The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-27

! ter all, responsible for the murder
of Irene Tackley. Hartwell died. And
Sherbourne died, too, while Police
man Phillips was shot in the leg and
discharged from the Oakland police
! force
rhe murder of Hartwel was long
a mystery. He was alone in his edi-
tOrial office at the time. The reports
OF the revolver were heard by IN"
office boy, who rushed in to find
Ilartwell expiring in his chair. What
puzzled the police was the fact, not
merely that he had been shot with
his own revolver, but that the revol-
yer had been exploded in the drawer
OF his desk The bullets had torn
through the front of the drawer and
entered his body. The police secuted
the theory of suicide, murder was
dismissed as absurd, and the blame
was thrown on the Eureka Smoke
less Cartridge Company. Spontano-
Gus explosion was the police eXpla.
nation, and the chemists of the cart
ridge company were bullied at the
inquest. But what the police did not
know was that across the street, in
the Mercer building, room S33, rent
ed by Emil Gluck, had been occupied
by Emil Glucll al the very moment
liartwells revolver so mysterously
exploded
At the time, no connection wa
made between Hartwel's death and
the death of William Sherbourne
SherbOurne had continued TO live in
the home he had built for Irene Tack
ley, and one morning in January,
1888, he was found dead Suicide
was the verdict of the coroner's in
quest, for he had been shot by his
own revolver. The curious thing
that happened that night was the |
shooting of Policeman Phillip on the |
sidewalk in front of Sherbournes |
house. The policeman crawled to a |
police telephone on the corner and !
rang up for an ambulance. He claimed |
that some one had shot him from /
behind in the leg. The leg in ques- |
tion was so badly shattered by |
three .3S bullets, that amputatou
was necessary. But when the police |
discovered that the damage had been !
done by his own revolver, great !
langh went up, and he was charged !
with having been drunk In spite
of his denial of having touched
drop and of his persistent assertion
that the revolver had been in his
hip pocket, and that ne had not laid
finger to it, he was discharged from
the force Emil Gluck's confession,
six years later cleared the unfor- |
tunate policeman Of disgrace. and he
is alive today and in good health, |
the recipient of a pension from the |
city.
Emil Gluck, having disposed of !
his immediate enemies, now sought |
a wider field, though his enmity |
for newspapermen ana for the police
remained always active. The royalties !
on his ignition device for gasoline
engines had mounted up while he lay
in prison, and year by year the /
earning power of his invention in
to travel wherever he willed over
the earth, and to glut his monstrous .
appetite for revenge. He had become .
a monomaniac and an anarchist /
not philosophic anarchist, merely, |
but a violent anarchist. Perhaps the .
word is misused, and he is better /
described as nihilist, or an annihi-
list. 1t is known that he affiliated /
with none Of the groups of terror .
lists. He operated wholly alone, but !
he created a thousanGfold more ter /
ror and achieved thousandfold more
destruction than all the terrorist .
groups added together
lie signalized his departure from
California by blowing up Fort Ma
son. In his confession he spoke OF
it as a little experiment; he was
merely trying his hand. For eight
years he wandered over the earth: a
terror, destroying prop
erty to the tune OF hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, nd destroying count