Show STORY OF bF TWO BOYS How a Frail Little Choir B Boy BY o y Became a Desperado Trapped by Jolly Fat Boy Who Became Becam Detective HARTFORD Conn April 11 11 Two boys were Just i leaching caching thelong the thelong long trousers age ge a a. score of years I ago one here and one in New NewYork NewYork York The one here Eddie lUckey was merely a a. humored good-humored fat tat boy and nobody expected anything of him The other Jerry Chapman frail fran and undernourished was a a. diligent student and a devout little choir boy His family hoped fondly that he might become a clergyman and anda a power for righteousness They face taco one another all aU daylong day clay daylong long now In the courtroom principals principals principals prin prin- in n the years year's greatest criminal criminal criminal crim crim- inal trial the fat rat boy who amounted amount amount- ed to something and the good boy who became a bandit The fat rat boy still fat tat still stall stall- t t. t F Edward Hickey letter carrier who became detective and caught caugh Chapman in ing Ing- hair parted In the middle dry cigar gripped gently in his teeth chair tilted back Is enjoying hi hIs role in the excitement He is Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward V W. Hickey county detective who found round the address on the express express express ex ex- press tag which led to the arres arrest In Muncie Ind of the dread Gerald Gerald Gerald Ger Ger- ald Chapman The anaemic one still anaemic studious looking hawk beaker sinister and hunted is Chapman himself This faded out eyed blue-eyed little man with gray streaks in his hair and a limp to his walk is tense as a wild animal at bay He Ho sits In a cage a tribute to his reputation as a a. master mind and desperado manacled grotesquely and surrounded by armed guards Chapman has never told what happened to alter his lifes life's course when he was about 15 Perhaps It was a girl Perhaps It was some scrape at school Anyhow he quit his classes He resented nearly A u u lI n 1 r I Chapman himself everything everything- and particularly the health of ot the young bruisers he went with He began to realize he must get along by his wits When hen he was 19 he was arrested on his first Job a small larceny case He served two years In the penitentiary and the sentence seemed to have done him good When he got out a kindly oil oU company official William Hertz gave jave ave him a chance He lIe had him taught aught typewriting and pointed out jut a future of ot respectability But offices irked Chapman and he went out ut as streetcar conductor in the Bronx And then the finishing stroke turned Gerald Chapman into an enemy of ot The police were keeping a lookout over him as an ex-convict ex and they warned his employers He lie climbed down from his ils streetcar with bitterness in his heart and took the wild untracked path of Hickey meanwhile had bad started wr k as an iron molder and slipped sUpped then Into the easier easle task of ot delivering deliverIng delivering ering the man mall The PInkerton de de- de n agen agency y yas was as on hs s route The PInkerton men were friendly I IThe to the plump postman and their work look looked d interesting Finally ho he went to work with them Underneath his smile and his Joke he had those essentials the tho seeing eye and the reasoning brain During the war he worked for tor the government guarding the factories around here against dynamiters dyna dyna- miters Later he became a county count In investigator Color of ot personality Is as definitely definitely definitely lacking from Chapman as from the mysterious Man Ian of the theIron theIron theIron Iron Mask Muk to whom ho he has been likened He lie r I suggests nothing of ot the Dick Turpin type or even of ot the recent wild west Roy Gardner I He looks an Intellectual business j 1 man the Impression being warped by his oddly shaped head His Nis back sharply from forehead falls tails i his brow and his head seems undeveloped undeveloped un un- developed above the ears pars Reading Is his pastime When un-I un he was arrested police found in his room a stained copy of ot the Oxford Book of ot English Verse and Housmans Housman's Echo de Paris His Fits favorite author is Robert Browning and he Is s an eager reader of history Wien he gets a chance to be by himself himself- he be favors I the debonair yellow debonair yellow gloves and and their accompaniments Once they nicknamed him the Duke of ot Gramercy Gramercy Gramercy Gra- Gra mercy Park |