The Washington times., 1930-12-02
GIRL
How a Red-Haired Beauty
Overturned a Great City
CHAPTER "a

of great greater New York was
kicking off in a bedbuggy hos
pital-hiS unclean clay wither-
ing under the slashes and
gashes of the slugS from the
machine gun and automatics OF
q mysterious mob.
AS he wriggled, dying, there
writhed the wreckage Of the
city's magnificent shame. Bank
er5 wondered and worried;
gangsters got gooseflesh and
ducked under cover; women
blinked suddenly out of their
hop and their hootch and their
kept. security and speculated on
what was to become of them;
an old established store of
enviable reputation slammed its
doors and the investigators
found that it had been only a
SNUG blind for Silks smuggling
activities.
B. B., who they had always
said had his office under his hat
and his heart under control,
was skidding down the short.
one-Way westbound street with
no turns, right or left. And the
green signals were set and
Death knew no speed laws.
A SallOw Smile
The newspapers were yowling.
They never had fought Free
man. They had known plenty
about him. But they knew
plenty about plenty of local in
stitutions. If the Statue of Lib
erty had keeled over and her
light gone out they would have
turned the light of publicity on
the remnants of the romance
and glamour of that perpendicu.
lar old lady without a sense OF
humor or a sense Of pity. Silk
was as conspicuous and as fall
en- a manifestation.
And he was croaking the good
croak-and his Sardonic. sneer.
ing, bloodless lips were wreathed
in a sallow smile at the slick
dicks and the domineering Dis
trict Attorney, who had solemn.
ly gone through the pious ritual
Of asking him foolish questions.
Old Pete, the ex-convict vas
sal of the Big Boy, had blus-
tered and bleated. There had
been the unacceptable myste-
rious telephone call an hour or
less before the knock.off, the
aged servitor had heard his
master check back, as he al
ways did, and the call had come
from a beautiful titian-topped
girl Freeman had of late played
furiously-a crimson-headed fe-
male from Chicago called Po
lack Annie! And what mon
iker that was for headlines.
Well
A Vivid History
The Chicago correspondents
had choice data on Polack
Annie. She had been the
sweetie Of Kinky King. chief
of the West Side gangsters, and
she had banged him off. She
had lived with the Edgewater
Kid and the Kid had been mas
sacred on the spot. Goldie
Gorio, the racket-hoss, had
raided and stuck up Central
Detail and paralyzed the town
and kidnapped her. His whole
mob had been typewriter
without benefit of carbon paper
while he was in his suburban
fort making lurid love to her.
The chief of police had come
In on them and had clipped
Goldie with his own gold-plated
gats. yeah? Like hell he had!
Annie hadD
And where now was this
flaming femme? The papers
asked. She had disappeared.
And wouldn't she? Hadn't she
graduated from the University
OF Chicago?
But who then was this brun-
ette who had been nailed in
room 444 of the dingy Victory
Hotel, where Freeman had been
sprawled out so ignobly in the
lobby by the hail of hot lead?
She would give no explanation
other than that her lover had
her. They had regis
tered "Thos. Livermoor and
wife" A revolver had been
found in the air shaft beneath
the window in the $6-a-day
suite-paid up in advance.
Officer Hills said he had seen
the pretty woman throw some
thing away.
reer"an's Own Gun
The serial numbers on the
rod had been traced-and the
police lad learned that the
weapon had been bought in New
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Freeman! There was a Maxim
silencer on the gat-and what
the hell could that mean? One
cartridge had been exploded
and that was a further mystery.
had that bullet landed
and who had triggered it?
Two men. said tn he Si1k'S
oodyguardS, were held as mate
rial witnesses. They hadn't
seen a thing. One. his chauf-
Ieur, had driven him to the
hotel. The other was his chauf.
Ieur'S boyhood friend. They
had entered the hotel to wash
their hands a short time after
Freeman vent in-and they
had stumbled over his groan-
ing form. They were very
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