New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-10
ChauffeurWhO Got $50
COnfeSSeS-ACCuSeS
Convict Gunman.
POLICE GROPE
MANY MONTHS
Murder Broker Killed and
Trail to Men Higher Up
Dimmed by Death.

The New York police announced yes
,erday that they had found the slayer
of Barnet Baf, the poultry king OF
West Washington Market. who was
killed by gunmen in front Of his Office
on the evening of November "a. 1914.
Between that date and the arrest OF
Frank Ferrara and Giuseppe Arcola,
Yesterday, lies the story of more than
fourteen months of plodding, careful.
persistent following Of the trail Of the
mans slayers
Ferrars, chauffeur Of the murder car
in which the killers escaped, spert last
night in Police Headquarters. Arcola,
said by the prisoner 10 be one Of the
murderers. is being hurried back from
Napanoch Reformatory, where he Is
serving a term for carrying concealed
weapons.
Who stood behind these two men end
a second gunmsn, not yet found, in
their attack on BafT; who formulated
the plot by which the business man
ceased to be a competitor of his weaker
associates. the police do not know.
The murder was strictly a business
proposition. Ferrara received $50 for
his share i, il. Ippolito Greco, ruler
in Harlem's Little Italy, the police say
paid it into his hand the night after
the killing. The chauffeur, who is also
plumber, does not know where Greco
got the funds. and Greco, the all i'm
portant link in the evidence chain
leading to the men higher up, was shot
TO death in the notorious murder
stable his property, at 334 East lOSth
Street, several months ago
Linking Witness Slain.
We're Greco alive the tortuous trail
which the detectives have followed for
more than a year might now be near
ing its end. It is believed that the
Italian was put away because he
knew too much of the affair.
District Attorney Swami hurried 20
Police Headquarters yesterday after
noon when il was learned that Ferrsra
had confessed. Other witnesses were
summoned by the police, and the pros
ecutor spent most OF che afternoon
questioning them. 1t was he who sent
for Arcola. While on the bench Judge
Swami sentenced the man 20 his term
in the reformatory.
Ferrara lives at 224 East 10th
Street with his wife and three children.
He is small, olive skinned and dapper
in appearance. In idle hours the driver
Of the murder car fills in as chauffeur
for the Market Garage, i35 East lOith
Street.
The car itself, in which the gunner
fed from the body Of their quarry, was
discovered in this garage last August.
Not until last week did the detectives
discover who drove it on its mission
the afternoon of November "a, 1914.
When the machine sped away. leaving
Raft gasping on the sidewalk, these
were the only traces Of the crime
which the police could gain. besides the
dead man and the .3S-calibre bullets
driven into his body: That the car
was chocolate color, two seated. and
had it's top up. It spurtcd behind 1t a
blue cloud of burning oil that made its
license number almost indistlnguisha-
ble. Several persons caught glimpse
Of the figures and were certain that
they we're in the 24,00Os.
By August Of 1915 they had run down
ali Of the cars bearing license numbers
of the $4,000 series and believed that
the machine in the Market Garage was
the automobile used by the slayers.
Patsy Garofol, owner Of the place, pro
fessed ignorance regarding this and
things held At a deadlock for some time.
Run on CIcw by Chance,
Meanwhile the police were searching
in every direction for possible clews.
on November =. 1915. Greco, saloon
keeper. gang leader and crime mrr-
chant Of Little Italy, was killed IN the
"murder stable" in which Mrs. Pas
querella Spinelli. the "Hetty Green OF
Little Italy WAS murdered on harcn
/ 20 1912.
w. A. Jones. acting captain Of the
Sd Branch Detective Bureau. and An
drew ]. Wines, acting captain OF the
5th Branch Detective Bureau, both
placed men at work to run down the
, slavers. Their work was unavalllng Is
far as arrests were concerned, and
they turned in detailed reports TO
headquarters. Working upon the Bat
case al this time were Captain Carey
and Inspector Cray. They had un-
/ earthed an isolated clew. which became
. valuable when confirmed by certain
/ statements In Wines's and Jones's re-
ports What the exact nature Of the M
/ formation WAS. Deputy Commissioner
/ Guy Scull. under whose direction thc
arrest of Fcrrara Was made, refused 10
/ say yesterday.
Scul. Cray. Wincs. Jones and Dep
utv Commiss ioner Lord held long
! secret conference last sunday. lestei
+ doy's disclosures were the direct result
nj this. Ferrars was under surNcil-
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