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MAYORCIvESB0ND.
ON PLOT CHARGES.
Philadelphia Executive is Under
$4,000 Bail.
ONE SLAYER MAY CONFESS
One Gunman Who Terrorized Voters
Breaks Down and the Others Are
Known to the Police.

Philadelphia, Sept 22.-Three sep.
arate tribunals representing city and
county. are col,e~ting evidence 10 en-.
vict these responsible for the POL teal
plot W ich resulted in the killing OF
an acting detective and the blackjack
ing of city officials by hired gunner
in the Fifth ward, last Wednesday,
on Primary day
The chief executive of the city, Ma
yor Smith: Lieutenant of Police Ben
nett, and Isaac Deutsch, political
leader before whose door is directly
laid the plot of bringing murderers
and sluggers TO this city on election
day, appeared in the municipal court
and signed bail bonds in the sum OF
$4,000 each for their appearance in
court next Tuesday morning. The
charge against all three is conspiracy
to murder.
Net waiting for the confession OF
one of the gunner. who shows signs
of weakening, deputy cOroners, assist
ant district attorneys and city detec-
tives combed the city for the under
lings in the plot.
Fifteen new witneSses-some OF
them unmportant. but others eye
witnesses TO the murder of Acting
Detective George A Eppley, were
summoned 70 District Attorney Re-
tan's office to tell what they knew.
CAPTAIN Of Detectives Tate now
knows that the two gunner arrested
in the killing OF Eppley were lying
when they said they came from Brook
1vn and that their names were John
Costello and Jacob Mascia. Inspector
Faurot. head of TIT New York detec-
tive buread. notified Tate that both
were New York gunner. that they
had served time in New York prisons
and that Nascia's real name was Sam
uel Sculiga and that his partner IN
crimes was Henry Deinrao. Captain
Tate has also learned the identity OF
the man known as Patsy VINO
brought these men and eighteen Duh
ers to this city to commit murder ana
thuggery: he knows that these men
fed to the Deutsch Republican club on
Pine street for refuge after the KILL
ing of Detective Eppley; he knows
that they were taken away later IN
an automobile to some undetermined
destination. 1t may be too late 10
apprehend these other eighteen, lot
Captain Tate thinks they may nave
returned to their starting place, New
York, but the police head says that
his entire attention is now centered
upon the capture of Little Neck and
PATSY" the men who made the ar
rangement for the g1nmen and the
man with the glasses" who received
them in the Deutsch club.
Deinrao. o. Costello, as he is known
began to realize his position, When
in company, he and Sculi@Hn were
held for murder Thursday, he was ar
"a CONT and cruelty cynical. He refus-
ed to interest himself in the case and
rontented himself with shooting MUIR
derous glanceS at the men who testl-
fed and who may yet send him TO MS
death. But a night in cell changed
all this bravado.
Take me before the chief, he wall
ed. Il want to tell him something
1ueE loOh Hiill pV4o-0
and there the gunman sought to drive
a bargain with the detective head
namely. that in return for the telling
of a ightforward story and the
naming of men who had brought him
and his fellows TO this city he be
granted immunity.
Tate would listen to none Of it. He
L hot bA rrpI11I
make no such promises; that he could
not. because the law would not let
him. and furthermore, anything that
he might say would be used against
him and his fellow thug when the time
came for their trial before jury.
Costello then refused to talk, but
predictions are made that he will con-