Evening star., 1924-11-02
ONE SLAIN, SECOND
SHOT IN FEUD HERE
Ernest Clancy Dead, v. S.
Story in Hospital, H. F.
Rosenberg in Jail.

Death and a serious wounding cap
ped the climax of an underworld feud
yesterday, when Ernest Clancy, 26, of
81 New York avenue, dropped fatally
wounded at 4th and X streets, just an
| instant after his companion Vernon
S. Story. 81. of 2025 1st street was
struck by bullets in the elbow and
| through the abdomen, after a visit
to the home Of Harry F. Rosenberg.
80, of 314 X street, who is now being
held on a charge of murder.
Police, who know the trio we'll.
obtained a statement from Rosenberg
that Illicit liquor traffic was at the
| root of it all, and that the two had
gone to Rosenberg's home with the
| intention of shooting him.
Accounts as to details are garbled.
Noise OF shooting at Fourth and X
streets brought Sergt. Thompson of
the Sixth precinct and other police
men, who were in raiding maneuvers
nearby, hurrying to the scene just in
| time to place Rossnberg-who was
barefooted and attired in pajamas-
under arrest. The revolver alleged
to have been used In the shooting wa.
| given to the police by Rosenberg.
| - 49, Enmity IL Revealed,
| Rcssnberg's statehent. given to
Lieut.. Fred Cornwell at the Sixth
| precinct last night. outlined the aft air
| as the outgrowth of enmity resulting
| from the belief on the part of Clancy
and Story that he had been instru-
| mental in furnishing police with m
formation concerning bootlegging
The police version OF the ARRAY is
| substantially the following:
Story and Clancy went to the home
of Rosenberg armed with revolvers
with the intention Of carrying out
threats against him while Rosenberg
was in bed. Hearing commotion
downstairs. Rosenberg rushed for
| his revolver and he admits the shoot
ing, claiming self defense
Rosenberg told police that a col
| ored man, who was at the wheel of
| StorJ's machine, rushed out during
the excitement and grabbed up the
revolvers which Story and Clancy
threw away. Story. however, denied
that either he or Clancy had a re-
voiver. Police are seeking the col
1 ored man.
EntereA Wolf Store.
The two men are alleged to have
i entered the store of Sherr Wolf
shoemaker, at S39 Fourth street, the
| father -in-law of Rosenburg and the
latter, hearing their voices, came
| downstairs armed. The men ha6
| turned ano went out In the street
according to the police, before the
shooting started. Rosenberg is saio
to have admitted firing four times
as they made their way toward their
automobile, which was parked q
short distance south of K street
During the shooting the men dropped
Clancy was taken to Sibley Hospi.
tay, where he was pronounced dead
on arrival, and Story also went there
but after treatment went home
Later his condition became SO Sc.
rious that he was removed to
| Gallinger Hospital, where an opera.
tion was performed last night. He is
not expected to liye.
| Statement Incomplete.
| Rosenbergs statement to Lieut.
| Cornwell at the sixth precinct was
not complete statement, for, just
after he got well started, Attorney
| Bertrand Emerson walked in, an
| nounced he was retained by Rosen-
| bergs family in the case, and in
structed the prisoner not to. talk.
Rosenberg, however, had related to
Cornwell that the trouble started on
September q, when he was arrested
in the belief that he was accom-
| panying Story one day when the lat.
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