The New York herald., 1921-12-14
2 DIE WITHHOLDING
NAMES OF SLAYERS
Brooklyn Man Stabbed, Trail of
Stains Leading to House
Where 4 Are Seized.

Garry Barry, Brooklyn gang member
was stabbed to death early yesterday
| morning at Dean and Nevins streets. He
was alive when Detective James Cum
ningham arrived, but died soon after,
without telling who had attacked him.
In Madison street, In the lower East
Side OF Manhattan, man was shot in
the back, 1t is believed. as a result of a
| quick. furious quarrel, and died in Gou-
verneur Hospital.
The killing Of Barry was particularly
vicious. He had been stabbed by a long
bladed knife which ripped the back Of
his neck In three places. Barry was a
close pal Of Denny Meehan, known in
gang circles, who was shot to death in
mis- room at 426 Warren street, Brook
lyn, in June, 1920. The murderer
escaped.
Detective Cunningham said that an
inspection Of the street near where Barry
lay showed stains which led to a house
at 653 Dean street. Meehan's widow,
Mrs. Sadie Meehan Reynolds, who had
been married to Harry Reynolds after
Meehan's death, was arrested there with
| her husband. David Maloney and his
wife, Mary, os 217 Dean street, who
were talking to the Reynolds when the
police arrived. also were arrested. The
| four were charged with suspicion OF
participation in the killing and wero held
| without bail in Adams Street Court for
examination on Friday. They were said
| to have admitted that Barry had been
there and that fight had taken place.
An empty bottle OF liquor and two full
| bottles were found.
Fails to Expose Slayer.
The man killed on the East Side was
James Mccormick. 20. truck driver OF
154 Madison street. He was found shot
| in the back late Monday night in the
gutter almost in front of his home. He
died yesterday in Gouverneur Hospital.
'I don't know who did it. l won't
! TELL" he kept repeating to the detectives
who questioned him almost to the mo-
rnent OF death.
| Ernest Salerrni. barber. of 15e Madi-
4, son street was arrested on a charge OF
| murder. He was said to have told De-
tectives O'Leary and Ryan that Nc
| Cormick had entered his shop and de-
manded $40. Salermi gave him IS. and
Mccormick became enraged, according
to saiermi's alleged story, and drawing
a pistol fired one shot, which went wild.
Mccormick then went into the street,
said Salerni. Two shots were heard.
Salermi said he ran out, and McCor-
mick was lying face downward in the
4, gutter. That was all he knew about t.
He was held at the Oak street station.
Two men, both armed with revolvers,
| entered the jewelry store of B.. S.
Hubers at 1925 Lexington avenue last
! night and stole jewelry and diamonds
! valued at several thousand dollars after
they had forced Hubers and his four
teen-year-old nephew into a back room
and tied them to a chair. A third bandit
remained on the sidewalk as lookout.
The three made their escape in an auto
| rcobile.
Patrolman Harry Etherington OF the
Fourth avenue station caught two alleged
bandits last night while. the police said.
they were trying to rob customers in the
restaurant of John Bulot at sos Third
| avenue. Brooklyn. The customers. half
! dozen in number. had been forced into
a rear room and were standing against
a wall when the policeman entered.
The alleged bandits resisted and PATROL
! man Etherington had TO beat them with
| his club. They gave their names as
Harold Healy of Thirty-second street
and Third avenue and John r. KONG
o. liz Butler street. both Of Brooklyn.
Captured In $4,000 HoIdup.
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Pursuing man suspected of a $40. 600
robbery. Detectives Donohue and Garvey
| OF the West 123d street station raced
down a fire escape and over rear yard
fences In Harlem, firing as they went.
| They wounded Samuel CastrilIi of f0s
East 121st street in the left arm. They
| had gone to his home 20 arrest him.
The capture OF CastriIli and the arrest
OF George Carmichael OF 201 East 115th
street on Monday night resulted from a
holdup on November q, when two men
we're lurcd by three others to a room
at S52 Manhattan avenue on the pretext
OF jewelry sale. One Of the three
I sought was Arthur Landro. 315 East
! li5th street, who died at Columbus Hos
pital on December of bullet wound
| in the left breast. lie was found
wounded at Riverside Drive and 1sgth
street. and refused to say who had shot
1 him.
Thefts from clothing stores in the
Williamsburg section Of Brooklyn led TO
the arrests OF three boys, Frederick
| Whiteman, 10, OF 25 Maujer street, was
held in $4,000 bail in New Jersey Ave
rue Court, charged with the theft of
cloth valued at $500 from the tailor
shop OF Leonard Riccio. 27s Fulton
street. Benjamin Segal IS, f76 Suffolk
street. and Norris Bitter. 16. % Clin-
ton street, Manhattan, were held for in
vestigation.
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