New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-12
Slain Bandit
lnforf1ler I'm
Police Probe
Continued spm vsss one,

trict Attorney, among other things, of
the alleged part the detective ser
geant, whom Mr.. Whitman will try to
nave indicted next week, played in the
game whereby policemen are said to
nave recovered stolen cars and split
the rewards with the thieves. At a
subsequent meeting with Mr.. Smith
Walsh furnished information in re-
gard to the garages that were used as
tences TOR the purloined machines.
Mr.. Chllvers, who has been handling
the boot!egging end of the Whitman
inquiry, would not talk yesterday
about Walsh's murder other than to
say that, while Walsh's death probably
would handicap the investigation to a
certain extent, he believed there was
sufficient evidence to justify asking an
Indictment,
Negro Truckman Still Frightened
Last night Lieutenant Harris and De-
ttctive Sergeant Bell, of the Newark,
n. j., police, located Samuel E. Per.
klns, the negro helper on the whisky
truck He had reached his home, 2460
Seventh Avenue, New York. some hours
after the hold-up, had later disap-
peared and was still apparently as
scared as when the bandits hauled him
down from his seat the night before.
The light he was able to shed on the
affair was not great. The driver halted
he truck, he said. when the big car
bearing the bandits drew across the
road.
They pulled me down." he told the
detectives, land one of them stuck a
gun at me and said: you runl' and,
believe me, boss, just run and kept
on running"
Perkins is employed by Abe Posnak,
a truckman, of 81 Jacob Street, New
ark. Posnak was called on the tele-
phone Wednesday by Leo Salamanca,
whose profits in the whisky business
under Federal permit to sell for
lawful purposes, had just enabled him
to buy a $685. 600 home at 1876 Green
wood Avenue, Trenton. Salamanca
instructed Posnak TO send convey
ance to Trenton to cart twenty -iive
barrels of whisky to Marchese e. Mar
cheese, 200 Eighth Street. Newark. With
Perkins and the truck Posnak sent
Edward Ring as driver. The whisky
was loaded in Trenton about s p. m,
Told to Make Trip After Dark
In sedan car, behind ethe truck,
rode Leo Salamandra, his brother,
Pedro. and Dominick Orsi. Charles
Barnebea rode with Ring and Perkins.
Although Salamanca hal with
drawal permit and Posnak permit TO
transport liquor, Posnak is said to have
told Ring that his instructions were to
do it after dark.
The caravan had reached point
about thirteen miles east of Trenton,
between Kingston and Franklin Park,
on the Lincoln Highway, when q
swiftly moving car passed the sedan
and truck and few rods up the road
swerved to sudden stop. Ring put on
| his brakes to avoid running into the
| touring car.
Before he could shape his lips to in
duigc in the picturesque language with
dress awkward blockers of their prog.
ress, three men, brandishing revolvers
leaped from the car. Ring, Perkins.
| Barnebea and the three occupants of
| the sedan were unceremoniousiy or
dered to climb down, They obeyed'
Perkins made his getaway after
the fashion he described to the New
ark detectives and Ring also managed
! to escape in the darkness. He fed to
| farm house half a mile down the
road toward New Brunswick and spent
an hour in an unsuccessful effort to
| get Posnak on the telephone.
Meanwhile, Walsh and his com
| panions acted without any lost motion.
| The Salamanca brothers, Orsi and
Barnebea, were compelled to enter the
| bandits car, where three of the
desperadoes, Of whom Walsh was one,
kept them covered with their revol-
vers, while fourth drove the car. An
other mounted the truck and the re-
naming one took the wheel OF the
sedan. The sedan has not been seen
since that moment
The truck numbered on It's way anc
the bandits machine was driven speed
lily into a side road that trsverses q
wooded section. AT the edge of 8
thicket, according to the story OF
Pedro salamandra, it was stopped anc
he and HE three companions directed
to get out. They complied and were
followed by the highwaymen.
Salamandra Tries TO Buy Life
"a couple of the men started tc
! smash us over the head with black
| Jacks" Pedro said. "'Don't kill me!
nv brother pleaded. You've got tn,
booze and I'll give you $500 if you LEI
me 60
woods. Barnebea and Orsi got away
in another direction. and I didn't see
them again. hid in the brush until
heard two shots and my brother yell:
I'm shot! Pm DYING heard the
car drive off and came out, found
nv brothers body in the road, walked
to a farmhouse and telephoned tc
Trenton what had happened"
The Trenton police flashed the alarm
Ia every city and town in northern
New Jersey, and it was not long before
the police were patrolling every road
! within q radius of forty miles. But
never sight did they get of the car