The New York herald., 1922-08-14
CABARET MAN KILLS
FIGHTING GANGSTER
Trio With Girl Attacked by
Three Others and Bullets
Begin to Fly.
IS DANCERS LOCKED Up
Nine Women in Crowd That
Passes 15 Hours in Jail as
Police Sift Case.

Reina Ray. q chorus girl. aged fs.
with three men whose acquaintance she
had made in an Eighth avenue restau-
rant earlier in the evening. was leaving
Redmnnds La Vie cabaret on Forty
eighth street just west Of Broadway at
$50 o'clock yesterday morning when
three men jumped from touring car
and attacked her and her escort.
James T. Redmond, part owner of the
cabaret which is In the basement, ran
upstairs brandishing a revolver. Six
men We're struggling on the sidewalk.
The grl was crouching in the vestibule.
As Redmond arrived one of the men
started TO shoot. Redmond emptied his
gun into the group and they scattered.
leaving one man lying In the gutter.
Three policemen In plain clothes were
patroling the white light district few
blocks away. They reached the scene
Just as the uninjured men were dsap-
pearing into Eighth avenue. Patrolman
Joseph F. Frey Of West Forty-seventh
street station was on duty inside the
cabaret. which under another manage
ment was raided recently on a liquor
selling charge.
Policeman Meets Pair on stairs.
Frey ran upstairs and met Redmond
coming down with the girl. He stopped
to take Redmonds gun away and then
ne and he plain clothes man. aided bv
atrolman James Stevens IF the Forteth
precinct. off duty. rounded up every one,
men and women. inside the cabaret and
took them TO the Forty-seventh street
police station.
The wounded man was taken to
Roosevelt Hospital where he died two
hours later from two bullet wounds in
bis head. From his finger prints ha was
identified Is Frank Wallace, % years
old. Of 642 Eighty-third street, Brooklyn.
His police record shows arrests for petit
larceny robbery and homicide az Ike
smith. Frank Smith. Frank Nolan and
Frank Curran.
forty-six men and nine women who
had been dining and dancing at La Vie
cabaiet spent fifteen hours in the pris-
oners room on West Forty-seventh
Street' They were questioned one at
time by Assistant District Attorney
Benedict y. Dineen. from A. NJ. until
after ? o'clock last night when all but
eight were allowed to go home.
Redmond. who lives at ia Eighth
avenue, was held without bail on a
charge Of homicide. The others wera
held, also without bail as material wit
nesscs. They are Patrick. alias Link"
MltcheH. once member Of Tanner
oHilth old West Side gang, OF 81
Eighth avenue; Joseph Williams. 10
Grand street. Albany: William Duffy.
5S4 Court street. Brooklyn; Thomas
Donahue. l29 Eighth avenue: Thomas
Spellman. 74S Ninth avenue James
Harty, 32S West Fifteenth street. and
| William Coffey, 2601 Eighth avenue.
Girl l. Set Free.
4 Reina Ray was set free after she nsc,
been questioned for several hours ShF
and the other women we're In evening
! dress The men who had accompanied
! her. she told Mr.. Dineen, were casual
acquaintances she had picked up while
dancing. She lives, she said, at 81 West
Seventy-sxth street.
She denied that she had ever seen
any Of the men engaged in the fight be-
fore Saturday night, From other witt
nesses the police learned that Wallace
the slain man. and two others. known
only Pop Egan and "Loui~e were the
three men who were waiting outside In
the automobile.
They had driven up a few minutes be-
fore with Link" Mitchell and 0 couple
of women. Mitchell went inside the
cabaret and was downstairs when the
shooting occurred
The first theory Of the police that the
fight started with a quarrel about the
girl was denied by Miss Ray Mr..
Dineen said he could not find any en-
dencc 10 suggest bootleg murder. 20
the most likely explanation was a gang
fued. but ~hone OF the witnesses exam
ined yesterday knew anything that
threw any light on this theory. Mr..
Dineen said.