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Show Plfel " '.' -'- T7"- . . . . .- -. '. ' - . ... - . - i. h'.-'uLj i ,ramMi'j-ji "" B H WMrMMfl H M'llif IWwPlii ff JWnfti llihijMJByiaOjr'T' - ' Afler the Poppa holdup I learned ' that Joe II , the man who gave mc the Information of the lay of (he land, had been born and brought up ; in the neighborhood whero the Pop- pa factory was located. This ncigh- borhood, in extent from ATorth avc- nue west to the Hudson river and Ifrom .Fourteenth street north to Thirtieth street, was the stamping - ground and home of a gang of nuni- ' i : t crous tough characters. Some of these gangsteVs worked i more or less stcadly as longshore- Iracn, truck drivers, etc., and while working they seldom neglected an opportunity to steal a case or two of goods from their omployers. The bolts of cloth, silk, squares of raw rubbcr,and whatnot thus stolen the sold at ridiculously low prices, considering their intrinsic value, to one of the man" "fences" with which ', the district abounds, all doing busi- I ncss under the legitimate title of junkshop. ; But while tho majority of this f gang ostensibly worked for a liveli- W hood thero, were a half-dozen or more who followed crime cxclusivc- 1 ly for a living, their great special- t ty being to strong-arm drunken men if; on pay nights and take their week's 1 wages from them in dark corners or $ tenement hallways. . 1 JLXGAGKS CUOOli j BX IVUtE, . , I Chief among these last, was cuo 1 called "Curly" and his side partner "Dummy." These two apparently m by reason of their superior daring jy and hardihood, assumed something j of leadership over the others and S 2" pi obablv made more than tho othtis 2 H tombined. Joe R was one of 2 ; iho charter membors of this gans of guerrillas, as was also his brother Phil. i One evening, lu the first week of : December. 19J2, and three months ' after the Poppa robbery, a telephone message came for me to a certain saloon that Tom C and I front fro-nt qucntcd. As I had gone home earlier 3 Tom vent to the phono and learned it . that Joo R was on the wiro and k wanted to see mo uptown at once 4 about a proposed job. Tom went up l in mv stead and thcro met Curley ,1 and Dummy for the first time aud was inlroduded to them by Joe. The threo wcro in an automobile I driven bv a chauffeur whom Ton 4 next day described to mo as "a nutty kind of a mutt." Joo R , Curley and Dummy, In view of mj having successfully "pulled off" tin Poppa affair; sought my co-opera j, Hon in the daylight holdup of two 1 employes of a silk factory who enr- ried tho weekly pay roll from bank f in factory in a bag. They said the j car and chauffeur they had with L them were at their disposal for tho stickun. Tom told them he was sure f would not work with tho "nut" who was driving them that night, but that I now had a chauffeur of my own to use in such jobs. He mado an appointment for a meeting between be-tween them and mc for tho next night, and it was then that I first saw Curley and Dummy. Nor to my knowledge had I ever heard of cither of them before. At this meeting I agreed to get a chauffeur, one Tommy L , v,bo would do anything I required of him for an equal share of the spoils. About midnight on Dec. 20, 1912, Curley, Dummy, Tom C , Tommy L and I met to mako final arrangements ar-rangements for the stickup now designated in the annals of New York crime as the Bcthune street robbery. WITHHELD 151" 1VEDDISV. That night Tom C told mc that his sister was going to be married next day and consequently he would "lather not take a law chance" that might result in keeping him away from her wedding. "All right, Tom," said I; "you stay awayand I will give you Lalf of my share of the money." He hesitated to accept my otter, but finally did as I suggested, and I told Curley that Tom would not be on the job in the morning. "That's good," said Curley, "because "be-cause 1 have to butt in two olhor guys, Joo R s brother Phil and Pat B . These two got the dope on this job fiom a guy that works In, the silk factory and they both insist in-sist on being in with it, so I cnr'l shut them out." "Do you always woik with such a mob?" I inquired. "Most always," replied Curley. "Well, I don't," said I, "but as long as I've gone this far I 'will see the thing through." This was not Uic exact truth: The pay roll we were after was reported to amount to more than ?G.000. I was' in debt, broke and glad of tho chance to go after my share of that pay roll or afler any considerable sum of money. Curie was the boss and director of ibis holdup, and all I had to do, ho said, was to sit with the chauffeur and be ready to get the four gangmen after they got the cash. The prospective victims with "the bag containing the pay loll, on their The Robbers Came Tearing Around (he Corner Tell Mcll, as if Old Tsick lVas at Their IIccls, and One End n Rag in Ills Hands. i way from the bank to the factory, always turned into Bcthune street" from Hudson street carrying the satchel between them at a,bout 9:10 a. m. They were to be held up aud robbed on Bcthune near the corner of Greenwich street, a narrow street running north and south, with a trolley car line on the roadway sur-faco sur-faco and an elevated railway overhead. over-head. Curley met Tommy, the chauffeur, and mc early that morning and we three went to Broadway and Forty-second Forty-second street, where in the roped-off roped-off space for the parking of auto-j auto-j mobiles In Times Square we were sure to find a car suitable for our purpose. At that hour, 8:30 a. m., there arc few busier spots in America, Amer-ica, and until that particular morning morn-ing no auto had ever been stolen f i oni there, and Curley was free in expressing his doubts that it could bo done. Standing in the open way were (wo big seven-passenger touring cais, aud as we arrived the driver of the foremost left his car to enter a nearby near-by restaurant. As he disappeared llnough the doorway Tommy walhcd alone over to the car, deliberately uiankcd hei up. stepped aboard aiid, taking the wheel, started off v.ith smooth unconcern, joined the stream of vehicles headed downtown and turned west into Forty-second street, wlioro Curley and I awaited his coming. com-ing. CIIANOK AUTO TAGS. Wo weie soon spinning south along Ninth avenue, aud in less than ten minutes stopped at the very corner cor-ner wheic the Poppa holdup had inken place to allow Curley to gather the rest of his mob Dummy, Pat and Phil. Then Tommy and I rode down to await their coming, stopping In front of the building -hcie Collier's National 'Weekly is published. "While waiting we attached another anoth-er set of license tags over tho regular regu-lar numbers the car bore. At this place Curley came and told us to proceed with the car to the corner of Bcthune and Greenwich sticets and there remain with engine running, run-ning, headed north, ready to .speed i. Npii Rip ' ' away from tho holdup. fl'iiw'M Our four gangsters wcro there, . and, as the stagd folks say. "they certainly looked tho part." Dressed roughly, blue llanncl shirts, villi tough looking caps pulled down ever their eyes, they were tho real thing. . Tommy remarked to mo facetious- y; "Say, do Ave" have' to ride with them loughuecks?" SCOITS AT L ' COJU'ASIONS. v. "Sure wo do, but only for a few minutes." "Well," he continued, "we'll all get pinched as Black Hand suspects it the bulls over get a peck at thos.c babies ridiug in a swell car like this." As wc wcro speaking two young lads, one of them a ncgio, wcro about to pass us, and as Tommy gave a hitch to his trousers his ie-volver ie-volver fell to tho ground almost at tbo darkey's feet, causing him to smile a sickly, frightened sort of grin as he gingerly sidestepped away fiom it. Tommy was no less embarrassed, em-barrassed, though he tried to look unconcerned, and when I picked it up to baud it to him he baid, "I don't want it. It ain't mine." Tho darky kept turning around every few stops to gaze at us in round-eyed wonder. Just then 1 noticed two men carrying car-rying a bag and accompanied by a lliird man who looked like a con in plain clothes pass west through Bcthune Bc-thune street, having come fiom the same direction we expected our pay roll. "Look, Tommy," said I, in deep disgust, "thero goes our pay roll. Those four roughnecks wcro afraid of that third guy and wouldn't go after tho money." Hardly had tho words passed my lips than our four robbers came tearing around the corner as if Old Nick was at their heels, pell moll for (he car, and one had a bag in his hand. They all (ried to get in the narrow nar-row doorway of tho tonneau op the near side (the auto top was down, at once fnd they all yelled with ono voice, "Beat it." How Tommy ever managed to get the car started stiight Iwill never nev-er be abe to dope, out- As wc left ' tho curb I was pulling big 200-pound Pat U head" first oVer Tommy's arms as thej guided tho wheel As we neared the first crossing a larg'o ihrec-hors'o coal wagon heavily heav-ily loaded suddenly loomed up in our path and it seemed as though oui getaway was surely blocked, when, by a quick turn of the wheel and a wonderful burst of speed, we shot around the Joad of, coal into a free street thiough whal-had appear-to appear-to be a spaco two feet wirfQ. Tommy was some driver. '. " Curley told me'afterward what took place mound Ihe corner. He had selected Pat B to help him do the actual jobbery because ot his powerful build nnd size- He figured fig-ured that Pal's , appearance alone would be likely to discourage -any attempt at iesistance. Dummy and Phil wqie placed, one on either side of the blrect, about 200 feet from a doorway where Curley Cur-ley and Pat hid themselves to await the passing of the two' bank messengers. mes-sengers. t A I'JtJHT FOB v!s " THE LOOT. - " Dummy and Phil wero to seo to it that no one interfered with the holdup. hold-up. All were armed with guns and ' saps" (black-jacks"). As soon as their victims passed the "doorway whero they wcro hidden hid-den Curley ran behind them aud felled ono with a powerful blow on the head. Tho other man turned gamely and, retaining his hold on the satchel, fought Curley until he, ' too, Was stunned with tbo jack. Curley Cur-ley said that Pat, instead of trying to help get tho bag, stood (here poiicd in readiness to run as soon as ho got the word. "Pat," baid Curley. "Is a big sbrr and ought to be playing marbles Instead In-stead of posing as a tough guy." This is the only account I have of tho stickup it happened mound the corner out of my sight. As we rode away there was no pursuit e.-eept e.-eept that of a butchei boy who ;an along the sidewalk abreast of us with his basket on his arm yelling. "Police! Murder!" at the top of his lungs. Tommy drove at my diiection and in about ten minutes I bade him stop in front of St. Ann's chinch, near Third avenue. Here wo abandoned aban-doned the car after taking our numbers num-bers off the car, and the six of us walked over to a saloon at Thirteenth Thir-teenth street and Avcnuo A. In the basement thero wc cut open the bag and found it contained only $1,191. This we split six -ways 199 each and then each man gave $5 as a "stake" for Phil's brother Joe for his' services in securing mc. "Wc also gave 55 apiece more to stake a chauffeur "to keep his mouth shut" This chauffeur knew Tommy L and had seen him steal tho automo- ' bile from Times Square that morn- i H 5 SHOULD SCHOOLS TEACn j JM 5 3IORAL COURAGE j B ;j HEBE IS THE A5STYER OF j JOSEPH TAYLOR, H MHO LIVED A LIFE OP j H LOOT FOR TEARS AXD j IH ;! RELIEVES HE KNOWS THE i CURE OP CRDLE. j k Tho majority 0f tho habitual : m criminals I have heard express ; 6H themselves on the subject have lll told mc that they becamo "habit- ; uals" through "following the ; line of least resistance." Al- IIH though I doubt the truth of this, vLwm I do bclievo that they remain llH "habltuals" through following ;; lH the line of least resistance. They Rl have weakened resistance through continued practice. Men IjH i m iirsi enter into crimes invoiv- mmm ing dishonesty crimes for mon- ey with the exercise of extraor- M dinarj' energ', with a mustering '; ' H .'of courage that is not required :' jH for honest endeavor, with hearts H beating heavily with the sense of ;T H guilt and with premonition of IH impending evil. All this is in- H stihetivo and the measure of its jH intensity is either limited by Ig- H norance or accentuated by ' IH knowlcdgo of moral values. H Cannot crimo be decreased by H teaching tho child at school H moral values by tho study of IH i ethics? IH ing. My own share was later cut in H t two by giving Tom C half of it, H in accordance with my agreement jH with him. H ' ' I Hay PtMcr Cure. H . Hay fever finally has been listed H among the "probably curable" dis- H eases. The clement of doubt enters H , into the cure because of tho drastic H method of treatment unless the vie- H tiin is unusually bravo it is mere H than possible that he would prefer H the disease, in its present form, to H the cute. H Dr. Gordon G. Burdick is the dis- H 4COcrcr of the new relief for hay fc- H vcr victims. Ho has tried it upon H himself and Dr. Theodore C. F. Abel, H and both pronounce themselves free H from fall hay fever slavery. H It has long been known that the H pollen of goldenrod and of milk- H weed aggravate hay fever. Mak- H mg use of this knowledge. Dr. Bur- H dick set out to produce an antitoxin. H He mixed the two enemies of the jH disease and manufactured a snuff. H Then tho two physicions started H the test upon themselves. "With (he H first snuff of the new medicino the H hay fever symptoms were aggraval- H cd twofold. But the experiment was H continued, and with every added H pang the men cheerfully recognized H that they wero on the right tack. For H a year they continued to use the H snuff. H But they reaped tho reward of H their martyrdom with tho return of jH the hay fever period. Both escaped H all evidences of tho disease. H "Ono of tho active agents produc- H ing hay fever," said Dr. Burdick, "is H tho pollen of goldenrod. Victims fear lH it as a slave fears tho whip. Anoth- H cr active agent is the pollen of milk" H weed.. H "Our theory was, therefore, that H these poisons could bo made to pro- H duco antitoxin effects in the blood. H I mixed tho two pollens and used H them as a snuff for a year. During the hay fever season I suffered nor- H rlbly, but I kept on snuffling. I kept M it up for a year. And tho next rail M 1 had no hay fever at all. H "Wo havo also experimented wltn H tho pollens in solutions as an Injec- tion with equally good results. "We H don't know why these pollens pro M duco immunity, but they do." H |
