MONDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 9, 1925
THERE'S ALWAYS
A LOYAL WOMAN
CHICAGO GUNMEN
KEPT OUT OF JAIL
BY BET’ WERNER
Durkin, Wanted for Seven Mur
ders, is Free Man. Betty
Rests in Cell
By ROY J. GIBBONS
CHICAGO, Nov. 9.—This is the
story of a girl who loved a murder
er.
The murderer isn’t an ordinary
man. His daring and resourceful
ness have earned for him the title of
“The Mink.” He is wanted in more
cities than he can count on the fing
ers of his two hands. He has killed
seven men.
And the girl isn’t an ordinary girl
either.
On at least one occasion it was her
nerve and ingenuity that saved him
from the grip of the law.
The man is Martin J. Durkin, the
man who wears a bullet-proof vest
and who shoots fast and accurately
when he is cornered.
The girl is Betty Werner, who
had separted from her husband and
who was first attracted to Durkin
because he was kind to her baby.
Durkin is now the object of as in
tensive a man-hunt as has stirred
Chicago in years, and Betty is being
held in jail in the hope that some
sort of information as to his where
abouts may be pumped out of her.
Thus far, none has.
Durkin’s specialty is stealing auto
mobiles, and it has led him into all
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Above, Betty Werner as she looks
in her cell in the Chicago jail; be
low Martin J. Durkin.
kinds of trouble.
Several months ago he shot a fed
eral prohibition agent to death here.
Clad in his bullet-proof vest, Durkin
let the agent fire three or four shots
at him at close range; then he laugh
ed and killed the agent.
Then, a week ago, Durkin was
trapped by a squadron of police in
an apartment. He shot his way to
freedom, killing one policeman.
But the most romantic of his many
escapes came about a year ago, when
he had been arrested in a Calfornia
town after he had shot a couple of
policemen who had caught him steal
ing an auto.
It was Betty who saved him.
Captured after a hot chas e he was
taken to the office of the chief of
police for questioning.
Betty happened along a little la
ter and stood in the hallway of the
station and danced a shimmy.
Her antics attracted th e entire
force from duty, and after a few for
ward gestures, writhes and wriggles
she was successful in reaching the
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door to the chief’s office.
With one swift motion she pushed
it open before the hypnotized police
force realized what she was about.
FLEE TO SAFETY
The door then slammed to and
caught with its automatic lock.
When it was finally battered down
Betty and Marty were yell on their
way to safety.
Betty is now in a jail cell here. She
is sure that Durkin will never be tak
en—at least not alive.
“He was good to me and kind to
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‘MIACAHUA’ OF
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Thousands Take in Sparks Circus
FL e Saturday. Best Show
Seen for Sometime
There are shows. Musical com
edies, drama, meldi tuna and well
there is the circus. But the circus is
the show. For the old and the
young, mother, dad, and all the kids.
And of circuses, well there is one
thing, they do not come any betti r
than Spark’s.
Americus folks have been unani
mous in approving the 1925 preesn
tation of Spark’s Circus. And last
night those who failed to see the
show in the afternoon were on hand.
First there was the opening gor
geously costumed operatic spectacle
called the “Wedding of L’Ora, the
Jungle Queen” This spectacle fea
tured Carl B. Mosher, concert tenor
and Hazel Bailey, called the "Diva
of Circusland.”
The wild animal displays were
wonderful, particularly Steve Batty’s
lions. In the tamed animal display
the German bred rotation horses
were good, as were the “Bibb Coun
those he liked,” says Betty. “He
really didn’t want to be bad, but
folks were just afraid of him be
cause he wasn’t afraid of them.”
Today every policeman and feder
al officer in the land has been in
structed to shoot Durkin on sight—
and then question him, if he is still
alive.
The orders are to shoot him in
the head and not lower down, be
cause of the armored vest that the
killer wears.
This vest has deflected the charge
of a shotgun aimed point blank.
It is one of the principal reasons
that Durkin is still alive somewhere
in a place to which he vanished, as
he always vanishes after a new kill
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But th. greatest honors of the
show go to “Miaimhua,” the Brazilian
young lady who did the wire walking'
stunt. She deserves credit for being
i the hit of the circus. We have nev-1
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markable performance.
The acrobatic stunts were all good
especially the Algerian' troop., fea
turing Marym, the greatest of all i
lady tumblers. i
Nor can we forget those funny '
and clever clowns. They produced |
many new ideas and were the best I
we have ever seen at any circus.
All in all it was a great show and '
one l hat the folks of Americus will
not soon forget. Everything was
clean and the grounds were free of
the obnoxiouus immoral dancing
shows and gambling devices.
Another appreciated feature was
the fact that Sparks tells the world
that Georgia is the Sate. He had a |
large banner announcing hat he ,
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know spends each winter in Macon.
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Pilll ADELI’HIA, Nov. 9.—Vet
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fie, both freight and passenger, on ,
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and fourth stories of the building 1
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