Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-17

n Why, spotsy?"
"How2"
knitted him."
"When2"
"Jst now. fist got away. got on dat he was
around at Cons, and goes in and tells him dat I'd
come for him, and he pulls gun and gifts me in me
on him and let's him have It about four times in de
back while hugs him He's done for, all right
guess; and when de crowd in de joint gifts around
him, Con lets me out de back door and gifts away"
Are you much hurt, Petey?"
Nav, dat don't amount to nothn', but gotta git
away; de copsu drop on me here sure. OATS dem
now, you kin bet" There footsteps the bare
stairway outside the door so long, Liz" exclaimed
Pete as he climbed down the fre-escape Just two
Central Office men were knocking on the door
Liz parleyed with the officers long enough to allow
Pete to disappear before she. opened the door,
The two officers plunged into the little bedroom Off
the room In which Liz was into the kitchen and then
to the window and looked down the fre-escape, but
about the squalid premises there were no signs Of
Pete, except a few articles Of clothing hanging on
nails in the bedroom.
Mopping their foreheads. the acknowledgements
sat down. in a rocking-chair, the other
lounge beside Liz, who had quietly seated herself
during the hurried search of the premises. Besides
these articles Of furniture there were in the room
bureau, another chair small table, ON which
fancy soiled with stains of beer and two trunks
The carpet had evidently been cut and fitted to
other rooms, indicating it's purchase from second
hand shop or auction room. Decorating the walls
were few cheap pictures, among them represen-
tation of a saint and framed photograph of Pete
AS Petes picture in several poses was In the colec
tion of art treasures at Police Headquarters, it
ind1Screet have IT exposed view
in Liz's fiat as 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 cigarette, came back
to her seat on the sofa, and said:
What do you fattes want here anyhow"
The officer beside her, whose name was Fogarty,
answered:
You're chuckin' a stiff bluff, Liz. but it won't go.
We traied Pete here, all right, and If you know
what's good for you you'll put us on to him, for well
git him, and you might well have the credit of 1t.
He's good and if you don't turn him up he'll kill
you some day. We've got him right this time,
and it's the chair for hisn, and good thing for
when he's done. told you the last time when he
nearly done you that he'd do you yet and he will as
sure as Christmas"
"well that's my business" said Liz, calmly shoot
Ing from her throat column of smoke. Il don't
know where he is. amt seen him for two days, and
If had you wouldn't git nothin out o me- What do
you take me for, anyhow"
I'VE take you for mighty fly gal" said Officer
Flynn gently swaying in the rocking chair, "but you
amt fooin' any. Look at that fresh blood the
fable cover He aint been out of this room min
utes. guess Spotsy plugged him. all right, and 1
guess he went down the ire-escape about as we came
in. That's all right. We'll git him just the same,
unless he's smarter'n think he is. So long, Liz he
continued, he and his side partner arose to go.
eve don't need no help from you. All the same. the
next time we git you we won't 1orglt that you would
not give us none.
"Much difference 1t would make to if you git
me- whether did, or didn't" exclaimed Liz with
hard laugh, II amt knowed you all these years not
to know you. If you git me right I'll git all
that's comm to me- just the same"
The officers laughed jovially, and as they left the
you're ali right Lizzie, at that game they
make 'em, and you got nothn' comm from me unless
do git you right, and even then you'll get good run
Pete Connors was the leader of as desperate gang
of robbers as ever infested the West Side of Manhat-
tan Island Notwithstanding which prominence he had
never but once the inside of Sing Sing. This
check in his career had occurred about four years
previously and the direct cause OF his stabhing
Spotsy Williams, who was one OF the five ruffans that
composed Pete's gang. Strictly speaking there were
six Lizzie Sullivan being not the least important
Pete whose devoted slave she was making no de-
1nands on him in return for her servude except that
ne abstain from attentions even the slightest to
other women. Any tendency on his part toward the
society Of another woman she would not brook, and
throughout the social circle In which she moved 1t
was well understood that any lady who made adyanc-
es to her Pete would git her heart cut out. And
there was aot man or woman who frequented the
backrooms of West Side saloondom who, for mo-
ment doubted that, If provoked thereto, Liz would
perform the indicated act OF viviseetion.
About years prior to the stabbing OF Sposy the
gang including Liz rounded up for robbng a
drunken man in the back room OF a Tenth Avenue
saloon The victim of this crime was discovered by
the police at an early hour in the morning in an un-
conscious condition on the sidewalk, about block
from the saloon In question. AIter being taken 10 a
station-house and sleeping off his apparent ntoxica-
tion he told the captain that he had been robbed He
remembered wandering into a saloon and drinking
with some woman who had come to the table where
me was sitting At that time he had watch and chain
and some money, exactly how much he could not say,
and after having or two drinks with the woman,
he recalled nothing till he awoke in the staonhouse.
Te was taken to the saloon where he was found
which he identified by the model OF ship under
glass case that had impressed itself on his memory
from the coincidence that the on the bow OF the
model "Sallie owen" was the same as that OF his
married sister, Being homeless sailor he was sent
to the House of Detention to insure his appearance
as Witness and the members of the Pete Conners
gang were arrested on general principles, the case
being stamped with the hallmark OF ther WORK.
The sailor was brought to the stationhouse ana the
gang lined up for Identification. He failed to Identity
liz Not being able TO prove that she was in the
saloon that night the officers who made the arrest re-
commended her discharge, although they told her