The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1912-10-10


u well that for a second he was
~ s,enped forward, took hurried
IN II i a me- and. grabbing Hunemaan
80 Az arm dragged him away, say
inr: s.Killed him dead Right be-
tween tho eyes Let's get away from
tbis before the coppers come.
~ Tbav ran away into the dark. lay
An ~ sor Eve minutes. Then picked
s ssli., ~ ~ brushed my clothes and
Went back to my hotel.
Cluffer and Hunemann ran straight
down t. the Jersey Central freight
yarde and caught through freight
for philadelphia. 1t was three days
lstar that | heard from my partner.
TIig communication was by telegram,
and IL read: 1--WE got the bird Gagged.
Rutgers lodging house, corner Penn
and Riddle streets. Get stenogra-
nhars with dictagraph from Office.
"Cluffer"
One fine morning few days later
| found myself with two stenographers
from the Office in Rutgers cheap
lodging house in Philadelphia, occupy
ing rooms il. each side Of the one oc-
cupiod by Clutter and Hunemann. Our
dictagraphs enabled us to hear every
word that was being said by the pair.
Iere is the salient part OF the dicta-
graph testimony as it now appears in
! fine records of our agency:
| Clutter Eyes, I've got to quit you.
/ I'm afraid to stay with you any long
er. You've got too much on me.
1 You've got me- You might squeal
about that job up in Jersey City. I'm
going to quit you"
Hunemann-Z"Don't. I'm a good pal,
amt IT.
Cluffer-"Yo You're no pal at all. You
let me do the job-and you could turn
i me over to the police any time you
want to and go clear yourself, be-
cause there isn't anything against YOU"
Hunemann-"H do you know?"
Clutter" You've got hold on me,
and I've got no hold on you. Good
bye"
Hunemann-"W Wait minute, pal
I done a job once, too. You know
that Bauder case? bumped that kid
off. Honest, l did l asked him to let
me see his bank. He showed me the
fifty dollars in it. needed fifty to
give a girl I was stuck on. put my
hand On his mouth so he couldn't hol-
Ter, and then I grabbed him by the
throat and pretty soon he was dead.
Honest"
Cluffer (Laughing)-"Oh, you dub!
D'you think you can bunk me? You
haven't got nerve enough to kill a
flea"
Hunemann-"I' show you. Here:
I'll take you and show you where I
hid the bank. Now will you believe
I'm in as deep as you are? Now am
a good pal? VIII you stick with me
now?"
Clutter "You show me the bank
and we'll see about it."
arrested both Clutter and Hume
mann few evenings later when
Hunemann was proudly showing his
pal" where he had hidden the Bau-
der boys bank in the soft black dirt
behind Bauder's flower houses.
Clutter was, of course released
just as soon as Hunemann was in jail
You have read, if you read the papers,
how Hunemann broke down and con-
fessed of his own volition to the dis
trict attorney, how he was sent to the
electric chair, and how the autopsy
showed his brain to belong to the
lowest criminal type of degenerates.
Clutter and We're back in New York
working on another case long before
the trial came to an end.
I'm glad we didn't have to go on
the witness stand" said Clutter. "He
was dog all right but-he certainly
did believe that l was his friend"
And I said, Next time you shoot
me, don't you aim SO blame close to
my heRd. I can hear those wads
whizzing past my head in my sleep.