The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-01
POLICE AT BIER VOW
TO AVENGE NEVILLE
Commissioner Enright and
Other Officials Among
800 at Burial.
THRONGS AT CHURCH
Six More Witnesses, Includ-
ing Two Women, Tell
About Staying.
COCAINE FOUND IN SHACK
Hoey's Quarters Believed to
Have Been Distributing
Point for Drugs.
COCAINE FOUND IN SHACK

More than 500 friends and uniformed
Neville, formerly of the West Thirtieth
street police station, stood around his
grave In Flushing Cemetery yesterday
and silently and so.emniy vowed ven
gence on the gang responsible for his
murder from ambush last Saturday
night in Hels Kitchen.
Neville was buried with every honor
that the police can bestow on fellow
officer slain in the performance of his
duty. Commissioner Enright, Deputy
Commissioners Leach, Faurot and Cray,
Chief Inspector Lahey. Inspector
Murphy Of Brooklyn Borough and
score Of inspectors, captains and lieu
tenants paid their respects to a police
man who had become a terror to gang
sters. and to the honest residents an "on
the level cop"
Thousands of persons previously had
stood bareheaded outside while the
funeral took place in the little Roman
Catholic Church of st. Monica. in Wash
ington street, Jamaica. Mass was cele-
brated by the rector, the Rev. Father
John Murphy, cousin OF Neville. He
was assisted by the Rev. Father Francis
Paul Flanagan and Police Chanlns
Fathers Lawrence Bracken and John
Coogan.
The funeral procession led by the
police band left the residence of the
slain policeman at 80 Brooklyn avenue,
Queens at 10 o'clock. Eighty-five MEM
bers of the force in uniform acted as
guard of honor and thirty officers from
the Twenty-thlrd precinct, to which Ne
vile was attached, were honorary pail
bearers. The Police Gee Club, with
Nathan Frankie as accompanist, sang at
the services.
Neville leaves widow, Mrs. Barbara
Neville. and three children. Virginia 8.
Howard 4, and Muriel 2.
Many of Neville's comrades went d.
rectly from the funeral to resume the
work Of hunting for the men RESPONSE
BILE for his death. They have been
combing Hells Kitchen day and night
since Sunday and working voluntarily
In their hours off duty.
Six more witnesses. two of them
women. were found yesterday. They
we're questioned by Assistant District
Attorneys Mario and Hennis One Of the
women said she heard the shots ana saw
three men jump the fence Of the junk
yard at Thirty-ninth street and Eleventh
avenue and run away. She was not sure
she could Identify the men, she said.
John Grogan, 522 West Thirty-ninth
street. was examined again. His testi-
uony and that of other eye witnesses of
the murder make a strong case against
Bill Hoey. the watchman in whose
shack Neville was shot. Hoey, an ex-
convict and ganf fighter, gave himself
up Monday to Father Cashin at Sing
Sing Prison, denying any part in the
murder. He is held for first degree muir
der on circumstantial evidence.
A new lead in the investigation was
the information furnished by the police
narcotic squad that Hoeys shack has
been under observation as distributing
point for drugs. Soon after the murder
the police said there was found in the
place a small quantity OF cocaine in
spoon on the table. One of Hoey's many
previous convictions was for possessing
narcotics.