New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-25
0IrNMEN ESCAPE
IN WAITING AUTO
Case Similar to Rosenthal
Shooting - Two
Slight Clews.
MURDER FOLLOWS
SERIES OF PLOTS

Bomb, Hoid.Up and Attacks
Come After Fight to Convict
Combine" Members.
Barnett BaH, said 20 have been the
largest independent poultry dealer In
this section Of the country and hound
sd for years because he would not join
-ths trust was killed at 6 o'clock last
pight IN West Washington Market, in
Thlrtesnth av., Just north of Thomp-
,on sy.. one Of the alleys that divide
the market.
The two men who committed the
murdor ran unmolested south across
Thompson ay. 20 an automobile, which
vas waiting about twenty feet from
the corner. Jumped in and escaped. So
far the only clew is q number, which
the police fear will not produce re-
,ults. and a revolver, thrown from the
speeding machine ten blocks south, al
Bank ard Washington SITS. The weapon
was turned over TO Captain Carey, of
the Homicide Bureau.
District Attorney Whitman, who ar
rived so promptly on the scene after
the killing of Herman Rosenthsl, the
gambler. in July, 1912, was immedi-
stely notified Of the Baff murder. His
Office at once became buster than the
police on the case. which resembles in
many important details the death of
Rosenthsl.
Attacks Preceded Murder.
The Staying Of BaF is the culmina-
ton Of @ long series Of attacks which
have been made on him in one form or
another. many of them directly trace
s5e 10 his activity in the revelations
that resulted in the conviction OF thir-
teen members Of the poultry trust in
August. 1911.
Hold-up men have invaded his
branches. his horses have been pois-
oned az least two bombs have been set
with intent on his life and property
and his son has been attacked by
thugs
Rosenthal walked TO his death al the
simmons Of a decoy. The police be-
lieve that Baf was also on false
errsrd when be was shot down in
front Of the Brooklyn Poultry Com
pany, rs and IS Thirteenth av. The
fact that he was following a course
opposite 10 his usual journey home
lends color to this theory.
Morris Skala, an employe. was the
last 70 see Baf leave the building. and
when he heard the shots on Thirteenth
sv. he had feeling that his employer
vas somehow concerned and rushed
10 the scene Of the shooting. He was
Just in time 70 hear Baf. who was
propped up against packing case, say
I'm shot" and see him die.
Patrolman Sullivan, Of the Charles
st. station, who knew the dead man
well, recalls that ne left his Office, 81
Thompson av., on the northeast cor
near Of Thirteenth av., about b;5O
o'clock They exchanged greetings as
Sullivan went east on patrol TO the
other end Of his beat. Within five
minutes, after he had passed beyond
sound Of the shots, ne heard that a
murder had been committed and
rushed back, to find Baff dead on the
Sidewalk.
No Chance for Life.
One bullet had been fred from a
revolver held so close 70 the victim
that Bats Goa, was burned. This bull
let entered the body just under the
left shoulder and lodged in the heart.
lis mate, ared from another weapon,
passed through the shoulder and grazod
'ae left jawbone.
lnstinctiyely the crowd made a pas
sgeway for the gunmen as they made
'heir escape The dead mans son,
Marry, and his bookkeeper, John W.
Sehuek, Of $50 Stockton st.. Brooklyn,
"ho had remained behind in the Office
when the senior member of the firm de-
parted, rushed out at the sound Of the
'Aots. Harry collapsed when he saw
we body Of his father on the sidewalk.
Assistant District Attorney Deuel. and
coroner Feinberg were soon on the
''sne' and preliminary investigation
vas started at once. Dealers in the
market readily agreed that Bats
career IN the trade might have made
'"sinles Tor him who would have gone
,Il '1e length Of engineering a plot to
au ms life. On the surface there was
10 other motive.