The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-24
THE CANISTER
and HIS GIRL

pune: The story of the gangster and
his girl deals altogether with young
people from the late teens to 80. Gang
STEERS do not last into middle life;
they are something else before they
reach that age. either professional
CRIMINALS between Jail sentences, or,
saturated with filth Of bad living, sink
IN the human stream and become part
oL the slime at the bottom-or else
turn to making an honest living before
1t is too late.
why do gangsters get such Swell
glr1s! The average facial beauty.
among gunner Is not remarkably,
hlsh, and besides, the homeliest gang
ster may have the prettiest Of girls.
Inc gangster may be even as common
pace appearing as a foreign nobleman,
YET tnere Is something about him that
appeals to many an heiress to a
wealth Of beauty. There Is something
fascinating In a gangster's title to prow-
ess n daring. To the girl he is
something Of a hero. She feels a
strange excitement of trepidation and
elatlon when she carries her hero's
gun Tor him in her muff Or handbag.
Inc adventurous dangers he faces
from enemies or police give the girl
an opportunity for a display of her
courage and loyalty, give her a chance
to get out of the hundrum of life
!hto an atmosphere in which the hum
IS or excitement and the drum the loud
humping or her W heart. The
often. has q big bunch Of
money lat least. 1t seems that to herr,
and when he does he spends it with
Ioroly abandon on the girl Of his
choice. The gangster's girl ia the oh
Ject or more than passing notice from
me other girls; her clothes are photo
raphe to the last detail of the
trlnge on the end Of her pendent SASH,
oy the time exposures of lingering
!ooks from the other girls. There is
lH~-concealed envy in most of the
chances and cold scorn in some-but it
Is better to be sneercd at than ig-
nored.
The Reason She Marries.
but why does the girl marry the
sahsster! She often does. She knows,
as nearly as anyone knows who plavs
the marriage market On a margin
Wnat she may come to. The trouble is
she loves the man. She is not differ
n enough from other young women
TO withhold her love merely because
the mar doesn't deserve it; and of
course, II a woman loves a man to the
utmost limit she will go for him, and
go as though it were no further than
the length Of a hobble skirt stem for
her love wears seven-league boots. So
the gangster and his girl often marry.
ana In the same proportion of
cases as in other circles the wife
makes the %gangster a better man.
rake the case of Tessie Harris. She
was porn in New York sixteen years
aso last May. Her mother and father
are nard working people; her father is
temperate, does not smoke or drink
and works steadily; the mother 7 know
less about, but both appear to be OF
somewhat refined a~ntecedents TIC
IaH1lly-mother, father, Tessie and one
oloer ana one younger sister-moyed
70 Hochester, when Tessie was a yo,1nr
glrl. When. IA, during a vacation from
SCHOOL Iessle. came to visit an, aunt
On Inc lower East Side of NeW@York,
Tue streets, and got to know some of
d -ounch,. Her physical DEVELOPMENT
game early, as it characteristicalIp
aoes with JeWesses. Tessie returned
TO her home in Rochester, but appar-
entity correspondent with gunner and.
sanssters' At all events, two. gang
men visited Rochester and the girl
WehI win then to Boston, where she.
!iVed with n Of them two days-nn~
III he was arrested for burglary. After
that the girl, not yet Is, remember
was IN a house in Boston and later IN
Portland, Me. ~ lily
from Portland. Tessie got to New
york and lived around Fourteenth
street where she took up with Shorty
mrs. Harris came to New York from
Snlcago' where the family moved.
rouha her daughter and had her ar
tesCed and threatened with Jail if she
dlo not: return to her. home. Tassie's
llttie sister of 8, who came along. too
n a been dear to the older girl
Jung 10 Iess1e joyous at seeing her
a Tessie agreed to return IN
Snicaso with her mother. Four hours
oetore the departure Of the train on
Will tney were 20 go Tessie gave her
mother the slip and is now in AIbany1
with n man known, but better m,
named, here. + "n7
CAUSED Another Mans Murder,
~ vas Iessle who decoyed the man
Levine to "Flo's fiat" a, "hon
JOINT" where he was shot and kiJIad
shorty IS awaiting trial on this case
and fIos husband, also named Har-,
RS rs, IS awaiting trial on this same case,
found, for she is to become 3. mothero
mere Is an alarming thing about
THIS case and many another lilo ~
Iessle has no i'll feeling against tbn
men VINO are responsible for her star
on the chute to her present condition
ano Whatever worse things that are
coming to h~er-rhough there can he
litCie more: she is an inveterate Gig,
arctic smoker and worse-she is dis-
eased In mind and body. The murder
Levine is said to have resulted FROM,
MIS- consistent play for Tessie's sffec-
IONS n the revenge sought Inv,
Shorty. r., oet w
Gang members vii l~often not stand
or their raw "wn e to a girl by q member
case Illustrates this. He eyes. 1IittIe
Maggie" Is a MANI fell in with a aronn
q 1elloWs who used to hang out around
strse forner or Jefferson and Monroe
couldn't get more than SIS or Sc a week
at a steady job. wen
Made Living Stealing Wagons
re became assistant to Jimmy Rags"
oilers wagons. Maggie" made little at
thls, u 1t came easy. When the driv-
er TOOK a case of settler into q fene-
ment house Maggie" climbed onto the
would recover the wagon for the SELF
er man for a consideration Of STE or
800. Maggie" got SIS or $40 for tba
JOB; sometimes less than that. Mag
s sastve was convicted Of poisoning a
months on he island (horse POISONING
was only a misdemeanor them. when
ne came out he was, of course. more
respected by the gang. as any one Is
who has done his "bit."
A young girl fell in love with Mag
gle. she was an operator on ladies'
gle" married her, but declined an on
portunity to work for her uncle. After
a while Maggie" left his wife and
went to Philadelphia, where his career
included arrest for carrying a gun and
sporadic employment in one. place and
another as a strikebreaker and SO forth
got another girl in Philadelphia--
q nice, young girl-and came TO New