Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1927 — Page 14

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BEGIN TRIAL QF GANGSTER FOR MAYORSDEATH Charley Birger Is Implicated in Many Illinois Murders. BENTON, 111., July 6.—Charley Birger confronted the law today without the aid of his trusty machine gun. The famed southern Illinois gang leader—whose exploits in the sanguinary warfare of Little Egypt gave him the title of “Machine Gun” Charley—was brought into court to stand trial for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City. It was one of the many deaths attributed to the gang warfare between the Shelton and Birger groups. Possibility was seen that a continuance would be granted, on the ground that attorneys for Birger an 4 Newman had been employed recently after others had withdrawn and the new counsel were not sufficiently familiar with the case. Birger was one of the main figures mentioned when the rat-atat of machine gun was feared throughout Williamson, Franklin and Saline Counties. Short of stature, with a cynical smile and a loquaciousness that approached braggadocio, he headed the famous Birger gang which centered at “Shady Rest” a road house near Harrisburg and Marion. Two Confess Murder Two youths called at the Adams home, which is on one of the main highways leading to Benton, on a calm fall Sunday afternoon. They presented a letter presumably from Carl Shelton. As the 300-pound mayor strolled to the door the two youths started shooting. Adams fell dead. Harry Thomasson was arrested and confessed that he and his brother had killed Adams. He said the killing was at Birger’s command and that they were given SSO each for the shooting. Birger was indicted. Moved to Springfield Birger submitted to arrest and took a machine gun with him into the Saline County jail through fear that some of his enemies might attempt to take his life. Later he was brought to Benton and still later removed to Springfield and Bloomington after subsequent confessions had involved him in even more brutal murders. •

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CHAPTER XIVX ' Bill Canfield sat forward in his chair and drew a long puff on his cigaret. Again the smoke hung on the air and flattened out. The deep silence of the room was almost eloquent. Teddy, wide-eyed, divided her attention between the Waldens and Don. Diana’s face was chalky. Roger Brooks stood back, his feet planted firmly on the floor, his strong jaw set. An instant’s wait. Then: The sound of a door being slammed came from the record. click of footsteps across a hardwood floor. They heard the noisy opening of a roll-top desk, a cough. -i A voice spoke. The greater numV ber of listeners present recognizee! the harsh tone. Its owner emitted an animal-like grunt of dismay, his eyes protruding like doorknobs from their sockets. “I don’t know why ’tis, but I’m worried ’bout this Pop Brooks matter.” <This was the voice of John W. Walden, Sr., filling the room. “Why, what’s worryin’ yuh?” came the voice of his son. “A number of things. First place I’m ’fraid he smells a rat.” ... No person in the big room knew just how it happened. Young Walden had been glaring at Don, who was leaning over the dictaphone. There was a glitter of insane frenzy in the lawyer's pale blue eyes. Teddy, watching them, saw Walden’s right hand jerk to his hip pocket, caught the gleam of metal. . . . With a shriek the girl threw herself at Donald Keene. Those looking on never forgot that notion picture scene, although it happened almost in the flickering of an eyelid. She had whiried as she reached a position directly in front of Don, her arms outspread as if to shield his body. Just as she turned it came—the sharp crack of a pistol. Someone screamed. Then for an instant a dead silence fell 9ver the room, broken only by the low whirring of the dictaphone grinding'* out its damning evidence. But only for an instant. There was a choking, guttural cry and Dinny Morrison leaped, swift as a panther, straight at Walden. The crazed lawyer was holding the pistol gripped tight in his fingers, Dinny caught the hand and wrenched the gun loose. No person knew—not even Dinny—how it was done. Another sharp report split the air and John Walden, Jr., sank to the floor, 6hot through the heart. The next moment the two strangers grabbed John Walden, Sr., and he felt his wrists eclosed in a pair of handcuffs. Don had caught Teddy in his arms and was holding her erect. He could feel her body relax against his. A scarlet stain was spreading in a white dress above the heart. " Then pandemonium broke. Dinny looked up from the still form on the floor and his staring eyes saw the awful red that dyed Teddy’s white dress. “A doctor! My God, a doctor!” he shrieked, and rushed toward a telephone booth. Tenderly, with a terrible fear tearing at his heart, Don laid the wounded girl on a pile of mail sacks. “Don't—bother about —a doctor,” she articulated feebly, but with a smile. “They got me, too—l guess—like Charley!” “You mustn’t say that, Teddy, little girl—you mustn’t,” whispered Don, chokingly, his two hands clasped under her head. She looked up at him and smiled.

There was a strangely beautiful light in her soft, bfown eyes. “It—is good—to die—like this—in —this way,” she whispered back, conscious of the agonized grief in the eyes looking down into hers. Diana, kneeling close by her side, was sobbing. Fanny Blake and Lola looked on, dazed. “Kiss—me—Don—” The words came faintly from the white lips. He bent his head and his lips pressed hers. Her arm stole up and around his neck, clung there for a full minute, and then slipped slowly down. Don raised his head. Teddy turned her glance on Diana, kneeling beside her. She took the older girl’s hand and placed it over Don’s. "I’ve known —for a—long time—that—that you two—loved each oth-er—good-by—” They barely heard the concluding words.' The brown eyes glazed over. Diana and Don felt a slight shudder, i The little sod sister had completed her last earthly assignment. She had reported her final story. June’s sun-kissed poppies raised their tiny heads from the soil of a well-kept grave in one of Catawba City’s beautiful cemeteries. The .earth had settled and grown firm. A patch of young grass had taken on a velvety form. A man and a woman stopped beside the grave. The woman’s bronzed hair glinted in the afternoon sun, creating a halo of burnished gold about her head. She placed a pot of blood-red roses over the little mound. Her companion lingered slightly behind, his head l>ent in silent homage. “It was beautifdl, Don —her love for you,” said the woman softly. - He stepped to her side and took her left hand in his. A platinum wedding ring set with diamonds caught the sunbeams and flashed a rty of color's on the third finger. “Yes, he replied sadly, “and I was hardly worthy of all she did.” “I couldn't tell you before, Don. I was afraid it would hurt you too much,” said the woman in a voice tenderly vibrant, “but when I went to the rooming-house to get her things I found this stuck in the mirror of her dresser.’* She produced a picture of Don clipped from the Times. He took it and his eyes grew misty. “We’ll keep it always, Diana,” he said softly, “in memory of Teddy ’ —the dear little sob sister.” THE END ~

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