The Washington herald., 1918-03-30
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New York. March 3o.-The career of
Reynolds Forsbrey, the understood CO.
caine fiend, who escaped and was re-
captured at Auburn prison, reads like
the pages Of an Old-time yellowbaCk.
FOrsbrey was a Brook yn clerk Of a
good family when he started on his
career Of crime.
Three times he has escaped from the
penitentiaTy with the aid OF Margaret
Ryan. a waitress. who has stood by
him through all of his esCapades. He
has killed three men in cold blood.
He Is the most desperate criminal
New York has ever produced. | saw
him once in the Tombs after an es-
cape. He is pale. slight and insigni!i-
cant. But his lips meet in an obsti-
nate line and there was an impudent
tilt TO the angle Of his jaw and an
insolent droop to his cyelids that he
lied his shambling carriage and de
meanor.
He weighs Only 13O pounds. but when
he is full Of cocaine he becomes a
giant in strength and a man killer.
Charlie SOmerville. a reporter who
speCialiZes in interviewing murdCrers
once went to interview him. Somer-
vile has the knack of tripping up
prisoners and making them say things
they would rather not say.
He Cleverly trapped Forsbrev. TIL,
prisoner. however. showed his cum
ming. He smiled and said it was the
first time he had ever been trIckcd
into talking. He pattcd SomeTvilIe on
the shoulder. just before tho reporter
was taking his leave. Forsbrey held
out his hand.
Somerville grasped It, In a flash he
sank his teeth into Som"ryill-'s thumb
until the blood ran THAT is some
thing for you to remember me by" "
said Forsbrey. He boosted that the
police were afraid OF him He ap-
parently had no use in tho world for
any one save the girl Nar-aret Ryan.
She is a brunette with wonderful
complexion and she has sp,nt most all
of her life working to p,t funds 70
help Forsbrey in ESCAPING from his
solitary confinement.
The effect OF war on poo T. strik-
fngly shown at the West S!d" Pool
Clubs annual tournament in New
York. The contestants for the final
honors were OCtogenariuns-Cnc was >f
and the other 81. The Young fellow
aged N-won out. but II was only BY
few points. The older PLAYERS com
pletely outstripped all the Young men
of the neighborhood and the young
men replied that most Of their good
players were at the war Several
young women entered the tourna-
ment. but they Were also beaten by
their aged rivals.
Many people in the United States
who once had faith in Russia bought
literally of her securities. including
ruble bonds. A ruhlc is normally
worth 81 cents. 1t is now worth i
cents. The folk who bought their Sc
curities paid around 30 cents to the
ruble. a popular Wall Street refrain
at the moment is "Who put the rub"s
In rubles?" At an East Side coffee
mouse where Leon TroHky used tC
mold forth a patron tipped a waiter
two rubles for his dinner and the
waiter threw them otu Of the front
door-he was that insulted.
Seen around the town: 4 negro por,
ter asleep on the top of a stcpladdcT
on Broadway surrounded by a huge
crowd. A woman filling her shopping
bag with embossed stationery in The
writing room of an expensive hotel
The telephone girl is a theatrical Of
flee eating her r'-,-| at the switch
board and washing it down with pint
OF champagne. Thomas n Edison
walking in Central Park apparently
unnoticed. Several young blOOds wear
black silk shirts with attached black
collars and white silk ties. John Nc
Graw, the Giants manager. talking tc
blind news vender in Times Square
John Mccormick, the singer, selling
War Thrift Stamps at the public
library.