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HERMAN ROSEHTHAL WHOSE K.1LLINQ- - POLICE COMMISSIOKER. EH RIGHT WHO IS IN $ MARKED T?e expressed great indignation that a KEEPING TJe SUBdECTIOK. BEGINNING-O- F crime had been committed. Ploggl .TAe stayed in. hiding for a few days whllo tho politicians who controlled the elec END FOR. tion services of the Five Points ar- ranged certain matters, and then ho Slaying of Rosenthal Marked the Be surrendered. Of courso ho pleaded e. ginning of the End for Gangs Whose "Biff" Ellison, who was sent to for his part In the killing of by Bill Harrington in 's New Grimes Had Been Covered a Brighton dive, came to the from Maryland when he was in his Crooked Politicians Some of WHERE early twenties. Ho got a Job' as ARTHUR. WOOD5P WHO PUT T5e GANGS bouncer in Pat Flynn's saloon in 34 Reformed THEY ObLUncr. Bond street, and advanced rapidly in Old Leaders Who tho estimation of gangland, because he was young and husky when he and zenship back Tanner Smith becamo as approaching tho end of his activities. hit a man that man went down and r 0 as anybody. Ho got Besides these there were numerous stayed down. That was how he got decent a citizen Resulting From Rivalry Among Were a Job as beef handler on the docks, other fights. bis nickname ho used to be always stevedore, and threatening to someone. later became a boss The Ilornthnl . "biff" And was killed last week Tanner :Many, but None, Perhaps, More Thrilling the usually ho did as ho when he Than threatened. El Smith had amassed a fortuno of somo Tho murder of Herman Rosenthal ro- lison was a dandy, too, so careful of by Gyp tho Blood and other gangsters physical appearance $100,000. "Bumping Off" of Kid Twist by "Louie the his that ho did pollco helped him, and many of marked the beginning of the end for lerj always deign to fight with his Tho gangsters powerful forces. That not' the officers who had been his enemies tho as W- fists and take a chanco on messing such a stir, and tho need of re- How "Dandy Johnny" Came In tho old days becamo his best friends created Lump" up his manly beauty. Tho blackjack straight. Only two form became so pressing, that there- and beer bottlo were his when he turned power gangs waned, the favorite days beforo his death Smith sent word after the of tho - weapons, nnd many a tough customer y are no gangs worthy 3 to. Grief Through Vanity to tho writer that he had reformed until there had., ho put away with them. After doing well, of tho namo. The are that' waa and was going straight and present It his custom to kick them his namo and the probably tho best known of tho Dolan old Whyo Is a good was Just a nico nttle boy, clerk while they were down, and asked that If given of the a"ulk and If the of his old gang was mentioned day gangsters, but they have This is the Snat one a series case In point.- "Dandy Johnny" was perhaps, or a soda water Jerker, or fancy seized him, to gougo eyo name no for somo years, al- of out an these It be noted that ho little or trouble o! three which the full cno ot shining lights of the , something equally harmless. But he or perhaps chew off an ear. In articles frequent fights articles in tho was now straight. And In Justice though they havo had gangs gang-ite- rs gang flourished in carried a gun always and ho knew how .Ellison was great value- - be history of the and an old time that the of around it ought to be said with tho Marginals and used to York, from, the "O'Os which was tho ruling tn uso It. Thore have been many, election time, pol to Tanner Smith enemies of Tanner Smiths. of New late and and h6 not only went straight himself bitter tho ttrliest days is told for th$ rst power in tho old Greenwich Villago stories told about the real reason for Itlclans recognized it. Consequently that A remnant of the Gophers Is left, but the killing of Kid but ho persuaded others of his old time. district, a gang which got its name Twist For several no became a person. of some Impor pollco say they too give llttlo trouble. The pollco members, years after it happened It was the , so gang to reform too. The gangs worthy of through, the call of its ana was aDic to glvo a of least fifteen have really had no call coun- fashion in gangland every time a racket onco yenr that the reformation at to since Com- "Wheeooo." That is a that a under the auspices duo to Smith and the name contend with By . years, and one was arrested for some one or tne "lim Ellison Association." which CLUBB1H&. men, was Tanner Woods started his crusado try boys havo used for to WILLIAM F. BAK.ER.. WHOSE Smith's Influence He estab- missioner' persons out of ten tn ficw that every country boy knows, but tho come out in print with the "real was Eflff Ellison and nobody else, and COMMISSIONER Tanner In 1914 and sent almost 200 of them fox Ploggl hlm-so- lf ORDER. WHEN POLICE lished tho Marginal Club, paid nil tho "Whyos adapted It to city usea and be- reason" the murder. which netted him usually around 11.500 . to prison. NINE probably Imagine that told two or three different stories, WAiS A BLOW TO TSe GANGSTERS expenses, nnd thero ho was always ttt came famous through their employ- or $2,000. At ono time ho and another to give It Is largely, If not altogether, a mat- ...u rariff.tr who ruled Or but when he was brought to trial he gangster got avallablo for men who wanted to was tou. ment of It. young together and established ways become decent ter ot Individual opinion as who lent helped the politician to Wiet- seemed to be so very and he Paresis Hall, Cooper up their evil and greatest gangster "Dandy Johnny" was as proud of his so very court near Union, but tho that and looked Innocent that tho no onco moro. Knowl- he lower East ana West sides manly beauty as ho was of his ability gavo quit that finally because it In two guns, ona his hnt time they wero attacked by the thugs. In New York ever saw. Having a special him but a year in Elmlra, which. volved work nnd responsibility, carried under The gangs that existed edge of vlclousness ether parts of tho city tor so many os a yegg and loft worker. Ho had a scorn, and strapped his This resulted In a great many broken Into the and criminal as ho expressed it with "he spent most of and tho other under when Commissioner Woods went ity one gnngstcr, one Apacho they see carved cane which he had had made at could standing on head." The his tlmo between Chick hump. And In the Bridge heads, but tho method was bo effica- powerful of particular rears was the sort of do his Tricker's saloon in 128 office wero not so strong and naturally conclusion considerable expenso and which was court of course had no way of knowing Park Bow, and district was tho gang controlled by cious that tho gangs wero practically gangs llko tho Kellys reaches the that la tha moving pictures and on the digger miko place as the oldtlme gangster was tho greatest of thorn the applo of his oye. Ho went nowhere Just how bod Loulo the Lump was nor Salter's in Pell "Yakey Yake" Brady, while further broken up, assisted by tho activity of tho others. that evilly glinting eye. a him street. When he went into the New and tho Eastmans and all, yet In fact there may havo been ' itige, with an without it, oven taking it with how he woa going to turn out after- uptown there wore such gangs as the the Central office detectives In arrest- Kelly reformed by that time, had plunder Brighton and killed Bill Harrington, Is of had other gangsters who wero braver and Kit thlrt, a plaid cap drawn down when ho went to steal and ward. It is a matter of record, how- "Morons," under tho leadership of ing many of tho leaders. It worthy of Vaca-rel- ll It, ne was really Kelly, pa- assumed his real name Paul moro dangerous. Tho opinion of the - kill. The police knew ho had ever, Ploggl crooked aftor Paul al old noto, in that every time tho ever the forehead, and a- swagger and that was Just as Mickey Moran, and tho San Juan fact and had gone into the real estate - more than onco a detective as when though the reason has never appeared. trolmen were allowed to use their writer Is about cqunllyyined between tnit In itself was. enough to 'pro- and after ho came out ot Elmlra negro gang, which held forth In tho business with his brother. Eastman MonfT found whero "Dandy Johnny" ho went i'osslbly it was merely because he clubs freely in dealing with tho gang- Paul Kelly nnd Eastman snd tlMm that here was a man bent on it in. district north of Columbus Circle and was In Jail, and several others of tho had carelessly left it behind him in n Thero were a lot of shots fired In the felt tho thirst for blood, and was to River. Hell's sters tho gangs havo been curbed. curiously enough both of these men rilment. That la tho gangster as west tho North leaders were also in prison. But there de- burglarized. But it always .fight in was killed, se Jealous of Kelly and the Kelly power gangs, havo been few gangsters with havo reformed and are leading lie vivid Imagination of tho moving loft he had which Twist Kitchen had halt a dozen all There wero plenty of gangs even then, such way the hands of a Ploggl dozen or more and influence. -vlll- e, enough to up to a police- cent lives. Certainly there have been Wrture conceived nun, found its into and n vicious and criminal, while nerve stand Laydon, director has friendly politician and was returned to men opened up on Razor Riley, a gangster who was man in fair combat, even though they crowds as that of "Pickles" few gnngsters who wielded more power tml he Is the sort of gangster that other Five Points Chelsea, Yorkvlllo and the "Dopey Benny" king of all tho irangstcr. bocauso In thoso days the Twist and another Eastman gangster small hut vicious, was with him in the were allvo with wero armed with a blackjack. Fein, the than Kelly and Eastman did In their fiever did exist outajdo of tho movies. Greenwich districts poisoners of thugs Ihnd "Whyos politically powerful, and known as Cyclone Lewis, whose real Job that finished Harrington. Riley During 1900 and 1910 the Car Barn the horso and the palmy days. Kelly the old Five The really dangerous gangster were bands of ruffians, although they never Johnny" wleia a diock- - name was Vach Lewis, a wrestler and and Kelly had been enemies for a long power Kellys gang Humpty Jacksons were who hlred themselves out to labot Points gang with more than 1,500 hirdly ever looked part, although Dandy could approached tho of the and the tho plectlon day with a certainty strong man, and both ot them had sev- tlmo, and when he nnd Ellison entered Gophers perhaps most dangerous of these leaders and to manufacturers for members, and besides this ho controllpd tiere havo been, of course, gangsters Jack on and tho and the Eastmans the Maddens, a endeared him greatly to eral bullets in them. A girl was shot the New Brighton the night of tho somo of gangs. Car Barn crowd was par- strike duty; tho Ownoy many smaller gangs whose nctlvltlen itho resembled what they were. Jack of effect that and tho others. The He was fairly safe, no too, Carroll Terry, a Coney Island murder Harrington saw trouble in the Some of gangs continued for ticularly vicious and cowardly In Its gang of vicious thieves and cutthroats; wero more local. Perhaps Kelly had Elrocco. for lnstaaco, always wore a tho politicians. these spe- 4,000 did and no matter chorus girl who had lived with Ploggl air. He immediately yelled to Paul years umle.' old names, while upon tho police. They never and the band of Back Sirocco, who at the height of his powers somo Kft brown and never shaved as matter what he Kelly- their attacks In black- shirt left his cane, so long as ho and who later transferred her shifting to get his gun, which was a dis- others under new leaders acquired now waylaid a copper and gave him a fair cialized' In labor troubles and men under his command. Eastman's often as he might have done; "Nigger where he Do- power was less, with gang own- - territory. affections to Twist, probably because tinct violation of gangland's prin- In many became to hide on jacking pickets In strike troubles. hardly his JIlW who kept a notorious remained in his titles nnd Instances fight; It was their custom Salter, he beat her oftener aad more satis- ciples and beliefs, which are that every known to police os new gangs. tops greet policeman pey Benny confessed to District Attor- of 1,000 men and many smaller gnngs 41ve In was usually the tho roof and the Chatham Square, "Dnndy Johnnr's" Downfall factorily than Ploggl was able to do. man must fight his own battles and thero wero so many stones. ney Perkins and gavo Information which flocked to his colors in the totted roughly took great pride Ploggl killed But of them that with a shower of bricks and If gang and "Dandy Johnny" got ambitious, It has ieen said that must not bo warned when his murder it is Imposslblo to chronicle all of Its and which resulted In the breaking up of event of a wnr. to Ms uncouthness, and oven tho ro But dver girl, It also ono of them found mark Kelly a career, hearing of a particularly rich loft Twist the and has if imminent Riley Immediately turned their names excepting those of tho officer cold on tho pave- many gangs, and was had remarkablo ioabtable , aa brave and said he the Eastman stretched the which space prevents going Into ladon with great booty, he went into been that shot and shot Harrington through1 the head most Important, lot alone nttempt to gangsters In- sent to prison for burglary. in nd dangerous a gangster as over tranirster In revenge for tho killing of ment tho Car Barn then detail hero. Ho was nn Enst Side boy, u another gang's territory over in Oreeno and then he and Ellison opened fire on tell of their doings nnd tho doings of dulged In the gentle practice of "hoof- blackjacked a voter or robbed a stuss the Bottler, who was a Five Points everybody in the place, but particu- Mndden'a Mode of Ltvlntr. and becamo a prize fighter by virtue street to pull off tho Job. unfortu- to tho various members. By 1910 many ing" him; that Is, they kicked and JM1, was never nny great, beauty. necessary man and whoso death of courso had larly on Paul Kelly. Half an hour later gangs disappeared, Madden was a typical gangster vi- of having shipped tho mascot of tho. nately for him ho found it Last-ma- n. of theso had or pounded him while he lay unconscious teemed always to need a haircut, bo avenged by the blood of an the police entered the place and found cious, cruel and cowardly. Ho was old Granite Athletic Club. After that pa to kill a night watchman, and In the Spanish Louie Basel, by had changed their nrnnes, or had been and helpless. Theso thugs Inaugurat- Jina.very often he would be seen cane lying on the It was not a soul, nothing but the lifeless body broken up by the pollco. In year never known to work; but ho always ho became n professional, fighting a trolling excitement loft his killed the Bottler, and that ed a veritable rclgn of terror In the his territory hi" gapg at the body. The trail th wav. who of Harrington on the floor. A few days the gangs gave tho pollen tho had plenty of money. Somo Idea ot his draw with Tommy Dixon, whipping great floor beside the man's although shooting was witnessed that neighborhood of Second avenuo and good h!ht of Its powers was the was so "Dandy Johnny" was the later, however, Kelly sent word from most trouble were these, as listed by philosophy of life may bo gained by Bill Barret and fighting f.ghtt rivtl of plain, and by more than thirty men, nobody ever Ninetieth street, and on one occasion, with many ho beenmn Paul Kelly's Fve Points because-al- politicians had for tha pollco to como and get tho detective bureau, with the number the following account, written by him- others. Then with hanged, l the the police anything after they beaten and stoned a a soft shirt, and a cap drawn to savo him was able to tell him Ho had been shot, and seriously, members hangouts: hid self for tho police, of he did on foreman for an Italian contracting .oyer not influence enough from of their nnd their policeman so badly that ho had to bo what his eyes, or lounging, at ease In charge that proved itself. about It. and a great many others had been Car Barn Gang Fifty members. four days of his career: company, saw tho opening In ml'ltant his a murder Kid TvrUt. taken to a hospital they became so A favorite dive clad In his shirt that nobody but The Kllllnjt of shot, but the pollco found only tho Rendezvous nt Ninetieth street and Thursday Dance in the politics and organized the Paul letves Even tho Judges knew bold they posted this sign afternoon Kelly and without a collar. But Johnny" could taken that At any rate, Louie tho Lump came dead. Riley died before he could be Second avenue. Police assailants nnd that at Tammany Hall. Dance and Association, which became one nan "Dandy have throughout tho neighborhood: cabaret strongest In like Eastman and Salter and although the gangster upon Twist and "Cyclone" Lewis In a tried, but Ellison was sent to prison for with record of eight policemen put in at night. Took girls homo. Went to of the organizations the Sirocco cane there, and United nnd was a controlling-powe- were exceptions. Usually tho was well supplied with alibis they beer garden at Coney Island and an his share in tho affair. Ho la thero tho hospital. Carry guns. restaurant nnd stayed until 7 A. 51. States Cingster dandy, ;' In East Sldo politics a long was something of a of no avail. argument and quarrel followed. In now. Tanner Smith Gong Thirty mem- THIS IS A DEADLINE FOU COPS I Friday, for even were : : away back In tho days of the ' Lewis's account of the NO TnESl'ASStNO UNDER TiVMnV ...... V. T T time. When the reform waves bgan Ploggl, known throughout Alfred Henry The Dearlnnlnnr of the End. bers. West Side ruffians operating In ! : Ona. ...I 014 Louis TEN'ALTY OF DEATH. appear Kelly saw tho handwriting Dead Kabblts, tho , shooting It Is said that Twist, who vicinity of nvonue : TUB CAIt BAHN OANO. t ... ir ito gangland as ''Louie the Lump" be All of things happened during the Tenth and the iVV at 7 .PJEC0"S-..,M,e,- t aa the so called, gooa these I I??!?1 fn"CJ the wall and quit. Ho Is now by the of his chunky build, resembled was half drunk and in great tow Twenties. Attacked four policemen tJ girls saloon, stayed ! " fiy, because wore cause Lump Jump the first years of the present cen- there until making money nnd Is estimated to be they their shirts Fauntleroy dressed in humor, .made Loulo the tury, tlmo power within few months. Carry guns. P. M. Took girls homo. Back to sa- outtlde their had a Little Lord at a when tho of the And that they meant this In good worth a considerable fortune. trousers when they clothing when he shot and nut of a window, and that the Corcoran Roost Gang Thirty mem- loon S A. M. their big fights modern gangs was at Its height when Tam- faith was Bhown by tho fact that with- and stayed there until Monk Eastman began his gang with other gangs. He killed Kid Twist at Coney Island In killing was largely due to the natural many controlled politics bers. From first avenue nnd Thirty- - Saturday Slept all day. haved often, had been in the of the in a week two policemen were stoned Went to career as a bouncer In tho New Irving he dressed well, he 1908. Ploggl owed allegiance to Paul fcellnir of Ploggl that he had city but when uneasy warnings of re seventh street. Carry slung shots and dances in Bronx nnd on Park avenue. nair oiled and plastered down and Newspaper stories of the and beaten in that territory. Hall on the Bowery, and because of "Kelly's gantr. which was the old Five sulted. form were beginning to hit the Bow revolvers. All around thugs. with Sunday Slept untl) 3 o'clock. Dnnco hands was al- -' Twonty-flv- o Contemporary the Car Barn his warlike ambitions and his nblllty manicured, and he Points gang with modernized metnoas, tlmo glvo various versions of what ery and Chinatown tho Lush Lobs members. Tammany Hall night. e. and other fa gang Humpty Jacksons, and at afternoon and nJ( very careful about his appear-ui- tlmo was happened. Thero is no question, now Hangout In Doyers street. Thieves and the a rough nnd tumble fighter and while Kid Twist at that argument Ploggl vorite haunts of the gangsters. In Just about as bad, was the gang con- Up until about 1912 tho gangs gangman ho roii rapidly. It wasn't of the Monk Eastmans, the eer, that after the days an pickpockets. Generally unarmed. fought mostly police, al- leader those there were innumerable. trolled by Tanner 8mlth. Tha activi- with the mt-n- y years boforo he had his own Kellys, by vlr- - came out of the beer garden and had I Canary Island C.An.7 Twenty mem- - rntMdloun great rival gang of tho iramrn. Tim onttrn rltv n tnfoat-- rt ties of outfit havo added though of courso there wero many gang nnd was n power in tho territory Gunffiters. Monk speech with several other members of ' uperaw street norm this Interest among Such tue of the fact that Enstman with them, and notable catiesters. men irom l.bui now becauso of Smith, fights themselves. But theso In which ho operated. wan men as Iaul Kelly and his up doing a bit tho wno ciusiereu lo nricm mver uu avenue, the fact that fights Eastman himself was tho river who were vicious criminals and had ruin whoso namo was Thomas Smith, were sporadlo and occasional, several shootings and reliito Louis Ploggl, 'better known as Fltz-patrl- him, and with tho driver of nn .Carry .brass knuckles slung shots, real arrested for and bocauso Richlo about committed more murders than thnv and gamo tho principal fighting of the gangsters was to prison the the Lump"; "Biff" Ellison, coupo which arawn up Gang mem-nu- n was shot and killed over a card finally ho sent nnd had been killed. Fltzpatrlck ancient had had fingers and toes, wero as numer-- 1 "umpty Jackson Fifty was dono with the police. But In 1912, t Inr-l- f In tho Marginal Club a week leadership of his gang fell to Kid 'Em Tin" McMnmiM and leadership the East- near tho curbing. This vehicle moved r arnrrn nmr. fhnlbers. Operate from a graveyard In about the waves, ac- "her aspired to the of m thev tint ago. 1910, for two years What with reform tho Twist. For several years the pollco of tho highest rank In gangland Monk was sent away, and down tho street until It stood directly principal gangs of tlmo wero 'tho ast sldo nonr Fourteenth street About and tivity of tho nnd the general ed mans after gar- that Paul were iollce heard llttlo or nothing of Eastman, more like clerks than criminals to fall in with his In front of tho door of the beer Kelly's Points, which some end becona nvonue. mhckup men thereafter, the Tanner Smiths a cleanup that politics was experiencing. "14 Kid Twist seemed Five had In. police. They when tho United States entered gangsters. Some of these men den. , 1.B0O strong arm workers and thieves thorn the side of the graft of gangs but plans. He arranged a conference of membors and was auorome in the tho became less tho tho old gangster enlisted un extremely fastidious, so much so gang, Some fifteen minutes later a gang Carry guns and blackjacks. used stilettoes to a largo extent, and It ever had been, natu- war the leading members of the but the territory between and than and this Twenty-sovent- h ' Fifty-thir- were badly injured der his real namo with tho iney affected individual pecullarl-- " romcthlng happened thero and Fltz- ster of the Five Points whose face was the Bowery, City Hall Park and Four- Jungle Band West d several policemen rally caused tho rivalry between them t adornment, even though such r.ot known to Twist went Into the beer street. Twenty members. Thieves in encounters with tho thugs. This Division, the old Now York patrlck was found by the police with teenth street; the Eastmans, with 100 to Increase. Gunrd, He served with n distinguished and mado it garden and told Twist and Lewis that fighting men, controlling and footpads. Carry guns and knives. gang was finally broken up after Ar- Gangs kept invading each National them a bullet in his heart. Kid Dahl, a the territory other's In all In which enough for tho to Carroll Terry was outside and wanted Bow- San Juan Hill Gang Forty mem- thur Woods beenmo Pollco Commis- to up the-- gambling honor the battles that " detectives friend of Twist's, arranged things eo between Monroe street and the territory hold when he comizn them largely up to see Twist thought a great bers. Carry guns. Tenth avenue sioner and started his crusado against houses In 1912 trouble division participated, and and determine that he was arrested, and turned them. ery and tho East River; the Gas House and and this culmi cit- ! 1 camo back Gov. Smith restored his 7 that V n hart mmmlHAd nma nflr. girl, who was turning con hold- Sixty-fift- h gangsters. Smith was sent to prison In gang in court with a perfect alibi, so that deal of the Gang, with about 200 members, street nated a general war In which of his 'cular crime. Htlll. In rtavM thn money over to him, and he ing In Shields Gang Twenty mem- year nnd several others of the fifty were fought. izenship on tho recomendatlon (hnn nobody was over brought to book for slderable forth Third avenue between James for a some forty or battles commanding now wtcrs had such political power Lewis left the garden and went Eighteenth streets, and bers. Operate on Second avenuo gang also got prison terms. Somo of tho most Important of theso officers. Eastman that the qrime. Dahl was later rewarded and Eleventh and a good Job nnd Is a decent citizen, "V crime short was usually given into the street. But as they reached ,the Gophers with S00 members and about Forty-seven- th street Always When Smith got out of prison he were the conflict between tho Red Pep- has of murder for his services by being the Is a fnct that tho wnr and the uhed UD bv cmnltDA Tintlllrlnrm. by the sidewalk Ploggl stepped up nnd the terrors of district in Seventh armed. saw the error of his ways and re- pers and the Duffy Hills In 102d otreot, It the stuss game privilege owned a Five that American army were responsible for nd even murder was openly winked gangster called "Tho Bottler," lacod a bullet through Twist's head, and Tenth avenues between Four- Gns Houro Gang Fifty members. formed, although tho police declare In which four passengers In a piisslng . Points Forty-secon- tho regeneration of many of New '. DrrtvMn .u. . . j i al- Before Lewis could draw his revolver teenth and d streets. Thugs, Second avenuo and Twentieth it was' tho Influence- of his sister trolley car wero struck by bullets; the Twist gavo that game to Dahl, that York's old gang fighters. Thero were 'n enough to some one of did own It. But thn rest of the gang opened up and he fiome of the other prominent gangs street. Carry guns and blackjacks. that made him a decent citizen once fight In a Tenth avenuo saloon In murdor though Twist not many of them In both tho Seventy-sevent- h romlnence, kindly died before ho could fire n shot. It of the period wore the Battery Gang, These gangs becamo so pernicious more, Smith's sister was loyal to him which James Dunn, leader of the "Twist very conveniently and Twenty-sevent- h divi- se and the et there In- - happened that the Terry girl camo only a shadow of Its former self In their attacks on the pollco nnd on throughout his. career as a gangster, Gophers, was. killed; the row between havn hMn mimtviii arranged for "Tho Bottler's" murder, sions, and they made good soldiers. a height of was off citizens plundering used to tell pollco and tho Morellos at 'anccs of casr-- where irnniratfra have f.nd Dahl took over tho tftuss game aa along during the the battle, It cut from the others private and their and she the that the Joe B:kcrs Ktrayed Ploggl saw ho fired by gang got so bold eventually sho would got avenue nnd" 114th street, with a Such gang fighters as "Puggy" McKay, themselves nnd got the prison e. matter of course. and as soon as her the financial district, and the and that the her brother Third bullet striking in tho of Humpty llttlo hunch- Commissioner Baker of Po- of tho company his evil as- death list of five, nnd several fights "Lefty" O'Neill and "Rat Face" Wilson wins itiey deserved they was only 17 when at her. the her Jackson, that then the out of -r foocause Louie the Lump tho Zcllg gang and the of the old C- Barn gang entered th Uldn't Iav hnhlnrt thorn mKon nn killed Twist, he was a bad man shoulder. Then Ploggl Jumped Into back who becamo one of tho most lice Department was compelled to send sociates nnd get htm started on tho between Jack ha but gangsters city uplto tho police to gang commanded by Chick Trlckcr, a nrmv and tccamo sergeants and good Tiltchlef nnd dangerous man, although ho the coupe and escaped, while the other doughty ot the in out an order for use their right path. Sho succeeded, and aftor a mingled ot physical deformity vengeance overy prison got his gangster of the old days who was fast soldiers. iTif.nt, Tho case of "Dandy Johnny" didn't look It. To all appearances he gangsters with the crowd and his and who nightsticks with a ho camo out of and citi ft