The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-11-28

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Richard Harding Davis gives pen picture
OF the New York gunner in an article comparing
the murdered in the old fashioned days with the
modern slayer Of men He says: st.
In the old.fashioned days when I was a po-
lice reporter murder was an adventure that
not entered into without precaution and hesitancy
Then the man who contemplated murder, and the
hanging to which in those days it frequently led,
went about it only after some thought and prep
aration. ,,yuy
III he proposed to shoot man in New York.
he first journeyed to Boston to purchase revol
yer and he let his beard To get the cartridge
he travelled to Baltimore, and be went there
smooth shaven. Before the act he arranged an
elaborate albi he removed evidence that would
suggest motive by methods that would not be
tracked back to himself; he fured his victim to
vacant lot empt fat. Or, after many
months, he destroyed him with ground glass in
his coffee or from the safe distance Of San Fran
cisco sent him poisoned marshmallows. Those were
the days that made Sherlock Holmes necessary.
Murder then was fine art, mystery. over 1t
lowered the shadow Of the gallows. ~ O.,
1.-THE gunner have changed all that. OF muir
der they have made sport like the ypotting OF
rabbits profession, which with a slight profit
combines just enough danger to make it.exciting,
like the profession of the steeple jack the par
achute Jumper.
Their view Of murder is joyous. inconsequent
they take life with the same boyish abandon as
that with which you throw boot at a cat the
back fence. You do not ask the name of the cat
Whitley Lewis and Lefty Louie did not know the
they invited to kill. Who they asked,
is Herman Rosenthal? All right they exclaimed,
wen go tonight 1t was though Rose had in
vted them to take taxicab along Riverside Drive
to see the warships.
And the gunner robbed murder Of its
grimness, they made of the murder thing. of
beauty. He is WbitechapeI bully, or rat of an
apache, collarless unshaven, unclean, crouching in
a dark alley to leap upon his victim The New
York gunman is dandy an exquisite, scented
wearing silk socks, silk ties to his tan shoes
with rings on his well kept fingers and a gold
watch in his well pressed clothes. Jack Selg was
daily patron of a manicure parlor; Gyp the
Blood Lefty Louie all of the gangsters, were reg
ular members Of the Order of the Turkish Bath
If the murder of Herman Rosenthal brought about
other good 1t served to force into the lime
light these Morlocks of the lower world 1t con
WINGED an incredulous public of the real existenc,
of these armed degenerates. 1t established the fac
that in New York City the price of the life o
any man, at union rates is 5000.
Five minutes later a gray touring car stop
ped opposite the Metropo'e and from 1t youni
men leaped into the street. One of them entered
the restaurant and returned with Herman Rosen
thai. The younv man raised his finger to hi
hat brm. For the gunner who had had to. VIII,
is this Herman Rosenthal?' the signal was needle,
But that was all they needed.
above them the steps, between two ba
trees, with all the lights of Broadway in his eye
was man unknown to them but man they ha
been ordered to kill.
And obedently, joyousy, they closed in
showed their guns in his face and fired
"As he lay OF the sidewalk with one eye star
/ ing up CLASSIFY at the sputterng electric ligh
globes, the night birds of the pavement the pal
rons of the restaurant, all the unnamed accom-
| plices in that great conspiracy, stood in a rim
! around the body, and moved to cover it
| Instead one man laughed mockngly Well h
got his he said.
1T was the voice and verdict of the Tende
foin.
| And, in chorus the unclean crew aughe
with him.
| In the twisted shape at their feet they sa
only the dead body of Herman Rosenthal, gan
bier who had squealed on the police, and froi
whom the police had demanded the price"
The foregoing is the story OF the worst Grim
OF the century and all good citizens are rejoicn
that the gunner after all, are not supreme eve
where the police untrue to their trust q
in New York City.-ogde9 STANDARD.
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We would not have you TO understand That "
are expecting John A. to pay for those ''puffs
we have given him recently. We have entere
no charge on our books, and he will not be put
the necessity OF repudiatng them in the court,
They gratis.
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Andrew Carnegie swears he owes $4,000
but ne still is able to get meal ticket withol
having some one stand for him.
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Furthermore, the big girl with the baby star
doaan't necasaarilx h.,lnnsz-