The New York herald., 1921-02-15
40 MEN ARRESTED
IN NEWARK RAIDS
FOR BOOTLEGGERS
None Identified by Victims
of Whiskey Holdup When
Walsh Was Killed.
ALL BUT TWO FREED
Three Indictments Are Re-
ported in Murder of Fred
erick P. Eckert.
DRY AGENT QUITS HIS JOB
Jersey Barn Is Searched for
Liquor Which Cost Sala-
mandra His Life.
DRY AGENT QUITS HIS JOB

Forty detectives. led by Detective
Ferd David of New Brunswick. went
into nine restaurants and saloons in
Newark last night and picked up forty
man. most of them said to be men,
bers of the whiskey ring. which has
been flooding New York with liquor.
in connection with the killing OF
Frank Walsh, Passaic and Newark
bootIegger, on the Lincoln Highway
near New Brunswick last Thursday
night.
All the prisoners were taken to
Newark police headquarters and hneu
up before Tito Salamandra, Charles
Barnabie and Doninick Orsi, who were
in the party held up and robbed OF
twenty-five barrels of whiskey shortly
before Walsh was killed. They also
we're looked over by Stephen Denczi,
a. taxicab driver Of New Brunswick,
who is said to have had mysterious
fare on the night of the killing.
Salamandra, Barnabie and Orsi were
unable to identify any of the forty men
as having been concerned In the holdup
and Denczf could not recall that any
one Of them was his mysterious rare.
The Newark police at once released
thirty-eight of the men. but detained
William '.Squawk" Rcilley and his broth
er, Martin Reilley. who run saloon in
215 Halsey street, Newark. They will
Er,,r cuyick nv Dnfac-
tive David to-day for further investiga-
ton.
Three indictments were obtained and
two persons were arrested yesterday
in connection with slayings that have
resulted from the activities Of the New
Jersey bootleggers. The indictments
were in connection with the murder of
Frederick p. Eckert, who headed the
band of bootleggers until he was shot
and killed on Old Tom road, Staten
Island, the night of August n. The ar
rests we're of two witnesses In the slay-
ing of Walsh. who, II now has been
fairly we'll established. succeeded Eek
ert in leadership of the band, although
he did not fall heir to the latter's ''busi-
ness" This, II is said, is being oper-
ated by a woman.
Detective David characteriZes as
bunk" the declaration Of Charles :.
Whitman that Walsh was to have APP
peared before the Extraordinary Grand
Jury here to tell of collusion between
policemen and automobile thieves. David
cited as evidence that Walsh never
would "squeal' an incident that oc-
CURED about three months ago. AT
that time. according to David. Walsh's
father, who is a hotel proprietor in
Passaic, was robbed of 5000. Walsh
knew who robbed his father. the detec-
tive said, but he so feared the men he
refused to reveal their identity.
Dry Agent, Honest, Quits.
James II. Curran of New Brunswick
quit his Job as Federal prohibition di-
rector for Middlesex, Somerset and Mtr-
Ger counties because he found IL impos-
sible to stop the flow of booze across the
Delaware Curran, friends say, could
not stand the gaff,' and was too honest
q man to permit himself to be party to
a sham He fought for a year, they
say, to gain the upper hand in the booze
situation, but was On every side beset
by collusion between politicians and
whislSey runners.
Felix Arnold and Jack Smith. both
residents of New Brunswick, were the
men arrested as witnesses in the Walsh
murder They, the police say. owned
TIC ButOluD1llt uttQ ny lhS DcCNANtt'A'
70 make n getaway after they had aban-
doned the Cadillac machine containing
walsh's body Although both Smith
and Arnold asserted the machine had
been stolen they were held In $4,000
bail each by Justice Sedan, which
amount later was supplied by relatives.
Russell Brice. who In serving from
ten to twenty years In Sing Sing prison
for a highway robbery in Brooklyn
in the indictment handed up in Staten
Island. Joseph Malloy. District At
torney of Richmond. refused to reveal
the identity OF the other two persons
for whose arrest bench warrants have
been issued.
Brice was associated with Eckert in
the ownership of a garage IN Orange,
N. j.. which. II now Is alleged. ac-
tuaIly was a Fence" for bootleg
bandits He and EclSert were arrested
last July in connection with the theft
Of 500 cases OF whiskey from truck
travelling up the Lincoln Highway and
were lodged IN jail In Lake dopatcong
Friends appeared during the night and
helped them get out OF jail. The booze
stolen in this holdup was sold to club
houses throughout northern New Jersey
About 400 cases of II were recovered,
and In almost every instance. the police
say. the men into whose hands the
stolen whislxey has fallen said he got
Il from Walsh.
whisIsey stiII Ms,ssng.
Search for the tc.ssoy-hvs barrels
Of whiskay Lat disak1 cared simultane-
ously thursday night with the murder
OF Walsh and Leo Salamandra of Tren-
ton resulted in New Brunswick detec-
tves making a raid on .he barn OF
Thomas Revolinsky. who lives in French
street, which is In the outskirts of
that town No booze was found in the
barn. which In only n stones throw
from where Walsh's body was found.
The detectives. II was learned. have OBJ
tained batch of search warrants,
which VIII enable them 10 examine
scores Of suspected barns throughout
the immediate countryside.
The two victims of Thursday nigh,'s
shooting were buried yesterday. The
funeral Of salamandra IN Trenton was
tho largest ever held IN that city. there
being 1879 coaches In the cortege and
about 2.5o0 persons who sought admis-
sion to the Church OF the Immaculate
Conception, where a solemn requiem
mass was sung. Walshs funeral was
marked by simplicity. There we're not
more than ave carriages His body was
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