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tcrcd a few blocks away that he had let

Of the saloon could verify the story that
when Maher hurried back to the saloon
10 get the revolver 1t could not be found
Capt. Coleman. in charge Of the Fifth
avenue station. Brooklyn. where Maher
IL now assigned, got hold Of the bartender
yesterday and the bartender verified
Naher's story Of his loss
The examination Of Davidson by Dis
,rict Attorney Whitman and Deputy
Commissioner Dougherty lasted from
shortly after midnight until about 4.30
O'Clock yesterday morning. Davidson
during this examination said that he had
once been "A song and dance performer
and that q year ago Zehg had robbed him
Of $40 He said also that about a year
and a half ago he had been waiter ior
Jack Sirocco, rival gang leader OF Zelig.
Immediately it was recalled that on
June Last Zelig and some OF his gangsters
had gone TO a Coney Island dance hall.
and there Zelig had assaulted u man who
was said to have been song and dance
man and also had been a waiter. The
reason that Xelig had gone to the Coney
Island place. it was said then, was to beat
up this man for "squealing" after being
robbed by Ielig.
Deny story Of Trouble.
Among Zelg's friends. however. the
story was secuted that Davidson ever had
trouble with Ielig at Coney Island or
any other place Also the gangsters. in
Guiding the four men accused in the
RosenthGl case now in the Tombs. in
sisted that all the years they have known
Davidson he was never an actor or waiter
and never had worked at any time. hut
that he always had lived on the earnings
of disreputab!e women and was white
SLAYER both here and in Boston.
During the all night examination David
son stuck to his story Of shooting Ielig
because the gang leader had robbed
and beaten him, q story which later he
repeated to the reporters who saw him
in the Tombs in tn" afternoon. hut
whereas. on saturday night he first said
that Zelig had robbed him of about s+On,
yesterday he said that at hall at the
Stuyvesant Casino on Friday night Zelig
TOOK SIS from him.
"Xelig never was shot because of an SIS
or a SIS robbery said Lawyer Charles
=. G. Wahle. counsel for Zelig when the
gangster was killed and now counse!
Tor Gyp, Lefty, Whitley and Daso Frank
"Ihere was some other motive don't
know what. And | can say positively
that when 2eliR left the restaurant at
u Second avenue Saturday night just
before he was killed he had $500 in his
pockets. He had got the money Saturday
from man in the place next door and
IL was in FIVE 500 bills
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty said
last night that all he knows about the
500 supposed to be in Zeligs possession
and the East Side gangmen and their
women insist that Zelig had such sum
when he got on the car in which he was
killed-is that Superintendent Armstrong
Of the Morgue tells him that when Ielig's
pockets vera searched AT the Morgue
after his death nothing was found but
the letters from the gunmen published
in The SuN yesterday. about 81 and a
few trifes.
. Then he was trimmed while he was
dead" cried Gyp the Blood TO THE SrN
reporter in the Tombs. Jack always
had $500 or $500 in his clothes
Davidson Anxious to Talk.
Davidson again seemed an, ious yester-
day to tell his story OF the private grudge"
against Zelig to the newspaper men
While he was talking Reynolds Forsbrey
IN a cell few feet away listened with
grin and during the recital came cries
from other prisoners in the first tier,
where Lieut.. Recker as well as Davidson
3s confined. to Davidson to shut mp and
don't be boob"
They're all irving TO keep me quiet
said Davidson. indicating the prisoners.
rThey'd kill me if they could. Early
this afternoon big tin can ives tired down
here at me from the second tier while
was exercising and il raised this big welt
on my leg If it had hit my head it would
have killed ne. That fellow threw it,"
Davidson pointed to the tier above
directly at William Shapiro. who was eX-
ercising. Davidson told next Of his in
ability TO read English. although twelve
Years in this country. -'
Il guess I'll get the limit" he said
but it was worth il to put Ielig out of
the way. Last night at Headquarters
the police told me | did good job in
killing Zelig. He's been robbing and
killing around here for years and nobody
ever tried to stop him. not even the police.
until | got him.
Says Zelig Killed Many.
Anybody up around Four, eenth street
and Second avenue will tel! you that XelG
killed Johnsie. a fat Dago, and lots Of
other people Last winter Zelg and
Louie drove up to that neighborhood in
an automobile and Zelig killed Frank
Onessi Frank Rizzo some called him."
Davidson then went on with story
that on Friday nigh at the ball in Stuy-
vesant Casino Ielig had taken SIS away
had about SIS but that he had turned it
over 10 Xelig for safe keeping
Saturday afternoon" said Davidson, IL
went to Zelig several times for my SIS and
he only laughed at me. saying. Youll
get the money all right, and then turning z
noon | went looking for Zelig again and
saw him in front Of Siegals coffee house
in Second avenue, but there were about
thirty Of Zelig's crowd around the corner
and ! was afraid to do anything then but
ask for my money"
Davidson here overlooked the fact that
his first story was that Zelig had black
lacked him in a Broome street doorway
and had robbed him then Of si0p. In
his story at the Tonbs he said Ielig first
heat him Saturday afternoon when the
gang leader and his cohorts We're in front
Og tho Sacnnd "a pnilaa hn,,sa Enrliar