Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09
Murder Plot Questions and AnsuOers

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Q. Was Il covered on the sides or was
Il openr A. II was open.
q. How many officers were in it7 A. I
think about two. I Amt sure. About two:
but Lieutenant Bennett was standing back
/ on the steps.
Q. You said Lieutenant Bennett was
standing on the rear steps In uniform {?
A. Yes. he had his cap on
.. You can not tell whether he had his
] coat on or not7 A. He had his regular uni
| form on.
SAMUEL BARRIS, $40 Lombard street.
\ a cripple lmped to the witness stand and
| testified how he had been beaten with a
blackjack over the head by policemen at
tached TO the Third and De Lancey streets
station.
MORRIS BoCCHIAsRI, a resident Of the
| Fifth Ward, described the attack on the
rooms Of the Finletter Club the night be-
| fore the murder OF Acting Detective Eppley
Bocchiaski said that after shot had been
fired by some one outside policemen and
others affiliated with the Deutsch wing
rushed into the club and began welding
blackjacks
JACOB BBITSTEIN, a printer, OF 4ss
| Lombard street was sworn next and testi-
fed he was In the Deutsch club just before
the raid. but went to the station house
where he was when the first and second
| riot calls came in He said he saw Fire
| man Peterson being taken from the patrol
| bandaged and bleeding
Mr.. Gordon-Q. What else did you see?
A. / seen wirtschafter standing on the
| top step of the club. Murphy was standing
right below the step Uram was right in
| front of me.
O. Tram? A. Yes. I didn't know what
was up. and | ran right in through the
crowd right into the clubhouse. and the
first thing l seen was a big puddle of blood,
about that wide, round almost, and about
| that thick Cndicatng) on the floor. The
| walls were all marked with blood. ! went
in the clubroom and there was blood all
around into the parlor.
MORRIS BLECHARSKG of 419 Pine
! street, was the next witness. He also tolo
| Of the attack on the Finletter Club ana
| declared he recognized Sergeant Glenden,
| ming, Special Policem IN Wirtschafter ana
Patrolman Uram among the raiders
''Uram was standing in the hallway r%ignt %
| In front of that front room ard smiling
while was getting beat up" he sala;
Mr. Gordon-Q who beat you! a.
| Strangers. / don't know,
Q. Who else was beaten UP IN Soul
presence? A My father was beaten up
l seen Sergeant Hogan getting beaten up
Q. How many men had blackjacksE a.
Everybody that came in had blackJacKS 1T
| their hands.
HARRY N. BRENNER, of 524 Pine
street, founder and principal Of the Ma
| tional Preparatory School, was called & neNt
and told of the raid on the Finletter Clup
| as follows:
As l and my brother went out from the
| Finletter Club quite large crowd was
| coming up the street. They looked TO me
| somewhat strange, but l thought HaEpe
| they are some friends of some Oh 'he
| members, All of n sudden l telt severe
| blow on my head. That blow was so stun
| ming that l actually lost my senses, ana
| I fp1t all covered WITH
| blood, my face, my collar, my shirt, every
! thing. even my stockings were tull OF
| blood. And just as soon as l received the
| first blow two other of these men rusheu
| at me and struck me once right mere IN
my forehead and the other somewhere IN
my head, with blackjacks. My brother'
| who was on the other side Of the same
step. he was attacked by three or these
men, that Is three went towards him. three
| toward me. Just as soon as they got
through with me they rushed right into
the hallway. SO that particular moment
| as I say, as these men left me, hearu
shot. 1 was so excited that rushed
across the street and saw Special Otncer
| Uram standing there. He saw me and ne
smiled. My face was covered with blood
He didn't even bulge. He didn't even come
over and offer ME any help.
Mrs. Daisy Levy, the first woman to
testify in the hearing, was next called.
Her father was in the Finletter Club on
| the night or the ralu, sne Sdlu' NHeH INT
trouble started, she and her mother walked
from their home nearby to the place to see
what was the matter. She rushed into
the club seeking her father, she said.
1T rushed through the hallway" she con-
tinued, land one of the men said. You
better come up here, or you will get
hurt So rushed upstairs and hid inside
a closet There was somebody else there,
l don't know who 1t was. A man said
You better hide, because you don't know
what's going on here. Go up to the next
floor and 1 went up TO the roof. l
couldn't see who they were but there was
a man and woman there
She said she saw a shot fired and also
that she saw Policeman Uram on the top
step of the club
JAMES DUFFY, of PA Spruce street the
next witness, also was in the Finletter
Club during the raid. He said three shots
were fired through a window in six sec
onds one bullet lodged in divan. He
was struck in the face by man he be-
leves TO have been Mascia. He saw two
men attack Fireman William Peterson.
FRANK BROWN, of 260 South Fourth
street, the next witness, also described the
assault on the club. When the raiders
swarmed up the steps, he said, he saw
Wirtschafter In the lead and another fellow
with a Deutsch hat on and blackjack up
his sleeve. Wirtschafter, Murphy and Uram
all dashed in when the door was broken
J open, he said. He said he was thrown over
| the back fence and rendered unconscious
wirtschafter and the others wore Deutsch
hats, he said.