New-York tribune., 1922-08-14

several mere girls. pleaded for per-
mission to communicate with friends.
Some, exhausted, lay half asleep on
benches. Fifty or more persons sat or
stood, about in groups during the en-
TIRE DAY while slow process of indi-
vldual questioning proceeded Scores
OF relatives and friends sought to be
allowed to converse with those under
detenSon, but were denied the privi-
lege Mothers, brothers and sisters,
and IN several instances fances, Of
those in the police net waited outside
the police station.
Counsel representing some of the
temporary prisoners demanded that
they be allowed 20 converse with their
clients. They Jared no better than
the rest. Louis Halle, counsel for Red
mond, denounced police methods as
outrageous. He spent part of the day
trying to procure a writ Of habeas cor
pus for his client, but failing to find
magistrate returned to the police
station, where he still waited at late
hour
Bushels of Food Sent
Shortly before O'Clock last night
two taXicabs drew up in front of the
station. Aproned walters emerged from
the vehicles conveying food for The
said ga gent with a fat roll" had sent
the food. There were two bushel bas-
kets filled with bundles wrapped in
oiled paper One waiter carried a large
urn in which he said were four gal
Ions of coffee. The food was spread
oriSa table in the police dormitory. One
OF the imprisoned girls, said to be a
well known vaudeville actress, acted
as hostess. There were no knives or
Crly
Rigid exclusion of outsiders by the
police caused comment. 1t was said no
investigation within recent police his
tory had been conducted with such a
display of secrecy. Detectives guarded
doors of the room in which witnesses
were held, and others that of q room
near by in which Assistant District At
torney Dineen and Inspector Coughlin,
in charge of the Detective Bureau, re
ceived those examined one at time.
/ One young woman was questioned more
/ than an hour. She was released in
| tears.
A fotilla of private automobiles
parked at the curb, awaited release Of
some witnesses. In one of them lay a
kewpie doll and expensive wraps, prop
erty of the owner of the car who waited
with the others to tell her story. AT
the wheel sat chauffeur who said he
had held vigil there thirteen hours.
The owner of the car, he said, had been
to Coney Island with friends and
stopped in the cabaret to wind up a
pleasant evening. Ten minutes after
she obtained seats the shooting started.
Increased police activity is attributed
to orders from headquarters to take
no chances with suspects" The records
of the District Attorneys Office show
that there are more than 300 unex-
planned killings listed in the homicide
division. Yesterdays shooting is held
to have had no CORRECTION with street
Runfghts of recent occurrence in which
three persons were killed and eleven
severely wounded. AS one detective put
it, ysterday's killing resulted from "an
Irish row. The others are known to
have been feud battles involving
Italians.
An increase of police vigilance
throughout the city followed instruc-
tions received yesterday by patrolmen
and detectives in all precincts Men of
known criminal records were stopped
and searched for weapons wherever
found