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

to me, by Magistrate Persch. As they
were brought In issued a discharge and
turned them out.
About o'clock I was sitting still at
the sergeants desk. and Superintendent
Robinson. James Robinson, came in and
went over TO the lieutenants room. In
about two minutes n reporter came in /
said, "The superintendent of police has just
gene into the lleutenant's room. Try TO
get an Interview with him" He waited
| outside the room and in a few minutes he
! came to me and he says, He just went
out" said, "Well, did you interview
| him?" He said, He told me he was here
as private citizen and not as a police
official"
About half-psst 9 or twenty minutes Of
10 Lieutenant Bennett walked into the SER
geant's room. lie says. "IIas any one got
a gun here?" And the street sergeant said
u can get you one and he walked into
the bathroom and came out with a revolver
with barrel about three and a half inches
long and he laid II on the palm Of his left
| hand, l think. He said, 81 want this for
McGorick" or for McCiodrcli," ] don't re-
member which name Il was. He says, He
might meet some Of these thugs and get
killed"
Shortly after that the Lieutenant left
the station house and went out the front
door, and Special officer wirtschafter and
Special officer Murphy came into the SER
Of tho sereeants desk With their feet mp
OH the desk. They had been sitting there
about five or ten minutes when the police
wiro rang, and the sergeant yelled, ~
waGouload Of men, Murphy and Ntrt-
schaftcr ran out OF tho sergeants room
and around the hail and out the front
door, and as 7 looked over my shoulder
through the window to lie Lancey street
there was an automobile standing in front
Of the station house door and they jumped
In there with a lot of other men and left.
In about two minutes another call came
in over the phone. This call was from
sixth and Spruce streets In two minutes
auother call came in. and the sergeant said,
a hospital case at SiYth and South
Mr.. Taulanc then told Of the arrest Of
Mascia and Costello. lie said he went to
the hospital and saw Eppley on q cot.
@ Was Eppley dead when you saw him?
4. Eppley was dead | got bac; to Magis-
trate Earrigans office and 7 telephoned I
got the Mayors Office on the phone and I
asked for his secretary, and Mr.. Joe Smith,
the Mayors secretary, answered the phone.
I said. Mr. Smith, there is one officer
already here dead i'm the hospital and am
informed that Mr.. Carey and Mr.. Maurer
are beaten up and they are in the jefferson
Hospital" said. II want to know whether
your brother intends to take the responsi-
bility for this murder and others that are
liable to occur in this ward" lie said "NOu
are talking too fast" repeated what
had to say, and lie said, 81 will look into
| IT." Then ] hung up the phone.
Then ! went TO the jefferson Hospital
! IN a taXicab. ! saw Mr.. Carey being treated
| in the operating room. and Mr.. Maurcr was
| there at the same time. From there I
| went to City Hall and up to tie District
| Attorneys office and tried to phone the
| District Attorney or one of his detectives
| so that l might take the detective back to
| the district with me. Several people were
! there and some one said, We'll. Mr.. Cor
! don represents the committee from the
| Fifth Ward. why not see him?" So
! rushed over TO Mr.. Gordons office and
! the stenographer there said he was out
! II was then II o'clock. and ] thought pos
sibly | might see Mr. Rotan in the Union
| League and DR. Shallow and 1 went to the
! Union League and took lunch. I phoned
! from there 20 the Pinkerton Detective Agen-
| cy and asked for four men TO go with me
| TO the Third district They asked me
| whether ! would come up and look them
over and 7 said. I would.
When l arrived they said they didn't have
any at that time, and | phoned down TO
John s. Taylor's office for somebody and
he said he hadn't any. | went from there to
the William Burnss Office in the Widcner
Building and tried to get four men there.
was unable to get them.
Then | took the machine and left Doctor
Shadows office at the Jefferson Hospital
and returned TO Magistrate Harrigau's
office. When l came in Mercantile Appraiser
Carey was sitting there, and said, What
did you do with those prisoners?" I said
| | sent them to the Central Station, to the
Detective Bureau. He said, Some one told
me you held them without bail" / said,
mo, couldn't hold them without ball. be-