The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-10
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Jack Chinn has carved many mis- guided gentlemen in the course of his i career, and when they have escaped death 1t has generally been said that he
 only wished to leave his autograph on
 them. He never placed steel into a
 man, at least that is the narrator's i'm
 pression from the conversation had
 with him, without the intention of kill
 ing him, because with him the use of
 cold metal is not intended as joke and
 is only resorted to when he thinks that
 a life wager has been made. Nor does
 he use a bowiesknife, but always a.
 weapon made from ideas of his own and
 which some day will bear his name just
 as the fomous American dagger has
 handed down to posterity the cogno-
 men of that famous Kentucky gentle
 man who carried his knife at the back
 of his neck. The narrator made the ac-
 quaintance of Cbinn's steel blade under
 somewhat peculiar circumstances, the
 narration of which will fully explain
 his theory regarding weapons, which
 has already been referred to-
 Chinn came to New York in the win-
 ter of 1890, and for soNe time, in part
 nership with George Morgan, his broth
 er-in-law and a well-known booknnak-
 CT, conducted popular gambling saloon on TWenty-sixth street. west of Broad
 way. The police. however, although he was willing to submit to their black mailing extortions, obeyed the demands of rival establishments and would not permit Chinn and Morgan to turn their wheel. After the place closed the for mer returned to his Kentucky stock farm, where once had grazed the fo- nous Leonartus the Uninterrupted win ner of more successive stakes than any other horse whose hoofs have beaten on the American tur.
 It was while he was resident of New York that the famous doubly fatal en- counter between Goodloe and Swope oc- cured in the Lexington post office It will be recalled that the first named used a knife and the latter a pistol. The sanguinary encounter took place on a Saturday afternoonlor evening. The following Sunday morning the narrator was seated with Chinn in the cafe of the St. James Hotel, then at Twenty sixth street and Broadway, in New York city. The gentleman from Har- rodsburg-that is the Kentucky town from which Chinn hails---was talking about the affair, and his close intimacy with Goodloe, when he was handed telegram, which, after he had read It. he placed in my hands It contained these words; He used your knife"
 In response to an inqufring look, Chinn said. You wonder what that means. I will tell you. More than one year ago my friend, Colonel Goodloe, and Swope had a wordy encounter. I told Goodloe at that time that the other man would attempt to kill him, and that | he. should be prepared for such an on- slaught, and that he owed it to his fam fly, he having a large number of chill dren, to arm himself. He said that he l would do so and that he would at once ! provide himself with pistol I laughe | at him. You should know that Goodloe | had been palsied for number of years and that his, hands are continually | said to him: What can you do with pistol? There can be no | about your aim. You must | carry knife He rather shivered at he suggestion and said that he did not know how to use one. Then I taught Jim,
 T had two knives made. Their han Hes were of horn, with grooves cut in hem to fit the hand, in order that the grasp could not slip. The blades which itted into them eXactly--not extending 'eyond, like the bowie knife-were fully 1 ,ne-eighth of an inch thick at the top. larrowing to an almost razor-lil1e edge. The blade was moved by a spring which, when touched, not only sprung