El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-31

Readily they realized that their work
was cut out for them. Rounding up a
west side band of rowdies makes the pres
ent crusade against the gun carriers Of the
east side look like a pink tea in COMPARE
son.
The east side slayer turks in the pro
tecting shadows Of the night and from
ambush shoots down his victim and flees
after tossing his pistol at the head of his
prey. Sbeltering Railways Of Chinatown
swallow him and he is free to emerge
through some subterranean passage into a
back street and at his leisure rejoin his
comrades and report progress. Chances.
are he had been sent to @get that man"
and he is eager to tell his leader of his
success and then, perhaps, buy another
package Of cocaine and sit and dream and
pirate Of his mighty prowess-
The west side rowdies, among whom
the McVet5y brothers-Bob and George
were prime factors, were of different cal
ibre. In the dazzling glare Of saloon
lights that sent their piercing rays far
into the inky black of night they would
ply their trade with profit Leaping
through the swinging doors of the saloon
marked for plucking, they would battle
their way to the bar, brandish revOlvers
to the cry Of Hands up, everybody - and
then send forth a volley of shots that
would deafen the terror stricken bar
keeper and his covering customers. 1T
mattered not how many men there hap
pened to be loafing in the place at the
time. Numbers meant nothing to this
pair and their followers There was
money in sight, ard they were thirsty.
Whiskey was their god, and without
money parched Threats could not be wet
ted.
"shoot up the joint and stick up the
barkeep, was their slogan, and they in, =
variably worked close to form. It was
not case Of a single saloon night when
they went forth on one of their maraud- {
ing exploits. Keep going as long as the /
going is good was their motto, and
sometimes a dozen places within a radius
of a mile would be 'shot up" and looted c
before they suspended operations for the
night and retired to the back room of b
some favorite saloon where the nights
loot was equally divided. .
These were the men that had spread $
terror along the water front, and each t
knew that sooner or later he would be Il
acollared' and sent away. He knew that
once he fell into police tolls there would .
be no clemency for him, for his brand Of d
crime stamped him highwayman, and d
that meant from ten to twenty years in a
Sing Sing. Perhaps they were fatalists, "
for Just that fate befell the McVettys ii
md their boon companions, Patrick Boil II
ger and Charles c. Clark, the latter W
Known as yellow the First" Each re y
,eived his ten to twenty year term at the =,
lands of Judge Foster, and each is hard 81
1t work in Sing Sing to-day. Of
The work of rounding up these toughs Of
lid not look difficult at first. Their very
Laring had marked them from one end Of 81
be water front to the other, and every lie
nan who had quaked before their belch- OF
ng guns gave a minute description Of the p
,andits. Despite this, when the time Y
anne to get them they proved as elusive IL
$ a viii o the wisp. Each night new m
rimes were -barkeeper shot, in a.,
ocent Bystander limping forth with S,
ullet in his leg or back. the cash registerIta