The New York herald., 1921-08-29
Continued from First Page.

ries Of murders might be committed
there. 1t Is an irregular double lot
fIanked on the west by tenement house
and on the east by factory buildings. 1t
runs from Thirty-ninth to Thirty eighth
street. enclosed on the north aud south
by solid wooden fences about eight feet
high. The eastern half OF the area is
taken up by the ruin and debris OF a
fire. Some ons has opened holes through
the debris and a man may drop through
one of these holes and land in what was
once the basement OF a small loft build
ing.
The old basement now is maze Of
passages and tunnels. These dark aisles
have been formed BY some one sushitious
enough to tear his way tnr- traps
Of brick and mortar. r (. pcA..Sgs lead
irto coal holes and small compartments
that may have been storage spaces. The
whole place suggests the caves in movie
serials. You almost looked for black
bottles with guttering candles stuck in
their neclss.
Opposite this sinister trench system,
suggestive of miniature catacon1bs, is q
shack in which there is a circular saw
bclted to small motor. There are sew
eral hunks in this shack. On either side
or the shack there are piles of old pack
ing boxes. The circular saw did service
making little boxes out of big ones. On
the roof of this shack are two flagstaffs.
from one floats the Union Jack super
imposed by the Stars and Stripes. From
the other the Stars and Stripes flies
alone. A signboard greets YOU as you
enter. 1t reads: ANDY Gump & Co."
Fifteen PAGES on toward the Thirty
eighth street fence, in the corner formed
lNxyf fl,e ar7l ti1a l>.,f1l
the east side Of the Uttered lots, stands
the watchman's shack. in the door of
which Neville was shot. Beneath the
filthy mattress that forms the cot in this
shack the policeman found a fully loaded
revolver on Saturday night. 1t was not
the one with which Neville had been
shot. 1t had not been discharged for
some days.
From a woman living in the Thirty
ninth street tenement, forming the west
ern boundary OF the vacant lots, the po-
lice learned a story that may be inter-
preted as reason to believe that Neville
was lured into Il trap by fake fight.
He was an hono4 man. Twice he was
cited by the department for conspicuous
bravery. On one occasion during a ten
cment fire he swung himself UP a fire
escape, did a hand over hand passage
from a roof to roof and rescued an
old woman who had become terrorizod
beyond power to reason. The danger
was not great for her, but she had given
signs OF preparing to leap out OF win
dow. Having done that Neville returned
to his huradrum duty of showing the
crowd back and keeping the children
behind the fire lines.
knowing there was no place on the
West Side where Neville wouldn't go If
he thought his presence there would
help the cause of law and order. It +
not inconceivable, the po1ice think, that
tine gangsters led him into a trap. ~
MI events this woman's story has IL that
just about O'Clock Saturday night
there was a fuss Of some sort back near
Bill Hoeys shack. Whether she rec
cgnized any voices or names is yet to
be learned. 1t was dark in the yard. as
the lots are called. Usually there waa
lamp burning IN The watchnan's
shack. and cenerolly & light o. some
sort shone from the snack where the
circular saw is located.
But there were no lights in either
fl1ce ~ $ o'clock saturday nisht. There
was considerable load obscenity featur-
iag the alteration IN fhc gard. this
woman Gays and i sound Of something
Sitting the board fence.
Whether this woman saw Neville enter
the yard or not was noe learned At
any rate the police have pieced various
stories together and find that al this
must have happe ned within a minute Of