The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-30
Atlell Turns On
 The Master Mind
Denies He Fixed" Series and Will Return From
 Canada Soon

Claiming that hea would have been unable to fix the worlds ser ies if he wanted to. Abe Attell, former featherweight champion, gave out a statement in Montreal yesterday in which he tells who the master mind in the baseball fixing was. His state ment follows:
 Tine Chicago players received $60,- 900 or $70,000. Where did it come from? At the time of the world s series I was broke. Five days before sold my wife's platinum and gold wedding ring for $125~ to a man in Chicago.
 When I went to New York city to borrow money I was given the in formation about the series by Ha Chase and Bill Burns. first met Burns in Philadelphia, where 1 was watching a double-header with Gin cinnaG. At this game he and a prize fighter named Mohawk had Chase anG shf0T foyT mygef s5 sooo ta af thai time there was a boy on the field betting for Chase and Surns. The boys father kept the hotel where Burns and Chase and all the players were staying.
 Burns had been told that I was a friend of Arnold Rothstein, and after the game he came t. me and told me that If he had known who I was he wouldn't have let me uown. He add ed that some time he would see that get even.
 ''It was because of this that when I met him at the Polo Grounds in New York he told me to cet as mucn money as I could together and bet it all Cincinnati to win the world series. He said that it was all fixed, and that gamblers had been all over the country arranging it.
 Joe Gedeon, Bill Burns and Mo- hawk arranged the whole thing. They went from town to town to get as many gamblers as they could to put 1ax hotc- I tN Rothstein about the proposition, but he knew of it already and told me so. I told him that he had better get of at Chicago, as he was going to be thrown. Bill Burns had already warned him, however. He had been to him with a proposition and to ar range a bet.
 "Rothstein is worth about $4,OO0,- 900 or $5,000,000 which he has got by his wits. He has always been gambler, and has financed anything or everything. District Attorney Swann of New York says he has evil dence against Rothstein that Roth- stein told men Chicago would win the series and that he then sent his men to bet on Cincinnati.
 Tn New York city Roths ein said he lost $7O,OOO on the world series, but before the Grand Jury in Chica- go he says he lost only $6,000. Be- tween twenty-five and thirty persons went down to MT. Swann's office iD New York simply to say what a fine fellow RothStein was. MT. Swann himself asked: What did they do it for.'
 At the time of a certain shooting Scrape in New York last year 1 was in the room. Everybody knew who shot the two policemen. After the shoot ing everybody was in an uproar, and the man who did the shooting said he thought they were holdup men. He told Inspector Henry not to get excited and he told the two police men that were hurt that he would look after them and give them enough, so that they should not want for anything. Consequently, in court afterward the testimony of the police against this individual was laugha- ble. They eased down on him and never told what they had been offer ed.
 Chicago has exonerated Rothstein in regard to the baseball scandal In the grand jury room they indicted Hal Chase, who is broke and hasn't got dollar They indicted me, and I'm in the same position. They indicted Bill Burns, who had a little money. to put up.
 "Rothstein told my lawyer that he would keep his mouth shut and on my lawyers advice I came to Canada. It was not my wish, and I am goins right back to Chicago anyway, even if it is against legal advice. I don't need to be extradited. I want to clear myself with the public.
 "Rothstein made between sixty and seventy thousand dollars out of the worlds series besides expenses"