The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-21
GAFFNEY MANACLED,
THEN BADLY BEATEN
Killer Who Escaped From the
Tombs Sorry Sight When
in Headquarters.
DETECTIVES IN MIDDLE
Assert That New Jersey Po-
liceman Slipped Revolver
to Gunman in Cell.

to Gunman in Cell.
Vincent Gaffney. the escaped gunman
who was a thorn In the side OF Manhat-
tan detectives because Of the censuro
they received every time CARNEY hood
winked them In recent months. or since
he escaped from the Tombs last June.
was finally located by a Jersey cop and
turned over TO the New York detectives
IN perfect physical trim But when the
New York detectives arrived with Gaff-
ney at Police Headquarters here at noon
yesterday the prisoners scalp had been
torn by the detectives. his right eye
banged until II was discolored and
swollen the size of hens egg, his
clothes werc rumpied and he was bleed
ing from fresh cuts even while being
taken into the lobby OF headquarters.
Tho detectives admitted that they had
given Gaffney ''the scratches on his NUT
while he was manacled TO two Of them
during the automobile ride to Manhattan
from the North Bergen police station.
where Gaffney had been locked up. as
told in THE Sun yesterday, late on
Saturday night. The scratches" as the
police termed Gaffney's injuries, were
the gashes in his scalp and his bruised
and beaten face wounds that still were
re6dening Gaffney's clothes when he was
led past the newspaper men into In
spector Cray's office.
Gaffney a Chastity Sight.
More amazing than the fact that the
detectives had beaten UP n manacled
and therefore helpless prisoner, was the
further admission by the New York de-
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had arrested Gaffney and had thrown
him with his hands manacled into a
North Bergen cell some one had slipped
10 the prisoner a revolver through the
bars of the CELL this despite the fact
that the Manhattan detectives further
admit that two of their number stood
on constant guard in front of the cell
bars from the instant Gaffney was
placed In the cell just before midnight
on Saturday until the same detectives
took him out of the cell Just before
noon yesterday. or twelve hours.
As soon as the prisoner. bloody where
he wasn't deathly white from the beat
ing the detectives had given him. had
been led into headquarters here and In
spector Cray had been summoned. Gaff-
ney was put through sweating exam
nation by detectives during q part Of
yesterday afternoon. At the end Of the
examination Inspector Cray admitted
the reporters to his office and said that
he could say little for publication until
he had made his report to Commissioner
Enright, but would be glad to answer
permissible questions.
At first Inspector Cray refused to
say anything concerning the story that
aome one had slipped revolver to
CARNEY In his cell and that the de-
tectives therefore had been compelled
to beat him Numerically because the
prisoner had tried to shoot them yester-
day forenoon. But as the afternoon
waned Inspector Cray, who had taken
no personal part In the actual arrest
or transfer OF the prisoner. but was
nevertheless as worked up over the
case. seemingly, as the prisoner or his
captors. psoduced what he said was
n typewriter transcript OF an admis-
sion by Gaffney that a revolver had
been handed him in his cell at North
Bergen yesterday by an Italian cop
who Is a member of the North Bergen
police force.
Handcuned Man Beaten.
Amid the tumble of all the confusing
ana often conflicting stories told by the
various police officials interested in the
capture OF the NOTORIOUS prisoner the
following questions by the newspaper
men and the answers made at Head
quarters stood out concretely:
WAS Gaffney thoroughly searched
before he was placed in the cell at
North Bergen Saturday night
Yes"
4 did he have. a revolver any place
about him thenT'
Absolutely no.
was he handcufYed all the time he
was in the cell and were two New York
detectives standing guard at hts cell
tho whole timer
Yes"
Nevertheless some one handed him
loaded revolver and FIVE extra car
tridges through the bars?"
Yes"
"who first located Carney on the
Jersey side OF the North river?'
Police Lieutenant Patrick Dolan,
head Of the motorcycle police OF Hud-
son county,
was Gaffney's head cut open while
he was handcuffed to two New York
detectives in the automobile that
to-day"
Yes
Pat Dolan Found Ganney.
But It must not be supposed that the
answers Just quoted came from the local
oficers with the ease with which thew
are repeated here. The answers, as a
rule, had to be prled loose. And It was
only after talking with Hudson county
officials and learning from them the
name OF Lieut.. Pat Dolan. the first TO
fnd CARNEY In his Bergen haunts, that
the Manhattan police were led to admit
that the Jersey detectives had figured
In the case at all.
Tho detectives who brought Gaffney
into Police Headquarters here told two
stories inside Of two minutes about And
ing the revolver on him, one story being
that they took II away from him down
stairs in his cell as they were about TO
bring him back to Manhattan. and the
other story, according TO the same detec-
tive n minute later, being that the re-
volver had been found on Carney as
they were leading him past the desk, -
floor above the cells In the North Ber
gen station house. Also the detectives
said at the same time that THE guy who
handed him the gun through the bars
has been arrested and Is now detained
at North Bergen, but we don't want TO