Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-06

the police of his district can not bring hin
to book.
Allen has protested that his house Is hi.
castle. and has thrown out a policeman OF
two who attempted to arrest him within
Its walls. Police magistrates have said he
was right, and he has laughed and gone
on.
There is some magic by which this Dad
man has paralyzed all hands that have
oeen raised against him. Hauled into courts
with his crimes thick upon him, masis-
trates have absolved him and bid him be-
gone; and every one has wondered low
This record of untried indictments, fur
nished by District Attorney Gardiner tells
September 10, 1ss4-Indicted for poolseu-
ing; bailed in Sl."o by Peter De Lacey.
July II. 1SH5-For keeping L poolroom:
bailed In 5000 by his wife.
January 3, BE- keeping n poolfSom:
bailed in $1,000 by Henry Muller.
April %. S9I-t'o bo~okmaking; baiIed in
sl,g0 by Adolf Flisser.
November 10. lS9I-For Matchmaking.
bailed by his wife in 1000.
"The' Allen IL Stone Wall.
Scanning this. list. Chief McCuIlash said:
The Allen is a stone wall. The boasts
that We are unable to prosecute him, and
keeps right on breaking the law, but now
he must stop
1t is small wonder the police are CALLED
by The Allen. His name is always star
Ing from their archives, but they have
never been able to convict him. They
nave not even a picture of him in their
gallery.
When he was 10 years old he became
butchers boy for "Bill' Poole. who was
famous as Il fighter in his day. From that
he went TO waiting in a saloon on Fulton
street: Then he was a cartman. Then he
ipusht IN the army in the COS. After
the war he had a 'hotel' ut Mercer and
Spring streets. the famous old St. Bernard,
where crooks and criminals held revels
ana planned crimes. He colonized voters
and Mat" who We're famous as pick
pockets and burglars. In 1873 he opened
loon, dance hall, the home of vice and
crime of every degree.
Then happened the blacklist thing, per-
Eddie Malloy. his private detective" AL
len said it was an accident. and the
c9r9ner's jury, believed him. In 1885 the
been what he is now. He is supposed TO
be rich. owns houses. and deiies the po-
the narrow e~ntryway yesterday afternoon,
when a Journal reporter disembarked from
a SIKH avenue car in front of the home
OF The" Aliens West Side Club"
In spite of his three score years and more
of hard Wear and tear, Allen does not look
40. He Is Il small, trim figure. His Shout
ders are broad for his height: He fills out
big muscles on the jaws. His blue eyes
are clear and straightforward ard they
flash savagely when ne talks about police
persecution.
He is a bunch of nerve and muscle. To
one who has known men in any branch of
muscular sport it is easy to understand
how Allen has come to be feared by big
policemen and other big men as a swift
and dangerous fighter.
The bad thing about him is his mouth.
IN1nr htr ot,iJ1F,l a-.
written itself pretty plainly. But the mus
tache. which would he gray if Allen did
not re1uvenate it with a touch of dye
viciousness that turks about his lips. His
brown hair, decorously trimmed. keeps its
own color, save for Il faint sprinkling of
gray about the temples.
Close scrutiny reveals 4 disfiguration
about the tip of the nose. John Carrlra
did that with an ice pick during a row
told his modest story of that struggle thus:
THE pick lay on the bar. We we're both
reaching for it. l got it. Aliens nose tells
oh, yes" he said. II see by the after
noon paper that they are going to finish
me. l have heard that said before. But
that there is no evidence that I've over
the law in the slightest particular.
They keep pounding away at me. because
I am the wicked The Allen.
IF / We're Chauncey .Depew" LAIon |
Missed out the name of the doctor with fine |
But I am The Allen. And so the police |
invade these clubruoms. and sit here in
uniform for twenty-four hours. They re-
fuse to allow the gas to be turned off.
They won't allow the doors to be- locked
And what do they find? Nothing.
That isn't enough. This Chapman, with
his whiskers, grabs me on the street. when
IN not looking. and throws me over
a dry goods box. Why? No charge
against me except that I'm The Ain
Does he do 1t alone? No. He has four of
his men with him, q sergeant. a rounds
man and n couple of policeman,
They say l keep a poolroom. T saw "a
that nobody can bring n shrad ~
proof that l ever sold or bought a ponl
ticket or placed a commission for myself
anybody else on a track or in any pool
Dom.
An OId-Time Indictment.
That's the reason they don't try these
and the only one. There pre-
i've indictments the district attorney has
given you record of, and there's another
hats twenty-five years old. The latter he
las apparently no track of. But | know
remember every step.
nents must be tried; 1 have tried again
md again to have them moved for trial
SO far have failed.
Every successive administration cries
hat Allen has a pull. and people ask where
got it. l haven't any pull. L never aid
lave a pull. l never asked a favor % "
politician in my life, and 1 never will.
No Use for Politicians.
why" said Allen, drawing himself I'm
o all Of his five feet eight. "if I sbor1d
YER go to a politician and concede to him
needed his help to fight my battles
o you know what I'd do uexto ia 90
round to my house in Clinton place I'd