Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-05

fair ending up with fight. as they usu-
ally do. Big Jack was called aside and
told Julie Morell was downstairs gum
ming for him.
Telling his wife he would be back in a
minute. Big Jack started downstairs.
He met Julie Morell at the entrance of
the hall. Without a word he shot Julie
through the back and killed him.
Hurrying upstairs. he entered the ball
room and heard the orchestra still playing
the waltz. he had started with his wife.
and he finished il with her. Jack Zelig
danced white the body of his victim was
still warm
big Jack himself was at last shot by
gangster named Tort. While lying in
Bellevue Hospital on what he believed to
be his deathbed Big Jack sent for me,
and there he told me some of the events
of his life. He had committed many
crimes. He was arrested time and time
again a pickpocket. and served his
sentences. For his greater crimes he
usually succeeded in escaping punish
ment. His victims if they lived. and any
eyewitnesses of his crimes. feared the
vengeance of his friends if they testified
against him. and when they were put on
the stand developed a sudden loss of
memory or positively declared that Big
Jack" was not the man they had seen
commit the crime.
While Big jack had no regard for
human NE. ne seldom cOl1l1llltIeN
himself for private persons. although he
could always furnish men for the pur-
pose.
1t was two of Jack Zelig's gang who
for so agreed to beat up Sam Libowitz,
business agent of the Mineral Water
Workers Union. They got him on De-
lancey street and slugged him. but they
We're paid only 50, because the job they
di was a poor one LibowitZ didn't have
to. go to the hospital.
barber who frequently gambled at
orc of my houses had very narrow
escape. ! was able to save his life. A
iangster had overheard two other gang
SterS at an opium layout talking over
their plan to cut this BARRIERS throat.
They had been promised 5000 for the
job by man who had reason to believe
that the barber was responsible for GER
tain rtlmorS that had been spread around
about the mans wife.
One night while the barber was play
ing at my house | got word from a CEN
trail office detective that two gunner
We're laying for the barber. | looked out
of the window and saw two men skulking
in the doorway opposite. sent a mes
senSer out for the gansster who had in
formed me of the plot, and when he APP
peared | pointed out the men opposite
and asked him whether he knew them.
He said they were the same men he had
overheard at the opium layout.
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Through some of Zeligs men ! was
able to make deal with these gang
sters. The barber bought them out. 1t
cost him $500 and even then he knew
it was only matter of time before others
would be hired to do the job these men
had turned down. The idea worried him
so that he sold out his business and left
town for good
There was a printer / knew who occa
sionally played at my house. He came
in there one night evidently laboring I'M
der great excitement. AT midnight
he was cleaned out. AS he went out L
asked him what the trouble was. He
told me that his home had been wrecked
and that he was having all he could do to
keep himself from numbering the man
who did it with his own hands. Suddenly
Re turned to me and said: Jack, don't
YOU know some one who would get one
of these gorillas to do The job for me-
tried to dissuade him. He went away.
The next night he was back again with
the same request. More to get rid of him
than anything else / introduced him to
Big Jack Zelig. and Big Jack" turned
him over to kid Mufty," one of his
gunner.
That night the printer came into my
place to play faro bank. He had So.
There was a light in his eyes which told
me palmer than words that more than
his So. was at stake in the game.
He won. He kept on playing. His luck
never turned When he was 800 ahead