Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-03
5buas' pilot Tells of Primary Day in Fifth w
,rnJIcHOL'S SON WARNED MAYOR
OF THUGGERY IN FIFTH WARD

|| ~ fho Municipal Court.
| M \, ~ arrivals were District Attorney |
feimlr Judge James Gay Gordon.
Inttine the prosecution, and their asso-
I'sror smith and his attorneys--James
IT.. tief Colonel Sheldon Potter and former
.|.Ino Abraham Betler-appeared shortly
&f.frward. Mayor Smith was not smiling
today as he was yesterday and appeared |
~ have spent restless night They
.nre followed by seven OF the Mayors CO. 1
tsfcndants: Select Councilman William u.
Finley, Common Councilman Isaac Deutsch, |
Police Lieutenant David Bennett and Po- |
Keenan, Emanuel Uram, Louis Feldman, |
Michael Murphy and the negro Clarence |
Hayden.
JUDGE ORDERS SEARCH
Hearing OF testimony was delayed ten |
minutes by the failure OF John wirtschafter. |
the NTH policeman accused, to appear He |
came In breathless and apologizing.
After the defendants were lined up, Judge
Brown said that one OF the prisoners had
left the room temporarily yesterday in the
presence of a court officer. and that II hrd
been reported to him that the prisoner mad
firearms on him.
"3ee that no one has any firearms on him
now" directed Judge Brown
Lieutenant Bennett. Deutsch. Hayden,
Feldman, Murphy. Uram and Wirtschafter
were then searched for weapons. None was
found.
FeIdman volunteered to Judge Brown the
information that It was he who had left the
room. While going through corridor some
one stopped him. he said, and told him that
Il would be easy to make getaway
'"The man asked me 81 I had gun ex-
pIained Feldman. 81 told him. Yes / am
loaded II just for joke" He SAID
he did not know the person.
PRISONERS AGAIN 'FRIsKED"
A second attempt to discover whether or
NaA W
made shortly before noon, following an in
sistent rumor that one OF the policemen ar
raigned had two loaded pietols in his pocket
at yesterdays hearing. Attracting no at
tention, two court attendants filed through
the second row on the left-hand side and
quietly "frisked' the hip pockets or the
police defendants. No weapons were re-
vealed.
II became known today that Senator
Ware has furnished $4,000 bail for each Of
the accused policemen The prisoners Sc
curity expired yesterday when their pond
ing company withdrew its responsibility
upon producing the men in court, but Seha-
tor Ware stepped into the breach after
adjournment of court yesterday afternoon
and substituted his name for that of the
bonding company. Senator Ware had al
ready supplied $4,000 bail for Finley,
making his total responsibility in the case
$4,000
Clark. the first witness called today. is
an investigator for Samuel G. Maloney, or
the Val O'Farrel Detective Agency, and the
witness through whom the prosecution
hopes TO establish a prima-facie case ana
hold the defendants for trial lie IS the
man who, according TO his own story, pilot
ed the Frog Hollow" gunner to the ware
smith-Deutsch headquarters In the fntn
Ward after their arrival from New YORK.
Clark taking up the thread of his nara.
tive where he left II yesterday. described
the events that surrounded Eppley's killing
THUGS FLED TO DEUTsCH CLUB
Gunmen and members of the Frog Hol-
low Musketeers' fed for shelter in the
rooms of the Deutsch club Immediately
after Acting Detective Eppley was shot &c
death. testified Clark q,
zone Of the men," said the witness, 80
think one Of the men Of our crowd seeme'
to be dazed His. face was smeared wiz wiz
blood. This man hid himself IN the oaeii
room of the second floor.
Clark then mentioned the name Hayden
as a person who rushed into the Deutsci
club and gave orders that the thugs shoul'
be driven out. The Commonwealth, through
corroborative testimony, plans to prove ina
Hayden" Is the accused negro.
Under cross-examnation by William Con
nor, a law associate OF Congressman jon
r. X Scott. Ware lieutenant, IT was IN
dicated that the general defense OF tn
Mayor and his codefendants will be that
colossal conspiracy was engineered by TN
rival political leaders to ensnare the de
PENDANTS and that in this 'trame-up
Maloney, Clark and other Commonwealt
witnesses were mere tools.
SULLIVAN GOT BLACKJACKs.
clark produced another connecting lin
IN the chain Of evidence when he testife
that Mike Sullivan" the Val OFarrell d
tective who hired the gunmen admitte
that he had armed the thugs with blacl
lacks. and that Isaac Deutsch knew thi
the gunmen had blackjacks. Clark sal
that after the riot at the Finletter Gu
the night before election he learned th'
the thugs had the blackJacks.
.Deutsch and Sullivan were there" /
testified and asked, where did these me
get those blaclIjacks?
sSullivan said, 4 Bought them! | sa
10 Deutsch, What is the meaning OF tn
1 thought there was not going 10 be an
rough work?
"Deutsch said that we couldn't fight pic
axe men with nothing but mouths, but
said he would take them away from Il
men"
Clark declared that he had not know
of the murder of Eppley until some Tin
after It was committed. He said that
spent that night at the house of his sist
In Sharon Hill. and that the next day
went TO New York
.sThe whole thing was a stencil to mi
was the reason he gave for going Cla
said that he thought II over In New Yol
and was afraid that he would be charg
with murder He got into communicate
with Samuel q. MalOney and agreed
come back 10 Philadelphia. He was
rested while the train was crossing
bridge over the Delaware River by Detect
Joseph McClain, attached to the Distr
Attorneys office.
william Connor. law associate Of G.
rressnan John r. X Scott. put Cli
through a hard grilling the cross
animation.
In spite OF the efforts of Connor TO c
fuse Clark he was unable TO shake"
evidence.
Connor asked him several times if he
not have mustache on election day,
Clark insisted that he shaved Il on two
three weeks before the murder He said
had several fever blisters his lip
his mustache got stuck in the sores.
said that was his reason for cutting 1t
Connor also questioned him as TO when
quit wearing his glasses. lie said he
not quit wearing them, that he had ne
worn them steadily
clark told I'm this cross-examinatiou
his meeting with Maloney in New Y
when connor attempted to get him to
al InI.o.- tnId hin. he. ..nllId Ia.