Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-22
RI,ACKMAM OF WOMAN
No BE AIRED IN COURTS
HERE; NEW YORK TRIALS
Alleged Members of Gang viii
Re Tried for Kidnapping of
Mrs. Regina Klipper.
Crocker to Testify
MEMS POLICE RECORDS

-. n the trials Of the gang OF alleged
.,.sr,.i,ers. who are accused Of extorting
:. aoo 400 by trapping persons In alleged
.s,,.,,ons OF the Mann white slave act VIII
=. held in Philadelphia.
80. announcement was made here by
80, 7. Garbarino. special agent Of the
x,.,.ytment Of Justice. on his return from
: ,,,o-day conference at Washington with
.eorney General Gregory.
~. case OF the kidnapping of Mrs.
~.lsna RlIpper, In which Frank Crocker,
49, irwin. William Butler and George
vSr.,sr are accused OF obstructing justice,
,,n ba tried here. Mr.. Garbarino said.
r,,.,r trial for alleged impersonation OF
x.taral officers, which occurred in New
x,rt will be held here or In New York
srnst Of the other cases will he heard In
New York, the prosecutor 70 pe placed IN
~ hands Of Assistant District Attorney
Knox. $780, p,,.,ou .uo
- IN hail Crockers whereabout being
~sncaaled by the Federal authorities be-
80. NJ threats by members of the black
~snlng gang to get him because ne
s,.saled." william Butler is in jail In
Camden.
N MRS. KLIPPER ABSENT
:, Chicago today, when the blackmailing
~nsrres were being aired before the court,
sstorneys reresenting the Defendants at
s.,onted to compel the Government author
,,s.s "a produce Mrs Regina Klipper, VIC
49, of the band, but the Federal authorities
LA This was impossible, since Mrs. klipper
a out Of the city. NJ,
: The result of the conference at WASH
,,sfon was a decision to divide the work OF
s.srchInR for the other persons wanted,
fttrfhpr arrpgtg are
\, ne made for several days, he added.
III Is almost impossible for the Govern
,...h, 20 get evidence against the black
,railers explained Francis Fisher Kane.
fInIted States District Attorney. for even
vhen Immunity is promised person may
ref,ise to testify under the plea that ne
might incriminate himself.
I'm a case of customs violation, where
a vas most important to have the evidence
of one person." said Mr.. Kane, "President
taft promised pardon II the person should
~ convicted Even under these circum-
stances the courts held that the person
could not be required to testify"
MANY SOUGHT, FEW CAUGHT
After fifteen months of investigation,
staftng in June, 1915, when Mr.. Garpa-
rino got his first report of the alleged at
tempt by William and George Butler, OF
phlladelphia, to extort $4,000 from Mrs.
As
street only seven persons out of sixty said
10 be wanted are now under arrest. These
are Edward (Doc) Donahue, Henry (Slick)
Russell and Mrs Helen Evers, who are
said to have been Identified in Chicago
tuesday by Mrs. Regina Klipper, OF Phiia-
dephia, as among those who spirited her
away to Canada to keep her from testify
ins against George CroclSer, alias Don Col
lns and George Irwin.
Mrs Klipper and the three Chicago prls-
oners are expected in Philadelphia by Sun
Day
WILLIAM BUTLER CHEERFUL
William Butler. who is accused In the
Winpenny case. as well as in the black
mailing and kidnapping of Mrs. Kllpper, Il
IN the Camden Jail in default of $65,0O(
bail His cheerfulness continues to sur
Prise his keepers. He frequently does
Jig, he always wears a smile and he talk
freely, but never abSut the operations oi
himself or the gang Of which he Is reputec
70 have been one OF the directing heads
He was visited again yesterday by hi
wife, Mrs. Grace Butler, of COZ North Thir
tenth street, who obtained n pass In tn
United States marshaIs office here In th'
afternoon before going to Camden.
tAccording to the records OF the Phila
oelphia Police Department, Butler has gon'
under the aliases OF Butts, Frank Morris
and william Brown He is thirty-five year.
ONSO1NA
1915; December "a, 1909, and october 2S
1916 Out-of-town arrests of Butler tina
have come to the knowledge of the Phila
celphia police were in Atlantic City Sep
tember 6, 1905 In New York city Septem
Der .. 1906. and July, 1916. in Chicago
Most Of these arrests were for allege'
minor swindlng operations. though one o
them involved $500 said to have beel
taken from a Pittsburgher by a fake racinI
bet scheme. Butler has never been con
victed. according to the Philadelphia rec
ords
Frank Crocker also has a Philadelphia
police record. He has gone under the aliase
o. Count Frank Jones and Fredericl
crecker besides that of Don Collins, b.
which name he is asserted to have regis
tered with Mrs. Klipper at the New Yorl
hotel He was arrested here on May
1908: November 16. 1908; December s, 1905
N Buffalo on September 80, 1908; In AZ
hntic City on July 10, 1910; In Pittsburgh
on October 20. 1910, and In Jacksonville
fla, on February 26. 1915. The charge
ran the gamut from vagrancy to defraudinl
farmer out of s22.
george Butler was arrested october 81
islt. on the charge of receiving goods
valued at $3.50. stolen from house Il