Show PARALLEL THE HE CRIMINAL tells ae s how ile he planned the STORIES deed and sought to close se every avenue lAvenue of knowledge sr sf FAMOUS leading to his guilt C CRIMES IR I 1 M E S the futile detective these efforts shows were how and how the old adage ad age murder by HENRY C TERRY will out always holds good 0 CoDy copyright right by V I 1 1 L nelson kelson THE CRIME WITH THE NEEDLE STILETTO HE man who follows thievery for a living said bald jack often gets pretty hard shocks but it does not do tor for him to tako take any notice of them I 1 read in some newspaper the argument of an old prea preacher cheri who ought to have lived in the days when they used to break a thiefs body on the rack that the thieves are ural enemies of mankind and ought ft 0 be exterminated well it if thieves are the natural enemies of at all the world the other side lot C the argument must stand also that the rest of mankind aro are tho the proper prey ot of thieves with this notion in view I 1 say that it la is a wonder that in overy every house bouso which Is visited by thieves there Is not left a trail of blood dut but actual experience and eta ustica will show that fewer murders are committed by thieves when en ea ax execl dd in their wark la in proportion to their number than aro are committed in the ranks ranka ot persons who go around with a label of honesty on their foreheads speaking of shocks that a follow la in liable to get in any business recalls a remark made by old jimmy chopo when lie ho first started out as a I 1 crook in pit to the effect that the bra fravesi vesi people on earth are ara the thieves who work in the night you never thought of it in that way but just think thank for a moment tha common notion of a crook Is that he be goes about his work armed to the teeth and ready to shoot or stab at a moments notice to disprove this beher her let us its took look for a moment into tha mind of a thief who Is about to enter a dwelling house in fix the night first ho he must satisfy himself that hat no one ona la Is awake in the house the first evidence of this Is the ab bence of lighte well then all tho the tights being boang out tho the thief sow gos about aboul will work as quietly as possible but taking into consideration the fact that thievery or rather burglary Is es ea Reni senti laUy ally a breaking into a place it cannot be done without more or less 1 nol dolse se I 1 A thief knowd that in nine houses out of ten ieh there ta Is some ready meairl of nf defense usually a ro revolver volver or a sun gun and if any one la Is disturbed hta his will bo be root mot with a shower of 0 lead ile era ts Is liable to bo be killed and thieves appreciate this better than any ono one else ile ho must taco face a secret and silent allent enemy I 1 have been in houses honses where the tha faret intimation that wo we were discovered was the report of oc a firearm singing of oc tho lead around our ears pit 02 it is only the foolish men who jump nut ot ol bed and a light when they bear an unusual sound in their loti houses ses that puts them at a mi Aage tage and tho the crook Is apt to get gel in the hist first shot as a 0 caution to hla blet prey to in keep out of eight not one thief in it A hundred will will shoot to kill and on an tho the other annd hau dUDt not one person in a in dealing with thieves but what will shoot to kill every time A charook has no right to complain of tho the vigorous debowe set up by any man in hla his castle but a shot in tho the air or lareal bred out of abo windowsill window will start a n of crooks on the move luat just as a quickly as if a thiera heart were taken an a target Ter perhaps perhaps haps a thiefs bravery Is wasted inan in an unholy cause but that da does bes not biter alter tho the fact that only the tha bravest of ef men can caa bo be good thieves the ordinary housebreaker takes his lite life in tits hta hands handa every time he ha enters a a house and ho be la Is cautious about taking tho the lives of others because ho bo knows that murder done in the commission of a felony has baa no defense in al a court of law its quite a bit ago since I 1 was as aa black jack and was the loader ot at da as tough a gang of 0 ra algers as ever flashed a bullseye bulls eye every mothers othera ro son of thorn them came out of at tho the old fourth ward vard and from the t time line wo we were acro kids wo we wore wera out tor for ibo dust and were the sworn enemies of aba old market gang which turned out auf urh h a desp desperate crate lot of crooks as abe ab coakley paddy reynolds billy porter and long john garvey but our were our own fights and not a wan man in either of tho the gangs was wait ever known to lay down information to tho the votice police there were plenty of to do each other when it meant money and perhaps the saying saving of a term of five or ten years yeara in sing zing stag tho the black jacks tac ks made tho the best tour on louz LOBS island over known among thieves we WB went vent from fro port Ij hamilton Amilton to lUver bead up ono one side aide and down the other side of the island with only the tha loss iras of ct two men both ot bhora paddy gillan and par far vj im phot by a woman in oyster yit esy dannar this trip we used a bladell blacic boo ot of the tamo but most meat of oc th tb tray altug was waa doni done by horse bone ml anil fuoti it waa usually tho laa bor fles wila wagons A af banners fan firt ners liers we vIs ltd over COO boun boud aas worth ata of rf setd t D it was a trip of pleasure for the tha local did not bother us at all this was easily explained it was on account of the lack of money in no small place can you find the men who have control of at the public money willing to spend anything to chase thieves and even when murder is committed there la Is never a willingness to put up money to hunt for tho the assassin when we got back from this trip we were in high spirits and the kow bow ery cry was painted red from one end to the tha other with the deepest red and every gambling house bouse la in the town got a bit ot of our coin when we reached the end of our ropo rope teddy mccormick camo came to mo me with a story that ho he got from a butler la in banker ro chols home they mot met in bill mur rays gambling house ott on broadway Dro adway and teddy staked the butler who had lost his money in the game the tha lir information that teddy got was waa that rd ild chot carried a big bank roll in a safe in his house which was in street near madison avenue i mayoo maybe it was a ghost story etory put up by the butler to give teddy an idea that ho he was secure in hla his loan but it was worth investigation and I 1 went to look the ground over with reddy ward and ana dill Il endrick lck the house was waa a bead easy one to beat and I 1 saw from the outside that the sao safe was wag there I 1 learned that brochot was waa a very heavy dealer in foreign securities there was also a lit bit ot of a scandal connected with his methods of doing business which gave a color to the story atory told by the butler butle r I 1 decided to work the game and fixed upon a saturday night for the trick which Is the night that all honest folk the soundest we entered tho the house through th bathroom and reached the office which was in the rear of the parlor on the first floor in the gang was tody mccormick McCorm lck reddy mack dill alend abe moses and dilly reilly ack and reilly were to do the safe bare moses mosea was left outside and me mc cormick hendrack lck and myself were lown down to make a tour through tho the louse to pick up anything that wast waa around loose it would not do t blow alow the sato sate so the drag was waa used io force out the back of the strong box this took two houra bourn we wa zofih e bt un together and started d to leave the house Sud suddenly delly without the slightest warning we were met by a 0 shower of oe lead everybody jumped for himself when we lined up on the outside reilly was missing I 1 concluded that lie he had bad been shot we hauled a a bir big boodle but a mil million lioti would not pay par for the ho loss of 0 reilly 11 DETECTIVE REYNOLDS TALE it was rather stra strange said detective reynolds Reynol that I 1 should be ba given tho the robbery in tho the house of danker banker brochot to work up inasmuch as 03 I 1 had something of an inkling into his method ot of doing business through working up a case of alleged forgery against his bis son eon emil which by aba the way was proved easily enough but was ended by the old man putting up considerable money to square the business I 1 imagined when tho the report of tho the robbery came in that it 4 would prove to bo be an ordinary housebreaking house breaking job but I 1 soon eoon found a condition of affairs which started smarted my wits humming for all they were worth 1 I was aroused from my beato bed to turn out on tho the caso case shortly before daylight oa a sunday morning and went uptown not feeling any too well pleased I 1 found all of tho te brochot family up and laboring under great excitement they wore were not so much worried over the robbery as they were over the tha fact that thero there was a dead man la in tho the house lie ito was found in tho the hallway of the basement brochot told me bo be had been working quite late following a set ot of complicated books belonging to a mining company in which he was largely interested te when he retired for the night lie be was in a very restless restle sill state stud and could not steep sleep lie ile occupied a room on top wa was tossing fix his bed he heard a peculiar noise dolse it sounded bounded to him as aa it some one were scra scraping a piece of metal against a pipe ills idea was that the bolso was in tho the street and was made by some wor workmen knIen who had been bt at work repairing a leak in tho the water main in a street near his home the mound bound annoyed him biro but did not mot make him suspicious auspicious it continued steadily and he would perhaps tot not have known that tho the sound came from the turning ol at a ratchet drill into his safe by thieves for several hours it ho he had not heard the stairs leading to the tha second or third floal cak ile ho was startled but did not adaha ake any aay outcry ile ha was wa a old follow at that instead ot of S shouting to see 00 it if any member of ct hla his family till nil og ol 01 whom were alo eving on the two flocia below him blin was waa up be got quietly out ot of bed to sto ao who it was waa in tho tha dim light which came from a can 1 die he be could barely see sea tho the form orma of WD twi men inea moving slowly in aba U ball toward the thi front room door their stop wa TW noiseless and ho he saw thorn them disappear into the room occur d b his bis wife lie he reasoned fro their movements that they were 1 eves bent upon steal lnig without a aken ing any one and know knew that b wife would not bo be aroused tor for a at was slightly deaf brochot came down from t t top floor to hin own room where I 1 had bad several revolvers ile he took th largest one and then quietly arow ar 1 hla 1318 son who was a bit ot at va a h buol u D t and had bad two shotguns it so BO ali ened that the son had bad a friend wit him which made it a shotgun tor for e h ol of them they crept down the st at rs to the second floor and in the ha ba they could hear the thieves talking in a whisper the three men took a p man lion where they could shoot with endangering dan gering their own lives th had bad only a few minutes to wait wh the crooks came through the hal ha evidently with the lute intention tio n 0 got gol out through tho the front door ono one cc 0 hem carried a candle when they i t in ID range the three men the t eves evelt replied with a couple of 0 shot and made a dash for the basement the th brochot party rushed to tho the wl iowa to tire on the tha men when they I 1 lc the house bouse I 1 but were a moment to too late as the men had turned the corn r my first business busl nesa was to t ce e a look at the dead crook I 1 knew lany lany of themi them but I 1 had never see him before befaro lie was a sturdily built illow bove mhd average height wore good Clot clothes hesi and had bad a black and datka dart tay curly hair dochot claim 1 the credit cred lot of him and said it was the mart man ald carried tho the cant can 0 1 looked instinctively at the fe fc low lows 3 clothing to see where he had be i i bit I 1 could not find any blood mar a on oil his head or shirt near any vital part I 1 did not think this was strange t the time and I 1 went upstairs to look through the house for clues A ropo ladder had been left lang ing from tho the roof of the tha back some scratches on the paint slowed el owed that the thieves had forced the bath room window after reaching the root roof this was ft as only the sort of at worl that tiptop tip top crooks deal in the met betl od ad ol of bursting the sato also indicated that there were some genuine bank i pera tors in the gang the drag wh ati eh la Is the most powerful tool used by bi burglars had bad forced the bade back out c the safe as aa it it had bad been made by piper r ip er the crooks were rewarded by getting gc aing in money securities and J ewel ewel ry they had bad lett nothing but the dead crook as aa a clue to their identity his body was taken to the morgue every detective in the city took a peep at him but no one ore remembered having seen him before this was explained later by the fact that he had just finished serving a twenty years sentence which meant with good time twelve years and alx month in a prison was W I 1 ald ia upon bri ana 14 body then came a startling piece of information deputy coroner Boldt fe who made the examination of tho the body was unable to certify the cause of 0 death the police had reported th that at the thief had bad been shot but there was waa no sign of a bullet or any other wound wouna in a any part of hla his body no to autopsy bad been held and one was immediately ordered the organs were ivero f found to be in a perfectly healthy state the only abnormal condition was it a small elot clot of blood near tho the heart beart the surgeons after st a lan long hunt to find where this camo came from found a puncture in the heartso heart BO minute that it could hardly bo be detected by the naked eye corresponding to this was an opening through the chest over the heart so small that not a drop of blood had baca escaped ped from it the holo that closed when the instrument which made it was withdrawn and all tho the external evidence was a littler red spot not much bigger than a pin point I 1 dr opinion was that tho the wound had been mado made by what la Is known as tho the needle stiletto a weapon much used by the Cam cammers mors of st 61 clelly lie ile had never seen ono one or heard of cue being used in this coun ty try the thief the mystery aroused public interest A largo large crowd attended the in m quest among the spectators was a woman she sat in a a secluded place and paid deep attention loa to the testimony no one hod had claimed the dead beld mans body I 1 studied nit all the facets cari carefully fully I 1 saw this woman wipe a 0 tear from her cheek check when the july brought in a verdict that the thief bill been killed by an unknown person 1 followed her from the coroners cf fice and spoke to her when we got out olt of tb crowd 1 I her what interest she ehe hid bad in tho the dead mat man she pir parried ried ny nr questions for fop a while and wept I 1 worked upon her sympathies so will that she finally admitted that tho the man was billy reilly Ilc llly her husband tha ico fee was broken she said but when reilly was in jail she aho had bad ak taken up with mil dill If endricks nn an engllish crook when Rell lyp term was adil ho be deserted Il endricks and returned to tor husband this made insanely jealous she blended the inquest tn find ott 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