Arizona republican., 1910-01-28

the police might see them. It was bit ter cold outside. too. while within the
 rat-trap piano was belching Hforth | 'GoQdby. Grille" and Remember: Me l When I'm Far Away" and perhaps 1 Sweeney had compassion on the. s...gun | fighters" The cafe was crowded with the men and women who get up when the lights begin to twinkle and go to
 bed with the rising of the sun. And l there were others, too-the men in evening clothes and the women in evening gowns, the kind that pay to see woman smoking opium in China. ! town and want to know what New York's "Tenderloin'. is after dark, 2 To Bremo and his companions sthis was an every day sight. That was not I what they went to Sweeney's cafe for. and. gathered together In a corner, they drank in silence. Something had gone wrong on the East Side with the "gangsters." and they were in no mood for interruption. Sweeney, rpassing from one table to another. paid,littie attention to Bremo and his friends. but he warned "ChInk." his man Fri day. to look out flor them. for in the "Tenderloin" 1t is bad manners to
  watch the customers drink
 It was not long after that fwhen trouble began, and 1t became soslively that 1t seemed at length as ifs the "Tenderloin" had walked up and was trying to regain the iaureis which were lost when Captain "BiI1" Hod- gins "cleaned up few years ago
 With volley of oaths voice. iden. tified as Bremo's, rang through the cafe T won't pay two bits for drink!' he shouted. and then there was duh. soft thud. and waiter hit the floor and lay still. Bedlam there upon broke loose. "Chink." true to his employer. was standing over the un- conscious waiter in a second, but yielding blackjack with telling cf- feet No one knew who was who. but hit at everything in sight. Sweeney on his way to the fight was inter cepted by one of the "gangsters" and laid low. He shouted for 'Chink." and ! the faithful "Chink." with wedge ] of walters. went to his assistance.
 The screams of the women mingled 1 with the curses of the fighters as the "gangsters." cornered. fought as only | East Side "gangsters' can fight.
 Lock the doors," said Sweeney. 1 'and let no one in nor out"
 Please let me go." cried a girl in ! her teens, while her companion, in 1 evening clothes. crouched in a corner. | If am arrested they will Know about 1 it at home. and my mother"- .s
 But the doorman was obdurate and | her tears were in vain. Meantime the | fight was going on fierceiy and Swee- ney pushed again into the fray. A | moment later he staggered out clutch ! ing his side and tho blood-covered | knife in the hands of one of the | 'gangsters' told the tale.
 Then the fury of "Chink'' and the | walters knew no bounds. and one by | one the 'gangsters' sank to the floor. Only one remained. youth of about | nineteen.
 Let him got" shouted several of the women. but in vain. He, too, struck the floor and lay quiet. .,
 Some, one in the meantime had teie- phoned police headbuarters that mur- | der was being committed and the re- serves of the West ssoth, street station arrived on the srunse There was little to do. Two, of tlrrs> "sangstersst had whi(ts Sweeney had been rushed to Bellevue hospital by friend named Co4eiio. There heswas