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Show TIIK SALT LAKK TRIIU'N'K. Sl'NDAY MOKNIXd. SKITKMBKIt 9, 1!28. m nwicn Startling Invasion of New York's Latin Quarter by W ; i : fl 'x -- .v ' vh ..v vrv-- v.v y. VI v V;v v.-.- Thugs Who Thrill and Scare ) the gft go? Awed Artists V Iv B t - ' GUN DRAMA. "Hi "Mitchell wat gives dinute te say bis prayers . . . Tbe slummers in search of a thrill that nigbt bad real one." 4 7 NiH l Ham Stengel, widely knowa u an artist, writer and dramatic critic. He Invited fifteen .. friends to a party at his studio 134 West Fourth Street, and played his usual part of genial host But prompty at the stroke of midnight be went into an adjoining bedroom and ; " hanged himself by his suspenders from the top hinge of the door. His pipe, which he had paused to fill, was in his mouth, and Its contents When bis friends found him, he was dead. Why? No one knowa. The nearest to an explanation that anyone can come Is that Stengel was KNIGHT AND LADY FAIR. seized by a sudden mood SUICIDE. Billie Netconf Comforting George D. of depression, caused by Who N ling, Who Fought a Duel to Avenge Virginia Drfw, Artist-Write- r, his continued separation Draped Herself ia Crimson Silk and from his wife, the beauan Intuit Offered Her. Then Threw Herself Into tbe River tiful Leni Stengel BEAUTY. Because Her Poetry Didn't "Click" have left alone. From then on his death Even more myitexious witb tbe Critic. Leni Stengel, Whose warrant was signed. He knew it himself, was the death of pretty and always kept a guard with him. Separation from Her Aimee Cortex, the "May. But time went on, and he grew careHusband Caused Him oress of Greenwich Vi- the hospital shortly after this, to recover from wounds which he had received in a less. On the night in question he received She was only duel llage." to Grieve Incessantly. telephone message which caused him to but In the three was fought for the honor of atady. He nineteen, George Noeling, who has survived go to the Village Rest. The suspicion is A during which she him. ' i years that it was a girl who double-crosse- d had lived among them. two suicide attempts, each caused by aa ' But whatever the cause, he went alone, , she had made herself unhappy love affair. In the intervals beand walked into trap. beloved by the tween his attempts he seemed to find He was stood up against the bar and ft'lagera. However gay life thoroughly worth living, as did the And given a minute to say his prayers. the party, Aimee' could other. But who can tell? then he was killed. Six bullets were fired make it gayer. That is. oneTbe latest suicide in the Village was ofr the most spectacular.. Pretty Vir into his head. A policeman heard the she could if she didn't i. shots and saw three men running out of For ahe danced :ln;ur!w.rj "peV "fj1 " 'Unison suk. stop it v ft wiw iriicu ucracu the doorway. He caught one, and took in w wuc river. buj effectively, and she liked She left no him back upstairs. But the only thing explanation of her act, but to do it him. friends declared that she was much disleft to do for Mitchell was One night she left a couraged because Maxwell Bodenheim, The slummers in search of a thrill who in the party, apparently she poet and novelist, whose arrived at the Village Rest that night had best of spirits. The next was, had criticised her work protegee a real one. harshly. She time her friends saw her was last seen alive coming from his apartTen days later the Village was the ' ' ' " she was lying in a y ment, but he had no explanation to offer scene of another tragedy. At room dead. Her for her death. She believed in reincarnathat night six men entered the Actors' nineteen year had tion. Maybe she thought her next life Inn, in East Seventh Street, and held it proved too heavy for her. would be happier. Perhaps she hoped to The seventh member of the gang up. Next on the list was find something she had missed in this was behind . a screen holding a gun on Paul Long, a young life. Who knows? four frightened chauffeurs whom they civil engineer who had had robbed outside the Inn, and had The nightly visitors to the Village ind made his home in the it apparently as gay and' carefree as ever. forced in ahead of them. When a' late less was He of They do not feel the fear that has arrival at the Inn screamed and gave Village. TRAGIC END. a typical Villager than the real bohemians those who gripped the alarm, the gangsters fled. But the know. black-haireDrew Taken From of the River, d crowd of patrons mistook tho chauffeurs The Body Being What does it all mean? Who will be Virginie Sonya, his exotic, wife. Somehow. next? No one. can telL for the thieves, and chased them. A Meanwhile gangland, transplanted to policeman shared in their error, and fired gangsters which have cast a pall over the although they loved each other, they at the supposed thugs. One of them, spirits of the Greenwich Villagers. What didn't get along. Then, last October, their the Village, bides its time. And the Villagers are waiting appreLouis Misken, died. Two others, Isidore really frightens them is the number of baby daughter died. Sonya went away e Terrisand Samuel Zorn, were bady hurt their own people who have not found life for a visit. And Paul decided to go away, hensively to discover which of their retreats will become the scene of Only one escaped without serious injury. worth living. Suicide a terrifying word. too forever. One who died by bis own hand was But it is not only the depredations of Another impetuous Villager landed in another outrage. at No. - half-smoke- d. BELLE. Pretty Mmdge Johann, Nifht Club a Friond of SUnjtl't, Hottest, Who, Wat Greatly Shocked by Hit Death. r OLL the bell! For Greenwich Vil lage is dead dead in the rose- colored robes of her youth and hopefulness dead while the echo of her d laughter still lingers in tht distance. And in h'er place there stands another Greenwich Village one that Is but even fascinating, interesting above all sinister. ' Time was when Greenwich Village was the counterpart of Pafis's Montmartre. It was the center to which youthful genius fed for congenial companionship and mutual inspiration. Many of the present-da- y greatest contributors to art and letters lived through their early trials and ' tribulations in the cheerful district near and in Washington Square. They spread the fame of the Village. And as it became known to the rest of the country and the rest of the world, The the Village became carefree bohemianism which had been the natural expression of the temperament of the Villagers became forced. The tempo of life increased. And gradually the "gay parties" became an end in themselves. Why labor at the slow develop HANS STENGEL. ment of a talent when a few drinks could convince the embryonic poet or painter of the Famous Caricaturist, that he was the greatest man in America? Who "threw" a Jovial Party, and Then killed as many So, of late, the Village has Hanged Himself at the Height of the Hilarity. promising careers as it developed in the old days. Like Montmartre, the Village became On May 1S a group of gangsters sea place which artificially retained the lected the Village Rest, one of the "elesemblance of its old self for the benefit gant" speakeasies of the Village, for one of tourists and slummers from uptown of their killing parties. Patsy ("Link") who were in search of a thrill. But even Mitchell, who, it has been said, was a sucthat has changed, and a new era has been cessful had been warned to coninaugurated that has thrown terror into fine hii activities to the trucks of a the hearts of those who love the Village specified group. But be didn't obey for what it used to be. orders, and took truck which he should ' light-hearte- y X Sr, s. i How! Police Fight the Furtive jPoor-Bo- x Thieves with Camera and Siren sell these machines. He leases them the month on a contract basis. And that the device may never be used blackmail or ether vici p purposes tinues to shriek its message until it is turned off by the owner, who knows where it is concealed. . The thief's reaction is one of fright. Hearing the siren screaming, his only re- -, course is to run. The chances are all in favor, of his capture, but should he escape the, telltale photograph is there and he can always be identified. By throwing the photograph upon a projec-- ' ii . fav-orit- ... i . gas-fill- one-thirt- Self-Portra- it ; Jm. (m mi X i V THIEF PHOTOGRAPHED. . Charles Callan Snapped im the Act of Robbing a Poor Box, by Meant of the "Poto-detect- by so for the Corporation personally installs the machines in the homes or business places of those who rent thera and investigates the purpose for which they are to be used. There are about thirty of the machines Foto-Dete- - S i .' J W ,'' recent capture of a poor-bo- x through the agency of an insimulwhich machine, genious taneously photographed the intruder and sounded a warning, in the next-dorectory, has revealed the tremendous possibilities of the device with which its inventors hope to decrease the yearly toll of burglaries. Toe machine is known as the "Foto- - THE. , detect" and was invented by James O'Con-nel- l, a New York policeman. It is a highly sensitized machine and its wires are so rigged up that before the intruder has ehance to open a safe or drawer the mere pressure of his hand upon the lock will set it in operaewt A blinding flash fills the room, with which the picture is taken immediately and the siren emits a deafening roar and con- - ' HOW IT WORKS. While Posed Pboto Showing the Inventor and Girl Model Pictured by "Feto-dtectINVENTOR. Opening a Drawer. Policeman Jamas O'Coanell ntb Original Medol of Hi Invention tion machine every line in the fare is it. to 6e placed just inside the door in An Intruder can ,ent r, leased out at the present time and the large banks are also interested. brought outeven the faintest scars in .private homes. uncanny detail and even the texture of but as soon as he places his foot upon the officials of several large corporations, The man recently arrested by mean his clothes is revealed. mat the camera action takes place and a impressed by the demonstrations, are ne- of the device was Charles CaJlan fifty-siMr. O'Connell has also perfected a. bell rings, who robbed St Joseph's Roman Cath- gotiating for the Installation of hundreds A rnmhr nf small mat with a rabie concealed beneath It is not Mr O'Connell' puroose to of thm in thir stnrw ..... nlf, J ,i 1m. 4rrust. lr Mfiuis SUsu M IUMfM. Iiwwuiuj faftuua j li. iu. 4 |