El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26

Gays found II a difficult problem and
practically dropped 1t. New things are
observable in all the vast system which
constitutes the New York police.
The work Of detectives and patrol
men has been coordinated so that an
arrest is almost bound to result in n
conviction. Murders are handled in a
way which surpasses Sherlock Holmes
for system.
There is a specialized gang squad, a
| bomb squad, white slave squad, loft
! burglary squad, an automobile SQUAD,
1 vice squad and q mendicancy squad.
20 See Bnff Killed.
Probably 20 persons saw the assas-
sination OF Baff, but no one OK them in
the dusk got the auto number straight
They agreed pretty we'll that the first
two digits Of the five were "a One
man was fairly positive II was 24,719.
! But this number was found to be borne
by the car Of a Flatbush man OF repute.
His car had been locked up the night
They only agreed on facts. for the
! detectives swore that II was a touring
ca for five passengers, that it had
IuOhair top and was painted brown,
somewhere between light brown and
a coffee color. And repainting Is easy.
The police tackled the JOB OF rum
ming down every one Of the 1000 cars
in the $4,000 class Then came a new
difficulty. The annual license change
time came, Every cars number was
officially changed. The old license
number only remained as a final check
on the work.
But July Of last year the detectives
had gained the strong belief that ths
gen men came from turbulent Little
Italy" in Harlem. The search closed
in upon the Market Auto garage. in
East IO4th street, frequented BY huoiS-
sters- Among the delivery trucks, etc.
was found one five passenger touring
car, painted light green. Its number
was now 41,271, but the records showed
fhur n TQTN ~ had hnrna Fnn umnahaF
e4.sS6. Before it was painted 1t haa
been brown.
It was now necessary TO establish
the movements OF the car nine months
bcsore and to do this without awaken
ing suspicious. The task was peculiar
ly delicate, but several weeks work
proved beyond a doubt that the car had
made a trip to West Washington mar
ket the night of the murder.
But it was learned that the car had
been for hire and that many men mad
driven it. Suspicion fixed on n young
italian plumber. Frank Ferrara, and
the car much more frequently in 1914
than last year.
Another murder Gives Clue.
On October the police mad a wind
fall Ippolito Greco was shot down at
the doorway of his stable in Little
Italy" So many killings had taken
place there that II was known as the
murder stable Greco had been
Political power.
In the course Of his vigorous in
quiry into the Greco case, Capt. Jones
found that about the time OF the Baft
murder there had been a quarrel over
big money" in a saloon owned by
Greco. 1t was the $1,000 known to
have been collected to fight Baff.
stool pigeons soon informed the
detectives that the plumber Ferrara
mad been a frequenter Of the Greco
dives. He was closely Swallowed. II
was determined that lie had been a
party to the quarrel and the date OF
this was fixed as the night after the
Baff staying.
One night Ferrara's room was filled
with burly men. He arose from his
chair, half bewildered, half threaten
ing. An instant later his hands were
Elanacled.
Then came several hours of "grilling,"
and the plumber, overcome by the
amount Of knowledge the police had
ABOUT him. confessed
"Men Higher Up"
In few hours the detectives were