The evening world., 1920-08-23


make Echert's assassination possible
snd swore to be revenged on them.
snpervising Prohibition Agent
ianea 8. shevlln. who has repeated
sily asked for public cooperation in
"A sffort to prove or dlsprOve un-
iaithfulness BY prohibition agents
his or neighborinE jurisdictions.
aas promised unlimited aid TO MalloY
IN getting a full account Of the ro-
cent pnovement OF Federal agents
shose names have already been
brought Anto the Investigation. or
may be In the future
As a nrst step in looking into the
/, situation shsvlln sent up to West
chester County for Agents Mcclure
and Weldon, who recently operated
under his orders on Staten Island, in
order 70 gain first hand information
shout Staten Island saloon keepers
. and the possible presence there of
other agents than those regularly
assigned TO Staten Island duty. Shev-
lin said ne would look into the report
that $4,000 worth OF liquor was
2 stored, legally or illegally, in the
/, Manhatten Hotel at South Beach and
!, that he had asked his counsel, August
Hasenflug. to keep in close touch
! with Malloy.
Malloy asked the Manhattan Police
to bring to him as witness truck
driver named Solomon, an acdualnt-
ance OF Eckert. who was sahd 70 have
been in conversation with hun and
William Maioney. proprietor OF the
Manhattan Hotel, at o'clock the eve-
ming before the murder. Maloney, on
the advice OF his counsel. former Dis
trlot Attorney A. j. Foch, will say
nothing. but Malloy hopes 70 learn
from Solomon the name of the man
with whom Eckert was last seen in
tho car In which he was found dead.
Malloy was also looking into a re-
port that Federal Attorney Leroy
Ross had called Eckert TO be a wit
ness before the Grand Jury in Brook
Iyn to-day to testify regarding ir-
regularities as to the enforcement Of
the Volstead Act, based on a COM
plant OF a saloonkeeper.
Ross said he had no complaint from
q Staten Island saloonkeep0r regard
ing Federal Agents or involving the
use o. Eckert as a witness. The de-
tectives then asserted that they were
certain that threats Of such a pro-
eeeding had been made and that the
value OF their information. as estab-
fishing motive for the murder. was
not affected.
: Indications grew that the Eckert
case was TO compare In Importance
with tnat Of Herman Rosenthal. who
was murdered TO prevent him expos
= ing his former associates. with the
result that the whole organization Of
which his murderers were the tools
went 10 execution.
Eckert's knowledge of the business
must have been complete. No man
: suspected by the authorities OF being
. leader in the traffic had been more
bold and reckless in daring arrest and
more Impudent in boasting that he
possessed immunity from prosecu-
gtion.
The detectives have arrested Ma
.loney, at whose hotel Bckert made
his home under the name Of Hayes,
and Kane, owner OF the car In which
Eckerts body was found on Old Town
Road at Grasmere Staten Island
Saturday morning. Maloney's wife
and Frank Donahue. an employee In
the hotel, are detained as material
witnesses. From these and Mrs
Florence Hayes-Eckert, who says she
was married to hIm several years =,
without the knowledge of his family
the detectives have learned muct
which checks up with Malloys the
ory.
They know that Eckert was in
dispute, which had not reached tn
point OF an open quarrel with tn
booze bandits who raided q caravan
Of trucks carrying whiskey on tn
Newark meadows July 3. The cara
van was held UP by men who shove
the badges of Federal agents; tn
guards and drivers were ostensibl
placed under arrest; the whiske.
was hurTiedly transferred 10 othe
trucks; the ARRESTED" men were re
leased and the seized" whiske
carried away.
Eckert. already under heavy ba
on Va charge Of interstate traffic
stolen automobiles was arrested lat
IN Hopatcong on a truck loaded vii
. hquor said 10 be part Of the booty
the raid. He escaped from Il
Hopatcons jail.
Eekert was arrested again Aug.
IN Madison Street in this city charge
with c0nvoying lin a touring carr
truckload OF whiskey said to na'
been stolen from a warehouse In Pa
sale, and with escaping from Il
Hackensack jail.
While he was in the Tombs the
arose a dispute in the booze bant
circles Cser the disposition 9f I
stun stolen on the Newark meadow