The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-12-10
Copyright By VIC. Chairman,

pays I'LL the money back.
Harp gets all worked up because
nobody's supposed to know he's mix
ing With Crane, and especially not
that he's drawing down from the
joint; because Harp got himself mar
r1ed while ago to swell skirt that
never seen Crane and knew nothing
OF the joint. So Harp holds the kid
and sends for Crane. Well, Crane
just naturally taps the kid on the
head; but he does it at the swell big
house where Harp lives, and that
raises howl. Because the last thing
Harp wants pulled In his house is
rough
But Harp's wife is away and the
MacLaren kid Is unconscious but not
quite croaked Harp believes he's go
Ing to croak, but Harp figures he can
save a lot OF inquiry II he makes it
look like an accident happened while
falling at his house; 80 he stages the
accident stuff and calls In DR.. Ber-
tram Darand. because he's young and
in swell society and comes Of the
right kind of family 20 that anybody
would believe what he says
We'll. Doctor Darand comes to the
house and Cotton pulls the accident,
but Darand sees through It; and
there's nothing to do but croak both
the kid and Darand, when that good
looking skirt, Kitty Hewitt, butts in.
She's soft on Darand and she calls
the cops. Crane and Harp have just
time to skip; Darand amt hurt at
all. 30 he gets the MacLaren kid to
the hospital, where he comes to and
spills his story. Well, everybody
makes the big howl They gotta
clean up the city. A guy, going down
the street, mindin' his own business,
passes bull he's spoke civil to every
day for months, an gets tapped on
the shoulder. So here we all arel
"And all because Of that Hewitt
dame r.
Such was the story Of effect and
cause as whispered about the cell tier
Of the jail to those of the sixty who
did not yet understand the whole rea-
son for their detention. Another
crime cleanup was on; and 1t had
been brought about by Kitty Hewitt,
who was not, herself, Of the under.
world, but was known to be the
friend Of Ed Pellen, notorious gum
man.
Such was the resentment spread,
with Increasing intensity, throughout
the various regions of the Chicago un-
derworld on the evening Of the day
after the habeas corpus lawyers had
done their duty and the sixty from
the jail returned to their companions
and confederates.
Ed Pellen had been In the pickup.
Indeed, pickup in Chicago which
did not include Ed Pellen was on the
face of 1t half-hearted affair. The
police always picked up PeIlen, but
never were able to "hold" him. And
though today there was nothing
proved against him. so that again he
had to be released. yet the newspa-
pers played him up as principal
in the affair. His picture was one
of the three large photographs spread
across the second page Of the eve
ming paper which DR.. Bertram Darand
had open beside his plate as he sat
down alone to his supper
The photograph to the left, an
abominable snapshot of Bertram him.
self, exaggerated-so it seemed to
Bertram-every feature Of his own
fneffectiveness. 1t showed, to be sure,
good-loOking and refined young
man, but ineffective; yes, all Of that,
particularly in comparison with the
photograph of the handsome and dar-
ing-looking young man opposite 1t.
The very legends under the pic
lures seemed to Bertram contrasts
in effectiveness; for the lines describ-
ing himself said:
DIR. Bertram Darand, who was
called in by Harper Cotton to witness
the prepared accident at Colton's
residence. Doctor Darand. young
| physician in practice on the north
side, Is the grandson of Marshall OAR
and, one of the leaders in Chicago
thirty years ago and famous as
builder Of the Worlds Fair. Doctor
in Chicago society,""
The legend under the contrasting
picture read:
Eddie Pellen. alias Big Black, alias
Walter Singer. ETC.. best known as
Eddie the Immune Antecedents,
birthplace and early environment un-
known"
Between the pictures OF the two
men, as though between two rivals.
was the photograph of girl-a gay
looking, blithe and lovely girl. With
fair hair and smiling lips and beau
tiful eyes gazing toward Pellen Her
legend read:
'The girl known to many members
Of north side society as Amy wing.
teacher Of Nah Jong She knew
Doctor Darand and, in manner not
yet explained satisfactorily. learned
of his detention at Colton's home.
whereupon she called the police. who
rescued Darand and young MacLaren.
"Said to be identified with an ex- ]
traordinary character KNOWN IN
very different sort OF society, as