The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 1, 1919, Page 17

TH RATTL STAR—FRTi PAGE 17 BY “ZOE | BECKLEY {N. B.A. Staff Correspondent, and author of the popular seria ofa mmer Girt") OSSINING, N. Y., Aug. 1.—‘What were the three high spots In your career? Gordon Faweett Hamby, whip-hand in 13 daylight bank yobberies and countless other thievings, murderer of at least six men, and soon to die in the electric chair, smiled modest deprecatior ‘Oh, I guess they aren't so very remarkable,” he said, look the high barred window of his cell where a little streak of sunshine } the sunlight he loves so well that he chose confession of murder an ignominious ¢ ) rather than be imprisoned for } for a former me. ‘But I remember my first affair vividly IT WAS RATHER EVENT TO ME.” } to $5. nt ed a house néar it for its windows studied its force of six, tw away, The floor of the ba above street lev dows a kind of sc lower half of each 000 in cash on hand. We $30 a re 1 from I had my partner in one and change a bill, Ref the ler's window he pretended to st reaching his hand s high his head as he ¢ get th from the street watched the w His hands didn't show. Whe bank staff had to throw up hands for us the v ahd tract r attention from the street “On the day we plar m ner walked nonchala to the that led behind the counters. At t same instant I drew my two guns and, walking briskly toward the four sald one day: | Gordon Hamby's most recent t it? Or did he go out to cool off? “Want to make some money” | crime was the killing of his pal, Rob 1 my revolver with me. Wh “Ter | Davis, in Tacoma, Wash, last 1 the room I wat “Got your nerve with you? | March. in hands but hin eyes. W “*| think #0," I told him. “Davis and 1 had plenty of! would they show? If they “Then he told me of the local) money,” Hamby told me from the angry [ knew {ft meant he “I alone fetched his gun. ———- 11 thought I read bank, where there was always $4,000/ death cell in Sing Sing I thought they did. them instantly J and shoot him “A bullet thru the lungs killed | him. I don't know how many times I fired. I had learned to use & gun as a boy in Alberta on small game, “Well, I left and started to walk 20 miles across Com }I knew. It wo y last walk — aS "arom free sk Tknue and ‘ack see In all the beauty I could, Pine-laden Saving’ air, great sweeps of view, sunshine CASHIER SAYS sree q bye to them. I knew that three dep- . uty sheriffs were fast closing in on 9 sas . | me. But I didn’t ¢ ch , aevitiong a dollar with (i | er wna dup tn, remorse: at killing ile earns interest on Pe oe ce both. The ‘grouch’ with a e(tael 4 hundred isn’t as well off | | as the cheerful man with ten. | “Saving money is fun. po The joke is on the chap that TONIGHT can’t see it.” Pauline Frederick in the strange story of a most unusual girl “The Fear Woman” She was AFRAID OF LOV a 8. Wills. Vice President r. Cashier Warren W. Zinamaster, Assistant MARINE BA OF SEATTLE SECOND “a ae “COLUMBIA iid ood ar —TOMORROW— Mabel Normand —IN— “The Pes A Scream— Another— And then some more. Credit Facilities One of the most important features of a bank’s service to its clients is its ability to ex- tend adequate credit facilities. The financial strength and great resources of this institution make it possible to finance and keep pace with Seattle’s large and expanding in- dustries, CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $17,000,000. TOTAL RESOURCES, $107,000,000. The Bank of California National Association ‘COND AT COLUMBIA HIS FIRST BANK — employes, bac them throw up their hands. did #0 ordered th obeyed, but one of them b me| Worry about and were on tne best|| PUT, not to shut the vault door, as they | . . would surely suffocate. Three of us—Davts, another chap That seemed f enough So 1) and L--were sitting In our hot 1 room To look at the gentle abstraction | locked only what was calle A In Tacoma discussing politics, if You of the man is to marvel gate behind them—a b door, | please, 1 must b taken some con Is this youth conscious that in a| Meanwhile my partner had scooped | servative point of view ror the « few days he will be electrocuted as| UP about $3,800 in m silver and | Of argument, and Davis ripped out ‘& many-times murderer—-that this | bills, and stuffed it in a bag. We one with any red blood tn ithe young body of his will be cast | Sauntered out, walked urely to) bis veins would think that! into quicklime, and the brilliant, mis | Our rented house and made ourselves That made me mad. used mind stopped forever or con inconspicuous until the hunt for us Stee eek on eran vel, finde? he tinued in some unknowable punish.| *wept by. No ‘ono searched there) sent pack, ‘as anyone in this room ment? Does he realize it? Does he | fo a SNE ES Sr Sea a Hamby paused and smiled slowly ui hen me a ey y le cause, be oO # otal pal.quodeye- ana indbed my Way to| cornet non ne oe HOLDUP Oakland, Cal., feeling amazed be-| in confessing this killing I deliberat “I had just left college.” he went | Ruse that city and the whole world, | 1) committed suicide, » Well—t iy. tho describing a rise | Mdn’t ring with the robbery Tt be- | on Me sauied agaia ta 4 patloes ieee dnd greatneel “because 1| 84M to look like easy money pher might at a misplay at cards but I loathed making any sort of| “Was my only arrest.” nald Ham-| aig some rough things. I "let them mental effort. I was a good spend-|>¥ with « touch of pride. | | ass a ere F waged more, | Tamity's runes wok h appears to| TOM, saying nothing at the time. | lots more. 1 knew he was coming back. The! “ta a town in Western Canada a| have caused him the least remorwe,| ooo, an in what mood? I knew boy my own age, who had been siz | HOW IT KILLED he usually carried a gun, tho not ing me up without my knowing it, MY FRIEND when with me. Did he go out to | What I read made me pull my gun | Davis in the room| the mountains to a little settlement! be surrender or #u: | Davin, Why? Well, because WHE 1 SEARCHED HIS BODY I FOU NO REVOLVER, 1 was tired of the | life anyhow, It wns one of those moments when the soul goes weak “At the end of my walk I tossed up @ coin to decide whether It hould | miles on miles exploit. And he “got away with it.” Depositors were in the bank, po- lice presumably around the corner, and all New York stretching for in every direction about them—a Chinese wall against any sane criminals. ide, Hut the coin rolled off in the dark and I couldn't | find it. “In the little general wtore I gave | my pame and my revolvers to the! storekeeper and waited until the dep- Uties caught up. Even then I could have wiped them Out with the store. keeper's automatic that lay on the} counter. It fairly begged me to give | jit a home and use, But those sher iff’ were family men—" Hamby | shrugged his shoulders and added! briefly, “and here I am.” For this killing Hamby was sen- tenced in Tacoma to life imprison ment. He endured it for several| | weeks, Then spring came. This man who quatled not at murder and | who flinched at nothing violent, sur. | rendered at the thought of being for ever shut away from sunshine and the smell of flowers, He sent for the district attorney and confessed to the robbery of the East Brook lyn Savings Rankgand the two mur ders in connection with it—for which jhe will shortly die—‘a suicide,” | MY EAST BROOKLYN | | BANK ROBBERY | Only a madman, {t seems to me or a genius in crime, would choose half-past two in a weekday afternoon ag the time to rob a bank In Brook- lyn Borough, New York. Yet Hamby picked that time and the Bast Hrook lyn Savings Bank for his sensational | public taxi before the bank, lara and white silk mufflers, no one gave them a glance. Th nterea the bank. One of them, known sub. sequently for many months to the merely as “the tall man 1a casual elbow upon the glass shelf under the “deposits” sign and | remarked politely to the paying tell er, De Witt C, Peal “Put up your hands!” Peal looked up—and Into the blue steel muzzle of a revolver. not stir, Meanwhile short man,” side tho enclosure by own veled revolver. Peal, courageous but unversed as to the limits of true bandit daring to look the “tall man” in made no move Peal, put up your hands" cried Alfred Freeman assist ant teller, who read the highwayman | better Still Peal stayed motionless. A shot @ out, Peal turned walked four steps toward the rear of the cage and fell face downward, a bullet thru his heart Other bullets followed, one strik ing the steel filing cabinet behind which Freeman took refuge, another Hodging in the body of H. W. Coons, another man, “the was making his way in means of his Vetetan Fire Bell Taken | Down; Will The bell In the firehouse at Sev. enth ave, and Columbia st. has | pealed out ita last fire call | Friday morning workmen took the bell down from the tower, placed it on a truck and it was taken out to Carkeek park The bell has been a cherish THEATRES || Hang in Park treasure in the minds of some of the old pioneers, so when M. J. Carkeek donated a plot of ground to the city to be used as a park for pi it was thought well to take to the new park For 29 years the bell has hung in neers, it out |the tower of th efirehouse, but of late years it has not rung out its alarms as in the days before the modern fire truck apparatus came. and fire-fighting He did} | thru walls of masonry When two men stepped out of aj ter for me. their faces} quick abock somewhat hidden by turned-up col- | Ah, yea, this in the better who died in on his way to the Assistant caphier, mbulance pital Hamby’s companion—unknown to this day—meanwhile scooped up $13,115.35 from the bank's counters into @ traveling bag and the two men slipped out of the be-chaosed a block of threading the afternoon «tre crowds. A taxi hurtied in and out of traffic. Some quick dodging—and all the po lice whistles in the land blew in vain for tall man” and a “short n” who had left dismay and death behind them in the quiet, old fash jon bank sree months later Gordon Faw cett Hamby, sentenced for life in Tacoma for killing bis pal, Bob Da amelied spring sun shine thru cell, decided death wa life without liberty, confessed the Brooklyn holdup—and pays the pri in the electric ch. Thus in de as in lif Hamby have Unfathomat and man; strange roses and the bars vie, ir way mingling of de cency and degeneracy; lover of na ture and taker of life; thief and phil osopher; braggart and gambler and hero and cur, A fellow who says:| oh, Ii pistol shot and the And the next instant a poet to his eyes | “L can't love nature Flowers and trees, mountains and the sea—what's life to me without them?” He would not ask for an appeal Hin attorney did it in spite of him “What use?” amiles Hamby stoic ally. “The sooner it's over the bet "Why did I do it? chest jon of t falling body calla the #oul of an he whispers and the thin, WORLD'S FAT MAN IS DEAD | Hauled Away From Hospital ! While not the oldest bell in the | y " ec ep Seve: | Maas —-——_—__—4q | city, It was installed in the Seventh oe! ble Rit tn’ th Palace| oY: 1 Columbia st. station in 1900 The big hit in the new Palice!tn those days every firehouse had a Hip program is provided Four bell to warn people of the fires. nae Venema Of ‘tHe): 6 Was As far as usefulness is concerned, | whose ‘ages range from to the fire department no longer needs They present a program of music| it, go when some of the pioneers | on various inetrumen particularly | suggested that it be taken out to the | the fiddle, the Virginia reel) new park, the suggestion met with with except al agility and energy approval, and do a lot of comedy stunts. A! A tower has been erected in Car patriotic feature adds to the attract-| keek park, to house the bell, and their act & Co. have a comedy that is among the best presenting some very riding by “Violette” iveness of Sig. Fra cyeling act of its kind, clever trick and by Franz. 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