New-York tribune., 1921-02-14
New York and Jersey
Police Confer ON Steps
TO Be Taken in Wide.
spread Hunt for Slayers
Chauffeur Tells
OF Trailing g Truck
Soft.Nosed Bullets Found
in Bodies of Two Killed
in Monmouth Hold-Up

A conference of New Jersey and
New York police officials in the
Frank Walsh murder ease was held
Yesterday at Newark. 1t was said
after the conference that the author
tiles expect to dig up the roots of
tae Middle Atlantic whisky ring"
from the mystery surrounding the
liquor truck hold-up and murder on
The Lincoln Highway near Mon
mouth Junction last Tuesday night.
The days developments in New
Jersey, outside of the police confer
ence at Newark, included the finding
Of taxicab driver who drove mys-
terious individual, who shadowed the
whisky truck from Trenton to King
ston on the night of the ho!d-up and
murder, and who hailed the driver
Of tie truck as Dan"
History of Gun Traced
Also it was brought out that the
,33S-cal;bc~ revolver which was found
beside the body Walsh in the tour
ing ear used in the hold-up and from
which two shCts had been fired was in
al probability the gun which inflicted
.5e tataI wound on Leo Salamandra.
ti' Wet NJ Of the robbers. The soft
rose bullets extracted from both bod
lei seem to have come from the same
gc'pon.
It vas brought out further yester-
is mat Mark Reilly, the ostensible
ss9cr Of the touring car, was in close
enough touch with Walsh last January
% arrange with the latter to take Up
a cte for $3.50 VIII ch had been given
;, Reilly as first payment on the car
- Newark dealer named Eagan.
Walsh, il has been shown, could not
~r.Ye car. His Chauffeur is being
ou-nt. So far as the actual transac-
ion With the automobile dealer was
soacerned, Walsh was not appearing
rs purchaser.
As the frs. result of the conference
,o-aay, which, it is said. will be fol-
-2@-G by others, the police net will be
S9irad tor the group of three robbers
|no escaped with their lives, and it is
a.eieVed the first clew will come with
@' ocatlon OF the twenty-five barrels
q Whisky which were stolen,
lhose who attended the conference
Eerc Detective Senff, of the New York
@nlclde squad, who worked on the
exert case, and who has been sent
WIN instructions from Captain Carey
e cooperate with the New Jersey au-
.iofltles; Lieutenant Harris and Ser
Bsaht Bell, of the Newark whisky
squad; Captain Ben Turner, of the
iassa'c Detective Bureau; County De-
t9sctve Ferd. David, of the Middlesex
county Prosecutors staff, and Dctec-
we George H. Totten, of the Somer-
~ County Prosecutors staff ,A 1t is
eaio tne members of the conference will
Rork from Newark.
Whitman Aid in JERSEY
one of former Governor Charles g
"hitman's assistants, who has nlaved
prom nent part in the Investigation
Of the Hylan administrat on. and more
Parueu!arly the Police Department,
Speitt saturday and most of yesterday
y Jersey. 1t is believed that he was
elIowing u number of leads which may
Walsh. ''-' - - u'4 q
Walsh an alleged bootlegger and
confederate of q powerful band of
automobile thieves in Manhattan, is
saa 70 nave provided Mr.. Whitman or
Ohe @ OF his assistants with much valu-
soie informal on that showed rum run
Seis and motor thieves to have worked
IN close cooperation.
w. an Assistant District Attorney on
snt. nt Whitman's staff, according to
sMSthorltat've Ma information obta ned by
sne Tribune last night, has received
s'''0oofat We evidence along these
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