Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-09


fnt sixth day Of the trial Of Mayor smith
|N hl1 eight codefendanta on charges OF
'0I4tInG thu Shern law against public Of
|.N'b ensagement In politics and Of con-
|||Hrr to commit assault and murder
tItrt1 today before President Judge Brown,
rI ne Municipal Court. sitting at the City
HAIL ~ = committing magistrate.
Court testimony is appended, that Ct
major Importance verbatim and connecting
links IN the chain Of evidence summarized
m substance.
THOMAS BATrAGLIEsE, sworn as first
Wiluces. established his residence and bust
ness IN the Fifth Ward. He was examined
w Mr. Gordon:
O. We're you in the Finletter Club the
nifht the raid was made upon it7 A. Yes
@ You are committeeman. I believe,
from the seventh division, Fifth. ward7
a. Yes. sir
O. WIN you tell US what took placer
a. Why around half-past eight we're
upstairs In the committeemen's room on
the second floor. looked out the window
and patrol wagon was going down toward
sixth street. so looked and Judge Carey,
he turned around. He said. Come on, get
your head in out OF the window" said,
1T looks like a fight downstairs there"
he said, "You don't have nothing to do
with that" said, "All right"
put my head in the window. Lieuten-
patrol wagon in back the steps. so
about ten fifteen minutes after that,
why. was looking out the window again,
and Wirtschafter. he stood out on the
steps. and he shot through the window on
the first floor and l went down stairs, and
when went down stairs Mike Hogan,
the sergeant, in the entry Somebody
had beat him up; he was bleeding When
went in the entry to nick him up, and
this here Feldman and Clark he walked in
the door. I said. what do you want in
here7' said you don't have no right
In here" This Feldman. he turned around
and made crack at me with a black
Jack and he missed me- So tiSen I turned
around and l walked back towards the
back Of the club like, and that is ali seen
Of the fight
Q. You saw officer wirtschafter shoot
into the club? A. From the window.
O. Where was he standing when he shot
inl A. On the step.
Q. Who was with him? A. That is the
only one 1 could see, because he didn't
have no collar on, and that is how I could
take notice It was him.
q Were there many others there? A.
There was plenty others, but they ran to-
ward Seventh street. l couldn't tell who It
was. because IT was pretty dark. He was
up on the step and the light shined on him.
Q. You went down stairs? A. 1 went
down stairs and found Mike Hogan lying
IN the entry.
Q. Mike Hogan is a police sergeant A.
Yes. Twenty-ffth District, think.
Q. Lying on the floor? A. He was lying
right in the middle of the entry. I was
going to pick him up, and ! went to pick
him up and Fedman came in and Clarky
stepped in the door, they showed the door,
and they came in to the door. l said,
what do you want in here?" Fedman
went with his blackjack and he made a
crack at me with the blackjack. but he
didn't hit me. Clarky said He is an
officer" said. Il don't care what he
is." II It wasn't for that I suppose he
would have hit me a second time.
O. What is Detective Clark's first name ?
A. Harry Clark.
q. Was Sergeant Hogan conscious7 A.
Yes, he was lying in the entry. He didn't
speak TO anybody. He was bleeding You
couldn't tell none IF his face, he was bleed
ing.
O. How many other persons were with
Feldman and Detective Clark? A. Only
them two n'en in the club and there was a
stranger came in there, but couldn't tell
who he was because he had his back turned
TO me
O. Were there any other persons beaten
there at rhe time? A. There was only one
oldish kind of Jewish man hollering for
rlarny aud help, and lying right in the
big chair that they got in the Finletter
I.i,e0 downstairs there. I didn't see no.
body else get beat up at that time.
O Teli US what tok place early primary
norna 81 A. got around there about five
thess they had already locked Henry Cas-
per up. the Judge Of the division.
O Was he there when you got thereI
A. Mo- they had already taken him up to
TIE station house.
q who was there? A, First the clerks
and the fellows that are supposed to work
on the board
O. Who else? A. Myself and some OF
the voters around there and Deutsch's fac
tlon of the clerks that were working for
him supposed to assist Deutsch, and they
turned around and they said they were
going to have a curbstone election. and
called up the County Commissioners offic'
ana they said they didn't have no right
to lock up the Judge of the division; they
ought to have locked them up the next day
or tho day before.
Q. Was Isaac Deutsch there? A. Isaac
Deutsch there, and a mani dom
know his name-supposed TO be a lawyer
and that there Lewis, Levis's lawyer Of
something like that, he was there, and thai
here fellow of Andy Evert, or whatever hi;
name is, he is supposed to be constable
or something like that-Eddie Abrams-ht
was there, and he insisted he was running
the division, and all that kind of stuff anC
told him, / said, WELL nobody is golnl
10 run the division until the judge comes
back"
O Did Deutsch say anything, Isaa,
Deufsch7 A. He insisted on telling the othe
fellow what 10 do. He said I'VE will hav,
curbstone election" and told him. "No,
and then we went Inside / said, There Il
no use in having any night like that. becaus
I called the County Commiss oners up ant
told them and Deutsch, Get in the machin
and see n Casper is coming back righ
away So got in the machine and wen
Up "a the Third District. Before l got I
Thtrd abo Lombard Casper was on his wa,
back
Q. Did you then proceed with the elec
tiohf A. Yes There were no ballots cas-
unit the Judge came back.
G. Bsrore that some days before thai
hAd you seen any of the police officer
talHihs 20 any shopkeepers? A. From abou
two or three weeks previous 70 primar
clrutlon they were going convassing III
divislo.. ali around, all around the sevent
1ifision.
q Who were? A. Lieutenant Bennet
and Ike Bennett and his special officer
MURPHY ara Wlrtschafter and Uram. an
an Ok tDein always going around togethe
DISCRIMINATION
Nr Connor--Q on this morning ele
II0M morning Wnef. YOU saw Mr.. Deutsch