The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-07
Three Persons Marked
 For Death By Halliday
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 Halliday rose to his feet and grab bed a table to dash out Romeres brains, but the younger man was too agile and quick. He jumped and ob- tafned the gun in the room.
 CT could have killed him if I wanted to- Romero told 1.-the police today. Romero fired to scare his an- tagonist, but Halliday had reached that state of desperation where noth- ing short of death could stop him. He bore in on Romero and they
 clinched again. His fingers closed on Romero's throat.
 The 1atter's face grew black. He gasped for breath. Mana ging by a superhuman effort to raise the gun he shot Halliday three times in the. arm and Halliday was forced to let go his hold. He quickly got another 1 hold, however, and they both fought l over the gun, until Halliday, faint from the loss of the blood, dropped to the floor, in the parlor. The battle had ragged through thr ee rooms and wrecked the interior of
 the house. Romero, it now develops, staggered from the house to a nearby 1 store. He called up Detective Hol-
 brook at police headquarters and
 said, s'Well, he tried to kill me, as 1 told you yesterday. I'm in a store. Come and get me- The receiver 1 dropped with a bang, Holbrook at the other end of the wire heard the sound of something falling. Romero had tainted.
 Romero claims that throughout all hi fray ofio Eo1 hn ', ,oc,
 always been afraid he would get in trouble. Halliday. however, was in- sistent that everything was all right. In court this morning Romero was held in bonds of $500 for assault with intent to kill. The police off, cials, however, admit he shot in self defense and they are holding Ro- nero only to conform with the law governing such cases.
 One of the methods pursued by the pair, who had dealings with D. Fair child Wheeler, of the Bridgeport Land and Title Co.,, to obtain large credits came to light today as a result of a transaction in which Halliday figured with a local factory.
 He purchased. contiguous lots of land from the concern and it was stipulated in the sale papers that when development had reached cer- tain stages of progress, payments on. the full purchase price made. Halli- day would build houses on some of the lots and sell them when com pleted. He would mortgage the oth- CTS, taking first and second mortgages from his partner Romero, which rep resented nothing more than the paper on which it was written.
 The first mortgage would be used to obtain money from the banks and the second would be utilized to, get building supplies in large amounts MT. Wheeler stated today that he had sold two lots in Garfield avenue, to Halliday and had loaned him money to build on them.
 He stated Halliday had fortunate ly for us'' been unable to defraud the company of which he is the head, although since, it has been brought to my attention that he was not hon est in his dealings and has been using fictitious names
 Men expert in real estate matters and involved and technical financial dealings, will be called into the case
 
 liday's operations. They have been in thus far the willy Halliday has proved too deep for us,'' as they express it. Just to what extent the banking insti- tutions in the city will suffer losses as result of Hallidays scheming is not known.
 Halliday, at St. Vincent's hospital, will be operated on today or tomorrow Two of the bullets passed clear through his arm while a third lodged in the bone. This will be probed for and removed. As soon as Halliday has sufficiently recovered to be ablo to walk, policeman will be stationed at his bed, according to Assistant Pros ecutor Garlick today. His condition is not serious and he will quickly re- cover unless blood poisoning develops.
 He is now charged with assault with intent to murder, but the charge of arson and other crimes will be lodged against thirn when he is arraigned in court, according to the police. His wife refuses to discuss the case. al- though she is in communication with the police.
 Halliday in his conversation with Detective Holbrook told the latter that he suspected a resident of a near by house of setting the fire. Later when incendiary fires were discovered in structures in Hollister avenue and Madison avenue, he told the detective he was sure the persons who set them, fired the Gilbert house. When the three gunmen, Slattery, Welch and Cavanaugh, were arrested. Halliday wanted Holbrook to charge them with setting the fire. They're the feI- lows,'' he said. "They set the fire af- ter stealing the lead pipe in the house."
 Twill they hang them?'' he asked Holbrook. -
 Not Cavanaugh,'' replied the de- tective. .'He has made clean breast of the thing
 halliday grew agitated and said. "Oh, thte fellow that squeals, gets off the easiest. So-So,'' he significantly remarked. The visits of Romero to the police evidently had disturbed Halliday. Detective Holbrook in con- stant consultation with Lieut.. Cronan the last three days has worked m case of the greatest strength against Halliday and is now busy completins it.
 B. M. Bigelow, recently appointed