Show r 1 h I W s Murderous j the m T i 1 AID AID the Lady to the Killer Be aI Bea SAID Jnice nice boy now Kennie Put the 1 J and come I naughty gun JUn away ay with roe inc Said the Killer to the Lad Lady Aw now maam ma'am I But she was firm and hed he'd been raised in oid old Virginia and didn't know how to say no to a n lad lady so he went And that is the story of the capture of Mr Kennie Wagner Vagner and and the the- end of his career as ns a swaggering bad man of the new Southwest who wore five notches on his six-gun six i Mrs Lillie Lillic Barber the sheriff sheriff sheriff-of of Tex Tex- TexI Texarkana Tex Tex-arkana I arkana Arkansas was the lady who smiled him bim into submission submission and took took handed him I single handed and without the firing of ofa ofa ofa a shot Pacing bis his cell in the state penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary at Parchman Mississippi and look look- looking looking looking ing back upon it all Kennie hennie finds it like a dream He would deny the soft impeachment of chivalry if iI he understood what it meant It is his pleasure to be con con- considered considered considered hard It is his idea she just naturally had lu d him buffaloed In the meantime those who viewed dewed with alarm when Mrs Barber was elected sheriff are arc denying they ever said it and insisting they knew all the time shed she'd make the best little law officer since Wild Bill Hickok and Texas Jack lorded it over the cow towns and mining camps of the thc wild and woolly West Mrs Barber having surprised the folks by her capture of a gunman who I wu was poison to sheriffs and dep deputy sheriffs of his own sex further upsets their ideas of what is meet by refusing to talk mag- mag mag about it it Kennie Wagner is six feet tall and built like an Southern all-Southern fullback and has a temper seven degrees meaner thana than a rattlesnakes rattlesnake's but when Sheriff Lit Lil went out after him she saw through his disguise She knew him To the men deputies she had out in inthe inthe inthe the hills hunting for Kennie he was a diamond rattler a curly wolf of crime To Mrs Lillie Barber who put away her broom and md mop and dusting rags when her sheriff husband died died and took over his job of k keeping ping the the county fit to live in Mr Wagner was just a bad little boy Even if te be Ie was twenty six years ears old t But what on earth BEAUTIfUL i is he doing That is the tIle qu question stion that is asked every day in the National Museum at Athens when lovers of rt stop to ad- ad admire admire ad admire mire a shining bronze statue statue of a hand hand- handsome handsome handsome some youth with his arms outstretched in a curious gesture i What was he holding in his left palm which which is pierced witha with a deep hole And what is the meaning of the strange atti- atti J Ji I i A t- t 19 Charming f Josiane J who leaped into favor on the Parisian stage by risking her life before the horns of ofa a raging bull bulls r s and had been fending for himself since he left his mountain home at fourteen even if he had slain those who stood in his path and wrecked jails and terrorized whole Just a bad little boy with a twist in his brain that made him reach toward his holster hip-holster when they riled him So Ma Is 1 Barber looked at Kennie Wagner kind of smiling and kind of sad and said Come Kennie And Kennie came It lt is a picturesque story of the wind wind- windswept windswept wind swept swept places in which fate has baa picked her to play the part of heroine A story singularly lacking in sordidness full fuU as asit asit asit it is of tragedy for Kennie Wagner is just a boastful and tempered hot-tempered boy grown up and trying to be tough lie tough succeeded prett pretty well too until she called him Wagner is a drifter and an idler and andS anda anda S a killer He lIe has never stolen olen and ane he has never ne abused a woman He lie tried to live like the bad men of the dime novels he read and found that the day for that had gone by Throughout his short but spectacular career he has been a lone wolf of the Southwestern trails When Mrs Barber smiled him into the penitentiary he was wanted for five killings and at least two jail the breaks breaks last of the killings committed on the tho outskirts of Texarkana a few days be- be before before be before fore The bad man from Virginia was wason on a little drinking party with the Karper bor Sam boys Sam am and Will and Bob Accord Accord- According According According ing to Effie the year sixteen-year-old sister of the boys who watched from an attic hideaway Wagner became intoxicated The more he drank the more he wanted Knowing his reputation one of her brothers threw the jug of corn liquor out of the window and almost imme imme- immediately imme- imme immediately immediately the shooting began He asked fer an apology n then he jest cracked with his six gun six gunthe th the seared scared scar d little country girl told the sheriff Willand Will and Sam were killed with their guns in their hands Bob was but he lived J The crime is typical of those which blot Kennie Kennie Wagners Wagner's lurid career senseless the outcome of drink a vicious temper and the desire to lord it over tude of the right hand so gracefully poised in the air The officials of the famous storehouse of Grecian culture cannot answer these questions nor have any of Europe's sCientists scientists scientists and authorities on the customs of ancient peoples yet et solved this artistic riddle Since the crew of a little Greek fish fish- fishing fishing fishing ing boat casting their lines in the deep waters of the Bay of Marathon lift lifted d the statue from the bottom of the sea it has been an enigma But even before the classic outline of the bronze sculpture sculpture turf ture was entirely visible through the barnacles and seaweed seaweed- that seaweed that haden had en- en encrusted encrusted en encrusted crusted it in the centuries it itlay itlay lay y in ln the sea a famous Greek Wl archaeologist recognized it as asa a priceless example of the genius of It lt has hu all the grace of attitude atti- atti attitude tude and movement that thai this j greatest sculptor of all time put into his statues of Hermes and Venus and Eros and other deities of ancient Greece Un- Un Undoubtedly Undoubtedly Un Undoubtedly the boy who posed for the artistic mystery lived lived more than 2000 years ears ago Did Athenian boys Loys living in the fourth century before Christ spin tops Some Somo Who have seen the statue think that this lad was holding a disc in his left hand and that he was wu spinning a top on it PARIS S the thin warm luke applause of As A back half halfa a house housa dribbled stage back Mlle Mile Josiane ran up the stairs to her dressing room She slammed the thedoor thedoor thedoor door and nd tore a high built Du Barry wig from her shapely head She wrecked the expensive creation with the jeweled heels of a pair of very angry French slippers Pretty hands ripped an n expensive expensive sive sivo silk gown beyond all hope of repair Ah ma cherie what is it they have done to you now soothed the pretty dancers dancer's motherly maid throwing a pair of sympathetic arms about the white shoulders shaking with sobs Pigs Pigs I They do not know dancing when they see seo it And every night I have to smile to a theater that grins like a skull so many empty rows there are But they cannot treat Josiane this vr wr w You shall see something Dogs I Ill I'll f 1 Killer Kennie KenDle Wagner the thrilling targets In i W rous ous oua bad man who quailed be- be be Leaksville Mississippi r fore Sheriff Lils amil smile and ho he found them That r s 3 i meekly was where he com com- ayr t i his first killing dered to Locked up in the her village strong house A for misdemeanor y M or he departed via viaM M J k the window one moon moon- moonlit rs nr t I lit evening first kill kill- killing kill ing Deputy Sheriff w a M x 1 1 Bt kt McIntosh to make sure p t tf sr he be would not pursue v a az z 0 Next he turned up y F Fry ry M m in Kingsport Tennes- Tennes Tennessee aH f f t see sec where he lived a H r comparatively quiet r 4 e life for several weeks r s I with only a i fe fist fistfights p Kz fights to relieve the Q s Ux boredom But the law u 7 Y officers oP of the town towny e 4 t to show y began more i k p curiosity than was fit fit- fitting r ting as to his past One night three of theIn ventured to ad- ad address dress him a few lead lead- leading t a ing questions Out Out- f i Im i 1 t M rs I Ie Jf f t Barber the woman woman sheriff of Texarkana Ark who cap eap- cap gunman wanted for half halfa a dozen murders single murders single and without firing a shot fellow mortals and keep them in terror of him Once Once he was was safely under und r lock and key the authorities discovered that he was vas wanted in Bristol Virginia Viginia Vi ginia in inKing King and in MissisSippi Fi Finally ally Mi Mississippi won custody and ho he was transported to the state penitentiary at Parchman a stoutly built chances prison from froIn which nobody escapes escapes es The chances are he will never seethe sunshine again Back in the Virginia mountains where he was bawn bawa boys still win their spurs by being tough It is p part rt of be being ng masculine Biting gouging and and kneeing were were no mysteries to him by bythe the time he was sixteen His mother mothe died and his father brought in a stepmother who didn't like His right hand nd h they have guessed is pulling back the string Was he ho amusing him himself self sel by playing with a which tame bird which he be is t trying ying to enUce entice to fly to his hand Thais Thatis That is another th theory r that th t has has been advanced Was he pouring water or oil from jar tl that at was broken off wh when n the statue tat e in some mysterious us way feU fell into the sea off the historic plain sea where the warriors the warriors of fAth Athens ns beat beat beat back back 8 al sa savage horde of f Persian invaders in B C That That is un- un unlikely unlikely un likely although some authorities think his strange gesture indi indi- cates that boys because they upset upset the tho doilies and didn't wipe their feet feet So Kennie Kennie Ken- Ken nie lit out out- t d i 4 w make them fight one another to see J Josiane dance And that's exactly what they're day doing day to-day Pushing and crowding about the box office of a pop popular lar theater theater to see and acclaim the most beautiful dancer of Paris to exhaust her with curtain calls calls and to shower her with with colorful bouquets How did petite Josiane do it it By what magic did she fill fill the empty rows of of seats and get herself hailed hailed as the toast of Paris By a daring and almost fatal almost fatal sacrifice of on the altar great god Publicity That's how A A- A wise little woman woman was was Josiane Josiano and beautiful and graceful as a wood nymph i ien en s see EKO lo leaped and pirouetted behind the tho footlights She knew her press agent was more than a pig He was a stupid pig who did not know how to put his i Uhl CopTi-Uhl u by 17 7 J i raged the bad man manfrom mans manfrom s e from Virginia went to his gun and when p ot the smoke cleared two y s wF of f the three were dead i A After iter a chase over the hills that set the nerves of three coun- coun I From rom childhood he had been an avid of reader of dime novels particularly those painting the life of the old West in lurid color Naturally when he left home he drifted westward Shortly thereafter he appears as a dead dead shot hot with a small wagon circus The he had learned with the shotgun in quest of squirrels aided him when he adopted the six-shooter six He was poison to tin cans and silver dollars dol- dol dollars dol dollars lars in air and country people used to ride miles over the rough mountain trails to watch him do his specialty The workings of the young mans man's mind mind are indicated by the name he chose for cir cir- circus circus cir circus cus uses uses-it uses it was Dick Art is a harsh task mistress however and the d srn demanded more lawmaker or philosopher philosopher philosopher pher or general And was the great eles ekes commissioned to reproduce his physical beauty in deathless bronze Or was he the the son of some common citi- citi citizen citizen citi citizen zen of Athens a youth wield wield- wielder wielder wield wield-er that the master saw saw er of the chisel playing in the Acropolis Acropolis Acropolis lis These are questions that have led to no end of interesting speculation since the recent placing of t the e statue in the Hall lIall of Bronzes in the National Na- Na National Na National Museum The statue was so heavily encrusted with seaweed and lichens and anda a thick of Where th the statue statue- r A S S marine i growth t that it it four feet feet feet and and and three required s several e eve v e r aI a 1 inches high h originally high Front view of the beautiful months of of f careful stood tood and how it t gt gat and very puzzling statue treatment be before ore it Into the Bay of Mara Mara- recently found in the Bay was ready to be ex- ex of cx-of thon are questions as of Marathon difficult to answer as For a long time it those concerning his pose ose Was this boy was soaked in a liquid that loosened its the son of of some distinguished Grecian old centuries-old coating and then it was ambitious employer in the glittering con con- constellation constellation con constellation of stage stars So So Josiane Josiane filled with anger and cha chagrin cha- cha chagrin chagrin grin walked into a bull ring while the toreadors toreadors were matching their barbed darts and their glistening rapiers against the horns of a maddened and wounded beast The crowd in the arena held its breath whim when pretty little Josiane did a toreador danco da ce in the very dust where the out out- outcome out outcome come of the battle between man and beast beat was yet to to be decided decided Smilingly she tripped dangerously near the roaring bull bul with amazing gr grace ce and agility she avoided the low low- lowered lowered low lowered ered horns that lunged at nt her crimson spangles Again and again she cleverly sidestepped death But look Josiane has faltered and tripped arid and the tIle bull ball is u upon upon on her Shrieks from the excited onlookers A great D o FOIl lne Inc v j tics ties tingling Kennie Rennie was captured tried and sentenced to die The gallows was in process of construction when he lit out once more This time he did not have to kill kiU in making his get get- getaway getaway get getaway away As is inevitable in the life of such a character there are gaps in the biography biography biography raphy of Mr Wagner and on one one occurs just h here re It appears however that he went back to Virginia to see a girl got into trouble with the authorities and started westward in a hurry For three mort mor morth before the Karper killing the brained crooked croo brained d-brained slayer had been living in the vicinity of Texarkana which isn't any Painted Post or Medi Medi- Medicine Medicine cine Hat at all On the fringe of the town he had his intimates intimates and did his put through a steam-drying steam process This was followed by the application of electric current so that not a drop of moisture remained on the statue that is deemed a priceless art treasure Finally the masterpiece was polished and set on a pedestal be beside ide the famous statue th the tho a Y Youth of an- an another another an another other heritage from the Athens of the ancients that was likewise fi fished hed from the sea about fifteen years ago Visitors to the museum marvel at the divine beauty of the statue and are thrilled at the thought that the father of classic sculpture probably modeled the treasure with his own hands But the they knit their brows and the puzzle over meaning meaning of the b boys boy's |