The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-06

BY JOSIAH FLYNT
AND FRANCES WALTON

backed up by Ruderick's presence, that
''the front Office wanted to know who
made that touch in Jersey, and wanted
the swag and the gum suficed to set
going an unequaled detective agency.
There We're no silly trips to Jersey to
inspect "the scene of the crime" no long
interviews with reporters about suggested
clues, and no keeping the wires hot.
Guns Of all ages and conditions strolled
quietly up and down Manhattan, rubber
ing passing the time of day and putting
people next" One would enter Joint,
give cough and pass on to rear room
where he was joined by those whom his
cough had attracted. 'Find out who got
that thimble an the roll on the trolley
over in Jersey-the chief is hostile an
wants to knOw-Ruderick McKlowd Is on
the CASE and another half dozen recruits
were enlisted for the honor of the chief
Gossip about touches is as essential
to the Under World as is gossip about
marriages and births to the Upper World
Burke Ryan could no more forego the
pleasure of telling his pals about the
touch on the trolley in Jersey than he
could resist the temptation to pull 1t
off," He had hooked" the watch and in
vested the greater part of the roll in a
quiet little game of poker by the time
Ruderick McKlowd and the push were on
his trail, and he had also published widely
the details Of the theft, only Rudedick
and hts companions had not yet reached
the Joints where the story had been
told. At the very moment that Rudertck
and Billy the Brufser were agreeing on
the campaign to find him, Burke was
in a saloon not over ten blocks distant
telling some cronies how he had to clear
the deck on the trolley with his razor
to make good his "mooch," and giving
them amusing accounts of how the ''Molls
dove out O. the windows in their haste
to give him room.
Burke had his friends in the push as well
as did Ruderick, and there was one, jim
my Ryerson by name, who felt that 1t
was up to him. to let Burke know that
Ruderick and his push were in pur-
suit.
DO they JUS want the dough an the
watch" asked Burke, cor are they after
me too?''
They're after you, you duffer," said
Jimmy, IAN they'll have you if you don't
mooch. You've been chewin' the rag all
over the town, an anybodys told EN- by
this time"
do you mean to say that they're goin'
to turn me over to the chfef?"
That's what they are an you'll be set
tied, too. His Nibs is on his ear, they say,
an the chiefs got to square things"
well, they can go plump to hell.
amt no sucker to help out that chief
let him help hiself out. I'm goin' to
mooch right his speech was cut short
by the entrance into the saloon of Ru-
derrick and two pals"
1t was chase which Is talked about
still when chases come up for discussion.
1t began below Twenty third street and
ended in vacant lot near the Eighth
avenue railroad terminal, and is probably
the only pursuit Of a criminal in whose
arrest criminals alone were interested.
Trolley cars, cabs and the elevated" were
all used by both the pursued and the pur-
surers, and a fierce struggle ended the
flight. AS last resort Burke took his
stand in fence corner of a vacant lot,
drew his razor and dared Ruderick and
his two companions to touch him. 1t 8
a case o. knock OUT said Ruderick and
poor Burke was made the target for stones
swiftly thrown and carefully aimed. He
stood it as long as he could, his face and
hands being cut and bruised and smeared
all over with blood, and then cried out:
fI cave-I caven'-
Couldn't help it, Burke, old mar"
said Ruderick soothingly. Three to one
amt fair, but it's business. The chief
needs you, an we need the chief-see?''