Show F G MEN OF L- L Lw TRE w r OF T 7 BY b Al Fred enIy Lewis Lewi V Tnie True Stories of the Murderous W Wars rs and Cold Blooded Killings of of New Yorks York's Notorious I I d E East Side Side Gangs Which Were ere Called Upon by the Sy System em to Do the Gun Work in the 4 Internationally rna Famous F Rosenthal Gambling Murder Case Which Has Involved New v York Ji i Police and Politicians in fri of the Greatest I Scandals of a C Century wi I In This Story Mr Lewis vis Who Has Made an Especial Espe- Espe c ci cial l t Study of th the New v York Gangs and Their Ways Tells How Ho the Doc outlaw dentist to Gangland Was Shot to Death by J the Safe Blower ver as He Lay Helpless f With the 4 J Peace of the His and in His Poppy on Brow J Heart A Story That Illustrates Strikingly gly the r C Cold l Blooded Disregard of Human I Life of Gangland and called him Mm If the i Doc In peron portion per por tion son on ho be as 38 tall taU languid slender as aa neat as 5 a cat a d his hs sallow faco fac over face over er which had bad settled Bottled the opium pallor pallor- was was not an ugly face Also there abode tr weakness some Borne Rood good and aud no harm in him t was rickety In tho the winter ho be coughed and invited in pneumonia m monia uia oia in the summer wh when n the sun P toured poured down ho lie trembled on tho the brink 0 ofa ori stroke But neither pneumonia nor sunstroke over quito quite kil killed eJ b him m. m ft was written that would foud do that that m Dalton DaHon alias Brady u lr Ja keen did it with five bullets fro from an automatic Some said that opium was at t the e bottom of it others laid it to love ovo It IL is still greatly talked over in which center cen can ter terin in and about what pio joints abound in iii the tho narrow causeways of Mott loti Fell FeU and not to mention the wider Catherine CatherinA street in the nei neighborhood neigh h. h of No 1 H g where b he had his bis Sat flat and received his bis friends Who was bet Thern gave e a in his name as Fr Fred d Eugene Post and ho had bad seen perhaps thirty seven birthdays when he lie died by bv the tho angry hand band of A Dentist to Gangland His Ilis title of tho tho Doc Doe c came me about aft after r this this' manner Twenty years ago he be studied dentistry with his rattler rather who flourished reputably as a a tooth surgeon sur sur- geon eon at the Albany dental parlor parlors in inGrand Grand street Tb Tho elder Post died before before before be be- fore the son s it had been given gi cn a a. diploma and tb the latter Jatter was never ue able afterward to ts see lice tho the use Why should ho be be examined exam exam- ined mcd or ask ak for lor lora a license What foolishness foolishness fool fool- Ma Magnanimously waving wn aside aide every thought of the sort ho plunged cd into tho practice of his painful art among those who ho wont in and out of Chinatown and who J lived cd precariously by pocket pocket- picking licking porch climbing blow safe ing and al all round strong tron arm aria methods That ho be wa was an outlaw amon among emong tooth drawers served only to knit him more closely to tho the hearts of his bis patients patients- themselves by their crimes merest outlawS outlaws out out- laws among iuen men meD The D Doc c kept his bis flat Hat in Catherine ah street ct as bright ht and burnished at an au the captains captain's cabin of a of man There was waH as no DO prodigious wealth of furn furniture luro no avalanche of or ornament to overwhelm his taste Aside from an au outfit of den den- tal tat tools th tho most expensive belongings appeared to b bo what lamps lamps' and pipes and paraphernalia were ere ro re required r in n t the tho o smoking of opium Those who visited d the tho Doc Doe were c compelled d to one formality Before I be he would open his bis door they must push the bell four foar times and fo four r times t tapon p on the panel Thus did the they prove pro i their friendly identity Lawful dentists I in ii ip their jealousy had h had hd 11 tho the Doc Doe arrested ar ar- ar t r rested and finca from time timo to time for with the teeth of his fel fe fellow ci- ci low worms without a a. license And Aud the tho Doe Doc dian didn't t like it and aud would provide against a such annoyances Hence that precautionary quartette of rings c fol foJ- followed fol- fol lowe owed lowed by bv th the quartette of taps indicative indica indica- tivo tive t to tho Doc Dec that a friend and not a aI I foe was at his gatt gate at- at Tb The Flit Doc Doe had many callers Tf who O came OUe cameo Ue to o smoke c opium for Vor these I tilling filling their thir pipes and tinkering illicitly at their teeth teeth teeth-he ho did divers kindly office of ot fice morth in the letter writing lineAs line Jine hoc As the they reclined nod smoked tb ther thes- dictated lie dic tat d while the tho Doc Doe transcribed and many and weird weir worn wore tho the from 19 IG C Catherine street stroet w-bich w th their ir way w-ay into tho mails For this service a as asfor for his bis op opium um- um and dentistry the Docs Doo's callers rs never nB failed ailed to 10 press upon himan him himan himan an honorarium And Am so ho he lived A Defeat of Opium The Doc Doe had bad ad a sweetheart named Lulu Lulu w was a very and ef very jealous Al Also o sho was broadly popular r. r All 11 Chinatown town m made de songs to the tho d deep ep splendors of her ber eyes which were supposed to ba have o excited tho the defeated defeated de dG de- de envy of many ninny stars Tho The Doc Doe in what odd hours he be could snatch from tooth drawing and opium smoking smoking wor wor- wor shipped hipped d at the shrine of Lulu and nd Lulu as tho the phrase is was wrapped up ip in inthe inthe the Doc Doe I Now it is among the many defects of opium that it renders migratory the fancy The Tho love lovo of the tho Doc became as it were pipe deflected cc d and one day loft left Lulu and settled d' d like some errant dove upon a rival rh-al belle called May Likewise there was was wasa a dank dangerous rous side to this dulcet dulcet new situation The enchanting en cn- chanting May lay when the tho Doc Doe choso her ber herfor herfor for his bis goddess vice Lulu could not bo described as altogether dis die cn engaged a ed Was she not also the tho goddess of f 1 Had fled not that earnest safe robber laid bid his bis heart beart at her feet Moreover there thero were wore reasons even more substantial The gentle May was in her way a bread winner When the 1 fortunes of ebbed low tow she became became be be- II came their mut mutual al meal ticket For by declaration of the Central office offie-e May I was tho the most e export rt shoplifter in all of broad Now New York If It not upon a heart beart ar argument then upon nr arguments of the pocket not to eay y stomach Jacke n might be expected to fiercely ely resent any effort to win her ber love Jove away was not an imposing person aUty But neither is tho the tarantula He was five feet and nn on Inch in stunted stature and wi weighed bed a mean shadow under pounds These by the tho word of Like tho the Doe Doc hollow cheeks checks w were rc of that pasty gray ray which speaks of opium Also from opium the pupils of his bis eyes had bad d become as 38 tho points of two lull dull pins Tho desolate Lulu went everywhere seeking to ta tell teU him of his bis wrongs on 8 Her search was vain his bis plans plan touching the Savoy theatre safe eafe had withdrawn him hini frn his accustomed tomed haunts One ODe ni night ht however the safe safo was as blown and plundered plundered-aia plundered alaa and al alack kJ 1 share from those hoped for thousands dwindled to a paltry 60 not 60 not enough for a single spree In rii his resentment with the tho aid of a a. select bevy bovy of friends frien s hastily stuck up a wayfarer whose pockets proved pro as ail a drum It Jt was even more moro of a than b had bd d been tho the S Savor voX safe The double disappoint disappoint- men inen nen turned mood to gall and aud audit it was when his his' humor was thus bitter that he one day w walked lk d into ioto the Chatham Chatham Chatham Chat Chat- ham club A Gangland Haunt There was a a. dist distinguished n company company gathered at the Chatham lub Who iu in all gan gangland might ought claim nobler eminence elui- elui emi nonce fence than Nannie Miller Blinky the tb tho Unknown op Da Dago o Angelo Sop Henr Henry Roxie Johnny Ric Stagger Timmy Jimmy and St. St Louis Louts BIn Bill And yet yeL these thew were but buta a handful of at bi high h ex among those who sat abo about t. t the clu dub club t tables and with call calls for boor bear and still moro mor b beer cr kept cr Mike Miko Sal Sal- and aca his bis assistants on the joyful jump lum Mike was u the mau managing P c 5 1 0 04 I I 0 Y p I 4 I f- f I p s b bI 4 I d f c 4 I p I t f A I l lIt ItI It I I t r I t I IMay f I May fell feU t to the floor genius of the Chatham cub club And became he bo came camo and wont among among the tho company present not as though b they were customers customers custo custo- mers mars so O mu much h as friends His faco face beamed his ton tongue ue wa wagged eJ for Mike was capable of jest and aid opi epigram epigram ram Doubtless Mikes Mike's of soul was measurably born of what sad experiences had bad been his For he be was but bot recently recently re re- re- re returned from o out t of f in cold old inhospitable Toronto The Te world have bave forgotten its it's only a afew few years a ago how ago o how Mike swept o oft off his s feet by a wa wave of enthusiasm sia m bred of many drinks and his loyalty loy by- alty to Tammany Hall HaU gave gayo way to a are re registration so m multitudinous multitudinous' s' s that had the ole eIe election tion laws b been e narrowly applied against him he be would have gone cono ono up the river n for several thousand years rear It was his extensive e registration which had sent Mike into Canada and kept him there until the tho public had had bad timo tuna to forgive o vo an and ana for forget ct Kid Twists Twist's Generalship ip When men tte cam rn m in Mike Mi e greeted him warmly and placed placeda a chair chair- next next- to that of Johnny Rice Rico At tho same e-ame table sat at St St. Louis Lonis Bill Bm Roxie floxie Nannie Miller Sop Henry Dago Dao Angelo Angelo An An- gelo elo a aud tho UnknoWn Conversation broke out concerning tb the dead and aDd departed Kid Twist for whose ee taking L off Kid Pio gi 1 Had bad ad been sent ont away Is it not to Twists Twist's glory that bo ho so long remained upon the slope of popular thought tho ht t Twist riet according to the tho voracious had had displayed ed a generalship hip that tb-at would have bave glorified a Rockefeller Baby Flax named for or the tho soft innocuousness of his countenance kept a grot grog shop in Houston street On One quiet af ai afternoon at Twist abruptly ab broke broket that cherubic publicans publican's windows windows mirrors mirrors t glasses and bottles bottiNI Lighting a J. J ciga i a. a Twist stood in in tho midst I o of that ruin f undismayed ts t's up demanded the t A police police- man who man who came hotfoot to the scone Well Vell vi ell vouchsafed Twist 1 puffs U theres there's a a. party chases 10 in smashes things s an then beats Deats it up tho the street sayin savin a a. woid I IThe The policeman looked at Baby Flax i It Its strai straight ht chattered tb that t ill used proprietor who with tho the jade jado like liko ey eye of upon Twist upon him wouldn't havo have told the the truth for gold old and precious stones What started Twist asked you a 3 friend Its HIts this way war Twist Im fIm a 8 celery bitters bitters- bitters he because be- be cause theres there's cush in it I 1 goes oes into Baby Bab Flax's an asks him bim to buy He Re hands mo me out a no no So I ups ps an au puts his his joint join on the bum After this whorl when I como I-como como come into a a damp me bitters sad seel Sure Suro I cops an order from Flax I leaves for two cases casos A Laugh on Mike Leaving Twist to 10 sloop sleep in peace and by way of turning t the lau laugh h on that gentleman ct Roxie related an nn adventure with with- Ni ger Mike It was wh when n that sub chief of the kept a place a-place at No 12 iti Pell Bv By word of the veracious vera vera- pious cious Boxie oi J he c with certain ertain r royster- royster ors belonging t to to the Five ive Points Points had l had ad gone Rone t Id Niger Mikes Mike's to drink beer They were the tio foe But no less Jess bo be served ell he be doin for thorn them as as was now now such was and is IS tho bl bland od etiquette of the gangs an fI One On o ocl clock ck struck and Mile Miko in de de- to the laws of If the land locked his his fi front door Key Ivor turned tho beer flowed flow on ol unchecked At half hale pa past t 1 whon 1 Mike ike himself was Willi a 3 lawbreaker under under- tho excise e statute by hv fuji ful thirty criminal minutes Ro ic with his hUI Five Point Point Foint arose beat be-at up Miko and aud his Jis few rotain- rotain ers I nel tho damper for Ifor ci eighty bone bones and and- songs s of nt Vict victory ry Mike Miko wis powerless If ho be makes a roar to tho cops 8 01 for us ll his joint in tho the air wed we'd have hav whipped ov over r rone one on him for bein boin J open after hours While Ni ger Miko Mike and his bis guests ests aro in iu talk run your eye over tho the scene Those citizens of gangland an assembled as as- about tho the Chatham club lub tables would have havo made a study and maybe a chapter from Speaking generally they are a 0 shin stunted ted litter these men and ana seldom stand taller tb than 4 inches Their wei weight ht wouldn't t aver average ge pounds Nor is is' their personal courage as M a aroe arule arule rule roe of bi highest hest order They Thoy are apt to tp run from the onslaught of an out out- sider eider This Thi is not perhaps from coward coward- cowardice cowardice ice but as they would put Jut it there is nothing in such a scrap They dislike exertion even the exertion exertion exer exer- tion of fighting and unless it bo to gain Jain money or spoil spon or a point point- of honor bonor is involved as involved as in their duels and gang a wars wars they they back hack away uy from trouble In their gang gang battles or when fighting the police their strategy is to tolie tolie tolie lie flat on tho gerund and shoot Thus bus they save themselves from u n clubbing and the the- chances from hostile lead aro are reduced To b be sure there aro exceptions Such as Chick and the redoubtable Timmie Jimmie Kelly never fly and aud always fight i bt No o one ono ever saw their backs At me mention of the enemy they never ask How many They h have havo vo been given ghon all the news news they want when someone tells leUs them the tho enemy is il You are arc inclined to doubt the bl bloody ody character of those gang gang battiest an battles Why doesn't one hear hoar of them jou ask B Because Be cause aus conceal as much as may be e all word or sign of tb them m. m For tor Forthe tho the public to know of them mi might bt get Jet the police Jice criticised and they are orA granted grant grant- rant rant- ed od enough of that without inviting it through foolish frankness s Tim Tho hospitals however cr wi will tell you youa OU a a 3 story of a weekly average j of fifteen suffering from wounds The treat leat Murder urd r Case of the tIle Hour Is Th That t of f Rosenthal l the tile Squealing Gambler of New cv York City T Th 5 Man fan Who Is Officially Charged d With Directly Planning Plat Plan ning the Murder l to Prevent the Exposure of Poll Police Methods l of Exa Exacting ting Graft From the Gamblers of th the Metropolis Olis Is a of The M Me Mc WHo VEo Actually Fired the Bullets That Crumpled Th Lifeless on Broadway the Broadway the Hired of the System Are m mArc Arc Are Notorious E East st Side Gunmen Gunmen- They Are Members embel's |