New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-10
Newman Held After Tell
ing Story of Mrs. Car
mans "Acoomplice."
SAYS HENDERSON"
BROKE THE WINDOW
Brother Declares Prisoner Is
Foolish Youth, Who lmagines
He Is Leader of Gang.

From stan Correspondent of The Tribune }
Mineola, Long Island, July 9.-Meyer
D. Newman, the pale-faced, nea.iy
dressed youth who told District Az
torney Smith the story that Joe An
derson, a gunman, had helped Mrs;
Carman shoot Mrs. Bailey, was iockeo
up in the Jail here tonight, awaiting
sentence on the charge OF carrying
revolver.
Newman came here to-day in answer
to subpoena, but, instead OF acting
as A witness, he was indicted for vio-
lation of the Sullivan law within two
hours after he got 10 the courthouse.
Half an hour afterw&rd he was taken
before Justice Van Siclen, who said
he would give him long sentence
Tuesday. In the meantime he Will
be rigidly questioned by the county au-
thorities.
/ When Newman got here at noon he
exhibited .32-calibre revolver. which,
he said, he had brought with him for
protection. AS soon as Sheriff Petit
learned of this, he arrested the youth
and found the pistol hidden IN MS
right sock. Newman said he lives at
90 Freeman ST., The Bronx, and is
sometimes known as Duke De Leon.
He proclaimed himself gunman and
gangster and said he had known Joe
Anderson about a month. The day
after the shooting, he said, Anderson
told him in Bronx saloon, at 1850
st. and South Broadway, that Mrs.
Carman had hired him to break the
window while she fired the shot. An
derson, he said, offered TO split the
$50, he is alleged to have received, but
| he refused it. Anderson, he said,
had gone to Kansas City.
Newman was at the inquest last
Monday and told the story TO District
Attorney Smith, who subpoenaed hlm
TO appear before the Grand Jury to-
day. -,
He took his arrest coolly, and did
not appear disturbed at the long jail
term which Justice Van Siclen SAID
he would give him. Even when his
mother, who had come here to see
him, tearfully asked him why he had
got into the trouble, he did not show
emotion.
In talking to a Tribune reporter,
Newman stuck to his story oil Joe
Anderson Although claiming TO be a
gunman, he said he had never carried
a revolver in his life until yesterday.
he had worked for Hess s. Hoffman. at
10 West 14th st. He had been with
them a year and three months. He
said he had been employed in the
packing department OF the United
Cigar Stores Company, at the Bush
Terminal, for the past two weeks.
Newman declared he himself would
not have undertaken the lob" Ander-
son said he performed for less than
$500.
Newman, who is nineteen years old,
lives with his brother, lsidor, IN
comfortable fat at 912 Freeman ST.,
The Bronx. His brother said last
night that Meyers achievements as
gang leader exist only in his magma
ton. He read all that was printed
about the Becker case, his brother
said, and got the idea that the gang
men were heroes.
Boys Of about his own age in the
neighborhood named him or he named
himself his brother is not sure
which Duke dc Leon" He was so
proud Of this cognomen that he had
it printed in the band of his hat
So far as his relatives know, he has
no knowledge of the Carman case.
From the windows OF the Newman
fat there is visible the sign of the
Carman Photo Gallery and lsidor
Newman thinks it possible that view
of this sign and a desire to get his
name into the newspapers combined
to put his brother into his present
plight. Meyer once started to walk
across the continent from The Bronx
to San Francisco. He quit when he
got as far as Columbus Circle.