New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
lafel Man Held
AS Slayer After
40 Are Crilled
'woscor'e of Patrons, Many
Women and Girls, Under
go h-Hour Inquisition
i'm West 48tl, St. Killing
.ctress Gives Testimony
s-safned Persons Denied
All Communication and
Crowded Into One Room

James F. Redmond, part owner OF
b Vie restaurant and cabaret, 200
fest Forty-eighth Street, was arrest
i late last night after a sixteen-hour
hlice inqaisition, charged with the
] Hing early yesterday of Frank Wal
ce, said by the police to be a gang
er, whose home is at e42 Eighty third
s,,,et, Brooklyn.
re arrest of Redmond and deten-
-, .,s sasAsrsal witnesses of six pa
..a,ns Of the cafe followed one of the
moss rigid examinations in police an
ssls. Forty men and women were held
i, the West Forty-seventh Street po-
nee station. from a. m. until 10 o'clock
4 at night. Appeals of attorneys rep
,ssnting them and Of friends who
81 ,upht to communicate were ignored.
&hev sat or stood in a room in the
alton house until each had been ques-
soned alone.
Seven men who were in the vicinity
9,ts fbs restaurant or inside it when
wallace was shot are held as material
~sitnesses. They are Patrick Mitchell,
kn own 10 the rclice as Link, twenty
Tears old, Of 81 Eighth Avenue; VIII
liam Coffee, twenty-five, o. e601 Eighth
Avenue; Thomas Stellman, twenty nine,
AS Ninth Avenue, doorman at La Vic;
william Duffy. thirty three, part own
., Of the cabaret with Redmond, 5S4
court Street, Brooklyn; Thomas Donog-
hne clerk, eighteen. of 129 Eighth Ave
cue. Joseph Williams, twenty-four
s,.eehanic. Of 10 Grand Street, Albany,
and Joseph IIarty, twenty-one, of 320
West Fifteenth Street.
All Held lncommunicado
The arreet of Redmond and the hold
IL d Of the others came after rigid ques
tiening of forty persons, eleven of
,tssnn women, who had been held at
West Forty seventh Street station in
eomn,,nnicado from the time when the
sbeotin1r took place until 10 o'clock
last might.
The Investigation was conducted by
Assistant District Attorney Dineen and
Inspector John Coughlin. They eX-
sysained witnesses one at time. Only
fse Of the total number had been re
lessed when Redmond's arrest and de-
tention of six others were announced.
Long detained cabaret patrons many
of whom had been awaited throughout
the day by their own autom obiles, were
then allowed to depart. Several women
left the police station exhausted.
i
arr inclined to regard It as due to a
fehd, Asst stant District Attorney Di-
asen said at the conclusion of his in
STastigason that he had been unable to
Sascertain motive for the killing.
Testimony which resulted in the arrest
OF Redmond was given by Rena Ray.
al attractive young woman employed
in the chorus at Reisenweber's cafe,
Eighth Avenue, near Columbus Circle.
Miss Ray lgave her address as 21 West
Sewenty.sixth Street
Invited TO Late Supper
according to the story she told In
sp ecfor Copghlin, three men whom she
met casusliy at Reisenweber's invited
her to late supper after the close of
Reisenweber's show Two of the men,
she said, were known to her as Pop"
Egan and Louis the jew" The third
men she mad been introduced to, but
Sdid not recall his name
Shortly before the shooting, Miss
/ Ray said, she and the men prepared to
/ leave. As they ascended stairs from
| the eabare she recalled having left her
| handeag and returned for it, her COM
panions proceeding to the street. After
| hnding Size bag she started up the
i stafrffsnW and
peoprleto. of the cabaret. descending.
4 He appeared excited, she said. Just
beiore meeting him she heard a shot
aFid later another These were fol-
Flowed BY a volley. The girl said she
had seen no shots fired and did not
ttinK IL 'mond carried revolver when
he pas her on the stairway. Miss
! Ray eleased. She had been held
1 \ surther questioning Of witnesses re-
R a.eo' the police say, that Mitchell,
~ as material witness, entered the
seaurant with four men Just before
shoosllg took place. Mitchell, COT
sho oVeiiman were questioned both
ns assistant district attorney and
Inspector Coughlin. The questioning
!tsted several hours. Five other wit
I ii'sses OF the affray were examined at
'S"sta Dur released
Patrolman Tells of Firing
onss witness examined was Patrol
IAN James Stevens, of the West Forty
seh.h street station, who was near
cabaret when firing began. He TO. ]
.t'peetof Coughlin he heard several
LUIS and saw Redmond run down the
rssaafant stairs. Patrolman Joseph
!. Y, OF the same station, said he was
q me cabaret, having been assigned to
IS raided place. He testified to
ing Redmond go up the stairs and
h sssafh running. He did not see re-
Volysr, he said.
William Duffy, held as d material
mess, is Redmond's partner in bust
.s. nass lie said under examination that
psfons IN. the restaurant did not know
msfe had been shooting until the police
en- nn'sfed, drdering all to the station.
Ain. was subjected to long question
MT psh posh by Inspector Coughlin and
/ vitns nes2. He was ordered held as a
's aver quiz lasting two hours.
- Many Women Detained
.,s.;s. as second floor dormitory of the
f. .rs saas, .s.or, where detained persons were ere
~..rsesssiened, presented an extraordinarv ,1 erv
h. sfeetacAe. ExpensiveIv pownad ,ron,en