The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-01-26
Durkir-- The Sheik Of 4Sheiks! Dapper
Gut1n1an Forgot Easily, So Betty Finds
Her Place Is Taken By a Ne,v Flame


Chicago. Jan. 26. Will o the wisp
Martin Durkin. dapper bandit and
nonchalant man-killer, captured after
spectacular man hunt, is still the
worlds champion shcik.
Durkln presents peculiar "com-
pleX." One minute he is daring
gunman. wearing bullet proof vest
and thinking nothing of killing men
who stand in the way Of the success
full perpetration of his crimes.
The next minute he is kind. ten
der, ardent lover. Good looking,
suave and well-dressed, Durkln has
had the knack of attracting all the
SWcethearts he could manage ever
since he was small town shcik back
in Griffith. Ind. p ~
Dared Death for Love
He has sweethearts everywhere
apparently. He has showered them
with all kinds Of valuable and proba-
bly, stolen presents and even dared
death to visit girls he seemed to love
A couple Of years ago he enjoyed
a triple honeymoon. taking three of
his light o. loves to Florida in "A
stolen automobile.
Lodged in Jail here under guard
heavy enough to overcome "a regi-
ment. Durkin pays only IA bored at
, tcntion to the plans that are being
! made for his trial-although he faces
the death penalty
Instead, his thoughts seem to be
mostly concerned with anxiety that
his little bride be taken care Of prop
erly and kept from suffering through
his arrest.
In true shcik fashion, he refuses
to worry about 1.-THE other woman.
, Betty Werner, for love Of whom he
| came within an inch Of being shot
to death a couple of months ago in a
Chicago apartment. OFF with the old
on with the new Durkin has already
forgotten Betty in the companionship
of his wife of six weeks, an l8year-
old girl who formerly was Miss Irma
Sullivan Of Cornell, Ill.
Up until recently. however, Betty
seemed to be first in his affections
1t was Betty who got him out of jail
in California a few years ago, dane
ing the shimmy in the police station
so effectively that the cops forgot
about Durkin, whom they had just
/ arrested, and he was able to dive ia
freedom out a second story window
Betty Hasn't Forgotten
But if Durkin has forgotten Betty
Betty hasn't forgotten Durkin.
When she learned that Durkin had
fOrsaken her memory and had mar
ried--actual!y married another girl
she was first dumbfounded. then, an
cry. Durkin had never talked mar.
rage to her, Betty. To be sure. this
may have been because she already
had a husband, though she was no,
living with him; but anyhow. the
without-benefit-of of-clergy propositions
had been all that Lurkin had offered
| her.
SO Betty has intimatcd that she
will begin to talk. If she does, 20.
lice believe they will add consider
ably to their already sizable total Of
information about Durkin's mis-
deeds.
Rich Gifts
All Durkin will say. however, is:
"Dcn't believe all the cops say
And leave my wife out Of it. She
thinks I'm a square guy"
Apparently che does. The hand.
some young sheik who came to the
little Illinois town in stolen auto.
mobile-gavc her q $1,000 diamond
ring and q costly fur coat. and bore
her away with him after a regular
wedding.
"Marty's been awfully good to
me- she says. "1've known him fol
two years, and / believed him when
he said he wanted to go straight