The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-02
ATTELL SOUGHT
IN INQUIRY HERE
Swami Wants EX-Fighter to
Make Good His Promise to
Expose Ball Plot.
MISSING SEVERAL DAYS
District Attorney to Proceed
Against Gamblers as Part of
General Clean Up.
MISSING SEVERAL DAYS

A local inquiry into the "nxing" Of
the worlds series to benefit numerous
gamblers whose headquarters are here
Is planned by District Attorney Swami.
It became known yesterday. For three
days process servers have been search
ing for Abe Attell. former feather
weight boxing champion. who IS beg
lieved 10 know inside facts about the
deal
Attell is sought merely as a wit
ness, for he declared several days ago.
according ~ published reports. that
although he himself had nothing to DO
with it he knows who did engineer It.
and that at the proper time and place
he would tell. IN the opinion OF Judge
Swami the proper time IS now and tho
place the District Attorneys Office.
Although the Chicago authorities ap-
pear 10 have their case against the ball
players well established that against
the gamblers, ana particularly the mas
ter gambler, ls not so strong, and as
these gamblers are believed to make
New York their hunting grounds. Judge
Swami liz better able TO conduct an
inquiry than the Chicago officials. He
Is working In cooperation With them,
There s. no doubt in the mind OF the
District Attorney that huge sums were
bet here on the worlds SERIES He has
Information that at least 100000
changed hands In his district. II that
money was won by gamblers who had
knowledge OF the bribin9 of the White
Sox players then a crime was COM
nlitted here.
That New York is considered an inn
portant point in the inquiry is shown by
the visit here of Maclay Hoyne, States
Attorney for Cook county, Illinois Mr.
Hoyne has returned 10 Chicago with I'm
portant evidence obtained from two New
York men. There are undoubtedly In
the city many men who were on the in
side Of the White Sox deal. says Judge
Swami. and he hopes TO round them up
Another thing the District Attorney Is
anxious TO discover is whether anv OF
the fixing or the planning OF the crime
took place within his territory, which
the White Sox visited on their swings
around the American League circuit.
Abe Attell who seems TO be the cen
trail figure and most important witness
disappeared several DAYS ago from hi.
usual haunts along Broadway. Befor,
he vanished. however. he bitterly de-
nounced Arnold Rothstein, a gambler
and former friend. whom he accused
of circulating stories OF Attelrs connec.
ton with the deal. according TO news.
paper reports which have reached Mr.
Swanns desk
have retained a lawyer 10 tak,
care OF my interests. and in a day o,
two 1 Will tell what know about this
! hlng in story that will snoot the lit
sky high Attell is quoted as saying
He further characterized that mart a
the news connecting him with the deal
as bunk"
A'ten for Some years held the Title o
'eatherweight champion. In January
1912, however. be boxed what wn,
termed an unsatisfactory bout with X
o. Brown Mt the National Sporting Clul
end a week later was ~ suspended from
| fighting In New York for q period o.
six months by tho State Athletic com
! mission. Next .month. In Los Angeles
he lost hls title 70 Johnny Kilbane il
n twenty round fight. He continued I,
box but never regaincd his former speed
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