The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-10


< cssynss:. 1900. ., 1ssnas H. Mckee.
Z ~ What you YOU done e. Peter" ' ~ '
Why spotsy?"
: How"
: knitted him."
"When?"
"Jist now. jst got away. got on dat he wa
g around Cons. and goes in and tells him dat II
: come for him. and he pulls gun and gifts me in M
4 him and lets him have it about four times in d.
: back while hugs him. He's done for. all right,
guess; and when de crowd in de joint gifts around
Are you much hurt, Petey?"
Nav. dat don't amount to nothin, but gotta gil
away; de cops' drop me here sure. OATS dem
now. you kin bet" There were footsteps on the bare
Pete he climbed down the fre-escape just as two
Central ONCE men were knocking on the door
Liz pareyed with the officers long enough to allow
Pete Is disappear before she opened the door
the in which Liz was into the kitchen, and then
to the window, and looked down the nre-escape. but
about the squalid premises there We're no signs OF
Pete, except few articles OF clothing hanging on
nails in the bedroom.
sat down, one in a rocking-chair. the other on a
lounge beside Liz, who had quietly seated herself
these articles Of furniture there were in the room
bureau. another chair. small table. on which was
The carpet had evidently been cut and fitted to
other rooms. indicating its purchase from a second
were a few cheap pictures. among them represen-
tation of saint and framed photograph Of Pete
ion of art at Police Headquarters it was
particularly ndiscreet to have it exposed to view
I'm LIS fiat one Of her patron saints.
When the officer sat down beside her she went to
the bureau and powdered her face. This feminine
observance over, she lighted a cigarette, came back
to her seat on the . sofa and said: u,.r,.
The officer beside her, whose name was Fogarty.
You're chrckin a stn blun, Liz. but 1t won't go.
We traed here. all right, and If you know
what's good for you'll put us on to him. for Wen
git him. and you might as well have the credit or It.
YOU some Gay. We've got him right this time,
when he's done told You the last time when he
nearly done that he'd do you yet. and he will as
"well that's my business" said Liz calmly, shoot
ing from her throat column ,; OF SIN smoke II don't
If had wouldn't git nothin' out o me- What do
you take me for, anyhow"
I'VE take you for mighty fly GAL said Oficer
Flynn, gently swaying in the rocking chair but you
table eoyer Us He Amt been out of this room ten min
ntes. guess Spotsy plugged him. all right and
In That's all right Wen git him just the same.
unless he's smarter n think he is So long Liz. he
I'VE don't need help from YOU All the same, the
next time we git you we won't forgit pat you would
Much difference it would make to me II you git
me. whether did or didn't" exclaimed Liz. with a
TO know you If you ever git me right I'll git all
that's comm to me. just the same"
The officers laughed jovialy, and as they left the
You're ali right Lizzie at that: game as they
do git you right and even then you'll get good run
Tor your money"
of robbers infested the West Side OF Manhat
tan Island Notwithstanding which prominence he had
check in his career had occurred about four years
previously, and was the direct OF his stabbing
Spotsy Williams. who was one OF the Ave HUMANS that
composed Petes gang Strictly speaking there were
member She bore personal relation to anyone but
Pete whose devoted slave she was making no de-
him in return for her servtude except that
he abstain from attentions. the slightest, to
other women. Any tendency on his part toward the
society ofsAuother woman she would not brook and
throughout the social circle in which she moved it
was veil understood that any lady vho made adyaDc-
es to her Pete would .git her heart cut out" And
there was iot a man or woman who frequented the
1nent doubted that X provoked thereto. Liz would
perform the indicated act OF vivsection.
About four prior to the stabbing of spotsy the
gang. including Liz, rounded up for robbing
drunken man in the back room OF Tenth Avenue
saloon. The victim OF this crime discovered by
conscious condition the sidewalk, about a block
from the saloon in question After being taken to
ton he told the captain that he had been robbed He
remembered wandering into q saloon and drinking
he was sitting At time a watch and chain
and some money exactly how much he could not say,
recalled nothing till he awoke in the station-house.
He taken to the saloon near where he was found,
which he identified by the model of ship under
glass that had impressed itself his memory,
from the coincidence that the the bow of the
model. "Sallie Owen" was the same as that Of his
married sister. Being homeless sailor. he was sent
the House OF Detention to insure his appearance
. witness. and the members of the Pete Corners
being stamped with the hallmark of their work
The sailor brought to the stationhouse and the
gang lined for Identification He failed to identify
Liz. Not being able TO prove that she was in the
saloon that night the officers who made the arrest
commended her discharge. although they told her