Show r T 11 11 GT U M MEN EN O OF r r N NEW NEWYORK EW iY O q W A S' S SO O OP THE NE NEW WORLD mD i 1 1 I LI LIU U f r l I S y Alfred 1 Story of a of Member th the New York East Side Gangs That Figure So Prominently in the theCel b Cel Celebrated Rosenthal Murder Case t 1 ono knew his bis' real name not oven even I let ct me tell tellI and the police th tho h police than they be tan can much moro tOU k know knor OW I rove rove c The Tho central of office co never nc tad tho the pleasure o of mugging U 10 and m as parading him birn at aL the morning and 4 n t n out ont and tho Mulberry street D the last Jast were Vero barr barren n concern concern- to record l liner I him biro brief space e ant toe only one f 1 For or one ns ne I dM Mulberry street nourish hopes oPs himself Tot lot it bo be he I That t was when wen hen It thought that somewhere sometime 4 he be had bad taken someone's IS life S KAt t this thi Mulberry street fairl fairly j ho hook k the wide wido earth tarth like liko a tablecloth 1 in ill ini i of proof but got ot not tI so much as ae one oDe poor crumb o of at confirmation ot 1 It was at Bi Big Jacks Jack's in Chatham quare that local 1 or first nt laid eyes k r on o him Starting from from froni Bi Big Jacks Jack's he be f fl bt began n to b be known known know in 10 Flynns Flynn's and Ni Mikes Mike's a and d about bout tho 3 Chatham club When hi his l pals spoke to phim him the they called him Louie Lonic When tho they theyS S of him bini they c called him Indian the end cod that i Louie Louic or SJ Spanish Louie to b he be be identified amon among tho the hosts of S fast east side zide id I s who were and are as many as 38 the leaves on a I. la largo large c tree m f- f ff f Rumor Humor made Indian Louie a 8 native o i if f South America and hi his dark skin kio black k eyes eyes' thin lips hi high h cheek check bones bonesz and a z d dhigh high curved cd nose helped rumor out inthis Ui Also Aho ho be was as supposed to bo of Sp Spanish or Portuguese I extraction on Wb When a Louie Louis was was buried this latter received a jolt joH His fu fu- ral conducted b by a a. a rabbi was ae ae- ordins to strictest Hebrew ceremonial I Louie ale uie the Mysterious 3 Louie was Tas as a mystery and t to tobe tob be b nt BO so o And nd nd to be a m mystery is II as dl as being a hypocrite One ron w-ron wrong word ord ODD one moment off your guard and and J 10 a flood of light The m my I cry van van- the h hypocrisy i is s laid bare baTe You are are 0 no longer a ri riddle dc T must hive bao p possessed a genius for fOl mystery line not once lid did bo Ite fall down in that role HP Hr denied nothing confirmed cont con- con t firmed J-firmed firmed nothing of or tho the many tales told about him I- I Louie wa was careful aJ also o that his his' cos- cos Hume fume should assist He nH made up all hI i n black black black-black black shoes hoes black trousers lack bek roat coat black hat of oC I type iTe Evon on in TU what ms may be e Sp spoken of ofis is II the matter of linen linen although although thore there Ws cIs no linen about it it it-he ho adhered to funereal hue and in li lieu u of ot a 1 shirt shirl Tore ore ore a a. sweater collar up lo to the tho S. S ehin abin anti and all aU as black as ac u his coat As i-hc i l' l It walked the streets black c eyes es chal chal- l 1 longing niD threatening from underneath t the c black JacI wide brimmed hat ht he be showed vet Xi from top to to ton too a fleck of white t f Among moD what hit t tales talc wont went here hore and andt t there herr concerning Louie there thero was one describer described him as the de deadest of tad Eboh bots This Thi no ho accentuated by aE a n. E of hi big Colt Colts Colt's s pistols which bori her bor him i company daylight and x dark There was AA no o of his lila fCo lois lois' artillery i n 1 no Q 1 word rd nf of i 3 3 killing t to his bis perilous c us glory lon Ini In- In lJ i c rr I he hR couldn't have nao pointed to zo SO O f much as 00 one e wounded ed ma man n. n 3 The lh Test That Held No Terror There rb herc rc Wa was ono one tale talo o which should go perhaps Jr apt to the tbD right side Id of the tile fi 0 t ledger cr as indicating t that nt Louie ra r d nerve Crazy was found 1 l dl dead dad din in the theD mouth of a a. passageway J r which opened nfl Iff brn near jr the tho Bowery His throat lad had d been beon cut u from car ear t to car car Xo o ono one of sense sup sup- upI I Louie lid did that throat Ip 1 CraP Charlie was all a a. i. i bop hop head without 3 it si dollar i in his joan jeans jeans- and I Louie luil never ne did jcl aD anything except p for mODO money Ho He lb would no rio m more rc have ha gone ono about a aft ft profitless killing than ho he 0 would have hayn 1 hrap timo and effort by bJ fishing in n a f tb pj bathtub tub t For all that on th the linI of or orthe the the Ghost who Ghost who himself was JUI killed hilled fiu c. nu r 1 ally ill ill- as 35 a snitch two snitch nit two h two plain clothes r men n irom tb tho Eldridge street station Italian l grabbed Louie Loule 1 Wb When n searched t at t the tho desk L Louie's Louies u i i puns UtI nero ero d. d Alev from in in in- Lido full Jd bi bin hi l ai waistcoat tro t was taken a R. seven seven- vonI von von- K p I 1 j inch knife which as said aid id the police i fere ant mi might ht havo have split the wind t of- of Craz Crazy Charlin harlin or any other b bag k But u- u ua a a. a anyone with eyes might i ht lt tee sec K toe Knife wa waa as purely virginal as 1 when rhen it came ame from a 1 final emery wheel in m its far off oft Sheffield ld home It IL had slit lit nothing Still thole bose plain plan clothes dicks clicks did not f Th They bop hoped d to Lonie Loni Into nto a a. confession n n. n With a view to his hish h moral and physical cal f the they c eon eon- con con- nT n. n L T Toyed cd 1 Louie Lenin in a closed patrol wagon at mirk midnight ht to lo tho the moru morgue Heh He Her h hadn't dut t boon told what hat b bo be was vas charged i with Hh he didn't know knot where knois-where where he was go go- oin o- o in ing The wa wagon oo backed up to the tho morgue o door hud had never visited the morgue morue before though fated in the end to appear appear there officially The plain plainclothes plainclothes clothes men one at each shoulder steered him inside All was waa thick blackness you ou couldn't f havo bavo soon seen your own nose Feeling their T wordless ordle s way the tho painstaking plain clothes folk manhandled man sean hand handl handled d into nt position Then thc they flashed hubell on oft a a. flood of electric elec tue light There within w two feet of J Louie uie and squarely beneath his eyes eves lay tho dead Charlie posed so 50 as to show hoTl effectively ef cf- ef- ef that gruesome slash across the throat Louie Lenin neither started nor Dor ex ox- claimed Gazing down on the dead Charlie he re searched for a cigarette and aud turned to ono one of his plain clothes escorts escorts es cs es- es corts carts for a match Those plain clothes artists gave e up up They Ther turned him bun loose at the morgue door A Second ond Story Jump The affair worked round and helped to a better better- position iu in in the minds of all aU fair men It fell feU in n lucky too since siner it more moio than stood off oft a setback which overtook o him hint at about the tho same rno time LouIe had called upon the Irish at t tho the latter's poolroom in Fourth a avenue This emi emigrant ant from Mayo Ia o was as thin and nd slight ht and sick sickly and VOllie Lonie argued that ho be might bully buHy him out of or ofa orR a R handful of mOD money 0 Putting on a darkest frown he ho d demanded 50 30 O and intimated that lire dire indeed would be the tho conse consequences of refusal II Because e a sa said cI Louie Loue cc when I go JO out for anything I get it it see secT I Tho The coughed timidly and made madea a A. suggestion Come Coma round in in half an au hour bour said he bc when the last Jast race raie from Irom Kc New Orleans Orlean's is if is in Ill I'll ba have havo c the c cash sh ready read for Louie Loule withdrew and the shoved the poker into the tho blazin blazing big bellied st stove eve An n hour later that Now Orreana ra rao o io ha having been run Loule returned The poker being by bJ- this time timo whito white hot th the iha drew it forth f from om the stove e There were cre no stage waits Applying the poker to tho shrinking rear of Louie Loui tho the theop op compelled that after tift fifty dollars to leap fro a second story etory tor window indo I 1 puts tk tIL windy up lip explained 1 t tho ho o I rr didn't want that chapo chape skate to ak a th th lii Indian Lome ue Spanish ho r ri with ith mea measureless ur ie s cone con contempt tempt f I Louir's flight through the Iho window a a 31 hail had hii his steadiness 5 at the mor morgue uc went tho the to in rounds It didn't nt h injure bun as lS much aa as ai you ou might think fe feFor For who t. t tho o general voice oi e would lace face and a white hot fight a On Oi the whole public sentiment was wis inclined to lo Sustain I in that thal sec fCC end ond flory lor jump O Causes of or Louie Louie's Pro Prosperity When he foil fell with two bunch bullets through hi his brain and two more through his body had 1 liO in his poc ef TOO 00 in in his shoo hoo and ani 1000 in a a. Bo Bowery Bower r bank bani This prosperity n needn't edn t amaze Them was for or ono one thing a n racket ct reason to bo be hereinafter f set t. t forth Besides Pretty Agnes and unil Mollin Squint both hoth the thc streets II in jn Louina Loule's behalf and brought him ajl 31 I in the way of riches that thai came camo to Lo their lure Jure J Louie's Louies o heart beast was really given Ji to tn a bJ blonde opulent nt of charm chaun T This iK art artiste snubbed and n Louir Loule for the lovo ovo of n a stage C manager But pho bo took and Louie's Louies monc money almo almost t. t if f not quite quito aMa aa as fast a t as Pretty Agnes ond and Mollio Squint could bril bring t ft it t to hint him from the streets Louie Loui never made mallo any in place place- his hangout long There Thero w was s no element of lo loyalty in him hun whether f for fr J man or for woman and anit he ho went from friend frico to friend and gang an to gang gag Ho Tic would stay nowhere remain wilh no ou one after his hi supremacy c had been chal chal- And euch hardy natures as Bill Biff Ellison Ellis Ti Jimmy nun Kelly Bi fur Mike iko Abrams Abrants Ab- Ab b rams rants Chick Tri wan aj Tack Jack Hiro o were bound to challenge o it They Thoy had hada hadt a t way 1 too of putting pulling tho a and acid id on on an individual anti aud unless ss his lighting heart wore purest gold Jold they'd J find it out And nd Louie never stood tho test Thus Thus' beginning bt nt it t Bi Big TaCKS TaCK'S in Chatham Square S Ioui went from frolD hangout to hangout out mob tn to mob until working through Nic cr Mikes Mike's Chatham club and amI ho came caine am I 4 t I t I k J H 1 5 r I m i t S C r i CAi cr t I J 4 1 I. I I 1 4 y yr r t b S p I i I F- F jI I i t I J 4 1 p I iI c I 1 About About that Ionic Loul l ct at the o same time tightening ing lila Ills loft arm at last st lo to p pal l in with the tho Humpty Jackson guerrillas These wort hi s hail had a t stamping pin ground in a n. graveyard ra card between First Firt and Second in the block bounded north and ann south by Twelfth and Thirteenth streets There Loui W was waa t wont to meet such select company as M r Rub Buhl Phil the L LObster Kid KidS Maxin Hahn and the Grabber As they polled idly aDJo among tho the tombstones ho Ito would g give gO O them his hia adventures hi bJ flood and flirl by y ti field ld Louie was 18 gifted with an nit imagination im im- end and liked meed to lo hear himself talk talle Not that he ho felt flIt obliged ed to accuracy ac ae rural curacy in in thc these Jt it was enough lh that t he made malIc them thrilling and in their tolling shed abed an effulgent ray upon up-on himself While ho he- could entertain with ith his llis stone r Louie was ras never popular T There was vita that doubt douM about his coura o. o AI Also o he be was wag too frugal 1 1 10 o 0 on hail had over or c caught u ht tho tIm color of oC his Ids money Save in tho the avaricious instance e of ot the big ig blonde blondo as JS hungry r as 13 fa false e h he held b by thA selfish theology olo t it itis itis is moro more blessed to tu receive than to give Taking rul n ono ona reason and those about at tho the finish w wore were ro ma mainly tho Humpty Jackson bunch Ills His lest hll l ba hangout 1 out of an any fa fashion b on w wes s the Hooper club dub While nilo Louie Iollie had bad cJ to the Iho re remote rr rr- rr mote mom rc region ion about th t and rand Third avenue aud and was R seldom seen cen in Chatham Square or Chinatown ho be I was not forgotten ott n in those latter pre pre- elects Jew brought bronchi hi his ll name up lip one Of evening c in ill iii the Chatham club and aDd spoke of him hint in lii Ion don junction inaction with the thc opulent blonde bur bur- of tho the namo name of Laura That dolls doll's a farmer armor of Louie Louic was wa the view of J Jor ot Y Yetta At A t t that haL remarked the Iho for this thus wa was 3 in an tho days das of his lib liberty rt an and ho bad had been put away away- i farmer or no farmer its it's easier for fOI him bim now no than when he be was lin in iii the naY navy catin s sowbelly out of a harness cask an bilge bill Wats Wat's that thai ship IShiI ho ip says bes be's in in Nai rf continued the Dropper Aint tint it a tub called Atlanta Atlanta There never i is iii a suiT ship in IU thu tho navy y named Atlanta n Old Jimmys Jimmy's O Opportunity This declaration d delivered with cm- cm i from front old Jimmy who haj baJ hajA A by him himself in east cast side ide consideration Old Timmy Jimmy was wan about with ith a A. hardwood hurlwood fi finish i h fa face faco o and possum colored hair Ho bad had been beit a an n nr r in Iho ho old days ar and roamed th the midnight ht waters fr what he lin might pick up Those were times tunes when ho hI troubled the police who made him In 10 in in return nut But ono ODO day ilaY old oM Jimmy salvaged a 3 arich aneIL rich neIL mans man's daughter who ho as though b to tomako wake mako his had fallen o overboard from a yacht and bored her hor small hole bolo in hi the wat water r within a rod rol or OJ two of Jimmys Jimmy's skiff Certainly he lip fished her did it with a boat hook book More be he a sagaciously Jy laid her willowy form acro across s a thwart to the end that the tho river river water flow moro more 3 easily from her rosebud mouth Believed elie fd o of the water w the tho rescued beauty beautT thanked Jimmy profusely and for his generous part her er millionaire father proceeded to pension his childs child's s 's preserver for life Tho The pension was wa's was 25 a week v. Comin Coming fresh freh and fresh with ith every ery fonda Monday Jimmy gave up his piracies and no l longer haunted in inthe inthe inthe the nam name of loot the mi mighty reaches of cr river Indeed he be became offensively offensively of of- idle Je and honest No nir hr r repeated old ola Jimmy there them n never r is a a. ship in o our r nav navy named Atlanta All th th I same retorted the tho Dropper Dropper Drop Drop- per I 1 lamps a yacht once onca wats w called Atlanta An who ho says Nor KoP demanded old Jimmy tl testily til Im Pin about th United States navy Bat But of ot Louie Lorne it aint ain no cinch ciach hes he's over ever everin in th th navy Pd Id sooner b bet t hos ho's been be n nin in in jail I A Conference Over Indian Louie Louis Tho The Grabber came in n. n He be beckoned kon d and tho he two to were eT at once jm- jm m m- m in In serious whisperings What bat arc vouse youse ouse two stows stews about called Caned out the D Dropper opper lazily from across tho |