| Show Noted Explorer Brings Back Real Story Of Shooting of Dangerous Dan I By ALEXANDER HERMAN N NEA EA Service Staff Writer Write NEW EW YORK Feb 24 Doc Doc Su Sugden's Sug- Sug dens den's back in civilization He has brought with him after twenty five years e n the real story o of The Shooting of ot Dan McGrew Sugden physician and explorer was wa-s a among those who ducked ducke j their heads when the lights went out and two guns uns blazed In the dark In the Alaskan sa saloon saloon sa- sa loon where the murder occurred that Robert W V. Service has Immortalized In his poem It was Sugden who a a. few years ears later told the In Services Service's presence which inspired the poem Dan McGrew's Vs real name was Wyoming Bill and he wasn't a Westerner Westerner West West- erner at all but came of or a refined family In Boston says saS Sugden He lie was brought up to be a social light light and he be couldn't be any anything thIn else He lie fell tell madly In love with a marrIed married mar mar- ried ned woman In Boston named Lou LOll They ran away West The husband a musical genius followed Forced to support himself and his love Bill Dill turned to the only thin thing he knew knew cards cards Soon he became a common common cornmon com corn mon gambler Lou stood by him BECAME HARDENED It was hard on her poor her poor woman Reared carefully by New England parents she wasn't fitted for the rough life liCe in Wyoming where they bad had burled buried themselves in an effort to escape detection But she became hardened Bill gained the reputation of ot being a bad man Lou was waa known as his They soon moved on North It lIt was the beginning of of the Klondike Klon Klon- dike diko rush Money changed hands easily They settled in Juneau and Bill ran a a. gambling table in one of ot the barrooms there It wasn't in the Malamute saloon that the shooting took place but In a place called Nuggets Bill was playing solo at his table Lou was standing by him luring the suckers on I was sitting in a chair in the far tar corner of ot the room Suddenly the door swung open and in came a stranger with a face tace most hair and the dreary stare of ot a dog whose day is gone He ordered drinks for tor the house taking dripped absinthe for himself It was a bad sign After Atter drinking slowly h he hA the piano and went went over over The Ragtime Rag Rg time Kid was taking a drink at the bar But he ne e almost dropped it when ho he heard the strangers stranger's playing It went through all of ot us like an electric current How that man could play First it was was' was was-an an aria from the opera Samson and Delilah Then It was the Maidens Prayer Finally a crash of chords that made U us all Jump Then he rose and faced us and as Service writes Boys says he you dont don't know me and none of ot you care a damn But I want to state and my words ar are straight and Ill I'll bet bet- my poke they're true That one of ot you is a hound of hell and that one Is Dan McGrew Mc Mc- Grew Bill who hadn't looked up tro from his game wheeled around Out went the light Then came two pistol cracks cracks- and a 11 womans woman's scream Then a womans woman's sobbing The barkeep barkeep barkeep bar bar- keep turned on the lights again BOTH SHOT DEAD There on the floor lay Dill Bill shot through the heart and the stranger hit square between the eyes Kneeling Kneel Kneel- ing at the strangers stranger's side was Lou Lou Lou- kissing him He lie was as her husband After Arter that Lou went down to Da Dawson Dawson Daw- Daw son and married a prosperous miner SIte She lived happily I know I wa was her physician But only a few tew years ears ago her end came as It had begun trag beun-trag- trag A uA river steamer she was on was wrecked wrecked and and everybody lost Her family still lives In Boston But the they dont don't know w that their daughter daugh daugh- ter was sas the Lou of Services Service's poem Dr Sugden is 6 62 and has been on the tho go RO all his life He lie has sailed the seven seas lived in the Interior of ot Alaska for tor seventeen years worked with the Canadian mounted police police fought with the tho Chinese army against the Japanese was surgeon of ot the Port of ot Shanghai led an expedition into Swaziland and explored in Brazil I I Mentor Magazine Gives Life of O. O Henry The Th Mentor magazine for l February la is devoted to O. O Henry ne well en loved writer o of r short stories stones it gives In In- In impressions of ot this genius genius- how B he how OW he looked how he Wandered wan wan- an and how dered he wrote wroe Friends and family helped to number of oC ff J the lien Mentor tor Here make ss- ss ye we ve th the O. O H Henry nry that they knew V t the gisi O. O whom some or celled Will Vili Porter them IlC Adam Api tells tell of or the tho only Interview that thal writer ever ver gave ga Aak Asked t. t about crt writing In genera said hi u. u I 1 gl give you OU the whOle secret eret or ft writing Her It la is t fire It stories torl that thAl please I RUle Yh ra la is no rule 2 The Tho t pOints OG can get from Bliss Biles Perry you veil if Ir you ou yo cant can't write rUe a ator story atory that pla pleases pleas our our self you'll 11 never ner please thO th public Hut sut Hut Hutli li Ie ID writing the story stor tory forset It ci public and Rn think only of oC what interests inter xOU ou The he February Mentor Mentur Is I. illustrated with of oC o O. O H Henry nr and nd d day and ino night n. n In t the hf x York ork I that hal h ht he knew knew hl bl Little Old ine bw a TINKER TAILOR C Dy y J. J C. 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