New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03

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short time the policemen were on tr'al
AZ Headquarters and disciplined.
Complaints OF similar nature
poured IN thick and fast from those
familiar with the Tanner Smlih case
or who remembered tho Duhy case
The order that oil such complaints
should be sent direct 20 Headquarters
was issued az the instance o. Mayor
Gaynor. Tho defiance Of the gangsters
and the teoth-gritting helplessness OF
the policemen would have been rdlcu-
lous were n not that IL was the dlg
nifty of the city itself that was AZ
frorted
Overnight the Car Barn Gang sprang
mp when some wag on the upper East
Sidc chalkcd up notice forbidding
certain block 10 patrolmen. ~
order of tho Car Barn Gang EXuit-
ing In the license that was theirs
gangstcrs ran riot. II beams the am
bition of every youngster to become
the leader Or his gang and fout the
rol.cc as gang leader should.
Disputes that formerly were arDi-
trated on some pier with bare fists
led TO gun fights. To get the name or
being a desperate, the embryo gang
stcr would 90 to any lengths. An
instance IL the case of Frederick
Muehlfeldt. ambitious to become a
leader IN the Car Barn Gang, where
he was known as The Kid.
Not vet twenty-one years Old
Muehlfeldt took Big Bill Lingley a.
pal and played a leading part IN
taxicab raids on saloons from l4th ST.
20 The Bronx. A liquor dealer in the
Bronx fought back when they attempt
ed 20 rifle his till and "Thc Kid and
Big BIZ paid the penalty for muir
der.
Crime Lure Dazzled Youth.
Nuehlfeldt was the type Of active,
imaginative youth that was lured into
the gang and crime by the notori-
ETY. gangsters were then attaining. lie
had n good home and a circle Of
friends who never dreamed OF his
double life lie was known 70 them
as o youth who was earnest and some
what prominent I'M church work. There
were many like him ln those days. Ine
nucleus and maiustay Of the looseIy
organized gangs Of the West Side and
upper East Side. however, are the
out-and-out crooks.
Happy jack MUlraney, who shot
and Killed Paddy the Priest IN ms
Tenth av. saloon, is a type. Tough
IS the word that fits them. Ready to
take a hand i'm a burglary or shoot a
man for a drink or game OF cards
they are. paddy the Priest had told
Happy Jack" he didn't want him or has
kind drinking 40 his bar. Lurching
down Tenth ay.. after an attempt az
burglary had failed, Happy jack
thought of the aTrout Paddy the
Priest had put upon him. 30 he
walked into the saloon and shot PADDY
the Priest through the stomach.
Essentially different were the mer-
cenary, systematized gangs OF the tasl
Side and the rough and ready "m)bs
of the West Side. but both fiourished
under the same conditions, and Doth
may do so again. The West Slider does
not work for hire; his favors come
from a sense OF obligation and ms at
tacks from a sense of injury.
Only once have the West Siders
been mixed up IN labor troubles, and
that was because the trouble came
home to them, not because they were
hired. During the express strike sew
eral years ago the West Side gang
were active. John c. Warner, a civil
engineer in hunting costume, was mis-
taken for an express wagon guard and
stabbed to death in sight of the the
atre crowds on Seventh av.
According to the gossip caught by
the attentive ear along the river front
Barnet Baff was not killed for money.
Money may have been passed, but not
as the price of murder. The men who
killed Barnet BafF were men with q
grievance; a grievance not against Baff,
but against members of their own
gang. Being outlaws in their own pre-
cincts. they resolved 10 assist the
aliens who had already gained foot
hold at the lower end Of the busters
territory.