The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-05
I'LL Be SIAM
HE SAYS, IF NOT
I PUT IN PRISON
Louis Poggi, Who Killed Kid
! Twist and Cyclone Lewis,
Asks for Sentence.
GANG SEEKS REVENGE.
Followers of Slain Men Have
Sworn to Murder Poggi
if Acquitted.
GANG SEEKS REVENGE.

Louis Poggi, the nineteen-year-old boy
who killed Kid" Twist and Cyclone"
Lewis, gangmen. on the Coney Island
Bowery last May, declared to Justice
scudder In the Criminal Branch OF the
Supreme Court, Brooklyn. to-day that
n he was tried and acquitted of the two
kiillngs-as he knew he would be-the
eny he was turned out of court he would
be slain.
Therefore he urged that the Court
accept a plea Of manslauShter and send
him to Jail as the only place he could
be safe from the pals of kid Twist
end Cyclone Lewis, who had taken an
oath to avenge their deaths.
Justi,c Scudder accepted the plea of
Granddaughter and the youth was re-
handed until Wednesday for sentence.
His counsel. John s. Bennett, gave the
Court a remarkable account of the
Vendetta that had been mapped out for
foggi.
Were Cunning for Him.
There is no doubt said Attorney
Bennett. that my client is innocent of
snv crime and that he would surely be
ncqultted If tried. When he Went down
20 Coney Island on that night of May
IL Kid Twist and Cyclone Lewis
were out cunning for him. He got into
a place. or rather was lured into a place
there he saw that guns were being
passed around.
He managed to get to the doorway
OF the place and have his gun out, and
when the shooting began he shot purely
In self-defense. though with deadly
aim. He killed two men who would
have killed him and accidentally
wounded young woman--carroll Terry.
However. if my client were turned
OF. 1t would mean certain and swift
death for him. He would be murdered
Lefo.e he was out II jail twenty-four
hours.
hen the men he killed lay in their
Collins $50 of their pals and followers
took an oath TO kill Louis Poggi. Thew
swore that they would kill him II they
had to trail him across the continent.
They swore that IL they could GET
their hands on him they would take
yum 10 some secret place and kill him
BY inches
Safe Only in Prison.
There is no doubt about this. so
mat the only way TO save this boys
Hte VIII be TO send him to jail. [ viii
sWsest Elnhra Reformatory where ne
may remain four years or so. Then. by
sne Time be Is released, mis- enemies
ray nave forgotten their oaths, or he
.,ss pc able 10 slip quietly away TO
a. a. fr pace mnere he can be safely hid
~ me police regard the killing Of kid"
iWlst more In the light Of a public
herNice than crime He was regarded
the worst type of bad man that
HcW York has ever produced Monk
EASTMAN and Paul Kelly are classed
~ mlll-manncred toughs compared
WITH kid Twist. He was arrested
many times tor homicide but always
E,alaged to clear himself with an
Twist had the name Of a terror with
. gun along the Bowery, and was held
IN high regard as a bad man" in the
Cherry Hill section. He would go
around the east side bullying every
body, wrecking saloons and stores and
forcing all the storekeepers to lay in a
stock OF tonic he was interested in
II the storekeepers didn't buy this tonic
Twist would send his gang around to
wreck the place.
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