Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19

In the rough and ready language used
BY the police. police court attorneys, mis-
sion workers and those who associate
with the men and women who are rather
undesirable citizens John s. Edwards.
who was held without bail by Magistrate
Tracy at the Eleventh and Winter streets
police station uoday. has had another fall.
The underworld considers fall as
something that business men would style
failure.
Edwards today admitted that Edwards
was only an assumed name, but that he
had used it for the better part of his
life.
His real name. he stated. was J. F. V.
Szatek and he said that for the most of
the time since his release from the East
ern Pcnitentiary he lived at ls43 North
Twelfth street
At the close of the hearing Lieutenant
Smiley read letter from George D. Por
ter Director of Public Safety, commend
Ing Winnie and Kent. policemen. for
causing the arrest of Edwards.
Edwards was caught attempting to
break into a saloon
Edwards is an inventor. He has made
more money with the Jimmy" and the
brace and bit. but then. although John
lived off the earnings of his burglaries
and safe robbing Jobs, never boasted of
them hut preferred to talk about his in
yentious.
Edwards was released several months
ago from the Eastern Penitentiary, after
serving a sentence for burglary.
He was never a model prisoner. but not
wIthstanding he won the friendship of
Robert ]. McKenty, warden of the prison.
In 1905, while serving a term in the
Eastern Perttentiary for robbery. Ed
wards, with Charles Berger scaled the
walls In the jump from a s0-foot gate
way Edwards received broken leg
ards u-hN haaI he
upon him while they were searching. the
flower beds outside the prison wall by
forcing the foliage back with the barrels
of shotguns.
Edwards smiled when a guard pushed
= gun against his chest and said, I'm
1t, but you haven't got my pardner"
Berger was captured in Chester when,
famlshed, he went TO the home of a rela-
tive to beg food
Since his last release from prison Ed
wards is said 10 have had love affair
and also to have cherished hatred to
sRloonkeepers.
As far as the police know he has robbed
none but saloonkeepers. He saws ne was
educated in saloons and he is turning
his education TO use against the keepers
OF bar rooms
A young woman who lived in IN. 240O
block on North Tenth street is also said
10 have interested Edwards He conn
dentiaIly told friends that ne expected 10
nnnrfy the young woman. She has left the
home of her mother since Edwards ar
rest, and the mother SAYS that there was
but little between Edwards and her
daughter
Edwards left prison last winter and
went to the young womans home 10
board, He spent nearly every night out,
but always explained his absence in some
plausible manner. The police sav that
every night he was away from his room
he was using his Jimmy and cold chisel
forcing open windows, cash drawers and
small safes.
All the time Edp ards was planning for
the marriage with his landady's daugh-
ter, 1t Is also said,
He did not tell the girl that he was A
"iail bird To her he was a mechanic
and mighty good one, for he always
had money, spent with a smile and
knew where TO get more money when a
night was expensive
Then came the fall The Detective Bu-
Feau. when Edwards was released de-
tailed a man TO keep an eve on him The
man was able 10 tell how much Edwards
supper bill was, what ne spent for other
things. and all the other minor detaiIs
of life. but could not tell how Edwards
kept his poCketbook filled and that vas
the main thing for Bob Cameron, chief
a. the Bureau.
Edwards shook off MS detective shadow
one night last week. drew his Jimmy and
started 10 work on the front door OF vii
knson's saloon. Ninth and Filbert streets
Edwards was keeping his eyes open for
smooth and plausible Central station de-
. tectives. One. whom he called harness
bull" swinging a club. slipped up behind
John and placed against his head the bar
rel Of a revolver.
We'll | guess YOU got me-" said Ed
wards. as he handed over his Jimmy"
Thanks for the bouquet" replied the
cop. who is Kent. of the Eleventh and
Winter streets police station,
Edwards while in the Eastern Peniten-
tiary took an interest in the flower gar
dens and the machine shop He was busy
every minute Of his waking hours He
invented a doorknob which ne said was
burglar proof. because when il was
fastened and set he could not turn H.
II Edwards could not work the knob the
police are Of the opinion that no one
else could.
Edwards made a new kind Of a cane
seat for chairs and hitched up a motor
which he said was as near perpetual
motion as any engine would come. The
motor was run by spools. When one
spool cast into water. would sink. a
second spool would bob TO the surface
ana sink the hrEt