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Show "HUNGRY JOE" DIES UNDERJFALSE NAME Onco tho Klnp; of Confidence. Men, He Passes Away Almost Torgotten, NEW YOUK, March 2J. "Hungry Joe," tho king of confldonco men, Is dead. After mi Illness of flc weeks ho died In an uptown npartment-house, and Kls body was borno to tho gme b some of his old-timo friends. Ho died In obscurity, Hnd tho news ten scars ngo would hno caused special spe-cial bulletins nt police headquarters In cocy big city lu tho country. Hut ho outllcd his fame. Ho played his own game to the end, and so completely com-pletely that the police, from fearing him, heard his name with contempt. Tor tho last five jeors he hnd resided In NfY York, subsisting on the taxings of his years of crime. |