Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-31
GOVERNOR MUM
ON STATE POLICE
Declines to Say Whether He
Will Heed Town Meeting
Party's Call
DELAY MALONEY HEARING

Governor Brumbaugh declined to say this
afternoon what action he would take in re.
gard to the request made by the Town
Meeting party for State police in Philadel-
phia on election day.
The Governor was leaving for New York.
He said that if Chairman Sheppard, of the
Town Meeting party, cared to give out the
reply he made to the request he could.
Two bills of indictment were found true
today against each of the two New York
gunmen who assaulted Mercantile Appraiser
James A. Carey and Assistant District At
torney John H. Maurer on primary election
day in the Bloody Fifth" Ward. The
defendants are Jacob Mascia, who also
shot and killed Policeman George Eppley,
and John Costello. The indictments charge
the men with aggravated assault and bat
terry with intent to kill Carey and the as
sistant prosecutor Charges of carrying
concealed deadly weapons were also pre-
ferred against the two gunmen. The in
dictments were returned by the october
Grand Jury to Judge Rogers in Quarter
Sessions Court. The Grand Jury previously
presented indictments against Mascia and
Costello charging them with the murder Of
Eppley.
The hearing of Samuel G. Maloney,
charged with the importation of gunner
from New York for the purpose Of the
primary election, which was interrupted
some two weeks or more ago by the fight
to take the prosecution of the case out
of the hands of Congressman John r. K.
Scott, and which was to have been re-
sumed before Magistrate Watson in the
Central Station court tomorrow morning,
has again been postponed
District Attorney Rotan was going ahead
with his preparations for the hearing and
detectives from his office were serving
subpoenas on the witnesses who were to
have appeared for the hearing. One OF the
assistant district attorneys had called up
the office of Congressman Ware, who was
on the stand at the time of the hearing,
and left word for Mr.. Ware that his
presence in court tomorrow morning was
desired.
Whether the Congressman received this
message is not known, but shortly after
ward Magistrate Watson called up District
Attorney Rotan over the telephone and
asked that the hearing be postponed until
after election, stating that the pressure of
the campaign had put so much work on
him that IL would be difficult to conduct
the hearing.
Mr.. Rotan readily consented to the post
ponement, as no special purpose could be
gained by forcing the hearing at this time.
Among the witnesses who were being sub
poenaed were a number who had not hth-
erto been known in the case and there are
rumors that the District Attorney has a
number of surprises up his sleeve which
will be sprung when the hearing is resumed
Emma Griffith, of Sixth and Cypress
streets. the negro woman who was wheel
ing her baby in the public square on the
day of the murder of Acting Detective
George A Eppley, and who was an eye
witness to the murder reported to Dis
trict Attorney Rotan today that last night
about 1 o'clock while her husband was at
work, three young Italians came to her
house and knocked on the door and rang
the bell.
After refusing to open the door for quite
while the woman admitted the men, who
she says, Immediately began to threaten
her, stating that they would beat her up"
The men did not say anything about her
appearing as a witness, she says, but she
believes that 1t was their intention to
frighten her so that she would not go into
court. She expressed fears that her home
would be blown up and asked for the pro-
tection of the District Attorneys office