| Show I fIE MEN OF NEWYoRK GUN QUN f fa i M i Bi OB BB BT w r T CT A J JL mm m m a A TP A i iM T VI oRLD I a TWE w i 1 By B y Alfred Aled Lewis eLewis' Lewis r The Wages of the Snitch In r This Story of the New York Gangs Which Figure Figure Fig Fig- t ure So in the Celebrated Rosenthal Rosen- Rosen thai thal Murder Case Mr Lewis Levis Makes Plain the Gangs' Gangs Hatred of the Snitch the Betrayer of His Kind and What Is the Portion of the So Is Gangland's Gangland's Gangland's Gang- Gang Snitch Sooner or Later Strong lands land's Hatred of the Informer That Even When a Gunman Has Been Shot Up by byan an 1 Enemy and He Knows ws That Death Is But a Matter M of Minutes at Best For Him He Will Stubbornly y Refuse to Give the Name of His Slay Slayer r to the Police Gangland N Never ver Has Any Compunctions About Bumping Off a Snitch Knowledge is ig power and po power er is a and jod thing as you yourself well know But ut at having acquired acquired- knowledge you are not entitled to peddle it out cut in secret to central l off office co bulls at a 3 cost of liband lib- lib orty and often life lifo to other men When en you you do that you area iro axe a snitch and have thrown away your tour ur right to live Anyone is HI free freo to kill you out or ot oth h hand band nd having re regard rd only to his own safety For such IB is th the common law of ot gan gangland land At Gouverneur u hospital wh whore re he be died the register pe gave ga his namo name as Samuel Wendell r and let it go at that Tho central centra office which finds lInds its ita profit in iD amplification said Samuel SUmuel Wendell alias Kid Unger alias alas the Ghost and further identified him himas himas' himas as as' brother t to Johnny the Mock Samuel Wendell alias Kid Unger alias aline tho tha Ghost brother to Johnny the he Mock was not the tho original Gho Ghost Un Until Until yn til less leSi than two years ago the title was was honorably worn by who got of twenty spaces for a ni night ht trick Tie e turn t turned in Brooklyn Since Siuea Mushier Masher could not use uso the th name in Sing Sin Sing Wendell alias Kid Unger brother to Johnn Johnny y the Moc Mock Mock- adopted it for his own It fitted well with his hi midnight methods od and noiseless s s gliding skulking wa ys 8 s Moreover Moreo since since it was upon his own sly rap to the bulls who made the collar collar col col- lar hr Ui that t got Kot pinched he may havo have felt himself entitled to the he name as part of his reward The Indian scalps his victim and n uJ upon On n a similar principle Wendell alias Un n r brother brotherto to Johnny tho the Mock when Mashler ashler was handed that breath taking twenty years ears may have decided to c call himself f tho the thoA Ghost A A Woman of ot Gangland It Trill Dev never r be pe Pr precisely known how bow howAnd howand And why why- and by whose hand th the tho Ghost was wras killed although it is common opinion i ion n that Agnes had much mach to d do with it jt Also common opinion is more of often ft ton n rl right than ma many iy mi might ht believe In view of that possible connection with the bumping off of ot the Ghost Pretty Ague Agnes is 18 worth a frO word rd She Sho I could not cot have been bun called old When upon a certain Saturday evening not very Tery remote sho abo stepped steppe into Jack Si Si- i in iii Chatham square her years years ears counted fower fewer than twenty Still she had seen Been a good od deal deal or or a a. bad deal deal- deal whichever you yon prefer Pretty lou Acnes' Acnes es father a longshoreman longshore longshore- man had bad found his bread alon along the d. d docks dock None Nono better ever shaped for a a. boat boas stevedore or trotted up a gangplank gang gan plank with a pound und sack Back of ot sn sugar r on an his back One day he be loll fell between the Bide d. d of ot a amoo moored ed ship snip and the string- string piece of the wharf and the ship bein being at t that moment ground against the wharf by bc the swell from a passing lt steamer met h ho was crushed After that his bl widow the mother of Pretty Agues Agnes took in washing Her lIer mother washed and Pretty A Agnes es' es earned carried home the clothes es This went on for three years Ono One wind blown afternoon af at as the mother was han hanging n out clothes on the roof a roof a high one she one she stepped p d backward down an She struck the flags six stories below and left Pretty Agnes to look out for idl herself Lookin Looking ont out for lor herself Pretty A Agnes os worked in n a sweatshop in Division vision street Hero sho made 3 a week and needed Deeded 5 Tho sweatshop p owner owner for for forthe he the was a dream of loveliness with a fog toft of f blue black hair bair and deep brown brawn browneyes browneyes eyes offered eyes offered to make up tho lacking two and was accepted ROund Bound ripe wi lowly Pretty Agnes ARDes graduated from hom the Division street sweatshop to a B. store in Twenty-third Twenty street There she he served as a cloak model modal makin making 14 a w week ek while needing needing need nood ing 0 O 0 The manager of the cloak store was as generous as had been beon the owner of of the sweatshop and made up ap tho the absent 6 All work and no play lay makes Jack n a dull dun boy Also it has as tho the same effect on Jill Pretty Agnes she Agnes es-be es she had a of ot good clothes and yearned to o show them them went went nt throe three nights a week to one of ot those dancing academies academics wherewith tho the east side eide was and is is' rife As she danced she met Indi Indian n Louie Loate and lost no time in loving him Having Havin advantage of her love that t seeker after doubtful dollars slowed snowed Pretty A Agnes nes whore and how she could make nake more Dare money than would come to her ier as M a a. cloak model in any Twenty Twenty- third street store Pretty Agnes who had iad grown own weary weary oto o of the manager and to whom Louie Louies Louie's s word was law threw over both tho the mana manager er and her ber cloak model position After which she ehe walked the a streets for Louie The Soup Making Process Louie died and was WM mourned roundly b by Pretty Agnes for eight weeks Then she gave her love lore to Sammy Hart who was an out on on the safe ufe Charlie Lennard Len Len- n- n nard nand alias Big Bg BI Head worked pal al to Sammy Hart and the tho Ghost wen went with them as 31 outside man and to help in ur carrying the tools Commonly Sammy and Big Head tackled only inferior s safes fes in cracking which nothing nobler nor more recondite recon recon- dito dite than a can opener was demanded Now and then however when a first Ant class clas box had to bo be blown and ana soup soap was an au absolute requirement the tho Ghost came in exceedingly handy No ye ve whoever who whoever ever ever- swung n und under r and trav travels traveler led from town to town without a a. ticket ti ket knew know better setter than did the Ghost how t. t to make soup The sou SOUl soup mal making n p process es wh while e ticklish ticklish tick tick- lish ought ht to bo worth reading about A A. cake cako of dynamite is placed place in the cold bottom of a kettle Warm water is added and the kettle set riot a simmer a over a benzine lamp Jamp As the water heat tho the dynamite melts into oil and the oil oil being being lighter li rises lighter rises to fo the top of the water The oil is is' is drawn softly off with a i syringe ringe and a as softly discharged into a a bottle half half filled with alcohol The I I alcohol is to prevent explosion by Jar ring Soup half baIt oil on h halt half f alcohol can I be bo fired with a fuse but will win sustain quite a jolt without resenting it This was not true in hi an elder day dRY before our box workers discovered that golden alcoholic secret There was a once who was half in half haIt out of the tho window of a P. P O. O He had I the tho bottle of soup in his hip pocket I The sash fell struck tho the con consignment I of hi hip pocket soup and all an that was wae found found ot of the of-the the ye gg were the soles sos of his shoes Nothing so disconcerting would have happened had the Ghost made modo the soup A B Bad Repute A As a a. Snitch The Ghost while believed in b bw bit Big Head and arid Sammy was distrusted by Pretty A Agnes cs She distrusted him because because be be- cause of his his' bad repute aa ae a n snitch She called Samm Sammy's ra attention to what tales were abroad to tho the black effect affect that tho the Ghost was a copper in his mildewed soul and ono one time and another another an other had served stool pigeon pi on to many dicks dick Sammy took no stock in these theo reports reports re re- ports and told Pretty A Agnes nes soTh so 0 Th Ghosts Ghost's all ri right h t he said said- hes he s been wit me an Bi Big Head Head i I T i y r f fV r V 4 s ti r t a aa a 1 J h n. n v r r I Ir S r S r r i ty I The Ghost he-Ghost Ghost w wont t down a A I I I when we toina oft off fl twenty joints dints He He may may go I wit writ you retorted Pretty Agnes II for for twenty moro more tricks trick stan i an I never rap But mark mo me words Sammy in th th end hell he'll hell he'll make a a. presents present of ot youse to th bulls Well Well said laid Sammy when he be had ceased lau laughing if d th J Ghost Ghent does docs double cross me do do dot w I dol dot As sure as 08 my is Pretty A Agnes nes Ill I'll have him cooked Gangland land discusses things s social commercial political and freely forms and gives v s opinions From From Froma a panic in inWall inWall in inWall Wall street to the making of ot a a. president dent nothing comes or goes uncommented upon and d in in Gan Gang land Even the tho fashions are threshed out out and sago saito judgments rendered concerning con con- ceri corning ng frocks and hats bats and all the latest hints from Paris This you ou can cnn test teat for yourself on any evening at such such hubs of po popular ular interest as Siroccos Sir Sir- occo's s Tonys Tony's Jimmy Kellys Kelly's 8 or or the thc Chatham club Siroccos Sirocco's was wa a swarm a-swarm with life that Saturday evening evenin when Pretty A Agnes dro dropped in casually so At old Jimmy's Jimmys table they thoy were were considering the stool stoel trust trust investigation i v then than proceeding Ex President Ex-President Roosevelt ha had that da day day- testified and old oId Jimmy and the Irish Iris W voiced waked their views and gave their feelings vent Across at s th the tho dread doin doings s of a brace braco of fair ones ones who had excited Coney Island b bv by descending de de- doe upon that lively suburb in harem skirts skirt was under on Speaking of steel trust investigation ti tion n and its developments dev old Jimmy was after this wise Th Th more I read of f th th doin doin's a of them rich guys th moro more I be begin n to think thin that th th makin of a mutt lurks in In every million dollars donars Say Yop tho they dont don't know how to pickup pick a a han hanan hand nn an nn play it after its it's been dealt om oni Take om em off Wall Wan street an mix em up wit anything except stocks an an anthe anthey the thel they cant can't tell ul a firo lire plug ping from a song eon an dance soubrette If some ordinary skate was to go o crabbin his own personal personal per per- personal game ame th th I way they do theirs th th i next you'd hear that stow stew would be be in Bloo Bloomingdale ate ea now Jj Ji my inquired l the Ts it that steel tru t thing th pa pa-a pa pa a is is KO so full r of 7 That That an an th th way Mor Morgan an an an th th balance balanco of lined pu push h fall over themselves Th bi big g thing they they're re shy ehy on is is diplomacy When It it comes to diplomacy diplomacy they're they they're re a a. alot lot of Ide ad ones 1 An An diplomacy Gangland Discourse ou on Diplomacy Diplomacy said old Jimmy is is any canton cunnin move Dove that that lands th trick tick You wako wake aka up an in hear bear a noise noise an an you i think its it's some porch climber like th th Nailer here off th joint joint At knowin Gowin but be he's hes framed that not s up with a gun nJ yon ou dont don't t feel liko gom gou oin to toI I th mat with mth him What do you do doT dof Well you use diplomacy You tosses meb a a. a dum dura- be bell 1 over th an on lets it go o alon along from from step t to stop step in akin makin more row than some geezer fallin downstairs with downstairs with a kitchen stove stove Th racket throws a a ascare scare into th th Nailer an ho he b beats ats it se sea see 1 e An that's diplomacy t said the theW Wo W Also il it its it's exactly what them thom Wall sin aint t got Look at th way they're always Roosevelt For roustin an anfor anfor anor years ears they've been bees Teddy for or y years au they've done dono but keep him on th th map When Teddy was in Mulberry street th Tammany Tammany- ducks gets get teu alon along with him a as peacefUl ill illas as a a 8 basketful of pupa pups Diplomacy la strict attention attention atten atton- does it that an an n tion to Toddy's Teddy's blind side th th use of kickin r in in th gate ato says flays they when we we knows where a pickets picket's off oil thi th f fence You Yo- remember remember Di Big Sullivan young youn Brady on th force f Teddy's Teddy S 'S in m in Mulberry Mul Mu berry street stroet then than Do you think Bi Big Florria Florris goes roes t th tn chances chancos be pa tellin Toddy eddy h how w Brady passes th th gush cush box in Father Curry Curry's a church wouldn't have havo Not on ou your our life I It been boen diplomacy Toddy wouldn't w ul 1 t have hae paid aid no attention Big FlorrIe Flome gets geta ins in's in ins his s 's s work like this r C Say eb he be says C I I see e th th ll fight ht of my y life l last t night Nineteen rounds to a kno knockout kou 1 its it's s 's a left hook to th jaw aw does does' it Not o I Teddy says Y li n up like Chinatown on Ui th night o of ot a a. Chink Chin festi fes fes- ti U you me mel I Pull up a stool says cays he an on put your y ur foot feet on th desk There now you youre you're r comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- rl- rl able F go o on about th fight Who were here the theY ct A A lad from m my district named Brady says ays Bi Big BiJ Florry orry an a dock r from Williamsburg You ought to haVe hale seen wen it Oh Brad Bradys Brady's s th goods Hes He's th lad to go o th rou route el Hos Ho's all allover over that Williamsburg duffer like Ilko a a. cat oat over a shed roof I He went round him liko like a cooper round a barret barrel bar bar- rel ret Big Bi Flony Florry runs on like Uke that using diplomacy an an J two weeks later Bradys Brady's s I a beat bent I A Spirit Out Ont of ot Tune Pretty A Agnes es on coming comin In had taken takena a corner table by bYJ herself She Sho heard hear but did not riot join in the talk She bhe left untouched the lass class of ot b hoer boer r which at ata a word from o old Jimmy a waiter tad had placed before her With an expression which spoke of trouble present or trou tron- trouble ble blo on its ita way bo rho sat staring into smoky a space ace c Pas Wats i wrong wit her whiSt whispered ored who hi high h strung and strung sensitive could be De e worked upon by another's troubles Its Its Ui th rent Tent said aid Jew Yetta I riI know that look from mo me own o experience export export- ence She cant can't come across for the flat fiat an some lome bum buni of ot an au agent has handed her a notice re wrong Yetta Yett Yetta spoke u uthe up the Nailer confidently v. Agnes ain aint about cash There aint amt a better better bet bet- ter producer anywhere than Sammy Hart No one ever eyer sees Sammy wit out outa outa a roll rolL The Nailer lounged across to Pretty A Agnes es Mollie Squint followed him WV W w 7 dont don't youse yousa la lap up your suds IUds queried d the Nai Nailor Nailer or pointing to the beer Without wait waiting ing for or |
