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‘THE GHASTLY GALLOWS.

| Execution of Medfora edfora Walters at Elke
ton, Md.—Criminal News...

- Special to the Post-Dispatch, :
Baltinorr, Mp., December $.—Medford
7 Walters. wes hanged on the Alms-house |
' grounds, three miles from Elkton, Md., at
| 11:30, for the murder of Jenkine Whaley in —

“Nevemper, 1898. ‘The prisoner slept soundly —

: between ?and Sa.m.,and partoak of breakfast,
consisting of beefstesk,egg» and water,refusing —

to touch coffee. He then smoked a cigar, and

“appeared cheerful until Heary Wittianse and.

other preachers arrived. ie
_. During prayers be was vislbty affected,

and tears relied from his eyes. At 8:3

be put on a uew suit of clothes

aiven mim by the Sheriff and went to bid the
‘g@ther prisoners good by, leaving each cell

with the exclamation, ‘‘Thank Giod!” Part-

“tng with Bessie Hawkins, a female prisoner, |
‘to whom he had given what was ieft of bis
‘breakfast, was an affecting scene. He hada
‘former affection for the woman in jail,
‘amd. with tears in his eyes”

banged her to lead a better life, saying be oad co

and was going toGiod,
At precisely 10 o'clock the procession was

the.jail,..bish a syuad of -

guards (formed im froat. A wagon —

‘came next, contaming the coudemocd

wan, the Sheriff, bis deputies and Kev. H.

Williants, ecolercd minister. A detachment

‘of the guards bronght up the rear, which was |

followed to the scene of execution by alarge | +
concourse of. peaple, white and colured, ee fe

foot and tp vebicies. :
‘Walters bore him-elf with dranee aad

' stoleal composure, and for the most part kept ce
‘bis head bent while lis to the prayers
‘and encouragement 6 “pis spéeritaal

( adviser. After. the borly fad ©

been - eat. down it wis taken >.

"In charge by the undertaker, placed ius plain |
coffin ana buried near-the penne of the HARK
ing shortly after. :

‘pared so die, be ‘end, © “Ves,

A few days ago, - when the prisoser was. co 3
‘asked by the minister if he was pres

‘ff they let mekill that negro woman that |

testified against me, 1 will be prepsred.” He

afterwards repented, however, anc appeared eo

: to die in rhe. belief o of salvation.

Medford Waters

Executed at Elkton, Cecil Co. on Dec. 5th 1879

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 12-6-79
page 4 column 3

| THE GALLOWS IN CECIL ©O., MD.
Manging o: Medford Waters, Colored,
meer ten—A Well-Conducted and
Orderly Execation—-A. Penitent
the Keameld, &c.
< {Reported for the Baltimorp'8ua:)

. BLETON, CECIL Oo., MD., Dec. 5, 3870.
Medford Watora, colored, convisted of tho
murder of Jenkins Whaley, colored, by shoot-
ing him witha pistol, on November 13, 1878,
was hanged, near Elkton, at 11.96 o'clock this
morning, The execution was public, under
direction of Sheriff W. T.. Boulden, of Cecil
‘county, and conducted in exact accordance
witha programme previously published. An-
ticipation of the hanging had created groat ox-
citement, and large numbers, of persons wero
| present from all ope of the county, Compar-
atively few from Elkton wentto the scene of the

H peomegacneye, hate thero were some people from |

the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania.

Waters was visited in his cel ay om
night by Revs. James H. Manly and J. H. Gal-
lett, coléred ministers, who remained until lv
o’cloek. After that time the prisoner was alone
until 1 o'clock this morning. He slept but litue,
| Mr. John Perkins, a Jay reader of the M, B.
; Church, who ie in the: habit of visiting priacn-
or entered the condemned man's cell atl
o'clock A. M. and remain«d until 6 o'clock A,
M. Waters, by his advice, laid down and for
some time slept soundly. Sportly after 8 o'clock
Mr. Porking, Rev. J. H. tt and Rev, Henry
Williams, oolured, prayed With the condemnet
man inthe orll until 9.40 o’clack, when the
prisoncr was dressed for the scaffold... In tho
cell with Waters. was also @ young colored
friend, who had been allowed to visit
} him. His mother did not come to bid bim
farewell, and had not been tw the jailsince
Wednesday of last week, when she was with dim-
culty induced to enter she cell. ‘The prieoner
.Pesponded affirmatively to the questions of the‘
ministers as to his preparation for the future
state, and joined in singing as well as praying.
He was very fund of tobacco, and ‘most of the
time smoked cigara given him by kindly-dis-
sel people an he 6at on the pallet in his ceil,
r. Perkins stated that Waters had professed a
} change of mind since Monday fast, and had

lately given satistactory evidences thatthe fecl- |

ing was genuine. He manifested no trepida-

! tion, and except for an occasional uneasy glance

of the eyes it would have been dimicult to sve
that he fully realized his position,

About 9 o'clock the prisuner- received bie

| breakfast of beefsteak, sausages, « ffeo and |

rolls, but ate sparingly. Ho was clothed for

execution In @ heavy dark overcoat, worsted |

knit overshirt, dark pants and black felt hat.

f Before being manacled he went to all the cells, |

| telling the prisuners good-by, and exhorting
| them to try-and meet him in Heaven, He
talked fora long time with Annie Hawkine, a
} young calorod woman, telling her to be a better
irl, “E fecl very nice, he sald, and‘ have no
dread at all, but feel as jf I was going home,
' Thave made my pence with.
\ ne. 7 ork shi me,". ae
t10 o'chwck the, prison ar, and
after shaking camawtths th na other
officers, was handcuffed in pms and oon.
ducted from the fall. He.was ‘asked a short |
|} time before if he wanted some whisky to
strengthen his nerve, but sald, No, the gra:
} Of God Will do sv, and I want nything mere,
The crowd outaide the jall numbrred alwut 100
wople, and & few perache werd standing in
ront of their hauses and along tho strests as
the ‘condemned man. was oscorted frum the
prison to the scene of exeeution, |)

} and colores
erable distance away. The absente of oolured

} tered in Heaven, and to

Hepen wagon in frontef the fall wae guarded
by. 25 of the Groomeaiuards, a military com.
pany of Cecil county, aecompanted by @ druyis.
mer boy, and commanded by Cant, W. 6. Pur-
nell, The men wero disposed eqhially in front
and year. They wore a handsome lgray uulform
and overcoats, Acrosa the wagon were laid three

| wanted to say @ word-of blessing lor Sheriff

planks of rough pine, on which: wero seated @ Boulden, who had been good and kind t) him

the condemned man, Sheriff Bolden and
Deputy sheriffs J, EK. Couling and F. W. Janney,
Mr. John Perkina and Rev. Henry Williama, A

_Hittle in the rear followed a wage containing a

coffin ef stained pine, .The Procepeton. at the
tap of the dram, took up ite route for the place
of execution on the almshouse property, three

and a-half miics from Fikton, Ag they started ff
fi] head, and, as ho called from under it “Lon

Waters wave} his cap toward thp jail in fare-
well token’ The road for miles in front and In
rear was lined with vehicles of all kinds, car-
ringes, buggies and carts, vid and new, all
hurrying tw the fatal spot. |

A space of 30 feet square had been roped off

around the gallows and was guatied by seven |

men of the Groome Guard, ag Corporal
Wright.” The svaffold was In the Hepression of
& plowed Meld, in full-view of the ge on
one side, a quarter of a mile away, and the
Mittle villago of Cherry Hill on thé other, some
four hundred yards off. Rising ground to the
vast formed an amphitheatre in front of the
gallows on: which were assembled same 1,50
people. The crowd was quiet and orderly abl
the majority secined ty be rospectable persons,
A good prey boys and several females, whito

» stood in tho road, bute consid.

poople was remarkable, and {t appeared, as
was sail in Elkton, that they bad but little
sympathy for the prisoner's fafe, for there
were probably not twenty of them in the whole
_ guthering. : i

The procession arrived at the mgt ae at 11,65
o'clock. Watera walked firmly up the 6teys

Fe with the skerif!somicers, The dhinixters sat

by hissideon the platform, which was otght
feet from the ground, the waguns and the rupes

b being guarded by seldlers, The attending

f physiclans were Drs. H. H. Miteiell and nN. H.

| ‘Tuft, of Elkton, and there were jalso present
Drs. 1. -A. Stubbs and James Clement, cf |

Oxford, Dr. James A. Peoples, of [Kirk'e Mills,
Dr. Re bert Carter, of Cherry Hill, gnd Dr, P, W.
Housekecepor,

At the request of Watera Rev| Henry Wil-
Mame read the Kth chapter of Revelations, —
The hymn “And Am 1 Born to Dik" war sung.
A Yervent prayer was offered by Mr. Perkins, in

»which thecondemned Joined with jsarnest sup- -

plications that God would preterv¢ hia soul.
. Waters advanced to the front uf tho aa

and addressed the assembi :

distinct vates, He maid:

yon seo whata fix Tam in, b

able to say, With due ‘consideralipn, that (int.
| has pardoned me. I am saved, myHearfriends,
Dear friends, never let your paseluns overc me
you as they did me, so that you may nover le

inthe fix Dam. May God bless dud stand by
you from now through eternity,
name of Jesus Christ, May
> the prainn,
for Jesus Christ may redeem all njeh, God re-
ceite my soul.” i {

.A hymn, “Jesus, loverof my.soul,”’ was sung,

} and tho ininisters left the seafply. Waters
stvod quietly over the drup while hf feet were

I tia and hisarms pintoned behind him with
.eorda. He satd he thought that di fall of four
} feyt eix ipches which had been allowed would
1 not bo sure to produce instant dqath, and re-

quested that the rope should be jlen thoped.
The rope was changed to allow a fall o bix feet

| six inches. While that was being lone Waters
| again addressed the crowd, adding that he

® while fo prison, “Now,’’ he sald, “lum on my

road to Heaven, and Idon’'t care. Ijhad as leave
die now as anytime, Don’t anyjof.you take
this pattern.” Ho uestod the sheriff to wil
| Annie Hawkins. “good by, and nog to study,”
and to tell Jim Whittington, a fcllow-prisaner
fn jail, ts meet himin Heaven. |
At 11.35 the black cap had been fixed over his

}| Jesus, save my soul; good-by, friends,") the

| rope holding the trap was fevared by the
sheriff, The body shot down tho Ipngth of the

i] drop, which was a great strain on |the cord, as

| the prisoner weighed fully a hundredand sixty
pounds, For several seconde all was still, and
the subsequent contortions were slight. th
was pronounced inless by the] physicians,
Muscular actign of the heart ceasoi! in sixteen
ininutea, Paes thirty minutes the body was
cut duwn. a :

‘The noo slipped frorn under the left ear to
the back of the neck, just right of the median
Mne, breaking the neck at the cervical or upper
vertebra. The body was place! in the ovoffin
and given in charge to Robert Marshbank, who
took it in a wagon to @ grave which had been
dug in the almshouse burial ground, near by,
where it was interred. The crowd dispersed

preserved, and the crowd was vory| quiet. -
Medford Waters was about 19 yoars'old. He
| wags born near Chestertown, in Kent county.

Jenkins Whaley fn atrivial ge pe sent heap-
ing corn, while husking in @ flold near Ceciiton,

two had been up to that time close friends, and
were fellow-mombers of the Meth t Church,
in which Wators had been Lior co i
bationer about @ weok previously, When
the quarrel occurred

a fence and took out a 8 to strike

kill Whaley. . Returning, Wa! J ked up two
large stones, which he throw at and in
the subsoquent difficulty

one of which was fatal, 0:

| ably defended, and strong appes' wore, mado
ip for his respite, but Gov. Ll a , after

repeal a Ja made to him, that hoe could |
ted enn terfore With the ex: |

411 behaved |

} not ind reason to in!
ecution of the sentence.. i
The prisoner was latterly ve
in jail, He was intolligentand able to read

fj} well, His hanging was the first xecution in |

Oecil county since 1665, and opin was some-
| what divided as to the priety of a public

pro
hanging, but Sheriff Boulden thought it far |

i] better to let the people know whem and where
i it would take place, so as to avoid acrowd in

| town, considered . the orderly; behavior of

| the crowd as a conyincio rout t be was
right. This ned will pond of the last
i official acts of tho sheriff, who'igoes out of

) office to-morrow, and, will be sticcepd ange te Mr. |}

| Goo! H. Logan, recon

rge |
| tion.” Mr. Logan Paver | te give bond until §

}. after the exécution of Waters.’

quickly for their homes. Exvelleyt order was |

| He was quite black, five feet nine inches in A
height, and woighed about 165 pounds, ‘iis ex- |
pression was bold and determined, and his |
temper violent and uncontrullabld. He killed j

Cecil county, Md., on November 18, 1878 The jf

Waters first ran to |

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James West

bovine Poor

Executed at Baltimore and—fewson—respeetively

on August 22nd 1873

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 8-23-73

page 1 column 3-5

THE SUN.

GALLOWS SCENES IN MARYLAND.

The Hanging of James West in Bal-
timore and Levin Palmer at Tow-
sontown—Violent Deaths of Both
Criminals, * ‘

(Reported for the Baltimore San:}
The two colored men, James Wee and Levin
Palmer, were executed yesterday, in accordance
i with their sentence of death, the one at Towson-
town. Baltimore county, and the other in the
jail yard of Baltimore city. West suffered the
H extreme penalty of the law for the murder, five
monthé ago, of the woman with whom he had
lived as his wife, having confessed the crime.

He died professing the faith and {receiving the

last rites of the Catholic Charch. —

Palmer's crime wae the rape of Mary Sengie,
8 young German woman, whom he, in companp
with Wm. Pritchard previously hanged for the
same offonee, way!aid in Baltimore county, near
the city Iimite, in Angust, 1570, and outraged, at
the eawe time beating nearly to death, with

i brases kouckles, her aged protector. Having
once escaped the clutches of the law after arreat
with Pritchard, he was recaptured, aud now,
three years after the commission of the deed,
hae suffered death, having also confessed the
crime. He died professing religion through the
instrumentality of the Methodist Church. Both
executions were characterized by qniet and ex-

edition: Neithér of the criminals made speeches
rum the scaffold. Inthe State there is now only
one other man under sentence of death; that is

Joseph Davis, for the murder of Abrabam Lynn,

in his mill, in Carroll county. who hae hed two

triais, with retasal of the Coart of Appeals for
the third, abd now awaits the action of the Gov-
ervor aseigning the day for execution. The de-
tails of tho executions are given below:

The Execution of James West. °

James West, the colored ere who, on the
night of March 13th. 1878, killed bie paramcur,
Aunie Gibson, with @ hatchet, wh: he was
lying in bed, was hanged yesterday,
A. M.,in the yard of the Baltimore city

} About fifty or sixty persons were pi

‘witnesses of the tragedy, including

colored men. On the outside of the jail there

Were no extraordinary assemblages of people,

| except in front of the Madison-street entrance,

| where a coneide bh crowd of colored people,
boys and others, ysthered, and waited untibthe
corpse was borne away in its coffin, Of course
they could see nothing else, except the sheriff
aud others who came and went. About forty
policemen were detailed for duty in and around
the jail, probably halfthe numbcr jnside, under
command of Deputy Marebal Frey.

TUE GALLOWS,

The ecaffold, 28 fcet bigh, the same upon which
Nicholson and Hollohan were hung August 1st,
was erected ina long, narrow stone-paved court
833 feet wide, between the jail and tho porte
house, east side of the north wing of the prison.
The gallowe faced t2 the south, aud was ascended
from that side by along filght of stairs lcading
to the platform, protected by band rails. Inthis
pean the execation was completely shielded

rom view on the west by the intervening prison.

On the east the Maryland penitentiary bid it,

except from those who bad obtained permission

to perch upon the walls of that institution. On
the north and eouth there ouly a Iimited
glimpse of the scaffold terro Xposed to per-
sons outside ail. About. twenty-five fcet
from the bottom of the gallows staire a tempur-
ary fence. witha wicket, was tbrown acres the’
court, intending to exciude all but the officcre of
the law, the clergy officiating and membere of
8s reporting the exccution. A deputy
tationed in charge of the wicket,

: LAST HOURS ON EaRTH,

West, after a quict pight’s rest, rose at five

} o'clock A. M., and, leaving bie cell, No. 5, beec-

“ment tier, under guard, took a refrephing bath.

In returning toward his cell he expressed to the

yoard a strong desire to see tho frathe work of

} the gallows upon which be was go soon to die.

} At first the guard refused, fearing that the sight
of the ecaffold would unperve the priepner. but

Weet persisting in the request,and giving as-

surances that be could etund it, he was con-

ducted tothe cast door, from which be could
survey the whole structure. He regarded it

i ‘for some mwoments in sileuce, and then turnin

i we re-enter the prison, calm i remarked that ‘it

} was not such a bad-looking thing after all."" He
returued to bis cell without any visible eigne of
emotion and ouietly revumed bie leone mvodl-
tations. In compliance with th lecipline of
the Catholic Churcb, in the faith of which he
died, the prisouer refused breakfast until dfior
he had made bie communion, and as the execu:
ton took place immediately after performance
of tbat religioue duty tho moal was altogether
dispeused with.

RELIGIOUA PREPARATION,

At abont $ o'clock Rev. Father Danech., of St.
Vincent's Church, aud Mr, Vau Daal, a thovloci-
cal student, visited West in bie coll and con-
ducted him to the room of the visitors of the
ail, where Rov. Father Noonan, of St. Francis

avjer's Church, bie spiritual adtisor, was
awalting to bear the last confession of the con-
domned man, Rev, Father Gore, of St, Francie

Xavier's Church, wae also preeeut, completing

the list of the clergymen. All the pricets were
iu caseucks, birottas and sarplices, the spiritual
adviser, Fathor Noonan, woaring io addition his
stole. While Weet was making his confession
all the clergymen except the father confceeor re-
mained outelde the duur of the visitors’ room,

The confession, however, did not consaine much

time, the penitent having been woll prepared be-
forchand, Upon ite conclusion the Moly Com-
munion wee administered and absulutiou given.

The condemned man wae then ready to be hand:

ed over to the ofllgera of \he lay

At ten titiutes hu 10, When the religious cere:

monies were over, the officers of the prinon word

rent for, the prisoner desiring to eay farewell tu

them: He received the body, of about a dozen

persons, standing. surrounded by the pricate,
smiling aud compoeed. After a few minutos

occupied In this manner those who had come to

say good-bye rethed, and the sheriff's officers
jnioned the prisoner's arme behind him and
ound dis wriste iu front with strong corde. _

LED OUT FOR BXECUTION.

The prisoner was then rubed in n biack serge
mantie, coming down to hie kneve,and he wae
lod out bare-boaded, with green plush slippers
on hie feet, to execution. e procession to the
ecaffuld was headed by tho sheriff., The con-
demned man was escorted by Fathers Noonan
and Danech, one.on his right, the other on hie
loft, the two other clergymen following, mom-
bers of the grand jury, éigh$ iu number, re-
porters of the press aud other witne¢escs bringing
up the rear. In moving to the scaffold the pricets
eaid the prayers for the last agony, reading from
their prayer books, everybody uncovering. The
ipods oye man mounted the scaffold firmly,

receded by Sbheritt Kane and hie depaty, Mr.

Roseman.
ERVICES ON THE PLATFORM.

West then, etanding ander the noore, formed
the cbutre of the group, surrounded by pricets
in their robes, with books In hand. on the ele-
vated platform, the witgesses below,remainiing
in reapectfal and impressive eifence, while Sher-
if Kano and Deputy Roseman awaited at the
rear of the platform for the conclusion of the
devotions. The criminal was calm. though
eoemingly fully aware of the gravity of hie eitu-
ation. ‘here was nothing the least defiant in
hie demeanor, and there was ho evidence of
“weakening” of fear. The prisoner preserved
hie balance admirably, and Impressed everybody
with bis sincerity and penitence.

The prayers for a happy death were recited by
the pricets, Father Noouan leading; seven
ave arias, in honor of the seveb dulors of the
Bicesed Virgin, were sald by the d a

Governor received a petition while at Lon
Branch, on the 18th instant, and telographe
from t point emphatically that he could not
interfere, and that the law must take its course. +

In anewer to strong and presein
commutation of the sentence o!
eiemen for life, Governor Whyte sent the

following firm letter to Warden Jas. fi, Irvin, of
the Baltimore city jail, which should be heeded
by evil doers or evil-dispored persons in

aryland, as indicating the scttlod purpose of
the exocutive to enforce verdictsand uphold the
majesty of the law:

‘ew York Howe, New York city, Angust 21.—
Dear Irvin: I have your favor of the 2th. There
is no sufticient reason for me to interfere. No
provocation conld justify use of such &
we: pon againeta defonecless woinan. Society
and ite protection demand j euch penalties
for the terror of evil doere, aud tho souner the
lawless understand that aharp puntehment fol-
lows crime the better. Yours truly,

Wa. Pinkney WoyTe,
Posthumous Papers. xi

‘West left several papors, including a card to
the public, defenaing bis career from eome im-
putations; a plea for tender remembrance and
declaration of religions experience and faith,
and a touching prayer, all of which are given
below, asis customary in such cases; at the re-
quest of the criminal:

GELP DEFENSE, '

To the Public: Since my trial and conviction
fortbe murder of Annie Gibson, the press of
Baltimore has published sundry articles repre-
senting that I Jea a life of drunkenness and de-
bauchery, and further represented that | was a
common thief, and served one or more
terms inthe Maryland penitentiary. In Justico
to myself and respect to my aged mother, I feel
itmy duty to deny these charges, and in my Inet

man. kneeling. The crucifix was held before
bim by Father Gore ana presented to bis lips by
that clergyman. The fival absolution was given
by bie spiritual adviecr, the prisoner again
kissed the crucifix beld to hie lipe. ang then
rose to hie feet. ready for the wheriif. Tho
priests slowly descended from the scaftuld. .
THE FATAL DROP.

Sheriff Kane put the uoose over West's head
and adjueted the kaot a Jittle to the frout of the
pesaner scleft car, under the jaw. the intention
being that the rope ebould slip directly under

. the left car, break the neck instantly, and pro-

cure ap easy and epcedy death. Sherif? Kane
acked the prisoner, before adjusting the novec,
if Le had anything to say, and receiving a neca-
tive reply, proceeded tu execute hie office, Con-
trary to the veuai practice, the prisoner's lower
limbs were not bound,

The white Hoen cap was put over the con-
demoed man's bead by Mr. Regeman, and the
eheri® and his deputy left the platforin, the
prisoner etanding aleug awaiting hisdvom. As
the ofileers took their departure Weet. who had

i not ceased praying in an undertone, repeated

tue prayer from tre Litany, “Lord be mercifal
tu me. & eivner.” iv a cienr. firm voice, which
wae distinctly heard ail over the court in which
the gallows had. been erected.’ He had repeated
thie prayer five or eix times, when Sheriff Kane,
untyiny the rope at we fodt of the bainetrade,
pulled the cord strously/ The trigger having
been released by Deputy G. W. Govdrich, the
drpp fell in response, cytzing the prisuver off in
the midet of a half-usterod prayer—“Lord be
mercifal’—and the qty wae accomphebed at
two minates past 10 O'cluck precisely. The rope
allowed a fall of tuyee feet, and it atretched to
four fect. X
A BIfonY SPECTACLE. —
Unfortunately /however, (ne knot intended to
@iip back and byeak the Beck oe eer
etatiovary undér the dulye of the prisoner's left
aw, throwing bis head to one side, and suffocst-
tee him by dlow etrapculation, amidet terrible
convulejeng, which lasted for three minutes.—
Blood, aftérwards ascertained to come from the
nose, mofdth and care, gaturated the white linen
hood, coVering facc and bead, and added to the
ghaetiy horror of the spectacle. Blvod tricked
downAhe back of the mantle outeidc and eatara-
ted gome of the underclotbing of the poor cal-
pry His etruggles were something tearful to
eXold, and it wae fully eix miuutes before all
cYnrulsions had catirely ceased. :
It wae twenty-three minutes before tne body
as lowered, and at twenty-eight minutes pact
ten o'clock Sargeon Houck, tho jail physician,
prononnced Jamee Weet dead. Dr. Houck was
assinted in the examination by Dr. Peter G.
Dausch. .A bier covered with a white cloth was
brought. upon which the corpee was lowered,
the rope cut, and the law avenged. The pricsts.
pascine at the gy Ag fold, at the bead
a ecorpse, the ayers for the
Jena, recited the De Profundio. (ith Psalm.)
the body was removed to one of the base
meut ryome bv foge colored mea where final

burial services were aid, and the remains con-
yeyed to the old Cathearal Cemetery, whore the
body was baried three hours after the execu:
tlon, The funeral attended by West's
mother, brothers, eistors, relative "
taki The face of the dead

T of th
ere evidenced by the ma
rds on the wrists of tho deadman when
the hauds were unbound, The akin was found
to be chafed, andthe marke of the curds wore
deeply imbedded in the fi
Brronte
During t
been made rocure ©
the caso of Weet, and ont
execution Mr. Michael Roch
been very kind to the condemned man, tcle-
ed @ petition to Governor Whyte at the
request of cloven of the jurora, to defer the
execution until the Governor could return home,
Dut there was no favorable reapone, Mr, Wm.

Hi, gencens oe eae felt 8 Ru

m earth p them falec. Ever
since 1 wae able to work 1 have carned my living
by hard labor. Once I was arrestcd for stealing,

d three timés for fighting, and these are. the
only charges against me, and | never was in the
penitentiary. Respectfully, 5

Janne West.
THE PRISONER'S PLEA. . |;

I, Jarftqs West, a poor and unfortunate colored
man, who was never brought up in any religion,
thank Almighty God for having, in Hisinfinite
mercy, pane tothe true faith befure 1
end my earthly existence. 1 bave been! cast in
ee the charge of murder, for which crime

have been tried, convicted and sentenced.
fuel exceedingly sorry for what! did, but at the
game time] confess that 1 never intgnded to
commit a wilfal murder, but that the bad treat-
ment which my own child received 4nd ex-
cess of drinking have led me tocommit the
crime for which I have now to say down my life,
Not knowing the laws of the country, I have no
other objection to make against my trial, ver-
dict or sentence, bat if anything should have
been unfair, cither on the part of the whtneescs
or of the jury, | forgive them with all my heart,
for 1 kuow woll tbat they would not {injention-
ally bave Gone 60, and even if #0 I furgive them,
for it behooves a true Christian to forjive bis
enemies. When castin prison I seriously began
to think upon the estate of my immortal s
having sometimes attended the service
Francia’ Roman Catholic Church, I
Father Noovan, the rector of tne said
He explained tome the Catholic doctr
assisted by God's grace I embraced it, a
my greatest consolation
Church which forma in the blo

Father Noopan bh.

vo
“]

Christian sense, having full confidence iv
God's intinite Pisrey aud asarepentant child
of the Holy Catholic Church. 1 dio ‘resign:
ed to God's boly will and in usion with my
cracified Jesus, and now I have no more
to add but a few words of thanks to all my
beriefactors. In the first place to the Rev,
Father. Noonan, who so faithfully attended me
during my imprisonment, as aleo the other fath-
ers of St. Francis who have done all they could
to cousole me and to make my :aet days upun
carth bappy and peaceful. 1 also thank the good
Obiate Sisters of Providence who so oftan came
to vielt me, and by thelr instructions prepi&red
me more and more forit. For my bicesed bour
bae vow arrived, I also thank them for tho,
care they take of my only cbild,and itis m
will thatit should always remain under their
care and protection and be instructed 10 tho huiy
Catholic religion, io ey 1 inyeelf havo been
baptized. thank all who have in any way
comfortod and consoled me,and among those ca
pecially Mr, Hoche and bis fam|)y, also all who
signed the petition for. my repricve. May Goud
roward them for whatthey didto.me, Lastly, I
thank good Mr. Irwin, the warden, who did
more for ine than I deserved, or than I was enti
tled to, as also Mre. Irwin, whd with a mother's
care procured ‘me many little comforts which
prieonere generally do uot have. I aleo thank
all the other officcra of tho jail,
treated me with the greatost kiudnoe
whom 1 can find no fault. May God bless them
all aud reward them for their charity. Now ono
goiny to dio and Itrust I

opt, 1650,

ganctifed
or the Wh
WRAT 6 PRAYER ron MERCY,

f who hae contemed all men to dic, ay’

on the

darkened with the mist of de ehall Ox their

last dying looke on thy cracificd imae, then

, mercifal Jesus have mercy on me, When m
‘ears, about to close forever to all human die-
course, shall await the dreadful sound of Thy ir-

tesistable wearer then merciful Jesce have

Ww my feet, unable to muve,

y course js dre

ft
rigorous
of dark-
on ni

When all my eenses aba: aud thie wor

shall forever vavieh from my view, then merci-
fol Jeeus bave mercy on me. When the laet |

heavy sighs of my heart sha!l press my eon! t
leave my body, then merciful Jgen have mercy
on me. hen my at length shall ec; te
frum this vailey of te and leave ury bod
cold aud hideous®then merciful Jesus
mercy on me. When | ahall gtand All alu
fore my Almighty Jadge, and behold at ‘one
gi 1 the sine of my life, and ail Thy claims,
ub! my God and my love, then merciful Jceus
have mercy on me. When!Thot ebalt pronounce

‘al sentence which no human power can

dno one elade, then mercifal Jeeus
bave mercy on me. Throagh Th
and precious death, relicve me, OU
at iaet
called me ont of thie world, I beseech Thee let
me die in Thy holy friendebip, and reconciled to
Thy cterpal jastice, Grant’ also just Jesus tu
my mother, brothers and eietere the grace ta die
in the holy Catholic Charch, and that .} may
meet them all in the kingdom that Thi has
prepared for thuee who die in. Thy ‘holy law.
Uh! Jesus, with Thee). live, with Thee baie,
Into Thy bands I commit my soul. Anse
; Execution of Palmer,

nance of ove jn the full exjoyment of heuith, aud |

in poeseesion of bis mental facaities,-e-to be re
garded a proof that be who fs aboot to die has
courage, thea most sure'y did Levia Paimer
‘cuurageonsly mect his death at Toweontowr,
yeeterday morning. From the moment be ex-

‘perienced religion, some three weeke since, he

looked apon thie world as @ eecondary consider.
ation, bie on!

being that

with all por

enter tue realme of b

fore dawn yeste! . par Sheriff Robin:on deem.
ing it impradent to grant the request. anewered
Paimer that each ® edure might po

render the sheriff liable meare, bat pr mised
him ¢hat the execation sbouid take p.neat's
very early hour oa Friday morning. 1; wae veu-
erally believed at Toweontown and adjacent
country on Thoreday that the exeuction would
not take piece before 200g Yeeterdar. aca from

nine o'clock in the morning untii noon the y
ae and other roads leading tothe jail wer
ronged with peop! route to the execation.
Great dlenppolntment wi
dreds of those who fou
when they learmed that the

knowing the
@twhichthe hanging was torts e

place,
“ WIS LAs? NIGHT OW EARTH,
After Rev. Mr. Stitt left the jail on Thuraday
night Palmer asked and obtained permission to
old @ short prayer-mecting in hie cell, three
colored men, prisoners at the jail, having ex-
pressed a wish to spend a fow bourse with him
ere he wasexecuted. Th
presided over by
earnestly for those

nine O°
e until eleven o'clock Pal -
versed with his k , James H. Li sy,one of
put; d , Afew minutes past eleven
the condemned man was in & sound
but frem which he was awakened at mid-
for the old Gee of Joeing informed that his
uncle bad arrived at the jail. Palmer expressed
great eatisfaction that his uncle had not forgot-
ten bim, then again reenmed his bed and fell
asleep. At bal&past four o'clock he arose and
engaged in religious devotions for filteen min-,
tn erpeged haa as fag eaiogs bak
meelf as feeling excellent, bo
in body and mind. . sre . “ =
PALMER'S DEVOTIONS WITH HIS TRCLE. ~—

A fow minutee before 6.0’clock Palmer's uncle
entered the cell, the meeting being very affect-
ing, the uncle being the only father that Palmer
ever kne Both men engaged : in singing and

prayere of Palmer bein,
ized bya spn iderable amonnt ou
which at times became eo excitin
other prisoners in the balldin:
sounds. His uncle also exhibited considerab!
feeling when engaged in prayer, and upon bid-
ding hie nephew good-bye fora few moments
remarked to him: “I have dreaded your bein
execnted, but now being satisfied that you will
aie happy, Lfeel that it would be a ein for me
to grieve for your death. I therefore wish you
speed to Hoaven.” 7

ENJOYING A 6MOKE.

At we et 6 o'clock orders were given the
prisoners in the jail to sweep ont and otherwise
clean their rooms. Palmer, although having no
occasion to clean his room, seized a bruom and
ina shorttime hed swept the floor. He then
ifenve a cigar, and walking to the balustrade in

character-
shouting,
that the

fgont of bis cell, overlooking the Jower tier of
cells, coolly surveyed the men while they piled
their brooms. cet ten minutes he thus occu-
pied himee)f, aud then re-entering bis cell, pat
off his outeld clothing and assumed new rai-
ments that had becn purchased for him b

Sheriff Robingon. ‘This occupied his time unt

six o'clock, he being very carefal about adjust-
ing a white necktio and other aati), of bis.
wardrobe. After he had completed his toilet,
he requeeted of Warden Kliue the privilege of
going from the cei] for the purpose of 5

h
fiy
0 one of the lower

ing them.

+the corridora he re-entered

hie cell singing, the deputy warden- remainin

outside. A few minutce past ix o'cloc
bis breakfast, consisting of coffed, flannel cakes,
cako, bread, fried poratoos aud fried chicken, was
handed him, which he a;peared to, greatiy
relish, especially*the chicken. Breakfast over,
he re @loging, “Amn going homo tq, die ne

more"! &e,

le aang for about fifteen minutes, then en-
gaged in prayer, Dut the worde uscd by hin. were
#0 mixed up that thelr troo cnuncintion could
not be understood. by persons etauding ton fect
from thecell. Jt appeared ae if ho wae jumbiing
together all the plous words over committed to
memory by him, hie idea apparently being that
sacred words, no matterhow placed together
and uttered from the heart, were all that wae
requisite for prayor. i, ‘
RACKEIVING THE @ACRAMENT, 7

At fiftecn minute before evven o'¢! \)
at Btls whu had been in (he parlor of the Ja I,
fof bome time, accompatied by the uncle of Pale
niere 9 psu of having

@®e@eeeoeneaeqneaenenaeneneneoeneaend @

42 The Master Detective

Cadillac, but the Ohio

emerged with two other men. They were
license plates, which had

Goldberg and Leon Kraemer.

The three bandits got in the Cadillac and
drove to the Chantee Club, on West Fifty-
second Street. Sullivan
followed them to the
entrance, but did not
go in, knowing that he
would be spotted im-
mediately as a ‘detec-
tive. Instead, he took
up a‘position across the
street, and waited. He
was resolved ‘to stick
to the trail until Whit-
temore led him to the
rest of the gang.

Whittemore, Gold-
berg and Leon Krae-
mer remained in the
club from 10 p.'M. until
5 a. Mm, Still Detective
Sullivan, and Detective
Cronin, who had joined
him, waited. When the
bandits left the Chan-
tee Club, at 5 o'clock
on the morning of
March 17th, Sullivan
and Cronin followed.
The bandits drove to
Fifth Avenue and
turned north. At
Fifty-fifth Street,
the Cadillac was
lost in the early
traffic. The de-

tectives drove rapidly north until they came to Fifty-eighth
Street, where they again spotted the Cadillac, just as the

big car nosed west, and sped on. Here the trail was lost
altogether.

That afternoon, Sullivan and Cronin picked up Whitte-

more’s trail at the Candy ‘Kid’s apartment. Whittemore

and Goldberg were leaving the apartment in the same

THE END OF THE ROAD!
The father, widow and brother of the
arch-killer look on as “a creaking cof-
fin lowers the body of Richard Reece
Whittemore to its final resting place.

been on the car the day
before, had been changed
for tags issued in New
York.

The bandit pair went
to the Hotel Astor,
parked the car outside,
and went in and had din-
ner, After dinner, Whit-
temore and Goldberg
went to Loew’s Arcade,
Broadway and Sixty-
sixth Street, where they
stayed for forty minutes.
They then drove down
town to a place on Mott
Street, went in and
stayed an hour. It was
near this house on Mott
Street that a Nash
Coupe, which later de-
veloped to have belonged
to Simon Gilden, the
murdered banc *, Was
found, the day atter Gil-
den’s body was discov-

ered lying in Trinity
Churchyard.
FROM Mott Street,

Sullivan and Cronin
trailed the bandits to the
Chantee “Club, where
they remained again un-
til 5 o’clock in the morn-
ing. Leaving the Chan-
tee Club, Whittemore
and Goldberg drove up
Broadway to a café at
Eighty-sixth Street. The
bandits ate breakfast
there, and getting into
their car, turned the ma-
chine around, and started
back down town, driv-
ing on Broadway.

Whittemore was at the
wheel, and despite the
fact that he and Gold-
berg had not been to bed that night, the robber chief
seemed in an agreeable frame of mind. He throttled the
motor of the Cadillac down to less than ten: miles per
hour, settled himself in the cushioned seat, and drove
along at a leisurely pace, until he reached Columbus
Circle, where Broadway intersects triangularly with Cen-
tral Park West and Central Park South.

By then, the morning had worn well on into mid-
forenoon, as the bandits had taken some time for break-
fast in the café at Broadway and Eighty-sixth Street. At
Columbus Circle, Whittemore nosed the big car in at a
public hack-stand, let out the gears, and allowed the
machine to coast to a stop.

Just as the automobile was coming to a standstill,
Whittemore looked up into a rear-view mirror, attached
to the top of the windshield. What he saw there caused
him to jerk himself erect in the driver’s seat, accelerate
the car’s motor, which had not been stopped, and reach
for the gear-shift lever.

The big Cadillac’ fairly leaped into motion, as Whitte-
more let out his clutch, and pressed his: foot hard on the
accelerator. (Continued on page

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his gun, answered the volley. Sullivan
pulled in at the curb across the street
from where the bandits sat in their car,
and he also got busy with his revolver.
As the detectives exchanged shots with
the rebbers, Sullivan and Cronin, defy-
ing death, leaped out of their machine
and started advancing toward Whitte-
more and Goldberg, firing as they ran.
Whittemore was too tired to fight,
and Goldberg hadn’t the nerve. The
bandits dropped their guns, znd ele-
vated their hands.
Both Whittemore and Goldberg
stoutly denied any connection with a
gang of any kind, and they were par-
ticularly emphatic in their denials of
participation in the Fifth Avenue and
Forty-eighth Street diamond robbery.
Whittemore, when questioned at
Headquarters by I:ispector Coughlan,
and again in the office of District At-
torney Joab H. Banton, thought it
amusing that those officials should
“mistake” him for Richard Reece
Whittemore, alias the Candy Kid.

WHEN confronted with a rogues’
gallery photograph of himself, to-
gether with a set of finger-prints that
were unmistakably his own, the bland
young thief and murderer seemed
shocked at the remarkable resemblance.
“Now,’ /sn’t that an unfortunate co-
incidence, mee: he said, feigning
amazement. “It is just such little
things-/nat cause the law to send inno-
cent men to prison,” he added, return-
ing his picture to the District Attorney.
But Whittemore was not the only
one wid was enjoying the little farce
of ,“nistaken identity.” Inspector
Cousalan persisted in his efforts to con-
vinee the Candy Kid that he was him-
self. Another of the Inspector’s aces
in tle hole were two signatures. One
wasihat of Richard Reece Whittemore,
and the other of John Vaughn, photo-
yahed from the guest register at
gel Embassy. The handwriting was
idéntical in each case.

"Whittemore had nothing to say to
this, but only settled himself more
comfortably in his chair, and continued
to ook innocently from _ Inspector
Coughiin to District Attorney Banton.

On the day Detectives Sullivan and
Cronin. trailed Whittemore from his
apartment on Eighty-ninth Street, to a
small café on Eightieth Street, where
the bandit chieftain met Goldberg and
Leon Kraemer, Sullivan telephofied to
Headquariers, before following the tric¢
of thugs to ‘he Chantee Club, and re

The Master Detective

(Continued from page 4)

ported that another of the pang had °
, Cronin .:

been located, Sullivan an
already had spotted Goldberg’s .and
Whittemore’s hideouts, and when the
officers saw them come out of the café
with a third man, they knew that they
had discovered the hang-out of one
more member of the gang.

When Inspector Coughlan received
Sullivan’s telephone call, he assigned
Detectives Thomas Horan and Edward
Tracey to watch the place on Eightieth
Street, for the possible appearancé
there of any additional members : of
the band.

These officers kept the café constant-
ly under surveillance, until the day cf
the arrest of Whittemore and Goldberg
at Columbus Circle. ‘When Sulliven
and Cronin reached Headquarters wiih
their prisoners, Inspector Coughlan sent
word to Detectives Horan and Tracey
to nab anyone in the café of wham
they might be suspicious.

ust a few minutes before receiving
this order from Coughlan, however, the
officers watching the café had seen Leon
Kraemer enter the place, an/ they
waited until he came out. Whe: Krae-
mer finally left the café, he took a taxi-
cab to a house at Amsterdam. Avenue
and Seventy-third Street. Tracey and
Horan followed.

Arriving at the place almost at the
same time Leon Kraemer g/t there, the
officers followed the, Dutchnan into the
house, and into an apariment on the
first floor. There they zrrested Leon
Kraemer and his cunning brother, Jake.

On the following dzy, detectives went
to the Hotel Embass/, and took Whit-
temore’s wife into custody. Cursing
like an old sea dog, the Tiger Girl was
taken before Inipector Coughlan, who
began to gtill ver for information re-
garding the nimerous robberies that
the Candy Ki/had engineered in New

York. Her reply to the inspector was:.

“Why, daran your dirty souls, do I
look like a snitch?”
And ‘hai’s about all the police ever
ot out of the Tiger Girl. She was
ater released, and is now leading a
most fespectable life. The Tiger Girl,
after all, was a victim of circumstances.
Ths two Kraemer brothers, when
uesioned by detectives, seemed in a
deel They declared that nothing was
,farher from the truth than the police
’ acdisation implicating them in a hold-
vp gang.
“Vy, dot ain’t so,” vowed Jake
Kraemer, when told that he was a
member of Whittemore’s outfit. “I ban

wan honest tailor, all ‘mine life,” he
said, indignantly. !

However, when Jake Kraemer’s
record was looked up, he was found to
have served time in a score of Ameri-
can prisons, and’ half as many in other
countries. Scotland Yard wanted him
at that very moment for embezzlement.

With the arrest of Whittemore, his
wife, Goldberg and the Kraemer
brothers, information began to seep
into Headquarters from underground
sources, regarding the various members
of the gang.

IVAL gang leaders, elated over the

" capture of their enemy, the Candy
Kid, were eager to see the entire outfit
put away. It has been said that one

angster, in the hope of winning the
iger Girl for his own, after Whitte-
more was safely out of the way, fur-
nished the information which led to the
arrest, on March 19th, of Anthony
Paladino.

Paladino was arrested at his home in
Brooklyn, locked up, allowed to
“sweat” for some time, and then taken
before District Attorney Banton. Pala-
dino, anxious to save his own hide,
spilled the works.

His confession, which he dictated to
one of District Attorney Banton’s sec-
retaries, has been called a text-book on
crime. It covered twenty-two type-
written, legal-size pages. In it, Pala-

dino told in vivid detail of every move .

the gang made while operating in
Manhattan.
_ Paladino now is free on bail, pend-
ing final outcome of some of the cases
that still are held against members of
the gang. With the exception of Whit-
temore and Paladino, all the members
of the gang are serving long-term sen-
tences in Sing Sing.

iy the arrest of Paladino, Inspec-
tor Coughlan launched a nation-wide
search for Bill Unkelback, the only one
of the bandit outfit at large.

UNKELBACK had read in the news-

papers of the arrest of his asso-
ciates, and having been the only mem-
ber of the gang to remain stricihy away
from the others except when actually
engaged in committing robberies, he
was able to flee New York-before the
detectives located him.

Inspector Coughlan learned that
Unkelback’s trail led to Cleveland, and
he asked the authorities there to search
for the fugitive. On March 21st, word

(Continued on page 8)

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The Master Detective

On the Red Trail of the Candy Kid

The bandit car plunged wildly for-
ward, bucked a little, and then ab-
sorbed the gas. Whittemore headed
the machine into Central Park South,
crossed the intersection of Seventh and
Sixth Avenues at sixty miles per hour,
and just as the speedometer climbed to
sixty-five, the bandit yanked the steer-
ing wheel sharply to the left, turned
the corner on two wheels® and sped
north on Fifth Avenue.

Close behind came the police car,
driven by Detective Walter Sullivan,
with Detective Cronin sitting beside
him. The officers had nosed their car
in behind the bandit machine when
Whittemore stopped at Columbus Cir-
cle. and; having tired of the little game
of tag which they had been playing
with the pair of robbers for two full
nights and days, Sullivan and Cronin
decided to end it by arresting Whitte-
more and Goldberg.

Sullivan had reached for his gun,
as had Cronin. That was what Whit-
temore had seen when he looked into
the rear-view mirror.

THE early morning chase through
Central Park, with two men turning
corners, weaving in and out, of the
crooked park drives, in a big black
Cadillac car, with another automobile,
not quite so large, but every bit as
fast, hurtling along in their wake, is
one of the high lights in the story of
the Whittemore robber band.

Dozens of persons, out for an early
spring stroll in the park, narrowly es-
caped being run down and crushed to
death by the speeding machines. When
Whittemore turned north into Fifth
Avenue, he pressed the accelerator flat
against the floor boards of the car, and
held a straight course for more than
thirty blocks.

The Cadillac, with the pursuing po-
lice car, roared past the intersections of
Ninetieth, Ninety-first, Ninety-second,
until the Reservoirs, just off to the
left, were passed. Several times Whit-
termore had been tempted to turn into
one of the roads which led westward
into the Park from Fifth Avenue, but
each time he passed one of those drives,
the road either turned too sharply
back to the north, just a little way in-
side the park area, or he failed to see
the drive soon enough to make a safe
turn.

The police car was steadily eating
up the distance that separated the hun-
ters from the hunted. In another five
minutes, Whittemore knew that the
officers would be upon him, forcing
his machine off the road into the curb.

Goldberg, who sat beside his leader,
gripping the door tightly with hands
that shook, looked back, and saw Sulli-
van, as the detective began pulling
slowly, but steadily towar the center
of the avenue, preparatory to cree ing
up beside the bandit car. Goldberg
looked ahead, and spied another road
leading back into the park, off to the
left. The bandit car was nearin
Ninety-sixth Street, and the Par
drive, known as Transverse Road

(Continued from page 42)

Up to the very end, the Candy Kid

assumed an air of bravado. This photo

was taken in prison not long before he
made the trip to the gallows

Number 4, was just beyond. Goldberg
shouted above the roar of the engine,
and Whittemore shook his head.

To make the turn from Fifth Avenue
into the Transverse road meant a sud-
den swerve to the left. And a left
turn just then was practically impos-
sible, because of the nearness of the
pursuing officers, who were nosing their
car upon the left side of the robbers.
A turn to the left would mean a crash,
and Whittemore knew that he would
suffer the worse for a smash-up, be-
cause his car would be rammed in the
side by the police car.

He had less than a block to go, be-
fore he reached the Transverse Park
Drive, just beyond Ninety-sixth Street.
The big Cadillac was doing better than
sixty-five, and Whittemore realized
that that was too fast to make a sharp
curve. But Sullivan and Cronin were
gaining! Another hundred feet, and
the cars would be abreast... .

Whittemore, bandit and murderer
though he was, had nerve, plenty of
it. And it was not the bottled brand,
either, nor the kind that is found in
needles. For Candy Kid Whittemore

neither drank to excess, nor was he
addicted to narcotics.

The bandit car was sfill good for a
few additional miles per hour speed,
and Whittemore, gritting his teeth,
gave the motor all the gas that the
carbureter would take. The car leaped
forward, and the slim finger inside the
speedometer bounced merrily to and
fro, and came back to hee on the
number seventy-two, just as Whitte-
more rose a little out of his seat, and
pulled with all his strength on the
steering wheel.

Sullivan, who had dropped behind
a few feet when the bandit car picked
up speed, suddenly found himself wrest-
ling with the wheel of his own car, to
steer clear of the Cadillac, as the big
black machine whirled almost com-
pletely about, and headed off in a
northwesterly direction, in the park
drive.

Whittemore had made the curve.

BY Sullivan wasn’t going to lose his
quarry, just because of Whitte-
more’s Barney Oldfield driving. The
detective could pull a mean steering
wheel, himself, in a pinch. After get-
ting the police car under control, Sul-
livan, with the car still making fiftv
miles per -hour, also rode his wheel.
and the police car shot into the Park
drive.

The driveway, into which the bandit
had turned, hoping to shake his pur-
suers, abruptly turned back south, and
Whittemore soon found himself emerg-
ing from the Park at exactly the same
spot at which the chase had begun.
Columbus Circle. Then, at Seventh
-Avénue and Central Park South, the
‘Candy Kid sprung a surprise.

Tired, with all hope of outdistanc-
ing the officers gone, Whittemore ap-
plied his brakes, reached for his gun,
and waited for the detectives to come
up within pistol range. As Sullivan
headed the police car out of the park,
a fusillade of shots rang out. Leaden
pellets sang over the officers’ heads,
some burying themselves in the body
of the car.

Cronin, whose hands were free to use

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been in
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He had eluded capture in Cleveland by
minutes.

Detective Joseph Daly, John Cordes
and James Walsh were sent to the
Pennsylvania Station to meet the train
on which Unkelback was known to
have left Cleveland. But Unkelback
was not to be taken so easily! He was
not on the train. The bandit had
slipped off somewhere along the line,

had met_ the
train called at the baggage office of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and asked to
look over the trunks that had arrived
They, located three trunks

call for them.

It was March 23rd before a man
came to claim the trunks. The claimant
told the baggageman that his name
was Morris Reube
claim checks. The trunks were Te-
leased to him, and Reuben made ar-
rangements with a truckman to remove
them to a number on Manhattan
Avenue. j

The three detectives waited until
Reuben got into a taxicab and started
away, then, driving a police car, fol-
lowed. They trailed the man to a
tourist agency, where Reuben went 1n
and booked passage to France for two
persons. ;

When Reuben
back into his cab, he directed the
driver in a i
shook the officers in heavy traffic. After
pick
who

ot out.
the best way to
gain entrance to the house, and ha
finally decided that the safest bet
would be for one of them to go alone,
and by a ruse, get into the house, and
ascertain just who lived there.

pus arrangement
double advantage.
of his youthful appearance, with noth-
ing about him that would mark hjm
for a detective, could easily get into
the place before the occupants sus-
pected his purpose, thereby eliminating
the possibility of the officers being
locked out because of the absence of a
search warrant. And while they were
hammering on the door in an attempt
to force entrance, Unkelback, if it
really was he, who lived there, would
have ample time to escape by a rear
exit.

Cordes’ ruse, also, would prevent a
gun battle with the quick-triggered
Unkelback, whom __ the detectives
wished to take back to Headquarters
sitting up, not lying down. The ar-
rangement was one of the most intelli-

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(Continued from page 6)
gent means of apprehending @ dan-
gerous criminal ever affected by a
police officer, as you will ‘soon see.

Just as the three officers stopped
their car at the entrance to the block,
they saw a taxicab pull: up in front
of the house they were watching, and
let a passenger out. The man who got
out of the cab was Reuben, who must
have stopped again after leaving, the
tourist agency, before proceeding to
his home.

Cordes sauntered up the street, stop-
ping every now. and then in front of
some house, apparently to read the
numbers. He carried a magazine un-
der his arm, to make it appear that he
was a solicitor of some Kind. Reuben
glanced at him, but fuspected nothing.

Reuben rang the door bell and
waited for possibly two minutes, be-
fore a rather good-looking woman

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came .and_ peered out. Cordes had
gained the front steps of the house ad-
joining, and was reading the mmes of
the residents on cards just outide the
door... ‘

The woman who had come in inswer
to Reuben’s ring, asked:

‘ “Who's there?”

“It’s Ruby, dear,” the man answerel
in a low tone.

“Is it all right?”
anxiously.

“Sure,” Reuben replied. The door was
opened, and Reuben started to enter.

By this time, Cordes had walked up
behind Reuben, and pretended to be
peering at the cards of the resident:
of that building. As Reuben took the
inside the door, Cordes
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she then asked,

room.

Cordes had drawn his gun, and stood
over Reuben and his wife, peering into
the semi-darkness of the place. Inside
was a man lying on his back on a
lounge, reading a newspaper, and an-
other woman.

“l’m from the Narcotic Squad,”
Cordes introduced himself, pointing his

revolver at the man lying on the couch.
“I’m looking for the veut,”
Unkelback, for it was he who was on
the couch, shook his head: é
“You've got me wrong, feller. | don't

sell the stuff, though I use it a little.

What you find here is my own supply.”

But Cordes was insistent:

“Yeah, I’ve heard that before. |
know who you are. You're the agent
of one of the biggest dope runners in
the country. But I’m not after you.
I want the big fellow, and if you don't
tell where he is, I will have to take
you,” the detective said.

Unkelback smiled good-naturedly,
as he said:

“Pm a good fellow. Take these.”
He removed a platinum watch and
chain from his vest pocket, took one
hundred dollars from his wallet and
handed them to Cordes.

“That lets you out,” the detective
said, taking the proffered bribe, “but
ro got to help me get the big fel-
ow.

Unkelback’ shrugged:

“| haven’t got another hundred, but
if you'll forget the big fellow, I'll get
it for you.”

“All right, but I'll have to drive you
down to Headquarters. I gotta pro-
tect myself, you know.”

Unkelback grumbled at the incon-
venience, but finally got up and ac-
companied Cordes outside, and up the
street a little distance, where Detec-
tives Daly and Walsh were waiting.

One of the first questions that_was
asked Unkelback when the officers
ae Headquarters with him, was:

“Who killed Simon Gilden?”

_ Wnkelback did not hesitate a mo-
‘ment, but said vehemently:

“Whittemore. The Candy Kid shot
him down in that churchyard, because
he was afraid of Gilden. We missed
Simon from the gang at first, but
Whittemore said that he had turned
coward, and beat it back to Cleveland.

“T knew the Kid was lying, but I
didn’t let on to the rest of the mob.
1 asked Whittemore about it one time,
and he admitted the whole thing.”

When asked if he had planned to
take a trip abroad, Unkelback replied:

“Yes, | have a wife in Cleveland, and
a nice little home there, on Eastern
Boulevard. She_thinks I'm an honest
business man. That's how :I explained
my trips to New York to her. She was
to meet me here in a few days, and we
were going to France.”

All members_of the gang with the
exception of Whittemore, were con-
icted of robbery in the first degree,
and sent to Sing Sing for long terms.

Whittemore was first turned over to
the Buffalo police, for questioning in
connection with the robbery of the
armored bank-car, and the murder of
two guards, He was tried for murder—
and acquitted. The Candy Kid was
then extradited to Baltimore, tried for
the murder of Robert Holtman, the
Maryland State Prison guard, con-
victed for murder, and hanged in
Baltimore at 12:01 A.M. On riday.
August 13th, 1926!.

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Honorable Judges of the Provincial Court the trial of George Wilson,
alias Newton or Jones, who has been so often mentioned as being con-=
cerned in the murder of Capt. Smith about 15 months ago in St, Mary's
Cos, when he was found Guilty and after so many escapes, prison
breakings, etc., will undoubtedly be hanged,” PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE,
Philadelphia, Penna., May 1h, 1752.

Joseph Wright { mace ~ © “Chestertown, | RBASEF March 2h, 1899

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Petition signed by 00 persons erequesting clemency taken to Governor by Col, William J, Vannort
but Governor declined commutazkion, Kad two trials, the first in Cn
—— eT ll for lst ree and 1 for senone —— cabins ee: at Easton boasrebcedter ene

pai ag as 5 Big Woda, ifeaa William Wewoasb, aged 49, He had a comfortable 9% suptounded ite
good citizen, Around 7:30 on nite of 11-l-1897, he went 4
store of William Simmons, a quarter of a mile away, to talk with firneds, Soon after arrival, a
number of other blacks came in, including Wright and Fletcher Anders, each about 21, They had
been drinking and were soon in a stupor, About 11 o'clock someone proposed that they all go up
to a festival being held in Fountain Church, wright cb woke Anderson and they started out of
sote arm-in-arm, In going out, Anderson fell over Newce a
marked "Mind how you fall or someone will get hurt." iiderece said nothing but Wright said:

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abated re Wright shined After “he shot, Weleht % was heaed to yeni ny ianted ‘to get you and
now I am satisifed, They can put me in jail or hang me, I don't care." BALTIMORE MORNING HERALD
March 2h, 1899 ; :

_—Firty witneeses, Tasluaing officials. Hanged ay Hees ie OF An Peck ate veerves ber ae

ote and rare ak same = Ate fair bi irewchat: ey of tpeadnen bees and “the. Other Biel ae

af. waniater a sharit?, hace aay pen to Chief Dep, Sh, Gill: "Mister eiankte, you certaisieg ree
have been might good to me," d_to fail and he fairly shrank away as black cap was
placed over head, As noose was placed over head, spoke last words as he appeared about to fall:
"I'm trusting in the Lord," then trap fell, the rope had slipped on beam and his feet struck the
ground, When feet stritck ground, spectators could plainly hear him sayk "Oh, my God," Tried to
“\straighten a at on hme Quickly ll isa beta ani ee and nese aca ary oe =. se
was a foo

Ld Soca) lmuse £07 jail. BALTIMORE MORNING D HERALD, March 25, 1899

LAST WOROS

EXECUTION

SOURCE

FRANK NEWTON OFFICE SUPPLY-COTHAN

HANGED FOR ‘MU RDERY

. ‘ PRAT. dk ce Sallans f
Execution Of Joseph ‘Wright, Cole
‘ored,. For Killing Wm, Newe -
ee comb In Kent County.) >. :
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.}..
‘ CHESTERTOWN, MD;, March 24.—Joseph
Wright,' colored, the murderer of William}
Newcomb, colored, wag hanged in’ Ches- |
} tertown Jail, yard. at twenty-three malo:
y utes to, 9 o’clock.this. morning. Drs. Jo- |
ceph' A. Catlin and Harry L. Dodd, the at: |
tending physiciins,’ declared life ‘extinct
at the end of eleven minutes, the prison-
er's neck having been broken by the fall
ct the drop. About one hundred and fifty
people, white and colored, swarmed atonnd
‘the high tnclosure of the. jail. yard, but
could sev nothing of the execution.” Per-
fect’ order. prevailed. The crowd, soon, dis-
Dersed after the drop fell... 2.) Syp
Wright's ,Jast night differed little from
others. he spent: In. prison. At: 6 o'clock”
last evening he ate a tempting supper sent
hing by Mrs. William J. Vannort, w 0, with
her husband, Col; ° Vannort; beaded ‘the
strong tight, for the prisoner's life; -He re-
tlred at 10 o'clock without. having shown:
any .eigns of Tervoushess and slept sound:
ly unt 8 o'clock this morning, whén“he
awoke.and prayed aloud in‘bis cell. -His
prayers were’ interrupted by the. singing
of hymus by fellow-prizoners, In which. the ’
congemned man joined with ‘feeling. At
6.45 o'clock -n nicely cooked breakfast ‘of
heefsteak, buttered hot rolls and coffee
was pattaken of with relish. ‘The prisoner |
only talked to those who ‘asked him ques- |
tlons.’ He said he fell all right and was.re-’
signed, He belleyed he was. golng . to
Heaven... - Hg ROO RM, Sy be
Between 7 and.8 a'clock Wesley’ Hyn- |
son, Alexander Boyer. and Alexander But-
ler, fellow-prisoners, were allowed to bid
the condemned. man goodd-byé. As ‘the
hands of the jail clock indicated 8.80 Dep-.
ty Sheriff Gill’ went to the,cel} and sald:
tracert open the cell for you for the Jast |
‘time.’ REC E tere es a eet a
The prisoner replied: “Yes sir, but I am
ready to go." - FSS E elie Bry vise OF
‘He was ‘perfectly. cool when: the march |
to the gallows commenced: He walked
to the fout of the #talrway.unagsisted, byt
the deputy helped’ Jilm ‘in: ascending the.
steps leqding to the’ scaffuld. His sp-ritual

adviser’ bade. him ‘good-bye, saying! 2S
- “Good-bye, Joey trust in the Lora.

ev answer was given in.a firm: tone.of
volce: “I ant trasting.In the’ Lord.*® = =°"
“When asked ‘on the ‘scaffold ffhe had
anything .to say, he-.answered .no, -vut. re-
quested that he be ‘allowed to bid ‘gbod-bye- |
to Sheriff Roe, Deputy Gill and ‘his ‘death:
watch, Connelly and Storke::These yood- }
byes. were said: with much feeling and he
thanked then for ‘their. uniform kindness. |
_ Rey. D. AL Ridout~ offered :a fervent |
prayer. The: prisoner: was plnioned, the }
noose, adjusted and the black ‘cap placed
over bis head.* His tast words. were:; “1 |

a@m trusting in the Lord." ek oe
Sheriff Roe; stinding onthe steps below |
‘the platform,,

‘pulled’ ‘the lever and. the |
body shot through the trap. Relatives hay-.
ing expresset]. thelr inability. to take
‘charge of. the body it was‘ conveyed. to the
, county -almshouse, for, burial; 00-85 200”
Wright was: ‘hung from. the sinte, cell
from. which Thomas. Thompson. was bung
lh 1802," and Frisby: Comegya, one‘of :the
Miurdererg of .Dr. Hill, ‘was hung [0 1894.:
The. deputy ‘sheriff, the apirityal advisér, |
thevtwo deathwatch. and . thee reporters
Were the only. ones ou the scaffold when.
the trop fell. Only a few ‘others were al-
lowed In:the Jal) yard.: The. execution: was
As near private..as it was possible*to
have.lt..¢00 02.9%) ous. Pag La
A strong sentiment exists-in Chester.
‘town for’ the execution of all death’ sen-
tences at the State “penitentiary, ag was |

Suggested by Governur Frank Brown, and |

the next Legislature will be asked to pase
‘such a law. ‘it is claimed by prominent |
] citizeng that it would not only be ‘A. mat.
ter of ecouomy, ‘but would lessen’ the }
danger from :‘lynchings and would at the. |
same time reileve rural. districts of the {
} demoralizing effects of. executions and. |
j Cauger of mob violence In many cases, ~~”
/ Joseph Wright, the prisoner executed |
} today, was boro-in Cecil county in 1877::
i He was in the twenty-second year of bis:
age. William Newcomb, colored, whom he.
khot with a pistol,’ was sixty years of age.:
Wright persisted’ that the shooting was
the result of a. spree, when he was drunk
for the. first time {n his: Hfe, and that he
bore no malice'te the -victim. ae AE ee
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38 The Master Detective

Whittemore, with his reckless daring, controlling the
lever of a robber machine, the mainspring of which was
Jacob Kraemer, the cunning Dutchman, and Jacob’s shrewd
brother, Leon, hit Broadway with the: force of a tidal
wave, and with equal unexpectedness. He controlled a
band of jackals whose names are legend in New York
crime annals.

There was Bill Unkelback, the stolid Pole whom even
Whittemore respected, because of Unkelback’s ready trigger
finger; Simon Gilden, from Whittemore’s home city of
Baltimore who was constantly complaining about his
share of the loot; Milton Goldberg, the tight-lipped young
Hebrew, who_ accepted
whatever was offered him,
with thanks; Anthony
Paladino, whom the State
of New York is so desir-
ous of protecting, for what
reason you will learn a
little later on and, of no
less importance, the
Tiger Girl, Whittemore’s
lawfully wedded wife.

THE gang’s first job in

New York came like a
bolt from the blue. It
had been some time since
the New York police had
had to deal with a real
tough stick-up mob, and
the authorities figured
that the bigger guns in
the business had given up
the idea of pulling that
sort of thing, in the hope
of getting away with it.

It didn’t take a great
deal of heavy thinking for
Inspector John D, Cough-
lan, of headquarters, to figure
out just what kind of a
bunch he had to fight when,
at about 10 o’clock on the
morning of May 9th, 1925,
he got a report that five men
had just held up the Jacques
Ross Jewelry Store, at 290
Grand Street, and escaped
with unset diamonds valued
at $75,000.

Detectives Walter Sullivan
and Thomas Horan were as-
signed to the case. These
officers, after hurrying to the
scene of the robbery, and do-
ing the only thing they
could do, which was to get
descriptions of the bandits,
the kind of car they drove
and the direction they took
away from the jewelry
store, reported back to
Coughlan that a new gang
had invaded Manhattan.

Of course, at the time, the
detectives had no way of
knowing the identity of the
youthful leader of the band,
who was described by wit-
nesses to the Ross robbery as being a rather small man,
with black curly hair, nobbily attired in a suit of the
latest cut and design, and smilingly cool.

the toils of the law.

Kid, accompanied by the
whoopee along New York’
The elusive Whittemore,. be

Another of the robbers was described as tall, spare of
hips, with distinct Dutch features and an accent that was

thought to be Dutch.

He had not been nervous, bu!

neither was he as cool as the younger man who, from his

manner, obviously had been the leader.

The second man,

as you have probably guessed, was Jacob Kraemer. The
three others were Bill Unkelback, Milton Goldberg, and
Anthony Paladino, a trio of amateurs who never had
pulled anything of importance in the way of crime up until

that time.

Paladino had been sent from New York a

couple of years before to do a hitch in Elmira Reforma-
tory, for*some petty theft.

While he was wanted for murder, the audacious Candy

Tiger Girl (above) made
s Gay White Way.
tween two officers, is seen in
What thoughts are passing
through his cunning mind?

(Top)

customers.
the counter, and herded the
proprietor of the establish-
ment
Paladino prodded the two
customers in the ribs with
his revolver,
toward the room in the rear,
where Kraemer had driven
Ross.
room where the safe sat in
one corner,
cuffed and gagged the three
men, and ordered them to
lie down on the floor.

It was a smooth rob-
bery, was that Ross jew-
elry store job, Whitte-
more, Jake Kraemer and
Paladino entered the
place, leaving Unkelback
sitting in the gang’s Cadil-
lac touring car, while
Goldberg stationed him-
self just outside the en-
trance, his gun ready to
clear a path for his asso-
ciates, if a quick get-away
should become necessary.
There was no lost mo-
tion. The Candy Kid
just sauntered in, with an
air of proprietorship, and
in that low, pleasant voice
of his, made known his
business, punctuating his
words with a polite wave
of his gun.

Ross, the jeweler, had
just brought out the last
of several trays of unset
stones, and was showing
them to two prospective
Kraemer vaulted

into a back room.

and motioned

Back in the small

Paladino hand-

J RAEMER quickly looted

the safe of everything of

value, and hurried back to
the front, where Whittemore
was dumping several hand-
fuls of stones into two can-
vas_ bags.
the’ loot from the safe to
that taken from the display
cases, and the bandits dashed
for the door, jumped in the
car, and drove rapidly away.

Kraemer added

Detectives Sullivan and

Horan, who arrived at the

jewelry store about ten minutes after the robbery, trailed
the Cadillac to Walker and Baxter Streets, and there lost

all trace of the machine.

It was later learned that the

Candy Kid, P
at that point
Brooklyn.

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Then he spoke, in a hard biting tone.

“What the hell are you trying to do,
anyway? Do you want to send the
whole damn bunch of us to the chair
for bumpin’ this guy? Yeah, like hell
you do! Another break like that, and
I’m quittin’! See?”

Whittemore, still unable to find his
voice, stood for a long minute and
stared at the man who had dared cross
Candy Kid, the killer. Jake Kraemer
came to Whittemore’s rescue, and
saved the bandit leader from further
humiliation by pushing Gilden into a
chair, and leading the Candy Kid by
the arm to a far corner of the room,
where the two men held a whispered
consultation.

THE diamond buyer, who had re-

mained to witness the scene between
Whittemore and Gilden, turned and
started toward the door. Kraemer
stopped him, however, and it was Jake
who completed the transaction for the
purchase of the Stanley loot. Kraemer
told the fence that Whittemore had re-
pented his hasty action, and had agreed
to sell the stuff for $15,000, the price
originally offered,

The actual value of those diamonds
was $100,000.

When the $15,000 was divided among
the seven robbers Whittemore ordered
his men to scatter, with a warning that
it would not be safe for any two of
them to be seen together for some
time.

One man, he said, could elude cap-
ture, where two or more together would
attract attention instantly, because of
the perfect descriptions that the Candy
Kid knew were at that time being
broadcast throughout Greater New
York. Goldberg was instructed to keep
in touch with Whittemore daily by
telephone, and all the others were told
to communicate with Goldberg from
time to time, and keep him posted
about where they might be reached
ve he, Whittemore, spot a good
job.

Before the gang split up that day,
however, Whittemore called his thugs
together and asked them to forget the
little affair with the fence, promising
to keep his head in the future. He
said he realized that the safety of the
whole gang depended upon every in-
dividual member’s ability to keep his
head in a crisis. The Candy Kid called
Gilden to one side, and in front of
Jake Kraemer, commended Gilden
for having prevented an act which
might have sealed the doom of. all
seven.

Whittemore went from Levy’s Hotel
to West Eighty-ninth Street, where he
and his pretty wife lived in a luxuri-
ously furnished six-room apartment.
When they were not at this address,
Whittemore and the Tiger Girl lived
at the Hotel Embassy, in separate
suites. She was known at the Embassy
as Margaret Collins, and he as John
Vaughn. Upon arrival at their apart-
ment on West Ejighty-ninth Street, the
Candy Kid recounted the robbing of
Stanley’s, and the argument that

ensued on Coney Island between nim-
self and Simon Gilden.

Later that evening, Whittemore took
his wife to the Embassy, left her at the
entrance, and went to the Hotel Em-
pire, where Goldberg and Gilden were
staying. He called Gilden on the house
telephone, and made an appointment
for 11 o’clock that night.

Al the appointed time, Whittemore
«* and Gilden met near Trinity
Church, at the corner of Third Avenue
and 127th Street. It was very dark,
in the shadows of the church, and the
two men approached one another cau-
tiously, each gripping the butt of his
revolver. Gilden was a little puzzled
at being called to such a place at that
hour, but he knew that he was duty
bound to go anywhere that Whittemore
might order him.

When the two men met, Whittemore
was walking slowly north on Sixth
Avenue. Whittemore passed within a
foot of Gilden, and motioned for
Gilden to follow. Neither spoke.
Gilden followed his bandit chief.

Whittemore turned the corner and
walked a little way on 127th Street,
stopping just outside the little church-
yard, in the deep shadows of the edifice.
Gilden approached, and spoke, barely
above a hoarse whisper.

“What’s up, Kid?”

“Come closer, so nobody will hear
us, and I’ll tell you,” Whittemore re-
plied, stepping farther back into the
shadows,

“Now, you dirty rat, get down on
your knees, and apologize for the little
show you pulled before that fence at
Benny’s today!”

The words were hissed through
clenched teeth, and Gilden, taken en-
tirely by surprise, stared wide-eyed into
the bore of Candy Kid Whittemore’s
forty-five.

Gilden shifted his gaze to look into
the face of the man who had spoken,
Simon Gilden read his doom in the
hard set jaw and bloodshot, murderous
eyes of the gangster aristocrat who
never broached any interference from
his henchmen. And in Whittemore’s
next words, Gilden heard his death
pronounced.

“I’m going to croak you right where
you stand!”

As Whittemore rasped out these
words, he pulled back the hammer of
his revolver, and took aim at Simon
Gilden’s head.

Will Simon Gilden escape this seem-
ingly certain doom?

Where will the Candy Kid and his
gang of desperadoes strike next?

What strange clue sets the man-
hunters on Whittemore’s trail?

The startling answers to these ques-
tions will appear in the second install-
ment of this amazing inside story to
appear in the March issue of THE
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as never before when you follow the
Candy Kid’s bandit machine, as it
roars through seething Fifth Avenue,
at sixty miles an hour, after one of the
boldest crimes on record!

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On the Red Trail

Candy Kid, Paladino and Goldberg got out of the Cadillac
at that point and took a taxicab to Paladino’s rooms, in
Brooklyn. Unkelback drove the gang’s machine to a
garage on South Street, and took a taxicab to the St.
George Hotel. From there he telephoned to the rest of
the gang, to tell them that the coast was clear.

Jake Kraemer, who had also been dropped near Walker
and Baxter Streets, went in search of a fence who would
take the loot off the gang’s hands.

About two hours after the robbery, all five men met in
a room at the St. George Hotel, and there awaited the
arrival of a well-known fence, ‘who had said
that he would bring the money. This par-
ticular fence, whose name | cannot use here
because of a case that is pending against him
at this time, is one of the biggest buyers of
stolen jewels in America.

HEN the fence arrived at the gang’s
rendezvous in the hotel, he examined the
stuff, and made an offer of $12,000. Gold-
berg objected, saying that the price: was too
low. Whittemore, too, be-
came angry at the small
offer. But the buyer
merely shrugged his
shoulders, and reached for
his hat.
Kraemer, veteran crook
that he was, saw in the

arguments a possible
break with the one man
in the world who could
throw a monkey wrench
in the machine, merely by
passing the word on to
other dealers that the
Candy Kid outfit was a rotten crew to deal
with. So Kraemer, with an apology to
Whittemore, whom he feared like death it-
self, closed the deal for $12,000.
Unkelback and Whittemore accompanied
the fence to 110th Street and Manhattan
Avenue to get the money, which was
divided equally among the brigands who
had participated in the job. Leon Kraemer
and Simon Gilden, who could not be lo-
cated in time to take part in the robbery,

of the Candy Kid ; 39

society leader in their home city of San Francisco. The
Chantee Club on West 52nd Street was a favorite hangout
for the whole gang, on the few occasions when they deemed
it safe to be seen together. :

Inspector Coughlan and his men were unable to get a
lead on the perpetrators of the Ross robbery. For Whitte-
more had proven himself a wise leader when he picked the
men who were to travel in his outfit. Every man had been
selected with a view to average stature, carriage, and gen-
eral characteristics, the two Kraemer brothers being the
only exceptions. Not a single member of the band would
have the least difficulty in passing as a young
business or professional man in any kind of
gathering. All were snappy dressers, and all
bold enough to face a detective anywhere
without a quiver of an eye lid, or the slight-
est display of nervousness.

With a gang like this preying upon so-
ciety, in a city the size of New York, it is
not hard to understand how the, Candy
Kid succeeded in pulling his bold, daylight
hold-ups and making good his escape after
each one of them.

The startling facts of
the inner workings of the
Candy Kid’s sinister band
have been gathered from
many authoritative
sources. Detectives, who
worked tirelessly day and

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night to apprehend the
super thug; newspaper
men, both of New . York
and Baltimore, and re-
formed criminals, who
were intimate associates
of Whittemore when the
bandit was in the heyday of his notoriety,
all have contributed bits of colorful and,
in many instances, inside information for
this story. Those former underworld char-
acters, from whom I secured startling facts
concerning Whittemore’s activities while
the bandit leader was enjoying the spoils
from a dozen bold robberies right in the
heart of Manhattan, must be protected. |
shall, therefore, leave their names entirely
out of this account of the Candy Kid and

were excluded from the division of the In the center is the Mary- his gang.
spoils. land State Penitentiary,

‘With the proceeds from that, Whitte- where Whittemore made FOLLOWING the Ross robbery, Whitte-
more’s first big haul in New York, the ee a more and his thugs scattered to various
Candy Kid and the Tiger Girl proceeded the tan ree tp Kid. hideouts in the city and its environs, the
to make whoopee on Broadway. Whitte- (Above) Leon Kraemer Candy Kid and the Tiger Girl going on a
more must have had several thousand dol- (upper left) Bill Unkel- protracted spree on Broadway, and _ the
lars from his Baltimore robberies when he Ceiba titts or the lesser members of the outfit preying upon
arrived in New York, because he was idle Candy Kid’s partners in small drug stores and outlying shops.
for several weeks following the Ross job. crime The next big haul was made on July [6th.

The Broadway night clubs knew him and

his pretty wife as Mr. and Mrs. Horace J. Waters, he a
big butter-and-egg man from the West, and she as a

The robbery was planned and rehearsed
for days before it was actually carried out. The entire
outfit of seven men met at Benny (Continued on page 83)

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The Master Detective

On the Red Trail of the Candy Kid

(Continued from page 39)

Levy’s Hotel, at Thirty-fifth Street and
Surf Avenue, Coney Island.

Jacob Kraemer, whose business it
was to spot the jobs to be pu re-
ported that he had selected the Stanley
Jewelry Company’s store at 269 Sev-
enth Avenue, Manhattan. He _ had
timed the place, both in the morning
and the afternoon, and thought that
the best time to “make the joint” would
be just at closing time, which was
around 6 Pp. M.

THE final meeting in Levy’s Hotel

was held on July 15th, and on the:

following day, Leon Kraemer met the
gang at Paladino’s rooms in Brooklyn
with a Packard sedan that he had
stolen from the streets. Seven bandits
loaded into the car and drove to Stan-
ley’s. Paladino entered and asked to
look at a signet ring. He was followed
a moment later by Leon Kraemer
and Goldberg. Whittemore followed
Kraemer and Goldberg, and his en-
trance into the store was the signal for
the three already inside to draw their
guns, and order the proprietor to
“stick ’em up.”

Jake Kraemer lounged against the
front of the building, his right hand
in his coat pocket, and his finger on
the trigger of his gun. Unkelback
leaned against a lamp post at the curb,
while Gilden lounged at the wheel of
the car, near-by.

It was all over in a minute. Whitte-
more had dashed behind the counters,
and was filling two canvas bags with
diamonds, while Paladino and Leon
Kraemer were snapping handcuffs on
the wrists of Stanley, the proprietor,
and another man who happened to be
in the store at the time it was held
up. Goldberg remained standing at
the counter, his body partially conceal-
ing Whittemore, as the gang leader
scooped up the loot.

Leaving the two men handcuffed and
gagged in a back room, the four rob-
bers working inside walked calmly out
of the place into a crowd of hundreds
of passersby, to the Packard sedan
parked at the curb. Unkelback climbed
in beside Gilden to the driver’s seat,
tipped his hat, and Jake Kraemer
sauntered away from the front of the
building, and took a seat beside Whitte-
more.

Gilden let out the clutch, drove with
the traffic for several blocks on Sev-
enth Avenue, circled the block, falling

into line with a stream of cars on “

Sixth Avenue, turned East, and came
to Fifth Avenue. He then crossed over
again to Seventh Avenue and drove
back toward Stanley’s Jewelry Store,
stopping the machine within a block
of the scene of the robbery, and let
Paladino out. A few blocks farther
on, Gilden surrendered the wheel to
Leon Kraemer, got out, and walked
back, until he met Paladino. The two
men took a cab to the garage on South
Street, got the gang’s own car, drove
around town, in the immediate vicinity

of Stanley’s, and finally headed to-
ward Coney Island. On the way there,
they picked up Jake Kraemer, who also
had been let out of the stolen Packard.

Paladino, Kraemer and Gilden then
drove to Coney Island, and went to
Levy’s Hotel to wait for the rest of
the gang. Whittemore showed up first
with one of the canvas bags. In a
little while, Unkelback came in, and
about five minutes afterward, Leon
Kraemer and Goldberg arrived, with
the other bag of loot.

When Jake Kraemer got out of the
Packard sedan which was used in the
escape, somewhere in the neighborhood
of ‘Thirty-fourth Street and Seventh
Avenue, he was met by the same fence
who had bought the loot from the Ross
job. The buyer had been advised of
the date and time the Stanley store
was to be robbed, and the exact move-
ments to be made by the gang fol-
lowing the raid. He knew just where
to wait for Jake Kraemer, who would
tell the fence where to meet the pack
a little later for an examination of the
jewelry.

So the gang knew, a few minutes
after the arrival at the Coney Island
hotel of Leon Kraemer and Goldberg,
that there was nothing to fear when a
light knock came at the door of the
room in which all seven bandits were
gathered. It was the buyer. He was
admitted, and Whittemore led him to
one of the two beds in the room, and
flipped back a sheet, disclosing the
jewels, scattered about on a piece of
black velvet.

“FIFTEEN GRAND,” said the fence,

as he picked up a handful of the
stones, and let them sift through his
fingers.

“Nothing doing! We want twenty
grand, or we don’t do business,”
Whittemore said, sitting down on the
side of the bed, and letting his hand
fall carelessly to his side.

The wary fence, noting the Candy
Kid’s movement, reached up and tilted
his hat to a rakish angle, and inserted
his thumbs in the armpits of his vest.

Mistaking the crooked diamond deal-
er’s upward movement of his hands as
a play for a gun, Whittemore leaped
from the bed, ducked low, and came
up with an ugly forty-five in his hand.

As the Candy Kid straightened to his
full height, his finger pressed hard
,against the trigger of his gun, his face
twitching and his eyes blazing with the
lust to kill, a hand fell heavily on his
shoulder, and another grasped his right
wrist. A deft movement of the hand
which held Whittemore’s wrist in a
vice-like grip, and the Candy Kid’s
forty-five clattered to the floor.

Whittemore, purple with rage, jerked
free of the man who had prevented him
from committing his second mur-
der, and wheeled about to stare into
the hard, cold eyes of Simon Gilden.

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Six detectives—count ’em—
escort Richard Whittemore
from New York to Baltimore

The Tiger Girl, Mrs. Richard Whitte-
more, listens attentively at the right
when sentence was pronounced on

Dick Whittemore

comfortable two-story private
e, with traditional white steps, in
northwestern section of the city
altimore. The two other children,
y and a girl, became refined, well-
ated and decent citizens and they
‘no place in the account of their
rer’s evil career.
*s. Whittemore, the mother, was a
1, slender woman who suffered
ill health after her children were
She died from tuberculosis in
when her eldest son was 20.
ever, her uncertain health did not
ent her from bringing up her chil-
thoughtfully and carefully, seeing
that they made the most of every
ntage available to them.
chard seemed to have all of the
1al instincts of good little boys and
ras especially fond of his younger
ver and sister. When he was six
vas sent to the public school and
yout the same time he became a
ergarten Bible Class student at
Methodist church.
bert Peach, the superintendent of
Sunday School, recalled that he
a bright-faced little fellow, and
tiably he was scrubbed so clean
his mother that his face fairly
e. Even at six, when he first ap-
ed at the Sunday School, he had
ered several of the hymns sung
he children, and he usually led
others in a clear, boyish voice.
oubtedly he was a bright child.

Sunday School, attended her own
Bible Class and then took him home
again. His father attended, too, and on
Sundays when Mrs. Whittemore didn’t
feel well enough to go out the father
was little Dick’s escort. From this we
can see how carefully Richard was
brought up, sheltered from every pos-
sible kind of evil environment.

HEREFORE it comes as a distinct

shock to discover that at the age of
nine, the sheltered young Richard de-
liberately stole eight spoons, two hymn
books and three tiny glasses used at
Communion, and carried them home
with him from a church supper. His
mother found them hidden in_ his
room and returned them to Superin-
tendent Peach. With tears streaming
down her cheeks she confessed that
she couldn’t understand what had
possessed her boy to make him steal.

So Richard Reese Whittemore was a
church thief at the age of nine. It
couldn’t have been his environment
that made him do it,’ for that always
had been of the best. It couldn’t have
been any inherited tendency, for there
never had been a thief or outlaw of
any kind in the Whittemore family or
among his parents’ relatives. And it
can’t be overlooked either as simply
a boyish trick; not in the light of
future events, What was it then? I
should say that it was simply because
Dick Whittemore was born to be

know exactly how to handle the child.
What parent would? His mother gave
him a stern lecture on the fruits of
honesty as compared with dishonesty,
and I presume that his father fanned
him with the razor strap. Both of them
watched the boy even more carefully
from that day, to make certain that he
had no evil associates and that he was
properly mastering the lessons of good
character building.

The next episode in this child’s ca-
reer is a regrettable one—and fatal for
his future, too. Visiting at the home of
some of their friends with his mother
and father, he found a pistol in a table
drawer, ran with it to the kitchen
door, aimed it in the general direction
of the neighboring house and pulled
the trigger. The bullet shattered a

ing him police arrived and the eleven-
year-old boy was arrested on the
charge of firing a pistol within the
Baltimore city limits.

The police apparently couldn’t or
didn’t realize that the youngster only
had been obeying an impulse typical
to almost any boy. They made the
grave error of taking him into court
on the charge. The judge dismissed
the complaint after giving Richard a
stern lecture. So it was that at the age
of eleven this strange youth made his
first appearance in court as a law-
breaker.

It is quite apparent that because of
this experience Richard developed
some kind of mental twist. From that
time forward he was the despair of
his kindly noarents Rranded 9 had hav

Born to Be

HANGED

By Larry Logsdon
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE ‘STORIES’
Roving Investigator

HEN the statisticians backed
W/ away from their adding ma-

chines in Washington recent-
clutching proof in black and white
it crime costs the United States
3,000,000,000 a year, there wasn’t
lf so much ranting and wailing as
re should have been. The public
parently didn’t catch the full sig-
icance of the pronouncement.
Chink of it, fifteen billion dollars a
uw for crime!
Chat is only a little less than half
the national debt. We could run the
ire government on it and have
nty left over. Every man, woman
1 child in the United States would
ve $120 a year more—ten dollars
ry month—-if we didn’t have to
p in to make up such a staggering

e.
n the light of these figures, then, a
dy of the rise and fall of Richard
se Whittemore—the story of his
eer from the cradle to the gallows
ikes on great significance. For he
les out from the records as a top-
ch leader of the underworld, Even

though he is dead he represents to
this day the American criminal per-
sonified.

He was a liar and a cheat; a low,

vicious, vile, unprincipled, stupid psy- .

chopath—yet his total robbery loot
ran into the millions. He took at least
three innocent lives and perhaps many
more. It cost various state and city
governments more than $1,000,000 to
catch him and finally punish him for
his crimes.

And that is the American criminal—
a perfect example of the type that
leads the pack of hoodlum outlaws re-
sponsible for our fifteen-billion-dollar
annual public headache!

In jaunting around the country dig-
ging out the never-before-told, true
facts about the personalities and ac-
tions of our big-time racketeers and
crooks, I have come across many as-
tonishing characters. Some were in-
famous for one thing and some for
another. But now I give you Dick
Whittemore as probably the most as-
tonishing of them all—astonishing
hecanse he satan wus .

OFFICIAL Dezecrnive SAARIES

Richard Whittemore, left, as he
looked shortly before his death,
and above, the Tiger Girl and
Whittemore’s brother with his
wife shown as they left the
penitentiary after visiting him

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The Rise and Fall of Richard Whitte-
more, Baltimore's Stick-up King, Is

Unique Beyond All Others of His Class

thing that is typical of a so-called big-
k.

shot crook.

In the first place, by picking him to
pieces we can see exactly why the

entire world is baffled by the question:

“Why are men criminals?” Whittemore
definitely was born to be a criminal—
born to be hanged—but he was not

influenced by tainted heredity or by
any kind of glandular trouble that a

medico could put his finger on. Least

of all, environment had little to do in
shaping his career,

TREN there is the fact that, for all his

revolting traits, most everyone who
came in contact with him found him a
genial, likable fellow, one who hardly
would be expected of wrongdoing. He
really was a lovable person most of
the time, and that was why he always
held the love of his childhood sweet-
heart who grew up to become his wife.
She was a respectable girl from an
eminently respectable family, yet she
stuck by her husband through all his
troubles. She never was canvicted af

contaminated in some, way by her
mate, for later she won the name of
“Tiger Girl” and she became an ab-
sorbing study in her own right.
Richard Reese Whittemore was a
scion of one of Maryland’s oldest and

World. The family. was not wealthy
but it had a long heritage of respect-
ability, devotion to duty and the
church, and industry and thrift.

Richard’s father. was Rawlings V.
Whittemore, a sober, industrious and
ingenious mechanic, ‘a kindly, home-
loving man whose main interest out-
side of his family was in the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Baltimore.

Richard was born into the world in
which he never belonged, late in 1898.
If the numerologists are interested it
was at about a quarter to eleven on
the evening of December 9. He was the
alana . ay A ]

—

instcad of being the mild-mannered
little chap who obeyed his parents
implicitly, he would stay away from
home after school hours to play with
boys he met on the streets. From them
he acquired further delinquency. He
became impertinent to his mother and
he would defy his father. He lost in-
terest in his studies at school and
frequently he was a truant. When his
mother cried over him he pulled away
and sometimes swore at her. In other
words, he was hell bent and nothing
could stop him.

This went on for about a year. His
parents did everything they could con-
ceive to make him mend his ways but
they seemed to have no control over
him. They even tried locking him in his
room in the evening to make certain
that he didn’t leave the house, but the
spry youngster climbed down the
drain pipe and joined his tough pals
on the street corner. Rawlings Whitte-
more even sought the advice of the
police on how to handle his wayward
son. This led to the next step in the
boy’s career.

The police picked him up on the
street one evening, held him in jail
over-night and the next morning took
him before the same magistrate who
had lectured him about firing the pis-
tol. Richard promptly was committed
to a reform school for an indefinite
term as a wayward minor,

Undoubtedly these ' reformatories
have straightened out many unruly
youngsters, but not Richard Reese
Whittemore. He tried to buck the stern

discipline and after a few weeks he
managed to run away. He was cap-
tured the next day in Baltimore and
returned. He was punished, of course,
and put under close guard. But a few
weeks later he slipped away again.
This.time another boy accompanied
him and they got as far as Georgetown,
Delaware. It was in the dead of Win-
ter, they had no funds and only their
thin school uniforms to keep them
warm. They tried to find work and
failed. That evening they robbed a
store and were captured an hour later
with their loot in their pockets. The
following day they were back at the
school in solitary confinement.
Already Dick Whittemore was an
“escaped convict,” arrested for break-
ing and entering, and burglary. He was
only thirteen then and it wasn’t diffi-
cult to forecast what was in store for
him. Everything humanly possible had
been done to correct his evil tendencies
but there really was nothing anyone
could do—he was born to be hanged.

TH reform school authorities kept

close watch of their unruly charge
after his second escape, as can well be
imagined, and Dick didn’t have a
chance to run away again. Finally,
when he was nearing his fifteenth
birthday, they sent him home as
“cured”. and his father found him a
job as an apprentice mechanic, This
job and this period in his life are im-
portant for two reasons: First, it
marked the only job, or practically the
only one, that he ever had in legitimate

work; second, with his first week's
pay in his pockets he kept a date with
pretty young Margaret Messler, the
pert and popular young daughter of a
respectable German tailor of Balti-
more, and showed her the “time of
her life” on an excursion boat outing.

The pretty Messler girl, about Dick’s
age, was a student of the parish school
of St. Gregory’s Church in Baltimore.
She had met the handsome young
Richard at a school athletic contest.
They became quite interested in each
other but shortly afterwards Richard
had been sent to reform school. Now,
a free young man with money in his
pockets, he began his courtship of the
Tiger Girl. We shall see how it
ended.

Dick liked to have money to spend
on Margaret but he didn’t like to work
for it. As it happened he didn’t have
to for very long. He spent many of his
evenings with his boy pals and within
a short time he was up to all his old
deviltry. Thievery seemed to be his
second nature. He would take anything
he could sneak from the stores around
his home and it made no difference
that he had absolutely no use for it. He
stole simply because he was a born
thief.

His puzzled parents returned stolen
articles whenever they discovered
them in his room and they cheerfully
paid all claims that were presented by
victims of his thefts. They and the
police alike were unable to understand
the boy at all, especially since he will-
ingly would admit any of his thefts

After a police round-up
in New York. From left,
Leon Kramer, Barney

Martillaro,

Milton Gold-

berg, Louis Kramer, Pat
Chiarelli and the Big Shot

Whittemore’s sallow complexion turns a shade

paler when he is indicted for a double murder

when he was accused of them, al-
though he never attempted to offer an
explanation. Finally his parents de-
cided they could do no more with him.
In 1916 they had him committed to
St. Mary’s Industrial School in Balti-
more as an incorrigible.

Tr hoped that the discipline and

the religious influence of the institu-
tion might do what their influence and
the training of the reform school had
failed to do. One can imagine the
heart wrenches they suffered in send-
ing their boy away. They must have
been desperate. By this time Mrs.
Whittemore was failing in health and
worry over her eldest son didn’t help
her condition in the least.

Dick came out of the industrial
school early in 1917. He renewed his
courtship of Margaret Messler and re-
newed his friendship with the old
corner gang. Then the World War
came along and he enlisted for service
in the Navy. He fell short on a couple
of physical requirements, notably eye-
sight, and he was discharged. He tried
the Coast Guard and finally was ac-
cepted. Then came another turning
point in his strange career.

No one should have expected, of
course, that the born crook would
change color in the government ser-
vice, but perhaps in war time no one
paid much attention to his reform
school record. However, he was
promptly suspected when other sailors
began missing money and other ar-

(Continued on Page 42)

Whittemore’s father, R. V. Whittemore, did his
best to bring up his son properly—but failed

me ieee Ris Pidlvtrianta tasks «st il

job, Then the employment scheme
it me.

“I knew Sylvester Williams was a
viend of the family. I told him about
and he said Gladys would want the
1», She came down to see me almost
day.
t telling her to come back to-
5) On Tuesday night when she
itlad, I told her I'd meet her the next

at the Twelfth Street viaduct.

on I got there she was waiting.
d nice in her orange outfit.
that we were going across
- to her new job. So we got
car and rode to the Mc-
ge. I went into the tavern

Born to Be Hanged

vhen he was accused of the
e essed just as promptly.
sentenced to serve two years
1 the Portsmouth Navy Yard prison
ud thereby acquired the first notch
a his lengthy prison record as an
idult.

Dick served out his term without
s»vent. Upon his release he was dishon-
yrably discharged from the Service.
The dishonor didn’t worry him, how-
aver, for he had discovered that pretty
Margaret Messler was in love with
rim and apparently didn’t care what
ie did. He returned to Baltimore and
chey were married, despite the fact
chat her parents and friends did every-
thing they could to turn her away
‘rom him.

'1] LOVE him and I wouldn’t leave

him no matter what he was or
what he did,’ she screamed, and ran
ff to join him.

The reader must understand here
shat Margaret’s family was one of the
oest and she herself was a devout,
ionorable, church-going girl. That is
why it is so surprising that she mar-
cled Dick, knowing full well what he
was. Her love was a beautiful thing
and it is a pity it wasn’t fastened on
someone more deserving.

Dick and his bride went to New
York on their honeymoon but it didn’t
last long. Late in 1919 a Yonkers
policeman caught the Baltimore bad
boy wiggling out of a window after
cobbing a house. He was arrested, con-
victed and sentenced to serve one year
n Elmira Reformatory. His bride was
left without support but she found a
job not far from the prison, managed
to take care of herself and on. other
than visiting days she wrote a daily
letter to the man she loved.

This Elmira sentence, by the way,
seems to have been another turning
ooint in Dick’s career. Heretofore he
had robbed more because it was sec-
ond nature to him than for the profit.
But in the reformatory, where he
rubbed up against hardened young
criminals, he decided that if he was
going to make a business of outlawry
he might as well go into it on a big
scale. And he did, after his release.

There was a joyful reunion with
Margaret and a short honeymoon on
funds she had managed to save while
he was behind bars. Then Dick showed
up in Baltimore again and boldly in-
vited his former street-corner pals to
join him in a robber gang.

“We can clean up here,” he prom-
ised, “and get away with it, too. The
cops can’t catch us if we use our heads.
Why, I learned just how to do it, up
there in Elmira...”

Apparently Dick had learned some-
thing about covering up his thefts, for
almost two years passed before he was
heard from again. During that period,
however, Baltimore and the surround-
ing towns were terrorized by a string
of holdups and robberies which had
the police laboring on double duty,
and at wits’ end. :

Rut aven the craftiest rabher alive

and got a shot. I bought a bottle to
drink later.

“She kept on asking about the job.
I told her about her new boss, T. Mar-
tin. There never was any such guy.
We got on an Illinois trolley and rode
to Venice, Illinois. We got off a half
mile from the bridge and began to
walk. After we had gone about a mile
Gladys became suspicious.

“She said, ‘I’m not going any fur-
ther; no one lives in this place. I
picked up something heavy off the roud
and hit her on the back of the head
with it. Then I rolled the body down
the road to the slough and pushed it in.
I thought the current of the river

of policemen just after he had stolen
jewelry and clothing valued at $400
from a Baltimore home. His boyhood
reputation and two prison terms didn’t
aid him in court and he was convicted
and sentenced to serve three years in
the Maryland Penitentiary. The police
noticed that holdups and_ robberies
took a big drop with Dick behind bars
but the significance was not immedi-
ately recognized.

Paradoxically, this prison term in
his native Baltimore seems to have

been one of the happiest periods in,

this strange youth’s blazing career. His
wife, living among her friends, was
near by to call on him every visitor’s
day and he found his prison duties as

a hospital assistant more than pleas- -

ant.

His associations in the hospital made
him health conscious and when the
doctors prescribed exercise to build up
his body he went after it with gusto.
Boxing seemed the most to his liking,
and he realized furthermore that he
could use that kind of training when
he was free again. He became the
boxing champion of the prison and it
was almost with regret that he left
the institution when his term was
completed in May, 1924.

While Dick was behind bars .boot-
legging had drawn into its folds most
of the nation’s outlaws and when he
was ready to go to work after his re-
lease and reunion with Margaret he
tried to line himself up with a liquor
gang.

He did some rum-running and boot-
legging for a time but the field was
crowded. Then he fell in with a gang
of Baltimore hoodlums who seemed
to have a smart game. Armed with
stolen Internal Revenue badges, they
found it comparatively simple to ex-
tort large sums from speakeasy own-
ers. When they couldn’t extort they
always could rob. The gang began
making one big haul after another, but
the police were not overlooking any
bets and when a liquor dealer was held
up and lost $1,100 from his till
on January 5, 1925, detectives were
only a few steps behind them. They
fled from the city.

BE gebin and a few of the others got
together in New York and flashed
their badges there a couple of times.
But the big city was too big and too
hard-boiled for them, so presently
they returned to Baltimore. From an
incident that occurred shortly after
their return we can see that something
must have changed pretty Margaret
Messler.

Detective Lieutenant Cornelius
Roche of the Baltimore department
and a group of his men raided an
apartment, acting on a tip. They sur-
prised Whittemore, his wife, another
girl and three men.

As the officers broke down the door,
they reported, Margaret ran to a
bureau and snatched three loaded pis-
tols from a drawer. She tossed two of
them to the men and began firing at
the officers with the third Fortunately

(Continued from Page 20) oFFici

would carry it downstream before it
would be found.

“When I got home I noticed that I
was covered with mud. I invented a
story for my wife, made sure there
was no blood on me and went to bed.”

“Did you rape her?” asked Flanagan.

“I can’t remember,” mumbled the
killer, casting a fearful glance at the
circle of grim faces around him.

On the following day Mrs. Oma
Turner of St. Louis visited Headquar-

ters. She told police that she had been
chased by the killer about a year
before.

“T ran from him,” “He
chased me. I came across some boys

Tiger Girl.” The tag line identified her
from that day forward.

Dick pleaded with the authorities
not to prosecute his wife and he swore
that she had no knowledge of any of
his exploits in crime. Upon the agree-
ment that no action would be taken
against her providing he confessed all
of his robberies, he told all, with the
result that on February 6, 1925, he
and three companions were sentenced
to serve fifteen years in the Maryland
Penitentiary. The police lived up to
their agreement and released Margaret
and the other girl who had been ar-
rested with her.

Had: Dick served out this term with-
out creating trouble the story of his life
would be much different. But he was
no more than behind bars this time
than he began laying plans for escape.

Two weeks after he was committed,
on February 20, he purposely burned
his hand severely while working in the
prison machine shop. He knew that
he would be sent to the prison hospi-
tal for treatment and that not many
guards would be watching him there.

ALKING across the yard to the

hospital unattended, Dick picked
up a piece of lead pipe from the tool
box of a plumber working in a ditch.
He secreted it under his tunic. He re-
ceived treatment for his burned hand
on the second floor of the hospital
building and then started back to the
prison proper with the lead pipe still
under his tunic.

As Robert H. Holtman, sixty-year-
old guard, turned his back to open the
door leading to the yard, Whittemore
suddenly produced the lead pipe and
struck the aged man over the head.
Holtman fell unconscious. He died the
same day.

The guard hardly had fallen when
Dick had his pistol, keys and money.
The pistol he used to frighten a Negro
trusty who opened the outside door
and permitted Dick to escape to the
street.

He ran some distance, then caught a
bus to a spot outside of Baltimore
where he slipped into a wooded lot
and found a hiding place. He remained
there two days and nights, and then
got a lift into Philadelphia aboard a
bootleggers’ truck driven by “Chicago
Tommy” Langrella. Dick never re-
vealed how he contacted the bootleg-
gers but officers later established that
he broke into a country store and used
the telephone to call his friends in the
city. E

A fugitive wanted for murder now,
Dick kept in hiding for weeks. He
grew a beard, dyed his hair and whis-
kers red and on March 11 returned to
Baltimore’ to lead his bootlegging
friend, “Chicago Tommy,” and a couple
of other gunmen in a holdup of a col-
lector for the American Bank. They
made a clean getaway with $11,000 in
cash and this bold robbery marked
another high spot in Dick Whittemore’s
career. We now see him approaching
big-time banditry.

Tt might he nointed out here that the

who were going fishing and they
scared him away.”

She pointed out Pulliam as the man.

Farmer Babic was another visitor to
Headquarters. He declared that Pul-
liam was the man he had chased with
a rake back in early 1935.

Pulliam was indicted on September
16, 1935, by a grand jury at Edwar
ville, Hlinois. In his cell he announ
that he intended to plead not gui
But after the trial began he inst
the public defender to enter a
plea. Judge A. D. Riess promptly sen-
tenced the murderer to 99-years in th
Illinois State Penitentiary, on October
2, 1935.

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they would rather risk death in a gun
battle than submit to arrest.

At any rate, right after this robbery
Dick gathered a gang and started out
on a career of banditry on a grand
scale. Jacob and Leon Kramer, two
convicts he had met in the Maryland
penitentiary who already were famous
in the underworld for their safe rob-
beries, became his first lieutenants.
Anthony Palladino, a Brooklyn, New
York, hoodlum he had met in Elmira
Reformatory, became one of his gun-
men, and two other members of the
gang were William A. Unkleback, 25,
and Milton “Shuffles’ Goldberg, both
of Baltimore and both desperate crimi-
nals in their own rights.

Dick was the acknowledged leader
of the band and he planned most of
the raids. They set up headquarters
in a New York City apartment and
straightaway set out to make their for-
tunes by jewel robberies. In less than
eighteen months their loot totaled
more than $1,000,000. There is no way
of telling how much they got away
with before they finally were broken
up. A list of their robberies would be
a list of all the big thefts in the East
during this period. They escaped with
more than $100,000 worth of gems in
the holdup of Jacques Ross, a Grand
Street, New York, jeweler. Early in
1926 they held up Albert S. Goudvis, a
diamond importer, and made off with a
me of precious stones valued at $150,-
000.

This robbery, by the way, was one of
the most sensational ever staged by the
Whittemore gang. It was just after
noon on January 11, 1926, when Goud-
vis and his brother-in-law, Emanuel
Veerman, set out with the bag of gems
to visit a prospective buyer. They
were walking along Fifth Avenue in
the noonday crowds at Forty-Eighth
Street when Dick and two of his com-
panions stopped them. .They were
shoved into a doorway, beaten and the
gems were grabbed away from them,
all in the space of seconds. Then, with
crowds watching, the bandits leaped
into a waiting sedan and sped away.
No one gave chase.

Despite the fact he was wanted for
murder, Dick lived grandly during this
period, making his home between jobs
in a large Cleveland hotel. His wife
was with him and they visited the most
exclusive night clubs and restaurants,
bought expensive apparel and drove
high-powered autos. Margaret became
known as one of the _ best-dressed
women in Cleveland and to acquain-
tances she intimated that her husband
was a “wealthy bootlegger.” Perhaps
she really believed that was the way
Dick made his money, for he always
maintained that she didn’t know about
his robberies and murders. But it is
difficult to think that she didn’t at
least sense things about her husband’s
work to make her suspicious.

As an indication of Dick’s efficiency
in running his gang, he insisted that a
part of the loot of every robbery be
put away for a “War Chest,” to hire
the hest leaal aid available should any

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WYATT’S DOOM

He wilt Be Hanged Toda

napolis Jail, Yard.) Beg :
{Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. 1
ANNAPOLIS, MD., July 26.-— Robert T..

Wyatt will. be hanged tomorrow (Friday).

; before noon in the Annapolis City Jail yard @
for the muréer last October of Capt: Oliver
‘M. Caulk. of the sloop Dream, of St. Mich-

acls, at Rock Creek, Anne Arundel county:

‘If the condemned man has Jost: his nerve
i he has so far given no outward sign of the
fact. Today he was visited by a number of
; people. He exptessed thanks to all: for
| their kindness. toward ;him.» nie ‘aid he

thought be had more friends in Annapolis

| than‘ in St. Michaels,.and for that. reason
expressed a wish to be buried here.”

asked to seé the scaffold on which he 1
be hanged and was satisfied,

During the day large numbers a
gathered about the jail. watching Wyatt's @

‘cell, and. saw him at the window several

f times smoking. akcigar,’ with a pet cat on @
| his. shoulder.. He: gave the cat to a: girl #
| who Was accustomed to bring his meals. - @

Wyatt was visited:In jail tonight by. Rey... |

| Joseph P, McComas and a number of. |
| friends. The condemned man appeared }

snd, and did ‘not join in the singing, as is @
his, custom... His spiritual adviser had a @
private talk “with him, and will administer.
the sacrament to: him in the morning. Wy:

| att had almost: constant use for ‘his: hand-:
| kerchief in. wiping the perspiration from.
i his face while the religious ceremony, ewes, |
| going on this evening.” —

For breakfast tomorrow, his last me. J,

, Wyatt will have ham and eggs, French po- }
tatoes, coffee and bread and but#er. To- 4
night for supper he reiished eliced beef.
‘soft crabs, blackberri iced ‘i peed.

and butter, ~~. # {
There have been’ compa atively. Ww ang: |

| ings in Annapolis ‘within the last half cen-

tury. : ‘ Heury Norfalk, ‘ac white. man; wha |

| brained his wife with a club, was executed |

December 21, 1877. He stoutly denied the

| crime until the very last, but confessed on |

the gallows. and admonished people pres: #

ent tobe good. Forbes, a colored man, i .

who: committed: a felonions assault on a
white woman in Anne Arundel county, was.
hanged in April, 1891. Mary Nailer, a col-
ored servant, was the only woman known jf
to have expinted a crime on the gallows ‘in if
Annapolis. She was a servant of Dr. Carr, |
and was convicted of poisoning her mas- ff
ter. The woman on the, scaffold declared #

i she was {nhocent, and there were many

present who thought capital: punishment J

/ should not have been imposed, on i Durely. |
| circumstantial evidence,:. Sa i |

WHITTEMORE, Richard Reese, white, hanged Maryland (Baltimore City) 8-13-1926,

"WHITTEMORE TO HANG/LOSES HIS HIGH COURT PLEA, Annavolis, Md., July 8 -
(AP) - The Maryland Court of Anpneals todey affirmed the conviction and
death sentence of Richard Reese Whittemore, handit king and admitted

slayer of » Marvland penitentiary guard, He must hang, on a date to he set
by Gov, Ritchie, for the murder of Robert H, Holtman in Pebruary, 1925,
Whittemore was convicted of first degree murder in Baltimore on May 21
last. He had pleaded self-defense. The death sentence was imposed by
Criminal Court Judve Eugene 0, Dunns." Unnamed Chicago newspaper dated
Buly 9, 1926, provided by Van Raalte,

"BANDIT RECEIVES JURY'S VERDICT IN SAVAGE MOOD: SPITS IN FACT OF STATE'S
ATTORNEY AS HE IS LED FROM COURT ROOM: JUDGE TO DECIDE FATR: SEN TENCE
OF DEATH OR PRISON WILL BE PRONOUNCED NEXT WEEK: Baltimore, Md., May
21. - (Associated Press) ~ Ricterd Reese Whittemore was found guilty

over to the discretion of Judge O8Dunne. As he was led from the room he
spat viciously in the face of State's Attorney Herbert R, %'Conor,.
O Conor is only two years older than the convicted slayer. Mrs,
Margaret Whittemore fainted when the jury foreman, G. H. Bauer, vro-
nounced the verdict without adding the words 'without capitsl punish-
ment.' which could definitely have saved her husband from, the rope,
Earlier she had for the first time broken into tears as 0 Conor demanded
her man's life, Judge WR® O'Dunne emriemnced he would impose sentence
next week, Edgar Allan Poe, Whittemore's counsel, did not indicate
whether he would anpearl,

"TAKEN FROM ROOM,
"Before court adjourned, Mrs. Whittemore, who had fallen into the arms
of her father-in-law, John Rawlines Whittemore, reccined consciousness.
Her moaning disrupted the formal court vrocedure and Judee O'Dunne or-
dered her taken from the room. Whittemore killed Rohert H.Holtman,
e guard, when he escaped fromthe Maryland penitentiary on Feb, 20,
1925. He made no attempt to deny the slaying but pleaded self-defense,
The state contended murder of the suard was a delbiberste part of a
olan to escape...." (The rest cut off - sent by Van Raalte.) STAR,
Iidienaphlis, Indiana, May 22, 1926, page one,

"DISCHARGE JURY IN WHITTEMORE MURDER TRIAL: Buffalo, NY,April 27 (Spe-
cial), - The jury trying Richard Reese Whittemore, robber and killer,
was discharged at 11 o'clock tonight, unable to sgree after deliberating
more than 30 hours, Rumors had it that the jurors stood deadlocked

at 6 for conviction of first degree murder and 6 for acquittal, Whitte-
more was tried for slaying 9 guard during a bank holdup here last Oct.
29, when $93,000 in loot was taken, Failure of the jury to reach a
verdict may result in a second trial here or it may influence the local
authorities to permit Whittemore's extradition to Baltimore to face
trial for murder of a prison guard," DAILY TRIBUNE, Chicago, Illinois,
April 28, '26,

George Wheeler

‘ Executed at Belaivy-Harferd—Co;—and Easton,
Talbot Co. xrespectdmely on March 12th 1875

THE SUN.

EXECUTIONS IN MARYLAND,

‘The Hanging ef Twe Colored Men
; for the Murder of White Wemen—
‘4m Execution at Easton and One
“at Belair—s and Incidents.

Yesterday twocolored men were banged io
this State for the murder of white women—
Joshua Urifin, at Beldtr, forthe murder of hie
benefactrese, Miss Suexn Taylor, moar Aberdeen,
Alarford county, October 1%, 1874, and George
Wheeler, at Eavton, for the murder of Mre. Mar-
ares Wittman, in Talbot county, Jaly 18, 1834.
The marderer Grifin was born fn jail, wae
Swenty-five yoare of ego, and killed hie victim
for tevenge, wich was also the impe}ling motive
ia tne ease of Wheeler. Beiow are giveu full
Teports of both evente:

4,3 -xecation of Jeshua Grifia.
at (Reported for the Baltimore Suu.)
SA) Fig.ain, Harford co., Md., March 12, 1873.

Joc:.aa Grifiu, colored, the murderer of Mise
Bueau Teylor, nent Aberdees, in thie county.
was bavged on the almshouse estate. 1% mile
i from: Belair, shortly aftor tén o'clock thiv morn-
j ing. Although be had atoutly denied his galls
to all white porsone, he confeseed the crime last
bight to Jacob Brown, a colored man, of Bolair,
who bad been kind to him. = -

; TOS CRINE AND CONFESSIONS.

Wheo Sherif W. B. Jarrett and his deputy,
Geo. K. Cairus, with the jailor, Mr. Isaac U.
Pyle, went io to prepare bim for execution, the
onerif said; * Joshua, this tea dreadful toiny for
yoo to die with a lie ov your lips. Ifyou k:lied
Miss Taylor you ought to confere 1t."° Gritiiu
said: *f ain't goin’ to die with a ile on my lips.
I killed ber—bvut I did not bill her for wuney.
Mise Sunae bad aw quarrel with me acd she Zot
her brother, Mr. Henry Taylor, to whip mu, and
be jamped on me ani with a penknife in his
hand threatened to ki)! me—and I swore 1 would:
kil ber.” Toe sheriff called in Rev. David
Baker, the colored Presbytenan preacher who
bad been GriMo's spiritual adviser. to bear the
admission of'guilt which the condemued man
bad uever yet wade to any white person, Grif-
i Hs LE ephiey fo hmecgrene toh ree iag macnas

A ne it ty e@ aud not for moucy. 68

Se Gastonk easter aeee, Neca Wiacateen Waylor had been beaicn with aciub uver the
was bung at Delalr for the marder of au old bead, and finger marke wore fuand on ber thruat
colored woman, who sold cakes and beer. Le- ae though she bad been strangied. Mcdical ex-
aid of another éo!ored man who perts ou the triat thouvht she had been straugied

. to death. Griffin eid neither the firss nor
yacoeas pee SUshee. mmarcerey ed ach pe second biows of the club killed ber, but kuocked

ber down, Miss ‘i'aylur. who wae a very strong
eee ae Pat ae ee Tee tr MU STS CHOPLAEE TE Ciccsau, sosletog, Gna Boey clinched Im'a gears
Of ago, was bung by the citi. |p etuagic. ‘Thies is probably the true stuty at
ir and vicinity for an attempted |p /##t. The whippiug given bim by Mr. ihenry
rape upon a young lady. He was taken out of |p 2aylor, he Said, occurred @ short while bofure
tho bands of the depnty sheriff in the daytime ig $0@ marcer.
'b

: | CONFESSION IN WRITING.
and summarily executed. dmau's ba The confession made the night previous to

the colored friend wae im writing, aud ia these
worde:

THE GALLOWS IN MABYLAND.
Two Executions of Colered Mem for
the Marder of White Wom

Mangings at Belair and Easto
{> [Reported for the Balti Sun.)
To-worrow, 12th lustant, two colored men will
be hanged in thie State for the murder of white.
women—Joshus QGriffia, at Belair, for the mar-
der vf bis patronfand denefsctor, Mise Susan
Taylor, nest Aberdeen, Harford coanty, October
12, 1874, and George Wheeler, at Easton, for the
murder of Mrs. Margéres Wittman, in Talbos
county, July 18, 1874,°% © oe
The execution of Joshua Griffin fiakes the

you a few

tell you, aud 1 will teli you thas
Gid kili the lady. but rememover 1 say Wat they
did not see mejump out of the window. ‘here
ie not one seen me. No map eeen me came out
Of the house. I will tcl! you that I did not kill
It fe dDecause she came

7, Execution.
azo, was raleed by
Hy from

ears O
him when an
is mother, then brievoer in
lived upon Miss ‘ors farm until a few y 1
before, when bad habits carried bim y.
Mise Susan Taylor was about 40 yoare of ag
P ta larwe landed estate tn flarfor
county, and lived w.th ber brother, Jos.
She was highly esteemed and of a kindly diep
@ition. Inu person. she very robust, and
weighed over 220 pounds, and must bave fourht
desperateiy before she succumbed tothe fatal
blowe dealt her with a stout club in the bauds
Of tue assassin. The murder was committed on

Joshua Grifin, 23
jee ‘Taylor, wuv tou

Un tne other side of

some scriptural sentences, one

ye my Father's house are
iC. "

PREPARATIONS AND FAREWELLS,
GriMn bad made\pis few preparations ang
“clegg. 1u bis tarewell
eos imeelf grateful
Jarrett'’s kinduces
whilo tn pricov, Misarms were bound i his
coll and # black ebroud piaced over bim. tucked
uoder “a nap vo fei like a round-sbont, b
uive o'clock and al! was in readiness tu proceed.
the hands employed ‘Tuere was bus litle crowd in town avd no ox-
fivla elerae eitemeat. Tbe pri@per was placed in alight
Sprig covered or ex wagon to convey him
apperred and demanded $1W, saying he was Hf 1. the scaffold at me tes after nlue o'clock.
pine to leave tie placo furever, Miss Taylor I Being pivioned, he found it dificult to get futo
augbed st the demand, and sent the chi the wazon and stuimbied unce, but wae aseleted
As they left they raw their aunt by tbe sLoritf aud the minister. The ovly persun
j baro with Grifia, wuom ens bad o accumpanying bim was the colored clergyman,
& boree intoa Held. Tniv was the Kev. Mr. Baker, bis spiritual adviser, who rode
} She murdered woinan alive. beside the prisoner, Mr. Pyle driving. ;
Abvut hal:-past ten o'clock Wm. Johnson, a PROCESSION TO THE eCAYPULD,
colured man, having bueinese at ature near The procession tu the ecalfoid comprised twen-
by, came up to the place and. saw Mies Taylor's ft ty.three depat:es. who walked before aud bebing
b-dy lying in @ shoep-pen—her «clothing torn |] the wagon containing the prisoner, the sheriff.
aud b'oody aud her hvad mashed in. Hu threw || who rode in @ buvgy, mounted outriders and
the body from the peo, and alarmed: Mr, Taylor || guveral wagons, ‘Tbe aflair was as orderly asa
and others employed inthe flelde near by. Tne }} coyutry funeral. ‘Ihe walking, a mile aud a bait
dvore of the house were locked; on examining through the woode in snow, wud and lush, was
the body forthe keys the pockets of the drese very bad,and overarough country. traversed
were found turned laside out. At this juncture by sevoraj crecks, ewo:len to unosaal eize by the
} Grifia wae even to leap upon the roof of a ve- |] melting snow, ‘I'nere were about one hundred
randah from ® back window of the house, to |] aud afiy p a the pr 4 aed the
j Sve ground. and escape to the woods. Ilo was | utmost order and decorum prevaiied throughout,
immediately pursued; the alarm was given aud ‘The especial depatics sworn io by Sheriff Jar-
a large vumber of: citizens of Aberdeen aud ff rett for duty on the occasion were as follows:
and vicinity etarted to scour the country in Wm. Ward, 4. Debow, George McMorrie, R. R.
search of ‘him. © During the e!tcrnoou. Grfin qf Carmen, Peter Garroll, Baroe Dunnegad, Col.
Was diecovered gid thually captured ‘by con- | Davidson, Isaac Liveey, Wm. B. Jettrey, James
etable Sunderian?, wh» took him away to Aber- Quinlan, James M, utd fyipo5 Richard Whitaker,
deep. Gritip could give no accountof bimevlf; | Auguet Martin, 'm, Cooley, Kubert David-
but denicd the murder aud having Jumped frow son. J. 8. Worthington, ‘Inomas Archer, John
the window, * Hanva, Corbin Onions, Joseph Pyle, Jas. Cham-
G excitement: prevailed berlain, Joba Gross, Wm. Hi, Stagmer and Joba
of lyuching were m the prisoner |] Magoes. ; ‘
THE GALLOWS SCENE.

h twas eavely lodyed injiil. An inquest jf, :

was held, and the evidence clearly proving Grif- As heretofore stated the gallows had been
fin to be the perpetra or of the dee he was if erected on @ bare bill, with no trees very near it
commitied to h ad with the marde to overlook the high enclosure of planks six-
ile was tried before the Circnit Court of Mar- ff teen feet hizh to suut out the spectacle from pub-
ford county, at Belair, on the 2iet day of No- ff lic uveervation. When the procession arrived
vember last, convicted of murder in the firet § aboot two hundred people were gathered about
degree, aud enbarquently sentenced by Judge ff the enclosure. About one hundred pereous, in-
-Grason to be hanged, | Ne received the terrible | cluding a number of colored men, were admiited
announcement with stolid indiffereuce, except ff ineide, which crowded the encivsure, as it w
that he smiled broadly when the judze uttored' ff ouly thirty-two feet equare, with the gallows,

igi eight fect square, in the centre. ‘

seen of

Abordecen, and

the words ‘to be bauyed by the noc,’

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issues of 3-11-75
page 1 column 3 and 3-13-75 page 1 column 4-

For case of George Wheeler see belo |
page also.

b4UO HELV BHU BLU, OU ULE, VU WAS AbripicU
by the fut aud the minister. ‘Tne ouly persun
accompanying bim was the culured clergyman,
Mov. Mr. Baker, bis spiritas) advieer, who rode
beside the

risover, Mr. Pyle driving.

GION TO THR PCAYFOLD.
The procession tu the ecailoid comprised twen-
who walked before aud bebing

Several wagous, ‘I’
country funeral, ‘ a
through the woode In snow, mudand elu
very bad,and overaroush country
by several crecks, ewo Jen to unusaal

}

d decorum prev
‘The special deputica sworn io by Sheri Ja
rett for duty on the occasion were as follow
Wm. Ward, 4. Debow, George McMorrie, R. R. f
Le . Rarayy Doanens , Ce '

. Js

Isaac Libsey, Wm. mee ames
Quinlan, Jamoa M, Reyuolde, Richard Whitaker, i
Auguet Martin, Wm. L, Cooley, Kubert David-
son, J, 8. Worthington, ‘Snomas Archer, John
Hanna, Corbin Onions, Joseph l’yle, Jas. Cham-
berlain, Joba Gross, Wm,
Magnes.

The
Ted pec
MM.
midi,
nextn
derin |
thon» |
outtw |

}

. Stagmer and Joba

ALLOWS SCENE. ‘
ted the gailows had been
erected on a bare bill, with no trees vory near it ff
to overlook the high encius

ablecc |
Charl
cuting
cumet
moute |
morn: |
himec. |
Tazor,

induce

rewin,

were gathered about
hundred persons, in-

Ouly thirty-two feet equa:
@izbt fect square, in the

MEWING TOBACCO, +

The prieoner, escorted by Deputy Ca'rns And

the coloured clergymen, wae the fir

‘enter the gate of the stockade, whi i ja
uarded by. deputies. Girifd y Whe
eputy halted half mice af

@! the ecatiold, } thatic

1 aved with bis pinioned arms again @ hand- aud a) 1
rail, awaiting Tepaite. The reporters, luciadiu yaad }
evveral from Baltimore, were post admitted, featune.
with a number of surzeous. A gofnber of other 1 ibe v |
persone came io, and then the cogdemred mas, eat: |
. Deputy Cairns, Mr. Pyle, and the minister as- P|
Cended the platform, where Gridin louuged on paieke |
the rali and talked with the minieter, ea
TWO SENSATIONS, Mabe he H
While in thie position, awaiting the trouble Panes |
some ness of regalatiug the admission of ht kee
witneeses to the execation, the coflin to hold oh i
the body was brooght jo fall elgbt of the con- Ni bd
demnec man. who looked at it as. it passed to bad’ As
the rear witbout batting hie'e viewing it Im. abate «|
deed asa thing for some one already dead aod ines: |
not for himself, Tue peat senestion was the ae |
appearance of Henry Tayior and Mary A. ‘I'ay- H the sto
lor, brother and er of the victim of Griffin's and fol. |
revenge, who were accompanied by two girle, bim w!
fourteen years of age, one of these giris being Wheeie |
Faovie Tart who with Jeff were sent ex to the plo |
school by Mies Susam Taylor on tne murpiug of y them w |
the marder. Jeff, the boy, was outside the in- down a
losare and wo jot come im to witness the leut bi
6 presence of the nfoman, througt |
aud particolarty of the girls, wae a eurpdiee to cuseion
everybouy, aud elicited expressions of general fled. V |
disapprobation. They et back ayaluss the felled & |
i, baving a fall view of tne scaffold. The but war
awaiting execution looked at them, but and mv |
igu of recogoition, and rather appeared woman |
at to their presence, — my God
RELIGIOTS SERVICES, BTC. © Mr. W |
At ten o'clock Mir. G. W. Kichardeon, eopnsel where |
for Griffin on bis trial, went ap the platform end men wei |
bade his late client adiea. After thie farewell Wittmas
Depaty Cairue gave a sige to Griffin to step for. countye
ward to tne'trap, butAhbe prisouer reminded bic riff at!
of the preeence of tive clergyman and bie otlce murdere |
@0 this occasion, VYbe prisoner wae as‘cullected || timony,
aoa master of ccrem He was very calm the pior |
throaghont, at times leaning carelessly against the attac |
the scaffo'd railing, chewing tobacco. The him afte |
minister opened his byma-book, ose eide of Sought «|
which was taken io hand by the condemned nextday |
fan, who, a bis eyes read, Joined with the early ip
siiuleter iu singing the bymp, “Nearer my Gud, | fesidenc |
Nenree to ‘Ibee.” Griffin's voice betrayed no ing seve |
emotion, and was clear, strong and fine. Prayer huiding |
wae offered by Mr. Baker, who appealed to dog bim tot
for mercy fur the condemned mau, autwith- eeae |
ot being bis great crime. Toe prayer was very cent H
ehorharcd appropriate, deliveréa in a clear voice wasbr
with excell:pt enunciation. The clergyman atch
then bid the doom: man farewell, saying ina Aneeeet|
tone audid.e to--the attentive assem Diaye, teetinae i
“dorhua, good-bre: I trust we may meet in the trial |
@notber aud better world,” to which the prisoner commit |
made uv other reply thaw a bow aad a smile, thather |
Sigullyiag appreciation of the well- wishes Easton i: |
of hig adviser. Mr. Baker, the clergyman, thea the col
dcocended the stevs aud went away. Grilin was outros:
erin Af he wanted to say soything to Bani CY
‘ned, and he eaid be did non | } oMr. a

4 TEU vimaL acts. .
The prisoner stepped forward to the tra
bis lowe were tet togetber Dy 6 rope; th
ehroad was let dows, covering the cond
mao 6 persem ontirey to the feet,
Catrus thes adjested the eope about bi
ag og him ¢he bisek cap, aud bidding fareweli
the prisoner was tee lam to leave the piat- | 1 r RIM we .
furm. The inetams te reached the top s:ep tof] Omisation; which wae made by Dr. J.B. Mi-
Geecend, Sherif Jarrett, who was lower dows on |I! stan 's4 megan oa ensnenny of we Caiver-
sole

caus, ene
in preton
work, wt
work oa
he livod.
murder fc
yearsoid

the etepe. pulled she trigger, the Baltimore, countena |
wccta nuttaaneryuatias wtecgrastes fase biche fume, see ane |
F. Gr.Mio, who wes 5 feet 6 Inches b sae bese brekes. The body was cat open froth the f The ga’ |
toutly byt, watgted fully 160 poumda, fell’ cast hone down, and the tatestises removed f Op walen |
Clear Give feet, making @ belf stifled moise as of ewitet |
ouffucativd. an@ evegeliog victestiy even whocom: |
Gaeping at interva® fur tem’ mimates, with sev. | peneed, +
eral convalsions after thst time. The knot bad sit Been |
esugnt at tbe e of the loth jew. rep aced; thoecale wes ool mane tT: |
stout The neclt ‘web Oot protent sad the long incision ia I vivid bere |
tacropere dice ot ton. m. Mahi {] Seiber. oed the bod afooy ac i
cl son, of Belair, as eXomint: |
mysica. ant bakes by ro mimaies Werealiowed r= a ch
Bis ceoren melon? . ~ wee considered ascertained to be forty-three ounces, which ts wasfirete |
: roat MonTSE of. UES Srer.: olx ouoces below the rage weight of the der oaths |
i ptter wre ned: wweaty winvtes th healthy brain of an edult eabject. The ylecera otand asa |
cloeare phew Ko to ry eH ana bi ‘ere brought to timore for ame- was eent! |
© eurgeons ft tomica! purposes. ¢ ting inte |
te Wee tee Fr glthey' | wee

Execution of sore Wheeler as
eben, ;
‘
(Reported for the Baltimore Gen.)
, Baston, Talbot county, Md., March 12, 1878.

George Wheeler, the young colored man who
killed Mra. Margaret Witimaa, ia Talbot co., last
July, was banged to-day, om the scaffold erected
about halfe mile from aston, im pabiie view,
on 4 vacant lot. Hemet hie fate eofiaching!y,
There was a vast erowd of colored people col-
lected by the occurrence, but there were few
white percons asapectators, Thies was the third
exocatiou, all of colored mea, whieh has taken
place in this cousty within the past theee years,
and tho more there are, it would seem, the
larger the crowds that gather, The dey wasa
bright and lovely spring day, and the etreets of
the town were filled with people before noon,
many colored women takin; advantage of the
Kathering to reapa harvest the sale of fried
Hiab and other food at tables in freat of the mar-
et vouse, a

PREPARATIONS 70OR DEATH.

The condemned man epee the nicht previous
Bp te eloven e'ciogk in devotion and religioas
conversation with Rev. Martia Webb. a culured
Methodist miniater, and some colored friends.
He continued Bis devotions after they had tefs
Until prevailed spon by Sberiff Fitzgerald to
compove himself aud sleep. ‘This morntug. when
Visited by the shoruf, he was walking the floor,
Still greatly excited and in evideutly great men-
tal agony and fear of death. When break{ast was
brought at eiyht o'clock he refueed it and only
drank some coffees. The sberif gave him bis
funeral cloths, provided by the county. dark cas-
sinet coat, vent and paute with felt bat and low
qna'tered shoes. in which he dressed himself.
No fetters had been atauy time deemed necessary
for bim during his incarceration, except ankie-
irons, and they were removed yesterday morp-
ing. Me was a comarkably well behaved prisouer
ail the time.

At ten A.M. several clercymen ana others
vielted the. cel, among them Mr. Walter H.
Thompsou,a well-knowa morchast of Kasten,
who saog bymue with the comdemued man.
Rev. Mr. Newaam spoke cowfortinzly to the
Gespundent maa, whe etill labored under great
excitement 1a big@pprals to God for mercy and
forgivencee of sa. The communion was thea
administered to the prisouer and there. Kev.
Martio. Webb made @ prayer, and tne time to
piake the tinal preparations bad arrived. The
Diack alpaca cape wae then pat on him and bis
hande were pinioned. Une of the clergymen
told bim to continag ia mental prayer. Wheeler
| eaid: “1am perfectly williay tu go.'' Aa they
attolesd him forth, be sald, 1 want
respect paid tome; dou't want avy one to go
with me who will persecate me afterwards.’
The suerl® appealed to the colured men present
if auy of them would voinnteer to drive ihe
Wagon coutaining the prisoner, but all declined
@xcept Uarrivon Siaugbter. —.

GOINS TO TUE GALLOWS. ’

They then walked forth’from the coll, the pris-
Oner aiteadrd by the sheriff and deputy Fidde-
mon. the clergyman, eolured men, aud others
foliowing. Going down the staire to the wegor
the colored men sanga hymn. Kev. Mr.- New-
nain tuid Wheeler tu try to keep quiet and not
make eo much ndise ae Lawrence, who was thu
colored man higed at Easton two yeare before.
He cuuld not be reetraived though, aud the
singing wae kepyep by the colored men uesrly
all the way to thd gallows, Wheelar joiving in
most of it, somet! lookiug apyward. to the
okies, but never ap;-arently observing she great
crowd sbout aud around bim iu ruad and feld.
Captaiu Ruberte’ military company of aboat i
twenty five men in citizens’ dres.
taetr gone, with fixed bayonets, mafthe
guard, but was inteuded more to kee» the crowd
back. not the jeass alarm or excitement pervaa.
ing She mass, except what arose from anciety to
see everything. .

ARRIVAL AT THE

As the procession appr
thensands of colored mean
hurrying across the lot
while a great crowd
Paeeing bie cotfia, near the ecaffuld, Whecier
gave one glance at it, said“Thank God,” and
the next minute they got down from the wazon
and walked to the ecaifold and up the sieps, Mr.
Newnam repeating peresnon of Scriptare.
Georges walked up with e firm step. On the
se fe they eang and Mr. Newnam prayed,

yheeler. cryiag sloud, “Uoiug home to God,
going home.” Messrs. Barrett. Wompson, the
colored minister and another colored win, with
the sheriff and deputy, were on the p.atform
with Wheeler. ‘The prisoners bad left toe jail
about ba‘f-past 11 A. Al., wae at the scaifoid at
11.45 and a few minute ee 12 all those on the
platform but the office bovk hauds with the
poor man and left bim.
veer eee

WORDS FROM TUR GALLOWS,

Lows. :

ed the gallaws
d women were seen
and asloug the road,

trast well be unis

nother berealter—giury,”

shouting i, oat. He tnen, raising his voice at il
hogber, cried “Farewell, to one anu all farewe

don't you see m what liquor brought

to. 1 bope and trast you will ali take waruing

from this minate. Thie may ehow what liquor

may bring you to, I wish and ask of you

th promise to meet me in the next

eigos!~bold up your right bi s

ands went up from all pacts of the crowd, and

sume women re shoute, while mazy cr

4 Tau

back, "We wi
TUR EXECUTION,
riff then proceeded to bind the pris-
talking to him the while abvos ais
eval, The sheriff bad become wry m ‘
tached to the prisoner from bis submis @
a di ition ail the time he wae in jail.
continued with the laet prepara.
ler said: **Didn't come etay
ly to atay @ little while,” ana then as
‘Lord have mercy op my soul,” the
sheriff went a siep of two dowy the scaftuid. aud
simal:ancously the platform fell and the execa
tion was d at i @after 12

o'clock,

The plasform was twelve feet from the groand
and the crose-beam twenty fest. Tue dropgiven
wae fi od a half feet, but the rope stretched
to six and a half feet. Hisneck wasnni broken,
but be did nut otreggle mach.: After banging
five minutes the body was lowered and Dre. Jas.
i. Anderson and J, EB. M. Coamberia!
were officially present,
tion, His heart beat unt) nearly twenty-
Minutes after twelve, when be was pronounced
dead by the physiciane. After it bad been sus-
peuded twenty mivates the body was cut down.
P.aced im the coffin add taken by some culored
persons, ander the sherifl’s orders. to Po:ter's
field. out @ balf mile bu
Easton, where the body w tied. His motber,
who hives ta Ceatreviile, nad written for permis-
sion to take cb of it, but yesterday morning
abe had to se: ord to the eloriff that ebe was
unable te cet any one to goto Kaeton forthe
purpose, aad im consequence it wae buried as
Stated.

Whe Taibot County Marder,
George Whoeler, the yonng colore! man een. |
tenced to be hanged at Easton, Taibot county,

. Will meet desth forthe murder of Mra, Marzarct

Wittman, a white woman. The murder was

committed on a road jo the Long Wouods, in tho |
upper part of ‘Talbot couaty, on the ISthof July,
1Se4. ‘Lhe tnetrument uacd wae a plece of car-
riage ebatt, which Wheelse picked up near a
wheelwright’s ehop a fuw minutos before the.
murd:+ rouse aseault, ile was assisted in the
commission uf the crime by au accomplice, a
negro man nawed (icorge Hines. ‘hey were

} tricd ecparately a.d both convicted:-at the laet

November tern of the Circait Court for “Talbot
county, Judges Wickes aud Stump onthe bench,
The jury in the caee of Wheeter, compoecd of
ruspectabie clilzuene of both partics, retired at 10
I. M., and not having agreed on a verdict at 12
midnight, the court was adjeurned until the
next morning when a verdict of guiliy of mur-
der in the firut degree way rendered, Mines was
toon put on trial and convicted, the jury being
outtwo huure. ‘hoy were botn defended by |
able counsel. Messrs. Powell and Harriagton—
Charice MM. Gibson, the Stites attorney, prose-
cuting. Theevitence against Wheeler was cir-
cumetantial but very strony, aud 8 6upple- |
mented by his own voluntary cunfergous. ‘he
morning after the murder he attemptyi to kil
himeeif, cntting hie throat dangerously with a
razor, aud it was with sume d fMiculty he was
‘induced to allow the services of the coctors in:
asians Up tue wound aud curing him while jo
ali.
Wheeler was adinittcd to testify in Hines’s

}: Caee after being clearly informed by the court |

that it must be ontir-ly voluntorily on hie part,
aud also being told by Iines’s counsel, who
Opposed bis being made a witness, that be could
act as he chuve in the matter. Wheeer then
testiticd that he and Hines were at the store at
Long Woods on the Saturday evening. 18tn July,
1874, playing banjo aud dancing. it ies usnal for
maby peréous to yo to the country store in their
neighbburhvod Saturday afternocn, and there was
the neval crowa there. Wheeler told Hines |
that be wanted to beat Mrs. Wittman because
she had told a Jie on him, and asked Hines
to kee» bim; Hines esid be wanted gone.
whisky to tune up with, and Whecler gave
bim twelve cente to bay halfa pint, which they
and another drank. Ilines picked up a piow-
share and told Wheeler ho shonid have some-
thing, when Wuecier got a piece of carriaye
shaft. They saw Mr. and Mrs. Wittman leive
the store to walk home along the country road

} and foliowed them. (fincs's beart ecemed to fail ;
i bim when they got near the Wittmane, at which

Whecier reproached him. Wheeler then Jhrew
the pluwebare at tLe Wittmars, and rus ou
them with bie stick, first knocking Mr. WRtman
down a@ou then Mrs. Wittman, striking he€a viu-
lent blow oa the back of tne head. cr§shiug
through her bonnet and bair ans producing cou-
cuseion of the brain. aaa medica) mituess testi-
fet. Wheo Mre. Wittman saw her hus aad
felled tothe ground she starced back to the sure,
but wave overtaken by Wheeler in a fuw steps,
and murderous blow struck ae the affrichted
woman threw up her hands and cried vut, “On,
my God, don't strike me.

Mr. Wittmau got ap and ran back fo the store.
where he related the occarreuce, and severra!
Men weut up to the place, when they fuund Mre,
Wittman dead. They carried the body to the
county ecbhou:-house near, sent word to the sne-
riff at Easton. aud some went in search of the
murderers. «Hines, according to Whevicr’e tos-
timony, ran back to the estore, wheo he handed
the piowebare to Wheeler and ssw him make |
the attack. and then Wheeler followed and met
him after the murder. They then soparated and
svught concealment. They were arrested the
next day. Wheeler having made his appearance |
esriy inthe morning inthe yard of Dr. Neal's |
fesidence, with hie throat cat, the wid ipipe be-
ing severed, bie clothes covered with blood and
hoiding arazorin bie hand. ‘The doctor told
him to throw away his razor, which he at once
did, and the doctor then dreesed the wound,
thinking there was little chance of his recovery.
The officers soon after came up and Wheeler |
was placed ina wavon and carrielto Kaeton
jai, after being committed by a. mazietrate. |
Hines wae also commiticd. Wheele: said in bis
testimony and imthe cuonfussions made before
the trial. thet Hines had proposed they should

} Commit @ vile aesault on Mre Wittman, but

that he refused. ssyiug there was aimnan th<n io

} Easton jail to be hsuyged for that.( Rarnest Sith,

the colored boy. banged in August laet for an
Outrage On Mies Bartlett,) and be only waated
to best the woman.

Mr. and Mra, Witiman lived on Dr. Neal's
piace, Wittmau being the overscer, and Whevier
worked for the doctof on the farm. .The cause
of hie enmity to Mre. Wittman. be said, was be-
caus, she told the doctor he wae deceiving him |
in pretead:ng he was eick and coald notdo some |
work, when she had seen him the same day at
work On tue lot attached tothe bouse in which
be livod. Ie said vhe told lies on him. ani the
murder followed. Wheeter is aboat twenty-four
yearso'd, and hasrathera good expression of
countenance. A motion for a new trial wae
made in both cases, bat did pot prevail to
Wheeler's case.

~The gallows has been erected. It isthe came |
On which Fred. Lawrence, colored, who killed }
hie wife in Kastou, and Ernest Smith, colored,
who committed a groes outrage oua lady, were
hanged. A few nights ago Wheeler was go die- |

|} tarbed by the apprehension of deato that he
| dreamed of the murdered woman, Mre. Witt-

man. ‘The impression of hie victim wae ro
vivid before him that he got oat of his bed in
agony and prayed for. mercy. He expreeses
himeelf willing to die, bat versiets in declaring
that he did no tend to kill the woman, but
only to beat ofr. lic bas eaid thie ever since he
was fret arree

ed, and stated the aame thing on-

Ger oath after hie own conviction whea on the

Stand as @ witness agalast George Hines. Hines

was ecnt to the penitentiary for aiding and abet-
’

(ing ia the murder,

| Gilden, when Gilden questioned his authority. One of their victims

__ 4rom a police mug shot and he was tailed for several days until the

Ais
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WHITTEMORE, Richard Reese

_ Whittemore, a white 25-year-old native of -abtimore, Md., had already
‘Served one five year term in the Maryland Prison at Baltimore, On-

p Febe 20, 1925, he was in the second week of a 15-year sentence for
‘armed robbery when he feigned sickness and was allowed to go to the
‘prison hospital where there vas only one guard, 65-year-old Robert H,
Holtman, . Whittemore, who had previously aried himself with a length

| of iron pipe, struck the guard. over the. head reppatedly and then took

_ tis keys, money and overcoat. He covered his prison uniform with the -
overcoat and used the keys to open a gate and step into the free. world,
Holtman died of his injuries and Whittemore made his waxy to New York

_ City where he xxk formed a €ang of jewel theives and, beginning on
May 9, 1925, went on a robbery spree in which he hoped to stel over

one billion dollars in jewels, Thee gang was successful in Stealing .

over one million dollars in the precious stones in some of the most §°

daring daytime robi-eries in New York history. Whittemore was the un-

Questioned leader of the gang, and killed one of iis own men, Simon

was finally able to récognize a menber of tie gang, Milton Goldberg,

other members of the bang were identified. . Whittemore and Goldberg
Ce ae 4 ! Md Ht” | |

|
- oe 3 i

etn oA Se ie a

Roce together in an.automobile with Whittemore driving si eophaten
Nattemptedto arrest them. Whittemore gave them a high Bie te Ss

Ni the BSXGIS pair finally surrendered when the: were cornered. a: pee Se
! police emerged with drawn pistols. The other members of the gang re=

iG ntcon sentericas in New York for their part in thé robberies, _
Rout Whittenore was returned to Baltimore to stand trial for the slay-

' \jang of Holtman. Convicted and sentenced to death, he defiantly spit —

“. ing. p Herbert R,. O'Conor, Jater=. | :
iy in-—the-face-of. the prosecuting. attorney, : : 3 )
NS ivethce of Maryland and U* 5, Senator, O'Conor termed the gesture

[a great compliment. Whittemore was hanged in Baltimore on August 13,
\

219266 TREE = a ssh amt! Dok
QTHE DOTHAN EACLZ, Dothan, Ala:, August 13, 1926.

SIDE DETECTIVE, September, 1902, "Headdd Sor the Noose” page 2h
Noy Joseph Fulling Fishman. /;

Mary lah Mag, Esher PP)

“4¥B-fore write-up, see excerpt from NIGHT STICK: The Autobiographyof

‘Lewis J, Valentine, Filed in yellow binder | 7

| Be 02, to defray:the
A201 tinore, Nangingeds Bichesd Rosse Wal eraoss was sanc=
mi £PSteg at the meeting of the Board of Estimate today. The

Nbill, presented by the, penitentiary, included PEF OY
y : 7, Yat Gf CU Heong Gud, BAe ob fi fhe tts Bsus

> fon,

WHITTEMORE, Richnar? Rl, white, henered Marytand (Balt lmore#$8-13-1926,
"COURT TO SENTENCE WHITTEMORE TODAV/MAY D=ECRET DEATH OR LIFE IMPRISON}

MENTs BANDIT PLANS APPEAL, (Snecial to the “ashineston Post) = Balti-
more, Md., June 9. - Following a conference with Judes O'Dunne, it was

announced today hv State's Attorney Herbert R. O'Conor tjat Richard Reese
Whittemore will be sentenced in thse crimins] court tomorrow, Judge
o'Dunne who presiced at the jury trial of the geane leader, hes the
option under the law of sentencins him to death or life imorisonment,
Edgar Allen Poe, Whittemore's counsel in the trial for murder, in which
the bandit was convicted of killing 9 orison cuard while escaning, re-
turned to Baltimore today after an absence of more than a wekk, Sen-
tence had been deferrseduntil Mr, Poe returned. Whittemore has indica-
ted that he will file sn anneal from the Judge's sentence.” POST,

Washington, D, %, 6-19-1926,

bably sets him apart from the ma-
ity of crooks. Few lawbreakers give
hought to being caught. They are
ident that they are too smart to
ve any opportunity for the police to
rk up a case against them. Their
lacity usually brings their down-

\nd so it was in Dick’s case. He
d been so successful in leading his
ng in so many big robberies that he
ily began making audacious plans
his biggest job. After lengthy in-
stigation he called his men together
1m different cities around the coun-
* and assured them that they could
lect gems worth at least $800,000 in
robbery of M. Rosenthal & Sons,
elers and silversmiths, in New

He ordered the gang to meet in New
rk on March 20, 1926. But if they
| their leader was not present, for
’ preceding evening, March 19, he
s arrested by Detectives Walter Sul-
an and John Cronin, who recognized
nin a Broadway night club. When
left the place the detectives fol-
ved. He emptied a pistol at them
thout making a hit and they finally
erpowered him at Seventh Avenue
d Fifty-Ninth Street.
\t Police Headquarters Dick insisted
it he was John C. Vaughan, a Cleve-
id salesman. He presented papers
d identification cards seeking to
ove it. But the identification cards
it he couldn’t fake—his finger-prints
y»roved him the man wanted for kill-
; the Baltimore -prison guard. He
ally admitted his true name and
n confessed one or two of his jewel
berries,
And again to save his wife he
uealed on other members of his gang.
gave the detectives their names,
th the result that within a few days
of them were behind bars. The
ger Girl was allowed to go her own
iy, however. Incidentally, a young
torney named Ferdinand Pecora was
lief Assistant District Attorney of
ew York County and he handled the
se. Later he became famous through
s prosecution for the government of
inkers and income tax law violators.
Dick talked freely about his crimes.
e told the parts each member of his
ing played. The authorities believed
first that he was confessing only to
iield his wife. Then they discovered
1other motive, which gives us a clear
ea of how his mind worked.
Dick also was wanted in Buffalo, it
‘veloped, for murdering two bank
iards during a $93,000 holdup there
1 October 22, 1925. By making a
mplete confession of his New York

Modern Science

ght of the fact that all automobile
ves and most truck tires have raised
id sunken ridges on their outer sur-
ces. In other words, they have two
stinct portions, similar to the ridges
id furrows of finger-prints. The out-
' surface of the tire is similar to the
dges of finger-prints and the de-
‘essed parts of a tire are similar to
iger-print furrows.

In many instances it is found that
ie or another of the outer edges of
ie tread will be lacking in a trace.

his is caused by speed and is espe-:

ally noticeable at curves in the road.
he reason is that when a car is
eered around a curve at a high speed
mventional type tires engage the
yad-surface only at one edge of the
ead.

Composite photograph No. 4 shows
tire and its trace on a white, hard
ad flat surface. Such a trace would
opear if it were left by that tire on a
et or dusty road or after having
assed over oil and from there onto a
ard dry road surface. In such prints
vere can be no raised or depressed
arts. Where the road surface is softer
ivan macadam or asphalt, the trace
till resembles the other with this ex-
eption—certain portions would be
raised” in the dirt, sand, clay or
now, while others will be depressed.

Illustration No. 1 indicates the
race on a hard surface, where there

City robberies he was hoping that he
would be sent to Sing Sing instead of
to Buffalo or Baltimore for trial on
murder charges which might end in his
execution. No one but a mentally
twisted crook would ever hope to get
away with such a ruse but Dick played
it through to the hilt. Of course he
lost.

Maryland authorities requested that
he be turned over to them for a mur-
der trial, but it finally was decided to
try him for the Buffalo killings first.
To make certain there would be no
question about his trip to Baltimore if
he should win an acquittal in Buffalo,
the New York District Attorney en-
tered a not guilty plea for him in the
New York City robberies he had con-
fessed.

Dick’s trial for slaying Clifford and
Louis Yarington, the Buffalo bank
guards, began on April 19, 1926. He
was positively identified as one of the
gunmen who had waited for the guards
to drive up to the Bank of Buffalo
with a carload of currency and then
had opened fire on them without warn-
ing. Two guards were killed; a third,
John H. Meyers, was wounded in the
arm. A traffic policeman opened fire
and forced Dick to drop a bag .con-
taining $24,000 just as he was climbing
into the getaway car.

8 fae case against him seemed com-
plete in every detail, but Dick pre-
sented six alibi witnesses who swore
that at the time of the robbery he was
attending a birthday party in Phila-
delphia. The jurymen plainly were
baffled when they marched out to be-
gin their deliberations. Dick had at-
tempted to cultivate the good will of
newspapermen covering the trial and
during the wait for the jury to reach a
verdict he handed the reporters a let-
ter he had just received from his wife,
the Tiger Girl.
“That’s the kind of a wife for a guy
to have,” he said with a twisted smile.
The letter read:

“Oh, Daddy—My heart is almost
broken. Oh, how I love you. I
am worried to death for fear they
may frame you the way they did
Chapman. ' All I can say is to have
faith in God, because He is just.
If anything should happen to you,
1 will die. I know it, for life
doesn’t mean anything to me with-
out you.

“If they give you life it won’t be
so bad, because where there is life,
there is hope. | am praying and
hoping for the best, so brace up,
dear. 1 am sure everything will

in Crime Detection

can be no elevations or depressions. In
illustration No. 6 this trace, while
having the same appearance, possesses
added peculiarities. The points indi-
cated by arrows will be found to be
elevated in the dirt, snow, sand or
clay, and the other parts are depressed.

Just how this particular tire trace
would look in dirt is shown in illus-
tration No. 5. These four illustrations
are of the “Pennsylvania” tire; it is
of the type known as “asymmetrical.”
If the right and left borders match
perfectly the tire is of “symmetrical”
type. These two terms define the
principal divisions of tire-types under
the system for tire classification de-
vised by. the noted German criminolo-
gist Robert Heindl. No one who would
be a scientific investigator can afford
to be in ignorance of that system.

To clarify what is meant by sym-
metrical and asymmetrical tire pat-
terns, illustrations Nos. 2 and 3 show
two drawings; 2, symmetrical; 3, asym-
metrical. I think it is only a question
of time until this system is in general
use. It does for tires what the Henry
system does for finger-printing; per-
mits of classification, identification and
recording.

In a lecture before a police training
school not long ago I found that many
of the rookies had difficulty in being
able to look at a tire and tell what
kind of a track it would leave. The

turn out all right. Don’t believe
things you hear. | made no con-
fessions, as | had nothing to con-

fess. All my love to you, dear
heart, until we meet again. From
your true wife to the end.”

After 29 hours of deliberation the
jury was dismissed, hopelessly dead-
locked. It was revealed that the tales-
men had stood seven to five for con-

Two children were in the way for
this couple, George Christie and

Helen Tiernan, so
on Page 21

See story

viction. The Buffalo District Attorney,
discouraged because his “air-tight”
case had been unsuccessful, announced
that he would not try Whittemore again
immediately. Dick was turned over
to Maryland. On May 19, 1926, he
went to trial for killing the prison
guard in Baltimore. :

Dick took the witness stand and
swore that he had killed Holtman in
“self-defense.” He said that he fled
from the prison because he feared that
the other guards might mistreat him
after he had felled Holtman with his
fist. He had swung on the aged keep-
er, he said, when Holtman had pushed
him on his burned hand. He had
clubbed the fallen man on the head

when the keeper had tried to draw his
pistol.

The Baltimore jury was not so gulli-
ble as to believe this. Dick was
found guilty after an hour of delibera-
tion. He was sentenced to die on the
gallows. He appealed to higher courts,
using funds from the War Chest which
he had put away for just such a pur-
pose, but it did him no good.

Incidentally the other members of
his gang were all sent to prison, too.
The Kramer brothers received twen-
ty-year terms as_ second offenders.
“Chicago Tommy” Langrella, who
wasn’t arrested this time, was found
slain in New Jersey a short time later,
the victim of a gangland ride.

On August 12 the Tiger Girl paid
her last visit to her husband. She
asked permission to see him alone in
his cell, but this was denied. They
spoke through a double row of iron
bars in the presence of a guard.

“Don’t mind, Marge,” Dick said.
“They’ve got it in for me and they’re
going through with it. Be brave, my
last thoughts will be of you.”

For some reason criminals always
blame the police for their troubles.
Perhaps their claims of persecution
should be taken as a true indication
that they are psychopathic.

At any rate the Tiger Girl was dis-
consolate.

“Oh, Reese, Reese,” she sobbed. ‘I
can’t live without you. I can’t ever
leave you.”

But she did. She wasn’t present the
next morning when Dick walked the
fatal thirteen steps up the gallows.
Just before the gray hood was thrown
over his head he looked out at the
witnesses.

“T wish to say good-by,” he mum-
bled, attempting a wry smile. “That’s
the best I can wish to anyone.”

Three minutes later he was _ pro-
nounced dead, jerked to a murderer's
hereafter. And that was the end of
Richard Reese Whittemore, the Ameri-
can criminal personified, born to be
hanged—at the age of 28.

E WAS buried in Louden Park

Cemetery beside the grave of his
mother. A blanket of a thousand pink
roses was the last tribute of the Tiger
Girl. Less than three years later—
on January 20, 1929—she became the
bride of a respectable, honest Balti-
more salesman, and the last heard of
her she was leading the decent kind
of life that her parents had wished
for her. Undoubtedly, in seeing the
tragedies which plagued her beloved
Dick, she must have discovered long
ago that crime does not pay.

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rule I gave them is this: depressions,
or “furrows” in a tire will be raised
in sand, snow, clay and dirt.

When an automobile or a_ truck
passes over soft surfaces, the weight
of the machine plus the weight it is
carrying is such that as the wheels
revolve the raised parts of the tire
grip the surface and are flattened out.
At the same time the depressions in
the tire, being grooved openings, per-
mit the sand or dirt or snow to be-
come forced up into them. This is why,
when we examine the tracks left by a
machine, we find that the parts of the
tire that were depressed in the tire are
elevated in the track.

No change like this occurs where the
surface is hard, such as macadam or
asphalt. Nevertheless, the same meth-
ods used to identify tracks in dirt or
sand substructures are employed in any
study left on wet streets or hard roads.

This subject of tires is of utmost im-
portance in modern scientific crime
detection. It has vast possibilities with
respect to “hit-run” cases even where
no criminal intent exists. And, for
those investigators employed by insur-
ance companies, the method is of con-
siderable importance in accident cases.

The Science Applied

A cowboy riding along a dirt road
of the Texas.desert on November 7,
1933, found the nude body of a pretty

woman propped up in a_ grotesque
kneeling position, At the back of her
head was clotted blood. There were
footprints about too—a man’s—and
automobile tire tracks. Sheriff Ander-
son of Culbertson County was notified
and with the Coroner and: his physi-
cian hurried out to the desert, some
miles west of Van Horn, Texas. All
were struck by the position of the
girl’s body, as though she were pray-
ing.

The corpse was sent to a Van Horn
mortuary and Sheriff Fox and District
Attorney Jackson of El Paso County
joined the other officers. Death was
due to strangulation, although the
woman had been struck several times
at the base of the skull. El Paso car-
ried the strange story in screaming
headlines and papers in other States
devoted much space to the crime.

Sheriff Anderson studied the tire
tracks and declared they were made
by U. S. Royal Cord tires. The position
of the body indicated that the victim
had been stuffed into an automobile
trunk. The condition of the body, well-
kept, indicated she was a girl from
some city.

Next day some salesmen announced
they had viewed the body in the
morgue and identified it as that of
Ramona Warren. The clew was _ use-
less; Ramona was found alive in Okla-
homa. Other identifications were made,

WHITTEMORE, Richard

‘girs aes 4
s

Lally ae ee

So NeW Se. AL OY

iy ig
woe ft

Reese Whittemore, genius of ?

By JOSEPH FULLING FISHMAN

SWARTHY, strongly-built, hard-faced youth walked
A across the yard of the Maryland Penitentiary at Balti-
more toward the institution hospital on the Madison
Street side. There was something of the Oriental in’ his
features, which led one at first glance to decide that he was
part Asiatic, although as a matter of fact he came of pure
American stock.
But if there was nothing of the Oriental in his blood, there
were many traits of certain types of those races in his nature.

.. He was rather good-looking, with regular features, dark eyes,
a somewhat flattened nose, and full, slightly sensual lips. His
dark hair was parted on the left side of a high forehead,

It was, one could see at a glance, an intelligent face. Buta
further study would have revealed that it was also a cruel
and savage one, and that beneath that superficially attractive

‘exterior lurked a bitter and selfish nature and a character de-

_ termined to “get his” regardless of the suffering it imposed
on anyone else. ,

- The young man walked slowly, his elbow pressed against
his side in a peculiar fashion. Beneath his gray prison blouse
was a length of heavy iron pipe. He had picked it up in the
ard of the institution three days after he had arrived to
egin his fifteen-year “bit,” just two weeks ago. He had hid
it in the shop where he worked. He didn’t know then what
he was going to do with it. But he knew now. If things
went right, that hollow little cylinder would batter his way
to that happy hunting ground of which all convicts dream—

* freedom !

»- Guard Robert H. Holtman opened the gate which admitted

the prisoner to the hospital entrance. The kindly, 65-year-old

officer looked more closely as the inmate entered. Then he

—~MEADED

A MASTER criminal was
daredevil Reese Whittemore _
(left), but he had one weak-’
ness—an ungovernable tem-
per that made him throw
caution to the winds.

‘A BEAUTY was Whitte-
' more’s bride (right), and no
one suspected that the man.
who squired her to Man-

_ hattan night spots was a
_ killer with a price on him.

Reese, white, hanged, Maryland (Baltimore City) on 8/13/1926.

Pan

“TIl give New York something to talk about!” said cocky

crime 7 "And he did, until—

stuck out his hand.
“Why, hello, boy,” he said. “I heard you were here again.

. I’m sorry to see you back.”

The young man smiled at him pleasantly. Holtman had

been kindly and sympathetic to him when he had been in

hospital during a prior five-year term.
“I’m sorry to be here,” ‘he said. “But I just couldn’t make

the grade. You know how they look on ex-cons outside.”

Holtman nodded. He had heard the same story many times
before, and he knew well that in most instances it was an
excuse instead of a reason.

“Tummy bothering you again?”

“No. Burnt my hand on an iron.”

He showed the guard a red spot on the palm of his left
hand. What he didn’t tell him was that he had purposely
burned it so that he could get into the hospital.

He walked up the steps to the second floor where he had
the hand dressed by the physician. With the exception of
the sick men “laid in,” there was no one on the floor except
the doctor and a guard. The inmate noted this with satis-
faction as he stood at the head of the steps prepared to descend
to go back to his shop.

“Coming down!” the guard sang out.

It was the signal for Holtman that an inmate was preparing
to leave the upper floor, and for Holtman to open the gate
which would lead into the yard proper.

Inwardly tense and nervous, the prisoner walked down to
the first floor and prepared to descend the few steps leading
into the hospital yard enclosure. A few feet away he could
see Holtman walking to the gate, preparing to unlock it. As
he went down the steps toward the guard he passed a Negro
inmate who also apparently had been waiting to go out. The
white prisoner quickened his pace and arrived just behind the
guard before the colored one had started down the short flight
of steps.

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—

waydeg *FAT ION

Wd ACISNI

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4
4

ONéT ftac

and ere, as y sald, met Paul Kun-
kle, It is not true that he roturhed with me to the

scene of Mrs. Cuoper’s death; I spent the afternoon

in or near Mr. Crocket’s store, and at night accom-
anicd Paul Kunkle to York, who received me into
is house from considerations of kindness and hos-
pitality, simply because I was his countrymati, and
without the slightest knowledge he was entertaia:
ing a murderer. | It is useless to enlarge upon meny
the circumstances surrounding the transaction,
and equally unavailing my expressions of regtet and
grief. Wouid to God I had never been born! or that
10y lot had been cast under more propitious circum.
stances! J have nevcr known the blessings of motal |
culture or parental training, and my mentul organiza-
tion hag been such as, under particular circumetances, |
to be fruittul of horrible results, I rely, however, |
upon God for mercy, and in the contrition ofa bleeding |
heast, | ask the unhappy family of my unoffending vice
tim to forgive me. ‘fo the community at-large I ex:
press iny obligations—a stranger, aud in a strange
love LAaRTRtadelotvearndchameplaivg, vet]
cau only emenate froin good government and free ;.*
stitutions. In the midst of poverty and distress, With-
out money or the means of reward, I have had @ fair
and impartiai trial,by a humane and intelligent court,
defended throughout bv gentlemen whose devution |
and ability could not have been more ably exercised
if I had beon the richeat man on‘carth, The gloom
of the condemned cell has been cheered by the kind-
est consolations of religion, and men in the service
of God have done all they cuuld to awaken immortal
hope and cheer ‘the last moments of my wretched
life—to all I offer up the unfeigned gratitude of an
uflicted heart, and bidding this world farewell, go
forward to meet my God, with an humble seliance
upon his mercy and forgivencas. :
: Conrad VENTER.

Amos Green

Executed at Ellicott City, Howard Co. on
August 8th 1851

THE GALLOWS.6
REE RAUCUTIONS IN. MATA LAND,

irtionlars, of «Th

e leretafure stated, the tiovernor of Mary-,
trove weekw ago signed and eet tothe
tiff, of the quunties asmed the fullowing
th wartabtnt: dohn Howard, alias Evaue,
» Lewis, whole epnvicted of warder iy the
degree it Acieghay coubty: Mary Wahie,
weal. cousicted of murder fn the fret degree
‘ee fedorge’s’ county, and Jobu Martin,
ted, convicted of violence upon the person
a fema.e jo Frederick connty.’ Yoeterday
+ the day eet apart for their execution. © It
ometiing now Sno the hletoryof Maryland
tutee persons lo different sections of the
te. lo he bung on the eame dav. From our
vint reportere and other seurces we have
friowing partieniara of the tri Ga, enb vic:

+ ventences: and confessions -OF-that ;
ined, ata their execution: 9° 9 NI
UXECUSION AT CUMBERLAND.

oward on thé Gal-
is of the Crowd-—
i Bnecidenin— inane alours
at Ci icte eed Nata to the
Mili ary Guard and Mu.

vattyld
io—The &catrold—Confession—The
secution, &e, ;

igi

‘Correspuud of the Baltimore “an.] ~
nie beug the dny Geed tor the execution of
u Howard, ai.as Shorty Evaue, alias Johg
la, convirsed la October last of the murder
‘spt. Megry Milter, near Old Town. in this
uty, opthe Ith of August last, the populae
vof the autroundiog country bogan to pour.
» tbe city at ao early hour. 5 sa

CROWDS IN ATTENDANCK, :
he ratiread trains brought large numbere of
ple, many of whom arrived last night, and
drode arrived ip vebicle,ou horseback and
mu'ew, Nutil the streets were thropged, The
wae erst, the air erisp and cold. Large
wis conected in front of the jailatan early
', oud Femained there until the prisoner was
uvbt out. “a detachment: of the military,
nthe Fiftecnth Key'ment, M. N. G., unmber-
about one huudred men, uuder the command
aptain Neu Woodro-y, formed at the armory,

at ll o'clock proceeded to the county jail.

NiGht ASD VORSING HOURS, *
he prisoucr was attended cure the mora-
by ble eptritual advieers, Rev. Henry Nice,
the Methodist Protestant Charch, aud Key,
C. Holloway, of the English Lutheran
itch, who offered to bim the consolations of
clon, aud be profeescd to be reconciled to his
*, aud to have obtained pardoo of the Al
city for bie sine. Ile ate beartily lavt nigot
-\ewed vynters, with: which be was treated,
| eleps a8 eouudly ae if unconscious that it
» bir last nigit upon oarth.

' dere wae virible for

‘ING TO THE OCAFFOLD—A STREET PROCES-
C1ON-*MILITARY. RTC |
he programme of the execation was laid
vu in accordauce’ with the costom of the
ity in times past. .A band of muyic ac:
‘panied the military, The prieoner was
aght out about voon, Iustead of placing
: upon bie coMu ta @ wagon, with - bie
sud upon him, ag had been the custom, he
ea brown coat aud bat and aehaw), aud was
ed tp @ carriage, with hie two spiritual advi-
and Wu, Sheffer, the deputy sheriff. on the
with bim, This change was made in defer.’
* to public {sentiment, a prominent citizen
ve town having offercd bis own carriage for
use of the prisoner, to avoid an unseemly
ctacle, Althongh the offer wae declined by
sheriff, the desired change wae made,
he processive left the jail at 11 o'clock, bead-
oy Sherit Layman aud a frievd. The carri-
with the prisoner followed, who had a hand-
chief to hie eyer, aud next the band of music
military goard, and then an open wagon with
\udsome waluut cofiv.and a large proces-
) of persons, the sidewaike in the mean-
6 belug crowded with persons, among whom
¢ many women, apparently from the coontr
ind. Inthla manner it proceeded throng’!
principal streets until it reached the couuty
ande, about @ mile distant., .
: CAFFOLD—I1TS PILTURESQUB LOCATION, ETC
he scaffold was erected ina large ficid, on a
tide, overlooking @ vast amphitheatre, jn-
‘ing the city of Cumberland, skirted by
intaing, and from which the view presented
higbly pictareequo and attractive. A large
ber uf péreons were present, and it 19 euti+
ed tbat four or five thousand persons wit-
sed the execation, ‘i ‘

see
one were admitt rmis-
‘of the eberiff, The scaffold was of a new
«nu --that of-ilally's patent drop. an,
‘VAL AT PLACENQP BXECUTION—RELIGIONS
i. SERVICES, ETC. . ie
ne carriage drew up to its steps, when the
. Mesers, Nice and Holloway sltanted. fol-
od by the prisoner, Supported by the deputy
if. The moment the souer’s feet touche
ronod he exclaimed, Thank God, Idie a
fmant"* Ae rps ascended the scaffold, the
Mr. Nice read alond the first two verses of
‘let Pealm, “Have mercy upon me, 0, God,
rding to Thy loving kinduess; according
‘the maltitade of ‘hy tender mercies biot
ny tracegresrions.” ‘*Wasb we thoroughly.
\mine iniquity, aud cleanse me from my

| reaching the platform, prayer was offered
Nev. Mr. Hollyway—the prisoner, whose
' were pinioned, being assisted to knee)
a by the bench, the ministers kneeling at
ide. The prisouer uentiy made audible’
ol of Amen, At the conclusion of the
@ eberif, with bie assistants, proceed-
» put ou the prisouer bie shroud, which en-

ped hie evtire body. bs
fixing .of the rope

ve ohroadiug and the
ad the neck of the prisoner occupied some
', the prisoner frequ ay Topeating the
‘e, “Ldies good mau,” "I die a Christian

POLEMNITY OF THE ec ENR: ane
1@ Bcehe way Very solewo aud impressive,
noise and conversation of the thousands of
tatore were hushed, the Interest having
hed ite usmons limit of tention, The prix;
+ &0 be etovud auder the drop, looking his
apon the meridian eun andy the fair scene
re him, seemed to gaze for : moment at

s punt lo the mid-Deavens, ae
“Hee eye was canning tn doubt and fear >
‘The path of the spirit's unknown.career,” —
REMARKS OF REY. NR. KICK.
ter the noore had been adjusted by the
@, daring which the prisoner compiaiued
‘% wae tuo thzht, &c., the Key. Mr, Nice, ade
ung the apectat said:
tr, Howard devires me to eay, on hie behalf,
him jo bis present “‘poeition, that
suger hee all turned away; that be bas faith
‘e mercy of God to save hie soul. He wishes
v warn you not to use fotoxicating driuke,
sbun all other vices, and to make prepara-
fora futare life; and that be believes he
ally prepared te meet bis God. H also
wees to make 8 few remarke himeelf."**
soa ik Pitan’ BEMARKS, = =~ y

ell, the few remarks 1 bave to make
eo: A man who convicts another man on tbls
bor any other, may he never bave ‘atrawe
pos pny! BL bg Becton y to Wve old Eugiieh
o8e

eard a0 witnesces.). Bar thie a M4

‘troops of the Confederacy burnt down bia house
) Up what we bad left and went to New York city.

‘erackfmen,’ ‘Charles

Ore Agal y wearé [alve, he
that maa ie Heary Winthrop, Thask God,
Bwear it, ia ne ot all, What me) the man
who convicted me le murder. Ido not dea
baving kilied the man, bat the maa | murdered
id me wrong, Heewore against my mother,
no has been dead tweaks res0e You eid
body, bat you cannos Kill the goal.”
‘be sherif then approached

8 be
ned ig 6 rambling 5 mthell he bo
fined ip whe teen deter bee eke

m2 man A
eherif® thea drew the White cap of his ehroud
ever the prisoner's face and descended the
fold, the prisoner continuing to talk. His leet

words were,“ You may kill the body, bat
gennet Ril) the"-—the sentence was

ore a pant. .
and the “soul” of the prisoner was in the pres-
ence of ite God, pane
The emotion of the crowd wae manifest and
Qudible to every one; many turned ai their
heeds from the Sxecasle. The drop at
minutes of one o'clock. The bedy swayed hal
dlige}eonvulsios of the chest and aboal-

} turns

the same aa!
the ‘jon’ he
teen of n6
dog fight.’
The

had

and|he drew!
both fired.

pistol toom effect in
the doctor who atten

her salutation aud passed ous of the duur.
1 rejoined Charlie, and we went over on the
Howery and wok the care for uptowo, The
watches and clothing we touk to tbe pawnbro-
kere and ‘shovéd' them ap."
, TUB MERO OF A
“Some three months after the robbery. abovo
Mentioned was combnitsei I |

pus m on
w

@ riug,

hie revolver, , 1

the matter was husbed up.”

Teta

tir) who:

oment, aod a}) motion
that the neck of the
ud that be bad cacaped

ceased. It wae ‘evi¢
prisoner way brokes

| the paintal death bylsirancalation.. At the end

of ten minutes the county physiciao.{Dr. Duvall,

| exatninued tne body, but fou'e dlacover nv sishe

of iife, °
‘She length of the drop| was 4% feet. The body
wae permitted tp hang % minutes, when it wie
lowered into alhandgome cofia place! beoeat

the scaftold. and the rope removed. There wae
@ Blight) bloodetain from the mouth, but the
countenance exhibited ioe of suffering. the

b "the
cyes were gently civeed, the cumplexion bad't
Shine cadnvetdre hoe that it presented jo jife.
The contracted forehead and general Rpneee,
ance of the fice indicated the preponde' neee.e
the animal propensities, and tha absence in de-
gree of thove moral facuitice which are the at:
tribates of a we'l-balanced mini:
TNE COKPOR- ARAURD PRACTICE,

Aseonn as the body was lowered there wae @
tueh of the crowd, the m.litary nut vxcepted, to
ontaw 6 view Of the corpese.. ‘Whe ahsird prac-

tice of otftaining @ piece Of the “baagman'e
rope waekarriel to @ ridichiogs ¢xvent. Not
eatisfied whit Gung thele kuives to cut ov picces
of the rupg, Many were eeon to rub. their picce
of rope againct Anal gatlews, the coltin. the
shroud, ang even to atiempt to draw it acrcee-
ihe face of the corp ‘Theijam aud crush wae
only etopped by the peremotury orders of the
sheri to the iniliary|to rewove the lotruders

ad to protect the be i .

One old iady forced nerseif ander the ecaffuid.
paylog. “she wae going bywe aud moet eee ibe
way.

‘ ivi due tothe sheriff to say that a!l the ar-
rangemente of the execation were well carridd
out, in @ proper agd bdcomiog maocer., Ke-
marke prevailed that the prisouer wae uoder the
influence of liquor at the time of his death, and

in some inetancea it wae commented opou wiih

severity, iuvulving Innocent partice.) H

It was etated, however, that it wae costomary
to adiminteter stimulants to prisppers: previous
toexecution, 1p cousequenco of their nervous
syeteme giving away. aud to evable them.to aup-
port phemeelves phyeically~during the feartal
ordem@, bat whether too jarve @ quantity wae al-

lowed the prisouer iu this cage, at his own earo-
cat d sire, te best kuowa to the gificcrs who bad

him ih charge. ,
THB GRAVE,

Thé body was ehort!y afterwards taken to the
grave. which bad been excavated op the oppo-
site side of the bili of the county almboove prup-
erty. | ;

* That -Specalation Confession.”

In. the subdjoined wi!) be fannd extracts from|
the “speculation coofeseion,’’| ia which Howard
Je made to apts asa very extensive and senea-
Monaljsert of viiein. The paper Fors to be
the Life and Coufession of Juhu Howard, aliae
Shorty Evans, slide Joho Lewis, coudem ned for
the murder of Henry Miller,” &c., “written by
bimeelf.’ ‘This document te In pamphiet form,
bearing the imprint of the Cumberland Allega-
iso pre and makes about twelve ordinary
pages. ‘I cobfession, 3¢ 16 said, was written
out by the- prisoner. Black, who shot McKaig:
tue signature of Jot.o Howard is appended, aud
the nance of Lemael Willison aud George L.
Layman are sabjoined as wi and is
seemiogly iu authentic form, howvver “ro.
mancy”’ the text may ap + The desiga ie
evidently to make|a sensation. |

BAD FROM BOYHOOD,
+ The narrative etarte oat with the declaration
that Howard was born in Augusta, Ua., in May,
1842, hie father being the owner of a ‘fou saw

mill and othér property. Numerous lyoutbful
scrapee—ouve ce them &@ stabbing afiairare de-
tailed, showing that from the very beginning
Howard was s promising young candidate for
the gallows. le then says: ; ‘
"When the war broke oot my father’s sympa-
thies wero with the people the North. The
and afterwards his mill. The family gathered
1 left the South to avoid being drafted into the
Southera army. After we reached! New York:
mhy father opened a stove store; bat not succeed-
ing very well in that,be bought out an c#tablieh-
ment for the sale of furniture) 1 acting iu the
capacity of salesman.”
ee ME TURNG BoRGHAN. . i
“After living in New York some time J got into
@ rather rough crowd of men, drank considera-
bly, gambled ang contracted bad habite yeneral-
ly. One day I wae drinking in @ saivon, when a
—— by name, came to
me and told me that he had a ‘job’ put up and
wanted me to help him throagh with It, I was
considerably under the Infine7c¢ of siquur at the
time and asgente’, He told me that he know of
& house) up un Third avenue’ wherd we could
make ‘a jraics,' A young nian living there wae
to 06 Métricd In a few days and bad new clothes,’
&c., in hid trank and also several huudred do
larain mopey., The ‘crackeman’ proposed that
we should enter the house that nigat. After in-
epecting the premises ea ae we left

and returned about 2 o'clock jn the mornolug.
was furnished with a pair of ‘nips’ aud went
upto the front door of the house. I found the
key ip tue) locx and. easily turned it with the
aid of the ‘nips.’ -Charlie had given me
adescriptiba of the ineide arrangement of the
house, | oat th frout |door, went up ihe
stairs gnd Opéned the door ft the head of the
steps; 1 uncovered a dark lantern that [ had pro-
vided myself with, and looked around. ‘here
wasabediutbe room occupied by two young
meu. pair of pants was hanging ona chair.
T ‘sounded’ the pants and got two dollare in
moncy aud a gold watch. I then looked around
for thetrauk. 1 saw is io the corner of the
room: Kent up toit, and found itlocked. 1
started to 'baui it across the floor, when the noise
parually, swakeved one of the occapante of the
ed. Idrews billy that 1 bad with me, eo that
{fl was divcovered 1, ¢ould silence him. He
merely turved over and continucd bis deep sleep.
I then shouldered the trduk and carried it to the
front door to my|tpal,’ who had been on the
look out for the|tcops.’ Charlie and -myself
carried the trank to@ Wacant lot that was pear
aud J broke it open with the aid ofa etohe. W
found in the trunk two eutts of clothing, a pai

ot patent Jeather boots, «&c.. and two hundred
and fifty dollars in money. We divided the
mou er our otbefs."*"

| ’ | HB IS A DARING THIEP, “4
‘} I then determined to go back tothe hodre,

though my compauyion tried to dissuade me from
doing eo: he howeyer agreed tp accompany me,
aod we went back; 1 entered |the house for the
eccond time. ‘This time I went into the room
occupied by the mother of the) young man | bad
already robbed, I got ber pogket book covtsin-
ing sixtecn doljlares in money, jand 8 gold watch.
These two articles 1 took out of Ler drows pock-
et. I louked on the bareag aud saw @ dreesing-:
cane, it was not locked, and from it I got anoth-
er gold watch. I then started down stairy; and

Was jast leaving the hall when I- meta colored

girl. It wae then juet about daylight, and ene

had come to the house\to wash (as | afterwarde

and avked for
giveber. She
me, accom

that I bad robbeii walk in.

| SENTENCED FO SING SINQ.
about the saloon all thatiday. and |
about dapk'l wae: surprised to rec the colored
I had met cominy out of the house
She came up to me

dollars, which

wont out and returned in « ehort
acted by a pdljiceman and the

owner of the stolen trank.| ‘Tf

teinpted to arrest me.

with a biily and jumped ont of the

tying the whole sash with me,
about .the face and haude,

but w
house.
the saloo:

the statioh-houee,
tempted. to ‘cobb’ me. My friends interfered,
aod we ned ®@ general row,

ball wae fi

found me

ould ba sent
th

*I rentence you

Wretch preciuded all idea of eympatny
to prison. I thonght tayeelt that fat he only redeeming fact ta Lis lest bourse
ey were rather aor to take me for au ‘inno. Hi is that he coufesses the horrible crime, and ap-
cent.’ The Judge tajd me to staud up, and sald: parent repents of it, thouvzh he had continued
to ty oF arg and te then sop. up to Monday last to deny al! knowledge of the
ped for ® moment-—+ ix montby.’ sald, *l Hi crime. As pated yesterday, hin victim was 82
am mach fobliged to you, Judus.’ J left the MH years of ap. and the Outrage was committed

room laughing.
years sure,

i was taken to Sing-Sing prieon, and went t
Work at the trado of,a turner.

Prieoo abouts

and we were

Trau

soaa, caught and carricd to the etation-
They aleo arrested the whole party at
oon together again io

Some of the

ith

Sunlences, to attelnpt av.escape, J

: Td 8KIZE ONE OF THR @CHOONERS
at the dock aud eaii her

Wheo seboone

rend¢red the ‘schooner useless ae far aa sailing

war conuceroed
at Bhop,
Bc ya ge

Doar
Twenty convic
never retaken.

touk the me out of the rudder

1 concind
with vi aud

te Were at the d

+ Lifauazed to make a tiller in he ketired to rest aud sldpt weil.
ud: One dsy we made @ rush one
jd Dot to go, but 1 weut on

tigged the (1

“About eigbt ‘months beforé. my

some of the pr
with the aid of

struction. The fire brok
A.M. The men whose
expired were allowed to

tobe the fire,
Ty to escape.
and J lost one

by extra work. One man,
for fifteen years, lost a t

leonere

OkT THE CNOPs ON FIRE
& siow match of their own cor-
@ ont about 4 o'clock
Sentences were nearly
bamber, bat did not
The acconnt books were barat,
are that I-had made
who was centen
bousand doliars: his

1 was of t)
handred doll

time wae nearly up. 1 remained

two years and three mont
Out three moathe before th
sentence,”’ ..

‘}MORE BURGE ARIES.

Howard t!
York, where

are next made

mentioned defo:

ed. The next‘
ging one watchman,
stealing

to figare in'a “ba

kers, New York." in which & good deal of *; oy
Was obtained thom & jewelr store’ ash pewn-
venture!’ the trio was drug-

o wering another,

g & wagon : i + ores
from & New Oriesne: cuts, Ave Doses" in

a street car. We abaad eo wi
wagos and goods. After
to Jerecy and on my own heok.

aD A oa.

CRace: meu:
“I got to the house that I had made ap m:
eater, went inte the back yard, clim
@ grape spor, seleed o window apd pat p eek

bOO Figur,

1 war dewkivg in
nm where Vhariie bad to'd me of
atup. There were sume if
aseéinbled at the place to witness a
T bad fifty Gollare stoked ou the fight.
og that I} had
other dog by th n the parties who
bet on the other og whehed to we
jumped inside 4 whena man
me outside the railing again; I got ap
lso'drew. We
He missed me, but the
fechigh., My fi
ed the, wounded nan and |

The ‘cup ‘at-
I knocked him bim dowa

Iwas badly cat

T was pot hort.
ed at $2,000, which I did not'give.—
My trial econ caine off. Charlie stuck to meand
ewore to an alibi, bat it was of nu use;
» gaiity.. Wheb the Judge bad me
drought’ up for sentence, several girle in the
court room sah! it was a pity that euch

‘A NICE, INNOCENT-LOOKING YOUNG MAN

ogot be would give we G

I had been in the |
t ¢ar,(wben I proposed tu sume of
the ‘iifers’ (in for life) and nen who bad heavy

k they always
ead, aud thue

pie AR mountaine.

made their eecape aud were tie

be—being
@ eXpiration of my |

states that he retarned to New
lolaed “bis old pale,’ Charite,”
re, aod one ‘Jimmie.’ The three

Steamer |

rom Miller's paotq, fer back wae towards me
and J thought that 'l could pass her yuovsurved,
but ehe turned and saw me, and 1 ran tothe
woods, | found Joe, aud we roasted some corn
and apples and azain continaed our fight. ba
{og through Mancock about daylight, “Ine odxt
evening we pacred through Clearspring, ana |
kept on for five miles the other side, Wethen
turned io under @ bay-stack, When we got
awake it wae Caylight Joe etack bie head out
and told me that there were some men outside,
}. We both crawled out and rau, they pureulog ue,
J told Joe to show fight, Heeaid he would, but
48 soon ae they came near he
THREW DOWN HIM (L.UB AND SURRENDERED,
I refaeed to surreuder,and they soapged & pieto)
atme twice. lasked Joe if he had given up, !
gud he said yes. J theu threw down a club that
Thad and aleo gave up. Whey took us to Clear
epring, and from there to Llayerstown, where 1
rayed a week. From theuce | was brought to
Cumberlaud, I wae tried iu October. The uegro
Joe perjured himeelf, or I woud have been cva-
victed of manslaughterjonly, which was the valy. |
’ crime Fcommitted, xo help mo God.” i
A, is proper to wes hee Ge hort part % |
thie statement, viz., that giving the getsis o:
the erime for which Finwant anfrared fu are
\auceceey sue same Ae published -yeeterday
ning from the Civiliga newspaper, :

ey on got the

ball from my
ds paia

1 refnsed to |

mo:

WILE EXECUTION AT FREDERICK:

The Hanging of John Martin at
Frederick—His Last Hours—-Speech
from jthe Scaifola, &e. ‘

oe ee of tne Baltimore Sun.)

window, car-

ov, however,

pritouere at- Furvericx Ciry, Mp,, Feb, 10.

he execution of the youngeolored man, John

Martin, for the commission of a most heinous
ontrayé upon a venerable lady, (Mrs. Mar
ButcherX took place here today, ju the jail-

yardy between one gnd twoo'clock . M. -
. Mid TORNIBLE ¢hIME.

The shockirg and movt revulting ‘circum.

stances of the brutal‘offence of the yellow Pe

Ol)

the jury

while her vencrabie husbaud, over 100 yéare of
age, wae at her side helpless.

The foriner conviction of Martin for theft wae
at the February term of the lrederick Couuty
Court, 1868. and he was parduned by Goveruvor
Swaunin May of the same year, upon the recum-
meudation of the judges and others,

NIGHT BEFORE THE EXECUTION,

On the eveuving before the execution of this
wretched map a onmber of pereoue assembled
in bie room atthe jail, and were eugayed iu re-
Ngious exercises until ten o'clock, after which

This morning

te very little for hie breakfast, and, in fact,
subsisted almost entirely for several weeke
apples and eweetmeats, After breakfast re-
ous services were again held in hie roum, in
hich he appeared to take a great iuterent. Ile
ofersed repentance for hir eine, aud seemed
rfectly resigned to his fate.
(RowD AT THE EXECUTION,

Thourands of persons were in attendance to
witnees (he execution, and all the trees, fences,
eheds, and elevated positions in the vicinity of
tho jail, were crowded. Shortly before leaving
his room Martin sang ahymn aud prayed fer-
vently for the forgiveness of bix sing, and after
be had concluded Sheriff Bartgiv entered and \n-
formed bim that bis time had now come. Olicer
George W. J.ease then tied the arma of the cul-
pritand afMixed the rope aroand his neck, and
the law oMficere proceeded with him to the acaf-
foid, which he avcended with firm steps, the
minieters of the gospel fullowing tn the rear.

, A bymo wae then sung, in which many voices

oiped, after which the Rev. Mr, Mumier de-

ivqred @ very tuaching prayer. Duripg thie

time Martin betrayed considerable agitation,

aud bie hands trembied like axpen leaves. When

the prayer was ended, Martin arose and said:
THE CULPRIT’s @rEEcH. — -

“My friends, all of you are gathered arouad
here to wee the lavt.of me, I suppose. 1 see some
standing on trees and bouses. f bope ‘you will
ail take warning from me, ava shan the gallows.
I bid you ai\ farewell, and hope to mest you al)
in}Heayen.”

The Rev. Mr. Hummer then sald: “I now at

uest of ips prisoner give you bis farewell
address," aud then progeeded to read from a
paper whico he held ia] bie hande his dying
words; ~~

MARTIN'S DYING STATEMENT
Was prepared’ yesterday by his attorney. In
the outeet he regrets having to give ap bie life
while yet eo young, only 2.yeara of age. lie
declares emphatically thas he is not gailty of the

‘told them

Ner for them, 2

time was op

extin-

at Siug-Sin;
pardoned 1

tary at Yon-

Camberland,

for the second

sloug pleasant
told the negro
board some da

ecnofa b=.
after
you soo of

Olber,) aud +

TETRUCK HIM ON THE MTPAD, ,
Me dropped yn hiv knees avd tried to pick up
a hatcnet tha laid near nim. J atruck him again -
aid be cailed'for he:p. Joe had got on the boat
I eaid to Jue “Let ue

and etuod by

get out of this.’ Joe was onthe running piank
nd | fell against him and drppped intu the ca-
nal. | ao regained the worl

td tovk to the wuode
one after me, and I picked up a stove, aud asked

@ fence an
difficulty

yor

who jt wad.

contiqued our flight together, and got lost in the
I jouked at the sun and tovk
an easterly couree and came vut on the Balti
more pikes few milée from aan That

woudd that day.

evening we came into town and went down to
the Coal and Iron Company's wharf.
cente aud bought come cakes from o
aud gave Jge half of them, We were elitius on
id sume men approached ue and en-
nvereation with us,

the wharf
tered into

nized Joe, a omnee bes whetwe was doiug ' tails ef the Crime ite Penalty,
there. J ‘aiting for my boat to come up. MaRLBono’, Prince .

One of them asked, ‘lave you heard the uewe!' " F — Potreent so sch.
leaid‘No” He anewered there wae a man burt Mary Wallis, or Wa)! te pbsara

down the canal
“Miller, aud t

vers. aud you fe!!ows had better leav

and Joe fullow

til 2 o'clock under a bay stack, and the

down the pixe.

400k the woode for it.
: APPLES AND CORN Tu BAT,

learned.) She ssid good morning.’ and I re-

At ‘Indian Spring’ I saw Miller's slster-in-

law. She had

and came back ta Camberiar

light for Lim ae ik '
then on ibe berm bauk.
he followed me
and he then turned Away J picked op aepreader-
stick and bid it behind me, sud be called mee
tle ntepped up on the cabin and |
m. Trained thejetick and said Take that
b-,’ (wp were then facing each

= vs :
fer It to hold it op. crawled to and made
alee of $600 and a lady gold watch, and got off J April
ly with my booty. I pext
aga d Tuan “4 ur fe WASHINGTON CITY
and lad there eick sbme time in the hospital
with inflammation of the lange. :
covered in shitgen a FDR igh -
e:
Camberis a. T worked attbe Initer place with
Mr. B. Kane, helping to boaild @ house.
thatI shipped op the boat ‘Mary A,
Tne owner aud Lhada f.sbt about my wager,

aud I left bm.
1 THEN JIIRED WITH MARRY MILLER

time. I made one

y. at least Joe taca ip

led
other di\Mca'ties with bis employer are detailed,
which angered Milier, the captain, who made &
“flual Complaint about Darucewing mules. Howard
adde: “!tol! him 't waa the pegro’e place ang
not mine to Daruere the ron'es.
Tit the bow-lignt, pisced st oo the bay-cavin aur
turhed the rellecior towards the berm bauk. &
told Mitier be subi
(ba owed me rome eleven Ailiare.)
"beettie witli you.
wee J RANTEKED MIM FoR & ViGwE,

with meand I

atheo

Motter,
He eald it was too dark, I toid him it wae ns the lawyer who de{yuded him on his trial:
war for ine, We were both Bf tof Nig Bartgis and tis officere for their kind

J told -him got

the cabin.

mired. lex

Joe answered, ‘It

pulice are arrert
edme. That night
I traveled on the
We had not

ust finished washin

After 1 bad re-

We did not get
iy and bad several quarrels, He
oe that he Would knock me over-

I got on th boatana

tb, jamped over
cated myself with

Jacked who it was? He vsid

aa crime for which he must die, and says:

“I contese that on the morning of the 6th of
between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock,
ole from ‘my mother’s chamber! whilet

1 oft!

with ff the ideaWlashed across my mind that 1 should go
downto Wir. Batcher’s. ‘I hesitated a moment,

and ¢ as if impelled by some evil spirit, i

After ft directed my footeteps towards the house of the
Moore.’— 7 azed coupio. Asi drew near the house I con.

trip with him

¢ 60." Severs

by the arm;

weut vut add

would lowe.
He wala, *J

Nartiv returns thanke to Mr. J. C.

and humane treatment; to the ministers and re-
ligious frieude; who were eo apremitting in thei
attentions to him; acknowledges bimeeif a bell
deserving sinner, but lopked to Chrivt‘for mercy
aud died in peace and with good-will to all. g
‘The ministers and sherif and bis deputy bav-
log left the acaffold, the rope wae cat at precise-

to follow me,

hoy of Mr. Fi s
Teta Gonnty Jail ot

; Iscover that she held & strong on | amity
bo chiia'e aches ed came des era,
theories: the Aret, that sabe bad) ‘pois
‘Wisk, with the bdpe twat the mar;

was the only one supposed to
food) would’ bp gsretion for the prime. -

Of these is correct bas not yet bedn settied.
“i, THR TRIAL |.
took place dnring the October
Chief Jastice Breas and aerociat
and an, er A A is ee th
ney. Geode CO, Merrick,.Keq.,. pr
Mese ole] Clarke aad Beinod 1
ec | the cause, The evidence was|brief and
Oluted, and altbopgb ao able and maoeterly de
ence wae made by the eminent counsel, the jary
returbed 8 verdict of guilty, recommending F
however, to the mercy of the dourt.WBat the
court! hud ne Siaerets ia the matter, and abe
Was scuivuced to be hanged on |Friday,
ary 10th. reads

TMBRCILE.OR THSANR,

During the progress of the trial, and even 9
Pronvuncing the awfal seatence, it was
served by ail that the prisoner wks the moet ta-
attentive and careless of all the throng gathered
jo the coat room—now Jaughing idly. BOW to
ing with ber rings, but at all times appareatiy
anmjndfal or opt realizing ber tetridie eitaastion. -
Thi€ led to the ef that she was either insane
Or tmDdectie, and eaused the recommendation for™
mercy, which wae presented by the jury, After
the trial ehe was remanded t0 Jali, and still con-
tinued to wear'the same ancon¢erned @ .
ance, and the belief in ber iheanity gained
Kroun+] eo rapidly that @ petition |was drawn ap,
circulated and wicued by sumbedre: of the very | |
best citizeoe Of the county, Bad presented te tha | |
Goveruor, - ; * ch |
APKING & COMMCTATION a |
of her senteuce. This was met| promptly by a:
counter petition signed by & namber of persons
who reside iu the vicinity of iteville, where
the crime was committed, aod who have knows
her for years. They state, of thelr own persona.
knowledge, that she je jaet th¢ reverse of in-
sane, boivg bright Aid intelligent, but malicious
ly wicked. ‘Thus t ip th
of the Governor,
ing ble decision, =
Gresacd a ictier to

DECLINING TO GRANT ‘ :
either a repricve ora on, for the rea--
eon that he had carefally examined into: the
entire case, apd satisfied himself that, instend of
being insaue or imbecile, as chatged, she le 5
the reverge, and be: is satisfied {hat the en :
justice d d the enfor f the
_ SPIRITUAL AID. eS:

Soon after the sentence had been proneunesd,
the condempud was called apon by Kev. Vathers:
Dwyer and McDooaid, of the Roman Cathoti¢.

Church, who are incharge of that: circatt,
ootil the last few fiare she a listie oF
heed te their advice. Frequently when they were.
exbortiog or praying she wooki bures foto.

wild laugh or song.

THE PLACR OF EXECUTION :

wae in the jail yard, euciosed hy a board fence’
about 12 feet high. The jail, jeituated jo the:
Upper endiof the town, is a new) brick building,

eabetautially built, two stories | high, ae & aq.
or.

entrance aod passage in the centre and
t9um6 On ¢cilber side, ‘

THE @CaProLn, :
OF gallows, ie the same on which Nimrod Rieh-
ards, the ‘eadofof the gang of five negroes who™
murdered Col. |W. Lyles, of Aabarn, was exe”
cuted on the 1 of Augaet last. Itis erected
directly in front of the jail. The platform ie.
about twelve feet equare, and stands about eight
feet trom the ground, reached by 4 flight of stepa:-
atetther end rise two eight-in¢h aprighs tim-.
bers about ten feet bigh; acroas {hese ran a mig--
die Joint, in the hniebe of which |19 a pully bole,
through which the rope, of three-quarter inch
texture, is rove: thence passing! d: the side’
of one of the worighte. where if is securely fae ~
tened. The drop ie aboat fuug f
inner edye working ia sockets!
while the front te -held bya trace, ¥ shaped,
throngh the middle of which & rope fe rove,
jeading to an inner room of the jail, where it is
secured. ‘bie ie the trigcer rope, and when it
1s looeed the Y conuectiun is bro ud the drop
oh Aloe euticely cicar, Jeaviug @ fall of about four
eet. :

THE CONDEMNED GIRL, mS.

Mary Wallis, wae formerly a slave, belonging to
the late Kichard D. Hal), on whose pace
Good Luck, (about fire miles of Belt ¥
bhe wae raised; aud ber entire Was spenhin |
the couuty, most of it fo the neighborhéod-
where she committed the atrocious crime. After
the war ¢he was employed as honse-servant at
various reeidences in the neightorbhood of Belts
ville, She te ratber tall, and very dark in ¢olor;
aod looke rather simple-minde@. Afier her in-
carceration she did not exbibit mach concery aa
d, indeed, when dpoken to on the

to hi te,
ity did so lightiy. 1( ta enpposed that

c
the ba to few days past, aj firm conviction
that the Governor would commste her sentence,
and therefore did not exhibit 48 much coscern
as she otherwise would have dpne. As 9 child
she was giveu to fte of sullenness. When she
grew up they were not so frequent, but were
more tbreatepiog to their character. +

THE DOOMED WOMAN i
yeeterday refused all food peouene ber, and Ste
nothing at all during the day. athers McDoe-
ald aod Dwyer, of the Carmelite Order. were
with ber during theentire day, administering
spiritual consolation. They ade about the only
vieltors she bad during her /incarceration, ae
none of her relatives or feicnd$ bave ealled on
her. Last night che elept very well, baving re
tired early, and arose this marning about elz-
o'clock, an:t ate a hearty breakfast. Very soou
thereafter Father McDonald called, and remain.
ed with ber until the fatal Ln

THX ROF

le the same one used on the pccasion of Rich-
arde’s execution, and was made in Baltimore for
the cxecation of Culling, in that city, bata com-
mutation of sentence prevented ite use on that.
occasion. i

Tue, prieoner occapied the] same cel] from
which Kicbarde emerged to jthe scatfyld, aud
frum the grated windows coul 3

ly twenty-two minutes pset one o'ciock P. M.,
pnd the er wae winging between Heaven
and earth. ew Convulsive strugy)
that could be eeen. matinee
After hanging for some t!me. Dr. W. H. Balt-
zel] announced that life was extinct, wheu the
body. was taxen down and aelivered to the rela-
tives of Martin, woo conyeyed itto Mount Pleas-
ant district for barial. t ;
The sallows pon which Jobn Martin wae
ecuted lea very stromg one, and is the same en
which Smeltzer ang Freeman were hang veveral
ae ago, It waserected ander the direction of
7. Charlee W. Haller, one of the master car-
beaters of thie city, 4nd may anewera sim!ar
purpose for years to qome. a

T beard some

je me.” We

THE EXECUTION aT MARLBORO’,

m Mauged—Death om the
Wallis, the Child
ot - Momen ta—De-

I bad ten
Bouhert

They recog-

ivg allatran- {f 10 the family of Mr. B.D. Fabian, near Beltoville,

LOUK DOWN ON THB] ONAavEs
Of the five Lyle murderers, gdjoining the last
one of which (Richarde'’sS hef own grave was
opened to awalt the execution of the sentence of

the law,
Asking the o:d colored grave digger “whose
"Oh, that's that

grave that was,’ he replie
poor woman's up there,’ poigti
window above. “Well, loom

Lenat you don’t bit Richarda's co!

“Oh! Lord God, massa, don't be afraid) I'll
clear of that!’

The grave digger poser te
Guety Frankilo, bes uy the|graves of ail wh:
have been bung at the Maribogo' jail for the past
fifteen years, i

THE CONVICTED WOMAN IN NER CELL. sie

At 10 o'clock this morulug, dn visiting the ce)}
pled by the d a she was found
slising against the wall ona pailer with a prayer
book in ber hand, and in converse with Father
McVonsid. She louked towhrds the grating,
with her countenance wreatied in a smile, 1m
Gicative, apparently, of resignation to her fate.

THB EXECUTION.

At precisely too mlnuthe Past twelve o'clock

Pather McDonald came ont the fr a

on this eee

the jail, with a cracifix is hie hand, followed
; Tet, Md., was banged here to-day for the der by tee d woman, who was fenced ta 8 pak. 3
of patel poteon of the infant child oc Mr. Albert M. Read, | of white cambric and blac¥ cap. Her arms
ike ata do acierk in the Department, 13 Wada-'| Were Pinioned, but she walked up the steps of
Avy ats °° Bf ington, inet July. jthe scaffold firmly, although she was assisted by
og dat The child wee killed b Sherif Fraser and Depaty Bherif Cator, as
white the family were psa frgpd + me yred aod neg ae Sar pent sy oe hae

@ fatal noose, t eats f
tne blood | seen M¢.. ate Bates of a ker, Pabias.— the dopatune prayere, she gazed with s vacant

stare on the crowds of men aad boys who were

| 7 rss

WIFTH |

BSA

poe OR AGE

OCGUPATION

(erate, Lunit\ Mar

RESIDENCE f

DATE

OTHER

[640

VICTIM

Bice ek b

4a iter Mae HE TIN sob, pus te ha

Orrice suUPALY=DOTHAN

ence and the wagons au

ont
Outside. As soon asthe pri had Aniehed

service, Father McDonald tntned to the
of spectators and said: *This girl bas

us
| lowering t

tet]
cut aad

her arme
ght ebrag of: the

bef

wd |

30 The Master Detective

about twenty feet behind the Ford carrying their quarry. purring softly with a look of satisfaction on his face.
After sitting in the machine for about five minutes, Jake The jewelry salesman blanched, as it dawned on him

Kraemer said: that the handsome individual who had addressed him had
“Let's pull this now, and get it over with. I‘m getting stolen $50,000 worth of unset stones, and remained to taunt

nervous.” him about his loss.

Whittemore had planned to follow the salesman back: Whittemore. laughed uproariously, nudged Unkelback, as
through Central Park, before holding the man up, but at a signal to start the car, and the big Cadillac moved slowly
Kraemer’s suggestion, he ordered his men to do as they away.
had been instructed previously. A peculiar thing about that incident, was Sanford’s de-

scription of the bandit sextette that had robbed him. He
PALADINO, Goldberg and Whittemore got out of the could not furpish a very good description of any of the

Cadillac, walked to the left of the Ford Coupe, in which robbers except Goldberg, who had sat in the back seat, be-
the negro sat, and opened the door of the car. Jake Krae- tween Jake and Leon Kraemer, both of whom should have
mer and his brother, Leon, walked up on the sidewalk, to been easy to pick out under any circumstances. Sanford
the right of the Ford. Paladino reached inside the machine, could not even say exactly what the man who had spoken
grasped the negro chauffeur by the collar, pulled him out, to him looked like. He later described Goldberg to detec-
and shoved him to Whittemore. Whittemore, with his gun tives, to whom he reported the robbery, as aman of me-
pressed against the fellow’s side, ordered him to walk back. dium height with prominent ears, slightly crooked nose
Paladino followed, keeping the man covered. The chauffeur and with sandy hair, which he parted on the left side.

was made to march two blocks to Eighty-second Street, A few days later, Inspector Coughlan received informa-
where Paladino told him to head west, and keep on walk- tion from Baltimore that Milton Goldberg was known to
ingiiss’ have left that city in company with Richard Whittemore,

Paladino then hurried back’to the gang’s Cadillac, got in and it was thought the pair had headed for New York. Ac-
beside Unkelback, and the machine was driven up beside cording to the Baltimore police, Goldberg had participated
the salesman’s Ford Coupe. The two Kraemer brothers got | with Whittemore in the robbery of the bank messenger there
in, and sat in the back seat. Goldberg and Whittemore on the day the Candy Kid fled from his home city.
followed, carrying the little black case, which Sanford had
taken out of his box at the bank just a short time before. WITH this information, the New York Police received a
Unkelback started to drive away, but Whittemore stopped photograph of Goldberg. After studying the features of

him. the man in the picture for some time, it suddenly occurred
“Want to stay and thank the salesman for. what he has to Coughlan that he had seen that face before. He searched
done for us?” Whittemore asked. the police files, and found that he had Goldberg’s record,

Sanford emerged from the shop in about five minutes, together with an earlier photograph of the young Jew. He
noticed that his chauffeur was not in the coupe, looked up had been sent up from Yonkers several years previously
and down the street, and not seeing the negro anywhere, for a burglary.
ran to his car. He began searching about
frantically in the seat, on the floor, and finally
lifted the cushion up, and peered under there. -
But the little black bag was gone.

Then, for the first time he noticed the Cad-
illac, with the six men in it. He looked up
and saw Whittemore smiling blandly.

“Lose something?” the bandit chief asked,

Yet these things still did not satisfy the
Inspector, It was not the fact that New
York had handled Goldberg that made his
later picture seem familiar to Coughlan.
There was something else in that full-face
print of the man that struck the detective
oddly. Coughlan continued to study the
features, trying (Continued on page 61)

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meee
6 ae Bee

; a.
okt ‘* hag AY oe ee —

Park Avenue, New York—street of the élite—where the Candy Kid (inset) hobnobbed with the “‘swells” and thus gained inside
information which guided him in the looting of exclusive jewelry shops

John
of the
receive!

“Sen
the vol

“Adz
of min

Ther

‘Gol
to dea

The
of as
and w

Low

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March, 1930

a lamp post, and pretended to read.

A few minutes later, Whittemore and
Leon Kraemer approached from the op-
posite direction, and stopped in front
of the Goudvis & Veerman Jewelry
Shop, just across the street from Pala-
dino. In a little while, Unkelback
walked from the south on Fifth Ave-
nue, crossed the street within a few
inches of where Paladino stood, turned
east on Forty-eighth Street, and
stopped near the entrance to the jew-
elry store, just opposite where Whitte-
more and Leon Kraemer waited.

Milton Goldberg sat at the wheel of
the Cadillac, parked on Fifth Avenue,
headed toward the north, just beyond
the shop. The five,men were at their
appointed posts, waiting.

An hour passed, and still they wait-
ed. Paladino was watching the traffic
policeman standing in the middle of
Fifth Avenue. It was Paladino who
first saw Jake Kraemer, for whom the
bandits had been waiting. Jake was
walking up Fifth Avenue, in front of
two men, one of whom carried a brown
leather brief case. Leon Kraemer was
watching Paladino, who signalled that
Jake was coming, by dropping his news-
paper to his side. Leon Kraemer in
turn, tipped his hat, his signal to
Whittemore. The Candy Kid reached
in his overcoat pocket, took out a cig-
arette, and placed a lighted match to
it, before placing the fag in his mouth,
as a man in a meditative mood might

do.

Unkelback edged nearer the door of
the jewelry shop, and Gales, started
the motor of the automobile. aladino

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kept his eyes on the traffic officer. Jake
Kraemer passed him, standing on the
corner. The two men who apparently
had been following Jake parted at the
corner, the one with the brief case
walking across the street, toward the
a store. Still Paladino did not
take his eye from the blue-clad_ in-
dividual standing out in the middle of
the street.

As the man with the brief . case
stepped upon the curb on the opposite
side of the street, Jake Kraemer, who
had kept just ahead of the quarry—for
it was none other than Albert Goudvis,
the diamond importer—turned on his
heel, and made as if to re-cross the
street. Goudvis pee on, and Kraemer
again did an about-face, and followed
the jeweler into the store.

hittemore and Leon Kraemer fol-
lowed Jake. Unkelback followed them.
Paladino watched the traffic officer, and
Goldberg gripped the steering wheel of
the gang’s car.

Paladino, later recounting that most
thrilling of New York daylight hold-
ups, said that it seemed an age that he
stood there on the corner, waiting for
his chieftain and the three other bandits
to emerge from the jewelry shop.

Paladino shifted his gaze from the
entrance to the shop, to look at Gold-
berg, sitting rigidly tense at the wheel
of the Cadillac. A cloud of smoke
suddenly boiled out from beneath the
automobile, as Goldberg fed the motor
more fuel, to keep it from being choked
down from over-lubrication.

The powerful eight-clyinder engine
sputtered, idled down to purr smooth-

ly, then all of a sudden the smoke be-
gan to boil out of the exhaust pipe
again, as Goldberg let his foot down
too heavily on the accelerator.

In his excitement to_ regulate the mo-
tor of the machine, Goldberg grasped
the fuel-hand control lever just beneath
the steering wheel, and shot it upward
suddenly. He had meant to cut the
gas off entirel with that lever, but in-
stead, he accelerated the engine.

LOUD report, like a_ pistol shot,

and the Cadillac’s eight-cylinder
motor died entirely—just as the traffic
policeman whom Paladino had been
watching, left his beat and started
across the street, toward the Goudvis
& Veerman Jewelry Store!

The phantom of Baltimore is in a
hot spot!

What quirk of fate enables him to
escape?

What happens to the traffic officer?

Where is the Tiger Girl—and what
part will she play in subsequent
events?

What strange clue finally leads to
the capture of Whittemore and his
henchmen?

These questions are answered in
startling fashion in the concluding in-
stallment of this gripping chronicle
of gangland, to appear in the April
issue of THE MASTER DETECTIVE. Don’t
miss it! The description of the
Candy Kid’s frenzied ride through
Central Park, a roaring police auto-
mobile in his wake, will give you a
thrill you’ll never forget!

Smashing America’s Most Powerful Dope Ring

I had with these two men, that they
suggested a plan for apprehending
and. arresting the entire dope ring,
with the exception of the unknown di-
rector of narcotic distribution. The
peddlers and other agents would cer-
tainly be enmeshed in the net woven,
if aid could be had to furnish the
necessary funds to put our plan in
operation. ;

First there must be two girls for
the lure. These girls, of course, would
have to be those who had, at some
time in their lives, been addicts. It
was most important that they be listed
with the dope ring as having been
“off the stuft” for years. Too, they
would have to be willing to take the
chance of suffering a horrible death at
the hands of the ring in event their
real status should be discovered.

MANY clues were followed for’ bait
that would exactly suit our pur-
pose. Former addicts gave informa-
tion on many women, but after in-
vestigation they either refused to
participate, or were not the type we
were after. Of course the grapevine
carried the word among the ones that
had broken away from the, curse.
These former addicts were just as
canny about keeping secrets from the
dope ring, as were the officers. All

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the women recommended were hap-
pily married and had families.

We were beginning to feel a bit
discouraged when a letter reached us
at Police Headquarters. The com-
munication was from a woman and
the diction was that of an educated
person. It related that she had been
annoyed for years by dope peddlers,
who had known of_ her downfall in
France during the World Wat, while
she served as an Army Nurse, with
the A. E. F. Part of her letter
follows:

“I have a wonderful home, 1
am and_ have been very happy
with children about me. My
bitterness against peddlers of
narcotics is almost a religion. in
its intensity.

“My husband has consented
to my offering my services in the
cause I’m _ informed you are de-
veloping for the downfall of a
dope ring. I would be able to
bring another woman who de-
ae oe and peddlers as much
“as 0.

It took a few days to find out just
how much credence could be put in the
writer of the letter. We found that
the woman was married to a man of

wealth and prominence back in the
Middle West. From a near-by town
we answered the letter and enclosed
careful instructions for the initial pro-
cedure in our plan. We stated that we
should be very glad to have them
codperate with us in this dangerous
mission and insisted that the checks
enclosed be used for that purpose. The
woman and her friend responded im-
mediately to the out-of-town address
we had given, accepting the assign-
ment. ,

“Tt ig with hatred and malice afore-
thought that we will follow instruc-
tions,” they wrote. “We are willing to
take any chances to destroy these
jackals who trailed, threatened, cajoled
and endeavored to blackmail us back
into the deadly clutches of narc@fics.”

This communication, from back "iQ,
the middle Northwest went on to
state that the conditions along Puget
Sound were even talked of back East.

In due time the two Women met Us
in a town near the city of ‘Tacoma.
We were amazed at their appearance
and delighted at their very evident
knowledge of the dope traffic. Both of
these women were richly dressed, re-
flecting culture and good breeding.
That they were accustomed to wealth
was very evident. ae ‘

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taurant just a few doors up the street,
and ate breakfast again.

At noon, the bandit returned to the
first eating place, ordered lunch, and
watched the jewelry store across the
street. He repeated his vigil late that
afternoon, nor did he leave the vicinity
of the Kandel establishment until it
had been closed for the day.

After receiving Paladino’s report on
the place he had been assigned to time,
Whittemore said that he would make
the joint on the following Monday.

On the appointed afternoon, between
3 and 4 o'clock, the time chosen to pull
the job, the gang drove to No. 98 Essex
Street in a stolen Packard automobile
and parked the car directly in front
of the Kandel jewelry store.

There were five persons, all em-

ployees of Mr. Kandel, in the shop when °

the robbers entered. As was the cus-
tom, everyone in the place was held up,
searched for guns, gagged and hand-
cuffed, and made to lie down on the
floor, in a back room.

After the store was looted of more
than $110,000 worth of gems, the ban-
dits. with the exception of Paladino,
got in the stolen machine, and drove
west for a couple of blocks on East
Broadway. Various members of the
gang got out of the car at intervals,
until Unkelback, who was driving, was

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the sole occupant. He drove the ma-
chine to a place on Cherry Street, and
abandoned it.

Unkelback then hurried to South
Street, two blocks from where he
left the stolen Packard, got the gang’s
own Cadillac, and drove about the
streets, until he had picked up Whitte-
more and Kraemer. The others had
taken taxicabs and were waiting for
their leader, when the Candy Kid ar-
rived at Benny Levy’s Hotel on Coney
Island.

THE $110,000 worth of loot from the

Essex Street robbery was sold for
$12,000, and divided equally among
the six bandits.

But the very pinnacle of the monu-
ment of criminal deeds that Richard
Reece Whittemore, the spoiled son of
an American aristocrat, had started out
to erect in New York was reached on
Janury I1th, 1926.

Long had Whittemore dreamed of
the day when his band would have at-
tained that degree of excellence that
would fit them to be led to a daylight
raid on one of the exclusive diamond
shops on Fifth Avenue in the Forties.
That day had finally arrived, and the
Candy Kid was all set to realize his
greatest ambition.

For weeks, Whittemore and Jake

An aerial view of Coney Island, the scene of many secret meetings of Candy Kid
Whittemore and his henchmen

Kraemer had trailed Albert S. Goud-
vis, of Goudvis & Veerman, importers
of fine diamonds, with offices and dis-
play shops at Fifth Avenue and Forty-
eighth Street. Like a pair of jungle
cats, the Candy Kid and his erstwhile
tutor in the art of robbery, Jacob
Kraemer, had stalked their prey for
blocks, on many occasions.

They had acquainted themselves with
the daily routine of Goudvis, the part-
ner of the firm whose business it was
to call on his high-class trade in down-
town offices, in gown shops and at the
homes of women listed in the social
register.

With his aristocratic background,
Richard Whittemore was able to hob-
nob with the most prominent of the

rominents—some of whom lived on

ark Avenue—and it was he who had
“discovered” Mr, Goudvis, the exclusive
jeweler.

With the cunning Dutchman, Whitte-
more had tailed Goudvis on several of
the jeweler’s trips. He had learned the
exact hour, the minute, that Goudvis
arrived at his office on Fifth Avenue
each morning. He knew just when
Goudvis would leave his shop, carry-
ing his brief case containing stones that
he had been commissioned to purchase
for some member of the Four Hundred.
The Candy Kid knew just about how
long Goudvis would remain away on
each of his trips to a prospective buy-
er, and the route the jeweler would
take back to his office. He knew also
that Goudvis never rode the subway,
elevated trains, nor even a_ taxicab;
but that he invariably walked, both
from his office and back.

WHITTEMORE learned the exact
days of the month on which the
firm of Goudvis & Veerman received
new designs of jewels from abroad, and
the approximate value of the incoming
consignments. He had timed the shop
at Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth
Street on the days when these consign-
ments arrived, and he had discovered
that the shop did very little business
on_ those days before early afternoon.
With this information, Whittemore
planned the robbery of the shop. On
January 10th, at about 9 a. M., Whitte-
more got word to the members of his
gang to meet in his apartment on West
Eighty-ninth Street. When his five fol-
lowers had arrived the bandit leader
made his plans for the following day.

Later that night, Whittemore in-
structed Paladino and Unkelback to go
out and steal license plates for the
gang’s Cadillac. The two men assigned
to this task went to Brooklyn, and
found a car parked on Third Avenue.
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Streets. They quickly stripped the
plates: from the tcat and rear of the
machine, then took a taxicab to the
garage on South Street, Manhattan, and
removed the plates on the Cadillac, re-
placing them with the stolen tags.

At 8:30 o’clock on January IIth,
Paladino got off the subway from
Brooklyn at Times Square, walked
north on Broadway to Forty-eighth
Street, and turned east until he reached
Fifth Avenue, where he bought a paper.
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later. However, at the time of
Saunders’ arrest, certain of his features
greatly resembled Sloat’s as the latter
had appeared six years before. A
rather peculiar coincidence, this. and
one which was certainly a lucky break
for us! For although we picke up the
wrong man we picked up the right
man to lead us to what we were look-
ing for!

A few hours after his arrest, Sloat
was on his way back to Scranton. He
made the trip in the same taxicab in
which he had murdered Lowry! The
machine had been put in working or-
der and the elder Lowry drove the car
over the Pennsylvania highways, with
the murderer of his son and etective
Phillips in the rear seat.

Lillian Dougher, Jewel Fleisher, and
Ed Saunders were taken to Scranton
later in custody of detectives,

Sloat’s trial, one of the most dra-

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matic in the history of Pennsylvania,
opened on April 8th. The defendant
could not be forced into a confession,
and when the trial got under way his
lawyers made a desperate effort to ex-
tricate him from the heavy web of evi-
dence which entangled “him in ~its
meshes.

GAUNDERS took the stand and tes-

tified as to Sloat’s confession of. the
murder. The testimony of Sloat’s sister
followed and verified Saunders’ testi-
mony which helped to convict. her
brother of the most serious charge
which can be lodged against a human
being! Cold-blooded murder! Jewel
Fleisher also testified as to Sloat’s ar-
rival in Philadelphia in the early
morning hours of February 3rd, and
of their subsequent trip to Runnemede.

On the seventh day of the trial,
Sloat was carred into the court-room,

draped over the shoulder of an officer.
It was then revealed that the man had
tried to commit. suicide by jumping
from his cell on the third tier of the
prison where he was confined while his
trial was in progress. When officers
opened his cell door that morning he
had lunged past them like a mad-man
and jumped over the railing. But
somehow he became entangled in the
railing below and his suicide attempt
was frustrated. However, he had
banged himself up pretty well and was
a sick man when he entered court a
few minutes later.

The jury found Sloat guilty of mur-
der in the first degree. There was no
recommendation for mercy, which
meant the chair.

At this writing, Sloat’s attorneys
are fighting to have their client’s
sentence commuted to life imprison-
ment.

On the Red Trail of the Candy Kid

to place the bandit properly in his
mind.

While Inspector Coughlan was still
thus engaged he received a telephone
call from officials of Later & Son, jewel-
ers for whom John Sanford worked as
a salesman. That telephone call brought
back to the Inspector’s mind the very
vivid description given by Sanford of
one of the six robbers who had stolen
his sample case.

HIS information from Baltimore

had been sent in accordance with a
request that the New York Police had
made of the authorities there, for a
record of some of Simon Gilden’s for-
mer associates. Gilden, the bandit
found murdered in Trinity Church-
yard, had, according to Baltimore de-
tectives, left the Maryland city just a
few days prior to the sudden departure
of Whittemore. As Gilden was wanted
in Baltimore for a former crime, the
olice there had trailed the man to
Philadelphia, Gilden remained in that
city for two days, then left hurriedly
for Cleveland. He remained in Cleve-
land about a month and always suc-
ceeded in keeping about two jumps
ahead of the police.

While still in Ohio, Gilden received a
call from Milton Goldberg, who had
been sent to him by Whittemore, Gil-
den was needed to complete a new rob-
ber gang that was being organized by
the Candy Kid, Goldberg said. On the
day following Goldberg’s arrival in
Cleveland, he took a train back to
New York, accompanied by Gilden.
Thus was the seventh member of the
Candy-Kid outfit enlisted in the band.

It was with a double purpose then,
that New York detectives made a con-
centrated effort to track down Milton
Goldberg. It was believed that the
young Hebrew could name the mur-
derer of Gilden, and at the same time
lead officers to the rest of the Whitte-
more gang.

But New York City is perhaps one
of the best places in the world for

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a crook to hide out in, especially the
type of crook who frequents the fetter
class clubs and_ theaters, During the
buying seasons, New York daily is host
to an average of more than fifty thou-
sand visitors, all of whom, it seems, are
eager to spend at least one full night on
Broadway, getting ‘first-hand knowl-
edge of Gotham’s gay life.

With these conditions prevailing, it
was no easy matter for Inspector
Coughlan to put his hands on Milton
Goldberg, the man he was so anxious
to “interview.” But the Inspector was
determined to catch the thug, and the
police spread the-dragnet for him.

The Whittemore gang, meantime, was
carrying out its fixed plans for giving
Manhattan something to talk about.
The mob was like a ravenous pack of
Wolves turned loose in a pasture with a
herd of calves. A score of small jobs
were pulled between October 19th,
when tohe Sanford was robbed of $50,-
000 worth of sample diamonds, and
December, when the gang had finally
reached the crest of the tremendous
crime wave for which Candy Kid
Whittemore was responsible.

The R. M. Ernst Jewelry Store was
robbed of $25,000 in unset stones on
December 2nd. On that particular oc-
casion Paladino had to slug a negro
porter, and Whittemore found it neces-
sary to flirt with a couple of frightened
gisls, who seemed set on screaming.

For the next two weeks, the bandits
contented themselves with the loot from
drug stores, restaurants and other small
business concerns. On December 23rd,
the six thugs pulled an eighth-story
robbery. The jewelry manufacturing
establishment of Folmer Prip, then oc-
cupied a large suite on the eighth floor
of a building at 90 Nassau Street. Af-
ter 5 o'clock in the evening the elevator
service is discontinued in the building
to all floors above the sixth.

It was about 6 o’clock when the rob-
bers entered the building for the pur-
pose of robbing Prip, whom they fig-
ured would have a large amount of

platinum dust and blue diamonds in
stock. All six of the bandits took the
elevator at one time, and called out
“Eighth” to the operator. The elevator
ascended to the sixth floor, stopped sud-
denly, and the door slid open.

‘Sorry, gents, but this is a high as |
go,” the elevator man said.

The thugs filed out of the car, and
walked the remaining two flights to the
Prip offices. There were seven men in
the place, all employees of Prip’s. Every-
one was ordered to lie down, and Pala-
dino and Leon Kraemer bound and
gagged them, while Whittemore and the
others scooped up everything of value
in sight.

The total value of the loot in that
tobbery was only $6,000.

Within a few days following the
Prip robbery, the gang made the Sam-
uel Kandel Jewelry Company situated
at 98 Essex Street for a $110,000 dia-
mond haul. Then the William H. Sims
Company, jewelers, on Grand Con-
course, the Bronx, contributed $75,000
to Whittemore and his mob.

It was Paladino who timed the place
on Essex Street. He and Jake Kraemer
spotted the Kandel jewelry — store,
while strolling about lower Manhattan
late one afternoon.

ON the following day, Paladino went

to the jewelry store, and ‘asked to
look at some cigarette cases. After
Kandel, the proprietor, had shown Pal-
adino pita gold cases, the bandit se-
lected one that he said suited him,-and
put up a deposit of five dollars on the
article, to get the jeweler to hold it
for him.

Paladino gave his name as Lewis
Gallo, and his address as Seventeenth
Street. The robber left the store. went
across the street to a restaurant, where
he sat at a table and watched the Kan-
del shop. After lingering over the
breakfast that he had ordered for an
hour, and fearing that by remaining
longer, he would attract attention,
Paladino went out, found another res.

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made off in a nd one. The flight was swift and it was effective.
The police loss trail, and for a week nothing happened.

But, with tre*job done, the robbers lost their professional alr,
assumed quite perfectly for the crime itself. In Philadelphia they
began to throw money about recklessly. They drank, and they
boasted of their achievement to two girls. A few days after that
unfortunate moment of vanity they were all languishing in New
York jail cells—all but one of the Italians, who, in his WISEOM.)

fled to Italy. Ultimately three of them were executed. 2
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prompt destruction, and this was chiefly because of its complete
professionalism. One seasoned, expert rogue in the Diamond band
might have given it that steadiness which it lacked. The Whittemore
gangsters were all seasoned rogues. Prison acquaintanceships had
brought together from several corners of the world a half dozen
of the hardest criminals which this generation has known. There
was Whittemore himself, Baltimore thief and murderer; he had
been arrested for a robbery and had killed a prison guard in mak-
ing his escape. There were the Kramer brothers—European safe
robbers of world renown, inventors of the can-opener process for
breaking steel safes. With an immense tool of their own contriving
they could, without the use of explosives, rip through the strongest
steel precisely as the most useful of kitchen gadgets cuts the tin
of a vegetable can. There were several others in the gang, eight in
all—jailbirds, old hands at the game of taking other people’s money.

During their rather long career the Whittemore band—the
Baltimore youth was the leader because of his intrepidity, his
amazing, bitter coolness—performed something more than a dozen
successful robberies. These ranged from the elaborately planned
looting of a Broadway jewelry shop in midafternoon, with two
policemen half a block away, to the holdup of an armored money
car in Buffalo. Their profits were immense. And they never com-
mitted a robbery without murdering at least one man.

In many ways these gentlemen proved themselves to be the most
ruthless and bloody criminals ever to grace our history. They
were taken at last, as everybody knows. But it was not precisely
their own folly which brought about their downfall. It was a series
of unpredictable accidents, coupled with certain luck which befell
a cunning detective or two. I saw Whittemore during the period
of his detention in New York. Very tall he was, slender, straight,
with extremely neat clothing. His face was not debauched, nor
was it particularly. vicious. It was cold, expressionless, indescrib-
ably grim. His lips were set in a faint, changeless sneer. His eyes
were black, gleaming, defiant.

These two, then, the Diamonds and the Whittemores, are varia
tions of the small gang which is organized for the explicit purpose
of robbery by murder. Their chief difference lies in the experience
of the individuals involved before they came together in a gang.
So far as they affect the common scene of metropolitan life, there

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AL CAPONE'S CHICAGO -

[“Big Jim’ Colosimo
came to Chicago from Cosenza, Italy, in 1895, at the age of
eighteen, and settled in the colorful, vice-ridden First Ward, domain
of “Bath-House” John Coughlin and “Hinky Dink” Kenna. In a few
years, he married one of the ward’s notorious madams and went
into the business of managing brothels. As the years went by, he
became vice lord of the district and amassed a fortune for himself.
His “Colosimo’s Club” on south Wabash Avenue became a gather-
ing place for celebrities from all over the nation, from the elite
of the underworld to international opera stars. As his enterprises
expanded throughout the city, Colosimo hired a number of under-
lings to protect them and himself from extortion practiced by the
‘Black Hand” blackmailers in the Italian community. In 1910,
he sent for his nephew, Johnny Torrio, a member of the old Five
Points gang in Manhattan, to come to Chicago to be his enforcer.
In 1919, with Prohibition about to become the law of the land,
Torrio tried in vain to persuade his uncle of the profits that would
be made in bootlegging; but Big Jim’s interests were elsewhere.
Torrio was a man of grim determination and amazing foresight.
By now second in command of the Colosimo enterprises, Torrio
sent to New York for a young hoodlum acquaintance of his, one
Alphonse Capone, who just happened to be running from a murder
charge at the time. Colosimo was shot to death at his club on May
11, 1920, whether by Capone or by his friend Frankie Yale authori-
ties disagree. The empire now fell to Torrio. But his hold on it
was to be of short duration. The fierce Chicago gang wars included
a nearly successful attempt on his life in November 1924, shortly
after the murder of the infamous Irish gangster Dion O’Banion.
an ees on from ‘Alcohol and Al Capone” Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen

oe by permission of Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. Second selection from the Chi-
£0 Tribune, December 6, 1927.

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days he canvassed and cased the
neighborhood on Fifth Avenue, be-
tween Fortieth and Fiftieth Streets,
known as jewelry heaven. And he
noted the movements of two middle-
aged men who came forth at noon
every day with large briefcases under
their arms.. The men were diamond
dealers for Goudvis and Company of .
Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street.

On January 11, 1926, he struck.

The Kid followed the diamond ;
merchants to the Harriman National °
Bank at Forty-fourth Street and
Fifth Avenue, where they removed
from a vault a load of precious
gems.

On the sidewalk stood the Kramer
brothers. Nearby was Tony Palladino
and another thug—William’ A. Un-
gleback—known as Baltimore . Willie
—a slim, pasty-faced, nattily-dressed
killer, Shuffles Goldberg, another mem-
ber of the gang, also had a lookout
post.

The diamond dealers walked slowly
toward their store, oblivious to the
glittering eyes that followed their
every move. On Forty-eighth Street,
The Kid had parked his great new
Cadillac. As the diamond men reached
the corner on Fifth Avenue where the
store was, Whittemore stepped up.

“Against the wall, quick,” he
whispered hoarsely. “Make a move and
you're dead men!”

His henchmen closed in quickly.
Grabbing the , briefcases, they leaped
into-the car. With a roar, the hopped
up car motor started and shot ann
Fifth Avenue.
shrieked: “Holdup men! Stop them!
It's a holdup.”

Lady Luck played a strong role, be-
cause at that very moment the corner
traffic cop was bawling out a taxi
driver. By the time he turned around,
The Kid and his gang were out of
sight, leaving no trace or clue.

It was a $1,150,000 haul. The police
checked. photographs with the dealers,
however, and there was no doubt in
their minds as to the identification of
the holdup leader. 3

In the end, it was only by keeping
a constant watch on Tiger Lil that
they captured their man. She un-
consciously. led. the way to The Kid,
sitting quietly in his automobile in
front of 132 West Fifty-second Street.
His accomplices were picked up, tried,
and sentenced.

Bat for Whittemore things were a
lot more complicated than that.

The Buffalo police wanted him

for trial as one of seven men who
held up the Bank of Buffalo Branch
of the Marine Trust. Company and
escaped with $93,000. Two bank
messengers had been killed during

‘The jury was out only an hour. The

decision was guilty of first degree
murder. ;

As the time to hang approached
_ Whittemore resigned himself to the
gallows. “It’s all over now,” he told
reporters. “The quicker they hang me
now, the better I'll like it.”

Two days later—an ugly, hot, dull
day—August 13, 1926, Richard Reese
Whittemore stood on the gallows, only
300 feet from where he had slain Holt-
man. The trap was sprung and The
Candy Kid’s body hurig lifelessly,
dangling in that hot Baltimore sun.

the robbery. i
Whittemore .stood trial in Buffalo
but the jury failed to reach a verdict
and the vote was seven to five for
acquittal when the case was finally
dismissed. Maryland then asked that
The Kid stand trial for the murder of
Holtman. The trial lasted three days.

The diamond men:

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: THE STATE OF MARILARD. (5:
‘ ‘ be _ apm aA ALOIS , Baty ee
= Charles Williams Hanged fer Assnelt-
ing a Woman—Unrepentant to the Last,
(Correspondence of the Baltimore Sua.) -
}. Campnrper, Mp. Jan. 8&—Charies Wil
} llama, the colored assailant of Mra, Elisa J.
| Keene, of Dorchester county. in May lest,
| was banged here at 11.20 A. M. today. ‘The
f execution of the death penalty is seldom ac-
companied by so much bardiness and obdue
reey. so — ater destitution of guod feel-
x all the months since the come
maleaion of his crime Williams has exhibited |
no gleam of pity for his victim and no evie
dence of his contrition. Even yesterday, the
day before his execution, he disavowed all
faith with the fuulest blasphemy. He was
sullen, vindictive, and persisted in charg
ing the witnesses with perjury and the court,
} the jury and the officers of justice with a
Ounspiracy to send him to the scaffold. His
spiritual advisers, Revs, M. H. Thomas and
Charlies H. Young, remained with him until
f 11 o’clock last night, singing, praying, and
exhorting him. About 11 o’clock Rev.
i J. E.. Bryan, pastor of the M. B. Churoh,
} Of Cambridge, also visited him, but
he had seittied himself to sleep, and
dcelined to be disturbed. He slept well until
6o'’clock this morning,:-when he got up and
atea bearty breakfast of beefsteak and ham
aod ¢grs,saying at its conclusion: “Well, I
bave had a good breakfast; I suppose I shall
eat my dinner in hell,’’. a
At 11.0 he walked, with Sheriff Martin on
Ove side and Special Deputy Gustavus Parks
on the other,to the scaffold, preceded by Rev.
W.H.Thomas and James H. Young, col
i His arms were bound together atthe elbows.
} He was neatly dressed in biack. . He
laughed and talked with. the offloers
as be went along, and but forthe cords one
would have supposed he was going to some
} pleasant meeting. He was taken through the
courthouse and passed through a window to
the platform of the scaffold. He coolly took
hold of the dangling rope and said to the
spectators, “What do you think of that, gen- .
tlemen?’’and seeingun acquaintance, he called
out, “Capt. Devan, this is a oice place to bring
amanto. This isthe first gallows Il eversaw, |
and I never thought to die on the gallows...
He then made a rambling speech, in which
he said he was convicted bya set of fiars;.
that be was going to stand a new trial today,
when he would not be judged by liars, &.
At this moment his cyes lighted upon a citi-
zen amomg the spectators in whose boat he
bad worked as a dredger and towards whom
he evidently felt great bitterness. He broke
outs *Yes, Captain, you are standing there
to see me hung, and you ought to be here on
the scaffold instead of me.- { could teil
things you would .not like to hear,’ &. A
spectator then addressed to him the follow-
ing question; . “Williams, you have only @
few minutes more tolive. Tell us, are you
guilty or innocent of the crime charged
against you?” | : NPY)"
He replied, “I am innocent.” As the black
cap was about to be placed over his face his
curiosity was excited, and he asked, "What
is this?” In the course. of his remarks he
said it would be well if other. persons here
had as much nerve as he had. He shook
hands with the sheriff .and Deputy Parks
and his spiritual advisers, and while standing
with the tips of his fingers in his pockets the
sheriff suddenly chopped the spring rope,and
the body shot down with great velocity. 49%
‘he pulse Ceased to beat in seven minutes,
and: the body was let down in twenty-one
minutes, and Williams was pronounced dead
by the attendant physicians. Death resulted
from strangulation. a...
Williams's mother and eisters have not
visited him for several weeks, and..hbe de-
clined to seethem during his last moments,*
His body was taken in charge by Undertaker.
Willis, and was buried this afternoon at; the
county alms-house. There was a compara
‘tively small gathering of people at the ex-.
ecution. — if esl a a
-The crime for which: Williams was con-
victed was committed Jast- May in Meekins’s
Neck, of Hooper’s [sland district, Dorchester
county. Mrs. Eliza J. Keene, wife of Georme |
8. Keene, a farmers was the victim. She
was on her way through the woods to her
home when Williams stole up from behind,
seized her. and catching her by the throat
forced her to the ground and assaulted her.’
Williams then disappeared, but was hun
/down and taken to Cambridge. He was tri
| ee ue 1sth of November and convicted,
| : Fe Eerste Mt dat ratoney ycarh cite
| f me was a | twonty Y
if h leet: {oohes: in titnmnte and power
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| heathit complexion, res,
| fy Xae's dlatrictit ce eae
. Diehras oroplogedas’ a Nand |

Charles Williams

Executed at Cambridge, Dorchester Co. on
January 8th 1886

| Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 1-9-86
Supplement page 2 column 2

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"COURT TO SENTENCE WHITTEMORE TODAY/MAY DECRE® DEATH OR LIFE IMPRISON}
MENT; BANDIT PLANS APPEAL, (Special to the Washington Post) = Balti-
more, Md., June 9. - Following a conference with Judge O'Dunne, it was

announced today by State's Attorney Herbert R. O'Conor tjat Richard Reese
Whittemore will be sentenced in the criminal court tomorrow, Judge
O'Dunne who presided st the jury trial of the gang leader, has the
option under the law of sentencing him to death or life imvrisonment.
Edgar Allen Poe, Whittemore's counsel in the trial for murder, in which
the bandit was convicted of killing © prison guard while escaping, re-
turned to Baltimore today after an absence of more than 4 wekk, Sen-
tence had been deferreduntil Mr, Poe returned. Whittemore has indica-
ted that he will file an appeal from the judge's sentence,” POST,
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KEEPSUP HIS
NERVE UNTIL
LIST MINUTE,

“J Wish to Say Goodbye,”
Is Last Words of |
Bandit

SHES FAMILY

Reads Magazine. When
Informed That Appeal

Had Failed,
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BALTIMORE, Aug. 18. (United |
Press).—Richard Reese Whitte-
more, bandit leader and murder-
er, was hanged today. With his —
death, the last but one of the |
Whittemore gang, whose depreda-
tions netted them more than a
million dollars, has paid the pen- —

alty of crime.

Death, disease and prison have
claimed the others.

' Whittemore, who was 28, went
to the scaffold almost unmoved
at the prospect of death.

“I wish to say goodbye. That is
the best I can wish for anyone,”
was all he had to say as he step-
ped to the gallows in a roomful

" }
o£ disinterested witnesses, Hea |

was alone as far as human sym-
pathy was concerned, for his wife
and relatives had been barred.
The black death hood had hung
from his neck. Then it was pulled
over his disarranged hair. The
noose wag, slipped tightly about

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ispectator, as Whittemore gave
| his last good-bye.

H. L. Mencken, magazine editor,
who was among the spectators,
turned to the man beside him.

“There are mighty few. witnes-
ses here who could have spoken
anything as calmly,” he said.

There was a new stir on the
illuminated stage. Guards about
the prisoner stepped back, leaving
him standing on the steel trap. _
One walked to an adjoining room .
‘where the lever spring of the trap
is located.

' The trap was sprung at’ 12: 07
a. m. Twelve minutes later, Whit-
temore was pronounced dead.

Twenty-four minutes after mid-
night, Dr, Albert Anderson, peni-
tentiary physician, permitted the
guards to cut the: body down.

Whittemore died for the murder |
of Robert Holtman, a guard at ~
the Maryland penitentiary here.
He killed Holtman while escaping
last year and was caught after
a series of robberies and crimes
that stirred the East by their
daring and success.

The last interview between the
condemned bandit and his family
took place across a space of five
feet, the width of the passageway
between the prisoner’s cell and
the high wire lattice that edges
the guard walk. |

Whittemore talked with his face
pressed tightly against, the steel .
lattice of his cell.

Exactly one hour was allowed: |

the bandit and,his family for: this
| final farewell. Time, up, the party

left by way of the warden’s room.’

When he was informed yester-:
day that the last desperate effort,
an appeal by Pendleton to Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes, of tho
United States supreme court, had
failed, he said: |

“All right, sic what I ax-
pected.”
He returned to ioe reading of a
magazine, apparently feigning an-
noyance that he had been inter-
rupted,

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On the Red Trail of the

succeeded in fighting their way into the jewelry store,
they found Messrs. Goudvis and Veerman lying on the
floor of their shop, behind a counter, gags in their mouths,
and their wrists handcuffed behind their backs.

They were quickly released, and a check-up was made
of the loss, which was $170,000 in diamonds, the largest
single jewel haul ever made by a bandit gang in Man-
hattan.

When the bandit car disappeared in Central Park, it
continued to speed north, until Eighty-third Street was
reached. At that point, Unkelback was dropped out. A
block farther on, and Leon Kraemer relieved Goldberg at |
the wheel, and the latter dropped off. Leon drove about > i
in a semi-circle for some time, until all the.members of & Pa by’
the gang except himself had gotten out of the car. He ‘ ws
then headed back south, and drove the Cadillac to the
garage on South Street, where he replaced the original
license plates, destroyed the stolen tags, and took a taxi-
cab back uptown.

6 SMR RAIS

THAT night, the gang met in Whittemore’s apartment
on Eighty-ninth Street, and a division of. the spoils
was made, the loot having been sold earlier in the evening
by Jake Kraemer. Just how much Kraemer received for
the jewels was never learned, definitely, but he gave each
member of the band $11,000 that night, saying that
amount was exactly one-sixth of the price he had received.
The Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street diamond rob-
bery was Candy Kid Whittemore’s last haul in New York
City, or any other city. For even as helay awake nights plan-
ning that job, before he led his jackals to the raid, a New
York detective was also sacrificing sleep for another purpose.
Detective Walter Sullivan, whom Inspector Coughlan

sage murder
» explaining

The Tiger Gir) (left), accompanied by relatives, is here seen
leaving the prison after bidding farewell to the black sheep
of a haughty Southern family

lowing the Fifth Avenue hold-up, Detective Sullivan, accom-
panied by Detective Cronin, again trailed Goldberg from
the Empire to Eighty-ninth Street. This time, the officers
were determined to keep the thug in sight. They saw Gold-
berg enter a place on West Eighty-ninth Street. They con-
cealed themselves in the basement entrance to another
building across the street, and settled down to watch the

hold off anyone
yns of the rob-
‘scaping. Pala-
ad to follow in-
bark inside the

k back into the

no good reason
h the successful
yan, had craved
at, by shooting
ttan that some-
to do. But his
gerously near to
vas why Pala-
-d, as he walked
Avenue, took a
vent to his home
yn.

N five minutes
r Whittemore

emptied the

of his forty-
the ceiling of the
and Veerman
hop, and dashed
ie waiting Cadil-
ake good his sen-
escape, the side-
r blocks around
ed shop were a
mass of curious

lad patrolmen
iged to wield their
er the heads and
s of the surging
men and women
- to clear a path
adquarters detec-
ho had arrived at
ie of the robbery
put of the sky, it

the officers finally

had assigned to run the

house into which Gold-

bandit leader and_ his
thugs to earth, was about
ready to prove to Rich-
ard Reece Whittemore
that no matter how
smart a crook might be,
he never can reach that
point where he can make
banditry pay for any
great length of time.

Inspector Coughlan
had turned over the in-
formation that he had
received on Goldberg to
Detective Sullivan, and
the detective had made
the best of it. Just a few
days prior to the Goud-
vis and Veerman_ rob-
bery, Sullivan had suc-
ceeded in locating Gold-
berg, who was registered
at the Hotel Empire, as
Joseph J. Langdon. Sul-
livan had picked up
Goldberg’s trail one day,
while the bandit was
driving about in the
gang’s Cadillac, and had
trailed him to Columbus
Avenue and Eighty-
ninth Street.

The trail has been lost
there, however, and Sul-
livan was obliged to re-
turn to the Empire
Hotel to await the return
of Goldberg.

Then, on the day fol-

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berg had gone.

In about twenty min-
utes, the detectives saw
Goldberg come out, ac-
companied by another
man. Sullivan, from his
place of hiding, studied
the features of Gold-
berg’s companion. He
recognized the man al-
hs most at once, from a
rogues’ gallery photo-
graph that he carried in
his inside coat pocket.

THE other man Sulli-

van knew, was Candy
Kid Whittemore, Balti-
more murderer, and New
York bandit. He could
have taken the gang
leader easily, but decid-
ed to defer arrest until
more of the gang could
be located.

On Tuesday evening,
March 16th, Sullivan,
watching the place on
West Eighty-ninth
Street, saw Whittemore
come out, get into the
gang’s Cadillac parked
at the curb, and drive
away. The detective fol-
lowed in a police car. At

WHERE MARYLAND TOOK A LIFE FOR A LIFE
The death house at the State Penitentiary, where the black hood was
; placed over the Candy Kid’s head

Eightieth Street, Whit-
temore stopped at a
small café, went in,
stayed five minutes, and

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Kraemer, brothers; Bill Unkelback, Anthony Paladino and > rade:
Simon Gilden. The gang, led by the mercurial W bittemore, > atter
stages a series of daring jewelry store bold-ups. The mas- Be WI)
ter minds at Headquarters, including Chief Inspector Jobn | his |
Coughlan, are bewildered. - Pala
After one of the bold-ups, Whittemore is crossed by Gil- > He
den and one night the Candy Kid lures Gilden into the - poin
shadows of Trinity Church, and murders bim. > pulle
Still baffling Headquarters Whittemore and bis gang con- > fired
tinue their depredations and finally, on January Ith, 1926, > outs
they decide to make the exclusive Goudvis & Veerman *— to |
jewelry shop on Fifth Avenue. It is 8:30 am. Goldberg men
draws the gang car up to a spot in front of the shop and E Gok
Whittemore and his henchmen wait for Goudvis. With | big
the: jeweler’s arrival, the bandits follow him into the store. > loco
Ly, Meanwhile, Goldberg is having ‘trouble with the engine of b wea
the get-awgy ar and suddenly, accompanied by a loud mor
report, thA motor dies, just as a patrolman on the corner poi
starts over toward the jewelry store... :
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‘PART THREE—CONCLUSION | G
d HE policeman swung off to the right, suddenly, g os
i after taking one look in the direction from which his
the report had come, to make sure that it was an ». bre
automobile’s motor back-firing, and strode upon the ~ lea
_ sidewalk,. less than ten feet from where Goldberg wit
j sat ¥ the een’: i > mo
. Paladino, the look-ouf. stationed across the street, . had }
In this SAN eeR nay Kid, on ee telale of pulled his gun from his overcoat pocket, but he dropped it - Av
Eternity—a crimson path of human blood behind him— back to its customary resting place when the - policeman wh
chuckles at a sally of his wife, the Tiger Girl. (Below)
} Cross indicates the Kon at Seventh Avenue and Central
} Park South, New ‘ork, where detectives, wracked by
weeks of futile sleuthing, finally cornered the -

Phantom of Baltimore—amid a rain of sing-
ing lead

(AU photos by International)

(CONSTERNATION reigns in’ Baltimore. A
i phantom slugger is at large.. Only after be
has fled the city is be identified as Richard
Reece Whittemore—the Candy Kid—who mur-
dered Robert Holtman, 4 guard, and escaped
jrom the Maryland State Penitentiary shortly
before be began bis reign of terror. The Candy
Kid bas come from an aristocratic family.

He goes to New York with bis wife—Mar-
garet Messler, known as. “the Tiger Girl’—
and members of bis gang. These men, all. des-
peradoes, are: Milton Goldberg, Jake and Leon

WR we
An Ld EY LAT erry

le had LSS OL ala'y AW ow .
1 Viby April, 1930

IL jof the CANDY KID

STER!
ed to
nt fast

sing in

VEY

ty Paladino and
rial W bittemore,
i-ups. The mas-
f Inspector Jobn

; crossed by Gil-
Gilden into the
bim.
ind bis gang con-
nuary IIth, 1926,
lvis & Veerman
9 a.m. Goldberg
of the shop and
- Goudvis. With
im into the store.
vith the engine of
ranied by a loud
1an on the corner

SION

e right, suddenly,
ection from which
are that it was an
nd strode upon the
m where Goldberg

oss the street, . had
, but he dropped it
vhen. the - policeman

3 morning traffic, finally reaching a

"gasoline pedal hard against: the floor-

| his face, as he fought to maintain the
|. break-neck pace that he had set after

passed by without pausing at the gafig’s car.
Just as the traffic officer was turning the
corner on Forty-ninth Street, Paladino
and Goldberg were galvanized into action.
Goldberg, who had managed to get the
Cadillac’s engine started again, pushed in.
the clutch with his left foot, while his right
began pressing steadily down on the ac-
celerator. His right hand shot to the gear-
shift lever, and he eased the car into second
gear, ready for an instant get-away.
Jake Kraemer was coming out of the
jewelry store, followed by his brother
Leon, An instant later, Unkelback came
out, and the three bandits who, with Whit-

> temore, had pulled the robbery, stopped

just outside, to wait for the Candy Kid.
Paladino still stuck to his post actoss the
street, ready to give assistance to his ¢om-

rades, should a cop suddenly appear and ©

attempt to block their escape.
Whittemore, with two canvas bags in

‘ his left hand, came to the door, sthiled at

Paladino, and turned back into the shop.
He walked to the center of the room,
pointed his gun toward the ,.ceilfng, and

: pulled the trigger. In rapid. sutcession, he

fired six shots. His gun empty, he ran
outside, motioned to his men, and hurried
to the waiting Cadillac. The four
men scrambled into the machine, and
Goldberg let out the clutch. The
big car, smoking like a coal-burning -
locomotive, roared up Fifth Ayenue,
weaving in and out of the heavy

point near Fiftieth Street.

(“OLDBERG was bending low over
the wheel, his foot pressing . the

boards. Sweat began to ooze out on

leaving the scene of the hold-up, -
without crashing into another auto-
mobile or a pedestrian.

He wanted to turn out of Fifth
Avenue, and strike a side street,

where he would have a better chance _
to speed; but, Whittemore, sitting in the front seat beside

the driver, kept urging:

The dapper’ Whitt
criminal career—an
scaffold behind the forbidding walls of a grim Maryland fortress

WEARING BRACELETS AT LAST!
emore (right) as he appeared at the end of his astonishing
dat the beginning of the short journey which was to end on a

“Keep ’er headed straight up Fifth Avenue. They can’t
stop you. If they try, run ‘em down!”

THE lumbering Cadillac, bearing its five es-
caping robbers, slowed a little at Fiftieth
Street, as Goldberg narrowly missed running
down a woman pushing a baby carriage across

sthe busy throughfare. The shrill whistle of a

traffic officer sounded above the din of the

traffic.
Whittemore cursed Goldberg. Jake Kraemer
was urging the Candy Kid to let the driver get

off on a side. street, to’ reduce the chances of

being captured. But Goldberg still pointed the

- nose of ‘the big car north, on Fifth Avenue.

‘The car ‘neared the intersection of Fifty-
first Street. The officer handling traffic at that
point saw it coming. He blew a couple of loud
blasts on his whistle; to warn the reckless driver

roa = ee

40 The Master Detective

BORED!
The Candy Kid (extreme right) was the most unconcerned person in the court-room when he was tried for the savage murder
of Robert Holtman, a guard in the hospital of the Maryland State Penitentiary. (Below) Whittemore does a little explaining
to his father, aristocratic Baltimore society leader

that the traffic lights were about ready to change. Gold-
berg looked at the officer, then at Whittemore. The Candy
Kid looked up from reloading his gun, long enough to
curse Goldberg again, and order him to keep going, straight
ahead.

HE light changed when the car was about ten feet from

the intersection. Pedestrians started across the street, and
the cross-automobile traffic started up. The officer blew
his whistle again. Goldberg eased up on the speed.

Whittemore, seeing that Goldberg intended to stop for
the red light, slammed his left foot down heavily on Gold-
berg’s right, which rested on the accelerator. The car
leaped into violent, jerking life, hurtled through the cross
traffic, grazed the rear
fender of a taxicab, and
barely missed the traffic
policeman, who had run
up to hold out his hand
as a warning for the driv-
er of the Cadillac to stop.

The car roared on,
crossed Fifty-second, then
Fifty-third, and sped
straight north, on busy
Fifth Avenue, finally
emerging into the Central
Park district. A sharp
swerve, and the bandit
car soon disappeared into
one of the Park drives.

Back at Fifth Avenue
and Forty-eighth Street,
Anthony Paladino cursed
silently, as he turned and
walked west toward Sixth
Avenue.

“The damn fool. The
damn fool,” he kept mut-
tering to himself.

Paladino had been in-
structed to hurry across
the street from where he
stood, as soon as he saw
Jake Kraemer come out
of the jewelry store, and
plant himself between the

entrance to the shop and the curb, ready to hold off anyone
who, having become suspicious of the actions of the rob-
bers, might try to keep the bandits from escaping. Pala-
dino had followed instructions,.or had started to follow in-
structions, until he heard Whittemore’s gun bark inside the
jewelry shop.

He had seen Whittemore deliberately walk back into the
place, and empty his gun at the ceiling, for no good reason
at all. The Candy Kid, not satisfied with the successful
robbery of Goudvis and his partner, Veerman, had craved
still a greater thrill. He had thought that, by shooting
into the ceiling, he would be giving Manhattan that some-
thing to talk about, as he had promised to do. But his
crazy act had brought the whole gang dangerously near to

; the Tombs.

That was why Pala-
dino cursed, as he walked
to Sixth Avenue, took a
taxi and went to his home
in Brooklyn.

WITHIN five minutes

after Whittemore
playfully emptied the
chambers of his forty-
five into the ceiling of the
Goudvis and Veerman
jewelry shop, and dashed
out to the waiting Cadil-
lac to make good his sen-
sational escape, the side-
walks for blocks around
the looted shop were a
seething mass of curious
people.

Blue-clad patrolmen
were obliged to wield their
clubs over the heads and
shoulders of the surging
mass of men and women
in order to clear a path
for Headquarters detec-
tives, who had arrived at
the scene of the robbery
almost out of the sky, it
seemed.

When the officers finally

succeec
they fi
floor of
and th
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single
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Joseph
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Edward Wilson

-—

Executed at Baltimore on February 28th 1908

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 2-29-08
page 8 column 6

aa
r 30.00.48 Ef ami at 19.17 o'clock
| Physician Wilkias : serpremres the

dead. Dr, Witkine j

cation of the feck, 3 as tek the murderer |

) did not breathe after the drop fel,

i for weaely sevég minutes his heart Autt ed. i
The trap was sptyug from {aside the ad- |

| ministration Sulldipng ef the fait. Shectt |

Robert J. Padgett gud two depaties were

fa the waefiained, ak the Sherift he

i to edy who The fetal lever, !
Wilson maintained his composure vatil |

the noose bovpred 6ver his bead. Just es |

| '¢ Was @houtita fell about bis neck ! ithe |

begros. {ace | -beca@e Stanieted aed | jhe |

|. Eee

mental agony
of the Jatt oriclate think he held his nerve
better Chan egy: men they ever saw on the
gallows,

A rearkalde feature of the banging was
thar Deputy Sheriff, Joseph Hele. on get

St Ahe official, hangman for Baltimore; al-

: fowed a drow of T

FRRS cain
Berth butiding aad pale 438 tbe giipmy
h death lastismrn: pe daptaged a slight mer-

the cendegred nem emt the neress her
sang? MOL eTRe! Thee Te TR eter wiac ead
Qo The ides of tbe Bypmen Gut Wiieen seamed
to krow it sell After pe ake Wilson sient
harda and tede farewell to Bheriff Padgett
aid nearly efertuae ateut him Olegaty
Mherifs Theis, t ocsigan and Wereig siragned

A Lis hands act aerm< and leepaty jipiae

placed the aQroud ever the negre’s tidy. }
Fouring the ferrible ordeal Witeon taly 3

w! ereces wore when one of the strape was |

sted tac tightis
#15 tb waik to the seaffid the negre
we ehep be turned the ~orper

vousbema. He climbed the stapn staa@x,

Pacd did wet off r jhe stightest reosténce
Eas the fans nas biserd $8 peatrien ‘ane #

te idark cap palted ores his face.
irmeputy Heise lov na time. | Rie

R fanteued the tack “RP Quirtiy and ‘sig:

_ f O2lng fer the lever ta le aprorg. As the

t<xt; dangied firs, Wilkies, Joke TP. Bake,
N. 8. Netrie; Heztert Rigke and Gj ¢:
Thieme made ithe becwsssry examinatives.
Fifteen miidutes after the. drop fell: the
body was takén code. -
Wileon sbot bie ®ife Merthe waked at

“ff bee heme, 31f Baretay Place, They bad |

at Goparently great. Many |

T feet 4 inehee tr was

bee erparated abog? 2 mopth, and the wife |
refused to Nra with him again. He wet 36
years a ibs deferee was that he gbor
hin wife seridintaity white fricg of s negre
whe Rad attacked blr wtth a clegver, tue
WAS UneUpDTIAd He wes conticted in
the Criminai dourf December 12, and waa
sentenced by Judas Dobler, Much preegure
wae trought upon Govrerser Crathers ce

reoate eet omwem ne Meta | te terme

come peo ih eae
im, having his hands fret,
wo, Rev, Mr} Tustin took
bid him farewell, he ha-
urpoge of a few minutes
vand his son, Mr, ‘Tus.
‘o him: “Keep your eye
cross of the Lord Jesus
ope of perishing mortals,
rey on your soul.” - ‘The
en shortly withdrew from
intotown, ‘The Rev. Mr.
risoner, then occupied a
, during which the tears
yes of the unhappy man.
ped rapidly away, Hern
converse with the priests,
3 by their side, manifest.
fortitude, and evidently
by the consolatory hope
1¢ awful noon to which
ning. , : ra
Tracey and Mr. Sollers
intimated to the prisoner
ved. He instantly rose,
vo genWemen above na-
he priests and followed
{ellman, his son, young
nthe cell present at the
h the long line of spec-
rallows.:

eaualng & contraction of the several features, as
the pole of the battery was directed to one set of
muscles and another. Around the mouth, the
effect ef a ghastly and unnatural smile was pro:
duced; and changing the direction of the fluid
to the eye a rapid action of the exterior portions |
of that organ was visible. On applying the pole

of the) battery to the muscles of the shoulder, |
arm and hand, a very natural action was brought
about, the corpse slowly lifting the limb and
laying gt across the ‘stomach, the forefinger
maintasbing an apparently independent motion,
as if picking the flesh with the nail 3 the lower
limbs} were also made to- exhibit natural action
though to a limited extent, the muscles being
contracted by the fluid, only sufficiently to pro-
duce that quick catching of the limb which a
slight puncture inflicted upon a living being
usually etlects. The experiments having been
pFontinued about half an hour it was announ-
‘ced that they would cease, in’ consequence
of the insensibility of the body. The company
then retired* when Mr, Poncia, proprietor of a
store in Baltimore street; between Frederick
and Gay, for the sale of plaster statuary and |
ornaments, proceeded to take a cast of the head
and face. “This being effected, the corpse was
delivered into the possession of the friends and
‘next of kin of the deceased, for burial: It isto
be interred we understand, in Loudon county,

James Williams

Coreen.

Both executed at Leonardtown, St.
on February 16th 1844

Mary's Co.

Reported in The Baltimore Sun issue of 2-19-44
page 4 column 2

Executions.—At Leonardtown, Md., on Fri-
day last James Williams and the negro man
George who had been previously convicted, the
one for the murder of his wife and the other for

foot, Messrs. Tracy and
ymen and the prisoner
vut any pause. On the
vas said, farewells were
anking. each for their
retired, At exactly 22
« the trigger was drawn
nal launched from the
for about four minutes,
he was dead.

that from the time that
gallows, after the first
st decorous silence was
d that entire multitude
‘ which launched him
ilence was then‘broken
under the sudden shock
d scarcely fail to cause

y particular was con-
ed and exemplary pro-
th that solemnity-and
avariably characterize
highest, penalty of the
the warden of the jail
ersified duties devoly-
courtesy with which
cited the warmest ap-
ss, dignity and appro-
acy, the’ Sheriff, who
*k, wearing the swerd
‘office, and the.prompt
ited the most unthank-
‘duties of the day, eli-
approbation, as an.ex-
y creditable to the im-
1 looking back to the
adopt the remark of
ent,—“D'll_ venture to
nexecution took place
a the world, marked
‘opriety as this.??
| bell tolled the hour
down and examined
ician of the jail, who
is then deposited in a
had been placed pre-
thin the frame of the
*ed down and borne

Virginia. ;
The galvanic experiments were eonduated by
Dr. Dunbar, assisted by Professors Ruby, and
Aiken, Dr, Thomas Edmondson, and Mr. James
Green, Dr. Downs, physician of the jail, and
Drs.'G. C. M..Roberts, Handy, Miltenberger
and Bryarly. |.
The Time of the Ezecution—As we had
stated prior to the execution on the authority of
Mr. Tracy, that it would take place as near the
hour of- 12 o’clock as possible, it is proper to ex-
plain the cause of the early action in the case,
which was the result of an afterthought. The
warrant named the hourof 12 o’clock, and as.a
legal question might interfere if it wasnot done
by that time, it was deemed advisable to pro-
ceed with it earlier than at first proposed, lest
any accident should throw it beyond the hour
appointed, mei ‘
&#Some persons. to whom ticketshad been
given, for. admission to the jail yard, having
been so mercenary as to sell them to others, a
report prevailed to some extent that the War-
den and Sheriff were making a speculation by
the sale of tickets. We have been requested to
say that about’ 500 tickets were issued, and
these were divided equally amongst the Board
of Visiters, the Sheriff and Warden, for the ac-
commodation of friends, and were distributed to
those who first applied. Such an allegation,
however, against twg officers so meritorious in:
every respect, would have never been etitertain-
eda moment by those who know them, |
Horn Phrenologically Ezamined.—We sub-
join a statement of the phrenological develop-
ments of the head of Adam Horn, made by that
experienced Professor of the science, Dr. Woos-
ter, of Philadelphia, who visited the city fer the
express purpose of obtaining it, and politely fur-
nished from his own pen for publication. The
examination was made a few hours prior to the
execution. *

‘Destruetiveness, amativeness
tiveness, approbativeness, sécreti
tiveness, combativeness,
very large; benevolence, reverence, marvellous-
ness and conscientiousness, are moderately deve-
loped—by no means small. The perceptive or-
gansare moderate; the organs of comparison and
easuality | re’ full; caution is also full—small
ideality, full imitation, moderate order, and fair

shooting his master, were executed on the same
gallows. The Leonardtown Herald in describg

ing the scene, says:

nates

to elicit
eral times,

alike to his heart and
: with a firm han

» philoprogeni-
veness, acquisi-
firmness and hope, are

oa ay

is-eye as

it instant the rope, by
been performed, was
crewd, anxious to se-
us relic. °
into the room above
, Where the surgeons
a for the galvanic ex-
occasions. But bere
bled, and the conye-
that but- for the
exertions of Mr.
Present, very. few
essed the ' proceed-
removed from the

powers of calculation. His temperament is mix-
ed, with the sanguine and bilieus predominant.
His stature is ver short, a little over 5 feet al-
tilude, and his form blunt and wide proportioned,
He was very complaisant in his manners, was
perfectly wilting to have his head examined—
remarking that once before it had been, done.
Many questions were asked durieg the time, all
of whisk he answered with much Coolness, oc-
casionally smiling, - _.

“Just at the anne of the examination,’ the

two clergymen, Hey. Mewar. Sunderland Net adelphia, and a eioquent lecture, which occu-
ded the tiger Ie hishand and adjusted his hal pied upwards U an

with particular care; and as they had come to
minister to him for the 1

ing

ast time, the hour draw-
near for the final act, I took him by the

characters.”

August 9th 1912

> Sun issue of 8-10-12

KYLOR HANGED |
of Pannte Ctiften |
mapetie Jal,

7 nes Ben (25-R Gres p
de F $ : j
+ EDWARD 4. WILSON
| mental ‘agony was a@prarently great. Many
t of the jah officials think he held bis nerve
mep they corer saw on the

better Chas as
feature of the hating wes

| gatiows, ©

| the twenry-foprty

county. bat he whel¢ Bot ‘comasele : the |
and he has: . senteace. ‘ = See es ;
sen HANGING AND ELEGTROCUTIDS |
setae ar Be ELECTROCUTIDS |
Little or ne rxett Physicians Ang Officials Declared

Ing, for: Wilean did
Crean ix the pi :
told hig: spiri in the hencing of Edward a Wse0,} rol-
apace Herod | act that a Dill is before
istey nald the hegfo- was content to dic.’ p cbe legisiatare providing for electrecition
- ‘The body was rempyved to the heme of the ee the metBed af ‘carrying ect he hoe
father of the murderer, near Reisterstown EP ratty. Seveeal physicians apd State; and |
The fonerai wit! probably take place today. BP clty ofrials wRoe Rare sten numerogs hnag- |
_ After the ing of the death wartaut ff ings expressadi theasetves, after Wlison's
} Wilton ise renigped*to his fate. | Lie | testh, 9a, betieting that ao execetion could
nly frem his Bitde, and if bare been much minre : 1

Exce ution of Dav id W ilson for Rape.

g onfession of His Guilt at he bast Moment—Altend- | |

ance of the Crowd—Good Order, Sey 4
_ [Comespondence of the Baltimore Sun. ie

Day id Wiison, a free negro. convicted at the last |
September Court for Howard|County. of rape ona
young £ cirl of about fourteen.years of. age, daughter
gq of Mr. eek, of this county, suffered the penalty:
dug to his crime to-day, ea,
: Since his. sentence, at. hi

3 fr ae ie ‘dischar is... T-duty =
sithe firmness, but evidently wi: e feeling of. afl
sympatheti¢ heart, always t be ited inan oii- @
cer ja such trying-cirfumstantes.. _ 1 |
( Itisa great satisfaction tq the publiomind that
| {be contession was made, and reads a lesson to the

evi:doer of the most terrible import. |

WILSON, David, black
freedman, hanged at
Ellicott City, Mde,
November 19, 1852,

VINTER, Conrad,
Hanged, Baltimore, MD,
7-21-18h9

SUN, Baltimore, MD,
7-21-18h9 (1:1)

THE MURDERER’S BACRAMENT,

A VACT,
“There to be hang’d ull you are dead!”
Tho man had heard at, bad heen led

« o prinen, and had heard

San peaseaet reach God's holy word—
Too lata; for, fr hia fonr abnead,

The phruse of uil seeined ull confused;
And this seemed all that all men eaid—
“There ta be hang'd till you nre dendt'?
They bade him kneel before the board
Which bore the Supper of our Lord;
The preacher tuok the bread and wine,
And preached of that repaat Divine,
The cfficiont Body and Blood:

The ‘body. and blood!’ A sudden flood
Of scarlet light lit up his cheek,

And though just then no tongue did speak,

A clear lead voice closs by him said —

“There to be hang’d till you are dead!”’
Kneeling passively by the board

Which bare the Supper of our Lord—

Our Lord, of whom he had never heard,

Until the judge's final word

Wad shut the gateways of his soul— .
He ate the bread, received the cup,

And, for the firat time, looking up,

A glance at each and all he stole,

And cried, from custom’s old control,

‘Here’a to your healths, good gentleinen!””
Nodding round —All started then;

For the iron tongue of the death bell swung,
Mux’d with the doow’d man’s words, and aaid—
“There to he hang’d oll you are dead!”
But southed at heart, by sight of one
Who heeded sorrow more than wrong,
And sought bim whom the rest did shun,
And gave him wince to mako him stroug,
He roac, and, turning, all the while,

An ignorang appealing amile

‘Towards that kindly. spoken preacher,
Who.came too Inte to be his teacher,
Aware of the place to which he led,
He followed him with‘ willing tread,
‘There-ty be hang’d till he was dead!

THE SUN, /{
CONFESSION OF CONRAD VINTER.

Of the Murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Coopcey,
with some particulars of his Life, and
a Full Account of the Exceution
Inst Moments of the Murderer,

.C.P,

The extreme penalty of the law wes this morning
carried into execution upon Conrad Veuter, pursu-
ant-to bie sentence, under conviction of the savage
aud deliberate murder of Mrs Elizabeth Cooper, wife
of Mr. Trego Cooper, near, Parkton, Baltimore coun-
ty, Md, on the.29th of May, 1818. The ample par-
uculara df this atrocious doed, which, in: its details,
«shocked the moral sense of the community at the
time ofits occurrence, have muoe been elicited at
the trial of the «Mfender,ard developed a degree of
mente] depravity almost. unparalleled in the annals
of crime, So. callous, indeed, to every sentiment
of penitencs and remorse had the murderer prov-
ed, during moat of ;his confinement, that his au-

Ja iscivus bearing, and the irregular tone of his con-

duct, induced some to.suppose that he was insane. —
It was, however, nothing more than tiat sort of in-
sanity inseparable from thé moral depravity of every
murderer, ‘

Sin 1s itself wnsanity if rightly understood; and the
furthest deporture ‘of the intelligent and reasoning
mind from the path of rectitude, 18 the most melun-
choly insanity that society has to lament. Such has
been the insanity of Conrad Venter. He could sit and
reason with his watchers by the hour upon ab-
stract questions about the immortality of the soul
aud affect to believe, that, as materially, he differed
ony in form frou the/ower animals, so he was like
them destitute of cphusl belag. There has been no
tmuson to believe with those most intimate with
lun that he was ever insane.

Yesterday morning, some hours before the time at
which the execution was expected to take place, per-
«1.6 began congregating around the jail; and the must
favorable places for witnessing the terrible’ scene
were soon grouped with spectators of every age avd
hue, Amongst the multitude were many females
As the hour approached, the vast area, spreading
uke an amphitheatre from the foot of the wall to the
‘ising bills of the park on one side, and the upland
on'the other, beeame thickly occupied with the ou-
rious throng. Some doubts had been entertained that
the execution would not take place, in consequence
of publications made by the indefatigable coungel of
the priscner, on “Thursday; tut these had been re-
moved by an annbuncoment in the morning, that the
Governor had left town and no respite bad been
granted, “ :

The morning - passed chiefly in devotional ex-
ercises in the cell, in which the culprit participated
with much feeling, evincing a lively sense of peni-
tence, and frequently expreasirg himaclf in ejacula-
tory prayer. *

temarked, “1 hope these ropes will be takeu off me
when Lam doad,’? Ho wasnesured that they would,
and was told by Mr, Hobson that they were put on
him for hisown benefit, Ha frequently ejaoalated
the name of Jeeus, and pleaded for mercy on hie soul
Alone time he turned to those present and ‘remarked
(hut he hoped as they looked upon him, they won ld
wo the necessity of préparing fur death themeelves,

We aro glad to learn fyom the attending ministers
that the evidences of ie repentance were such
us to justify their hopes that the culprit was pre-
pared to meet hiaGudy —*

He was regarded by these gentlemen as perfectly
sane, but from tho neglect of moral culture be wag
fur a long time inaccessible to the admuuitions of his
Yeiigtous inatructors. 4 ‘was morevver greatly em-

Mirgssed by the alternations of hope and feur as to
tie witimate disposition of his case, being aware
taal of rte were making, through the kindness of hi®

ae a respite, Hut, during the present week’
he had become pretty weil convinced that there wes
a0 hopes andaccordingly yielded himself more upre-
tervedly and Yeactably to spiritual o.uneel. Ava
‘unurnl expressinn of penitence, he said, the day be-
‘ore his death, td the Rev. Mr. Lemmon, while
peaking on the aub;
death could! be the

eran procession left the cell, the v walking
trmly, steadily and resignedly between bhe Sheriff of
H«iumore eounty, Mr. Hynes, and Mr. Sollers, tbe

warden of the jall, the Rey, Clergy following imme-
dutely in their rear, the other officers, mew! of
tke preas, &e.,'te,the namber of about twenty,
ceeding them. Thomas. H. Kent, Eeq., United States
Mirshal, was among those present.

The notes of the inspiring .hysman commencing—
‘A home in Heaves—O! happy thought!’’ broke
{rth immediately on leaving the cell, Rev. Mr. Free-
man leading, and. wes impressively chaunted through
‘ve prison uinles, the yard, and the erowd of 500 per-
va or go therein, unul the soaffold was finally as
‘tuded. Vinter walkea up with sarprising firmness,
‘Ne thor 'ff end his s 1 essistant, watctfully sap-
Porting cither arm; butthere was mo faltering,

The scuffuld was erected about middie way of the!
"orth wall of the jail yard, somewhat east of the
‘ual toeality. Nine persons, including the minis-
‘eta, ascended with the victim. The white cap was
“ought forth and placed upon hija head, the - rope
‘ut half an inch in diameter,) carefally afjusted;
‘0 clergymen then took leave, and finally the She-
fund agmatant, having drawn the cap, over hie

‘\c¢: neo descended and the culprit.was left alone,
Some ten minutes were spent in eclasing these prepa

ations, prayer all the while going on, Vinter evine--
‘ng a quiet and consoling fervor therein while yet

The Confe
who suffe
July 21st

Reported
page 1 co

We noticed nothing like a row orc |

where, though just. at the moment

man was swung off,a party neart |
sbout as if they wunted to give thre |
wua the only departure from decorw ,
neased.. The crowd gradually dispe |
short hour the mass.of human being: |

and each gone to hisown home.

We cannot close withpat bearing t: |
the pruriebt curiosity exhibited; par |

females, at this dreadful sight. The:

had more respect for their sex, thar |

thrust themselves forward as witne
cution. However, while ever execui
We suppose there will be witnesses t:
will be, of course, prominent among

CONFESSION,

Messrs, Abell $ Co., Editors of the |

*eitlemen—Having received no { |

nication form hie Revallanpy, the O-
meruing visited the cell ‘ot the anfos
Vitter, and announced to him my f
that no respite would be granted. I
goner exceedingly calm. On giving
mation he quictly remarked: “Sir, I p
will of God, aad I shall endeavor to d
and @ christian.” He then took a sea
inclosed confession, to which he atta:
ture in the presence of several clergy
and’ which, if you think proper, you :
thorized to publish. Very respectful
; ? Wy.

all others descended to the ground,

*It was now half past 12 o'clock, and the drof fell-
This sudden deacent.about six feet, soon proved fatal-
The unfortunate victim died moat easily. Never
was morta) existence ended with apparently ices saf-
fering. Nota distortion of the body—not a convul-
sive effurt—save only a shght and brief quivering of
the fect two or threo minutes afterwards. At the
end of half an hour the body was gradually let down.

The face and neck presented no very marked indi-

cations of the violent death he had suffered. There
was only fight lividness upon the cheeks. The
hands, however, were mach splotebed, and it was
' plaiff that the blood had'passsd into them and settled
there, This was partly owing perhaps to the cords
around the wrists. :
* Buch examinatiun of the body wasemtade on the
spot by Dra. Atkinson, Monmonier, Kinkle and Leas,
as was necessary to satisfy the shoriff that the cul.
prit waedead. It was thereby ascertained that death
had ensued from dislocation of the upper vertebre:
and the conseqnent rupture of the sp columna.—
There wasa calmness upon the faceandan even and
natural appearance of the features which indicated
the alight degree of physical suffering undergone. .

Thi remains.were borne off in the neat. walnut.
coffin previously prepared for the purpose, and will
be at once properly inte:red, all eperations and ex-
per:monts by the medical faculty being abstained
from, at the particular requoat of Venter himself.

The body is to be interred neor Whatcoat Chapel,
in Baitimore county, in a private groand,

While the crimival was suspended, a stoné thrown
from the crowd outside, struck tha body and fell near
the cuffin at the fvoct of the gallows; an act indica-

He occasionally exhibited. considerable nervous
depression, sometimes rising and pacing the floor,
rand sometimes lying prostrate upon the bench, the
ministers sitting around, expressing the conusolations
of religion, and sustaining him physically by the use
of aromatic odors, °

He was fuithfully attended by the Revds T. B-
lemmon, Andrew Schwartze, J. W. Cullum, R.
Allen, and ‘Thomas Freeman, of the Methodist. Epia-
copul church; the Rev. Dr. Wyatt, of the Protestant
Episcopal church, who previously ministered spi-
ritually to the prisoner, was also present with him.

At about 20 minutewbefors 12 o'clock, Mr. Hynes,
the Sheriff, accompanied by his assistants, entered
the ovll and proceeded tv ahroud the prisoner. Vinter
tuse and sooined to nerve himself for the occasion,
exhibiting quite an encouraging degree of composure
Aa the drées was pat over him bo remarked that “it
Was toe long,’ as it fell luwing around his feet; but

was explained to him that that would be reme-
ied. Observing its whiteness, he said, “And I shall
stand as white as this before Him,”?

As the officer, Mr. Wilson, was pinioning his arms,
he complained a little of ‘the tightness of the rope,
aid asked that i¢ might be doosoned, so that ho might
shake hands with his friends; and ‘it was reljoved.—

As thea officer finiched thia nart ofhie dnte Canered

ting & degree of malevolence and vindictivencas, al-
most, we ahould think, without a parallel.

The.execution was performed bythe Sheriff and
his sssistant—the old-fashioned mode of a special
“executioner being very properly dispensed with.

Mr. Joseph Hooper, who received the order from
the Sheriff to manufacture the cofis, appeared in the
cell on Tharsday evening, about 8 o’clock, with the
article, a very neat black’ waloat, lined with white
satis, and appropriately trimmed. The unhappy
man requested, as a favor of Mr,Sollers, that the
coffin should be brought into the cell, and seemed
quite particular in reference to. its dimensions and
finish. He examined it minutely, and remasked to
Mr. Hooper thet he was very much pleased with it,
only be thought it was two inches longer than neces”
sary. He particularly requested that upon being pla-
ced in the coffin his head should be raised above the
level of the body.

On the outside of the jail we should judge that
there were at least twenty th d persons
bled on the various eminences where a view of the
gallowa could be obtained; and we were astonished
to sce that a large proportion, if not a majority of
those present, were women. Soma we saw there
with infanta in their arms, so great was their euriosi-
ty to Ps

Bautrmo

Bartimorx, Jp) |

Condemned Cell, 10 A. M., July |

About to leave this’ world, which t

A continued scene of painful distress |

appuiutment, | desire upon this, the de
and asthe last solemn uct of my life,
brief sketch of my history, and the
the crime for which I am about to
order that those who feel en inte:
either in relation to me personally, «
able instance of human action, may th
prehend my cuse, and if poasble collec
thing to lessen the odium which will)
upon my memory, or sufficient to war
exuypp ics of errors which might poss
avolded.

It is unnecessary here to speak of m

to mention the name ot himto whor |
istence. Fatherand mother are noth |

lutter sunk to the grave very ahortly a
the furmer neglected to discharge tov
rent’s duty. This isall past, now, a
of him, in a spirit of forgivoneas. I desi
pein 4

peace on carth or happiness hereafter.

conjure all parents, as they |

their offapring, or frum f.lse pride, the «

or other worldly consideration, reck|
off. If, among the sina of men, there b

for pardon, it 18 that through which t |

dren of tonder years are heartlessly ec
keeping of a cold, uncharitable wor!
known ia early childhood « father’s fo
is more than probable I ahould not thi:
an ignominions death,
pust, and may God be merciful to bh
nut have seen the extent’ to which

Again, I re |

He-will doubtless hear of my wreteb |

will

ive him deep affliction—may G
console ‘him.

I was born in the ne

Hesse Cassel, in Germany, about | |

Placed in infancy under the care of :

poorly used
education My childhood wasan isolat
one, and I turn to it now with bitter
cullection; it'was atrange, unnatural!

the means furnished for 0 |

without the papery associations which

tender
lection of indifference, derision and o
about the age of ten years, I received

y earliest memory! |

on the beed, inflicted by an iron w:

blow, I in some measure attribute the
some of the occurrences of my after
me to the earth, and } have been ¢
mained entirety, senseless for abor
1 remember distine:ly; subsequently

commenced my pbyeical and aggrava’ |

ferings; previvusly I could roam at v
hat, but afterwards I coutd not endure

pun, uncovered. My sufferings wer |

oes; at times I was well and quiet,
quently restlessand miserable. The
rae was the injury I had reoeive
ta

ther,

eat éffoct apon my mind.
that ft

me insane, in my judgme

oestionably, according to the st:

inaane. lam nos gery a. ara :
ling upon ear and much neglect |

stitution, caused
ance. Thosc who knew me thought
aud the boys of my neighborhood ¢z!
Conrad.”

1 fits of dr

Abont this period ] was seized ands |

cation his own mind, ind
:nee of the szorifice of restitae
tly for tha aincerity of his re

{ ignedly between bhe Sheriff of
*. Hynes, and Mr. Solera the
Rey, Clergy following imme-

1086 present. ‘
spiring hymn commencing—
| —O! happy thought!’ broke
iving the cell, Rev. Mr. Fres-
mpresaively chaunted through
ird, and the erowd of 500 per-
ithe scaffold was finally a»
aap with surprising Armness,
al assistant, watclfetly sap.
there was mo faltering.
| ched about middle way of the,
yard, somewhat east of the
| ereons, including the minig-
victim. The white cop wes
ad apon hija head, the rope
; iameter,} carefally a“justed;
t leave, and &nally the Ske-
ing drawn ‘the cap, over hie
ad_the culprit was left alone.

| spent in closing these prepa
' hile going on, Vinter evince-
| ling fervor therein while yet
| the ground,
| 12 0’clock, and the dros fell-
| vat aix foet, soon proved fatal:
| m died moat easily. Never
| ded with apparently less suf-
' 0 Of the body—not a convul-
slight and brief quivering of
, Minutes afterwards. At the
| body was gradually let down.
seated no very marked indi-
sath ho had euffered. There
| 1e@8 vpon the cheeks. The
| mach #ploteched, and it was’
d into thom and settled
& perhaps to the cords

the body wasentade on the
; donmonier, Kinkle and Leas,
| isfy the sheriff that the cul.
iereby ascertained that death
| ation of the upper vertebre:
| are of the spjnal column.—
pom the faceandan even and
| 1 features which indicated
, tical auffering undergone. .
| ome off in the neat. walnat.
ad for the purpose, and will
ured, all operations and ex-
sal faculty being abstained
| requoat of Venter himself. |
ared nesr Whatcoat Chapel,
a private groand,

their offapring, or {tom f.lse pride, the fear of shame,

| 1s suspended, a stoné thrown
| straok the body and foll near
che gallows; an act indica-
| lence and vindictivencas, al-
vithout a parallel,
:tformed by. the Sheriff and
| ashioned “mode of a: special
sroperly dispensed with.
| rho received the order from
| fe the codia, appeared in the
; g, ebout 8 o’clock, with the
' ¢ *walont, lined with white
y trimmed. The unhappy
| or of Mr,Sollers, that the
into the cell, and seemed
| snce to ita dimensions and
| minutely, and remarked to
very much pleased with it,
' wo inches longer than neces"
| aneated that upon being pla-
| ld be raised above the

jail we should judge that
ty thousand peraons assein-
| .enees where a view of the
}; and we were astoniahed |
ition, if not a majority of |
,oen. Boma we saw there
| a, © great wastheir eurioal-

* aunched into etermty.

without the he

about the age of ten years, I reesived a sevore blow

We noticed nothing like a row or disturbance any-
where, though just at the moment the unfortunate
man was swung off,@ party near the wall raised a
shout as if they wanted to give three cheers.. This
wus the only departure from decorum that we wit
nessed.. The crowd gradually dispersed, and in a
short hour the mass of human beings had separated,
and each gone to hisown home. |
* Wecannot close withput bearing testimony against
the prurient. curiosity exhibited; particularly by the
females, at thia dreadful sight.

thrust themselves forward as witnesses of the exe-
cution. However, while ever executions are public,

we supposc there will be witnesses to it, and women | |

willbe, ef course, prominent among them.

CONFESSION. :
Battimorx, July 20th, 1849,
Editors of the Sun:

*oltlemen—Having received no fi
urther commu-
nication foram hie Kyaallen amma nn

w the ake:
meruing visited the cell of the unfortunate Conrad
Vitter, and announced to him my firm conviction’

Messrs. “Abel $ €o.,

that no reepite would bo granted. I found the pri- I
gOner exceedingly calm. On giving him the infor: |.

mation he quietly remarked: “Sir, I perceive it isthe
will of God, and I shall endeavor to die like « man
and @ chriatian.”? He then took a seat and made the
inclosed confeasion, to which he attached his signa-
ture in the presence of several clergymen and others,
and‘ which, if you think proper, you are hereb7 au-
thorized to publish. Very respeot(ully,
rae a Wm. P. Preston.
Barone Jair,

.M., July 20, 1849. }

Condemned Cell, 10 A
About t leave this world, which to me bas been
a continued scene of painful distress and bitter dis-
appoiutment, | desire upon this, the day of my death,
and as tho last solemn uct. of my life, to give a very
brief sketch of my history, and tho particulars of
the crime for which I um about to die. I do so in
order that \those who feel en interest in my fate,
cither im relation to me personally, or as a remark-
able instance of human action, may thoroughly com-
prehend my cuse,and if poasible collect from it some-
thing to lessen the odium which will necessarily ros:
upon my memory, or sufficient to warn others by my
eee of errors which might possibly have been
avolded. e
it is unnecessary here to speak of my parentage, or
to mention the name of him to whom! uwe my tx-
istence. Fatherand mother are nothing to me—the
latter sank to the grave very ahortly after my birth—
the former neglected to discharge towurda me a pa-
rent’s duty. ig iwall past, now, and I but apeak
of him, in a spirit of forgivencves. I desire, however, to
pecsacayl 4 conjure all parents, as they may hope for
peace on carth or happiness hereafter, not to neglect

or other worldly consideration, recklessly cast them
off. 1f, among the ains of men, thore be one tuo great
for pardon, it is that'through which blameless chil-
dren of touder years are heartleasly consigned to the
keeping of a cold, uncharitable world. Had 1 but
known ia early childhood « father’s foatering cure, it
is more than probable I ahould not this day have died
an ignominions death. Again, I repeat, it is all
past, and may Ged be merciful to hit, who could
nut have seen the extent to which his errors led.
He'will doubtless hear of my wretched fate, and it
will give him deep affiction—may God, in mercy,
console him. I was born in the nerghborhood or
Hesse Cassel, in Germany, about the year 1697.
Rlaced in infancy under the care of ers, Who
poorly used the means furnished for my support and
education My childhood wasan isolated a unhappy
one, and I turn to it now with bitter and painful re-
cullection;. it'was atrange, unnatural and cheerlezs,.
y np Ys which Seto J to oi
tender od.. My earliest memory bears the recol-
lection Of indifference; derision and contumely. At

on the head, inflicted by an iron weapon—to this
blow, I in some measure attribute the sufferings, and
some of the occurrences of my after life. It felled
me to the earth, and } have been told, that I re-
mained entirety, senseless for about three days.
1 remember distincily) subsequently to the blow,
cominenced my physical and aggravated mental saf-
ferings; previously I aould roam at will, without a
hat, but afterwards I could not endurs the treat of the
sun, ye ta My. sufferings were net continu-
ous; at times I] was well and quiet, but very tre-
quently restless and miscrabie. Tho chief caueo of
sufferiug wae the injury I had received in my head—
it pang ae ssryy according to the state of the wea-
ther, bad great ¢ffoct upon my mind. I do not say
that it me insane, in my judgment J never was
insaue. I am noe insane now, bat iny wound onera-
ling upon a sensitive and much neglected mental con-
stitution, caused ional fits of dreadful disturb-
ance. Those who knew me thought me deranged,
nud the boys of my neighborhood called mo “crazy
Conrad.”* :
iod ] was seized and confined—I can
i wha iguana, The oraxy persons at that place
always scosiblo of my and oaly clam-
pares sere dods of my unjust confinoment. 1 wae re-

They ought to have |
had more respect for their sex, than thus to have | 8

alone been avy portion,
and little as I had had to

it. was not vce Ti
plece of my nativity. [loo
| Uke new world with somé

ee, oa not doy f was at ti

lo; a disturbed condition

mental 1
of mental derangerx
hed fal

mack as her

it is not place for reformation, er calcalated
benefit those

upoh my soul. Often I desired to-die, bat coald
not, and many times I ted my own ‘tife—
I left the penitentiary a wr 4, restieas man,
ealm now and then, but more frequently excited by
Uncontroilable emotions, I could never ‘think of or
ace @ woman like Mra. Goodwin without fecling sy
heart burn like fire and my head: ready te burst.
This may have been wrong, bat I coald not help it.:
God hasenabled me to forgive her, and I hope God
will forgive her. Every duy increased my es apart
News, and go where I would | was miserable tO an:
unspeakable degree. I thought every body that look-
ea at me knew I had been in the Lap petiemyeyb aud I
felt ike an outeast among men—in looking forward
I could see no comfort or credit this side eternity.

ce of the United States, and |

I enlisted in the
new solemaly decidre I can ascribe only te the reat-
less condition of my mind, my unfortnimte desertion;
I cannot explain the feelings under which 3 left the
rendezvous. I had quasrelied with no one, no one
scolded me, I was pleased with my now vocation,
and, up to the night of the occurrence, was lookirg
forward with something like pleasure to the adven-
tures of a soldier's life. ; ;
Without premeditation or concert with any one,
I deserted at midnight, and found myself'on the
following motniig on the York road, hastening to-
wards Mrs. Goodwin's farm. This was on the fatal
29th of May! and it found me without money, with-
out friends, gwithout a home, without food, and flee-
ing av edeserter. I had no particular object in view,
nor can I now tell why I deserted. The suggestions
that I bad designed to visit Parkton, or to murder &
Mra. Parks, are without foundation. { travelet® on
sr» the heat of the sun merely because the
world wus before me—and here, in the presence of
God, I'declare that those witnesses who upon the
trial atated that I passed up the road in company with
Paul Kunkle, were utterly mistaken. I never saw
Pau! Kunkle in my life until about three o'clock of
the cay on which Mrs. Cooper met her death, end
that was nearly two hours after the spintof that un- |
fortunate ar Aa loft this world.
I reached Parkton, as well as I. can remember,-
about one o'clock, much disturbed in mind by the
events of the last Melve: hours, greatly fatigued by
my long journey on fuot, my mental eundition Oxsi-
ted by the excessive heat of the day, and my brain in
some measuro influenced by draughts of liquor, F had §
taken on the road. I-seated myseif on a railroad car
near Mr. Crecket’s house; there were men at: work
near me; I bad remained there a short. time brooding
Over my wretched condition, thinking of the events
of my past life, and chicfly about Mrs. Goodwin; I
suddenly raised my head and saw coming from Mr.
Crocket’s store a stout elderly lady, who spoke to
one of the men ina friendly way, and passed on.
down the road. Under an ‘influences indesctibable by
me; I sprang from my position and followed her, has-
toning my steps to overtake her—I did not overtake"
her until she had turned into a side foad; I followed
her; at that time I had nothing in my Hand but a ewall
switch, the same-which was produced in court by Mr.
Ridgely. Carried forward by an uncontrolable ‘im-
uise, I approuched theold lady until within about 6
ect of her, when I suddenly picked up the large stone
produced at the trial, and with the force of a demon
dashed it into her skull She uttered no ery, but fell
a bleeding, quivering corpse at my feet. My feelings
at this moment I cunnot describe, but I remember. [
stuod for a minute weeping and sick; a moment af-
terwards I picked up the body in ay arms, and, car- §
Tying it from the middle of the road where eho fell,
hh it over the bee eee fonce, and there hid it, °
In presence of Almighty God, I h ‘Te most solemn-
ly aver, I offered my unfortunate victim no other vio-
lence. Hew! possessed of the little articles
belonging to her I cum’ acarcely remember; they were,
in the midat of the scone, acuttered about, and I gath- |
ered them up—I scarce know why or wherefor,
The other wvents of that unhappy day are known,

thi

deayuer Nees baie: idyAon aero clare
and behuved as craxy poople do--I never did, but
1 and icft forever a neighbar_ood whore misory

[ returned, as was atated at the trial, to Parkton

Bien —~—~-~8* =)

~ nae

At the right is Fifth Avenue,
New York, where the Candy
Kid and his gang struck like
lightning, staging one desperate
hold-up after another—and al-
ways making a clean getaway.
At the bottom is the Tiger Girl.
The mercurial Candy Kid, leader
of the band, looks into the op-
posite page

TRAIL!

q i]

P ras
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of the CANDY KID

CONSTE RNATION reigns in Baltimore. A phantom

slugger is at large. The police are unable to apprehend
him and it is only after he has fled from the: city that be is
identified as Richard Reece Whittémore—the Candy Kid—

who murdered Robert Holtman, a guard, and escaped from. —
the Maryland. State Penitentiary shortly before he. began .

his reign of terror. The Candy Kid has come: from an aris-
tocratic family, ,

He goes to New York with his wife—Margaret Messler,’

known as “the Tiger Girl’—and members. of bis gang.
These men, all desperadoes, are: Milton

stages a. series: of daring jewelry store

- hold-ups. The masterminds at Head-
quarters, including -Chief Inspector
John Coughlan, are bewildered. -

more is crossed by Gilden and one night
the Candy Kid lures .Gilden into the
shadows of Trinity Church,.and levels

a revolver at his: head:

/IMON:..GILDEN stood .. and
stared at the man who had lured
him to that quiet, secluded spot.
Trinity Church: loomed, ghost-
like, just a'few yards:away. The

streets. in the immediate vicinity were

Goldberg, Jake and Leon Kraemer,.
brothers; Bill Unkelback;: Anthony -
Paladino and Simon Gilden.’ The ‘gang, -
led by -the -mercurial. Whittemore,

After one of the bold-ups; Whitte- .

deserted at that hour. Only the hum:

XXMEXWEXMXNK MASTER DET iCTIVE,

March, 1930

passerby
The slau:
hand sti!
that he F
moved t
identified
of an occasional passing automobile, a half block’ distant, man.
broke the gravelike silence of the crisp autumn night. - There
- What must Simon Gilden have thought, as he stood. there, murder ¢
paralyzed, and faced the killer, the jealous leader of a ma- he had bi
rauding pack of ‘beasts, of which he was a member? Did Inspector
he suffer the pangs of remorse for the life of.crime that he ternal ga
had led, now that he knew he was going to die, or was he the man
cursing Richard. Reece Whittemore for the fiend that he ob-
viously: was? Noone will ever know. ig was
But we do know that the law of the gangster, kill before traced
you get killed, and the first law of Nature, self preserva- delphia,
tion, helped: Gilden rally from ‘the momentary panic in met Mil:
which he was thrown with Whittemore’s words: The pol
“T’m going to croak you: right where you stand.” around ¢
Goldberg
‘FOR as Whittemore leveled his. revolver at Gilden’s head, head kne
_~-and took a fine: bead along the blue-black barrel of the slayer, if
forty-five, aiming so that the bullet would strike his intended Knowi
victim. squarely between the eyes, Gilden ducked, and at combed
the same time his. hand darted under his overcoat, toward waited fc
his hip. - oe His ne
Whittemore, with the agility of a panther, leaped to one jeweler,
‘side, jerked his gun back to his hip, and fired. As the gun the next
barked; Simon Gilden slumped heavily -upon the. lawn’ of had time
Trinity Churchyard, dead, with a jagged hole just above make cer
his temple: He had paid the penalty of the jackal who had tive safe:
dared to cross his master. tablishm:
. Now twice a killer, Richard Reece Whittemore, born an Whitte
aristocrat, the member. of 4 haughty American family, land on
sheathed his still smoking revolver and faded into the night, robbery.
with the blood of his second victim fresh on his hands. and steal
Gilden’s body was found: early the next morning by. a
i

ck distant,
right.

tood there,
r of a ma-
iber? Did
ne that he
or was he
hat he ob-

kill before
preserva-
panic in

len’s head,
‘rel of the
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it, toward

ed to one
is the gun
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| who had

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n family,
the night,
ands.

ling by a

passerby, who notified Inspector Coughlan of the murder.
The slain bandit’s head lay in a pool of gore. His right
hand still rested on his .38-caliber revolver, mute evidence
that he had been too slow on the draw. The body was re-
moved to the morgue, and from his finger-prints, he was
identified as Simon Gilden, Baltimore gangster and hold-up
man.

There was nothing that the police could do about the
murder of Gilden, since they did not know at the time that
he had been a member of the Candy Kid Whittemore gang.
Inspector Coughlan rightfully attributed his death to in-
ternal gang warfare, and went about quietly investigating
the man’s actions prior to his death.

ig was not until later in the year that detectives finally

traced Gilden’s movements from Baltimore, to Phila-
delphia, thence to Cleveland, where he was known ‘to have
met Milton Goldberg, and from Cleveland to New York.
The police search for Gilden’s: murderer then centered
around Goldberg: Inspector Coughlan did not believe that
Goldberg had killed his former associate, but the detective
head knew that Goldberg would be able to name the actual
slayer, if the young Hebrew could be found.

Knowing that the entire city of New York would be
combed thoroughly for the slayer of. Gilden, Whittemore

‘waited for nearly two months before pulling another job.

His next robbery was on September 14th. David Peak,
jeweler, at 360 Third Avenue, Manhattan, was picked for
the next victim, after Anthony Paladino and Jake Kraemer
had timed the place, and reported back to Whittemore. To
make certain that the place could be held up with compara-
tive safety, the Candy Kid went himself to size up the es-
tablishment.. :

_ Whittemore met the gang in Levy’s Hotel at Coney Is-
land on the night of September 13th, the day before the
robbery. He ordered Unkelback and Goldberg to go. out
and steal an automobile, which they did. The car, a black

: , a

. an assortment of cheap rings, and was

Openly defying Head-
quarters, this pack of
human wolves prowled
through New York,
looting at will—and
fearing nothing!
Would frenzied detec-
tives ever catch up with
them ?

By JERRY E. CRAVEY

Cadillac touring model, was. parked
behind Levy’s Hotel for the night,
and the pack split up, after receiving
instructions about the meeting place
for the next morning.

The morning of the robbery,
Unkelback went to Coney Island,
got the stolen Cadillac, and started
toward Manhattan. On the way in,
he picked ‘up various members of the gang at appointed
places, and drove'on to Peak’s Jewelry Store. The place
had not been opened for business, when the car pulled up
at the curb. The six men sat in the machine, and. waited
for possibly ten minutes, until they saw Peak, the jeweler,
open the front door, go inside, and begin arranging his mer-
chandise in the show cases.

Whittemore walked in first, followed by Goldberg, An-
thony Paladino and Leon Kraemer. Jake took up a posi-
tion just outside. Unkelback sat in the car, which was
parked in Twenty-sixth Street, facing east. By the time

_ the bandits had reached their respective posts and were

waiting for Whittemore, who had asked the jeweler to show
him some rings, to give the signal, three customers had
entered, and demanded to be waited upon immediately.

Peak was frantically running to and
fro, trying to satisfy his unusually large
number of early customers, and failed to
notice that four of his prospects had
edged around back of the other three.
He also missed the movement of Whitte-
more, who had turned from™looking at

leaning over the counter, holding a gun
in his right hand. Mr. Peak turned from
waiting on one of the three men who had
come in for the purpose of buying some-
thing, and found himself facing a very
cool-headed young man who held a
wicked looking revolver in a very casual
sort of way.

m | GUESS you know what it’s all

about,” Whittemore said pleasantly,

as he glanced significantly at the pistol
in his hand.

“And I think you are smart enough to

do the right thing by us, without making a holler,” the smil-
ing bandit added.

Paladino, Goldberg and Leon Kraemer, meantime, had
advised the three other men in the store that the place
was being held up. Less than two dozen words were spoken.

The loot, valued at $45,000, was emptied into two can-
vas bags, and Whittemore was about to walk out of the
store, when he looked up and saw. another man entering,
followed by Jake Kraemer. Whittemore knew, from the
pallor on the man’s face, that he was marching with the
uncomfortable feeling that is caused by a gun barrel pressed
hard against the small of the back. The
man walked past Whittemore, around
behind the counter, to a room in the
rear of the shop, and

, at a word from Jake,
sat down on the floor,
beside Mr. Peak and
the three customers,
who already nad been
herded in there by
Paladino, Goldberg
and Leon Kraemer.

PFAK and the four
other men were
bound hand and foot
With heavy twine, and
gagged. The five
bandits then took
their departure, one
at a time, and went
to the stolen automo-
bile, where Unkel-
back was waiting.
Unkelback started the
car, and drove east on
Twenty-sixth Street.
At Lexington Ave-
nue Paladino dropped
off, took a cab and
went to his rooms at
78 Mulberry Street,
Brooklyn. As Unkelback
drove about the streets, others
of the gang got out of the
Cadillac, and rode in taxicabs
to their various hideouts. Un-
kelback, after letting his asso-
ciates out of the stolen car,
finally drove the machine back
to Broadway, turned into Forty-
fourth Street, and abandoned it in
front of the Belasco Theater. He
then went to the garage on South
Street, got the gang’s own Cadillac
touring-car and drove to Coney Js-

The gang met at Benny Levy’s
Hotel that night, and waited for the:
fence, this time a different one from
the man with whom Whittemore had argued following the
Stanley robbery. The buyer arrived about 10 o'clock and

| the loot was sold.

| In accordance with the system under which the bandits

| operated, the men scattered, each taking his share of the
proceeds from the sale of the diamonds, and, as was always
the case after a haul, went out to ‘out-Broadway the gayest
of the Broadwayites.

When Whittemore and the Kraemer brothers organized
the notorious Candy Kid stick-up outfit, they resolved to
carry. their lawlessness on in an orderly, conservative style,
committing just enough robberies to net them a neat income.

John Coughlan, formerly Chief Inspector of
land. the New York Police Department, who led Avenue came to Sheridan

the desperate hunt for the pack of human i
wolves who was preying on the metropolis

28 The Master Detective

Their plan was to rob about one place a month, which, if
handled well, should give each member of the gang an aver-
age monthly income of about $4,000. The chance of being
captured would be reduced to a minimum, if the jobs were
pulled right, and not too close together, they figured.

And so it would; had the gang stuck to the original work-
ing plan. But it takes money, a great deal of money, to
maintain a six-room. apartment in. New York, keep two
suites in a good hotel, and buck Broadway’s bright-light
district. Whittemore soon found this out. He also dis-
covered that the amount of money necessary to keep the

' pace that he and his doll-like wife had
started out to maintain, was quite a bit
more than $4,000 per month.

Conservative Jake Kraemer was not
a little surprised, then, when Whitte-
more summoned him to the Candy
Kid’s hotel, and an-
nounced that the mob
would have to work
more often than they
had in the past.
Kraemer was opposed
to the idea, but after
all, he amounted to
little more than an
adviser to the Candy
Kid, who was the real
leader. The Dutch-
man finally gave in,
and promised to get
busy and spot a num-
ber of places to be
made.

It was a new Can-
dy Kid Whittemore
crew that set out on
October 5th in a sto-
len car, and headed
down Sixth Avenue.
The same men made
up the gang, but they
had a new purpose;

new, that is, in that the Whitte-
more bandits were determined to
commit bigger and better rob-
beries and more of them. Whitte-
more had said that he desired to
pull a couple dozen good jobs,
and quietly retire from New York
‘with a fortune. His men agreed
that that was the best thing to
do.

ON that cool October morning,
Candy Kid Whittemore and
his five thugs rode down Sixth

Square, turned west, and brought
their car to a stop about midway
of the block. All but one of the
robbers unloaded, hurried back to Sixth Avenue, and entered
the jewelry shop of Mrs. Mary Linherr, 513 Sixth Avenue.
The customary precautions of entering singly, and by twos,
were departed from on this particular job.

Whittemore had spotted the place himself, and he knew
that Mrs. Linherr had but a few transient customers, none
of whom was very likely to drop in at that time, which
was around 9 a. M. Mrs, Linherr’ was in the store alone,
when the five bandits rushed in, brandishing revolvers. Be-
ing a business woman, she had more sense than to try to
give an alarm. She very. calmly submitted to being tied up,
and watched: her entire stock of $60,000 worth of diamonds

which, if
g an aver-
e of being
jobs were
‘ed.

inal work-
money, to
keep two
right-light
also dis-
. keep the
> wife had
quite a bit

r was not
n Whitte-
re Candy
and an-
t the mob
to work
than they
he past.
Ss opposed
but after
yunted to
than an
he Candy
is the real
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gave in,
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ot a num-
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new Can-
hittemore
et out on
in a sto-
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Avenue,
nen made
but they
purpose;
e Whitte-
rmined to
‘tter rob-

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desired to
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New York
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thing to

morning,
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ne of the
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he knew
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to try to
g tied up,
diamonds

On the Red Trail of the Candy Kid 29

disappear from the show cases, into an open canvas bag.

Shortly after the robbery of Mrs, Linherr’s shop, an ar-
mored car conveying $93,000 in cash for the Bank of Buf-
falo, was hijacked on a main thoroughfare of Buffalo. The
two guards riding in the car were killed, ‘and the money
stolen. The robbery and the double murder were committed
by four men, one of whom was said to. have been Whitte-
more. Milton Goldberg was later partially identified as an-
other of the robbers. These identifications, however, were
never entirely satisfactory, although the evidence pointed to
the Whittemore gang as the outfit that pulled the job.

In the days and weeks that followed the Linherr robbery,
New York detectives were driven almost frantic by the
gang’s bold, daylight raids on some of the most exclusive
jewelry concerns on Fifth Avenue. The audacious
crimes were pulled in such rapid succession, that In-
spector Coughlan’s men hardly had time to investigate
one robbery, before a report came in that another had °
occurred.

The entire Detective Division of the New York Police |
Department was kept on the run day and night, in
what seemed at first a vain effort to get a lead on the
men whose daring in staging hold-ups never has been
equalled by a robber band
in New York State, or, in
fact, any other state.

T was the robbery of a

jewelry salesman on
Eighty-fourth Street that
finally afforded the police
something tangible - upon
which to work in trailing
members of the Whittemore
outfit. Of all the many jobs
that the Candy Kid staged
successfully in New York,
but one surpassed the dar-
ing in the hold-up of John
B. Sanford, salesman for
Later & Son, jewelers,. at 14
Maiden Lane.

On October 17th, Whitte-
more called a meeting of his
henchmen in his apartment
on West Eighty-ninth
Street. The Candy Kid had
been scouting around, he
said, and he had spatted a
jewelry salesman, who
should prove to be easy
pickings.

“And not only that, but
we can give little old New
York something to talk
about for a long time,”
Whittemore is said to have
told his men.

This was all that Pala-
dino wanted to know. He
hurried back to make his
report to Whittemore, who
was waiting for Paladino at
the apartment on West
Eighty-ninth Street. That
night, Whittemore met his
men at the Chantee Club,
and instructed them to
meet the next morning in
front of the Harriman Na-
tional Bank.

At the appointed time, on

October 19th, the six
bandits met in front of the
bank, and climbed into the
Cadillac, which had been
brought from the garage on
South Street, by Unkelback.
They settled down to await
the arrival of John San-
ford, Later & Son’s city
salesman. Sanford even-
tually showed up in_ his
Ford Coupe, with his negro
chauffeur at the wheel. He
entered the bank and in a

Anthony Paladino, a ra- At the top is the Tiger Girl, who stuck to the Candy Kid short time returned to the
ther good looking chap, through thick and thin. Above is the Chantee Club, where car with his samples.

was detailed to trail the
salesman, in order to find
out just where he went _
each day on his sales trips over various parts of the city.

Early the next morning, Paladino picked up the trail
of Sanford, the chosen victim, at a small shop on Sixth
Avenue. The salesman left the shop in a Ford Coupe, driven
by a negro chauffeur. Paladino, in the gang’s Cadillac, fol-
lowed. He trailed Sanford to Forty-fourth Street and
Fifth Avenue, to the Harriman Vaults. The salesman: en-
tered the banking establishment, and when he came out
he carried a small bag, which Paladino rightfully judged
to contain unset diamonds.

the Kid and his mob made whoopee under the very noses of
the sleuths who were on their trail

Sanford’s chauffeur then
headed north on Fifth Ave-
. nue to the entrance of Cen-
tral Park, turned west. and drove to Broadway, into which
he headed and drove north again. The negro continued to
drive the Ford north until he came to Eighty-fourth Street,
where he pulled in at the curb in front of a small store
and stopped.

Like a hungry wolf pack, Whittemore’s outfit was hot on
the trail. The gang followed Sanford to Eighty-fourth
Street, watched the salesman enter the store there, and
drove on to Eighty-fifth Street, circled the block and came
back to Eighty-fourth Street, stopping the big Cadillac

berg. He clamped his foot on the starter,
threw the car into gear and jerked forward
with a speed which wrenched their spines.
The car tore around the Circle, whirled
into Fifty-ninth Street and raced toward
Fifth Avenue at seventy miles an hour.
Sullivan and Cronin, taken completely by
surprise, were slow in getting started in
pursuit. But once they did, their screaming
siren cleared the road and made it possible
for them to close the distance between them
and the car they were pursuing, as the lat-
ter had to slither back and forth to avoid
crashing into panic-stricken motorists.

Papin A MAD thing the bandits’ car
streaked up Fifth Avenue, past the
Sixties, the Seventies, the Eighties, the
green of the park on one side and the hand-
some apartments and residences on the
other blending into solid surfaces. Leisurely
pedestrians, faced- with a sudden danger,
leaped to the sidewalks and safety. Sleepy,
all-night taxi drivers, made wide-awake
by the apparition of disaster bearing down
on them, jerked the wheels of their cars
to the right or left, seeking the safety of
the curb. Nursemaids, out with young chil-
dren, screamed hysterically. Householders,
awakened by the screeching siren, flung up
their windows 'and stared wonderingly at
the two racing vehicles. Traffic cops at the
various corners threw their dignity to the
winds and scurried to the shelter of the
pavement. .

The oscillating speedometer in the
bandits’ car indicated they were going more
than seventy-five miles an hour. But a look
through the mirror showed that the police
car was gaining. Not only that, but Sulli-
van, who was driving, had gradually pulled
toward the center of the street. Whitte-
more understood the maneuver. The cops
were getting ready to pull up alongside and
drive them-to the curb.

“I’m going to turn into the park,” he
gasped to Goldberg.

“Turn!” Shuffles exclaimed. “At eighty!
You can’t make it! We'll be killed!”

“Maybe we will,” said Whittemore grim-
ly, “but I’m going to do it.”

The thoroughly frightened Goldberg
clung to the side of the car. He was ready
to give up. Better to give up than be
killed. But Whittemore, who had plenty
of courage, had no idea of surrendering. He
felt that if he could whirl suddenly into
the narrow road through Central Park to

_ the west side, through the so-called Trans-

verse which they were now approaching,
he could be halfway to Central Park West
before his pursuers could stop, reverse and
make the turn.

But he had to act quickly. .The other
car was only about twenty feet behind.

Through the glass he could see that one~

of the men, gun in hand, was preparing to
open the door, to step out onto the running
board. In a few moments they would be
abreast of them. It would be too late to
turn then.

The Transverse loomed ahead. He still
could make it—if he was lucky. He pushed
the accelerator down until his foot hit the
floorboards. He gave the wheel a sudden
jerk to the left. The car lifted onto two
wheels. The tires whined at the strain. The
Cadillac quivered from side to side for a
moment. Then it settled back on four
wheels and drove for the narrow passage-
way of the Transverse, missing the curb by
an inch.

“Made it!” Whittemore exclaimed ex-

_ penitentiary.

ultantly to his weak and limp companion,
“My God!”

The exultation had been succeeded by a
cry of despair. For, looking, back through
the little mirror, he saw that the two de-
tectives had also made the turn. And were
just as close as before the turn was made !

But Whittemore was still full of fight.
He careened through the narrow Trans-
verse, hurtled down Central Park West to
Sixtieth Street, turned left at Columbus
Circle, the very place at which he_had
started, and went once more into Fifty-
ninth toward Fifth Avenue.

Before he reached it, however, he brought
the heavy Cadillac to a screeching halt,
clutched his gun and, with Goldberg
similarly armed, waited for the detectives’
car to come abreast of them. Sullivan ac-
cepted the challenge. He applied the brakes.
Bullets spattered against the side of their
car as it stopped. But regardless of the
danger, both detectives leaped to the ground
and raced toward their quarry, firing as
they went.

It was a great show of courage. And
it was too much for the tired, nerve-racked
bandits. With one accord they threw their
guns outside the car and screamed, “Don't
shoot! Please don’t shoot! We quit!”

It was the beginning of the end of one
of the hardest, grimmest and most puzzling
cases which the aces of the New York
detective force had ever been called upon
to solve! .

THE OTHER MEMBERS of the mob

were picked up with comparative ease,

all of them receiving long terms in the

Whittemore was taken to

Buffalo, to be tried for the murder of two

guards in an armored car stick-up. The

jury disagreed, and it was decided not to
try him again, but to turn him over to the

Maryland authorities to answer for the

murder of Guard Robert H. Holtman.

Four months later Whittemore went to
trial in Baltimore before Judge Eugene
O’Dunne. He was defended by Edgar Allan
Poe, one of the most famous football play-
ers Princeton had ever had, and a leading
legal light of the Monument City. The
prosecutor’ was Herbert R. O’Conor,
destined to become Governor of Maryland
just a few years later.

Just two days after being placed on trial
Whittemore was found guilty of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to be hanged
at the Baltimore city jail, the institution
whose walls he had passed so exultantly
after he had made his escape from the peni-
tentiary. The following is from a news-
paper report of the trial:

“After sentence was pronounced,
Whittemore arose, his face flushed a
deep scarlet and sneering defiantly. As
he passed in front of the state’s at-
torney, Herbert R. O’Conor, Whitte-
more spat squarely into his face.

“The courtroom, which up until then
had been hushed, gasped audibly. A
murmur of astonishment and disap-
proval spread.

“ ‘What a rotten trick |’ a woman be-
hind the state’s attorney said in a loud
voice.

“The state’s attorney smiled. “That
is the highest compliment I have had °
paid me in a long, long time,’ he ob-
served.”

It was the ruthless killer’s last defiant
gesture. For, three months later, he was
hanged in the jail at Baltimore.

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OF THE thousands of words and
phrases which comprise what is ©
generally known as “thieves’ slang,”
there are around a hundred or so which

are constantly heard in prisons.

-The warden is invariably the King.
The deputy warden is Old Calamity, -
in all probability because he “dishes out”
the punishment for infractions of the
rules. The chaplain is Holy Joe and

_ the doctor is never spoken of as any-
thing but the Croaker. Guards are
' screws and spindles, and a brutal one is
a soaker who constantly shoots the cons
or vics with a square chalk and has —
_ them thrown into the solitary, hole or ©
_ bing on a Pennsylvania diet; that is,
he incessantly reports them for alleged _
_ serious violations of the rules and has
_ them punished by being placed for long
terms in solitary confinement on bread
“and water. a

_ The different kinds of penal institu-

tions have a variety of names. A peni-
_ tentiary is a college, or a monastery, a -
big house, a bastille or a tronk; while
a reformatory is a nursery; and a small
county jail a hoosegow, pokey, clink, —
’ kraal, kirk, kitty or mexico. © =
_ As every big penitentiary has some |
narcotic addicts, and some of them”
many, one constantly hears of junkies,
hop-heads, snowbirds, sniffers and needle
- knights, who take everything they can
get which will give them a kick, in-
cluding lime-jolts or happy dust, (as
cocaine is called) and even yen-shee,
which is the residue remaining in the
bowl of an opium pipe after it has been
smoked. A bowler is an opium smoker,
who uses a yen-hock to keep his pipe
lighted and a yen-gow to clean it. The |
smoking of opium is also known as
“kicking the gong around.” A hypo-
_ dermic needle is a hype or banger.

To make a getaway is to breeze,

blow, beat the place, leg it or take it
“on the lam. Of course if one can

smuggle in a barker, barking iron, rod,
gat or chopper (the latter a machine
gun) or better yet, a dumb-gat or sissy-_
rod, (a gun with a Maxim silencer),
that will naturally make the getaway so
much easier.

A man never goes crazy in prison.”
He gets hippy, or prison-simple, or be-
comes a stir-bug, or gets krum-sick or

clink-coocoo, or blows his top or loses
~ his roof.

\ There are all sorts in the stir, from
_ the jungle-buzzards and blanket-stiffs -

cars), through the necktie-bums (cheap .

sports), up to the paper-hangers (high- -

class forgers). The latter while in
icp Bloke eed live on Bankers’ or

Politicians’ Row (the better part of the

institution) where they don’t have to ~

associate with spiders (porch-climbers )

and prowlers (burglars). They usually

have put up a hard fight before going

to prison, being able to afford the best

mouthpiece, spouters or geysers (law-
_yers) who are supposed to have a pull

with ‘the beak or wig (judge). As a

result they have fewer spaces (years) -
‘to serve than the average.

They seldom violate any of the rules,
although occasionally one of them may
attempt to fly a kite (that is, get a letter
out without its being inspected in the
office). .

~ to raise their rates against theft.

ever operated in New York was get-

when they left, entirely unaware that his fortune in unset
diamonds, amounting to close to $100,000, no longer reposed
safely in his car.

While this stick-up was a little different in method from
those which had preceded it, Inspector Coughlin felt sure it
was the same mob. He had assigned some of his best men to
track them down. In addition to Sullivan and Horan, John
Cordes, one of the finest detectives New York City has ever
had, as well as Joseph Daly, Jeremiah English, John Cronin,
Caesar Romano and Edward Tracey, all excellent men, were
working on the case.

UT ALMOST before they could get their teeth into it, the
story of one big stick-up after another flashed into the
police department, all of them of jewelry firms, and all of them
running into many thousands of dollars. Complaints from
jewelers’ organizations poured into Inspector Coughlin’s office.
Newspapers began to comment editorially on the “crime wave”
which was sweeping the city. Insurance companies threatened
The Gilden murder, however, had provided the inspector
with the lead, slight though it was, for which he had been
looking.

“It’s a gang killing all right,” he told Cordes. “Check up
and see who this bird’s been running with.”

“He’s been pretty friendly with a crook named Milton
Goldberg,” Cordes reported a few days later. “Goldberg did
a stretch in the Maryland Penitentiary.” ~

“And who’s Goldberg ?”

“Well, he’s a small-time crook. Pulled off a stick-up in
Baltimore—bank messenger—with a kid named Whittemore.
You remember, he’s the kid who slugged a guard down there
and bumped him off a few months ago. Made a getaway.

They traced him to Philadelphia and then lost the trail.

Here’s Goldberg’s mug.”

He handed the inspector a photograph of a blond, big-eared,
loose-jawed youth. In that face there was something which
stirred Coughlin’s memories. He felt sure that he had seen it

somewhere before. But, try as he would, he could not bring

back to mind the circumstance.

“All right,” he said, after vainly trying to make memory do
its duty, “you and Sullivan and Horan and Cronin stop every-
thing else and try to find this Goldberg.”

“You think he’s one of that stick-up mob, inspector ?”

“T don’t know. But he may lead us to this Whittemore,

who’s wanted down in Baltimore for croaking that guard.

There’s a reward out for him.”

The hunt for Goldberg began. Before it was a week old,
Folmer Prip, a jeweler, was robbed of $10,000 in unset dia-
monds; the Kandel Jewelry Company on Essex Street of
$125,000’ worth; and the William H. Sims Company, miles
away up on the Grand Concourse, of ‘close to $100,000 in
jewelry and precious stones. The loot
of the most successful mob which had

ting close to the million-dollar figure.

It was Detective Walter Sullivan,
cruising around a few days after
Coughlin’s talk with Cordes, who first
put the finger on Goldberg. Somehow
or other that pasty-faced, weak-looking
figure didn’t seem to fit in with the
magnificent Cadillac car which Sullivan
saw him nonchalantly driving down
Broadway. The detective looked more
closely, then took a photograph out of
his pocket and glanced at it. His heart
gave.a jubilant leap. For there was no
question but that the young man at the
wheel was the long-sought “Shuffles.”

Goldberg alighted at the Empire
Hotel, at Sixty-third Street and Broad-
way, a respectable hostelry. The book
showed Goldberg to be registered as
Joseph J. Langdon.

The following day Sullivan and
Cronin hung around the Empire until
Goldberg appeared. They had no in-
tention of arresting him—yet. Shuffles,
they felt sure, would ultimately lead
them to some other probably even more

PROSECUTOR Herbert O'Conor,.

later Maryland’s governor, smiled. °
‘< when the gang leader. spat at —_

him. “A compliment,” he said.‘

badly wanted men. But they lost the trail in the traffic.

It was on that very occasion that Goldberg was hastening
to a rendezvous with Whittemore and the other members of
the mob to pull off what came to be regarded as one of the
most brazen and daring holdups which had ever taken place
in New York, a holdup designed to fulfill Whittemore’s ambi-
tion to do something which “would make the big town sit up
and take notice.” Like all crooks, his success was making
him more ambitious—and more reckless.

The job which they were to pull off had been cased, like
practically all the others, by the insignificant-looking Kraemer
brothers, who had an extraordinary nose for diamonds, and
who were equally adept at tailing those who possessed them.
This time the unwanted honor of being the gang’s victims
went to Albert S. Goudvis and Emanuel Veerman, diamond
merchants of 22 West Forty-eighth Street, in the very heart
of the richest business district of Manhattan,

“They keep the rocks in the bank,” the Kraemers had re-
ported, “and every morning they take ’em out and carry ’em
up to the shop. It’s the Harriman Bank at Forty-eighth
Street.”

“The Harriman!” Whittemore exclaimed. ‘“That’s good
luck. It’s the same place where that other bird kept his.”

As usual, he rehearsed all the members of the mob until
each knew his job perfectly. “It’s the biggest job we ever
pulled,” he said, “and we don’t want any slips.”

On the morning of the robbery at about ten o’clock, the
Cadillac sedan, with stolen license plates, drew up at the curb
on Forty-eighth Street, just west of Fifth Avenue. In the
center of the street was the usual traffic cop. Already the
avenue was packed with early morning shoppers.

Unkleback sat at the wheel. Alongside of him was Leon
Kraemer, keeping his eyes glued on the junction of Forty-_
eighth and Fifth, around which Goudvis and his partner, if¢
they followed their usual procedure, would shortly be coming.
In'the back were Whittemore, Goldberg, Paladino and Jake
Kraemer. The engine of the car was running.

Suddenly the engine gave off gasps which indicated it was
about to stall. Unkleback jammed his foot down on the
accelerator. There was a resounding report and a puff of
black smoke from the rear as the car backfired. .

The six men jumped as though shot. The cop at the corner
whirled around, held up his hand for traffic to stop, and, to
the utter consternation of the bandits, walked over to the
corner of the pavement not twenty feet from where their car
was parked.

“Get your guns out,” Whittemore gasped. “Don’t start,
Willie, until he comes right up. Then when we plug him,
give her all you’ve got.”

Unkleback tensed. The cop walked a few feet down Forty-
eighth Street, looked at the puff of smoke now clear of the
car’s rear, then, apparently satisfied, turned to walk back to
his post just as Goudvis and Veerman
turned down Forty-eighth to go to their
office,

“There they are,” Leon Kraemer
whispered, a quaver in his voice which
he could not control. “What’ll we do?”

Whittemore did not answer. The cop,
blissfully unconscious of how near he
had been to death, reached the center
of the street when the two jewelers
were not five feet from the waiting car."
For once the bandit leader’s nerve was
shaken. There flashed through his mind
the thought that this might be an omen.
Like most crooks, he was superstitious.
But his vanity was greater than his
fear. He had boasted about the really
big job they were going to pull. He
couldn’t crawl now.

“Come on,” he ordered. He climbed
out of the car, followed by Goldberg,
Paladino and Jake Kraemer. He waited
until the two men had just passed, then
brought the butt of his gun down again
and again on the head of Goudvis, while
Paladino did the same with Veerman.
The two men dropped to the ground.
Kraemer snatched the chamois bag out
of Goudvis’ (Continued on page 50)

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THE CHAPLAIN of a penal institu-
* tion, or “Holy Joe,” as he is known
in prisons the country over, often has a.

_ very difficult job. Frequently he would.

‘restricted by prison rules,

-. vices,

_ the prisoners flock to hear him.

like to do things to help the prisoners
who come to him, but he is bound and q

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complain about attendance at his ser- |
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compulsory, but even where it is not,

ut.
many of them come not because of any
real religious sentiment, but merely be- |

- cause it gets them out of their ‘cells. »

The. most irksome time to prisoners, as

, any any of them will tell you, is the:

. -

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*, they adopt all sorts of subterfuges to.
_ keep out of them as much

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Science services on a Sunday.
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(Continued from page 29)

hand and sprang back into the car, fol-
lowed by the others. Unkleback pressed
down and the car spurted forward, leaping
and swaying crazily across Fifth Avenue
against the red light and the shouted com-
mands of the traffic cop to halt.

To their ears came the shouts of pas-
sersby and cries of “Robbers! Stop ’em!”

FORMER Police Captain George Helwig

was walking down Fifth Avenue. He
heard the alarm and saw the car race across
the thoroughfare. He ran to the center of
the streets and emptied his revolver at the
fleeing automobile. Detective Sergeant
John Barron also fired several shots as the
car tore by him, and Patrolman Michael
McDonald, stationed on Fifth Avenue, man-
aged to send one slug after the bandits. But
if any of them took effect, it did not slow
the fleeirig car up. With a shrieking pro-
test from the violently-twisted tires, it
turned into Madison Avenue and was lost
in the traffic.

“The biggest yet!” Whittemore exclaimed
exultantly when they met in Coney Island
late that night. “Nearly two hundred grand.
Thirty-six grand from the fence. . That
makes six apiece. How’s that?”

He looked around for approval, and got
it. His jubilant henchmen showered him
with compliments, slapped him on the back,
told him what a great fellow he was.

“We're in the big money now,” Whitte-
more said. “This is only the first. I'll
show you something from now on.”

He did show them something. But it
was far, far from what his boastful words
led them to expect!

It was on ‘the day after the Goudvis_

stick-up that Detectives Sullivan and
Cronin again picked up the trail of Shuf-
fles Goldberg as he came out of the Empire
Hotel. For several hours they followed
him, feeling sure he would make contact
with some one else. From restaurant. to
motion picture house to cafe they went.
But in none of them did ‘Goldberg meet
anyone.

He drifted into a pool parlor, watched
others playing for a half-hour or so, bought
a glass of beer, drove around aimlessly for
a while, and then returned to the Empire,
leaving the detectives to while away the
long hours as best they could until he again
reappeared.

In the meantime Inspector Coughlin had
been studying Goldberg’s picture. There
was something about those unhealthy-look-
ing, loose-jawed features which insistently

' stirred something in his memory. Suddenly

it struck him. He sent for John Franklin,
the chauffeur who had driven Mr. Sandford
on the day the latter was robbed. Franklin,
alone of all the people who had been held
up by the Whittemore mob, had given the
only description which would have enabled
one to identify a suspect, and he had given
this about only one man whom he had
particularly noticed.

“Franklin,” said the inspector, “describe
again that man who stuck you up.”

Franklin complied. Coughlin shot the
picture at him. “Is this his photograph ?”
he demanded.

Franklin’s coal black
“Yes—suh,” he said
all right.”

“You're sure?”

“Couldn’t be mistaken.
baby anywhere.”

eyes opened wide.
positively, “that’s him

I’d_ know that

‘Cronin inquired.

they had a leisurely dinner.

rf
Wyte

“Good !” exclaimed the inspector. After
all these months, after being panned by the
insurance companies, by the newspapers and
the public, he was on the trail at last!

It was on that same day that Sullivan -

and Cronin, at the end of a long, boring
vigil at the Empire Hotel, saw Goldberg
emerge and get into his car.
immediately to 201 West Eighty-ninth
Street, where he went in and remained
about a half-hour. Cautious inquiries in
the apartment house showed that he was
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Horace J. ‘Waters,
a young married couple who had a swank
six-room place in the building. But when
Shuffles emerged, the detectives were again
disappointed to find that he was alone.

For several days this procedure was re-
peated. Then Goldberg came out of the
Eighty-ninth Street apartment house ac-
companied by a well-set-up young man, who
looked every inch the snappy dresser.

“Got him?” Sullivan whispered excitedly.

“Sure,” Cronin replied, pulling out his
pocket the photograph which he had carried
for many days,’ “it’s Whittemore! He's
Horace J. Waters!”

“Shall we pick ’em up?”

“No. Let’s tail ’em a little. Probably
lead us to more of the mob,”

The two thugs got into the car and
drove leisurely down Broadway, where

they stopped at a small restaurant, for:

breakfast. When they came out they had
another man with them. Again the faces
of the detectives lit up with recognition.
The third man was Leon Kraemer, one of
the cleverest of crooks, known to police on

both sides of the Atlantic!

“So far, so good,” said Sullivan with
satisfaction. “We'll just keep on_ tailing

.’em and maybe we'll. get the whole bunch.”

“Little dangerous to ‘wait, isn’t it?”
“We got a pretty good
bag here.”

“Maybe,” Sullivan shrugged, “but let’s
take the chance.” -

The wisdom of Cronin’s words seemed

to be borne out a few hours later, when -

they again lost the bandits’ Cadillac in the
traffic.

The two detectives hurried back to the
Eighty-ninth Street house and waited to
pick up the trail once more. This time
luck was with them. They had been there
but an hour when Goldberg and Whitte-
more returned. The latter went in the
house, but emerged in a few moments, and
he and Goldberg again started out. They
went to a leading Broadway hotel where
They then
came out and drove up Broadway to a mo-
tion picture house, following which they
went to their favorite haunt, the Chantee
Club on West Fifty-second Street. This
was about 8:30 in the evening.

From that time until seven o’clock the
following morning, Sullivan and Cronin
remained outside waiting for the two to
reappear. When they finally came out,
they drove up Broadway to a restaurant
on Columbus Circle, where Whittemore
stopped the car and they both prepared to
alight, evidently to. have breakfast. By
this time both Sullivan and Cronin had a
bad case of “nerves” for fear they would
lose their quarry.

“Let’s make the pinch now,” said Sulli-
van.

“O. K.” Cronin agreed,
lieved. “Get your gun out.
actors.”

Just then Whittemore turned and: looked
back through the window in the rear of
his car. Whether he had noticed the other
automobile through the mirror in front and
whether it suddenly dawned on him that he
had seen this same car several times before,
will never be known. But in a flash he
sensed it was a police vehicle.

“Cops!” he gasped to the amazed Gold-

immensely re-
They’re bad

He drove

tai a

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ging upwards into

went on, “was right
vhen he was shot.
indicate he might
ig with his killer.
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ds look as though
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time of death?”

“Off-hand, I'd say
three or four a. m.”
came in then, with
man dressed in a
calls and cap. “This
deputy announced.

first to find the

hers?” Davenport

n Page 58)

WHITTEMORE, Richard Reese, wh,
hanged Baltimore, Maryland, on
August 13; 1926.

DETECTIVE WORLD, November, 1950

pple over.
Kid was on the prowl

e his way to New
oined forces with the notorious

unprece-
jewel robberies New

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ae New York City

up. The Candy Kid

for detail. For twelve

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about the
1 a manner
Whittemore

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When he was

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cob Kraemer and

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But Jake, as
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Kraemer brothers

told Whitte-

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On the Red Trail

But Whittemore became impatient. He wanted action—
and he intended to get it.

So, on March I1th, 1924, Whittemore went out in search
of a job. After walking about the streets for a while, he
returned to his room in a hotel, where his wife was waiting
for him, told her his plans, and the two of them strapped
on their guns, and went out again.

An hour later, employees of Ortman’s Confectionery,
located on a main thoroughfare of Baltimore, were sur-
prised to find themselves staring into the menacing end
of a revolver, held in the steady hand of a beautiful young
woman. The girl bandit’s mouth was turned up at one
corner, in a sneer. Her eyes flashed like those of a tigress,
ready to spring to its kill. Thus did the appellation “Tiger
Girl” start.

While the girl held everyone in the confectionery at bay
with her revolver, Whittemore rifled the cash registers, then
the pair backed out of the place, and fled.

Whittemore was captured on Janu-

ary |4th, 1925, in Philadelphia, in
company with his Tiger Girl wife,
another crook, and a girl known as v,
Mary Krieg. For some reason, still
unknown, Whittemore’s wife
was not held by the Philadel-
phia officers who arrested the
quartet, but Whittemore was
returned to Baltimore to stand
trial for the Ortman robbery.
He drew a sentence of fifteen
years.

Shortly after his incarcera-
tion in the Maryland State
Prison, Whittemore was taken
ill, and had to be removed from
his cell to the prison hospital,
where he remained for several
days, convalescing. In the hos-
pital, Whittemore made a friend
of Robert H. Holtman, the
guard on duty there. Holtman
was strangely attracted to the
handsome youth, and
he listened sympatheti-
cally, and with deep
interest, as Whittemore
told of how he had
strayed from the so-
ciety that his. father
loved so dearly; how
he got into bad com-
pany at an early age,
and how he went from
bad to worse, finally to
wind up in prison.

HITTEMORE

vowed that he
would go_ straight.
when he finished that
hitch. His young and
beautiful wife was loyally awaiting his return, and they
would start all over together, he vowed. Holtman believed
in the young man’s sincerity of purpose. The hospital
guard promised to speak a good word for Whittemore to
the warden, which he did.

On February 20th, just two days after he recovered from
his illness and was released from the hospital, and_ less
than a month after his incarceration for the Ortman rob-
bery, Whittemore again took suddenly ill, and asked to go
to the hospital. Holtman, the guard, welcomed his fav-
orite with fatherly kindness, when Whittemore was carried
into the hospital, and placed on a cot.

ca el

of the Candy Kid 37

There was only one other patient in the hospital at the
time, a negro trusty, Sam Bowie. The negro occupied a
cot in the opposite end of the ward from that on which
Whittemore was placed.

Holtman, after greeting Whittemore, turned his back
on the prisoner, and started to walk away. As he took
the first step forward, the guard was instantly killed by a
terrific blow on the head with a piece of lead pipe, held in
the hands of Whittemore, who stood over the body ot
Holtman leering evilly at the negro, sitting upright in his
bed, staring wild eyed at the scene before him

ICKING the body of the man he had killed under the cot

he so recently had occupied as a patient, Whittemore
wildly brandishing the death weapon; leaped for Bowe
The negro fell to his knees, and pleaded with the young
mad-man to spare his life.

“All right, | won't kill you, if you do what I tell you.
Now hurry out and take a look at the
wall. Watch the guard until you. see
him start walking in the opposite direc-
tion, then signal me. And don't try to
pull anything phoney, because | will be

right behind you, with the

pipe,” Whittemore ordered
Bowie did as he was told
Being a trusty, the negro could
stand on the balcony of the
hospital and watch the sentry,
without attracting attention. He
saw the guard walking in the
opposite direction from where
he stood, and signaled to
Whittemore, who made a dash
for the wall, driving the negro
ahead of him. Reaching the
wall, Whittemore ordered Bowie
to scale the barrier, but the
negro was not equal to the task

Whittemore then leaped upon

Bowie's shoulders, jumped tor

the top of the wall, made it

and dropped tu the

ground, outside
Whittemore, now a
ae murderer, headed
Me §=6straight for his old
haunts in Baltimore
He remained in hiding
for several days, until
the officers finally gave
up looking for him, be-
lieving that the fugi-
tive had fled the coun-
try. With the assur-
ance that he no longer

Bessie Holtman (right) who was left fatherless when Whittemore mur- was being sought in
dered Robert Holtman, a guard in the hospital of the Maryland State :
Penitentiary, where the Candy Kid was doing a fifteen-year stretch for
robbery. Following the murder, Whittemore vanished, only to re- began the series of
appear and begin his reign of terror in Baltimore and New York

that city, Whittemore

night prowls and slug-
gings, mentioned at
the beginning of this story, which terrorized Baltimore.

Forced to flee from Baltimore, Whittemore returned
to Philadelphia, there to rehearse with his former prison
inmate, Jacob Kraemer, the role that he was to play in
Manhattan, on bustling Broadway and fashionable fifth
Avenue.

New York, accustomed as it is to every conceivable form
of notoriety, was to stand aghast, then shudder at the
daring of the “Candy Kid,” the super-thug of Gotham
“Dapper Don” Collins, Brooklyn's brilliant gift to crime
faded into insignificance, before the million-dollar, day-
light raids of “Candy Kid” Whittemore and his thugs

ATT IT ['TEMOR TH
wid Wit +g

Richard R., wh, hanged MD& (Baltimore City) on August 13, 1926.

On the RED TRAIL

. With the swiftness of lightning, this band of murderous super-criminals streaked

through New York, completely bewildering the master minds at Headquarters!

While

behind the scenes,

pulling the strings,

lurked the phantom figure of Baltimore’s

mercurial arch-killer—Candy Kid Whittemore—and the cunning Tiger Girl.

ONSTERNATION reigned in Baltimore. Another
day had passed, and the shadows of dusk began
to envelope the city. And beneath the cloak of
those shadows there would soon stalk forth the
Terror which held Baltimore in a grip of fear.

Grim, hard lines of determination creased the faces of
Baltimore's police officials. The city’s best detective talent
had been completely exhausted, and veteran sleuths sat
silent around the desk of their chief at headquarters. The
Detective Division of the Baltimore Police Department
was a picture of dejection; bitter hopelessness could be read
in the eyes of these master man-hunters, as they watched
with a common anxiety the end of another day.

They were waiting in tense anticipation and they were
thinking. all of them, the single thought:.

MASTER DETECTIVE

ty February,

“What will the public, and the newspapers, say on the
morrow, if it happens again, and we fail to get him?”

Both the newspapers and the public had already said
plenty.

The telephone in the detectives’ office buzzed. The
muffled bell of the instrument made a weird, strumming
sound. Detectives rose quietly, adjusted their service re-
volvers and slid toward the door. Then, the voice of their
chief rasped:

“It’s him again. A woman, in an alley this time right
near the News office.”

He had struck! The whole city was turned topsyturvy
in less than a minute. The police were everywhere, in
alleyways, darkened side streets, cafés, hotels, railway
stations; but their frantic search was hopeless, as usual.

The slugger, Baltimore’s shadowy hold-up artist, had
slipped silently out of the darkness, struck swiftly, and
vanished again into that same darkness, of which he
seemed to be'a part. A young society woman had
been the latest victim. She was walking past the
mouth of an alley near the Baltimore News office,
when an arm had shot out, and steely fingers closed
about her neck. She was dragged into the alley, struck
in the face with the butt of a heavy revolver, and

robbed of her diamonds

iS d got ‘ood look at
lydid he ed a so completely
; incapable o ofclear vision, with
hig as he made his escape, by a crush-
e ace with his gun. te in his latest

more woman, the chamonttike stick- “up
“had some difficulty, before he succeeded in
tearing the woman’s rings from her fingers.
. The blow had not been severe enough to blind
“her and she had seen the Terror; had looked
him straight in the eyes.

On the day following the robbery, the
woman went to the office of Robert C. Mc-
Cabe, then managing editor of the Baltimore
News. Mr. McCabe had requested her to call
to look at a photograph that the newspaper
editor had secured from the Baltimore police.

It was a rogues’ gallery
“Until Death do Print of one Richard
us part.’ From Reece Whittemore, who a
childhood on, beau- — short time previously had
efol, Margarct escaped from the Mary
Girl — (left) was and State Penitentiary,
constantly at the after slugging and killing
side of the astonish- Robert H. Holtman, the
ime oeny tegen i prison hospital guard.
shipped The photograph wa

1930

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years prior
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the night
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McCabe h
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not a very good one, having been taken several
years prior to that time. But the woman said
it bore a certain resemblance to her attacker of
the night before. She was unable to say posi-
tively, however, that the slugger and the fugitive
murderer were one and the same person. Mr.
McCabe had hoped that she would identify the
picture of Whittemore, because he had for some
time suspected that the phantom Terror was
none other than the young man who, a few
weeks previously, had slugged his way to freed
the penitentiary, where he had been j@ht to g

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individual. ‘The artist took the rogues’ gallery photograph
of Whittemore, and the notes from his interview with
Mr. McCabe, and made a composite drawing of the slugger.
The sketch was published in the Baltimore News. Publica-
tion of the composite drawing started one of the biggest,
most concentrated man-hunts ever waged in that city. The
entire populace turned detective.

But the search for the slugger, who, the News said, looked
almost exactly like the drawing in that newspaper, failed
to result in the capture of the fiend. But it did do one
thing: it chased Baltimore's Phantom Terror out of the
city. ;
Before bidding the Maryland city adieu, Richard Reece
Whittemore, for it later was proven that he was the
slugger, held up and robbed a bank messenger of $11,000.
The robbery occurred on March Ith, 1925, in broad day-
light, and on a busy street, before the eyes of hundreds
of persons who would recognize him by sight from Mr.
McCabe's drawing in the News.

The robbery of the bank messenger not only served to
identify Whittemore as being the original of that unusual
composite drawing in the News, but it revived in Baltimore
society a choice bit of gossip which had been the chief
subject of conversation ever since the thug’s escape from
prison, but which had been allowed to die down somewhat
until then.

Tongues wagged anew over tea cups and bridge tables.
The name Richard Reece Whittemore was bandied about
in the best social circles, for Whittemore was an outcast

From the inner circles of blueblood society to the lowest depths

of the half-way world! Such was the red trail of Richard

Reece Whittemore (above) whose one-man crime wave, which

threw Baltimore into a frenzy, was only the forerunner of a
dark career destined to shock the country

from that society. True, this young man had traveled out-
side those circles, in which he was then being discussed
with great abandon, nearly all his life; but he still was
remembered as the only son of the aristocratic Mr, and
Mrs. Richard Whittemore, Sr., last of a long line of blue-
bloods who once had dominated Maryland.

A favorite story in Baltimore society following Whitte-
more’s latest notorious “adventures,” as his forays in crime
were called, was the one of a never-to-be-forgotten oyster
supper twenty years previous. The strain in which society
told the story was something like this:

THE oyster supper hadn't been in progress more than
half an hour, until Mr. and Mrs. Whittemore had some-
how managed, as usual, to corner a good one-third of the
guests, or more correctly, the patrons, since the affair was
a charitable one, and everybody would be expected to make
some sort of donation for the: advancement of whatever
cause the supper was intended to aid.

Mr. Whittemore. a small man, who, it was said, carried
his one hundred and thirty pounds of May‘flowerish aristoc-
racy with a cockiness that even his blueblooded ancestors
might have envied, was telling for the ten-thousandth time
that his grandfather had owned every foot of ground sur-
rounding what now is Lafayette Square. in Baltimore

Incidentally, the oyster supper was being held in a hall
rented for the purpose just opposite lafayette Square
which probably accounted for Mr. Whittemore’s enthusiasm
in boasting of his venerable grandsire’s former land hold-
ings in that immediate vicinity.

Baltimore society honored and respected the Whitte
more because of Mr. Whittemore’s family tree, than tor

36 The Master

Richard Whittemore, Sr.—the Candy Kid’s aristocratic

father. It was at a fashionable oyster supper attended by

Whittemore and his wife that their son first displayed dis-

honest tendencies by attempting to make off with a quantity
of costly old silver, concealed in his blouse

any reason of prestige, financial or otherwise, that he
might have been able to command. Mr. Whittemore
hadn’t the wherewithal to enable him to live properly sub-
merged in happy retrospection of his ancestry. His
patrimony had been small, and Mr. Whittemore didn’t
know the first rudiments of the great American science,
money-making; and it is doubtful if he would have applied
this modern science, even had he known how to apply it,
because Mr. Whittemore was an aristocrat.

LIKEWISE his only son, Richard Reece Whittemore, who,
on the very day of the oyster supper had passed his
eighth year, would be an aristocrat, if Mr. Whittemore had
anything to say about it. Mr, Whittemore was telling
about his hopes for Richard’s future. Yes, he and Mrs.
Whittemore had it all settled. Their son would be sent to
America’s best college. Following his graduation he would
be sent abroad, to study under the best teachers in Europe.
Richard would return to them a gentleman—a man fitted
to carry on the fine old traditions of the Whittemores.
Mr. Whittemore, being deeply absorbed in painting for
his friends the picture of his young son grown to manhood,

Detective

failed to notice that the original of that future picture
had strayed from his side, and was wandering about the
tables on which the supper was to be served, in a manner
that was obviously a violation of the famous Whittemore
etiquette.

Young Richard seemed to be admiring the beautiful as-
sortment of costly old silver which had been so graciously
provided by the several Baltimore society women who had
made the oyster supper possible. So beautiful was the
silver, in fact, that young Master Whittemore could not
refrain from lifting several of the designs from the tables
to examine them. Examination led to a desire for
possession.

Shortly afterward, the Whittemores left the hall, and
the oyster supper, in great indignation. A very rude fellow
had, for some mysterious reason, suddenly grabbed young
Richard by the nape of the neck, turned the boy upside-
down, and shaken him vigorously. Several knives, spoons
and forks had clattered noisily to the floor.

HUS it happened that Richard Reece Whittemore took

his first step-outside the pale of decent society. The
elder Whittemore could see no especial harm in his eight-
year-old son filling his little blouse with expensive silver-
ware and sneaking toward the exit of the supper hall. In-
stead of punishing his son for a very obvious theft, Mr
Whittemore blazed forth in fine aristocratic indignation
at the man who had caught Richard in the act of escaping
with property that did not belong to him, nor to his parents.

Two years after this little incident, Richard was taken
into the juvenile court of Baltimore for firing a revolver
into the street. ‘

At the early age of thirteen, young Richard could be
found almost any hour of the day or night, until 2 or 3
o'clock in the morning, loafing in a dirty alley behind a
saloon. His companions were always boys much older than
himself, and one little girl. The girl was Margaret Messler
who, it seems, was a waif, uncared for by parents, or an)
relative.

Richard spent his fourteenth birthday in a reform school
in Maryland. The girl, Margaret, was also in an institu-
tion of correction at about the same time. When he was
sixteen, young Whittemore enlisted in the navy, returning
to Baltimore when he was twenty-one. Shortly after his
return home, Whittemore burglarized the home of his
father’s next-door neighbor. On the following day, he
and Margaret Messler were married. He was caught, and
sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary for the
burglary.

The Maryland State Penitentiary proved to be a finish-
ing school for Whittemore, but not the type of school to
which his father had planned to send him. Whittemore
met the great past master of crime, Jacob Kraemer and
the master’s no less accomplished brother, Leon.

It was Jacob. Kraemer who knew all there was to know
about every form of lawlessness practiced. But Jake. as
he is to be known later in this story, was not a man of
very great daring. He was the type of criminal who ts
capable of planning crimes, but without the nerve to stand
at the head of the robber gang, and give orders while his
men loot a busy bank or store. He needed a lieutenant—
a man who could enter a place of business, stick up a dozen
persons, scoop up the loot, and shoot it out with the cops
should this become necessary, and remain cool.

He found such a man in Richard Reece Whittemore

Whittemore served his three years in prison for the
burglary of his father’s neighbor's home, and went to meet
the Kraemer brothers, who already had been freed from
the big house. The plans that had been laid in prison
however, didn’t go off so smoothly. The Kraemer brothers
had gone to Baltimore, and were waiting, they told Whitte-
more, until the signs were right to begin operations.
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in the fingers of the dead bandit provided
them with any clue.

Impatient and irritated, and prodded
by the Jewelers’ Association, which was
becoming sarcastic concerning the fail-
ure of the police to apprehend the thieves
who were causing them such serious
losses, Coughlin waited for the gang’s
next move, confident that some slip-up
would give him the starting point from
which the mob could be traced. It was
bound to come, he felt sure.

E HAD LESS than three months

to wait for the next robbery. On
the morning of September 14, Whitte-
more, Paladino, Leon Kraemer ‘and
Goldberg strolled one at a time into
the jewelry store of David Peak on
lower Third Avenue, tied up Peak and
three or four customers who were in the
place, and cleaned it, while Goldberg
acted as lookout and Unkleback sat at
the wheel of a stolen car. The robbery
was almost the exact counterpart of the
Stanley stick-up. This time the loot
amounted to about $80,000. The men
were dropped off one by one, to meet

again that night in a small hotel at Coney Island, where the -

Swag was bought by a fence, the money divided and the
gang split up.

Once again, however, after racing to the scene, Coughlin
and his men failed to find the slightest clue to the identity of
the robbers, except the usual vague and general description
of the men given by the victims.

Then, less than a month later, on the morning of October
5, the bandits entered thé jewelry store of Mrs. Mary Lind-
herr, at 513 Sixth Avenue, calmly tied up Mrs. Lindherr,
leisurely looted the place and departed with more than $75,000
worth of jewelry. It was the fourth stick-up within a few
months, with a total “take” of between three and four hundred
thousand dollars. And still there was no definite information
concerning the identity of a single member of the daring band!

Whittemore’s confidence increased with his success. He and
his wife were spending money lavishly in the night clubs. He
was living off the fat of the land, driving around in an
expensive Cadillac car, going where he pleased and doing
what he pleased regardless of the expense. But, as with many
crooks, he liked the limelight. He wanted to be-talked about.
He wanted to “give the old town something that’d wake
em up.”

“We’re going after the big dough,” he told his men. “I’ve
got something planned up on. Fifth Avenue that’ll give the
cops a headache. Not quite ready yet. Jake’s spotted an easy

lay; we'll try that first.” .
- _ “Sure have,” said Kraemer. “There’s a bird named Sand-
ford, who sells for a firm on Maiden Lane. Every morning
he goes up to the Harriman Bank at Forty-fourth and Fifth
Avenue and picks up a bag full of stuff. Then he goes out
selling. All we got to do is to tail him some morning until
we get a good spot. It’s a pipe. He doesn’t even carry the
stuff into the stores at first.” ,

“What do you mean by that?” Whittemore demanded.
“What’s he do with it?”

“Leaves it in the back of the car.”

“What! Without anyone watching it?”

“Only a chauffeur. He sits in front.
ever seen.”

For days the two Kraemer brothers, with their usual un-
obtrusive cunning, followed Sandford as he came from his
home, went to his place of business, and then to the Harriman
Bank on Fifth Avenue. The jewelry salesman was a man of
exceptionally regular habits.

“Almost set your clock by him,” Leon grunted. “Couldn’t
want it better.”

So, on October 19, the Kraemers were accompanied by the
test of the mob in the big Cadillac car in which the two
brothers had been following Sandford’s little coupe for so
many days. Like Indians on the trail they pursued the
unsuspecting jewelry salesman and the little bag which held

Softest touch. I’ve

INSPECTOR John Coughlin—he
capitalized on the one fatal error
crafty Reese Whittemore made.

a fortune in diamonds. Through Central
Park and up and down various main
and crosstown streets they went, hoping
that the next stopping place would
provide the advantageous situation in
which the stick-up could be pulled. But
everywhere there was some unfavorable
factor: in one place, a policeman on a
nearby corner; at another, too many
passersby; at a third, a man lounging

might be a dick. At each succeeding
frustration, Whittemore’s impatience
increased, and his temper, always held
in leash by the slightest thread, began
to bubble and boil under his apparently
calm exterior.

“The next place we pull the job, good
or bad,” he declared.

The others looked apprehensively at
each other. They had always had an
uneasy feeling that their leader’s reck-
lessness would get them into trouble.

“The next stop may be on Ejighty-
sixth,” Leon Kraemer said nervously.
“That’s a pretty crowded street.”

“T don’t give a damn if it is,” Whitte-
more replied shortly. “That’s where we
go to work. He’s turning in Eighty-
sixth now.”

The unsuspecting colored chauffeur driving Sandford’s car
pulled up in front of a jewelry store and stopped. Sandford
got out, not taking his bag. This was his usual custom.
Evidently he didn’t carry his stock inside until he.was sure
that the merchant wanted to look at it.

Just as Kraemer had said, there were plenty of people on
the street. The gang glanced somewhat apprehensively at
each other and at their leader. Whittemore hesitated. Under
his impatience there was a note of caution, a feeling which
seemed to tell him instinctively when it was time to act, the
same feeling which had carried them through several big jobs
successfully without a hitch. He looked carefully up and
down the street, gazed thoughtfully into space for a moment
and then swung forward in his seat.

“We're pulling it here,” he said. “Jake, you and your
brother climb into the back of that car after we get the
chauffeur off. Tony, you and Shuffles come with me.”

With Paladino and Goldberg, Whittemore walked casually
up alongside the coupe in which sat Sandford’s Negro
chauffeur, John Franklin, whose name the Kraemers had
obtained.

“Hello, John,” said Whittemore pleasantly.

Franklin turned. “How do you do, suh,” he replied. He
didn’t remember the man, but assumed he had met him some-

.where. The friendly stranger opened the door, his back to

the street so that passersby could not see the revolver which
he held! The chauffeur glanced down at the weapon. His
mouth opened. He looked as though he were going to yell.

“Not a word!” Whittemore said tensely. “You ain't going
to get hurt—if you do what you're told. Get out of that car.
And don’t forget that I’ve got this rod in my pocket and one
false move’ll tear a hole in you.” He turned to Paladino and
Goldberg. “You know what to do, boys.”

“All right,” Paladino said, when the chauffeur stood on the
pavement alongside the car. “Walk down to Eighty-fifth
Street and then turn right. Then at the next. block you turn
left and keep on going until we tell you to turn again. And
don’t forget we’re both in back of you with gats. And if you
even look around you'll get plugged.”

As the three started down the street Whittemore, after
observing that no one around seemed to sense anything un-
usual, walked back to his own Cadillac and got in alongside
of Unkleback, who was driving. In a few seconds Goldberg
and Paladino rounded the corner, hurried up to the Cadillac
and climbed inside. Unkleback pulled the car up alongside
the coupe. The Kraemers, carrying the precious bag which
they had pursued for so many days, got out of the smaller car
and climbed into the Cadillac. Unkleback stepped on the
accelerator, the car leaped forward and sped toward the down-
town district.

The victimized salesman, Sandford, was still in the store

Fos COLUMBUS Circle—here
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IN FRONT of the Harriman
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last time. This time you’re going to pay.”

The fence shrugged his shoulders. It was a usual situation
for him. “O. K.” he said, turning to go.

Whittemore, his ungovernable temper unleashed, leaped
from the bed on which he was sitting. He took a step forward,
seized the fence by the shoulder and whirled him around.

“You crooked ” he gritted from between clenched teeth,
“you're going to pay twenty-five grand.”

“Not me,” the latter replied, watching Whittemore warily.
“If you think you can get that for them, why don’t you ask
someone else? Jake here knows me and ”

‘He stopped, his face suddenly white, while his body trembled
visibly. For the bandit leader had a gun in his ribs. His
finger was on the trigger, and he was hissing venomously :

“You gypped us once, and it’s your last time. I’m going to
croak es a

The sentence ended in a grunt of pain as Gilden, the only
one in the mob who wasn’t afraid of him, sprang forward and
wrenched Whittemore’s arm backward until the weapon
dropped with a thud to the carpet. Gilden kicked it under the

bed. There was a pinging noise as the weapon exploded, and
a sound of splintering wood as a bullet buried itself in the
baseboard. A smell of powder slowly permeated the room.

Appalled at the sudden turn of events, and the fear that the
noise might be overheard and cause an investigation, the eight
men stood motionless in their tracks, listening for any noise in
the hall. But no one came. Slowly they began to relax. Then
Whittemore, his face a mask of fury, walked menacingly over
toward Gilden.

“You rat!” he bit out. “What the hell do you mean?”

But Gilden stood his ground. “I mean,” he said, “that ?’m
not going to fry for bumping this guy off. You can croak
him if you want to, but not while I’m around.”

“He’s right, Kid,” said Jake Kraemer soothingly, overcom-
ing his fear of his leader. “That won’t get us anything but
the chair. I think we ought to take the fifteen grand.”

Whittemore glared at Gilden. Then, as the others crowded
around him, telling him that if they antagonized the fence it
might not be possible for them to dispose of their loot so easily
in the future, Whittemore’s anger apparently subsided.

“All right,” he said shortly, “fifteen grand.”

The money was paid over and divided, and the gang sepa-
rated, following its usual custom, to meet again after the
Kraemers had cased another job. But Whittemore, although
apparently mollified, could not brook the humiliation to which
he had been put by Gilden in front of the others. Internally
he seethed with anger. He determined to wreak a terrible
revenge. It was necessary, however, to lull Gilden into a
feeling of security. This was not difficult for the gang leader.
In addition to his other bad qualities, he was a consummate
hypocrite. He went up to Gilden, just before they separated
and held out his hand. . .

“It’s all right, Sime,” he said. “Guess I lost my temper.
I hated to see that put something over on us, though.”
He pulled Gilden aside. ‘‘You’ve got guts. I’ve got a little /
job just for two. Plenty of dough in it. Want to get in on
it?”

Gilden was completely disarmed.
is it?”

“It’s downtown. A soft touch. Meet me at Trinity Church
at two in the morning. Place will be opened for us by the
watchman. Have to split the swag three ways, but that’s
better than seven.”

At the designated time Gilden met Whittemore in the de-
serted downtown section of New York, the loneliest place in
the world in the early morning hours. He waited for a few
moments, walking around the old church and the ancient
graveyard surrounding it until he saw Whittemore approach-
ing. The latter passed him and said, out of the corner of his
mouth, “On the side street.”

Gilden followed him around. In the darkest corner of the
street Whittemore met him. “O. K., Kid,” Gilden said, “what
is it?”

“It’s this, you dirty rat,” the other replied, suddenly produc-
ing a gun. “You thought you could make a monkey of me

“Sure,” he said.” “What

and get dway with it, huh? Well, nobody can do that, see?

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You thought you got away with something

Gilden ducked and made a flying leap. The gun spoke.
Like a punctured balloon, Gilden collapsed. In a fleeting mo-
ment Whittemore sped around the corner and vanished in the
darkness.

The following day Gilden’s body was found. He had been
shot through the head, but had had sufficient strength to pull
himself toward the wall, against which he was propped with
his head sagging grotesquely to the side. It was a cowardly
and brutal murder. It made Whittemore, however, more than
ever the master of the rest of his mob. None of them asked
any questions. But when the paper announced the finding of
Gilden’s body and their minds went back to.the tense scene in
the hotel room in Brooklyn, the members of the mob drew
their own conclusions. If any of them had had any inclination
to contest Whittemore’s leadership, such inclination evapo-
rated into thin air.

But, while the slaying of Gilden crystallized the status of
Whittemore as undisputed leader of one most successful bandit
mobs with which the police of the metropolis ever had to
contend, it subsequently provided the lead for which the
harassed officers had been hoping. Inspector Coughlin and
Detectives Sullivan and Horan, who had been working night
and day to try to fix the identity of some of the band, had met
with no success whatever. Neither the .45 caliber bullet found

BIG-EARED Milton Gold-
berg, lookout for the
gang. invited suspicion
by driving a limousine.

JACOB KRAEMER,
international crook, was
the expert who “cased
jobs” for the ring.

“TIL say it is,” agreed the driver, “Baltimore Willie” Un-
kleback.

The two Kraemer brothers, Leon and Jake, were equally
pleased. But they were not overcome with awe at the sizé
of the swag. They knew it would only bring twelve or fifteen
_ thousand dollars from a fence. That might mean real dough
to Goldberg and Unkleback, but it didn’t overawe them. They
were both international crooks, used to pulling off big jobs.
The other two had been merely small timers up until now.

“Big dough!” Whittemore spat out contemptuously. “Why,
this is only peanuts. Wait ’til we touch off some really big
places. All right,” he added, his tone changing to one of
command, “you drop off here, Shuffles. Jake, you and your
brother hop off when we turn into Seventy-fifth; and I’ll get
out up around Eighty-third. You know where me meet. To-
night at 8:30. You put the car up after I leave, Willie.”

That night the five desperadoes met in a small hotel in
Coney Island and divided the $15,000 given them by a fence
with whom Jake Kraemer had had previous dealings. The
fence insisted that the jewelry was only worth $75,000.

Immediately after the report of the robbery reached police
headquarters, Inspector John D. Coughlin, with Detectives
Thomas Horan and Walter Sullivan, hurried to the scene,
The report from the still frightened Ross convinced the in-
spector that he had a real mob to deal with.

“These are no amateurs,” he remarked.
hear more from these lads, I’m afraid.’

“Didn’t leave much of a clue, did they?” Sullivan com-
mented to Horan.

“Didn’t leave any that I can see,” the latter asserted. “All
we've got is Ross’ description of that one bird who’s probably
their leader: well-dressed, rather good-looking and black hair.
That'd fit about a hundred thousand or so in New York. He'll
probably. go on a spree around the night spots like most
crooks after they’ve made a little haul. We might look some
of them over a little.”

“We'll probably

* The two detectives “looked over” many such places during

the following weeks, among them the Chantee Club on West
Fifty-second Street. But there was nothing to indicate that a
carefully groomed young man, and’ an equally well-groomed

young woman, who spent much of their time at this place,’

were Whittemore and his attractive wife. The young man
answered the description which the detectives had been given.
But so did a dozen others in the place. The one for whom they
were looking spent plenty of money and gave large tips. But so
Iso did other gilded young men who frequented the Chantee.

So the trail, slight as it was, faded into nothingness. After
six weeks of work, Inspector Coughlin had still not. the
slightest idea who composed the mob,

“We'll hear from them again,” Coughlin said confidently.

“Their money won’t last long. Maybe we'll get a little better
_ break at the next job.”
. He was right in one particular. He did did hear from them
again. But he got no better break on the second place the

LEON KRAEMER, like
his brother, knew a lot
about the value of other
people’s diamonds.

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ing mob was Willie Un-
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knew how to duck cops.

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ask to see some gems.

mob pilfered than he had on the first.

This time seven men took part. Simon Gilden and
Anthony Paladino had been taken into the mob. The
seven piled into a stolen car and stopped a few feet
away from the store of the Stanley Jewelry Company,
at 269 Seventh Avenue. Paladino entered.

“I'd like to look at some diamond rings,” he said.

“What kind, sir?”

“Engagement rings; solitaires.” :

“Yes, sir.” The clerk brought out a tray. He
glanced up as Goldberg and Jake Kraemer entered.

“Just a minute, gentlemen,” the clerk said.

“O. K.” one of the two replied, “we can wait.”

Paladino examined some rings, glancing out of the y
corner of his eye toward the door. Whittemore entered. &
It was the signal. Paladino’s hand slipped to his side.
When it came up the clerk gasped. He pulled back
in alarm,

“Stay where you are,” commanded Whittemore, re-
volver in hand. -

He shot a glance outside. Everything was apparently
all right. Leon Kraemer was standing carelessly along-
side the entrance puffing on a cigarette held in one hand,
the other resting in his pocket. Unkleback was at the
curb, glancing up and down the street. Gilden, wearing
a chauffeur’s cap, was at the wheel of the machine, the se a
front of which Whittemore could barely see. aie

“Down on the floor, you,” snarled the bandit leader,
turning his glance back inside.

The clerk got down. Paladino snapped handcuffs on
him and stuffed a gag into his mouth. Then, while he
and Kraemer stood in front of the counter as though
examining something in the case, but in such a way as
to shield Whittemore from the view of passersby, the
latter scooped all the jewelry in sight into a bag. Then he
walked out and got into the car, followed by the others.

The gang now followed the same procedure as in the Ross
robbery, the men dropping off one by one, the last one, Gilden,
abandoning the car, and the seven meeting that night with a
fence in the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn.

EVEN THOUGH Whittemore knew nothing about dia-
monds, he could see that the value of those from the Stan-
ley stick-up was much greater than that obtained from Ross. -
He figured that the Stanley stones were worth at least $125,-

The fence looked them over carefully, lifting them up and
down in his hand and looking at them through a glass.

“How much?” demanded Whittemore impatiently.

“Well, you see, some of them have flaws, and they’re not
worth a ;

“Cut the comedy,” Whittemore interrupted. “How much?”

“Fifteen thousand,” the fence replied.

“Like hell!” shouted the thug furiously. “You skinned us

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* to a customer who had just come into the place.

THE NOOSE!

As he came up to the officer, now inserting the key in the

lock, he reached in his blouse and brought the iron pipe down
on the guard’s head with crushing force. Like water suddenly
tilted from a vessel, Holtman crashed to the ground.

The colored inmate, one Bowie, felt a sickening feeling
permeate his stomach as he saw the bar descend and the smear
of red which appeared a split second before Holtman dropped.
Involuntarily he rushed down the steps to his aid.

Then he saw his mistake. He started to retrace his steps.
But it was too late. For immediately the guard had fallen,
his assailant dropped the pipe, stooped down and _ hurriedly
took the senseless officer’s keys, gun and money. Weapon in
hand, he whirled.

“T ought to plug you, you black ” he snapped. “I’ve
got a good mind to do it. Get back into that building.”

Hair on edge and his skin working with fright, the Negro
walked back into the hospital.

“Now,” said his tormentor, “I’m going out and you're go-
ing with me. You watch the screw on the wall through the
windowehere. See when he turns and walks back to his box.
I'll open the gate to Madison Street. Then you follow me.
And just try to be a wise guy and cross me up. Just try it,
that’s all.”

With the gun at his back, Bowie watched the guard on the”

wall, as, rifle on shoulder, he walked up and down. é
“Now,” he whispered quaveringly, “he just turned.”
“Come on,” the other commanded. Followed by the fright-

ened colored man, the inmate walked back to a solid steel

Madison Street. He had on over his prison uniform the

overcoat of the stricken guard, which he had taken from a.

closet in the hospital. When he got to the street he did not
hurry. He nodded a surly “So long” to the. Negro, walked
up Eager Street, turned, sauntered past the Baltimore city

jail which adjoins the penitentiary, and lost himself among.

other pedestrians, a feeling of elation surging through him
as he realized that he had beaten all but two weeks, of a fifteen-
year rap! Be ees Gs

What he could not foresee, however, was that the grim-
looking, gray-walled old jail, by which he passed so blithely,
was to play a sinister part in his future career—a career which
was to include a series of extraordinarily daring and baffling
crimes that puzzled and defeated the best brains of the New
York City Police Department for many long months.

For the man who had killed the kindly, aged guard who had
befriended him, the man who was now on the loose, was
Richard Reese Whittemore, as able and ruthless a leader of
criminals as ever blazed a crimson trail through the country’s

T WAS ON MAY 9, 1925, less than three months after
Whittemore’s escape from the Maryland Penitentiary, that
there occurred in New York the first of what was destined to
be a long scries of stick-ups, each one a big job, each carefully
cased and planned, and each yielding loot valued at never less
than $75,000 and sometimes much more.

On the morning of that day Jacques Ross, head of the Ross
Jewelry Store on Grand Street, was displaying some diamonds
A stocky,
pleasant-faced young man sauntered in. In a voice which
could scarcely be heard across the counter he said:

“This is a stick-up.”

The startled jeweler looked up to face a gun. The customer
shrank sideways along the glass case. Before either of them
could make any move, two more men walked in. While their
companion remained stationary, revolver in hand, one of the
others vaulted across the counter and beckoned the two vic-
tims to follow him into a rear room, Prodded by the gun of
the one who had first entered, the customer walked behind the
counter and joined Ross. The third robber, who had_ fol-

‘lowed the procession back, produced two pairs of handcuffs.

“Lie on the floor,” he commanded. ;

As the two men did as directed, the cuffs were slipped on
their wrists and gags placed in their mouths. “S

“All right,” the first man, evidently the leader, ordered,
“clean the dump. And clean it good.” ‘

In a few moments every single item of jewelry and_dia-
monds, set and unset, in the showcases and in the open ‘safe,
was swept into a bag. Outside the door and near_the curb
was a Cadillac sedan, a man sitting at the wheel.. Halfway
across the pavement toward the store another young man
apparently, loafed, his hand resting carelessly in his coat
pocket. i \ re

Neither of them looked toward the store. Neither seemed
interested in anything in particular. A slight shifting of their
position, an almost involuntary nervous jerk was all that one
would have noted as the three men emerged from the store and
stepped leisurely into the rear of the car. As it started, the
man on the pavement walked toward the curb, swung on the
running board and into the seat alongside the driver. But
when the car turned the first corner and picked up speed, five
hilarious men began pounding each other on the back and
exulting at the ease of the job which they had just ac-

__ complished.

“Tt was a pipe,” boasted Whittemore, soaking up the compli-

- ments showered on him by his mob with the sneering vanity

which was so much a part of his character. “Pretty close to

~ a hundred grand, I'll bet.”
door, unlocked it and, trailed by the other, emerged into .

The unhealthy-looking face of Milton Goldberg, the lookout,
known as “Shuffles” to the rest because of his peculiar, scrap-
ing gait, lit up with cupidity.

“ “Some dough!” he ejaculated.

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