Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-02

private once. The door was closed
y. Did the boy take your name in? A.
No, I think he phoned 1t in.
O. Then what occurred? A. 1 was ad-
mitted by Finley, who came and opened
the door and beckoned for me to go In.
O. The defendant Finley who sits here7
A. That is him.
was saidP Give the conversation In Its
order, in its sequence.
A. I asked MIR. william Ware II he would
be responsible for the order that was left at
our Office for eighteen men by Deutsch, and
he said that Deutsch had ample money TO
pay al bills, and he had no doubt that he
would pay them and everything would be all
right. He did not seem inclined to say any
more and left the office. and when got to
the entry, In the corridor, on the side en-
trance, Finley followed me. Finley said,
Deutsch has sufficient money. You need
not worry about your money. He has lots
Of money" said, "An right, Will get the
men" I left the office, Wares office, and
went down to the street, where I met Sena-
tor Ed Ware on the corner. This was on
Tuesday prior to the primary election.
on a Monday had been to my doctor S,
and there l had met
@. Who was your doctor? A. Doctor
Kirby, at Twelfth and Spruce. In the
evening 1t was.
O. You were there and you met who?
A. Detective James Tate.
O. What was said? A. Tate said TO
me there was going TO be hell in the Fifth
Ward. 1 sad, ''Yes, j suppose there are,
We have an order for some men down
there" He said, We'll, II you see the
Senator tell the Senator to send for me-,
he says II will go down and help him.
No: he said Tell the Senator to send
for me-"
@. So on Tuesday you say you came out
of the office and you met Senator Ware?
A. 1 said to Senator Ware
Q. Where did you meet him? a. Right
at the corner of the Lincoln Building.
@. What did he say and what did you
say? A. l said to Senator Ware. You
ought to send for Jimmie Tate" He says,
"Yes Tell him / want to see him"
@. What did you then do? A. I re-
turned to my office and phoned to Tate
office.
@. Did you get him on the phone? A.
@. What did you say? A. told him to
go over and see Senator Ware. About ten
minutes later Lieutenant Dorey Wood came
TO my office
@. What was said by you and him? A.
He said that the captain of detectives had
sent him to my office.
O. Who is the captain of detectives? y.
James Tate.
O. Very we'll Go on with the CONVEX
sation. A. He asked me what men he
should send to the Fifth Ward. said
didn't know any detectives at City Hail.
only Harry Clark who was familiar with
things in the Fifth Ward as he had lived
there all his life, and I said he would be
a good man to- go down there cannot
remember any other conversation that l
had with Wood at that time.
O. Is that the only detective that you
named to him? A. That is the only one.
@. Did he open the conversation? n. lie
did
q. Repeat again what he said to you
IL hat
him down to see me, and what men did l
want or did he want to go down TO the
Fifth Ward
O. Men? a. He meant detectives.
O. Detectives? A. l said that l didn't
know any detectives over at City Hall that
Clark Harry Clark, would be a good man
to send down there, as he had lived there
all his life.
@. After he left, what did you do that
day? A. Well, that was Tuesday. Tues
day afternoon Sullivan came back from
New York. He came into my office and
said "I have the men here" l said. Where
are the men?' He said, AT Fifteenth and
Market said "You get Jimmie Clark
= and let Jimmie Clark take them down to
fthe Fifth Ward" and they did
O. How do you know they were taken to
the Fifth Ward? A. Well, l know from
the fact OF the trouble.
O. Did either OF them repeat It? A. No.
/ didn't see either man until the next day.
Q. What occurred further that day, If
anything? A. Nothing Of importance.
Q. Were you at your office that night?
A. Yes.
O. Did you hear of a disturbance at the
Finletter Club? A. Yes, sir. was stand
ing down at the door, and several people
came by and told us what happened,
didn't pay much attention to it, went
home about IL o'clock with Mr.. OFarrell
He and 1 went home together.
Q. Mr.. O'Farren? Yes, sir.
O. Mr.. O'Farrell is the head of your
detective agency? A. Yes, sir.
O. His name is Val O'Farrell? 4. Val
O'Farrell yes, sir.
O. He has detective agency in New
York? A. Yes, sir; and in Boston and
Chicago
Q. Is he the head of your agency? A. He
is the president
Q. And the responsible owner Of It? A.
No, sir. 1t is a company .
Q. You dom mean a corporate companyi
A. Incorporated under the laws Of the State
of New York.
Q. Then you are an agency of the parent
company in New York; is that It? A
Yes
Q. You say you went home about II
o'clock that night? When did you come tc
town, the next Wednesday, at your office
A. Mr.. O'Farrell and / arrived at our Of
flee about half-past 80 the next morning.
@. What did you learn when you got
there? A. Shortly after we got into the
office we heard that a policeman had beer
killed. l think one Of our men came in and
said there was policeman killed in tho
Fifth Ward.
Q. How did you learn that-in the stree
or how? A. General gossip, and they w-C'
talking about IT,
Q. He came in with a Statement that
policeman had been killed. A. Yes. Short
ly after that o'Sullvan came into our Of
fee l asked him what the trouble was II
the Fifth Ward, and If he knew that
policeman had been killed, and he said
NO, there is nothing TO it; there is n,
policeman killed" I said, "You go ou
and ascertain all about It," He went ou
and came back in little while and said
policeman was killed by one of the mel
who had been brought from New York.
asked him II he knew the man. H
said, mo, he didn't know this man." II
said this fellow he didn't know a; all.
said. You and them are a fine lot 0
ducks to bring over TO this town to rails
all this trouble" He said, "If / hadn'
taken care of 1t this time. they will holle
on me- l said, You have nothing to feai
it is the fellows themselves" i said. "How
ever, will get them lawyer" and l sen
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