The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26
BY JACK LONDON.
Author Of "The Call of the Wild,
"The Iron Heel" Etc.


It was Silas Bannerman who finally
ran down that scientific wizard AMI
archenemy of mankind, Emil Gluck.
Gluck's confession, before he went
to the electric-chair, threw much light
upon the series of mysterious events,
many apparently unrelated that so
/ perturbed the world between the
years 1888 and 1911. 1t was not until
! that remarkable document was made
| public that the world dreamed of
there being any connection between
| the assassination of the King and
| Queen of Portugal and the murders
of the New York City police officers.
| While the deeds of Emil Gluck were
! all that was abominable we cannot
but feel, to a certain extent, pity for
the unfortunate, malformed, and NAL
treated genius. This side of his story
has never been told before, and from
! his confession and from the great
mass OF evidence and the documents
and records of the time we are able
to construct a fairly accurate por
trait of him, and 10 discern the fac.
tors and pressures that moulded him
into the human monster he became
and that drove him onward and down
ward along the fearful path he
trod.
Emil Glucll was born in Syracuse,
New York, in 1895 His father ,Io-
sephus Gluck, was a special police
man and night-watchman, who, in the
year 1900, died suddenly of pneumo.
MIA. The mother, Il pretty. fragile
creature, who, before her marriage.
mad been a milliner, grieved herself
to death over the loss of her hus-
band. The sensitiveness of the moth
er was the heritage that in the boy
became morbid and horrible.
In 1901, the boy, Emil, then six
years, of age, went to live with his
aunt, Mrs. Ann Bartell. She was his
mothers sister, but in her breast
was no kindly feeling for the sensi-
tive, shrinking boy. Ann Bartell was
vain, shallow and heartless wom-
an, Also, she was cursed with pov.
erty and burdened with a husband
who was a lazy, erratic ne'er-do well.
Young Emil Gluck was not wanted.
and Ann Bartell could be trusted to
impress this fact sufficiently upon
him AS an illustration of the treat.
ment he received in that early. form.
ative period, the following instance
is given:
When he had been living in the |
Bartel home a little more than a
year. he broke his leg. He sustained
the injury through playing on the |
forbidden roof-as al BOYS have done |
and will continue to do to the end |
of time. The leg was broken in two |
places between the knee and thigh !
Emil. helped by his frightened play
mates, managed to drag himself to
the front sidewalk, where he tainted |
The children of the neighborhood !
were afraid of the hard-featured
shrew who presided over the Bar
tell house; but, summoning their res.
olution, they rang the bell and told
Ann Bartell of the accident. She did
not even look at the little lad who
lay stricken on the sidewalk, but
slammed the door and went back 10
her washtub. The time passed. A
drl2Zle came on, and Emil Gluck. ont
OF his faint, lay sobbing in the rain
The leg should have been set imme-
diately. AS it was, the inflammation
rose rapidly and made nasty case
of it. At the end or two hours, the
indignant women of the neighbor-
hood protested to Ann Bartell This
time she came out and looked at
the lad as he lay helpless at her
feet Also she Historically disowned !
him. He was not her child, she said
and recommended that the ambulance
be called TO take him to the city
receiving-hospital. Then she went
back into the house.
1t was woman Elizabeth Shep-
stone. who came along. learned OF
the situation, and had the boy placed |
on a shutter. 1t was she who called /
the doctor, and who, brushing aside |
Ann Bartell. had the boy carried into /
the house. When the doctor arrived, !
Ann Bartell promptly warned the doe |
tor that she would not pay him for
his services. For two months the !
little Emil lay in bed, the first
month on his back wi hout once be- !
ny 4 l.