Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1931, Page 52

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CULTIVATING “UNCLE.” S I have said, Mr. William was unattractive and, frankly, Mrs. ‘William was not a very pretty woman. In appearance she was small and wizened; assertive, appearances more belie the truth. She was @ dear, clever, delightful person. She had a great gift of silence and an equally great gift of what one might term, inconspicuousness. Very few people who were, for & time. with Mrs. Williams H, William, could afterward give any sort of identificatory description of her. The third of the trio who kept hope alive in my heart was that astonishing product of his times and environment, to whom I have already referred, and whom I will now describe, the crooks’ “Uncle"—albeit his hd& was given to me, in this case, unwittingly and unin- tentionally. How shall one describe Uncle? For he was at once a shameless liar whose word was his bond, & cunning rogue of guileless mind, an inveterate thief with whom one could trust one's property as with a bank; a murderer of the sweetest nature, a pleasant and gentle performer of cruel deeds. In the gopd—or bad—old days, Uncle, a very prominent underworld palitician, had been one of the best- known saloon-keepers in Chicago; and was, in these times, an even more im- portant politician and proprietor of one !of the best known speak-easies of the same city. The police rested assured that Uncle would give them no false information, and bear no false witness whereby some innocent stranger should suffer for a crime committed by one of Uncle's | triends. | -Crooks, on the other band, knew that there was not enough money in all the world to bribe him to betray a trust. And although this strange creature was admittedly and professedly the friend, kelper and confidant of crooks and criminals, he was not regularly engaged in the pursuit of any form of crime—save indeed that of vender of illicit alcohol. Nor was Uncle in any sense of the word a recelver of stolen property, albeit he did, at times, “mind” for his friends large sums of money and articles of the highest value, such as jewelry, which he must have known or very strongly suspected to have been stolen by those who intrusted them to his care. For this service he made a fixed but reasonable charge, and once a crook had’ deposited money or jewelry with Uncle, he knew it to be as safe as if it were in a bank. Uncle was not only useful indirectly to the police, but was aiso, for political reasons, under the protection of some powerful “higher-up,” for Uncle swung a big vote. Willlams H. Willlam, like the chief of ice, was of opinion that if anybody in America knew an: g at all about the gang who had got away with tke St. Clair diamond, it would, sooner or later, be my friend “Uncle.” For not only was he a clearing house for all the information of crookdom, but was also the personal friend of all the bi €Tooks. Naturally it would be idiotic to walk into Uncle’s speak-easy and simply say to him: “Who was it kidnaped 8t. Clair’s kid and touched him for the big sparkler?” Uncle would merely regard the speaker with cold suspicion and ask him what he was talking about. No, our plan, as sketched out by liams ‘H. Willlam, was that he and his wife should impinge most gradually upon the ss of Uncle, in the role of obviously very wealthy and suc- cessful_ci ; that they should very gradually cultivate him, and that after weeks and months—and, if necessary, year—they should attain ‘gucy, and win his approval and confl ence. | Not, of course, in any hope that they | would be able to induce to betray any secrets or intentionally to tell us 2 Typical Liggett Values\ with each purchase of a large tube of Rexall Milk of Magnesia Tooth Paste at the regular price of ith wool . Holds loose it Lo ol B el with every purchase of a Box of CaraNomeFace Powder at the regular price of $2 quarrelsome and shrewish. Rarely did | ood By Percival Christopher Wren, Author of “Beau Geste” anything detrimental to the interests of those who had trusted him. But there was, according to William, a chance that he might be hoodwinked into -indiscretion; for, like many other great men, Uncle had a weakness, He s no drunkard, and indeed he rarely K. ut when he did, he drank a deal; and, although he never be- came (ntoxicated, became mellow, rem- iniscent and communicative. or remark would suffice to shut him up like an oyster. On the other hand, a friend and con- fidant who talked wisely and well, gently leading the conversation in the required direction, might learn a lot in the course of gossip, provided he betrayed no interest in what he heard and contrived to convey the impression that all this was no news to him and that he and Uncle were equally well in- formed upon the subject. Naturally, Uncle was not our only hope, nor he and the clientele of his Even so, a single indiscreet question | m speakeasy our sources of informa- tion on the subj of the past and current history of the leading crooks ‘whose more lar line of ess was bla and kidnaping for ran- som. Not only did we ent every likely speakeasy, but for & ‘William and I actually opened and ran one of our own, in the hope that we might make it the rendesvous.of the %ol pugle With whom we wished to enlight- ening converse. & This venture came to an abrupt end, however, for one day the representa- tives of & big beer baron, rival to him who supplied us with our ligtior, burst Into our saloon and sought sorrow. “Say,” bawled our visitor, “which of you guys runs this joint?” “T do,” admitted William, suppressing a hiccup. “Pleased to meet you.” “Well, look at here. You won't be pleased next time if you go on selling any more North Side stuff, sce? Be- ining tomorrow, you'll get your daily ollop of our dope—and you'll cash up to me every Sunday morning, Get e? “I'm fixed to pay dollars on_Satuf- days,”. replied Wil . “But I could y in lead Sundays if you must come,” e added. ‘The man's right hand moved like lightning, there was a flash of blued steel from his hip pocket, and a shat- tering bang. But the bang came from Willilam, and the West Side beer baron's repre- sentative staggered back with a broken arm as an automatic pistol fell from his hand. n't stoop for it, brother,” advised Willlam, “and go while the going’s good.” Nursing his arm, the man staggered to the door, and as he shouldered it open turned and faced us. “Make yer wills, both of yel” he growled, and was gone. “I've been expecting just that” ob- served Willlam. “Joint keeping’s @& mug’s game. Your own brewery shoots you up if you switch over to another, b e other shoots you up if you lon He then rang up our own beer baron’s office to mention the matter, and received a reply to the effect that in any case the usual amount of beer would be delivered every Monday and the usual sim of money collected every Saturday. ©On Willlam pointing out that it was derogatory and insulting in the beer baron that his preserves should be poached upon in this shameless way, that gentleman or his representative | did, however, add that in the interests of sport and fair play he would send Slipper McGinty around on Sunday | morning, with instructions to join wu-; liam and myself behind the bar and shoot it out with the West Side repre- sentative and his friends when they came to collect. | This, provided we won the battle, might teach Big Bill Mflfimi not 0| butt in with his beer where he didn't | belong. However, our resources were really in the beer business, and we were mnot out for wealth, notoriety or trouble, we closed down and quit. We preferred to do as neither our heart nor[ wrong by stealth, and would have blushed to find it fame. Lighthouses May “Talk.” Lighthouse equipment now under study will make it possible for light- houses to “talk” their warnings through fog and thick weather, Similarly, it will be possible to entertain the ships that pass with news of the day and weather forecasts. This revolutionary change is made possible in maritime life through a mod- ern_electrical by which music, | “modulated” on & light beam, much as programs are sent out on the radio waves from a high-pow- station. 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