Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-13
WARE WILL REVEAL
PILOT" PTECEMEAL
Arrests of Newspaper Men
Expected as First Move
in Expose
FIFTH WARD CASE RESULT

Usually there arc few weekend doings In
| politics, but this Saturday every one is scan
| ming the horizon IN expectation Of the ar
| rests promised by "the little man." as a
result Of the Fifth Ward "tumult."
Senator Edwin II. Ware promised yester.
| day that there would be arrests today; II
| not today then in the very near future
What the charges will be and who will be
arrested are secrets he Keeps unto himself
as he usually does his general political plans
Rumor has il that several newspaper men
ana two or three other persons will be ar
rested on a charge Of being part of the
trame-Op which 'the little man" charges
was put over IN the Fifth Ward" TO dis
credit him and his faction and defeat him
at the coming election.
ware, who threatened to Serve the war;
rants first and talk about Il af,1rward. ."
was clamlike today in regard TO the war
rants.
His face dirty from, as he said a six
teen-mile journey, he arrived at his office
in the Lincoln Building this afternoon and
was met by group Of newspaper men
waiting for him.
Senator, have you anything to say about
the situation?" he was asked by an EVENING,
LEDGER reporter.
81 have nothing TO say" replied the
Senator.
Can you tell us anything about the
warrants2"
II haven't anything to say about war
rants"
Senator can't you tell us whether YOU
are going to serve them today so that"
Il told you l have nothing to say" inter-
rupted Ware. You shot tn question at me
the last thing last night and now YOU shoot
1t at me again the first thing in the morn
ing You had better not get impertinent
with me or I'll not let you in here any
more"
After pause another reporter spoke up.
Senator, will you have anything to say
later today?" he was asked.
'NA-A-AH" emphatically said Ware,
turned his back and went into n washroom
No warrants have been issued yet, ac-
cording to Captain Of Detectives Tate, who
said that his bureau had not received any
to execute,
District Attorney Rotan, busy with ex-
animation of the 400 pages of testimony
taken at the murder conspiracy hearing Of
Mayor Smith and his eight codefendants
had no statement to make today.
The Rev. ID. !. MCDermott, rector of St
Mary's Catholic Church, Fourth and do
Gust streets, has issued another statement
in denunciaton Of Mayor Smith. The
"frame-up" charge launched by the Ware
smith camp was perilously near to confess
sion he said
Father McDermott also reviewed the
Mayors conduct in devoting himself to
golf and theatres after the Fifth Ward
murder, and said Representative John
r. X Scotts "horseplay" was bringing
the administration of justice in this city
into contempt and destroying the confidence
Of the people in some of the Judges"
There were thirteen gunmen from New
York and Brooklyn in the Third Ward on
primary election day. according to state
ments made yesterday by political leaders
there Henry J. Trainer. Select Council
man, is the McNichol leader Of that ward.
Trainer was allied with the Ware forces sor
years, but switched his allegiance sbsTtly
after the advent Of the Smith Admlnistra-
tion.
This Information, providing an entirely
new angle to the investigation being con-
Quoted by District Attorney Rotan, was
given to newspaper men Immediately after
the leader In question had left the District
Attorneys office. He said the gunmen dis
appeared shortly after the murder of Eppley
but reappeared after o'clock that night
1t was declared they were after Trainer"
and that, acting upon advice, Trainer re-
mained out of their sight under guard Of
friends.
Reports to the effect that the Mayor.
William E. Finley, Isaac Deutsch and their
co-defendants, the FIVE policemen, with
Lieutenant Bennett, would be summoned to
appear at the Coroner's inquest into the
murder Of Policeman Eppley. were denied
yesterday by Deputy Coroner Sellers.