The Washington times., 1922-04-30

ana the Leader Handed
Pistol to His Cunman, Or.
dered the Automobile Stopped and De-
clarsd That They Would Settle the Dispute
with Their Automatics Then and There BY
the Side of the Country Road. As "Skush"
Thomas Was Dead Shot, the Gangstsr
Took No Chance, But Beat Out the Brains
of His Chief a. Thomas Stepped Down from
the Automobila
these people hardly dared TO refuse Humphreys.
therefore tried to be as gracious - could.
YES, said l. you may invite your friends here for
few days" ~
Accordingly. the next day they arrived. They turned
out to be Mr.. and Mrs Edwards their chauffeur and
handsome man, immaculate, well set-up, polished
in appearance, in his every action whom
they all called Charlie" Before they came had
dreaded their coming After they had arrived for the
sake Of the reassurng charming stranger, almost
glad they had come.
Well, it not long before learned great deal of
the character Of my most charming guest Of ALL "Char
Ee" For heard Mrs. Edwards tell about how, while
they were motoring from Philadelphia, Charlie, who was
excellent shot, had accidentally broken the leg of
little bird when he shooting up among the branches
of tree for practice along that deserted country road
side
And what do you think Charlie ddi" asked Mrs.
Edwards "fe had the chauffeur stop that car he got
out whitfield two matches made . splint with them
bandaged that little birds leg and kept it with him ten.
dery till the small thing recovered sufficiently try its
wings and fly away Oh, yes, Charlie has such tender
heart He just couldn't leave the poor little thing by
the roadside"
looked at Charlie sitting there quietly immaculate
and well bred in my handsome parlor, with the light
through the Italian lace curtains Of the long French
Windows playing upon his handsome face. And / liked
Him more and more. We getting along famously,
Charlie and his hostess. But thing puzzled That
was that when entered the where my guests
talking the conversation always took a new turn Also
times the four had way Of getting off BY themselves
and whispering behind closed doors.
OF course, knew then that they either had were
about to try some great job concerning which they did
not wish me to know But all along thought they were
hghclass crooks, like Humphreyes At last one day,
the talk turned to the series Of robberes that TAX
ing place all over the country about New York.
"It's Skush Thomas who il doing them" remarked
the slender handsome Charlie with slow smile. ''Im
sure it s'
THAT notorious gunmani" said l.
How do they work themi" asked Charlie turning
70 Humphreys though he could hear enough of
the robberes.
"Oh," replied Humphreys, "the answer is easy to
me- Now the newspapers and the police think that
skush and his pulling of all these jobs alone
They are not. This ID the way figure it out that they
work them: Skush is in with highclass con man. They
are using two automobiles. The goes ahead in
his car and goes into place-you notice large percent
age Of the places gambling houses Well the con man
goes into the gambling house, plays, gets well enough
acquainted to know when the house has full ts leaves
passes the word to the gunmen who are watt They
enter and fash their guns They get everything that's
handy and make their escape In the second automobile
following that Of the leader Oh, the whole
scheme IL easy enough to do"
When Humphreys had outlined this programme
Charlie leaned forward IN his chair, though much in