Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-09-28
POLICEMAN SLAIN
IN ELECTION RIOT
Three Others NurderousIy As
sauIted in Philadelphia.
TWO ARE HELD FOR MURDER
One of the FACTIONS Imported Gunmen
For "EIection Purpcses"-One OF
Them Makes Statement.

The primary election in Philadelphia
was attended by murder and riotlng
in the Fifth ward, known for years
as the "Bloddy Fifth"
George A. Eppley, policeman, was
shot and killed, and James A. Carey,
mercantile appraiser, and Jchn Henry
Maurer, an assistant district attorney,
were beaten with b!ackjacks when at
tackled in Delaney street, west OF
Sixth, by a gang of gunmen brought
to the city for election purposes"
The murder and blackjacklng oc-
Cured just outside the polling place
of the sixteenth division of the ward
627 Delaney street.
Carey is "bcss" Of the McNichol
forces, and is opposed for leadership
of the ward by Isaac Deutsch, leader
of the Ware faction.
Carey is a candidate for select coun-
Gilman from "the fifth" and so is
Deutsch.
Jacob Masica, also known as
Butch" twanty-three years old, of
Jersey City, is locked up in the city
hall. He is charged with murder.
John Costello, twenty-five, also OF
Jersey City, is also held. charged with
being an accessory to the crime
Direct connection bDtween the pres
ence of the imported thugs in this
city and the Dautsch forces was al
legged in a statement made to city
hall detectives by Costello.
1--WE were brought here by man
known as little Neck" to vote in the
Fifth ward" Costello's statement
which is in writing, declares.
eve were to vote for Deutsch. We
were taken to 9 club in Pine street,
between Fourth and Fifth. There we
were met by man wearing eye
glasses who told rs to walk around
the tcwn and we were TO meet him
later at SIKH and Delaney streets,
where we wore t. vote. I was arrest
ed as I walked m The street. When
was arrested ! heard a shot but |
didn't see who fred it,"
In reply to questions by the detec-
tives Costello said that Mascia and
fourteen oshcr', iacluding himself,
were brought to TIE city Monday by
the man he knows as "I.itt!e Neck"
Carey. Maurer and former Magis-
trate Hughes. together with Isidore
Stern, started on round Of the ward
in Carey's motor car.
Carey stepped ont CT the machine
at the sixteenth division with Maurer
and chattcd with his supporters. He
was handing out some cigars when he
was jostled by Mascia.
eco easy, hoy, go easy" he remark
ed with a smile, thinking the jostlins
was accidental.
With an oath Mascfa pulled out a
sand bag and brought it down on
Carey's head. The bag broke and be-
fore anyone could Interfere he had
a blackjack in his hand. Carey was
fe,lel by ? h!cy over the he'd end at
the same time Maurer was struck
down.
The turmoil which f0li-wsd brought
?. ornbar Of policemen on the run.
As ',nrov. the first to reach The scene,
aN1rnachad MGscia, the latter pulled
a REVOLVER. Two shots were fred, both
striking Epn!ey who was so close to
his slayer that the revolver barrel
almost touched him.
An instant later Mascia was over.
powered as also was Costello. In the
station house a loaded revolver with
two "ha''s exploded was found in
Marsia's rCs~ egs:on.
Meyer Smith was accused of know,
ing the police were to be used to pro.
tect the gunnen and he with Deutsch
and Lieutenant of Police Bennett were
arrested and held III $4,000 bail for
conspiracy.