running fight, which under similar circumstances circum-stances always had resulted disastrously to trie police. This time they met the approaching approach-ing car with a sudden volley from half a score of rifles. The officers centred their aim upon the crouching figure at the steering steer-ing wheel. The car swerved into the ditch at the side of the road. Its driver tumbled out, dead and the exultant police discovered discov-ered they had bagged Red Hannigan himself, him-self, as well as several members of the gang. After the Coroner's formalities had been completed, the, body of the dead gang leader was claimed by the underworld girl and taken by her to a shack on the outskirts of the city, which had been their home when not too closely watched by the police. But before the underworld girl had buried "Red" Hannigan, a message from the young Mrs. Harrigan was delivered to Colorado's Governor, commander of the State police, asking him to come, to her home quickly. The Governor found the young society matron hysterical. "Red" Hannigan, whose body was about to be buried from the tenderloin, ten-derloin, was, she told the Governor, her husband. hus-band. Ray Daniels Harrigan, the Governor's friend ! She wanted his body brought home. She had not known about the other woman the underworld girl. "When the authorities, at the bidding of the Governor, went to reclaim the body of the gangster-society man, they found a motley gathering of the foremost characters of the State's underworld. Men and women, some of whom seldom left their hiding places in the day time, had gone boldly to pay their last respects to the bold and widely feared ''Red" Hannigan. Around the cheap casket they crowded to whisper gloatingly of the de;rd gang leader's many exploits, of his long immunity from Ihe law. The girl who had been his companion com-panion fought desperately when she was told there was another woman who" had a better claim to him. Colorado's officers of the law, in their surprise and sympathy for the j'cuyig widow, offered to keep the secret to even -invent an explanation of the popular young' business man's, death. Mrs. Harrigan refused to agree to such a plan. "Ray would want all his friends, the bad as well as the good, to hear his funeral services. They must all have the right to come." said Mrs. Harrigan. From his underworld companions the police po-lice learned that for years Harrigan had ruled them with an almost autocratic power, lie had directed all the exploits of the "Hannigan "Han-nigan gang." In many of the gang's mojt spectacular crimes he had personally led his followers. Faithfully the gang shared its plunder with him. None knew that when he disappeared, for many days at a time, he became the prosperous business man. the influential citizen and debonair society host. Copyrigh 4 To those who knew him as the successful young business busi-ness man, his frequent absences ab-sences when he became for the time being "Red" Hannigan were explained as "business trips." With the chivalry of the West, the friends of Ray Daniels Harrigan have not asked his pretty, heartbroken heart-broken widow if she shared her husband's secret. Perhaps Per-haps the Governor of the State knows he was the first to whom Mrs. Harrigan Harri-gan 'appealed for aid in reclaiming re-claiming her husband 's body from the underworld girl. It was he who summoned sum-moned a little group of the young man's closest friends and pledged them to remember remem-ber only, in their attitude toward the widow, that her husband had been their friend and member of their clubs. "Though he were the most dangerous outlaw in all the country," the young wife said to her husband's friends and her own, "he was still my husband. It could make no difference whether I knew of his life as Mr. Hyde or not, his happiness hap-piness was in my hands and my loyalty to him was a husband's right. My love "' " " ' , .," , . 'Jt r. - . t . .'," 1 k I f : ' ' ' . i- J J: ' ' 'V . ' ' - v s--:r .Mmmmmmm - xv was given nun without reserve and not measured by either his faults or his virtues. The greatest blow, of coarse, is the existence of the other woman the one who shared his other life, from which I was banished. But even this I have forgiven him. for in his life with me I know he loved me." ""Whenever 'Red' was in trouhlp. whenever when-ever the police were close on his trail, lie always came to me," the underworld girl said to the authorities. "He always knew he could trust me more than any one elre. I never asked him to account for ihe times lie was away from me. I never susnected there was another woman in his life; hut lie need not have feared to tell me. I loved him and would have been loyal still. I liked him because be-cause he was good to me and never afraid of anything." The two women met for the first time it the funeral services, -which were held -'r Loycla Chapel. Denver's most fah ionable church. The girl of fbe underworld was invited in-vited to be present hy a messeiif ftr sent l,v the wiufiv- herself. The r.to.ser.w wes the city's Chief of Police, -vh- delivered al-o a message fo himself thai she i diht ser..l out the word thai the church tiuv' !yroip t.-lDlS. by the Star Company. Great Britain Rights r: -..' . f x'l " "i ! ..''. s "C"1 --O' VuVx ; '""':-'.;::'S'i'L- :;:'-V" ;:; " t - ;;:;.L;: xrr:i ;':iL i- '. 'i ' Vi : ;1 : i ' i ' - - Nj. ie y . . : "'? X. it. - . . " " Mrs. Marie Harrigan, the Ycmfc Wife of Ray Daniels Harrigan. In Their Palatial Denver Home She Entertained the States Foremost Citizens, and Was Beloved as a Charming Society So-ciety Matron. When Her Husband Was .Killed and Unmasked, She Insisted That the "Other Woman" and the "Gang" Come to His Funeral in the Fashionable Church. ! :T r'.-' -' : ;'?Je-,.,, e? A: : :.e,.j. U'a.SR:. ;;! ' '.i': ..I'-' ' - ;.;v..:v'f ?.'..?;!''' " V ' "Vvsi -' " V f;i:e '".'.'.'.'','.'. '..'.'ivi -: i'f ..'t'"V ""''- x -t-y A Cecille, the Little J V Daughter, Who X i ' Was Envied by f, V Her Playmates ' ' Because Her I j A Father Was ' j So Rich. ' )' ' 4 mid promise immu- t at occasion. It was !' j widow, the Chief "1 i lise spread through Si" 7". if the gang hurried 0!v!-4'i'vr,s. 0 carried a price on " f ,j M H v )ts, N. icm. At the church - ' s reserved for them If a n aisle. The girl, If'' lJ' -X a seat close to the "-, ? ' ' f the widow acros3 J t "' r ''j; -' J e church were more t- ,' 3 lost prominent citi- v .. f, t ig the members of ' ''" " I clubs, its bankers, ! ' ' city officials. Witb ' , ' y nd daughters, who NNf. . . ':. nds of the popular -i '. "i ' ' ice was read by a - 1 by the Bishop ot , Kay Daniels Harrigan, the Rich Young Business Man, Who, Half the Time, Was "Red" Hannigan the Outlaw. would be sanctuary tor iaugnter, wm ,, Was Envied by all the former compan- Her Playmates ions of "Red" Hanni- Because Her . . , , . , Father Was gan who mignt wish to So Rich, attend. The police, he said, would promise immunity immu-nity to all of them for that occasion. It was the request of the young widow, the Chief explained. When the Chief's promise spread through Ihe State Hie members of the gang hurried in to Denver. Crooks who carried a price on 1 heir heads were among them. At the church they were ushered to seats reserved for them on one side of the main aisle. The girl, heavily veiled, was given a seat close to the bier, within a few feet of the widow acros3 the aisle. On the other side of the church were more than a thor.sard of the most prominent citizens citi-zens of Denver, including the members of the city's most exclusive clubs, its bankers, cap'tnlis's and State and city officials. AVitb lb-c were then wives and daughters, who had keen the society friends of the popular yo':r,2 '-oiirle The. service was read by a On !:':; -i&t designated by the Bishop ot the- dir..;...VJ. esorve I, |
