The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-10-19

ing Killed. A chauffeur in an
other machine happened to get in
the line of fire just when the battle
was beginning, and he nearly lost
his life. The only way he escaped
was by sliding down to the bottom
of the car and doing some trick
steering to get out of the zone of
danger. Before the echo of the last
shot had died away Broadway and
SeVenty-Second street were jammed
with automobiles and the atmos-
phere was thick with the smoke of
gasoline and powder The police
men in the neighborhood got pock-
eted and could not get close enough
to the duelists to arrest them.
Not long ago, one afternoon when
broadway was crowded, a gambler
stood in front of the best known
of New York theatres and engaged
in a pistol duel with another whom
he claimed had wronged him. The
aggressOr was the poorer marksman,
and was filled with lead Half an
hour later the sidewalk had been
scrubbed up and was dry and dusty
again, and the suTging crowds gave
as little comment to the ARRAY as
the border men used to when a man
was killed over a game of cards in
Abilene or Dodge or any other of
those roaring cities of the COW coun-
try of a quarter of a century ago.
Rivals Wild Bill Hickock.
One of the most daring deeds in
the history of the metropolis was
that performed by Myles Mcdonald
He walked into a saloon where he
knew lot of his enemies were wait
iES to kill him, He drew his pistol
without batting an eye and answer
ed shot for shot The doctors of
the Harlem hospital were busy for
several days thereafter attending to
the dead and wounded. Mcdonnell
killed two and seriously injured
three or four others. He got off
without a scratch.
Nothing in the career of Wild Bill
Hickok and the Younger brothers
or Billy the Kid can surpass Melon
nelrs achievement in cool daring.
1t is all the more remarkable be-
cause the western cowman of the
old days depended upon his revolver
and upon his craftsmanship for most
of his meals while he was in the sad
die. The only practice the New York
gun fighter ever gets except when
he is out for blood is in some shoot
ing gallery; but the New York gun
tighter rarely if ever goes to a shoot
ing gallery. Yet men like McDon-
nell are as cool and collected in the
face of danger as any desperate or
deputy sheriff that ever rode the
western plain or stalked through the
pages of historic fiction.
Clearing House for Crime.
New York today has the greatest
clearing house for thieves in the
world 1t is there that congrfegate
the transatlantic robbers, men who
work the ocean greyhounds. After
each round trip they meet at this
rendezvous and divide their sopils.
There also assemble the master
thieves, the bi robbers, the clever
men who steal by brains as we'll as
by force. They are the safeblowers,
the crack second-story men, the
cleyereSt of forgeTs who steal with
pen and ink, the kings and PRINCES
of wireless overlapping and gold
brick industry, the big swindlers in
fake mining schemes. The leaders
of the great criminals Of the United
States gather there and plan their
campaigns with the same care and
astuteness that the bankers and
stock gamblers of Wall street use
when they confer together as to how
they can best mass their millions
to depress or raise the price of one
stock or another This place on
Broadway is conducted by two men
of criminal records. Back of them,
hidden in obscurity, are some of
the most powerful men in New York