New-York tribune., 1918-05-13

were pals when, on the nineteenth day
the sheriff came to the cell door and
told the wild man detective had ar
rived to take him away.
All that, of course, Stielow remem-
bered. The surprise came here-the
Wild mans name wasn't Charley Rev
nolds at all, but Charley Sparacino
he hadn't ever killed policeman. not
even one, but he had been a detective
an his life-had been a detective at
that moment when he was showed into
Stlelow' S cell, detective through all
those nineteen days of beans and con-
ndences and coffee, and coffee and con-
fidences and beans.
Convinced of His Innocence
That was one surprise. Here was
another. The wild man had been on
the payroll of the prosecution that all
but landed Charley Stielow in the
death chair, but he had como out of
Stielow's cell firmly convinced Stielow
was innocent. And after the failure
of the prosecution to put him on the
stand and let him tell his story he had
allied himself with those agencies
which were working to save Stielow
from paying the death penalty as a
flrst step toward winning his cxonera-
never killed anybody" Sparacino
wound up. "You told me other things
which proved I had your confidence.
had worked every trick on you that
a detective knows, and you never said
a word but that you were innocent.
ut wasn't entirely what you said
that convinced me. You acted like an
innocent man. remember the day
your people were outside the cell door,
all crying, and your brother asked
you why you did it. You were crying.
too, and if there was ever a minute for
a breakdown that was it. But 70 vo,, aon
grabbed the bars and shouted: Il did
not do IT.
Meets Man Who Cleared Him
Tom O'Grady, the detective who
gathered the evidence which cleared
Stielow and Nelson Green and estab-
fishes to Governor Whitman's salts
faction the guilt of Erwin King and
Clarence O'Connell in the West Shelbv
murders, had just entered the hotel as
the quondam wild man finished. He
sighted Sparacina from afar, and start
ed for him.
And there" said sparac;no, after he
had shaken hands with O'Grady. dis
the man ! went to finally Wiz nv ~
story: 1 wanted you to get a SQUARE
deal.'' 4NAA
"Do you remember what made vou
decide. to tell all you knew" asked
O'Grady. 's"e"
81 do" said sparacino, PROMPTLY at
was talk had with Father Stradz.
zoni, of st. Anthony's, after had ouit
the private detective business and gone
on the Buffalo force"
Well" announced O'Grady. "I,d
tipped off Father Stradzzoni. Won
deredi why they hadn't put you on tho
stand and why you ever were sent into
the cell If Stielow had really confessed
beforehand. knew the way to reach
you--through your priest Right ?" ~
Stielow has decided not to take the
JOB IN the Buffalo butcher shop which
OGrady found for him. Instead he viii
be farmland again. Probably he viii
go to work Monday. but in the near.
time Stuart M. Kohn. counsel for tho
humanitarian II IA it, Cult, which figured in
an early and unsuccessful effort to
clear "Childman Charley" is hurrvinp
to Buffalo. He will see Stielow and
Green tomorrow and try to persuade
them to accompany him to New York
and appear at the Humanitarian iuhi,a-
ton meeting in Carnegie Hall Tuesd.v
night: The situation becomes intsrest,
ing, for O'Grady is under instructions
from the Governor to keen Stielow
away from brass bands"