The sun., 1919-10-27
POLICE HOLD II
IN BOY MURDER
Admissions Said to Bare Plot
to Get $4,000 in Bonds
and Kill Messenger.
PLANNED IN A ROADHOUSE
Staying of Young BinkOwitz
Last August Traced to
Band-2 Women in Net.

The police now have eight men and
two women under arrest, and a ninth
man is being brought here from Chi
cago by two detectives. in connection
with the disappearance of Benjamin
Binkowitz. a Wall Street messenger
boy, with s17s.00o worth of Liberty
bonds last August, and the subsequent
murder OF Binkowitz. whose mutilated
body was found lying In a ciump OF
bushes alongside the Milford Turnpike,
eleven miles from Bridgeport, eight
days after the theft of the bonds.
The police say that several Of the
men under arrest are Italians with un-
savory regulations and criminal rec
ords as gunmen of Harlem's Little
Italy, while the man en- route from
Chicago Hartford Jimmy Delmar, is
widely known in underworld circles Of
Connecticut cities as a swagger fellow
"unafraid of the devil himself"
Admissions of the prisoners and evil
dence unearthed by the New York de-
tectives have brought to light an
amazing conspiracy to steal the bonds
and then get rid of Binkowitz by the
easiest method at hand, In which the
messenger boy was used as a tool,
. with no intention Of ever giving him
his share of the proceeds Of the rob-
berry The scheme was hatched at a
roadhouse near Bridgeport, one OF the
worst resorts of the entire State, the
police say. frequented by crooked men
and crooked women, where knockout
drops are administered. murders are
planned and committed and customers
are robbed as fast as they drink them
selves under the table.
Plot Hatched in ROadhOuse.
Half a dozen men gathered around a
table In this roadhouse early in August
| and among them, the police say, were
Matty Pandolh and Joe Spotte, both
| chauffeurs They were arrested by de-
tectives yesterday in a house In 22b East
| 18th street, the heart of Little Italy.
The others were equally well known To
! the police as dangerous criminals.
! One of the men there knew Binkowits
/
! was only a boy, that he had a penchsnt
for good times and things to drink. and
; for women. and he told the others he
| believed the boy was in the habit OF
| carrying large sums for his employers
and that he believed the boy could be
reached and induced to run away with
valuable securities. That part Of the
conspiracy was settled. and then one
of the men proposed that after Binko'
WITT got the bonds and had Joined them
they show the boy a good time for one
night-or what was his Idea OF good
time-and then kill him.
The police say that this scheme met
with general approval. because 1t would
make one less in the division OF thu
loot. According to the detectives. one
of the men under arrest being wist
IN the ways and the haunts OF Little
Italy, was appointed to hire the assas'
sins, and the detectives also say thai
several OF the men then at the table
and taking part in the planning OF th'
conspiracy, were members Of the. bant
that killed the boy. among them Spotte
who collapsed when brought to Polic'
Headquarters yesterday, charged with
completely in the crime.
Boy Goes TO His Death.
There is something of a hiatus be
tween the time the conspiracy wal
Matched and the Binkowitz boy was in
duced to steal the bonds. and the polic'
do not know just how the slayers wer'
engaged. who engaged them, or hov
much money was promised for the Sob
The price, however. could not have beef
large. At any rate Binkowits stole thu
bonds and is believed to have gone di
rectly to Bridgeport and met the Others
There the idea OF a good time wa
broached and there was party at