Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-31
4 20eDyrioht. 1913. bp Public Ledger Co.
EHAPTER XIX Continued

eAfer on the De Lanccy street side
- and fell to beating them with
lekJacks. Roth men lurched and
,40ed this way and that. with faces
1sted and heads duckinr behind their
ltted arms, but presently went down
. rain of blows. On the ground
beating still continued unit some
H. the men, as IL arms had wcari"d. be-
- TO kick the prostratc victims in
Merry plunged forward instnctiycly,
INT Rlssman clung to his arm.
Vi Keep out of II, Mr.. Archer" he
'eArned. "The odds are too great
rs That's my kind of Il fight" insisted
k9erry, dragging Rissman after him like
n hall and chain as he struggled across
&<e street
Meantime Kaleidoscope changes were
rMking place before their eyes. Time
@4ppeared to stand stll. Events of the
Eft4ctional part of a second seemed to h"
/ A0elfberately accomplished and to drag
Y stMemselves out to lengths that We're
1rched his huge back and staggered TO
Ms feet where he groped hlindly to tho
side of building and leaned against II,
With blood streaming from his mead.
ts0Aurer, too. was up.
Is The assaultrg party. as if frightened
Z ~ the sight of its own bloody work had
s4eeieted and began to scatter widely over
stho pavement and on to the cohhics.
Slooking this way and that uncertainty
and seemed prepaTed to holt. Meanwhile
= group Of nlain-clothes men or di%-
guised policemen. as Kelly had called
them. came running down the other side
sof De Lancey street.
Snow that its ovcr.' said Rissman
soAfcasticaIiy, for Jerry. seeing 'h" men
NJ longer being beaten. had come 10 II
ntop and was watching the ,lrama--"now
that It's over. the policc'H come up and
make a play at arrcs'ing these tciiowH'
hut they'll all make their getaway
= watch 'cm sronting now.
But one officer. more jealous than
4 the others, had dashed in among the
& sCuttling gangsters, seized one of
h them and struggled to handCuM him.
In the sCuflic the prisoner was fciied
! to the pavement and another gang
eter, seeing this. whipped out re.
vOlyer, fred two shots at the officer,
then turned the corner ana ran
north on Sixth street. Al the same
time an advancing man far across
81 Dn the other side OF the street stop
ned running. leaned for II moment
y AGAINST the wall Of the school build
n ing and then sank slowly TO the
pavement.
q Cries and shouts resounded up ana
I0wn' the little street. m
'Murder Murder Murder bl'atc"
= negress eXcitedly.
Jerry by this time was at the side of
the man who had felled the EanEst"r'
"Why it's officer 54213" he en-
'For Gods sake, Mr. Archer' ia
still clinging to his prisoner nut nn!o
and excited That fellow Snot POM 1n,,1
to grab this fellow and the bullets went
81 Zone of en- got Eppley." said another
pi.lNS ee9'hfI Ann SH mf,icer 5i2i$ paer still
and trembling more. turned and eazea
across the street with an awed eNprrs-
mon on his face 70 where ,;ind EpnIeH H,iray IaI
Nfppiey was saying as he died. ,,o,
But already two uniformed p99ilTTehi@n,ii n
sof whom the district was so fuil had
Grabbed the flying Cunman as ne ran
{ 1sfo their arms and marched him SUI
\ ien, frightened and excited to the s'a-
Carey still lurched against the side
80 the building one hand supporting MS
body, the other pressed 10 ms near
.tWhen taken away Tor q n",,,rrt n,ara II W =" -
stupidity. ,,,
One Of the valiant group of uniformed
polieemen who had permitted hitcrn or
Z 1wenty gangstcrs to tng their plhrk-
< aaeks mt will for several minutes on the
!. erect and allowed all but tw" or them
4 ~ ssraue, now asserted his ynior by ar
I Hating the helpless Carey. ,.,
SsTf Confusion. meantime, was ihui''plE
kl}nr. The place was alive with nolice,
ESSn. camouflaged and otherwise. falToi
s3agons and ambulances cahe'm tar' nu
55lauxht their way in among the eathei-
sf89 crowd, while Fthe coiorcd woman
X 7Hcited clamorngs still punctuated inc
kSinosphere The police. however We're
I FTo4 by this untoward accident to be az
from the prime duty Of the hour
y - I'm the block "a hundred yards
z jSiSlnap of them were arrcsting the elt'-
5SIl negroes. for carrying concealed
w Serry followed the patrol wagon I"
Slhe police station. lie saw tn" two gun;
4 led lac
&SS dramatic discovery Of the small
GSife ribbons tied In tho second button
2lSssae Of each yrst-ribbons that were 10
s.&oa = sign to the police that these were
4 '7S1endly to tho murderers, and, as "
&Serr. allies In disguise whose bioodS
4 2Sarvest was not to he disturbed. ,,o
Later the Young man ta'hfn ,he y" ,, nF.
/ "a of Magistrate Harrigan, win nus
Z kS0ed swathed in bandages more noun
ESinous than Jerry himself had worn,
IN More than any a snGh' his %l e,"oo eve told how
+ 1lzss+tc,,s,v ~ the man was wounded. but
4 Scith the instinct of the fighter he re-
1psed to leave the hsta ifas,,t,nn Tt"'u nf hat hat
ESSkesiye quality which is characteristic
- the man, he clung to the armchalr
f4nd sat amid his henchmen' rccelHins
E3Snorts issuing orders and planning
E&6Saf advantage was to be taken of this
rave strategical error on the part OF
enemies. -,
-T2fOm the WlnUOW ds nv I'',i>N' 49,
~ saw squads of additional police
SsS--mounted men this time-moNlng
q the Fifth Ward, to patrol ne
Faets and preserve order while the
x bfk of conducting an election went
&badily forward.
f14FsAm I In Mexico watching an eiec.
y 726Sa under POrfiriO Diaz:" Jerry asked
x s23nseIf as he stepped out OF Magistrate
q e$IESrrigan's Office. But right in front or
I'm was Independence square, SO ne
Is4w that he was not in Mexico but in
square and moved diagonally across
20 the spot where the Declaration OF
S8eoendence was first read to the
Iid then he shifted his gaze to the
S{Slde Of that beloved building in which
y Declaration had been drafted. To
MD the possibilities of the situation
~ full he stepped inside and looked
lkhe table on which the sacred docu-
had lain. and at the inkwells from
n the fluid had been dipped to sign
xhev ought to let Jimmie Carey and
Deutsch come lin and write their
~ on Il, t00," he remarked eyni-
a and then turned to pause mo-
beside the ancient oak mountings
Liberty Bell AS he gazed at
Venerable relic. SO dear to the
- Of those to whom the symbols OF
ean liberty are still thing 10
!" he confessed, after consid-
Interval. THERE Is CRACK
y BELL"
CHAPTER Xxx
The City Rouses
.f1vnpNsMENT had reached its