The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-06

in my pockets and felt a $40 bill that
I guess he didn't know had. That was
all the money he left me. felt so sore
about being robbed and beaten that l
went right over to Jersey City and
bought the revolver and came back to
the East Side ready to shoot him as soon
as I saw him. And when I saw him
sitting on the open car I chased the car
for more than a block, and when I
caught II at Fourteenth street l climbed
on II and shot. him."
While Policemen Schmidt and Knox
and a number Of detectives. who had
got to Fourteenth street and Second
avenue q few minutes after the shoot
ing. were taking Davidson to the police
station DR.. Hawkins was getting the
unconscious Zelig into the hospital am
bulance with all possible speed. While
ne was working over ZeliE's wound In
the ambulance the gang man died.
Instead OF being taken to the hos
pitai. therefore. the body was i'm
mediately placed in the morsue A very
short time after this was done a stout,
dark haired girl. who said she was
Jacks girl" hurried to Bellevue and
begged to see Zelie She cried out when
told that he had died before reaching
the hospital. 81
Girl Said Zelig HAD $500.
Shortly after the body had been taken
to the Morgue q young dark haired
woman Of Jewish type called at the
Morgue and said that Zelig was her
sweetheart and that she had heard he
had just been killed.
She stated that nc had $500 In his
pockets when ne was killed and said she
wanted to get It, She was told that no
such sum OF money had been found and
she went away.
Shortly after she had left the Morgue
an automobile arrived. and from II
stepped a man who said his name was
Elliott. He said that ne was an inti-
mate friend OF Zelig, and said that he
knew that the dead man had $500
when he was killed He was told that
only 81 had been found. and he drove
away. The machines license number
was 325ss N. Y. This belongs to a
machine owned by M. Steinhardt 4
Son. SO Willett street. They did not
answer their telephone last night.
On Zelig's person was also found a
plain card. which read Bond Co..
Lieut.. Adams. Greenville, H."
When the news Of the murder reached
Police Headquarters the police immedi-
ately sent for acting Inspector Faurot,
who recently succeeded Inspector
Hughes as head Of the Detective
Bureau. and telephoned at once to Mr.
Whttman's apartments only to learn
that he had gone out.
vv,., aAnA
Headquarters ne was beginning to Ques-
ton Davidson when word came - the
police to hold of on their examination
Of the prisoner. District Attorney
whitman had been located. said the
message. and had sent the order that
the police examination was to be sus-
pended Immediately. as Mr.. Whitman
wished to conduct the initial examina-
tion Of Davidson personally.
Commissioner Dougherty said at
o'clock this morning after his long talk
with Davidson that as far as he could
learn Davidson had no criminal record
and had not been an associate OF gun
men.
The Commissioner said the ball Zelig
attended on Friday night was that OF
the Forsythe Association.
1t WAS held. said the Commissioner
In the rooms OF the association at the
Stuyvesant Casino at l$0 Second ave-
nue.. In this place, a hangout OF gun
fighteEs. julie Morelle was shot and
killed ZeltG was taken into custody
suspected Of the shooting. but was let
go. Here too Zelig was arrested for
carrying concealed weapons.
Mr.. Whitman showed unusual interest
in last nights shooting because Of the
alleged relations between the gang
leader and various persons directly or
indirectly connected with the Rosenthal
murder and criminal affairs that grew
out Of It. Also zeiig was OF particular
interest on account OF his various mix
ups with the Jack Sirroco gang. his
having been shot early in the present
year and tho facts that at the time Of
his death he was out on $4,000 bail as
a second offender and on a $1,000 bond
for being arrested at Providence. h l..
on August 10 last as q pickpocket. He
doubtless would have been called In the
coming Becker trial and he would have
been the chief witness against Detec-
tives Steinert and White when their
trial for perjury Is called.
Wait for Whitman's Arrival.
When the District Attorney sent word
to Headquarters last night that ne
would be there shortly and to suspend
the examination OF Davidson pending
MIR. Whitman's arrival, Inspector Faurot
already had been questioning the MUIR
derer for some time and had learned q
part OF his story. Davidson. In telling
Inspector Faurot OF attending a ball on
Friday night, bore out story told TO
the reporters toward midnight by Mrs.
Davidson when she came to Headquar-
ters on learning that her husband was
a prisoner there.
Mrs. Davidson said that her husband
had come home from the ball at the
Stuyvesant Casino yesterday after mid
night very drunk and that he arose at
1880 o'clock yesterday morning and left
the house In great excitement. She
heard no more Of him again yesterday,
she said last night, until told that he
had killed Zelig
She knew nothing OF Zelig further
than what she has read in the news
papers from time to time. she insisted,
and never had heard her husband speak
OF the gangster.
But during the first few minutes Of
Davidson's talk with acting Inspector
Faurot. Davidson told the head Of the
Detective Bureau that at the ball at
Gtnvvoea ainn an ErifaU pivht IA