The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-30
DO1NGs or THE GANG OF THUGS.
Extraordinary Story OF = Plot LaboriOusly
carried out.

news that the New York police are after
the rest Of the gang Of thugs who are con-
cerned in the assault on Mcmahon, has
relieved the nervous tension in dozen
households in this town.
Ever since the arrest OF Lamar, his
brother-in-law, Bernard Smith, and his two
stablemen for completely in the smuggling,
story has been going around town that
the New York thugs would return and
punish every one whose testimony led to
the arrests and the score Of witnesses
have lived in state OF terror.
The story OF the elaborate plans that were
laid to accomplish the smuggling of Mcmahon
is such nightmare that 1t could not have
been credited but for the numbers of wit
nesses who con firm it at every turn.
After McMahon's arrest on July for
his fight with Lamar and his release on
bail he and his wife went to live with a
man named Taylor in Norwood avenue,
Long Branch According 10 the affidavit
on which Lamar and his men were held
for the Grand Jury the first move TO do"
him was ma de on July L. the day following
his release. and the attempts did not cease
until July 0, the day he was stabbed and
kicked and beaten in front Of Justice
Schoenen's Office.
On July 4 McMahons sister received
telephone message, purporting to come
from a man who had gone bail for him,
asking her TO meet him that night at List \
Hotel. The sister thought she recognized
the voice as Lamars and took the trouble
to telephone the bondsman.
He denied sending the message and
hnN1nh., at, nj hnrpa TINT NIGHT
Hotelkeeper List has testified that on July
4 Mt night four men drove up and asked
for Mcmahon at the appointed time. They
waited an hour for him.
On July Mcmahon received letter,
signed mike" requesting him to meet
friends at the IienoX Hotel where, ii said
he would learn something to his advantage
He didn't go, and next day messenger
brought note from the IIenoX to the same
effect, and little-later a carriage called to
take him there. His wife pretended that
he was not at home and that night another
note was sent to his home asking him TO
be at the hotel at 10 o'clock.
About one hour after this note had ar
rived carriage containing six men
drove up to the Norwood avenue house
McMahon's brother-in-law went TO the
door, and in answer TO the .spokesman's
inquiry said that Mcmahon had gone 10
Mr. Lamar's early in the evening to get
his trunk. This seemed to satisfy the
strangers and they drove of.
That night six men, supposed to be the
same party, went 10 the Lenox Hotel at
midnight and engaged three rooms, asking
to be called at o'clock in the morn ng AT
oo'clock the visitor Of theprevious evening
called again at McNahon's house.
This time they shouted through the door
that they had warrant for his arrest.
Mrs. Mcmahon parleyed with them from
the roof of the piazza. The strangers
threatened to break in the door and Mrs
Mcmahon climbed into the window of the
house next door and ran ont through the
neighbors' back yard to a hotel on the
next street, where she telephoned TO the
police station.
Meanwhile the neighborhood had been
aroused by the rurnpus, and the strangers
drove off. Although the proprietor of
tie Lenox Hotel refuses to say that he
knows who his guests were on the night of
JC " 8, the detectives who have worked up
NcNahons case assert that at the trial
IL will pick out monk" Eastman and Joe
Bro wn as two of the men. and Lamar as
tie man who paid for the rooms.
After the sttack on the Norwood treet
house Mcmahon got n lawyer and went
to the chief of police 10 demand protection.
His wife and bTother-in-law were so thor
oughlv frightened that all hands decided
10 clio up the house and go to live at the
National Hotel
The day after they closed UP their house
four tough strangers appeared at the
American Hotel in Fast long Branch OPP
posite the little station. They hung around
I'll day dI mixing and watched the little
single car trains they came up from Long
Branch.
Harry McGill, the bartender, heard
the men talking about the best place to
pull of some job or other The gashouse
plant was suggested as the loneli,s part OF
town, and various means Of enticing some
lody there were discussed.
That dav n man, whom NcMahons
friends say Mc(iill has idenrifie as Lamar,
came in and paid for food and drink for
the four and woman who was with them
On this day the inc for the hearing before
Justice Schoenlcin at which Mcmahon
would have to appear was fixed for Thurs
1t is significant That the gang were not
seen in Long Branch again unit il Thursday
morning. Since the assault it has been
learned that they put in the intervening time
at a little hotel in Red Bank. Mcmahon
got to Judge Schoenlein's ofceson Thurs
day morning minute or 40 ahead of time.
Smith passed him few doors below
the Judges Office, and "a he got to the
door two strangers hurried up. They
walked past, and he turned around to look
after them. 1t was then that the smuggling
began. third man had stepped up behind
Mcmahon and struck him a Flow in the
rack of the head that landed him on the
sidewalk The other two piled in and
stabbed and kicked him until he was almost
insensible
A carriage came up on trot and
McMahons assailants Jumped In. One
OF them missed his footing and was dragged
for some distance so that the driver had TO
slow up, policeman who was running
up got good look at the driver, who he
swears was Smith, Lamar's brother-in-law
Affidavits have already been made which
were sufficiently strong to hold Lamar and
Smith for the Grand Jury, and McMahon's
friends say that they haven't yet put half
Of their witnesses forward for fear of getting
them into trouble before the trial in Sep
TENDER.
David Lamar has n country place on the
Rumson road. about mile west Of South
ridge, where he lives in style on an estate
OF nearly 100 acres He did not come here
from the city last night. hut Mrs. Lamar
was at the house.
She said her husbands side of his trouble
with Mcmahon would come out when the
charges on which her husband is out on
bail are brought TO trial Until then
neither she nor her husband would have
any statement to make,
SANn rADTAEN