The sun., 1919-06-25
HANDY Is GUILTY.;
TO DIE IN CHAIR


tracted by his fertile mind and skilful
hands from banks and trains. Thou.
sands of dollars have filtered like sand
through his fingers. He liked the good
things OF life and paid web for them.
His philosophy was that of the gam
bier. Throughout tho United States he
strolled his careless dangerous way
into Canada, Central America, South
America, Europe-always a soft spoken
two gun man." quick to flash a smile
of friendship and as quick to draw and
fire.
His record, as told by District Attor.
ney Lewis included three murders. the
two men killed at the East Brooklyn
Savings Band and bob" Davis at Ia.
coma. and six other shootings in which
death did not result. Two took place ir
st Paul. one In Los Angeles, another ir
Chicago. one In Omaha and the last ir
Oklahoma.
The puZzling fact is that never die
the hand OF a policeman fall upon his
shoulder until he killed Davis in Tacoms
In March last. Out there he really
courted capture, overcome with remors,
at killing his friend. 1t was while III
was being tried for that crime that sus'
picion fell upon him as the tall man
Of the East Brooklyn Savings Banl
holdup and murder. upon which the po
lice were working everywhere.
Probably no one but he himself know
his real name or ever will The police
call him Handy. That, he said, wa,
the name of an associate, who probabl,
| was not very much pleased at the lib
critics taken with 1t. Another name the
police have OF him is Boyd Browning
"Call me Jay B. Allan" was all Hamb,
would say. He insisted upon 1t. Yes
terday. for the first time, he revealed
the reason.
Il have reason to believe" he SAID
snappily that a man who has be
tween $1,000 and $4,000 belonging tt
me--money 1 obtained in the usual way
would learn that l am here II thai
name were used. He would then sent
me money" He frowned. "He SHOULD
certainly know by this time about th'
case" His Jaw hardened.
Seldom has q prisoner spoken SO de-
liberately and calculatingly Of robbery
and murder as Handy. Never has 9
prisoner displayed q more winning man
ner or 30 fascinating personality
Those who spoke to him went away
with a feeling Of sorrow for the mar
who apparently as the result OF some
| mental alteration, seems devoid OF al
consciousness OF the spiritual wrong hi
has done. He never attacked men, HI
said, but institutions" The two Off
Gals of the bank who died refused t
do as he bid them.
Considerate OF Women.
Women he respects. "Out West, yor
know, they put women on a PEDESTAL
He left New York city after the robbery
with a girl who posed artlessly as hi:
bride" on the train, thereby allowing
him to reach the West without molesta
ton. Out there she wanted to come
home. frightened by his revolvers. He
paid her fare back and tossed her q
thousand dollar bill. "She was a goot
sport" was his tribute to her. He
cracked joke and laughed heartily.
In court he was an icicle. Often ht
listened with bent head. Sometimes hi
smiled cynically. The witnesses were
describing the cold blooded murders al
the bank. Again it was the faint cur
of the lip. There were thirty-foul
| women in court, the greatest number o.
them morbid spectators. He glanced a.
them. The Rev. s. edward Young Of
the Bedford Presbyterian Church IL
Brooklyn also was present.
District Attorney Lewis spoke saw.
agely OF Handy in his opening address
The facts" he said. will demonstrate
ConcluslVely tnat THIS CRIME, one OF tht
most atrocious ever committed in thii
country, was the work of Handy, no
the apparently refined gentleman bu
| Handy the bandit" He was the ''mas
| ter mind of the holdup." said Mr.. Lewis
| Handy chatted with Deputy Sheriff
| Shortell, as II oblivious of the Distric
Attorneys thunder.
George II. Mccullough. s07 West 111tl
street. Manhattan. the young chauffeur
who drove Handy and his pal to Ken
avenue. near the bank, and then ava,
| again with $4,000 of the banks none,
and with two dead men behind. took tn,
stand. He had been taken by Asststan
| District Attorney Conway TO Tacomt
| when word was received that a suspec
was a convict there. According to hi
testimony yesterday he confronted
| Handy in the Western city and said:
You are the man who rode In m,
taxicab on December 10 last" Handy
he said. shrugged his shoulders and said
'I may have: 1 rode in some ones car.
| Mccullough pointed to Handy yesterda!
as the chap who. with the short man. di
| rected him to drive to the bank. ant
| came to the machine again fifteen min
utes later with drawn revolver and com
| manded him to speed away. MoCul
| Tough was an important witness to III,
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