The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-13

 FORGED
 PROBE Acting State s Attorney No Party to Hush Conspiracy Tn De Martino Case ssWHo SAYS POLICE HAD NO EvIDENCE?" Capt. of Detectives Arnold Makes Puzzling State
 ment and Stops
WHO SAYS POLICE
 HAD NO EvIDENCE?''

More or less sensational disclosures were made today by those connected with the Sien1on-peMarti1lo case when elsewhere in the Farmer, disclosed the fact that this case had been placed before the proSeentor and police at least a year ago and possibly even before that time
 It was definitely ascertain that the cause of the present rivival was forced by Assistant Sfazes Attorney Galen Carter, to whom information concerning those cuIpable was brou ght less than a week ago and who at of the facts be made in a public nan< ner rather than in star-chamber hearings which had already been stag ed and which it had been hoped would
 forever close the doors of public in- lvestfgation.
 nnarided as follows: Carl F. siemon. head Of the Sienoon Hard Rubber cor. poration, prominent in club circles.
 and living on Clinton avenue, was re turning from 9 football game at New.
 Haven on the night Of October 29. 1910. In the car with him were Elmer 6. Thrall purchasing agent Of the Bry- ant Electric Company of 67 sISenox ave- nue, James Nelson formerly master mechanic of the Bryant Electric Go.
 
 IClarence A. Bates, living at 134s Fair field avenue.
 As they zsped up Held avenue afnh l a large touring car they approached Grove street, where Angelo DeMar- tino a barber's supply salesman. evil dent1y stepped from the curb and was struck by the car.
 According to testimony given by R. Bertram Van Ness a witness to off, cials Investigating the case at the time he was struck by the front of the machine tossed away from the ma chine which caught him again and l tosed him to the curb as it sped on There was an electric light almost di-
 rectly over. the spot where he was struck His skull was crushed and i his legs horribly managed and broken. l Siemon and his party conspired to
 keep the facts secret because his wife was seriously i'll in Bridgeport hos pital. The others, apparently, for un- known reasons
 Detective Sergeant Edward Cronan was detailed to investigate and his
 search for the guilty parties led him i to Hamilton, N. Y, where it was be- Heved a, party of Colgate students
 might throw light upon the affair
 The case dragged on for months with
 out progress
 Sometimes in the early part of 191S lover a year after the accident, Carl F. Siemon is supposed to have felt tthe qualms of conscience and to have appealed to his attorneys, Shannon &
 Wilder, for advice.
 l Attorney Frank L.. Wilder, deputy judge of the city court, is believed Ito have advised that he give himself Iup to the authorities. Attorney Shan
 non is known to have approached the lauthoritfes with a, confession from Sic
 mon to the effect that he was pro-
 ceeding about 15 miles per hour and had seen man standing in the street,
 but believed that he had missed him
 and without looking further proceeded i to his home. This statement was lcorroborated by Clarence A. Bates and
 Elmer G. ThraH. l.. The prosecuting official asked the police what they had ascertained and was told THERE WAS NOT
 ENOUGH CRIMINAL EVIDENCE IUPON WHICH A CONVICTION GOULD BE BASED The matter was apparently dropped.
 l Attorneys Shannon & Wilder then began to effect a sett1emente with the IDeMartino widow, to whom it is a1leg-
 ed s1, 900 was voluntarily given by Sic mon. This statement though corrob-
 orated by paid checks in the posses
 sion of the attorneys. apparently en- dofsed by the woman herself, Is dis puted by Mrs. DeMartino.
 1 staterpents made today by the varf- ous authorities and others connected | I GaIen Carter: Information was
 brought to me within a week which disclosed who were in the car that killed DeMaTtfno. immediately
 came to Bridgeport and laid the in- formation before the local authorities.
 sI want it distinctly understood by the public that I had no previous know1edgeSof the case and when in l formation was placed before me did i not take a year or more to act''
 ..I have not heard that there was bany attempt made at bIackmai1''
 Prosecuting Attorney Alexander 1 Delaney: q became acquainted with this case about a year ago. The po- T lice declared that they did not have I sufficient information of criminal I nature upon which to convict. The matter has now been placed in the hands of Coroner Phelan for inves- 1 tigation and nothing can be done un- til his finding is filed
 Superintendent of Police Eugene 1 Birmingham: ..I have nothing to say I publicly at this tfme.''
 l Chief of Detectives, Captain George Arnold, when questioned about state l nents made to the effect that there was no evidence to convict: Who said the police did not have evid- ence % Then have nothing what I soeyer to say about this matter.''~ 1 Sheriff Antonio R. Abriola: "At-