The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

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Clarkson, green goods and three-card
monte, also ended his days in an aims
house In Philadelphia.
Patsy" Davis, three-card monte
and bunco, died recently in a charity
hospital in Boston; Shorty" Francis
and Bill Daniels. both died in Chi
cago mental, physical and financial
wrecks; Frank Aldrich. gold brick
sw.ndler, who made several fortunes
was found dead in his home in Har-
lem with a bullet hole in his near-~
his career finished by a revengeful a~
sociate.
Tom" OBrien. the most notorious
bunco man Of them all. and who un-
Questionably garnered huge sums,
killed kid" Waddell in Paris and re-
ceived life sentence to Cayenne. He
died there In misery. His body also
was fed to the sharks. 1t was the
easiest way to get rid of the bodies.
Chauncey Johnson. the bank sneak
about whose career columns have been
written and who was credited by the
police with having stolen an immense
amount of money. became the pettiest
kind OF thief; he would take door
mat. His end came on Blackwells
Island in his old age. He had burned
out his fuse.
Joe" Howe died in the North Caro-
lima State prison; Piano Charley"
Bullard, one of the big bank burglars,
perished in the dungeon of a Belgian
prison.
Joe" Parrish, a pickpoeket and
sneak. on his return from a prison
sentence found that his wife had
eloped. He bit his tongue in two and
bled to death. Charley" Miller, the
crack bunco steerer, was killed in this
city by BILLY" Tracey, the dive
keeper.
Powder Puff Frenchy." who en-
gineered the great Patti swindle In
the City Of Mexico, and by which he
realized large sum by a bogus ad.
vance sale Of opera tickets, was ar.
rested on his return to New York City
and confined in Ludlow Street Jail to
await extradition. He jumped from
the top tier and killed himself
Jimmy Burns, the bank sneak.
killed himself in Belgian prison. He
tore his jugular vein out with his
fingers.
"Hughey" Burns, the bank sneak.
returned to London after a successful
raid on the Continent, put his part In
a safe deposit under an assumed nams
and repaired to his home on the out
skirts OF London for a rest. Two hours
after greeting his wife and telling her
that he had enough in the strong box
| to protect them for the rest of their
lives she found him dead in his chair,
gazing with wide-open eyes into the
fireplace. The money he put away so
safely still awaits its owners.
"Rlinkey" Morgan was hanged In
Ohio; Hob Nailed" McGuinness was
blown to pieces by a premature ex-
| plosion while he was attempting to
! commit a burglary In the far West.
Whitley Bobs" died In the State
! prison at Colum bus, o. His body was
brought on to New York for burial
in cemetry on Long Island Some OF
his friends escorted the casket on the
| funeral train that was carrying half
dozen other bodies and their mourn.
ers. The gang picked many pockets
on the cars and threw the empty
pocketbooks into Whitey's open grave.
Handsome Harry" Metzler was
killed in Spain by brigands They
thought he was a wealthy American
and tried to rob him. He put up q
fight and was stabbed to death.
And of them all only one had an
end that was not violent or wretched
Jimmy the Loon" toiled early and
late to save the wayward in a little
mission after he had been struck BY
lightning in Michigan. He had been
one OF the most desperate, he becams
the most gentle. seorned TO the last
| by his old pals. who tried many times
| to tempt him back to the old life.