New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
Levy Tries to See Moss.

Mr. Levy went TO the Criminal Courts
Building yesterday morning to see AS
sistant District Attorney Moss, at the
latter's request. when he reached the
building he found Mr.. Moss and Justice
Gof IN conference. He waited an hour,
and the venerable iurist and the veteran
prosecutor were still behind closed doors.
lie then departed. having an engagement
ne could not break
Before going he talked with Assistant
/ District Attorney Rubin. What Mr..
Rubin said 10 him Mr.. Levy would not
! dlvulgc. but he intimated It was propo-
sltion he was to submit to his client
81 did not see my client after the talk
with Mr. Rubin" said Mr.. Levy, be
| cause | wanted TO have the proposition
| that was made TO me confirmed by Mr..
| Moss first"
When Mr.. Moss was seen last night he
/ said had he known Mr. Levy had called
on him during the day he could have
made some arrangement to see him.
II was no surprise 10 the friends OF
| the imprisoned gunner that Shapiro
| turned against them. Their only wonder
| Is that he held out 80 long. His confess
| sion VIII make no difference In the plans
OF their counsel ex-Judge Charles @. F.
| Wahlc, who said yesterday he was ready
| to 20 10 trial and was confident Of the
| outcome.
Judge Wahle denied the four GUNNER
were in state Of terror, and branded az
| false the story I'm an afternoon paper that
| there was any dlssension among them.
! While he would not reveal his defence, II
was learned from another source that II
would consist of alibis furnished by
! friends and relatives Of the gunner.
! The widow Of Big Jack" Zelig. who
was slain by Red Phil" Davidson. has
unearthed evidence against the assassin
OF her husband. which she will turn over
| to Assistant District Attorney John Min
| ton tomorrow. Mrs. Zelig has found sew
| eraI witnesses who will testify at David
sons trial that the prisoner was looking
for Big Jack" Zelig thrty-slx hours be-
! fore he shot him.
Davidsons story all along has been that
| he met Zclig for the first time I'm months
at the Forsyth Club ball in Stuyvesant
! Casino late Friday night, october 4,
J twenty hours before the murder, and that
| Zellg took some money from him. the
sum varying from SIS TO 500.
But this new evidence would tend to
show that Davidson was looking for the
gang leader as early as o'clock the
morning before the murder Zelig s
| friends have contended from the very be-
ginning that Davidson forced the quarrel
on Zellg, to have some grounds for kill
ing him.
They say Davidson, some three hours
after Zellg blackencd his eye, went into
Siegals cafe at No IS Second avenue
and asked Zelig to shake hands, saying
he had no i'll feeling against Zelig Al
that time, which was an hour before he
shot Zelig from behind, they say. he kept
his hand on n revolver he carried in his
pocket, thinking Zelig might again strike
him. But Zellg took his hand instead.
Davidson. according to an official In tn,
Tombs. is beginning 10 sham insanity
But his efforts are too theatrical to be i'm
pressve, this official said. The SlOON
cash and security which was put up by
Zelig's friends as surety for his appear
ance 20 answer the charge of carrylna
! concealed weapons, mas Deen returned tC
! them.
Harold Spielberg, attorney and agent
of the Empire State Surety Company
who went on the bond. said BRIDGE
Weber, who put up $1,000 in cash, assigned
his claim to the Mutual Alliance Bank OF
Grand street. The others who put up the
security were Sam Paul, who gave 5000
Louis Cohen, $500; A. Levy, $500, and
Nath Paul, brother OF Sam, who gave
$4,000 equity in a tenement house in East
4th street for the remaining; 5000.
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