New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1930, Page 13

e A i 7 had appened.” \ i } : 3 I e ¢ alittle gp tted him and told hi ] ' w : ' : e out all right. a 3 . . by No. thar ¢ theirs had to come out all right. An S(lg(l Of Bl()ndle k 4 > 1t 1ch at lie patted her golden hair and sighed i { b : ! diink and said he hoped so—but, gee, he - ) sa’sp't wished it hadn’t happened. | G 2108 : ! And next morning he went out tv ‘ i v Eas i said he'd be home around five . 4 2 g 3 S o'clock. So Blondie went to a picture (lC eteer S .o g : 1 \ i after she had prepared the dinner, a % ; ; et iy 3 ; ) but the final cooking, and got back 5 > 1 i o % s :y d four. LONDIE MORCROSS s som Sl dead again' the ; / § L 5 s : 5 : Utnie - opencd the door witl where down south, on a farm, f 1 J sl - AR e Nevt andi®iad orel foat 5 think, with her Kinfolss—wher X : b : » threshold when the disorder all about )¢ he the room struck her eye. She looked When Boots down-—and blood went cold in her she came from to begin with, 1oy S o he ¢ In a heap lay the Kid—her Kid! Stikhmed i s dead So handeuflied s 7] g i i 3 & ¥ Magec ) e g s ; i ; : \ Furniture was tumbled about, th « | : (g him was rumpled. There Just how a ant they can't go ; % e . ™ ok here, M. had been a fight. She dropped tren T S e ] v ; ¢ ! 1 ) © Dlingly to lier knees and picked up the hance on that—the o b % 4 o b o : thrunmog, J . Kid's head. It was clammy and chilly 1s won't stand for £ ,’?‘?9 “ 2 K i : L A terrible f benumbed her. She a yet twenty, and had gravitated to t 1 he's Lonely, or S ing . ; & LA Rt © NOW,nost fainted as she bent down further Biondie ever got tough Mazee mob i t tery. She was a well-bred big burg to go on th wonsibilitics o o . ; . ‘ ¢ ‘ 201 : me be. (5 Jook at face, which was quite tiir 1 don’t think she ¥ L ¢ lifeless. She gripped h But she wet her fect over the pera S. no pulse. of the night il the Kido A dappe chap lie was, e wa for the Magee outlit, 4 The Kid was dead, sure enough. arcu’t Avound his throat was a blui inegular line, ond on both sides of the windpipe were bluer areas of Emp'ror o* Kamchatka | 3 9 : yruised skin that had been torn ; $ am. An' sumetimes 1 - . - i : S through and tortured in the grip of a QUi pong : wanna la ' wh ; : : . : murderous thumb and forefinger. e Nid S g of bootlegzers, vum runney am'ly eruisin’ an’ give R P He was never on the rough e R Briiins, o nathe Glinkieblonolt tecr hilled, Well, it Say. Ud be tice as big . : . ; 3 traordinary occurrence. The appy if as sing. i v % 2 iy marriage came out and they went pretty for Blondie, who pictured well. Sut body thought to ask who had done out loud. boats, help haul actual runn Magee bossed those end i I got marrvied when | was He was a former longshoreman, it wiien Jova strong as a lion and as fiecvee. He was £ % 3 p o L he Kickeq Wdn't kmow nothin’ an - lidn’ have nothin ; s 5 ; : ‘ ; , 5 LiEs K 3 1st one of Boots Magee's ['m a big shot an 3 ' i Z & g : \ 4 ) lag - 3 = 7 G P riob. And those men aren’t meant to aroun’ my neck rilin . ; - ' : i i o for graft alone would have kept a bank goir When big bootlegg high, wide an’ handsome . , ; i« 1 ized after the se ble and panic that ' s St o A . : iy The gang gave him a grand funcral. H - Magee was profoundly affected. He told the boys to spare no expense Wid had been one of them—one of t best of them, followed prohibition, Magee vose with A AN A A the rackets. Soon lhie controlled a Z 2z tleet of deep-scagoing speed boat headed in 1 ax and and the Bahamas f pico ; At > funeral he got into the car Ie home port was : L e e with Blondie. Ie consoled ler and tan lsland, in the r ; 2 ; H ¢ # ; promised t she wouldn't want for ! boys would look after would look after her i She thanked him inaudibly admired the w @S Sound, where the docking und thenee the goods w by big trucks in the dozen warehou 1 i U T 5 /s e T e it i tribution | as she leaned on the a Millions dollars were andled of Boots Magee. Exvery represented move than Four nights later was seen din ng with him at the cafe where the Magee outfit fraternized. Some of the : fellows smiled a little and passed the New Brunswick, whe he bought i R P = & I oL - knowing wink. Mage ast e X > LA d d Ll worker, all right. What a man! MeCoy, and paid off with counte Foot Across the o ) | S . 2 currency. Threshold i s { c T B! ) 1 . Several imes agal s.ondie wa. i g Wi (e AV e A g outhed % £ uneaes ! and the Blood Went Csld Within l ten withiBoohs ey | Her. ; ) \ 5 sy lle would get plastered and loud, T e : “and they heard him telling her what a 'h crew wasnit so edasy to i L e 2 Kid ) ” . pip she was, and how cookoo he was fandle. (f it looked like a jam Magce abiolt : i L vill: I : i 7 about her. She would give him the would just tie a weight around the 2204 ced S v ; ¢ ey . 7" faintest ripple of a smile. She looked Chinkics’ necks and heave them ove ¢ { G ; | ) Mag § T ; 3 5 > gorgeous in mourning, and there poard. e croaked twelve of them . £t 2 ) rea e vasn't one in the Magee caboodle who : it ‘ & : ugued with him, givl-like. WhY gidn't cnvy the B 2 you e AR | . ¢ et Magee had a flat in the center of So you may sce that he was 1 v. Bl 2 h) t 3 M 0 S : ... town that he kept as a playhouse, as a He was married and had v 5 < rendezvous and as a hideaway where e could fall in when he stayed in over uight instead of going to his home in steh two hundred grand, and some topped three hundred On one occasion Magee ruined a whole community in that way on one trip—and kept oicans e eatiad R A AL A I 1 545 Juck, too. ten children. But he was a He played the night clubs and wa keen for the little cuties. He treated them like a brute and paid them like There Magee had done some spec 2 lord. When he saw one he wanted tacular and sensational entertaining L e It was stocked with anything you could think of to drink, it was furn uriously if not clegantly, and it was a walk-up, with a Juded entrance, 4 4 [ A 3 ) S where no one could sce b Yo v : ¢ | who came and she might be And very few men ever tarted trouble with Boots Magee. e raw wois o “Oh, does he? . chirped, w oney- N aht X 3 3 3 On onc of the mnights, perhaps a horizon of the Magee mob, Boots Tleci Nl ehet sl )kt ) ; : A couple of weeks after they had buried off on a cruise By the time Kid No? . \ the Kid, Magee and Blondie were in landed, Blondie and the Silklined Kid A e 1 3 « vk . the cafe shortly before midnight were pretty thick. When Magee sent L . 7 ; il : 4 ’ : i ol Rl Ane S e il iStoud tie a bil Gy ) / 4 He was cockeyed and boisterous and word to the Kid to meet him at a ¢ 4 v < x 3 Vv ou and-——: s Lain cale, which was a hangout of the '”"fl" oy HEECE R e o bt o on't you do it butted in : He staggered his hig frame from one When Magee's hungry eyes lit on re | «\”‘ could L e Wed i | . table to another, leaving Blondie where {hat baby face and that yellow hair, Adam hd bl she sat, and he winked as he gave them eteer is dumb. T'day hic all notic ¢ heard the singing of rare birds and <melled the perfumes of far away Gimes. e forgot the business on hand and spent the time cracking with Blondie, telling her what a swe 1l little mama she was, and letting her know tUmorrow he's doin’ time—oi hi . j o E ¢ : § ) | : e i 2 [o it : s , k Nobody comes up {o the flat {'night done. They're fine sct to play \ ., 1 get me? No comp'n I'll h B » them a li \ | ¢ 7 § b1 ] ne. 2o c Il have all but nothin arny G e 4} ] 3 DAY 1l E |IHllI“} 1“-) ; mi-; fast aned hard for yo b’ the comp'ny I want. See?” “l—1 didn't say I'd marry him, ‘ e & apologized. “He—he hasn't asked 1 ; i 3 : g Lhey saw “Is that the only rc asked the Ll e S i & - 3 $ They saw him unsteadily walk out : Kid, anxiously—as Mazce glowered : o Z8 (0 ol ; with Blondie. The Kid, who knew bis Magee, who he was. him. en he wan L x & didn’t care for the twist at a She hesitated. a second He was that way in a big way over The next they saw of Boots Mage: Blondic. He had reason to think =he hie was on a slab in the undertaker's. | ; » : e Enlibooled W He had been found on the floor of the her eyes down and her face v : tuble, she whispered, * was woozy over hini, tov. Magee burned up. e told | ] (oine b T e When Blondic escused herself o hoth in no equivocal manner that : e Gl L : _and Dow: A i A s y E\\;szlocfinlm h‘f ‘a(‘Ll;tlaEm“U?lvVn\. A put on some make-up, Magee asked (idn't go—he wouldn't stand for it. il 2 e nov night. 4 5 lf,fl 7 / y l‘ ('“hb lov‘llv‘ lnu‘U;.; his \’Aidlz. E_?e- the Kid, cold turkey, how he and Blon- By what authority he so ruled ne s ) s 3 ‘*‘H : hought Magec % 4 3 side his 40.“ ay a;e\ol\-erj‘ The police I dic stood. The Kid confessed he hoped gign’t say. He didn’t have to. Every- e in the first pla e Was Already 5 ) X\l;‘\:r ““\fd it. But everyone of the to marry her. hody knew by what authovity Boots Magce will have me trailed or send we Having Him : . Magee mob recognized it. “Don't be a mugg,” snapped Magee. Magee ruled.” The youngsters didn't out of town or do a gz to stop u Shadowed. It had belonged to the Silklined Kid, B st