Republican farmer., 1919-10-31
ARREST OF SUSPECTS IN MYSTERIOUS CASE
 WELL kn0WN tn CIT
Police Played Silent But Effective Part In Clearing Mystery - More Arrests Prom
 ised-Say Crime Was Planned at Local Club.

ised-Say Crime Was
 Planned at Local Club.
 That the Detective Bureau of the Bridgeport Police Depart ment has played a silent but very important part in the work of clearing up the mys- terious circumstances which surrounded the murder of Ben iamin Binkowitz, the New York messenger whose mutilated body was found in a cIump of bushes on the Post Road in Milford. Aug. 20, was learned today when some of the de- tails of the famous case were made public.
 Eleven persons, including two local people and a number of others who are well known in Bridgeport. are now under arrest. More arrests are expected.
 That the murder was plotted. if not | actually committed in Bridgeport is the belief of the police.
 The arrest in Chicago of James Delmar, alias James Lewis.r alias Fred Lewis" alias Hartford Jimmy Lewis" or Saturday, was brought about through the efforts of the Bridgeport police and is believed to be an important step in the task of ! clearing up the mystery
 1mn ediately after the murdered l mans body was discovered in Milford, ! Delmar, who was masqueradins in ' Bridgeport under the name of Lewis, ! left this city. The local police mo- ufied the New York authorities of the i mans disappearance, but at that i time the Metropolitan police were en- i crossed in running down the auto ! mobile clue.
 i Delmar was traced to Omaha, Neb., and a short time later some of the Liberty bonds which disappeared with Binkowitz, were discovered in Cleve- land. Chicago and St. Paul also figured in bond findings
 On Thursday night two local de- tectives visited the home of Delmar's ; wife in this city. The woman is well known here under the name of Cora Aube, and has been living at 25 Thomas street. In the house was found a telegram, and the message gave Delnar's address in Chicago. The woman was immediately placed under /: arrest, and the New York police were notified of Delmars whereabo
 Delmar is well known to the police, and was a frequenter of the Villa club, and a roadhouse operated by Edward Beltorte, at Myrtle Beach. 1! The man was connected with the 1 murder of Jennie Cavaleri, who was 1 killed at Peck's Mil. tn Stratford 1 Ernest Cocozza, proprietor of the Villa club. CocOzza was not promi- ! nently connected with the murder but was mentioned several times dur ing the course of the trial While in Bridgeport, Delmar was almost con stantIy under police surveillance as were also many of his companions Delmar also has a wife in New York, and this woman, .oo, has been placed under arrest in connection with the E nkowi-z e SC.
 Nattv Pardoifi, a New Yorker who h@s been taken into custody by the Ne~- York police. is -ell known in Bridgeport. and at one time was ar r=.@ted in S@ranton. Pa, for the theft of an automobile. Pan6tolf operated 1itney Nous in Bridgeport last sum mer.
 a.5,rard Be'forte, the NI1lf7rd road house keeper who was arrested at the sane time as WIS Cora Aube. is also ( vel known Bri:3 -eDort man. and ;=ss been taken Ev+t'- he wSr79n to New Haven. where they are both be- ing held.
 '2l-e police are now practically as- sl;red tat the entire plot from the theft of the bonds to the murder of F,1kowitz was pI8nne5 in Brid eDort. The messenger 7vas to steal the bonds from IS ernn1oyers. come to Br;lge- rort nd dispose of the stolen secur- ties throug,' his pals" in this city. T-,,a first part of the game worked successfully but the young man was rot aware os the duP'icity of the gang of vegas whom he called his friends It is believed. that after stealing the bonds. B:nkowitz came to this city, and was taken out on a party by his pals" These men had already hired a gang of gunmen in New York to commit the crime. and the murderers did not hesitate
 The local club or roadhouse in which the plot is believed to have been matched is gathering place for all of the gunmen, gangsters and un- derworld frequenters of Connecticut and vicinity. Practically every man or woman who has been arrested iI connection with the Binkowitz case so far. including Delmar. Ditmeyer
 Pandolff, Spotte, Belforte. the Aube woman, Delmar's other wife and sev- | eral others are known In Bridgeport and have been frequenters of the mo- 1 torious club.
 Coroner Eli Mix, of New Haven who is in New York city today exam ming witnesses in connection with the case, announced yesterday that the
 murder mystery is not yet cleaned up ; despite the fact that the police have made numerous arrests.
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