The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-23
SILENT ABOUT BAFF,
so HE GOES TO CELL
West HObOken Bartender "FOr-
gets" About Meeting Of
Chicken Handlers.
FIGHTING MEN ROUNDED UP

District Attorney whitman spent con-
siderable time yesterday trying to get
Carl Rettich. who tends bar In his
fathers saloon IN West Hoboken. y. j.,
to remember what was said at a meeting
Of chicken handlers there few days
before the murder of Barnett Bar on
November "a. To help along the young
mans memory he took him before Judge
Malone and had him committed to the
Tombs in the hope that a night there
would do SOME good
Rettich was a witness before the Grand
Jury. He was brought in on the state
ment OF James Moore. the chicken handler
who had confessed tina, he assaulted Ban s
friend A. T. Pearson and was paid for
the job by Joe Cohen. now under indict-
ment for the ASA lt and held m extraor-
binary bail because OF the belief that
he can tell something about the Baff
murder. Rettich answered some ques-
lions. but baked when he was asked
about the meeting in his fathers saloon.
The District Attorney tried persuasion.
but the youth would not yield. SO they
took him before Judge Malone. who adj
ministerod a homily on the advantages of
truthfulness in AL cases, even where
ones friends are concerned. and promised
to adjudge Rettich in contempt IL he
persisted in his refusal to answer.
Ills Memory Fails.
When Rettich went back to the Grand
Jury room he answered the vital questions
with the statement that he could not
remember" Then he was taken before
Judge Malone again and committed to
the Tombs.
Mr.. Whitman had another private talk
with him. and his counsel. Abraham
HarawitZ. who is also counsel for Moore
and who has advised the latter to make
clean breast Of everything. urged Ret
itch to tell what he knows Both the
District Attorney and Mr.. Harawitz were
confident Rettich will act differently when
he goes before the Grand Jury again to-
day. 1t is known that IN private talks
with his counsel and with the District
Attorney he has told a story which does
not agree with what he told the Grand
Jury yesterday.
one OF the interesting bis of intorma-
ton that leaked out yesterday is that
James Moore knows how 20 drive an auto
mobile. Although the District Attorney
and the police are silent on the question
;his fact was coupled with that OF the
questioning OF a mysterious chauffeur who
was at the District Attorneys office on
Monday. This automobile end OF the case
is believed to relate 10 some gathering Of
the conspira tors previous to the murder
ia AN automobile after they snot Bar
down.
Promise to Leave city.
\ report to Police Commissioner Wood =
/ that some of the poul;ry dealers in West
Washington Market who have been sub
/ ppnaed to appear before the Grand Jury
! in this case had been approached by
/ friends OF the men now In jail led him to
! send Inspector Faurot and Capt. Cray OF
/ the First detective branch TO the West
1 Side early yesterday morning. They 'ooi,
! with them some hard listed young men
! from Police headquarters and told them
| to remember that the Mayor had said the
way TO get gangster was to get him
( first.
3 Capt. CraN's men circulated through the
quarters where the gunner and black
. fuckers Congregdte and whenever they met
. one they went at him. In couple OF
hours there wasn't a lighting man in the
, neiShborhood who would acknowledge that
he knew anything about his own game
. \ number OF them were brought TO In
spec;or Faurot and Capt. Cray in thell
/ field headquarters at Ninth avenue and
Fourteenth street and instructed concern
ing the facilities for leaving town. Mos
| of ,h.m promised to move to a more con-
genial city right away.
Five Of them were taken 20 Police Head
. quarters. Among these was Bob Whelan
/ or Emmett, as he is sometimes known. IL
has been wanted as a suspect I'm the rob.
berry of a United Cigar Stores Company
I store at 2s2 Third avenue two weeks ago
Emmett Is no stranger 70 penal institu.
tons and now that they have him tn,
police intend to find out II he knows any
| thing about the Baff murder
The Grand Jury Will continue it's in,
vestieation OF the murder to-day.