The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

IT'S EASY TO HIRE DEEDS or
VIOLENCE DONE.
Usually the Rroken-DOwn PrizcRyhter In
First Sought out for Joi,--SalOons
Furnish supply d asses In n bet ertlye's
Exnerpano Mnrk ng tho NgsgNllenan.

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Furnish suppl, ID asses In n Detectives
Experience OF the MItssllcman.
The recent charges against David Lamar
have opened the eyes of New Workers 20
the possibility of hiring thugs, if not assas-
sins, to pay off scores that are most salts
factorily settled by the inf1iction Of physi-
cal violence. That such men may he en-
gagged TO do almost any kind Of work was
vague impression in the minds OF people
who had acquired the idea from sensational
fiction or melodramas. But few who had
heard Of the practice thought 1t could be
done so easily and with such satisfactory
results as those in the case that has just
attracted such widespread attention.
Suppose that A, respectable and pros
| porous citizen, should cherish against b
bitter grudge that could be satisfied only
by sound thrashing. accompanied with
such souvenirs as black eyes, knocked out
! teeth and broken nose. But A, although
| he burns with this elementary desire for
| physical revenge is weak and feeble, while
| b il giant Of strength What is A to do?
! Shall he sit back, quietly nursing his inn
potent wrath, or shall he hire some bruiser
or group Of brusers to lick b within an
inch of his life2
Probably he will. in ninety-nine cases
out of hundred, follow the former course
and satisfy his desire for vengeance by
glarng at B and hoping that some terrible
fate may overake him. That is the pru-
dent and customary course. But some
times the human element asserts itself too
strongly and A decides that must be
whipped if he has the money to pay some-
body to do it.
"Why, then he'd have to look out for a
man who has a gang said an official in
the Detective Bureau to whom this hypo-
thetical question was put, and who asked
to be kept hypothetical himself rather
than appear publicly to know so much on
such a subject, cor for somebody who
could put him into relations with such a
person. No man is so highly or SO respect
ably situated that he cannot find some
person who will put him in touch with
what We will call the lower world.
1T may be his valet, his coachman or
his butler, if he is man of wealth enough
to employ them. If he is poorer, it may be
the waiter who serves him in restaurant,
the man who sells him drink or the ele-
vator boy in his office building. Every
man has some easy means OF commune
eating with the strata under him.
I'm nine cases out of ten this man will
want to be recommended, first Of all, to
pugilist--a brokendown slugger, in nine
cases out of ten, who never did get above
the mixed ale class and never wanted to.
One naturally turns, in such a case, TO a
man who has been professional fighter,
and there are great many in this class
who will do almost anything for pay.
-Ill give you just two examples of things
those men have done to show you how
accommodating they can be when small
sum OF money is involved
"A few weeks ago / was called down.
town to see the president Of one Of the big
banks. He wanted to find out something
about a trained nurse who was in attendance
on his nephew. This young man, who was
a drunkard. had made a very disadvan-
tageous match, and only few weeks be-
fore l came into the case the woman had
tried to have her husband declared incom-
petent in order to get control of some
SIS 900 year that he possessed. The man
was AZ reasonable as you or when he was
not in liquor.
The testimony prepared by the woman's
lawyer had been given by her, the mans
nurse and phony doctor she had called
in. She needed the testimony of the re-
spectacle uncle to give some weight to the
rest of the crew. and sent for him, thinking
he would be glad to have the ne'er-do-well
out of the way finally,
"She was all right about that but the old
man was not going to be party TO any
game like hers. He called on his nephew
and saw in a second he was in mortal terror
of the person his wife called his trained
nurse He was a gigantic bruiser, who
never let the unfortunate patient, drunk |
or sober out of his sight. Ii was perfectly
plain TO him that if he was not already
crazy, he would soon he if he remained in
terror of his attendant much longer. He
complained of the nurse Of course; but the
wife said he was model of tenderness
and care.
THE bank president wanted me to look
up the mans record. | went down to the
country place Of the nephew. got into the
house on the pretext that / had an inn
DOrtHnL PLteT ITOitl tHe uItV, ana saw tne
nurse. | recognized him right away IA a |
mixedale prizetighter who had been in |,
half dozen scraps with the police that he |
got out OF only by the skin of his teeth |
He would have done nearly any crime Oh +,
the calender for 800. | took back my re- |
port and the trained nurse who had the |
strength of a giant, left the house few |
days afterward I'll bet he got good |
stake before he got out.
Another prizefghter of the same class !
tried, only few months ago, up in West |
Fifty-ninth street an Od-time fake that |
used to attract the attention of the police |
once or twice "A month about ten or fifteen !
years ago. He opened 'sparring acad-
envy in one room over a saloon, charged $40 |
in advance and at the second lesson gave
the pupil such smuggling that he was out
of business for week or two and afraid to |
come back at the end Of that time. Then !
the fighter was IS in pocket, for his victim
never wanted to come back for another |
seance These two instances will show
you how willing the rundown sugger is
to make money in any way"
The detective was certain that the
seeker for vengeance would find his path |
easy, once he had established relations
with a fighter of the grade he had been
The ease with which this
could be done seemed TO the reporter ex-
aggerated, hut the detective thought the
man must be far from wise who was not
fly enough in New York 10 be able TO get
hold of the right man TO do any job he
wanted.
THE greatest difficulty in the way OF
getting a trick of this kind done" he said,
sis to avoid publicity. If man is we'll
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