The Denison Herald (Denison, Tex.), No. 110, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 4, 1921 Page: 2 of 12
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LEFT A CRIMSON TRAIL
NOTORIOUS CRPQH.DIID IN GUN
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BATTLE WITH WICHITA,
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KW the bandit* counted *wr thetr
loot white k doo« mouthed doctor
bound up tho bandit s wound.
“Well, doc, they plugged me, but
not enough," the wounded man touch-
flBfty remarked.
"Now If wo eon fool the dicks we’re
protty well fixed with sugar,” o com
pan Ion remarked.
"There la one thing sure the dkka
are in for a battle if they find us out
They’ll never take roe alive," the first
bandit replied.
After biasing a crimson trail arrows
the middle states Eddie ^dams, arch
criminal, went to his death "with hts
boots on” as he had predicted three
years before In the Kansas City room
lny bouse. When the Wichita, Kan.
detective grappled with Adams in at-
tempting Ao arrest the handit in a
garage the stage was set for the last
act in one of the most notorious crime
careers in the annals of the middle
west.
As Hofman. the detective, closed In
on Adams, the bandit drew a revolver
and began firing. Hofman dropped,
dangerously wounded. Two other de-
tectives. companions of Hofman, en-
tered the fray at this point, in fail-
ing Hofman carried Adams to the
floor with him The body of the
wounded detective pinned the bandit
to the floor. From that position Ad-
ams continued firing at the other two
“Hew many?" Two beady e
from under a tfeeA'dfe she dr were
focused von a man- wh* bent hunch-
backed over a poker hand estimating
how many cards he would need. At
last he held up two lingers and the
dealer whipped two carats from th-
deck and shat them aeMnui the table.
Only J&at ftugsyon.'f/ every figure
around the table broke the stillness of
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the room. Seven men sat around the
green eoverW trfhle, Ms players and
the houseman dealing. Behind the
dealer sat the look-out. features im-
mobile, eyes glistening with the hard-
ness of steel. At two Oliver tables
other men were playing poker.
“Hands up. and be damn quirk about
it," and the playero-and housemen detectives. One went down wounded.
The other. Edward Bowman, taking a
position behind a large post htimed:
"You dirty cur, I’m going to blow
your bruins out.'' With deliberate aim
the detective began firing, one ball
taking effect in the bandit’s temple,
death being instantaneous. Thus died
one of the most dangerous ‘criminals
at large. Behind him there was a
trail of robbery and death running
back through ten years of crime. His
last escapade brought death to two
officers, wounds to three others and
injuries to an outsider.
Two More Oeathe to Adams.
The detectives at the time of the
shooting were searching for the slayer
of Office Fitzpatrick, who had been
killed the day before. Fitzpatrick and
a companion hod stopped a motor car
filled with men and ordered them to
drive to the rad Ice station. Their fail-
ure to search the car cost Fitzpatrick
his life, as the occupants of the car
opened fire on the officers soon after
the trip to the jail started, Fltspalrick
dropping dead.
The night before Adams was kitted
Policeman Young in street clothes at-
tempted to apprehend a stranger. He
was shot to death. Both officers ore
believed to have been killed by Adams.
After the two murders the Wichita po-
lice were told to “shoot first and ask
questions afterwards.” That order
resulted in the shooting of Adams.
Eddie AdifmV wns a product of the
Kansas City under wqrjd as it existed
before the present Kansas City police
regime took charge. He died as he
had lived, “a hunted criminal" and a
fugitive from Justice. Twice before
he had cheated Justice; once when he
leaped from a train as it bore him to
Jefferson City to the Missouri state
penitentiary and once when in com-
pany with three other convicts scaled
the walls of the Kansas penitentiary
at I among and escaped. >
Early in the morning of Sept. 5. 1919,
Kansas City awoke to a scene of mur-
der and banditry when policemen bat-
tled with a trio of highwaymen. The
battle took place In a rooming house
1 at Thirteenth and Oak streets. Two
turned to look into the muzzles of six
revolvers Behind the guns were three
masked men. The hands of every per-
son In the room wont up. The search
took but a few seconds. As the three
robbers backed toward the door, the
dealer at the first table stooped over
quickly, snatched a fflriol from a se-
cret drawer In the table and opened
fire. All six guns spoke in unison and
the' ffatldt dropped ftf the table and
slumped -off on theuflpor—dead. Be-
hind the smoke screen the bandits
AMC&Ptof. * * ‘ * * fiifk
But one bandit was wounded. The
scene of the shooting was a notorious
Kahs&r City gambling house and the
dead gambler was Frank Gardner.
In their rooms not far from the
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bandits went to Jefferson City, bat
Adams white being transported to the
penitentiary affected bta escape by
leaping through a car window, while
the train was travettaf at a high rate
of spaed. Adams was handcuffed and
shackled at the time of his desperate
leap, lie was never recaptured.
In February of this year a man waa
arrested at Pratt. Kan., and held fbr
the robbery of a benk end store at
CulUaoa. Kao. He gave his name as
Wallace bat was Identified by a Kan-
sas City police lieutenant as Adams.
Later be admitted his Identity. The
Kansas authorities refused to let Ad-
ams go tack to Missouri. After ad-
mitting several robtariea Adams went
to Lansing penitentiary. On the night
of August IS a desperate plot to
spa from the penitentiary waa car-
ried out by four convlcta After cut-
ting off the lights the four climbed the
wall and swung down to safety and
freedom. Eddie Adams was again at
large. It was not long before central
Kansas realised It.
Didn't Knew Him in Wichita.
Adams and his gangsters selected
Wichita as their headquarters. The
bandit was not known to the Wichita
police and he came and went without
fear of detection. Gradually bo gath-
ered around him a gang of desperate
and as dangerous criminals as him-
self. The robberies of stores, banks,
depots and trains in lonesome wayside
villages mounted up. But officers
were never able to lay their hands
MARK TWAIN'S COLORFUL CAREER REFLECTED IV HIE B06KS.
my known for hi* bov adventure*—time increase*
POPULARITY OF HI* WORK*.
Wednesday, November Mth was the
eighty-sixth anniversary of the birth
of Samuel Langhorne Clement-Mark
Twain. America’s foremost and famous
humorist. It was eleven years ago that
the great man. who won hie way to
the heart of the country boy and into
the highest of royalty, was laid to
rest Instead of hte work being laid
on the shelf to be covered with the
duet of 4gee as touch oflhc work of
his contemporaries has been, It grows
with a greater significance as the
years speed by, despite the more mod-
em and rapid strides of the people
today.
Nearly everyone from kings to the
country boy is familiar with "Adven-
tures of Huckleberry Finn” and ‘Tom
Sawyer Abroad” but few are familiar
with the author. DoubtedU-ss but a
few know that Mark Twain’s name
was really Samuel Langhorn* Clemens.
Bom In Obscurity.
Contrary to the rearing and advan-
tage of many of his contemporaries, he
upon the gangsters. No officer would did not have the opportunity of a
assume that the carefully dressed, | prospective writer's environment or
quiet looking chap who was seen In- the advantages of a complete educa-
frequently on the Wichita streeta was uon., For he was born in the little
the leader and the desperate director town of Florida, Mo., In 1835, the son
of the Adams gang. Had they but no-: of Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall Clemens,
ticed closely the shifty eyes and the His parents moved from Hannibal, Mo
criminal sloped brow of the stranger | while Samuel was an infant. Later
they would have been auspicious. Or
watched him always carry his right
hand In a pocket. That hand clutched
Samuel received his education In the
public schools there.
His father died when Samuel was
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a revolver always ready to bark death quite young and at the age of eleven
at those Adams thought were enemies.
And Eddia Made Good His Boast.
The test act in the life of the ban-
dit was laid In the heart of tbe Kan-
sas wheat metropolis. Adams and a|
companion entered the garage to se-
cure a car left by a customer of the
place. The three detectives noticing
the pair and their minds filled with
the murders of the past two days be-
came suspicious. They entered the
garage. Adams, possibly identifying
Hofman, said: "Come here, Hofman.”
Samuel entered the office of the Hanni-
bal Courier as an apprentice, remained
there two years. He worked his way
east to New York as a compositor and
in 1854 he returned to Hannibal. Three
years later he began his experiences
as a river pilot, described in “Life on
the Mississippi” published in 1883.
When the Civil War opened In-1861
he was private-secretary to his brother,
then territorial secretary of Nevada.
The next year he • became city editor
of the Virginia City, Nev., Enterprise,
to which paper be contributed many
As the man approached A^fraH 'lr‘wartlclc« signed with the pen name
hts gun and began firing The shoot- taken from the ca„ of the Uadgm!in
tng attracted a crowd and scores saw
the final act in the drama.
Eddie Adams, 34 years old, had paid
his price for a life of crime. But he
bad made good his boast that he would
never be taken alive. W. T. B.
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This Is the fourth article In »
series of contributions by the post-
master showing how people may
help or obstruct the transmission
and delivery of their own mail.
Address end Return Address.
The most fruitful source of delay,
miscarriage and loss in mails is Im-
proper or illegible addreaslng and lack
of return address. Forty million let-
ters are handled In U. 8. post off ices
every day. You wouldn't Imagine that
four million of these are poorly ad-
dressed, and that most of the four
milltous are practically illegible. When-
ever you mail a parcel post package
you arc only one of eight millions do-
ing the samp thing that day.
Because of improper or illegible ad-
dress or absence of return address sev-
eral millions of letters go to the dead
letter office every year. Of these
about eight hundred thousand contain
money, checks, money orders and other
valuables Just about the poorest
business Judgment on earth Is the plac-
ing of currency bills In ordinary tet-
ters through the mails And yet, time
and again. In every offlep tn the Fnlted
States, silver money Is enclosed In or-
dinary envelopes and dropped Into the
malt*.
The person who cannot write plain-
ly enough for hi« writing to be easily
and unmistakably understood at a
glance ought to get some one else to
address his or her mall. The lead pen-
cil address Is the cause of countless
delays, miscarriages and losses In the
malls. Lead pencil marks, rubbed os
they are In the malls In handling, be-
come blurred beyond legibility, even
where the original address was perfect-
ly plain. Careless addressing, even
with pen and Ink. causes Incalculable
loss to the postal system and to the
public. Tou do not believe you would
address your friend in Boston at Bos-
ton. Texas, but others as intelligent
an you are guilty of It
Yau don’t believe you would rush
to th# postoffice to get a 'special de-
livery stamp for your letter, and then
drop It Into the malls without address-
ing H at all. But others who are good
business meji and women do that. The
return address. Including street and
number, town and state, ought to be
on every piece of mall. If the address
becomes undecipherable or If It Is torn
away, the return address would bring
It back to you, where, without It, It
would go to the dead letter attic*
Many people address packages by pat-
ting the address upon the upper left
hand comar and their return ilrtrsea
down where the address usually be-
longs. This Is almost sure to canoe
the mall to go astray and ha seat hack
to addressee. Nothing will best the
eU-ftahkmed formula: Tbe return ad-
dresa so upper left comer, the address
to the cantor and tattw. and the stamp
an the .
Never ad-
on the Mississippi steamers—‘Mark
Twain’ meaning that the mark was
two fathoms deep.
He later moved to San Francisco
where he joinedWho staff of the Morn-
tag Call, alternating his work on that
paper with an occasional mining ven-
ture. At this time be was commission,
ed to visit the Sandwich Islands, and
made his first success- by a graphic
account of the voyage of a company
of shipwrecked sailor* in their small
boat among these islands.
In 1887 he published his first book
"The Jumping Frog' and the same
year he was sent by the Alta Cali-
fornia os a passenger on a steamer
chartered by a pleasure party for a
trip Into tbe Mediterranean and the
Holy Land. His letters of this trip
were Immediate successes snd they
were published in book form In 1869
as "The Innocent's Abroad.” This
book “taudo" him and his other works
were accepted at once.
In 1870 he and Miss Oliva LAngdon
of Elmira, N. Y., were married. The
next two year* he was the editor and
publisher of the Buffalo Kxpress, but
did not like the Job and moved to
Hartford, Conn., where he made his
home for many years.
For ten year* he wrote and published
Roughing It. The Gilded. Age, CoL Mul-
berry Hellers, Adventures of Tom Saw-
yer, Tbe Prime and the Pauper, The
Stolen White Elephant, and IJCe on the
Mississippi.
Founded Publishing House.
In 1884 Mr. Clemens founded the
publishing firm of Charles L. Webster
& Co„ which published General
Grant’s Memoirs, and sclera! other
wai% I took*, but the venture lost. It
w«m for sonif time before Mr. Clemens
paid his debts, through a lecture tour
around the world and the royalties
from hi* work*.
Then followed numerous other well
known work* of his among which were.
Adventures of Hucklelierrv Finn. A
Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's
( ourt. The American Claimant, Merry
Tale, The Million Dollar Pound Note,
The Tragedy of Puddhead Wilson,
Tom Sawyer Abroad. Personal Recol-
lections of Joan of Arc. Following the
Equator. Editorial Wild Oats, and Cap-
tain Storm field's Visit to Heaven. The
lari came out In 1998.
He contributed to several periodi-
cals particularly The North American
Review and Harper's Weekly and at
the time of Ida death In 1918 was at
work on hla autobiography. Since hte
death several volumes of hte speeches
have been publtahed.
An Illustration of the type of man
Murk Twain was la hin condemnation
of a certain minister of New York who
cecllned to hold a Church burial ser-
teqd f°r th* °ld *ctor’ George Hol-
"There Is a little church around the
^ Win’, pert“**- Permit the
service, the minister - said to Hoi-
“Th* Little Church
Corner." on twenty-ninth
toreeL did permit ..the sarvtoo, and in .
**• n*w »»»* w*lch Is
STS.!? “,b* —f **
Mark Twain did not 1st the Incident
as*. He wrote bitter articles ooa»
d«dng the minister. It taa been pre-
*°r Ita eemon of eelf-right-
<u>d es one of the ate-
quent defenses of the drama, aa wall
*s for its literary
satire ft was up-
« Christian charity! oven upea the
are unworthy; you are a play-actor,
and consequently a einner; 1 cannot
take the responsibility of recommend-
ing you to the mercy of Heaven.’ This
■■feature has violated tbe letter of the
Gospel, and judged George Holland—
not Georgs Holland, either, but his pro-
fession through him.
"Pray look at the thing reasonably
for a moment, laying aside oil biases
of education and custom. If a common
public Impression is fair evidence of
A thing, recognised and acceptable
business Is to tell people calmly, cold-
ly. and in stiff, written sentences, from
the pulpit, to go and do right, be
just, be merciful, be charitable. And
bis congregation forget it all between
church and home.
“George Holland's Business."
"But for fifty years It was George
Holland's business on the stage to
make hte audience go and do right,
and be Just, merciful and charitable—
because by hte living, breathing, feel-
ing pictures he showed them what it
was to do these things, and how to do
them, and how instant and ample was
the reward! Is it not a singular teoch->
er of men, this reverend gentleman
who so poorly Informed himself as
to put the whole stage under the ban,
and say, ‘I do not think It teaches
moral lessons? Where was .ever ft
sermon preached that could make filial,
gratitude so hateful to men as the sin-
ful play of ’King Lear?1 Or where was
there ever a sermon that could so con-
vince men of the wrong and the cruelty
of harboring a pampered and unalyzed
Jealousy as the sinful play of ’Othcl-
:*»r And where are there ten preach'-
ers who can stand in the pulpit and
hold theta own against any one of five
hundred William Tolls that can be
raised upon five hundred stages in the
land at a day’s notice?
“It is almost fair and Just to aver
(although it Is profanity) that nine
tenths of all the kindness and for-
bearance and Chrltsian charity and
generosity In the hearts of the Amer-
ican people today got there by being
filtered down from their fountain-
head, the gospel of Christ, through
dramas and tragedies and comedies on
th© stage, and through the despised
novel and the Christmas story, and
through the thousand and one lessons,
suggestions and narratives of gener-
ous deeds that stir the pulses and ex-
alt and augment the nobility of the
y\ by ‘
at-her
. ......... The high
•core trophy, linen handkerchiefs, went
to Mrs. Bom Stowers. Three guests
Played substitute hand* Light re-
freshments were served. Mrs. Dan
Upocomb will aotertain the club neS
wesk. .. ■
Birthday Surprint Forty.
Mrs. Sue Burrow waa given a party
Wednesday evening by her nieces.
Misses Mattie and Bthai Durham the
occasion being the sixty-ninth birth-
day anniversary of the honoree. On
returning home from a visit down
town, where she had been persuaded by
her nieces to go, Mrs. Burrow was de-
lighted to find a group of her close
friends. Informal amusements were
enjoyed and refreshments of punch,
sandwiches and cake were served
Many toasts were proposed to the hon-
oree In the cutting of a large birthday
coke with sixty-nine candles. Mr*
Burrow received many gifts. There
were twenty-four guests.
Lived Llks A Princess.
London—Miss Mabel Kitching, who
Inherited 845;000 two years ago has
gen^through bankruptcy. "The money
is all gone," rite said, "but I certainly
lived like a princess while It was go-
ing."
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Saturday Bridge Club Meets.
Miss Virginia Vallely entertained
th© Saturday Bridge players this week
at her home on West Gandy street At
the conclusion of the gome, refresh-
ments were served.
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Missionary Society to Elect Officer*.
Officers for the coming year will be
elected at the monthly business meet-
ing of the Woman’s Missionary So-
ciety of Waples Memorial Church,
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock and the
entire membership la urged to' attend.
Euzellan Class to Meet
The Euzellan class of the First Bap-
tist Church wlU observe the regular
monthly luncheon Tuesday evening at
the church at 8:15 o’clock. Following
the luncheon there will be ft business
Mission, during which a number of Im-
portant items will be discussed.
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Shower For Bride- Elect.
Miss Anna Mae Brown entertain©#
with a miscellaneous shower Thurs-
day evening for Miss Maud Esler.
whose marriage to Mr. Harry Neill will
take place this month. In the reeep-
tion suite, which was artistically dec-
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