Evening journal., 1907-03-18

'I done him"
why. sDotsy'"
"Howgp
knitted him."
"Jist now fist got away l eot on iat ne was
around at CONS and g9es in and tells MIN dat ia
come for him, and he pulls gun ana gus me IN me 1
left arm here and while he's still shootn closes IN
on him and lets him have il about -FOUR times IN aS
back while hugs him. HeN done ior' an rlsht !
guess; and when de crowd In de Jomt gits around
him. Con lets me out de back door and gifts away
Are you much hurt Petey? -.
Nav dat don't amount TO notldn, but goa@ GIT
away; de copsll drop me here sure Dat s. dem
now you kin bet" There We're footsteps onfhe bare
stairway outside the door $50 long, az exnlaameu
Pete he climbed down the hre-escSpe JUST as N"o'
Central Office men were knocking on the doou
Liz parleyod with the officers long eiOu6h 70 allN
Pete to disappear before she opened tNe door.
The two officers plunged into the lttle DeuIo9n or
the In which LIZ was. into the Kitchen ana lhelA
TO the window and looked down the ire-escape Dut
about the squalid premises there were no Signs OF
Pete. except a few articles Of clothing hHnging on
nails IN the bedroom.
Moppue their foreheads the detectvesergeants
sat down one In a rocking-chair, the other ON a
lounge beside Liz, who had quietly seated nerBeh
during the hurried search Of the premises besloss
these articles Of furniture there were in the room
bureau another chair a small table, on which was
fancy cover soiled with stains OF beer and TWO uunAa
The carpet had evidently been cut and htted no
other rooms. indicating IT'S purchase from secolnr i
hand shop auction room Decorating the Walh
were few cheap pictures, among them repISselT
tation of a saint and a framed photograph or fete'
AS pees picture I'm several poses was IN the coec-
ton of art treasures at Police Headquarters 1t was
not particularly indscreet TO have II exposed 10 view
IN LIS nat one Of her patron saints
When the officer sat down beside her she Went To-
the bureau and powdered her face. This feminine
10 her seat the soia and said:
what do you hatties want here, anyhow
The officer beside her. whose name was nosai|
answered: r,- 49,. 4. .,o,,, 90
we trailed Pete here all risht' and II yo2 "a KNOW e
what's good for you you'll put us on to him. LOT Wen
eit him. and you might well have the creaN or u
He's good, and If you don't turn him up hel. hlii
you some day We've got him right hls Atinc'
and It's the chair for hisn, and good thing Tor You
when he's done told you the last time when ne
hearty done you that he'd do you yet and he WILL AS
sure Christmas"
well that's my business" said LIZ calmly, shoot
ing from her throat a column OF smoke. 7 aon
know where he is amt seen him for two days ana
Il had you wouldn't git nothin' out me. Mhat 90
kou take me for, anyhow
I'VE take you for mighty fly GAL said Oihcer
Flynn, gently swaying in the rocking chair nut you
amt fooin any. Look at that fresh blood on the
table cover. He amt been out OF this room ten MN
ntes. / guess Spotsy plugged him, all rlbht anu
guess he went down the hreescape about as we came
In. That's all right. Wen sit him Just the same
unless he's smmter'n think he is So long l-lz' ne
continued ne and his side partner arose TO go'
''We don't need no help from you All the same the
next time git you we won't forgit that you would
'1uch difference it would make to me II you git
me- whether / did or didnt," exclaimed LIZ with
hard laugh Il amt knowed you all these years not
TO know you. II you git me right I'll git all
that's comm to me- just the same
You're ali right Lizzie at that; game as they
make EN-, and you got nothin comm from me unless
do git you right, and even then you'll get good run
Pete Conuors was the leader Of as desperate a gang
of robbers infested the West Side or Manhat.
tan Island Notwithstanding which prominence he mad
never but once the inside OF Sing sing. lhls
check I'm his career had occurred lbout four years
previously, and the direct cause of his stahDng
Spotsy Williams, who was one OF the nVe ruihans tnaI
composed Pete's gang. Strictly speakns there were
ak Lizzie Sullivan being not the least important
member She bore no personal relation to anyone but
Pete whose devoted slave she was making no de.
mands on him In return for her servude except tha'
he abstain from attentions, even the slightest 20
other women Any tendency on his part toward inc
society Of another woman she would mol brook any
throughout the social circle in which she moved X
was we'll understood that any lady who made adVanc
es to her Pete would git her heart cut out AND
there was aot man or woman who frequented inc
baclx-rooms Of West Side saoondom who for mo
1nent doubted that, If provoked thereto, LIZ would
perform the indicated act of yvisecton.
About four years prior to the sabhng of Spotsy the
gang including Liz, were rounded up for roDhing q
drunken IN the back room of 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 the sidewalk, about bloch
from the saloon in question After being taken TO {
etationhouse and sleeping on MS apparent lntoNea
tion he told the captain that he had been robbed H
remembered wandering into saloon and drinking
with some woman who had come 10 me ,aole Whef r
ne was sitting At that time he had watch and cha
and some money, exactly how much he could not say
and after having one or two drinks with the woman
he recalled nothing TIL he awoke In the stationhousf
He was taken to the saloon near where he was toun6
which he identified by the model of a ship under
glass case that had impressed Itself on his memorl
from the coincidence that the name on the bow OF h
model "Sallie Owen" was the same that of hi
married sister. Being a homeless sailor he was SCI
70 the House Of Detention to insure his appearanc
as a witness. and the members OF the Pete conner
gang we're arrested on general principles, the cas-
being stamped with the hallmark OF their work
The sailor was brought to the stationhouse and q
gang lined up for Identification He failed tondent
Liz Not being able to prove that she was IN u
saloon that night, the officers who made the arrest
commended her discharge, although they told h'