New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Two Brothers
Held in Staying
OF ! cw cler
| "a ear.Old Roy Said toHavc
Confessed Shooting Man
at Door of Shop After
Wounding Self i'll Fight
No Clcw 10 Druggist Death
Police Unable to Explain
Mysterious Killing in
Brightly Lighted Store

Louis GsrdellA and his brother John
were arrested yesterday III connection
with the fatal shooting Thur DAY night
% Demosthenes Santue in the doorway
of his levelry shop At y Madison
Street Louis. who is sevcrteen wears
old. is said TO have confessed. lie is
bullet wound N his les
John WAS arraigued before Magis-
trate Tobias in Iombs Court on short
AFFIDAVIT. charging suspicion OF homi-
eide, and was committed to the Tombs
without bail for examination Monday.
II is charged With acting IN concert.
No such success, however, attended
ths police Investigation into the mur-
Ger of Paul J. Gilman. the druggist
Who was shot 70 death in the back
room Of his store at 162 Court Street,
Brooklyn The police in this case were
unable TO arrive at any explanation for
the killing or 10 discover any clews
which might lead to the Identity Of the
slayer
In the Santus case the police were
fortunate IN having a witness who dc
scribed Louis for them, and another
" ho heard him say al he ran away.
Don't tell my brother" request
which bears out the opinion Of certain
members of the OAK Street detective
bureau that John had nothing 10 do
with the shooting
Youth Denies Shooting
WITH this information detectives
worked all night and finally found
John, who is twenty years old. He
denied all knowledge Of the shooting
or OF his brothers whereabouts. Then
eariy yesterday morning Detectives
OLeary and Storjohann found Louis's
mother. Alemia Gardella. at her home
at Henry Street. Al first she would
say nothing. Finally she directed the
detectives to the homo Of her sister at
100 First Avenue. There the detectives
found Louis asleep n bed
According to the detectives Louis
had gone TO the jewelers. to rob him
He admitted. they say. that he had IN
the last month gone in for Bit OF
robbery now and then and had cleaned
UP about 5000.
The ieweler had offered resistance
There was a struggle. Louis fred two
shots. The first struck the jeweier,
but the second, because of his op-
ponent's persistence. had been directed
into the fleshy part of Louis's leg
After that Louis ran. He dared not
go - physician. SO he went to his
mother, who. it is said bandaged his
wound and assisted him to the First
Avenue address.
LOUIS told the detectives that he had
carried 9 revolver on all his excursions.
he said that he had purchased 1t from
a concern advertising IN a magazine.
When asked what he had done with it
he said he had tossed il away ut the
Bowcrv and Chambers Street
Ssntus will be buried to-day in Mount
Olive Cemetery.
Reuben Wilson. Assistant District
Attorney. questioned several persons
in the Gilman case yesterday, and it
was definitely established that Gill
man had met his death between $3.50
and 1925 o'clock Thursday night a
bent key was found in the store. and
the discovery gave rise 30 the theory
that the murderer had tried and failed
to open the cash drawer.
Druggist Seemed Upset
Lawrence Conlon. seventeen years
old, OF 2S Bergen Street, who was en-
ployed in the store and who was inter
rogated yesterday by Mr.. Wilson, said
that Gilman went out TO cat at Z AS
O'Clock. and that when he returned at
s 80 o'clock he had seemed upset and
asitated He said that Gilman told
nm he N grit go home then. which, ac-
cord NJ TO the boy was unusual.
Another witness, James Murphy, Of
34S Baltic Street, told Of having en-