Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-03-12

IL was Silas Rannerman who finally
ran down that scientific wizard and
arch-enemy of mankind. Emil Gluck.
Gluclx's confession, before he went TO
the electric chair, threw much light
upon the series OF mysterious events,
many apparently unrelated, that 80
perturbed the world between the years
1888 and 1871.
While the deeds OF Emil Gluck we're
all that was abominable, we cannot
but feel, to certain extent, pity for
the unfortunate, malformed and mall
treated genius. This side OF his story
has never been told before. and from
his confession and from the great
mass of evidence and the documents
and records of the time we are able TO
construct a fairly accurate portrait OF
him, and to discern the factors and
pressures that nodded him into the
human monster he became and that
drove him onward along the fearful
path he trod.
Emil Glucl was born in Syracuse,
N. Y, in 1895. His father, Josephus
Chuck, was special policeman and
night Waterman who. in the year 1900,
died suddenly of pneumonia. The
mother, pretty, fragile creature, who
before he. marriage had been a milli-
ner, grieved herself to death over the
loss of her husband. This sensitive
ness OF the mother was the heritage
that In the boy became morbid and
horrible
In 1901 the boy, Emil. then six years
of age. went to live with his aunt,
Mrs. Ann BarteIl. She was a vain,
shallow and heartIess woman. In her
breast was no kindly feeling for the
sensitive, shrinking boy. Also, she was
cursed with poverty and burdened
with husband who was lazy, erratic
ne'sr-do-weIl. Young Emil Gluck was
not wanted and Ann Bartell could be
trusted to impress this fact sufficient
1y upon him. AS an illustration of the
treatment he received in that early.
formative period, the following in
stance is given:
When he had been living in the
Rarteil home a little more than q
year, he broke his leg. He sustained
the injury through playing on the for
hidden roof-as all boys have done
and viii continue to do to the end of
time. The leg was broken In two
places between the knee and thigh.
Emil. helped by his frightened play
mates, managed to drag himself to
the front sidewalk, where he tainted.
The children of the neighborhood
were afraid of the hard-featured shrew
who presided over the Bartell house;
but, summoning their resolution, they
rang the bell and told Ann Bartell of
the accident She did not even look
at the little lad who lay stricken on
the sidewalk. but slammed the door
and went back TO her washfub. The
time passed. A drizzle came on and
Emil Glucks out of his faint, lay sob
bling In the rain. The leg should have
been set Immediately. As 1t was, the
Inflammation rose rapidly and made
n nasty case OF It. At the end OF two
hours the indignant women OF the
neighborhOod protested to Ann Bar
tell. This time she came out and
looked At the lad as he lay helpless al
her feet. Also she Historically dis
owned him. He was not her child, she
said. and recommended that the am
buIance be called TO take him to this
city receiving hospital. Then sht
went back to the house.
It waa a woman. Elizabeth Shep
st0nes who came along, learned of thu
situation and had the boy placed OF
shutter. Il was she who called tn,
doctor and who. brushing aside An
Barteii. had the boy carried into tn
house. When the doctor arrived Ami
Barteil promptly warned him that sh
would not pay him for his services
For two months little Emil lay in BEE
the 1irst month on his back withou
once being turned over; and he la
neglected and alone. save for the o.
casiOnai visits of the unremunerate
and Overworked physician.
Il would seem strange that from tn
hands Of Ann Bartell Emil Glue
should have received a college educ
ton; but the explanation is simpl
Her ne'er-do-well husband. desertin
her. made strike in the Nevada goI
fields and returned to her q man
times millionaire. Ann Esarteli hate
the hoy and Immediately she sent hi
10 the FarrfstOwn academy, a hundre
miles away. Shy and sensitive. a Ion
" and misunderstood little soul, /
@as more lonely than ever at Farri
s0wn. He never came home at vac
tion and holidays, az the other DO,
did. Instead. he wandered about ii
deserted buildings and ground, b
Srdended and misunderstood By Ii
servants and gardeners. reading niue
L II remembered. spending his da,
n the fields or before the firepla,
with his nose poked always In d
pages Of some book.
He was q remarkable student A
eltcatlon such ~ his would have TAX
him tar: but ne did not need apple
Ion. a glance at the text meant mn
tery for him. The result was that
lid an immense amount of colIatei
reading and acquired more In half
rear than did the average student
Aaif dozen years Ii 1903. bare
fourteen years Of age. be was ready
more than ready" the headmaster
ne academy saia-fo enter Yale
Harvard His juvenility prevent
sim fxam entering those nnivarsiti,
80 ~ Il 1908. we nnd him : frel