The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-07
New York Press.)

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BY a curious coincidence four men
for whom the police had been making
a long and nationwide search were
trapped and caught the same day last
month in precisely the same manner.
All of these men had dropped tut of
sight as IL the earth had swallowed
sion of their crimes. Innumerable
false clews were followed. Finally the
detectives, who had been patiently
working on the basis of the old French
recipe for finding criminals-"seek the
woman"-were rewarded. They found
the woman in each case followed her
and at the end of the road found the
men they were after. Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards. members Of the out
sic at Hillsville courthouse. in Vir-
ginia, last April, and "Gyp the Blood"
and Lefty Louie" who are accused Of
killing Rosenthal in front Of the Met
ropole hotel in this city last July,
might still be at liberty if the women
they were fond of had not been the
innocent means of revealing their hid
ing places.
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards
were arrested in Des Moincs. Iowa.
where Edwards was working on a
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as a carpenter. No one had suspected
their identity and they might have
continued earning an honest living in
obscurity If a woman had not inter-
vened. The girl was Wesley Edwards
sweetheart, Maud Iroier, Of Mt. Airy,
n. c. The detectives knew that she
was in love with Edwards and had
Swallowed her almost from the day
that the murder was committed and
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They felt sure that sooner or later Ed
wards would try to communicate with
her and that she would go to him. 1t
took nearly five months of patient
watching before the expected happen
ed.
The detectives do not know how
Maud Iroler got the news that Wesley
Edwards was in Des Moines. but
day they saw this eighteen-year-old
watched her buy her ticket to Des
Moines and quietly followed her
aboard the train. Apparently she did
not suspect that she was being watch
ed. Arriving in Des Moines, she went
straight to the house where she ex-
pected to meet her fiance. She enter
ed the door and the detective follow
ed. Almost at once Sidna Allen ap-
peared at the top of the stairs. Under
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his hands went slowly up. A few
minutes later Edwards was arrested in
a street car on the way to the house to
the girl.
1t turned out that Edwards and AL
len had travelled leisurely through the
mountain country Of Virginia and
North Carolina. despite the hue and
cry Of the scores of men in pursuit.
Their first stop was in Louisville. KY,
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Then they took train to st. Louis,
making no attempt at conceaiment or
disguise. They remained a week in
st. Louis and saw their pictures in the
newspapers nearly every day. No one
them. Then they went to
Des MOines and decided to settle there
until their crime should be forgotten.
The travels of "Gwp the Blood" and
Lefty Louie" were not so extensive,
though they journeyed about at their
ease without making any attempt at
Edwards, the police looked for them
all over the United States. in almost
every place but the right one. They
were even reported to be in Europe,
when, as a matter of fact. they were
living unostcntatiously with their
wives in the Borough Of Queens, only
a few minutes from the police head
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however. the wives Of the two men
to be perfectly aware that they
themselves We're being shadowed.
They are both young women and took
a girlish delight in lodging from street
cars to taxicabs and foiling the de-.
Again and again the trail
was lost and recovered. Finally 1t
ended and the two men we're arrested,
Nine times out Of ten this is the
story OF every criminal when he is
finally cvertaken by the law. There is
always SOM one. generally a woman.
whom he is sure to get into communi.
cation with sooner or later. It may
be a wife. 1t may be a sweetheart. In
rare instances It Is q mother or a sis.