Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
LED RAID ON CAREY
CLUB, WITNESSES DECLARE

| through the mail, Maloney said.
Mr.. Cortelyou's testimony will sound like
a dime novel," according to q statement
| made by member Of the prosecution. The
Importance OF his conference with Mr. Rotan
was emphasized when former Judge James
Gay Gordon, OF counsel for the prosecution,
hurried to the District Attorneys Office
when Court adjourned for luncheon.
MAURER on STAND
Assistant District Attorney John II NIau-
| rer, who was blackjacked and beaten by
| the Frog Hollow" gunner almost at the
| same time that Acting Detective Eppley was
! shot to death, took the witness stand late
| this afternoon and in minute detail de-
| scribed the attack on Carey and himself.
After Maurer concluded his testimony
Judge Gordon turned him over TO the de-
| fense for cross-exRmlnation. The defense
| did not cross-examine Mr.. Maurer.
Assistant District Attorney Joseph Tau
| lane then began to question Mr.. Maurer
| about the murder of Detective Eppley, This
was the first time since the hearing began
that representative of the District At
| torney's office has examined any Of the
| witnesses called to testify.
IDENTIFIES EPPLEYS SLAYER
Maurer positively identified Bruuelli
| Mascia and Costello as three of the gunner
| who attacked Mercantile Appraiser Carey
| and himself at Sixth and De Lancey streets
| on primary election day--the assault that
resulted in Eppley being shot while rum
! ming to the rescue.
All Of them were armed with pistols when
they made the attack, he said.
lie identified Mascia as the man whom
he saw shooting Falcone he was not sure
| Of. lie said he could not positively identify
| him as one Of the gunner.
Mr. Maurer described how thirty-seveu
| election officials arrested paT1N. the
| morning, how Isaac Deutsch held curb
stone" elections to III their places and how
the Deutsch automobile. with Deutsch
| Policemen Murphy and Wrtschafter and
! other Duetsch followers in IT, traiicd him
| self, state Representative Isadorc stern
| and Carey through the ward up until the
| time Of the murder
II was about 1915 o'clock in the morning.
| Maurer testified, that he, Carey and Stern
| left their automobile and walked towarl
sixth and De Lancey streets
THE ASSAULT DESCRIBED
carey was walking a little ahead" he
said. stern left us. AS I was crossing
Cypress street I thought about the ad-
| mOnitOn that had received to look out
for trouble from the alley. | stepped TO
the curbstone when men rushed me from
behind. ! got hit on the head and went
down ! saw Carey being hit ! was hit
several times after I down and while
| was getting up saw DldCkJdCkS uNluB
all around us, Some one had this man
Costello down and was taking a blackpacll
away from him.
When / got up I saw another group Of
men. They were around Carey. and he
was bleeding. one of the gang was point
ing a gun at him. Then three or four
other gunmen came running up"
what do you mean by gunmcn?' asked
Mr. Taulane
Men carrying guns" was Maurer's an
swer, They were all carrying them.
II saw Mascia shoot west on De Lancey
street"
lie said he jumped across the street then
and saw the negro policeman, Hayden, ar.
rest Carey.
! When he went over to identify the gun
men in the courtroom. he az once picked
out Brunnelli as "the cross-eyed man who
pointed a gun at me"
| THE side view of Falcone looks like one
Of the men. but I am not sure" he said.
Mascia and Costello he easily identified.
Up until ! O'Clock this afternoon almost
all of the New York gunner had been
identified by numerous witnesses as hav-
ing figured in the roting at the Finletter
Club and in other assaults that occurred
| on primary election day
After Mercantile Appraiser Carey had
| been backjacked by the gunner he was
placed under arrest by Policeman Hayden,
the negro defendant, according to testimony
given by Policeman Schick, Of the Third and
! De Lancey streets station.
Butch" MasCia was positively identified
by Policeman Schick as running with a
, | revolver I'm his hand from the spot where
| Eppley was shot
, Coroners Physician Wadsworth, who per.
formed the autopsy on Detective Eppley
took the stand late this afternoon. The
Commonwealth through Doctor Wads'
worths testimony, seeks to repudate the
! statement made by attorneys representing
: Butch Masca that IT was bullet fired
: from a revolver not belonging to Mascia
= that killed the detective.
Three Of the gunmen were positively idcn-
tilted as members of the "Deutsch blackjack
squad" that raided the Finletter Club the
night before election by Constable Thomas
! | F. Greaves this afternoon. He was mo-
= quite sure" of a fourth gunman, Mascia
q | Those he was certain about were Burkhardt
: | Costello and FalCone. When he stepped
| from the witness stand and went over I,
where the gunner were seated and pointed
, | to Burkhardt, Whitley" waved his han,
! | and smiled in acknowledgment of the identi
| fcation.
Greaves said that he was guarding tn
q | door to a committee room at the head o
the stairs on the second floor when he hear
| a shot and cries of murder" He rushe
| TO the stairs, where he saw the gunme
d and others he could not identify startn
: up the stairs.
g "one man had a gun and the others ha
|
d and told them that If they came up IN
stairs any further, I'd blow their heads of
le They went down again.
% Greaves said he did not know who ha
l. the revolver. Magistrate Harrigan, he SAID
s. was standing behind him and told hir
~ not to shoot into the mob.
IL After the blackjacking he said, three o
four policemen in uniform and armed wit
" riot sticks came into the club house, al
'e rested Sergeant William J. Hogan, VIII
n was badly beaten, and threw him (Greaves
20 out, he testified.
,e He went TO Seventh and Spruce street
then, he said, and there he saw City ID
le tective Coogan, He said he asked Cooga
re why he didn't go down TO the Finetter Clu'
ITS too bad a mess for me-" Greaves sal
Coogan assured him.
=. Policeman Thomas ]. Nihill, who ha
- - been sent to bring Sergeant Hogan frol
his home to the courtroom, was called. II
~ said that Doctor owen, head police su
40 geon, who was attending Sergeant Hoga
90 had ordered Hogan not TO leave his hom
where he has been confined TO his bed sin,
n the blackjacking.
ne The usual hutteT OF interest was show
ed when the seven Frog Hollow" "strong-arn
n men, held on charges Of murder, we