Evening star., 1926-10-25
new CHARGE SEEN
IN CANTON MURDER
Another Indictment Looms in
Mystery as Police Get
McDerm0tt. ,
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CANTON. Ohio. October 25.-One
more indictment for first degree
murder in the Mellett case is expected
to result from the apprehension in
Twin Rocks. Pa, yesterday OF Patrick
Eugene McDermott, one of the three
already indicted.
For three months. while he was
sought the country over as the man
having full Knowledge of the murdey
of Don r. Mellett. Canton publisher
on July 16. MCDermott lived il
luxury In Cleveland. Then his desire
to see his mother led him homeward
and into the hands of the law.
Last night he was lodged in Stark
County Jail, the last of the trio IN
diCted for the murder to he taken
into custody. The other two. Ben
Rudner Of Massillon. and Louis
Mazef of Canton. are awaiting trial
Mazer goes on trial November 8. and
Rudner, December 6.
Trapped by Brothers.
McDermott was taken into custody
yesterday morning at Twin Rocks b.
Ora Slater. Cincinnati detective. ant
F.. b. McClintock, Stark County pros.
ecutor. He was captured in a trap
laid by his brothers, Tom and Bern
ard. who long ago promised Slater
and McClintock they would try and
locate him SO he could tell HIS story.
whatever 1t might be.
One of three developments is now
expected:
Pat will confess he is guilty Of a
part in the murder; the indictment
against him will be nolled. and he
will turn States evidence; or he will
play another waiting game" refus-
ing to talk and defying the State to
show it's evidence in open court.
McClintock and Slater. loath To-
show their hand. admitted today
they feel the case against Rudner
and Mazer much strengthened by
McDermOtt'S arrest, but said they
have obtained no confessions. Nc
ClintOck intimated more indictments
may result.
II am certain that apprehension Of
McDermott will clean UP the whole
murder case by January H. he said.
Pat is to be held in Jail. inaccessi
BILE to anyone but his family; Slater
and the prosecutor, McClintock an
nounced.
Told that McDermott had been
taken into custody, Rudner smiled
and said:
Good. If he tells the truth I'll be
out of here tomorrow"
Procedure Unchanged
Prosecutor McClintock. however.
declared there will be no change I'm
the procedure, and that Rudner and
Mazer most assuredly" will go on
trial as scheduled.
Mellett, publisher of the Canton
News, was killed July 16. He had
received numerous threats against
his life because of his vigorous cam
paign against vice and lawlessness
in Canton. and had attacked the Can
ton Police Department. making
charges of unrestrained bootlegginS
and crime.
He was fired upon from ambush as
he put his car into the garage in the
rear of his home. Only one of the
three or five shots fired struck him.
1t entered his brain and he fell dead.
Members of the Canton underworld.
known as the jungle" were blamed
for the crime.
According to the prosecution
theory, Mazer. Rudner and possibly
others, incensed at Melletts campaign
against the underworld, of which
they were alleged rulers, plotted the
murder, employing McDermott as an
aide.
McDermott was first drawn into the
murder inquiry when Steve Kaschok
of Manly Clio, who says he also had
been in Cleveland with McDermOtt.
told Slater few days after the mur
der that Pat and he had been hired
to "slug" Mellett, that he had backed
out, but that so far as he knew Me
Dermott had gone through with the
plot.
Kascholk is now held in the Canton
workhouse as a material witness
against all three of the indicted men.