The evening world. Newspaper, June 30, 1919, Page 16

MONDAY, JUNE 30, Confession of Burglar Hamby ae Second Jesse James’’ } r —Judge Fawcett of | .And Hamby's Third Bank Job, Advance Notes From Paris i ~~ ~Poorly Planned by Aid, || << <& < On Your Next Fall’s Suits F Resulted in a “Killing Got $5,000 in Daylight Robbery, but Never Again i Worked With an Accomplice Who Wore False © . Whiskere—Hamby Stood Guard Outside While : Partner “Stuck Up’”’ Bank Force and Got Money —But Partner Neglected to Collect All Firearms 1919 Be a Better Stenographer Earn Bigger Pay). + ~ ~ |HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR SHORTHAND, k *| | INSURE ACCURACY, INCREASE EFFICIENCY © Biath of a series of twelve articles written especially for stonop- | rapher readers of The Bvening World by Herman J. Btich, world’s champion high speed shorthand writer and international authority om + the audject, Mr, Stich, who is a court reporter, is the first shorthand toriter to attain a speed of 300 words a minute, twenfy words more tham the best previous record. q By Herman J. Stich Copyright, 2919, ty The Pres Pubtishing Co. (The New York Swing Werkt). | Practice Material - t : and Trouble Followed. HE shorthand reporter must know something of one thing and every | | yee B M 4 G thing of one thing. The one thing is shorthand. eo % ¥ y artin reen Shorthednd reporting is a science, an art and a profession. There | @ - © PART TWO. is just as wide a. chasm between the ordinary commercial stenographer end { a Cipeticht, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World) oT med |” i” OLLOWING his trends svie to retrain trom robbing Californis tanks dios man asa te twontiach contery vergeon, he law stedent ant c= We SU i < young Hamby struck out for adventure in Texas and Oklahoma. He 2 " & Nant crosc-exanf&er, or the street car motorman and the man who blue” — “made,” as he expresses it, some small “payroll jobs” in the South- b ~west—a “payrol job” is holding up men who are carrying money from a a Rank to a mine or a factory to pay off the employees. These things were so ‘Y Jneonsequential that peony ganeet remember them in detail, but they kept 4 shite in funds. It is known that Hamby and others held up several trains in Oklahoma “3 “4m 1912, and that in one robbery a Sheriff was killed, but Hamby refuses to “Yalk about those events. id L asked Hamby if he had ever met tant mabeb 0 gree a “Al Jenziings, the reformed train rob- cite with him for the job was so oN er, who ran for Governor of Okia-| badly planned that it was a disgrace “Qeoms and was almost elected, Hamby| for « man of my. standing fo be eon- nected with it, Wy jail he saw Jennings onop. . “This Jopn was a good spout and \ “Bie was running « revival,” sa!) sroxe, and explained to me that it + ‘@lamby, “in some town in Montana or} wa, « one-man job in the bank, but T bad gone up there to look /i: was necessary to have somebody & Prospect, and while I was In| outside for protection and he was I went to the revival to #60) afraid to tackle it unless he had the He was through with his/ assistance of « nervy professional. J Jong before I struck that) aidn’t need money but John owed me considerable, so I consented to go that Oklahoma got | up with him and clean up this little Hamby in 1913 and hé¢/ sop. lorthwestward, holding up| “I financed the trip. We went to laundry offices on Saturday| winnipeg, where we arranged of dairy com-/through underworld channels to hire the busines*/two automobiles on a certain day, ice and was be-| one to be in Ptum Coulee, the other & professional | about twenty-five miles further on. his travels be} I arranged the double automobile F i i! il y Aes i i i Be tH Hl ' ‘ehance to rob another | getaway but had nothing to do with ‘unable to find one any other planning. opportunity for a sure getaway. aft “I didn't know that Johm Kerfanko was well known in Plum Coulee gad he almost knocked me dead when he pulled out a set of false whiskers and put them on in the car just as we were entering the town..Any- body could spot those whiskers just the sam: you can spot the false Manner 6 inna! whiskers on a Salvation Army Santa ‘a single count fac-| Claus at Christmas time. That was ‘and no back door’ pit no the first and last time I ever took part in a job with anybody who zg j gE H s f i EER aie Tih t i z i g i “| wore a transparent disguise. ae Parga yep yan “John was pretty well intox’ rated wan, meow iWkely |924 insisted on wearing the whisk- ng Pots > ARateeg ere and I bad been drinking some, too, and finally agreed. He had them , aneeygren c ges tur gape ‘on when he entered the:bank at noon ‘no 4 that the ‘pro- the next day. th “The bank was a branch of the or man with the gun can coMm-| y104 of Montreal, John, as he told me later, put bjs gun on the people And I learned that before #0-) inside and went behind and got sev- & bank we should know just) 474) packages of bills, I was outside aaa eee ae ning | at the entrance of an alley alongside "| the bank, doing the protective work that ia, I was to hold off any attempt to invade the bank if an alarm should be given. PARTNER'S CARELESSNESS THE Hi i Hibs het THE ; : inte i ff | 2 z F E Grullate tn detail later.” cA OF THIS “KILLING.” © Hamby was in Fargo, N. D,, in the} “John was inexperienced and care- tmamer of 1913 with plenty of money, |!¢ss. A hold-up man should always | \@triding bis time between spending |4emand all the firearms in a bank, ¥ ‘Wad money and cruising opt among| 4nd either take them away or put ge pdlien ‘one street towns’ for| them where they could not be got at ic ‘@ Hikely bank. In @ poker game one| readily. He didn't do this, and he © “hight in August he was introdaced| didn’t lock the bank people in the “to cave John Kerfanko, who had been| vault, and when he came out and Mis cat ta tan co 0 oie Svar started for the automobile he lef the, Sand general bad man. Kerfanko lost | door open. ‘Mp the poker game and Hamby won] “Just as John was climbing into vian@ ‘Kerfanko gave him three I.|¢he car and I was approaching it the 0, Ue. manager of the bank ran out with a I was glad this fellow was broke,”| gun in his hapd. John, in his ex- told me, “because I had been|citement, dropped a couple of pack- “Who shot him? I inquired, “I'm not saying,” replied Hamby. }@mall batiks were loaded up with cur-|“Anyhow Kerfanko went to Winni- ‘Temey and gold and the country was|peg after we divided the money and Sowerrun with harvest workers. There| got to hanging around saloons and talking, and they put a watch on him and, after a time, arrested him. He made « getaway while he was wait- 7 ing for his trial, but they got him “I found out that Kerfanko was by|and hanged bim about a year after trede o boiler maxer and ma-hinist,|the robbery. A man named Percy ‘and @ very clever mechanic who had| Hagel, who, I believe, came, from worked in several places in Manitoba.| Kansas City, and a policeman were Tqatiagied mynelf that he was nervy, |convicted of having aided him in his Bad as he was in my debt I made the | escape ition that he join out with me| “I happen to know sémething about ‘Wet me plan to ‘make’ abihk. [how John escaped and I also know ICE OF NEW PARTNER |that this Hagel turned out to be a [ PROWED A MISTAKE. stool pigeon. After they caught Jcha ©} "Well, 1 p.ade ao big mistaky after}and he was convicted, Hagel acci- for (> my surprise Kerfanko | dentally Stopped a bullet.” Jou! @ map of the interior ot; “Who started the bullet? Iasked. ‘bank af 2lum Coulee, a tittle town) “I'm not saying,” replied Hamby, fit! , mules, I should judge, from} “but Kerfanko was dead and I was ' He had worked in that|the only friend he had. I have known 2 knew the bank, and he satd/of other cases where stoo} pigeons at that time of the y it was|stopped bullets accidentally and no- | for $15,000 or $20,000. I fnund body ever could find out where the ni that his judgment as bullets started from.” funds op hand was The Byening World telegraphed _ tts correspondent In Winnipeg for the facts about the Plum Coulee rob- dery and the following reply was re- ceived: hs ° WINNIPEG, Man, June 27. The Evening World, New York: Bank ‘robbery at Plum Coulee, 18 e'clock, on Sept. 3, 1913. Bank the planets Mars and Jupiter) are discovered, says Electrical Ex-| of Montreal branch held up and Man- there are more than a thousand | perimenter for July, not by astrono- ager H. M. Arnold shot dead. He ran | litte carths, ranging in diameter from | mers patiently peering at the heavens out after rotibery and was shot when | three to 48 miles. ‘These are known | through a telescope, but by means of | robbers were getting into auto in|@# the Asteroids, and although they] the photographic plate. which they escaped, After long |PUTSue thelr individual ways in tho| have already been found, but it is solar system much like ourown giobe early in 1914, ‘Trial lasted during |*¢Y 4re too small to support any Burt | teroids remain to be discovered. Maréh and’ April, convicted and|f life, being unable to hold an at- search John Kerfanko was arrest hanged Yew months later. Kerfanko | ™°Pbere- was of Roumanian nationality, While being held for Mal’ he made" sensa- tional escape. Winnipeg lawyer and policeman were convicted of having aided him, Robbers got some $5,000 from bank. CHAPMAN, Free Press, Winnipeg. (In Tuesday's instalment Hamby wil} tell adout @ sensational street robd- dery in Chicago and @ hold-up in Min- neapolis and give some advice to rob- bers about trusting to the veracity of ladies } Stee of (To Be Continued To- Morrow. wis the carth compared otal volume of all ef the print: our bridges. the other professions. ‘Bat the court and free lance re- porter must not only have complete command of the tricks of his life work, but because he ts called upon to report conventions, conferences, meetings and witnesses of every con- eeivabdle profession, trade and occu- pation he must \be fairly ‘familiar with at least the nomenclature of al- most all fields of endeavor. And the only way to learn the nomenelatare of the various arts and sciences is through intensive reading and prac- tise on a wide variety of subjects. The shorthand reporter must be up-to-date encyclopedia. : Make your practice a practical education. For “straight matter” material use editorial articles, maga- zine articles, speeches, sermons and committee reports. Editorials trom any of the good newspapers in this city make idea! practice selections. All your practice matter should be counted out and dictated at a speed which enables you to write compact, well formed, instantly readable notes. Don't take dictation at a speed which compels you to write Mlegibly. Once a week, or every two weeks, increase the speed one or two words a minute. If you have no trouble reading back, make that your regular speed. But dont be disappointed if speed dees not come as quickly as you anticipate. It will come, and it ‘must come if you"practise as directed. ‘Mark out your material for seven- minute “takes.” Occasionally write for two and three times that Jength of time. When you can write about 176 words a minute on editorial’ matter, try not too technical magazine arti- cles. Popular science magazines, en- By): P. ‘HEN you are having too good a time at* home, you go touring. A ‘week of agitating your spine on awful roads, of being held up by mud holes’ and modern road agents who run garages and of sleeping in hotels where every- thing is too small except the various forms of animal life, a week of this reconciles you with the comforts of your home. You drag your weary remains back to the old roof tree And resolve mever to go touring again and you never do until the following ‘week end. Incidentally they are called week ends because they leave you feeling that way. Asteroids Thousands of Miniature Earths Largest 485 Miles in Diameter, Smallest Too Minute to Be Seen Through Even Most Powerful Telescope—They are Not Spherical, but Like Huge Mountains Hurtling Through Space. Manitoba, took place at lunch hour, Saye around the sun between From time to time new asteroids A thousand Ukely that thousands of smaller as- The four largest asteroids, Ceres, | Pallas, Vesta and Juno, are respec- tively 48, 304, 243 and 118 miles in di- ameter, |A few more of the asteroids may exceed one hundred miles in di-| ameter, but the great majority are/ simply huge rocks five miles or less in diameter. Unlike the major planets, the asteroids are not spheres but sim- ply jagged rocks, huge nfiSuntains hurtling through space, whirling round and round on their axes as they journey about the sun. Possibly, as some have sugested, they may be the | larger fragments of periodic comets lof unusual size that bave in the [course of ages been shorn of their ap 4 * However, you can stay at home and still enjoy the pleasures of touring if you know how. This is the best method: Get two ‘bard bottom chairs and put them out in the alley where the dust is thickest, then take your wife with you and make yourselves as uncomfortable as possible on the chairs. Hire two boys to throw rocks and dirt in your faces and another to play a Bun- sen Burner on the back of your necks. This gives you that pleasant sunburn feeling. At intervals of half an hour or so, get out and change your tire, or two tires if you will, and then when you finish, get a shovel and dig some holes in the alley and fill them up again. This takes the place of that wistful pas- time known as digging yourself WITH THE INVENTORS. out. Y Clamps and a pigce of*rubber tub- ing to be fastened with a fruit jar to a broom to supply it with mojsture have been invented to ald-in dustiess sweeping. Where the orbits of the aster- olds are located. When the noon hour has come, go to the rag man on the corner and buy @ couple of old shoes ‘To rid gardens or truck patches of| from him. Give him eight times insect pests a trap has been invented | gy much as they are worth. Slice into which they are piven and) taught! as its whenladiorhs aromas @ loaf of stale bread and insert Ignorant Essays ‘The preliminary requirements for the C. S. R. degree (Certified Short- hand Reporter) are as exacting as those for law, medicine, engineering anf gineering magazines and medical, magazines furnish pjenty of splendid material. At this time you should begin prac tising on testimony, jury charges and judges’ opinions, As yet, there are no worth while compilations of this kind of matertal. But go to your lawyer or reporter friend. Hither one of them will be able to supply you with what you need. If @ court reporter’s examination is to take place and you feel quali- fied, stop practising on straight mat ter. For three to six months before the examination concentrate on jury, charges, judges’ opinions and eourt testimony, Continue practising the phrases. ‘ Perfect your technical sherthand vocabulary. There are one or two good spellers on the market which | contain exhaustive lists of technical these words and their meanings. Als. study the general vocabulary. Pras ' tise them as directed to practise the principles, by putting the words into sentences, forming “speed sentences,” and write each sentence over an@ over till you've mastered the vocala lary. Then have the words eng @m “speed sentences” dictated. Continue this method of practice daily, Hard words should not be hard to write. Practise them until long words and long outlines are written with the same fluency end readiness as short ones. Cultivate persistence and confidence and you'll soon attain the corres ponding competence. Q McEvoy ; Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World) TOURING pieces of leather between the slices and eat them if yoy can, ‘This will represent the wayside Junch. After you have partaken of this delicious meal, get back on your chairs~and continue your tour, The boy will now come around in the front and play the Burner on your faces. This will represent driving into the after- noon sun. Continue changing tires! and digging holes and throwing your money away until evening, whén you have another \ delicious meal of stewed shoes and fried tin cans. For coffea, get a quart of water and dip a coffee bean into it hurriedly and then remove it. You have now had a delightfal day's tour. Repeat this every iJ | day until exhausted on broke or P3 both, Then take your chairs back into the house and feel that you have had a wonderful tour, / Tocidentally, you can add quite |, a smack of verisimilitude to the |; proceeding by having your wife {| sit beside you and read the Con- gressional Record. This will take the place of reading the ©‘ road directories and will be even ¢ more intelligibid. I purposely neglected to de- scribe sleeping in the hotels that you run into om the Bowl and Pitcher Cireuit, because descrip- tion is possible only to a big game hunter, csteppacienalasinnicnsiaee: ODD FACTS WORTH KNOWING. Italy obtains about 800,000 horse- power from its streams and it has been estimated by engineers that more than 4,000,000 additional horse power 1s available, a te. ¥ Hearing has been restored to mone than two-thirds of his accidentally deafened patients by « French phywi- cian who massages their ears with waves,