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mankind, Emil Gluck. Gluck's confession, before he went to the electric chair, threw much
light upon the series of mysterious events, many apparently unrelated, that so perturbed the
world between the years 1933 and 1941. It was not until that remarkable document was made
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murders of the New York City police officers. While the deeds of Emil Gluck were all that
was abominable, we cannot but feel, to a certain extent, pity for the unfortunate,
malformed, and maltreated genius. This side of his story has never been told before, and
from his confession and from the great mass of evidence and the documents and records of the
time we are able to construct a fairly accurate portrait of him, and to discern the factors
and pressures that moulded him into the human monster he became and that drove him onward
and downward along the fearful path he trod. Emil Gluck was born in Syracuse, New York, in
1895. His father, Josephus Gluck, was a special policeman and night watchman, who, in the
year 1900, died suddenly of pneumonia. The mother, a pretty, fragile creature, who, before
her marriage, had been a milliner, grieved herself to death over the loss of her husband.
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In 1901, the boy, Emil, then six years of age, went to live with his aunt, Mrs. Ann Bartell.
She was his mother's sister, but in her breast was no kindly feeling for the sensitive,
shrinking boy. Ann Bartell was a vain, shallow, and heartless woman. Also, she was cursed
with poverty and burdened with a husband who was a lazy, erratic ne'er-do-well. Young Emil
Gluck was not wanted, and Ann Bartell could be trusted to impress this fact sufficiently
upon him. As an illustration of the treatment he received in that early, formative period,
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the injury through playing on the forbidden roof - as all boys have done and will continue
to do to the end of time. The leg was broken in two places between the knee and thigh. Emil,
helped by his frightened playmates, managed to drag himself to the front sidewalk, where he
fainted. The children of the neighbourhood were afraid of the hard-featured shrew who
presided over the Bartell house; but, summoning their resolution, they rang the bell and
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accident. She did not even look at the little lad who lay stricken on the sidewalk, but
slammed the door and went back to her wash- tub. The time passed. A drizzle came on, and
Emil Gluck, out of his faint, lay sobbing in the rain. The leg should have been set
immediately. As it was, the inflammation rose rapidly and made a nasty case of it. At the
end of two hours, the indignant women of the neighbourhood protested to Ann Bartell.
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and looked at the lad. Also she kicked him in the side as he lay helpless at her feet, and
she hysterically disowned him. He was not her child, she said, and recommended that the
ambulance be called to take him to the city receiving hospital. Then she went back into the
house.
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