The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-05-16

over. The story was persistent for sew.
eral days and Inspector LAWN kept dis
creetly quiet. But it was fake" pure
and simple.
To demonstrate the power of the
press in Chicago, the following incident
in connection with the big man hunt, is
appropriate. The Hearst paper, that is,
the Chicago American, had been conduct
ing an Independent investigation. They
had employed expert criminologists, in
GLIDING George Pratt, well known in
that line of work. They worked tire
lessly, night and day, for weeks and
finally covered their entire front page
with big tale of the capture they had
effected. They had pictures and confess
sions and everything else.
A Wabash avenue saloon keeper was
the object of their industry and al
though through the efforts of Inspector
LAWN the man was proven absolutely
innocent, the American trumped up
criminal charges against the unfortunate
man and he was finally tried, convicted
and sent to the penitentiary for crime
that he had no more connection with
than you or /. Merely to make good
the yellow reputation of the Hearst pub
LEGATION.
Then the Chicago Daily News took a
chance at it. Their shrewd police re-
porter was Karl Pancake, brother
in-law of Frank Chance, captain of the
National League Chicago team. He act
ually did get boy arrested and paid
him large sum of money to make a
fake confession. The boy was proved
later to be moral degenerate and trust
ed to luck to get out of the scrape after
confessing in full to the Daily News
and the police. Thus, another bubble
was burst and Chicago again began to
worry, keep off the streets at night
and double lock the doors at bed time.
Herman f. Schuettler. former captain
of police at the Sheffield avenue station.
had been promoted to assistant chief
and was now at the head of the search
ers for the bandits. The name had been
given to them now as the automatic
Trio" 1t had been quite well estab-
lished that there were only three of
them and several other of the murders
in the city had been committed by
gang of three men.
So, under the efficient leadership of
Assistant Chief Schuettler, the net be-
gan to tighten and little by little the
police secured bits of information that
would ultimately have ended in convic-
ton, had not the most unexpected hap
pened at most opportune moment.
| heard secret instructions given to
the plain clothes" men one night Lv
Schuettler, which were about as fol-
lows:
II want you to pick up Gus Marks to-
night. He is in the neighborhood of the
him for he is desperate young man.
He knows you fellows and will shoot on
sight if he sees you are after him. So,
take no chances and fire first, by all
means"
There was something significant in the
tone of voice that accompanied these
words and Schuettler's handsome brown
eyes seemed for moment to realize the
awful manner in which his instructions
were to be carried out
The "plain clothes" men 90 out in
pairs at night and appear in the most
unexpected places. That night Billy
Blaul and Tom Sheehan Travelled to-
gether They visited the neighborhood
of saloon kept by man named Barry.
Through a slit in the curtain, Sheehan
discovered Marks drinking alone inside
the saloon. They remembered the words
of warning that had been given to them.
At the same time they had no idea in
the world as to why Marks was wanted.
They were confident of their ability as
marskmen and detectives and little
weight did the chiefs warning have to
them.
Sheehan entered the side door and
Blaul went in at the front door. Neither
man arranged his gun for quick action.
Marks was backed up to the bar, after
drinking his beer, and had an eve on
both entrances as the policemen opened
the doors and walked in
Quicker than a flash Marks shot and
killed Sheehan and turned to put Blaul
"out of business when bullet from
Blaul's gun shattered the right arm of
Marks and his revolver fell Gathering to
the floor. Blaul grappled with him and
in spite OF Marks injuries, he was game
to the last. Weakened, finally, by the
loss of blood, Marks was overcome.
bundled into the patrol wagon and al
most in A twinklinp was hehind tha staal