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antine" was set about Yanowi,z's cat.
ing place.
l'Cii,emen had orders to go into the
place and annoy customers. When
fanowitZ protested an dasked if ne
was annoyed because of politics, Ser
geant Glendinihg, Of the Third Dis
trict, according to Calhoun, said to
the restaurant man:
IF you know it's politics. why
don't you go down and see Deutsch."
Shopkeepers Describe Quarantine
Petty prosecutions by the police
under Bennett to force Fifth Ward
votes for Deutsch were related this
morning.
Commonwealth witnesses told Of
visits made to them by Bennett,
J Deutsch and policemen Of the Third
District. A police quarantine on his
rooming house was threatened by the
police, according to Thomas B. West.
Of South Sixth street. A police guard
| at his door. West was told, would re:
suit II he did not vote for Deutsch.
West testified that Sergeant Book.
binder introduced him to Bennett The
latter, West said told him he would
show him the light" Bennett is al.
legged to have remarked that police
cooperation was half an election bat
I tie and that no election that the
police were interested in was ever lost
| West, under crossexamination, admit
ted that he served two years in the
county prison for highway robbery.
A Reluctant Witness
Samuel Boselofsky. Fifth Ward
storekeeper, apparently was an un.
willing witness for the prosecution.
Assistant District Attorney Gordon
said that Boselofsky, on the stand to-
day, reversed testimony given before
Judge Brown Boselofsky admitted
that Bennett and Wirtschafer called
on him few days before the primary
election. He could not remember that
either had threatened him If he did
not vote for Deutsch.
Assistant District Attorney Taulane
and William A. Gray, for the de.
fense. clashed over the examination OF
Boselofsky. Gray contended tina,
Taulane was cross-eXamning his own
witness. The Court ruled that the
district attorney was entitled to get
the truth from the witness. and GRAY
was overruled.
: Mackey's Name Dragged in Yar
The name of Harry A. Mackey, Ware
! leader of the Forty-sxth ward was
dragged into the trial ''as a friend of
Deutsch" by John J. Mccarthy. a for
mer policeman attached to the Third
district
Mccarthy testified he asked Lieuten.
ant Bennett last August to be trans
ferred when the political fight in the
: Fifth ward grew hot. Bennett referred
, Mccarthy to Deutsch. Deutsch told
McGarrity, You fellows talk too much
| am the boss around here. and the
sooner you realize It the better you'll
: be-
Deutsch, Mccarthy testified. threat
ened to have him and others transferred
, and set the 'sinks' Unspectors) or
! them and get every damn one
McGarrity. who lived in the Forty
sixth ward. insisted ON transfer.
5 Harry Mackey y a friend Of mine.
B. McGarrity said Deutsch told him. "ant
! If he o. ks 1t it will be all right"
!, tisnns~u Let Go After Arrest
, Nick Ritt the man wkp brought tn
"Grog Hollow" gunmen t Phladelphi;
1 last September. was arrested the evenini
. before the primary election by Police
1 man Wirtschaftsr. one OF the defend
r ants, and was discharged ten minute
r after wirtschafter led him into the thir
2 district police station. Joseph Ward
n 31l Delaney street. former policeman
E attached to the third district. gave thi
z testimony today
3 Ward testified that while on duty a
. Fifth and Spruce streets on the evening
\ of September IS he saw Wirthschafte
| taking Ritz to the stationhouse. An
4 other policeman had Deputy Sheriff Si
versten, who had just been assaulted
Ten minutes later, Ward testified, h
saw Ritt leave the stationhoase. Rit
could not be found following the murde
of Policeman Eppley. and was not car
tured until some time elapsed after tn
}. Fifth Ward hearings before Jude
Brown! Ritt. handcuffed, was ordere
by Assistant District Attorney Taulan
to stand up in court for identihctior
h Ward Identified him as Wirtschafter
o prisoner.