New-York tribune., 1921-02-16
Brothers Held
Tn Hunt for
w alsl, Slayer
Newark Saloonkeeper and
Kin, Taken in Big Po-
lice Raid, Released in
Bail of $4,000 Each
Phone Call New C1ew
3 Others Arrested as Ma
terial Witnesses i'm Rum
Hold Up and Murders

E1OAu. Up anu NIurueFS
McEnroe's saloon, landmark on the
Newark, N. j., whisky curb" and its
reputed owner, William (Squawk)
Reilly, figured in two important leads
uncovered yesterday by detectives seek
ing the bootlegger bandits who held up
truckload of liquor near New Bruins
wick last Thursday night, killed it's
thought, slew one of their own number,
Frank Walsh, because he had turned
informer.
Detective John Ferguson, of the staff
Of Prosecutor Stricker, of Middlesex
County, said last night that the mys-
terious taxicab passenger who trailed
the whisky truck from Trenton had
telephoned from the Hotel Klein in
New Brunswick to Reilly's saloon, at
6:32 o'clock Thursday evening. This
was about half an hour before the
hold-up on the Lincoln Highway, just
beyond the New Brunswick line.
Lieutenant Brex, attached to the
office of Director Of Public Safety Bren-
nan. of Newark, made known that the
director had received information that
between l and 2 a. M. Friday, about six
hours after the robbery and double
killing, six men drove up in an automo-
bile to "Squawk" Reilly's house at Ber-
gen Street and South Orange Avenue,
Newark. Finding no one at home one
Of them is said to have climbed the fire
escape, jimmied open a window and let
the others into the house by the front
door. Brennan's informant, declared
the visitors remained about thirty min
utes and then drove away.
Reillys Freed on $4,000 Bonds
The tracing of the telephone call
and the disclosure of the early morn
ing visit to Reilly's home did not oc-
cur until after "Squawk" and his
brother, Martin Reilly, had been re-
leased in $4,000 bail each as material
witnesses by Justice of the Peace Suy-
dam in New Brunswick. Both were
taken into custody Monday night by
the Newark police in spectacular raid
on joints along the whisky curb"
Unaware that the Reiliys had been
turned loose Lieutenant Brex jour
neyed to New Brunswick to question
them. He returned to Newark last
night to try to learn if either Of the
brothers could amplify Director Bren-
mans information.
Believe Raid Was Tipped OFF
The surprising fact that none of the
arrested bootleggers, most of whom
go always armed in a state where
there are no restrictions on the pur-
chase of weapons, had gun and that
no one was in the lineup who could be
held on any preteXt whatever gave rise
to the opinion that the raid may have
been preceded by a tip that it was
coming.
Alleged collusion between rum run
ners and New York policemen, it was
suggested may have parallel in the
Jersey with bootleggers, and it was
deemed likely that this possibility i'm
PEELED the Newark Director of Public
Safety to take things into his own
hands.
Besides the two Reillys, three other
men were arrested as material wit
nesses in New Brunswick yesterday.
They were Felix Arnold and John
Smith, who jointly own an Essex runa-
bout that was wrecked when it crashed
into a pole in Newark early on the
morning after the robbery, and Arthur
Ossing, a chauffeur, in their employ.
All TeSlue III NEW oIuuSWlCh. 1uSJ
were released on bail.
Arnold and Smith told Prosecutors
Detective Ferd Davis that their car
had been stolen from in front of the
Pennsylvania station, New Brunswick,
early Thursday evening. 1t was used
as a taxicab and Ossing, who drove it,
supports his employers in the state
ment that it was stolen. The last time
he was at the wheel of the car, he
said, was Thursday afternoon. Detec-
tive Davis last night was interviewing
| other taxi drivers who park their cars
at the railroad station. He believes
they would have protested had they
seen a stranger take the machine OF
one Of their fellows.
Witnesses Tell of Collision
Witnesses of the collision in Newark
Friday morning have reported that they
saw two men take to their heels from
the demolished auto. The authorities
are working on the theory that they
may have been members of the bandit
gang who used the taxi to escape after
the Cadillac touring car that carried
them away from the scene of the
crime and in which they left Walsh;
body had capsiZed on the Lincoln High
way. The touring car belonged t'
Martin Reilly.
The Middlesex County detectives ar
of the opinion that the twenty-five
barrels of whisky stolen from the Sala
mandra party were cached somewher'
in the vicinity of New Brunswick. Th'
empty truck was abandoned on
Newark street by its three occupant
when they saw policeman approach
ing Friday morning.
The funerals of Leo Salamandra, il
Trenton, and Frank Walsh, in Passaic
both took place yesterday. That o
Salamandra was attended by more thai
twenty-five hundred persons.