Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-06

AS y" SOW so shall We rcap; witt
what measure yc motc it shall be meas
urcd to yc again" WAS brought hom,
To Frank Clement with vengeaur,
last night if ne was able to apprcciat,
II, when lie met n death that. if tn,
police are correct in their surnisc, h,
had often meted out 10 others.
Clement. who was murdered late las,
night on Twelfth street near ONford by
gunner In revenge for his having acted
as Il "stoolpigcOn,' according to carlirr
theories of the police, is responsible, ac-
cordiug to Detective Callahan of th,
murder squad, for the many Italian
murders of last February and succeed
/ ing months
/ 1his statement was made today a.
/ city Hall by Detective Callahan. who
recognized Clement as the murderer
4 ne says. from Il photograph he secured
from an unknown man in New York;
whore he had gone to look for evidence
at the time of the crimes last yeal.
callahan says that this man gave him
the picture and told him Clement was
the man who had been doing the killing
and that the murder of Scrvario Blaia
in barber shop at Seventh and Chris
tian streets last February was the work
of Clement, as was the murder of Luigi
Espita, a Mexican, two days later in
front Of an Italian restaurant at Scv-
cnth and Christian streets. He also
lald the responsibility for the killing Of
an unknown Italian who was found
some days later with his throat cut
in the gutter at Swanson and South
streets NJ the door of Clement.
Callahan saws that Clement was
wanted for similar stabbings and shoot
ingS in Connecticut Massachusetts. New
York, Louisiana ana other States.
With three cold-blooded, brutal mur-
dcrs ON one street within Il few hours of
each other last night and yesterday,
none of which left any clues to guide
the police To the perpetrators of the
deeds. the police are stll in the dark
as to the identity Of the asso ssins.
4 mysterious touring car ;nat slipped
quietly up behind a wcll-drCsscd man
walking along Twelfth street with hands
in his pocket; two shots and a dead
man on the sidewalk. Further along the
same street Il wcll-dressed woman lies
dying on the pavement; on the same
street yesterday "A man died with three
bullet holes in his stomach and Il torn
dollar bill in his cold hand. What is
the connection? That is what the police
are trying to discover
As usual. "Chcrchcz Ia femme =" is
the clue that will probably lead to the
clearing up of the mysterious murde,
last night of man now known to be
Frank clement. thirty years old. Of l345
North Thirtccnth street Two shot
from behind as he walked along Twelfth
street near oxford late last night were
fired into his head by two men. wht
leapcd from a touring car. then fed in
the machine and have not been cap
tured.
Detectives are holding at City Hall
for further investigation woman givinp
her name as Hannah Rhiver twentv-si>
years cid, of 1928 North Seventeenth
street Detectives Douglas and Lane
arrested her this morning on informa.
ton leading them to believe she hao
becn living with Clement at the Sev-
enteenth street address, The woman
says she Is married to him.
Detective Douglas is the same man
who arrested five men last montt
thought to be New York gunmen con,
cerned in various recent auto bandit
raids I'm this city They were discharged
for lack of evidence. and II Is now
known by the police that Clement was
a member of this gang and had been
killed as possible sauealer. Police
watched the home of members of the
band all night, but the men sought were
out and had not returned up to 0 O'Clock
this morning.
The only identifying mark on the body
OF the man found last nigh was caro-
numbered 1919. showing that he haq
been accepted by the army and was
about to leave today for Camp Meade
as a member of the last quota of the
first draft from this city.
The shooting at Twelfth and Mifiir,
streets of a woman known as Mrs Ger
trude Wilson. of 1908 Emily street.
was at first thought to have something
to do with the murder of Clement.
as It occurred less than an hour after
his killing. The woman's husband,
Frank. was arrested. The woman died
at 1:t6 a. m. today at the Methodist
Hospital.
Three murders in twenty-four hours
on the same street have the police OF \
the city guessing, as no clues are IN
sight on any of them. What con1sc-
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