Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-03

HE told me that he would send Captain
Callahan into the Third District on Tues
day, the day before election, and put him
in charge. He promised this, and said that
he would come up early on Tuesday and
see Director Wilson at noon. He also
promised TO order Director Wilson TO send
the policemen who had been sent into the
ward. back to the Sevnth District"
Young -McNichol said that he had tele-
phoned the Mayor at o'clock on Tuesday
night, and the Mayor had told him that he
had ordered Superintendent Robinson at 8
o'clock that night to transfer the men PACK
into their district.
an be up the first thing on election day
and take personal charge in the Fifth
Ward" McNichol said the Mayor told him
NcNichol then narrated how he had
rushed into the Mayors office at II o'clock
a" election day morning and told him that
Carey had been blackjacked.
1.-THE Mayor said 1t was terrible thing.
told him there was civil war and that
some one must stop it.
Director Wilson he continued said at
the conference that he had ordered the
transfer of the policemen. McNtchol said
that he had told the Mayor that only one
man had been shifted.
81 asked the Mayor about Captain Gala
han" said McNichol. He said that he
could not send Captain Callahan into the
suggested IT, lie said that he had sent all
the mounted police into the Fifth Ward, and
! Director Wilson said that he was preparing
, to send more police.
| IL told the Mayor that such move might
| be good politics for him. IL would intimi-
date the voters more.
| Director Wilson asked what he could do
| 70 improve conditions.
81 said that only. the immediate removal
| OF Lieutenant Bennett would
| Director Wilson said that lie would not
| remove Bennett for any one in Philadel-
phia. Tho Mayor added that Bennett was
| under Are and he would stick by him."
Young McNichOI said that Director Will
| son, the Mayors secretary, Joseph G. smith,
and himself were present.
| After consultation with Mayor Smith,
| former Judge Beitler cross-examined young
| McNichol, asking him why Mayor Smith
had promised to send Callahan to the ward
| instead Of Captain Kenney, eommender of
the police division in which the ward lies.
| To this the witness replied that Callahan
was more satisfactory to his father. When
| young McNichol said that he was at the
| Finletter Club shortly after the raid. IL
was brought out in cross-examination that
he is not resident Of the ward,
CoRRoBORATING MALONEy
Several witnesses were presented by the
Commonwealth before court adjourned for
luncheon to corroborate Yesterdays star
Ting testimony by Samuel G. Maloney to the
effect that Select Councilman Finley paid
for the gunner.
| William p Duff clerk at the Ritz Carl
ton Hotel. identified a page from the hote
| register upon which Finley signed for him
self and Mrs Finley for September 1920
inclusive. He explained that while Finley
was registered for room 1O4 he could have
been in 4O4, where Maloney said he found
the alleged gunmens paymaster, through
the fact that there were several keys tC
the various rooms. Room 404, he said, usu
. ally was occupied by Mr.. and Mrs, 1. p
Jeanes, who were away.
During Duff's testimony. Select Council
I man Finley became sick at the stomach
/ and was forced to leave the courtroom
, | Throughout the hearing he was decided,
pale and appeared to be very nervous.
Margaret O'RourlSe, a.telephone operator
, | at the hotel, who was obviously shy because
, | of the honor of being the first woman wit
! ness called, identified a Bell Telephone
. | Company record of pay calls for September
. | 10. the day Maloney said that Finley called
him up in reference to mailing him $1,000
as pay for the gunmen. Two calls wer'
| on record for Maloney's office, the Va
O'Farrell Detective Agency. She also salt
: a call for the Electrical Bureau was mad
: from Finley's room
. william Donley, a special delivery post
). Office messenger identified the receipt 70
- the registered letter which Maloney sat
stenographer, Miss J. NJ. CuTan. identife
her signature and said that Magistrat
George Persch was in Maloney's prvat
* office when the letter was receipted fol-
a Another special delivery messenger, Jo
O. | seph Coate, testified to delivering TO Ma
nj loney the special delivery letter which Ma
& loney said Magistrate Persch sent to hin
At The possibility Of former Judge Gordo
i'd asking for continuance because of Sci
Id ator McNichols illness was indicated whe
it the hearing was resumed at o'clock tn
afternoon after a recess. The prosecute
,e has so witnesses to be heard.
IN Senator McNichol's son, recalled to Il
stand, told Of the Mayors attitude towal
i'd Carey.
rs 81 asked the Mayor what he had again
y Carey said MoNichol "He said he hi
nothing against Carey. It's that dir
~ - Stern that / don't like the May
,e ,e said"
Lieutenant of Detectives Theodore
yn | Wood, called as a witness, admitted tn
ne he had obeyed the orders of his superiC
he Captain of Detectives Tate, and visit
er Maloney's office September 2S to confer
he what detectives to assign to the Fif
Ward for the election. He said that L
g." tective Harry Clark, brother of the IN
rl with eyeglasses" was put in command
rk. the detectives at Maloney's request, but th
red Lieutenant Bennett previously had ma
on the same request.
to Newspaper reporters summoned as W
ar nesses, caused the Mayor to stihe yay
me The first Of these was Frank l.. Lisman
I'VE the EVENING LEDGER, who said he s
'let Deutsch James Clark Constable, "I1dd
Abrams and others in the Deutsch club
on day before election. John j. Fitzgerald,
m mArN the Evening Bulletin, asserted that he I
eN- James Clark in Lieutenant Benefits ro
at the Third and De Lancey streets stati
Sn S and also saw Ruggiero Falcone C'Jim
ms the Flash"), one of the gunmen, in
a., Fifth Ward the day before the elect
'l' uiu The Mayor yawned several times dur
Dus the newspaper mems testimony.
he Henry di Roma (Costello), one of
ana pair Of Frog Hollow" gunner under
he rest here, was questioned for tive
OF minutes In District Attorney Rotans of
he 1 shortly before court convened This "
did the expected arrival today OF the +
,ver gunner under arrest in New York, gave
to the rumor that the puppets in the p
of would be called upon to testify today
ork II was reported today that a warrant
ad- been sworn out before Magistrate Steven
pro- calling for the arrest. OF Magistrate Gee
that Persch. who was mentioned by Maloney
mailing the $1,000 bill to him after he
for received II in the blank envelope. Al
OF n he had issued warrant for Persch,
yenson referred to District Attorney n,
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