The Holbrook news., 1922-06-16

New 1Ork.-Fate, ln Her tliHe, HdS tossed up many a queer and unexpect- ed combination on her dizzily spinning wheel of chance; but seldom so odd 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 good turn for a fellow Virginian-a man who had been the companion or criminals and jailbirds and who went to prison himself because he shot Ed 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 us 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 if 1t had not been for Fate and her younger sister, Nancy, Lady Astor.
 Once Charley Smith," facing a judge, said that his real name was MT. Nobody, iron 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 Guerin. The un- derworld knows all their secrets, and the 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 miserable, grayhaired derelict, thiev- ing and begging on the streets of London. But there was 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 a day when Chicago was no torious as a sink hole of vice and breeding place of crooks. By the time he was twenty, in 1880, he and his brother Paddy were leaders of gang of young tOughs. Their first big 'job" was to walk calmly away one day with nearly $1O,0O1 in cash from the counter of a bank in Galesburg, Ill. Eddie might have stayed on in Chi cago, but, only few days after the bank robbery, he shvt Thomas Ire harm, policeman, In the back room of a Chicago saloon, and fled from his old haunts.
 On his way East, a bank in Ale gheny, Pa, ve; robbed daringly, and Eddie Guerir was '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 it freely in tk, dives of the Tenderloin. He was a husky, handsome young fellow-ff you didn't study his eyes too clOsely-and he 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, if 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 they had accepted an invitation to her fiat, and, once there, found Eddie Guerin suddenly demanding a fat bankroll from them as the price of silence, they found Mays blue eyes as cold as the steel of Eddie's revolver.
 Paris Attracts Them.
 New York cramped the two after a while and, in the sos they decided to take a look at Paris.
 There was a robbery of 250,OOO francs from that famous Parisian bank, the Credit Lyonnais, in 1S91 Eddie was suspected of having had hand in that. But nothing happened to him for a good ten wears.
 Then, in the warm spring days of