The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-27
The Enemy of all the World

and one night he gave Gluck beat
ing. 1t was a very severe beating,
} for it is on the records of the Red
Cross Emergency Hospital that Gluck
was treated there that night and
was unable to leave the hospital for
a week
Still Gluck did not understand. He
continued TO seek an explanation
from the girl. In fear of Sherbourne,
! he applied to the chief of police for
permission to carry a revolver, which
permission was refused. the news
papers as usual playing it up sen
sationally. Then came the murder
of Irene TaCkley. six days before
| her contemplated marriage with
! Sherbourne. 1t was on a Saturday
night She had worKed late in the
candy store, departing after eleven
o'clock with her week $ wages in
her purse. She rode on a San Pablo
avenue surface car to Thirty-fourth
street, where she alighted and start
ed to walk three blocks to her home
That was the last seen of her alive
Next morning she was found stran-
gled, in vacant lot
Emil Gluck was Immediately ar.
rested. Nothing that he could do
would save him. He was convicted,
not merely on circumstantial evi-
dence, but on evidence cooked up"
by the Oakland police There is no
discussion that a large portion OF
the evidence was manufactured. The
testimony of Captain Shehan was
the sheeerst perjury 1t being proved
long afterward that on the night
in question he had not only not been
I'm the vicinity of the murder, but
that he had been out of the city in Z
resort on the San Leandro road. The
unfortunate GluclI received life i'm
prisonment in San Quentin, while the
newspapers and and the public held
that ii was miscarriage of Justice
that the death penalty should have
been visited upon him.
Gluck entered San Quentin prison
on April II, 1929 He was then thirty
four years of age. And for three
wears and half, much of the time
i'm solitary confinement, he was left
to mediate upon the injustice OF
man. If was during that time that
his bitterness corroded him and he
became a hater of all his kind. Three
other things he did during the same
period: he wrote his very famous
treatise. Human Morals" his re
markable brochure, The Criminal
Sane and he worked out his awful
and monstrous scheme of revenge It
was an episode that had occurred in
his eleCtro-plating establishment thai
suggested to him hss unique weapon
of revenge. AS stated in his con.
fession, he worked every detail out
theoretically during his imprison,
ment. and was able, on his release.
Immediately to embark on his career
of vengeance.
His release was sensational Also il |
was miserably and criminally delay |
ed by the soulless legal red tape then
in vogue. On the night of February
l. 1882, Tim Haswell, a holdup man.,
was shot during an attempted rob !
berry by a certain citizen of Piedmont
Heights. Tim Haswell fingered three
days, during which time he not only
confessed to the murder of Irene
Tackley. but furnished conclusive
proofs of the same. Bert Danniker,
a convict dying of consumption in
Folsom Prison, was implicated as
accessory, and his confession follow
ed. 1t is inconceiyable to US of to-
day-the bUngling, dilatory processes
of justice a generation ago. Emil
Gluck was proved in February to be |
an innocent man, yet he was not !
released until the following October |
For eight months, a greatly wronged !
man, he was compelled to undergo |.
his unmerited punishment This was
not conducive to sweetness and light, |
and we can well imagine how he ate
his soul with bitterness during those
dreary eight months.
He came back to the world in the |
fall OF 1892, as usual a feature" top |
ic in all the newspapers. The news |
papers, instead of expressing heart |
felt regret, continued their old sen
sational persecution. one paper, the |
San Francisco Intelllgencer. did more. |
John Hartwell, its editor, elaborated |
an ingenious theory tnat got around |
the confessions of the two criminals. |
and tried to show that luck was, af- |
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