New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
PHILADELPHIA Political Murder the Climax !
Of Long-Standng Civic Corruption
Chief Executive Deaf
to Appeals and Warn
ings While Stage Was
Being Set for Violence,


side and pulled the trigger. But the
CUR missed fire. lie cooked the revo.-
yer again.
From block away several police.
men not OF the 5th Ward, 70 whom
gray hats and white ribbons mea9t
nothing, hurried 20 the scene. Detee..
tive Eppley was in TIC lead. He seized
the gunman who was bending over
Carey with drawn revolver. The gun
man, surprised az police interference,
turned and fired twice az Eppley. The
detective fell to the sidewalk, mortaiIy
wounded.
Let Assassin Escape
At this the four thugs turned and
fed Fifth Ward police stood and
watched them. One Of LieltenSnt Ben
Nets men, Policeman Hayden, negro,
ignoring the fleeing gunner, arrested
Carey, who was lying on the sidewalk,
bleeding and half conscious.
A woman pointed 20 the assailants,
whO were running away, and police
from districts outside the 9Th Ward ar
rested two Of them, Identified as Jack"
Marsha and John Costello. Eppley died
later in a hos0ital. Carey, whose life
was despair for several days, is
now recovering. Assistant District At
torney Naurer was not badly hurt
Almost Immediately after his arrest
Costello made q partial confession, ~
which he said he had been brought
here with fourteen other gunner from
Jersey City for election work"
Word OF the murder and the assault
WAS carried 20 Mayor Smith, who hat
returned from Atlantic City and was
at City Hall! -
Mayor Plays Golf
This is very deplorabIe,r said the
Mayor. He then went 10 a country
CLUB with Director Wilson, head Of the
police, for a game of golf
The election proceeded with a fey
minor Incidents, such az the disap,
pearance of a ballot box in a division
where Carey was showing unexpected
strength, and Carey was inally voted
the winner.
With the murder Of Eppley and the
assaults on primary day there arose
a public demand for the punishment
of men higher up" responsible for the
importation Of the gunner who COM
mitted the murder and the lax police
conditions in the 9Th Ward which made
IL possible.
On the day following the primaries
Isadore Stern, representative in the
state Legislature from the 18th Ward.
a Carey follower, made an affidavit ac-
cusing Mayor Smith DCutsch and Lieu
tenant Bennett Of conspiracy 20 COM
nit murder Stern engaged as his
counsel James Gay Gordon, a former
judge, whose son, James Gay Gordon.
jr, as Assistant District Attorney, -
an active aid 10 District Attorney
Rotan in the commonwealth's probe OF
the crime.
Mayor Put Under Eail
Warrants were obtained against the
Mayor and those associated with him
in the conspiracy charge, and the three
men were held in $4,000 bail each by
President Judge Charles l.. Brown ot
the Municipal Court for hearing on
Tuesday, September %. The hearing
was later postponed one week on &C.
count of the condition o. Carey, who
was unable 70 appear a. = witness.
State Senator McNichol, who will tes-
tify, is also i'll at his home.
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were begun, one under the direction
Of the Mayors police and the other
conducted by District Attorney Rotan.
The 9Th Ward police and Lieutenant
Bennett, under the shadow Of charges
Of pernicious activity In the election,
conspiracy and of being Sllies Of the
gunner, were kept in their places and
occupied the unusual position o. "iU-
yestigating themselves
Police Make Few Arrests
II may also be signadcanc that nearly
all the arrests which have begun %
clear up the crime and point definitely
to the men "h.gher uD7 have been
made under the direction Of the Dis
trict Attorneys Office, and not under
the direction Of the police.
Four gunner wero arrested in New
York. and one, Fred Burkhardt, made
a confession to District Attorney Fran
els Martin of The Bronx which revealed
how the gang was brought here from
New York, promised "abouJ SIS or $50
for two days work." quartered In
hotel, where their expenses were paid
for them. and on the day of the cleo
tion taken 10 a 9Th Ward political club,
where they were dispatched on their
errands Of thuggery.
The leader Of the gang, according 20
Burkhardt, got the D.ackjacks with
which the gunner were armed from the
9th Ward police station.
From the confessions Of these men
and Of the pair arrested In this city on
the day of the murder the District At
torney obtained information which
pointed to two men suspected as go
betweens who hired the gunner and
brought them here to serve the polit-
ical purposes OF those higher up"
Go-Betweens Are Sought
These two suspects are James Clark,
a resident Of the 9th Ward, believed TO
be the man who pi.otcd the imported
gunner upon their arrival here, aud
mike" Sullivan, former member OF
the New York State Assembly from The
Bronx, recently employed as operative
FOR private detective agency Do this
city, 20 whom the confessions orc said
- point Is the man who went 90 New
York and arranged TO br.uE The gun
mon 10 Philadelphia.
Warrants were sworn on. for both
Clark and Sullivan, the former on
charge Of murder and S-l,.van on
charge of conspiracy 90 mIr.er. Po-
lice were furnished with descriptions
of these two men. but the police have
not caught them Clark was arrested
by one Of District Attorney Rotan's
detectives, and Clark. toe. has mad0
confession, which the District At
torney has not made public.
IN the meantime indignation against
the murder and the political con-
niyance back Of 10 has swept the city
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