The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-05-05
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MILLIONAIRE BANKER

MILLIONAIRE BANKER
II started IN with Wesley
Iadd. the millionaire banker in
Portland. sent him note to kick
thru With $500. He dldR't do IL.
50 went up 20 his house ono nisht
and threw bomb over tho tran.
som Va hts room. II wasn't bomb
az all. just = KIDS baseball which
had painted and TO which was at.
tachcd fuse and a note.
THAT note instructed Iadd TO
meet me down town the following
day In Portland and turn over the
money 70 me The coppcra had been
tipped and there was a street full Of
dicks around when I went over to
Iadd and took the money. lie only
gaze me 1880. but that kept me on
easy street FOR while.
Brady rccited other instances OF
how he "outsmatcd" the police in
Portland. Seattle. Kansas city and
other places.
I'm a piano player" Brady
said. II was working In the
Bungalow cafe IN Seattle when
they nabbed me for the Portland
Jobs.
Know how many charges they
placed against me-
They had six charges Of black.
mailing. four OF burglary and two
for breach OF contract.
And they didn't stick me on a
single count.
When left Portland went
around to Laid and collected $500
more of Of him. $50 from Mayor
George Baker. $40 from the prose.
cutting attorney. and $50 from At.
torney Roscoe Nelson. attorney for
the $. z. & s. railroad.
They would never have pinched
me In Seattle that time II I hadn't
had a falling out with my wife. She
got sore at me and tipped Off the
bulls TO what had been doing.
and 1t was simple for them to walk
into the bungalow cafe over In Sc.
attic and collar me.
II don't dare go TO Seattle nov.
for they know me and will throw
me In Jail for investigation. They
know that work as burglar on
the side.
This town--a man il safe
here. The bulls are all dumb
One coliared me up on Com.
merce It. today and he didn't
recognize me. n i~ had been
on the job he would have
nabbed me and taken me down
TO the can for investigation.
I've pulled Off four burRIarles
since coming to Tacoma. but they
we're all ham and egg Jobs--you
know. just small amounts in them.
Il can 20 down to Portland and
live for the remainder OF my life
and never have 10 do tap of
work. You know that old rnuss at
the Y. NJ. G. A. down there hasn't
been forgotten.
You ask how I get my dope 10
pull off this blackmail came?
HAD TO LEARN
HIS PROFESSION
We'll, I'll tell you. It's Just a
business or profession with me. A
machinist has 70 spend several years
learning his trade. A reporter has
to study, too. It's the same way
with my profession. learned /,
from top TO bottom w1jis serving a
sentence in the penitentisry at Fol.
som. Cal"
Brady Is hard OF hearing. He
said that his ears were Injured over
in France during the world wal
while serving with the Second in
fantry.
81 got out Of walla waila when
the war was on and signed UP IN
the navy. AS soon as they found
out that ! was an ex.convict, they
gave me the gate.
II WAS working on The docks al
Brooklyn, ". ". when they drafted
M, and put me in the Replacement,
troops going overseas. They put
me in the Second and got plenty
Of action, had pair Q: ours, and
was badly gassed."
Brady declared that tie idea ol
another woman being l.rked up IN
the blackmaiI case with Miss Page
was the bunk" II engineered ant
pulled the whole deal" he declared
THAT girl hasn't got sense enough