Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-06-09

1911, when all Paris and its guests
was basking at the little tables of the
boulevards, the distinguished Ameri.
cans planned more spectacular ami
richer haul. Around the corner from
the cafe de la Paix, the busiest and
most famous corner in all Paris. and
III the very shadow of the great
opera house, We're the Offices of tic
american Express company.
With them now were Kid McManus
young Eastsider who had ascend
ed from the prosperous state of
New York saloonkeeper to the com
partnership Of Eddie Cuerin, and
Dutch Gus Miller, a notorious Ger
man-American criminal.
Their booty from the express rob
berry consisted of only 10000 francs,
then worth about $4,000. They had
overlooked or had been unable to
break the larger safes.
The four accomplices left Paris on
different days. Kid McAlanus went
first and reached London, but was
later arrested for another crime and
y
Tertiary, emerging a mental wreck.
Dutch Gus Miller and Chicago MAY
were arrested as thes left on differ
ent trains. And on June 13-"thir-
teen" was again to figure as an un-
lucky number for him-Eddie Guerfn
was arrested just as he reached the
I French border and brought back to
Paris.
Chicago May was sentenced to five
years of penal servitu1e. Dutch Gus
and Eddie Guerin were each sentenced
to Imprisonment Eat hard labor" for
life.
AS the sentence was pronounced
Chicago May threw her arms about
Eddie Guerin and kissed him long and
passionately Eddie was affected.
But he learned later that it was she
who, in order to gain a lighter sen
tence for herself, had given the in
formation which led to his arrest.
Guerin and Dutch Gus We're shipped
to that penitentiary which is the hor-
ror of French criminals-Devil's Is
land, that CHASTITY strip of land off the
coast of South America in French
I Guiana, where a tropic sun beats
down mercilessly on steaming cl2J
and pestiential swamp.
But then came the most sensational
episode in all Guerln's sensational
| career. From Devils Island" the
hopeless saying is, mo man ever es-
capes.'
But Guerin escaped!
The true story of the way in which
! he effected it has never been told. In
all probability it never will be. The
generally accepted version is that Pat
Sheedy, New Yo'k's famous gambler
and patron of art" who had CON
ceived a real liking for Guerin, gave
or collected a fund of some $4,000
which was sent secretly to Guerin on
DEVILS Island. and used to bride his
guards
Guerin reached New York in the
carly summer of 1905, just four years
after the court in Paris had sentenced
him to Imprisonment for life. He was
seen at his old resorts. In the autumn
he revisited his boyhood haunts in
Chicago-and then he dropped out of
sight.
Charley Smith Appears.
Two years went by before the po-
lice found him troublesome again. BY
this time, Chicago May had completed
her five-year term in a French prison
and had gone back to London, where
she had rented a fiat in Cover street,
in the sedate Bloomsbury neigh6or-
hood. and was back at her cid game,
it was said. of matchmaking wealthy
admirers. But now it was no longer
Eddie Guerin who acted as her male
accomplice in the business. 1t was
slender curly-headed young American,
who sometimes gave the name Of
Sabine Jackson ana sometimes that
of Charley Smith.
/ Eddie Guerin suddenly reappeared
| in London. With him was a woman
known as Emily Skinner who passed
/ as his vie, at times.
Guerin had been in London for at
/ least six months before their old
| quarrel broke out violently. This was