Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-06-09
|AOY kSTOR FIGURES IN MOST
ROMANTIC CRIMINAL EPISODE
rnuh Her Influence Charley Smith, Who Shot Noted Bank
RObber, Eddie Guerin Is Set Free in EnqIand-
Guern World Famous for His Escape From
Devils Island, Now Broken Man.

~r vork.-Fate, in her time, has
- ND many a queer and nnexpeet-
aon,hination on her dizzily spinning
al nf chance; but seldom so odd
oe that of today, when Lady AS
the winsome, the brilliant, the
u Of two continents, looked down
~, the heights of her fame to do
80 turn fer a fellow Virginian-a
Who had been the companion OF
ininaIs and jailbirds and who went
nrison himself because he shot Ed
cnerin. the most famous interna-
oral criminal of the last forty years.
The woman known as Chicago
ovr 70 whom no depths of wicked
Dss we're unknown, dragged this man
bun With her; and now Lady Astor
His him up.
When the great Majestic tied up at
docl, in New York recently among
g. passengers was the man known
charley Smith"-a man who has
sr in an English prison fer the last
49, wears, and who would have
bon there another ten long years if
had not been for Fate and her
sDnneer sister, Nancy, Lady Astor.
once Charley Smith" facing
Ddpe SAID that his real name was
n Nobody, from Nowhere" The
bans haven't added much to that
Ratification, nor to what is known
sbout that arch-criminal, the man
&bose path Charley Smith" luckless-
Il crossed-Eddie Guerin. The un-
5erworld knows all their secrets, and
IN underworld doesn't tell.
tet's begin with what is known
mont Eddie Guerin. Nobody knows
II what obscure hole ne is lurking to-
3ay The chances are that he is a
Miserable, grayhaired derelict, thiev-
h. and begging on the streets of
london. But there was a time when
h. posed as an American millionaire,
and when the police of London, Paris
Ind New York held him in awe.
Guerin a Gang Leader.
Eddie Guerin was born in a poor
huarter of Chicago, some sixty years
ego. in a day when Chicago was no
korous as a sink hole of vice and a
Breeding place of crooks. BY the time
Nd was twenty, in 1880, he and his
BROTHER PaGdy were leaders Of a gang
81 young touShs. Their first big JOB"
Mas to walk calmly away one day
: Hith nearly $1VO0 in cash from the
snntce Of bank in Galesburg, Ill.
Eddie might have stayed on in Chi
fago, but only few days after the
bank ,bbery, he SHIT Thomas Ire
barn, a policeman, in the back room
on a Chicago saloon, and fled from
$Ssais old haunts.
On his way East. a bank in Ale
8heny, Pa, vs. robbed daringly, and
Eddie Guerir was wanted for the
crime. But he reached New York and
managed to keep out of harms way,
Enough he became known to the New
York police.
q with the money from an occasional
fank robbery or burglary of jewels,
eddie hung ABOUT uptown gambling
houses and spent it freely in IL. dives
pf the TenderIoin He was a husky,
handsome young fellow-if you didn't
study his eyes too closely-and he
#iked the women" One of them in
particular he liked-."Chicago May"
Churchill He was to change his opin-
sion Of her later.
May was easy to look at, if CON
temporary reports are to be believed.
sHer blue eyes could seem very allur-
sslhg to WeIlto-do men who didn't know
sher record. Afterward, when they
.had accepted an invitation to her fiat,
ahd' once there, found Eddie Guerin
suddenly demanding a fat bankroIl
Prom them as the price of silence,
mey found Mays blue eyes as cold
as the steel of Eddie's revolver.
Paris Attracts Them.
New York cramped the two after a
%nHe and, in the COS they decided to
uke look at Paris.
There was a robbery of 100000
francs from that famous Partisan
oank, the Credit Lyonnais, in 1891.
Huule was suspected of having had a
nSna IN that But nothing happened
70 MN for a good ten years.
1hen, in the warm spring days of