The L'Anse sentinel., 1922-06-30

New York.-Fate, In her time, mas
tossed up many queer and unexpect-
ed combination on her dizzily spinning
wheel of chance; but seldom so odd a
one as that Of today, when Lady AS
tor, the winsome. the brilliant, the
idol Of two continents, looked down
from the heights of her fame to do a
good turn for fellow Virginian-a
man who had been the companion OF
criminals and jailbirds and who went
to prison himself because he shot I'D
die Guerin, the most famous interna-
tional criminal Of the last forty years.
The woman known as Chicago
May" to whom no depths of wicked
ness were unknown, dragged this man
down with her; and now Lady Astor
lifts him up.
When the great Majestic tied up at
the dock in New York recently among
her passengers was the man known
as Charley Smith"-a man who has
been In an English prison for the last
fifteen years, and who would have
been there another ten long years II
younger sister, Nancy, Lady Astor.
Once Charley Smith," facing a
Judge, said that his real name was
''AIs. Nobody, from Nowhere" The
years haven't added much to that
Identification, nor to what is known
about that .arch-criminal, the man
whose path Charley Smith" luckless'
ly crossed-Eddie Guerln. The un-
derworId knows all their secrets, and
tho underworld doesn't tell.
Let's begin with what Is known
about Eddie Guerin. Nobody knows
In what obscure hole he Is lurking to-
day. The chances are that he Is a
miserable, grayhaired derelict, thiev-
ing and begging on the streets OF
London. But there was a time when
he posed as an American millionaire,
and when the police of London, Paris
and New York held him in awe.
Guerin a Gang Leader.
Eddie Guerin was born In a poor
quarter of Chicago, some sixty years
ago, In q day when Chicago was no
torious us sink hole Of vice and a
breeding place of crooks. BY the time
he was twenty, in 1880, he and his
brother Paddy were leaders of gang
of young touShs. Their first big Job
was to walk calmly away one day
with nearly $4,000 in. cash from the
counter of bank in Galesburg, Ill.
Eddie might have stayed on in Chi
cago, but, only few days after the
bank robbery, he SHIT Thomas Ire
harm, a policeman, in the back room
of a Chicago saloon, and fled from
his old haunts.
On his way East, bank In Ale
gheny, Pa, VEL robbed daringly, and
Eddie Guerir wa3 wanted for the
crime. But he reached New York and
managed to keep out of harms way
though he became known to the New
York police.
With the money from an occasional
bank robbery or burglary Of jewels
Eddie hung about uptown gambling
houses and spent 1t freely in IT,, dives
of the Tenderloin. He was a husky
handsome young fellow-if you didn't
STUDY Ills eyes .too SioSSis uhu h>
liked "the women" One Of them In
particular he liked-"Chicago May
Churchill. He was to change his opin
ion of her later.
May was easy to look at, II con
temporary reports are to be believed
Her blue eyes could seem very allur
ing to well-to-do men who didn't know
her record. Afterward, when the!
had accepted an invitation to her fiat
and, once there, found Eddie GueriI
suddenly demanding fat bankrol
from them as the price of silence
they found Mays blue eyes as coli
as the steel of Eddie's revolver.
Paris Attracts Them.
New York cramped the two after
while and, in the COS they decided t
take a look at Paris.
There was robbery Of 25OOO
francs from that famous Parisial
bank, the Credit Lyonnais, in 1891
Eddie was suspected of having had
hand in that. But nothing happene
TO him for good ten wears.
Then, In the warm spring days o