New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06
Slayers Lured Victim AS
He Talked with Patrol
men, Is Report.
ARRESTS DUE SOON
IN DEATH MYSTERY
SleuthS Trail Murder Auto and
Are Closing In on Gunner
Who Shot POultryman.

From a friend of Barnet Baf, the
Wholesale live poultry dealer, VINO was
shot to death, story was obtained iate
last night TO the effect that the muir
dered man had ccnversed with two pa,
frolmen three minutes before the fatai
shooting occurred.
According TO this man, who has been
in constant communication with the
District Attorneys Office and with In
spector Faurot, of the Central once
Detective Bureau, Baff had left his
office for home, and stopped for few
minutes to talk with two patroimen on
most when he was recalled 70 answer
a telephone message. In the interim
the two policemen were called away Dy
a stranger.
annesred on the street, according TO
he story related. he sought the spot
where he had previously been taking
with the policemen. and was shot by
TWO gunner. who leaped upon him from
an adjacent doorway.
The sponsor for this tale does not al
lege any conspiracy on the part OF the
police. but insists that the Two pa
irolmen were led from the scene OF the
murder at the invitation OF one OF the
gangsters involved in the crime.
Arrests are sure 10 result from the
Investigation now being carried on,
Police Commissioner Woods predicted
yesterday. II is understood that the
notice are in possession of intorma-
lion which apparently points to the
men who did the actual shooting
he name Of the murder procurer who
hired them and the name Of the owner
of the automobile in which they mo-
tored 10 the scene of the killing and
afterward made their escape.
The police are still handicapped by
fear on the part of certain people who
have information that reprisals Will
follow their revelations. The gang
leader who is believed 20 have taken
the lob of ending Bats career in tie
market is known TO be powerful, and
Il is said that at various times he has
worked with the police against rival
gangsters and others for whom he had
enmity.
If Police Commissioner Woods de-
cides to accept Mayor MitchePs advice
TO give policemen little more freedom
with the nightstick, he will do well not
TO overlook Patrolman Robert Ahles,
Of the East 9th So. station. What
Ahles doesn't know about the use of a
locust could be put on a postage stamp,
according to half a dozen persons who
saw his handiwork on two chauffeurs
in Second av last night.
Ahles, who is twenty-seven years old
and one of the new members OF the
force. was on post at Second av: and
saith St. when he saw two men block
down the avenue Aghting. He went
along and tried to separate them. Both
instantly forgot their grievances
against each other and turned on the
policeman.
They beat Ahles. knocked him down
and got his club away. They then beat
ghim with the club. kicked him and tore
his uniform into shreds. To complete
The job, they ripped off his badge. by,
SANDERS. sure that the men would XIII
the policeman, turned in call for the
reserves.
When a squad of men raced up to
the scene with drawn clubs, expecting
10 find their brother officer breathing
his last, they got a shock. One OF
Ahles's ASSISTANTS lay in the gutter,
unconscious. The other. his eyes
closed and his scalp cut, sat penitently
in the street holding on to his head.