Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-18

street by an acquaintance. He claims |
that he remembered little about the |
two hold-u that night. but after
the arrest of himself and his tnree
companions. in Petworth. he was
about to tell Policeman Ach some
thing when the shooting started.
McCabe stepped down from the
chair to a blackboard and showed the
various positions of the four mon, TWO
of whom he did not know at the time
He testified he had no revolver and did
not fire on Busch and that he never
had seen the other three defendants
before the late hours Of September
%. After he escaped from the scene
he ran until he reached Georgia ave-
nue., where he caught a street car
and arrived at his rooms at 1908 *
street at O'Clock in the morning.
Resident Describes Scene.
Eagles testimony yesterday after
noon was interrupted while Wilbur
H. Montgomery, 4215 Illinois avenue,
and DR.. William A. Darby of Balti
more testified for Moreno and Proc
tor, respectively. The former told of
hearing shots on the morning or the
battle and of seeing a man. with his
hand grasping his side, huddle around
Grant Circle and disappear up Var
mum street, while Dr. Darby testihed
about an operation he performed on
Proctor for the removal Of a bullet
in his abdomen in Baltimore.
Then Eagles took the chair and Clif-
ford Grant, Moreno's attorney, re-
sumed ton. Eagles said
at the moment the first shot was
fired he ran about 10 steps to the
corner and added it took him ''about
a second to cover that distance. He
stood there and watched McCabe grab
Moreno and fire under the latter's arm
at the police and Moreno broke away.
Then he said McCabe ran and Proc
tor fed west on Upshur street.
And yet both of them beat you to
the cellar of 41O7 New Hampshire
avenue, when your could run 10 steps
to the corner In one second?" asked
Grant. and Eagles concurred.
Eagles testified he saw Moreno fire
three shots right At Busch but he
couldn't tell who Busch was firing at.
Charges "Putup job"
Referring to testimony by Detective
Curtiss Trammell. who previously had
testified that McCsbe told him Moreno
threatened to shoot if McCabe escaped
from the "hi-jackers" after the second
car was robbed, Grant asked Eagle the
facts. The witness jumped forward in
his chair and yelled, THAT was put
up job between McCabe and Moreno.
well. then, do you remember being
present at police headquarters when
the defendant McCabe told Detective
Kelly that If you find the man who
wore the raincoat you will find the
man who murdered Officer Busch,
and at that instant you fell out Of a
chair in a faint?'
Il hadn't had any sleep for" be-
gan Eagles, but the remainder Of his
answer was stopped by howl of OBJ
jectiOns from his attorneys. After
their objections We're overruled and
Eagles was directed to answer the
question, he said Il can't answer
that way and Grant pursued the
matter no further.
O'Shea then took the witness and
asked him to define such terms as
rod "gyp," hot car" rough life"
and job which Eagles did reluc-
family. A rod" he said. was a gun;
Ito gyp'' was to hold out something
that should he turned in to the
chief: "hot car" was a stolen car;
rough life" was the life Of the sea
and going around all over" and lob"
was hold.up.
McCabe was perfectly sober" on
the night of the hold-ups and shoot
ing. Eagles declared, denying at the
same time that he ever said to the
police that that defendant was
drunk" When the four defendants
started out on the "hi- Hacking" ex
petition, Eagles said Proctor and Nc
| Cabe told him he would get beat up
by the police" If caught. and eff you
get pinched don't say nothing"
| O'Shea and Eagles fought back and
forth for many minutes on the ques-
ton of who took the keys out of the
bandit car that held up Felix Solari
| on the Baltimore pike before that au-
tomohile was abandoned for the one
operated by the victim. The de-
PENDANTS inquest testimony that
Proctor removed the keys was read
to him after he had testified McCabe
removed them. Eagles was called
upon for a positive statement of the
facts, and after hesitating for a mo-
ment said. "McCabe or Proctor" and
supplemented this with "McCabe, I'm
positive" O'Shea then read further
from the inquest testimony. in which
Eagles was quoted as saying McCabe
did something to the wires in the car,
and to this he replied:
The wires and the keys are the
same thing; when the key Is taken
away the wires are no good