The evening world., 1910-12-31
Girl Pal of Wandlass, Awaiting
Sentence, Hears TidingS
Without a Tremor.
FASCINATED BY CRIME.
Precious Youth and Chicken
Stall Studies for
Psychologists.

Dec. > MS lie was breaking into the
nome Of Thomas Tapley, a Passalc
contractor. lie died las night In 81.
-hary's Hospital. Passaic, from blood
poisoning. The wound was no. deem
and at FIRST did not seem dangerous.
Sepoels developed suddenly and the
mans vocal chords became paralyzed.
consequently the police could not draw
y word from him concerning his amaz-
ing career.
Inomas Wandlass, alias XII How
ard, alias Thomas Hanley, preferred
INC underworld to a luxurious home
and the tender illustrations OF a fontl
mother. He developed from a sort of
angel child" into as desperate a yourg
criminal as there is any record OF.
After serving terms in half a. dozen
prisons he emerged as daring a robber
as ever. and was engaged in a batting
series OF burglarles with n pretty young
girl accomplice when he got his mortal
hurt.
Girl P-l Await; Sentence.
rhe girl. Jean Mitchell. seventeen
sears DID. who called herself his
''chlckea stair and assisted him IN
twenty-five burglaries, pleaded guilty In
the County Cou at Paterson YESTERDAY
and Will be sentenced next Friday. She
was serving as lookout" whom Wand
lass was shot and made a desperate
EFFORT TO hide the wounded burglar from
the police.
Wsndlass wa about thirty years old.
Ills mother. Mrs. Augustus +. Berner,
at No. COS Cumberland street. Brooklyn.
a.. .~-.. -.
Her first husband. Wandlass. vas a
,rotel proprietor and we'll TO do. lie left
q comfortable fortune. and when he
died his son, Tom. was a model
y%oungster, seemingly. and a great
fayoritc In the Bushvick Avenue Bap-
list Church. Brooklyn lie was preco-
clous ard high strung. lie had a vlvil
l. nagiDation. While still in knlcker-
backers he met n young criminal who
hllcl his. mind, with thrilling, stories Of
the underworld.
Mrs. .Berner does not NOW at Just
what period her son was transformed
into q bad man." He ran away from
a boarding school when he was about
seventeen years old. and the first his
mother heard from him was that he
was the companion OF thieves. He was
never quite what might be called a
Raffles. except that he dressed well and
committed many OF his burslaries while
clad In evening clothes.
Fascinated by the Danger.
The police called him a supper
worker and a dress suit burglar" lie
called himself a white front" burglar.
which implied the dress suit, While he
did not invent supper working" he
improved on 1t. Furthermore, accord
r. " 49,. .HA1 - go.
by the danger OF turning a slough"
(Which means to rob, In a house while
there were many persons about. Often
he would stop to listen to the dinner
chatter before making his escape.
lie generally selected a dark or dlmly
lighted parlor, noiselessly jimmied the
window and climbed In. During the
months that the young girl worked with
him. he relied upon her 10 help him out
OF a tight place by "sp.lllng a faint" az
sAe called II. ani drawing a crowd
while ne made his escape.
This pretty child became absolutely
hardened TO the business OF burglary
while she was the companion of Wind-
less. She learned to speak thieves lin
20 with amazing Rlibness. She did not
know fear. She did not Finch In crises
that were highly melodramatic. 4 sim
PIE, fnrm-reared cAild. with her hair In
IL Moi NneU SUE tuNtltuTti to boStbVt
within a year she had become as an ac-
complished a little "villainess' as the
mind of a Harrison Aln worth could
conceive.
Hst Other "ChicHen Stalls"
But she was not the only young girl
who had worked with Tom Windlass.
lie had had q train OF Chicken stalls"
None, he admitted to Jean Mitchell.
was up to her class" None had her
nerve, her good looks. her genius as an
actress. She could look "A 'lady's part"
which was OF supreme Importance.
And all the while he had a wife n
child living. While serving a seven year
term IN the Charlestown Prison he mar
r!ed Maize Coyle, who was at one ,inc
known as the Belle OF Monroe stree"
He Joined Maizie Coyle Wandlass after
he got out Of prison and went to live
with her on Long Island, He made an
other OF his many promises to his
mother that he would reform. But after
a mont OF the simple life" he and his
wife parted,
He could not resist the lure OF the
cracksman's trade. lie could have had
ample funds from his mother had he re-
NAMED honest. But he preferred the
danger. the risks, the h~airoreadth es-
capes.
When Informed Of her pals death
tO-uay jean .hllNlicll ItNNdith ~ as
founding stoicism OF her character. She
did not blanch or permit so much as a
tremor to shake her little body, Her
light hazel eyes did not dim with the
suggestion OF a tear, All she said was:
II expected It. ] guess he's better of
at that"
A little while afterward. however. a
turnkey noticed that she was being
shaken by an agony of dry sobs, The
girl Ia undoubtedly abnormal In her
Spartan self-control, but underneath 1t
all there IL the woman.
Wandless's mother to-day claimed his
body. She told County Physician Arm
strong and the hospital authorities that
she had seen her son only four times
in the last ten years, the last time be-
ing when he lay dying on a cot in the
hospital, She gave orders to have the
body prepared for burial and sent to
her Brooklyn home.