Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Finley Denies Tare
You'd Pay Gunmen

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and wanted TO see the Congressman
Finley ushered Maloney in.
Congressman. ] am sending some de-
tectives into the Fifth Ward tomorrow,
Finley testified Maloney told the Con-
gressman. 'and I called to see about the
money for them"
NoNMoney From vare once
The Congressman. Finley said. told
Maloney there would be no money forth
coming from the Ware office.
'Maloney seemed disappointed" Fin
ley continued "As he was about 70 leave
he turned and told the Congressman. 7
want you TO understand am with vol,
in this fight"
Congressman Ware. Finley further tes-
tilted. declined to have any further con-
versation with Maloney and dismissed
him
MY only conversation with MaIonev
on that occasion" Finley declared, "was
when | said. Good morning as left
him In and Good-by,' when | left him
out"
Maloney was starting out of the main
door OF the office, Finley testified. when
| the Congressman called to him. Finley
and told him to let Maloney out Of the
side door.
test" Finley also testified when asked
/ If he had been active for Deutsch in
the Fifth Ward fight
Describes Movements
Finley then gave a detailed account
OF his movements on the days following
the primary. particularly on the Friday
after the primary. when Maloney testi-
fed that Finley met him in Room 4O4.
! In the Ritz-Carlton. to arrange for the
payment for the gunmen. The witness
| admitted stopping at the Ritz-Carlton
with his family following their return
from Atlantic City. They occupied Room
1O4
II was never in any other room In
the hotel" Finley declared, in denying
the meeting in Room 404 with Maloney
He saw Maloney. he testified, in front
OF the St. James Hotel on the Thursday
following the primary. but did not stop
and speak TO him. Finley said the
meeting was accidental Maloney had
! testified that he met Finley there by
appointment, In response to a telephone
call from Finley.
Finley then made a general denial of
! all Maloney's testimony which related
Maloney. declared he never made an
! appointment with him and testified that
! he never gave Maloney the sl0O0-hili
| produced at the hearings before Judge
! Brown. He also denied holding any con-
| rersation with Maloney and said he had
not been in the Franklin Bank from
which the SlOOO-bil was drawn FOR
! sixty days prior to the time named by
| Maloney
The proposition to revive horse racing
! in Pennsylvania and the chances to
make great sums of money We're out
! lined to Finley by Maloney, Finley testi
! fed on cross-eXamination.
Maloney. he said. summoned hsn to
his tMaloney's) office in the Real Estate
Trust Building in March. 1911
Il want to make you a wealthy man.
Finley said Maloney told him. Then
Maloney said he had conferred with a
number # New York millionaires about
revi"ing horse racing in PENNSYLVANIA.
Finley. who was tho first big witness
called by the defense. testified that h,
lived at zoos South Fourth street. and
! admitted that he was the recognized
Republican leader" of the Thirty-ninth
| Ward. He said he had known Maloney
by repute since 1924, but to speak to.
| for about one year.
He testified as to his arrest In con.
| nection with the Fifth Ward case. and
said that his lawyer and Senator Ware
have frequently tried to get District At.
torney Rotan to try him.
The atmosphere in the courtroom was
| torrid Finley. dressed in suit OF
! greenish hue. waved a palm leaf far
| constantly as he testified and freuuentl,
mopped his face with a handkerchief.
Records Identified
once more the blotter Of the Third Po-
lice District. Third and Delaney streets.
figured in the cases.
This time the deIe1se produced the
blotter, which was identified last week
by Sergeant Davis, one Of the Common
wealths witnesses. 1t was produced for
the purpose Of writing into the court rec
ords that certain arrests in the Fifth
Ward last September were made in regu-
lar form and the defendants slated.
The arrests cited by William A. GRAY
chief counsel for the defense for the
court record. were those of Nick Riit
leader of the gunmen imported into the
ward, and Louis Silverstein, employe Of
the sheriff's office. who claims Rit
assaulted him: Isadore Stern and the
[ gunmen arrested following the attach
on Mercantile Appraiser Carey and AS.
sistant District Attorney Maurer.
After the blotter of the Central Sta
tion also had been produced to show
that entries in it tailed with those II
the blotter OF the district station, Lieu
tenant Bennett was recalled to the
!, stand. Bennett was asked to identify
certain orders issued by him during tn,
primary fight
Under severe cross-eXamination b.
Assistant District Attorney Taulane
Bennett frequently answered questions
as to who made the complaints respon
sible for the orders with. Il don't know.
Most of the complaints on which tn
orders were issued related to corne
lounging in the Fifth Ward. Orders t
Bennett from Superintendent Robinson
and Captain Kenny to break up corne
!, crowds were introduced as evidence. Be
fore Bennett left the stand he and MI
Taulane clashed over certain parts of hi
testimony. Policeman Tram, the fift
one of the defendants to take the stant
was called after Bennett.
After making a general denial of a
the charges made against him, Urar
sprang an alibi. a newspaper photo
graph of the crowd of business mer
which Deutsch took to Mayor Smith
office in City Hall last September, wa
produced
Tram declared that man in tn
= crowd. supposed TO be him was hi
brother.
Tells OF "Jacking" of Cohen
E Uram testified that when the police Q
D the Third District raided Battling Abe
, Cohen's poolroom last September Abe a
/ tempted TO draw a revolver. The re
h hf$salver fell to the floor. when Feldmal
n one Of the defendants, hit Cohen with
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