The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-13

peHutHt prices We're controlled by
group who later organized the Live Poul-
try Dealers Association. BaT instead OF
being content to receive live poultry from
tne West and sell wholesale at prices
nNed ny the association, established his
own slaughter house and also four re-
tail stores in addition to his wholesale
shop In West Washington Market He
was the chief witness against the trust
IN the trials that resulted in thirteen con-
v!ctions
Having started the fght which opened
the New York market to more than one
western shipper. Ban received special
IaNors from an auction company that
was organized here. lie obtained car
loaus without having TO go TO the auc-
ton company and bulled the market
Ihe'i. according to his rivals. he forced
the small retailers to buy of him at an
ADVANCE on the market prices He then.
MS competitors alleged. sold chickens at
MS retail store at low prices which
drove his rivals out of business They
accused him in effect OF being a poultry
trust all by himself and of running
them.
In the light OF what the police now
know about the Ban murder a notice
that he received and posted in his Office
| on March 20. 1914. gains new signifi-
canoe. II read:
"Baff is under the ban by the New
York Buyers Association and by the Live
POULTRY Dealers Association
] Under this notice Ban wrote:
i nave been asked to give up my
| four distributing markets refused
their demand. have not lost courage and
Will isht 10 n finish
| "NmSstng" Facts PromIsed
! ON the nigh, Of the murder, Noyem-
ber -. 1874 the police and District Al
4 torneN Whitman made up their minds
that II was the result of a trade COM
| spracy. Nothing has developed in the
wearisome search that started that nigh,
! TO alter this opinion, 4 high official
SAID yesterday that when the au,hori-
I ,.es were able to lay all the known
! facts before the pubic they would prove
amazing"
The nature OF the emergency" which
/ required the elimination OF RafY and
which was discussed by twenty-five Of
! the conspirators the day before the mur-
der is known 20 the police. but could not
| be publicly illuminated yesterday 1t
| was recalled. however, that Ban had
suits pending against twenty-five men
] in the poultry trade. most OF them
| Kosher Killers" ON the day he was
| Killed he was 10 have pointed out Nto
Ia process server a non who owed him
money ana Tor whom he had obtained a
1 summons. bn the same day he was 20
nave signed an affidavit charging per
| jury against Kosher killer whom
he charged with giving false evidence
! in "A lawsuit
! In the course OF the early Ban In
, vestigation by the District Attorney Joe
Cohen. known as chief OF the chicken
! handlers. and his brother Jake were ar
| rested on charge of having assaulted
! A. i. Pearson, friend OF RaT They
We're held in the extraordinary bail OF
$4,000 each, which was reduced TO 2l5-
| VVu. Later the Jothers were relea sed
Ferrara. the chauffeur. added huge
chunks to his confession yesterday when
ne learned that Joe Arcolla had come
Il all the way through" He said the muir
der was carefully rehearsed by all tho
participants long before II was done. He
offered TO show the police just how he
and the others staged the tragedy il
tAey would take him to the scene
Held without Bali.
So the coffee coored Fiat ca. was
driven over TO West Washington Marke,
late yesterday afternoon Ferrlra
pointed out the exact spot where hs
sad. he had stopped Il on the dav of
the murder and three other points n
when he shifted II in the course OF his
ten minutes wait for the return OF III.
Gunmen and the lookouts polic,
photographer snapped the machine from
, all angles IN these positions, with Fer
, rara sitting al the wheel. He told III.
, police that Greco. in his desire to 'ha 4,
tn" job done well" went 90 far !, m,
rehearsnls as to note the time IL tool
for the gunmen to walk over TO Bar,
office aud back 10 the car.
, lie said that on the day fixed for .h
murder Greco told the gang they woul.
= have 10 do their work without fail. "a
P Baf was up 10 something the nature O
, which Ferarn did not learn. Ten me-
j met in Grcco's saloon said Ferrara, an
I all went from Har.em 20 the market. 81,
o of them in the automobile with Fer
rara. Az the gunmen started towar
the place where they knew Ban woul
be Grecos parting Instructions we're:
Don't run when you shoot. Walk /
the automobile
Ferrara was held without bail by
a Coroner Yesterday on II charge OF homl
eide. He has a better education tha
:, | the gunman Arcolla. who learned all h
:, knows OF reading and writing in the las
: few months in the Elmra and Napanoc
!, reformatories.