Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-27

arrest.
Mr. Rotah received a letter from Mayor |
Smith. in which the Mayor said the police !
we're doing all in their power TO run down |
the Fifth Ward election day murderers and |
cutthroats
Mayor Smith said that Lieutenant Ben
nett did his duty on and before election |
day"
It is known that plans are being made |
TO bring the Eunmen under arrest in New
York TO Philadelphia to testify against !
Mayor Smith next Tuesday. Mayor smith |
| has been released on $4,000 bail on a
charge Of conspiracy to murder
The arrest Of Sullivan may he expected
! lin short order" according to Captain OF
| Detectives Tate, who said today that, IN
| spite of criticism. the Philadelphia police
were doing splendid work in the case
The hearing set for next Tuesday may
/ be postponed again on account OF Carey's
dazed condition. Originally set for Septen-
| ber 20. 1t was postponed until October
| because Of the inability of Carey and Sena-
| tor McNichol to attend Both or these I'M
| portant witnesses for the Commonwealth
are i'll.
Among the United States authorities in.
/ vcstigating alleged infractiOns of Federal
laws are Chief Special Agent Garbarino, of
| the Department Of Justice; chief Postal IN
| spector Corteyou and Major Samuel Wynn,
! Mr.. Cortelyou's first assistant, Asked today
| to explain in what manner the BLOODY
| Fifth" Ward involved the Federal Govern
| ment District Attorney Rotan said
! AN ! can say now is that we have our
| anchors out in many directions
Several conferences have been held he
| tween Mr.. Rotan and the independent pros
| ocutors on the one side and the Federal
| officials on the other.
District Attorney Rotan was asked to-
| day If he had received from Mayor smith
| a report from Detective Souder, chiet or
the reorganized "vice squad on Fifth
| Ward conditions
81 have received a batch Of reports, but
have not had time 10 see If this report IS
| among Them replied Mr.. Rotan, who ADD
| ed that IL II were not he would ask the
Mayor for It specifically The report, made
before the primary election murder is SAID
| to contain a statement to the erect that
| conditions in the ward were very bau ana
that thuggery was being used Dy the
DeutsCh faction opposing the Carey'Mc-
| NChol wing,
Samuel c. Maloney head of the Phladel-
phia branch OF the Val OFarrel Detective
Agency, was in conference today with sew
eral of the independent prosecutors, After
the conference he was asked whether or not
he could or would surrender OSullivan'
who. according to the police, was an en-
! ploye OF the agency at the time Of the Firth
Warskskhuggery
- have nothing 20 say" he replied.
Did you offer n confession OF anything
that you may know about the casc?' he
| was aSkeu. Ills reply was lllc Stbll'' 'N'NT
eral days ago Maloney. who is former
leader Of the Fifth Ward, denied any knowl-
edge of or participation in the hiring OF the
| gunner.
Former Judge James Gay Gordon, who
was instrumental in procuring the indict-
ments against Mayor Smith and his CO.
defendants. was asked II Maloney mad
come across" with any valuable informa-
tion.
Il can't give you story" he said, "but
here are some apples
CLARK NOW IN PRISON.
Clark is in NIoyamensing Prison today.
After being kept in secret hiding place
all day yesterday he was taken to the
office OF Magistrate Stevenson, 39i7 Lam
caster avenue in an automobile shortly
| after o'clock last night and was held
without bail on charges of conspiracy to
. commit assault and battery and to commit
murder. He was then committed to prison
to await a hearing set for october ! 0. The
prisoner was in charge Of Detective Joseph
McClain, of the District Attorneys office,
and Assistant District Attorney James Gay
| Gordon. Jr.. who engineered the capture of
the gunmen's alleged director
t Although Clark himself will not face the
murder conspiracy charges until october 10,
I he will be used by tho Commonwealth 10
testify against Mayor Smith, Common Coun
{ ! Gilman Isaac Deutsch and Lieutenant David
. Bennett next Tuesday when this trio Of CO.
Il VI
n | Brown in the Criminal Branch OF the Mu-
e ncipal Court, on charges ranging from vio'
!, | Iations Of the election laws to conspiracy
{ | to murder
. GIRL SAW GUNMliN GET CARDS
l. Cards giving the location of all the dirl'
Y sion polling places in the Fifth Ward were
k distributed TO the gunmen the night before
: | the primary election. according to state
, | ments made to detectives today.
d Miss Clara Sheetz, waitress in the Key
stone Hotel, said that at supper Tuesday
Whitley" Burkhart. one of the four Eros
: Hollow NIusReteers" under arrest in New
/" York, gave out the cards to his companions
= in the dining-rOom at the hotel.
This statement was made to Assistant
. District Attorney George Welsh and Detec
% tive Fisher, who returned from New Horf
" today with Miss Sheet2 and other Phlla
- delphia witnesses taken to the Bronx polic
!, station Yesterday to identify the four al
NJ legged gunner under arrest there. Upol
- | their return to the city today they an
20 nounced that the Identification OF the fou
d now was complete.
Mike" Dennehy. the fourth member o
the quartet under arrest, who maintained
that he was not a member Of the gang, wa
a. Identified by Edward Matthews. a clerk a
ID the keystone Hotel The other three arr
ID straight Louie" BruneIli Ruggiero Fal
u cone, alias Nncenzo Leoni, alias 'Jimm!
u the Flash" and William C'Whitey"
Ia | Burkhart.
al A Pittsburgh dispatch describes Sulli
vans activities In that city as follows;
T., Michael Sullivan was arrested here las
= | February on a technical charge OF bein
a. a suspicious person At the time of arres
80 he was i'm a room with girl at "A hote
10 Detectives Richardson and Barry arreste
~ both Sullivan and the girl, but the latte
=. escaped en- route to the station. SulliNa
y, told the local police he was employed by tn
70 Val OFarrell Detective Agency, New Yorl
re and through influences here was release
III by Magistrate Sweeney. He was ordere
out of the town when released and de
er tectives saw him. off for New York. HI
I'd was SUSPECTED of being pickpocio'.
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