The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-05
INSISTS ABE KNOWS
OF MASTER MIND
But Swami Cannot Get Fighter
\ to Chat About World
Series.
HE HAS OTHER NAMES
Men Lost Big Sums in Chicago
to a well Known Gam
bier Here.

! The master mind In the fixing OF the
/ 1919 worlds series was the subject yes
terday of vigorous but long distance
contention between District Attorney
Edward Swami and William J. Tallon.
attorney for Abe Attell, former boxer,
for whom process servers have been
hunting for five days.
There is no master mind Mr.. Fallon
, declared That idea Is nonsensicai.
Even the newsboys in the streets last
year knew the series was fixed. Do
you think in those circumstances really
big gamblers would have a thing to do
with It? II there had been master
mind this thing swould never have be-
come known
"There is master mind" District At
torney Swami declared in his office in
the Criminal Courts Building 1T is a
peculiar fact that so many persons run to
the rescue of this man, whose name has
been mentioned several times recently in
the newspapers, and assert he is inno-
cent. I have found out one illuminating
article concerning the activities of this
gentleman and placed 1t in the files for
the Information OF future District At
torneys."
The continued absence of Abe Attell,
whom District Attorney Swami believes
could tell much about the master
mind" and other witnesses made tie
Grand Jury investigation of gambling on
the series impossible. Mr.. Fallon was
emphatic In his determination not to
produce Abe for a conversation with Mr..
Swami.
IF a representative of the District
Attorney came here with mandatory
Grand Jury subpoena and asked you to
bring Attell to the Criminal Courts
f,,rr ~ he
Jury. would you produce him?" Mr..
Fallon was asked.
Won't Produce Atteu.
Certainly not" he replied. 1T am
not a process server. If they want At.
tell let them go and get him. Why
should Attell go to the District Attorney
just for social chat. OF course he viii
answer a subpoena to appear before the
Grand Jury where specific charges are
made or there Is an Indictment. To ap-
pear before the Grand Jury under pres
ent circumstances. when no real inves-
tigation Is pending, would be nothing
more than going for little chat"
'Is Attell in the city," he was asked
$50 far as 1 know, he is he replied.
why shouldn't he be? | haven't seen
him for several days, but he has stopped
talking and he's not going to say any
thing more IL can prevent It. Even IL
Attell had guilty knowledge of this fix
ing or crooked gambling. and ! think
him innocent. he is not going before
the Grand Jury to try to clear himself
by putting the blame on somebody else
And even IL he goes before the Grand
Jury 1t doesn't mean he will say any
thing"
Mr.. Fallon insisted that Attell knew
little or nothing about the series. He
yeached Chicago the night before the
start of the series last year and may
have heard and acted upon the report
that the series was fixed. Mr.. Fallon
said. He also asserted that Attell had
said that as far as he knew Arnold
Rothstein had absolutely nothing to do
with IL.
In this connection Mr. Fallon pointed
out that Rothstein was approached bv
fixers while in the Hotel Astor and In
the presence of several reputable men.
including a member OF the bench" The
gambler resented the offer and nearly
came to blows with the ixers.
District Attorney Swami was lust as