Evening star., 1928-12-22
.FUSCH|N| IS SILENT
IN Staying PROBE
Porter Died at Hands of Un-
known Persons, Is Inquest
Verdict.

Vincent P. Fuschini of the 3400 block
of Fifteenth street northeast, who, with
Garner S. Barbour of the 100 block OF
Massachusetts, avenue southeast, was
arrested yesterday on gambling charge
following incriminating testimony by
Barbour at a coroners inquest, refused
to answer questions corroborating that
testimony when put upon the stand to-
day.
The inquest, into the Staying Tuesday
of Joseph Woodson. colored porter, en-
ployed at what Barbour described as a
gambling establishment at 514 Tenth
street, resulted in a verdict that the
victim came to his death at the hands
of persons unknown Woodson was
found with his head crushed.t
Police are still investigating the
Staying and are holding James Davis,
colored furnace tender at the Tenth
street address. and Ida Kelly, also COL
cred, for further questioning.
Today Fuschini was represented by
Attorney James S. O'Shea, who objected
to every question put to the witness
by Assistant United States Attorney
Neil Burkinshaw that referred In any
way to the gembling activities which
Barbour yesterday testified were carried
on in the place.
Asked what was his occupation,
FuSchini replied that he was cabinet
maker.
Yesterday Barbour testified that upon
finding Woodson's body he telephoned
man who for the past eight months,
he said, has employed him to run a
gambling club there and was told to
come to his Office at Sixth and F
streets. There, he said. he met Fu-
Schini.
"DOn't Answer"
Burkinshaw, questioning Fuschini,
asked who was with Barbour at Sixth
street and Florida avenue.
O'Shea: Don't answer"
BurkinShaw: "At that time and eight
months preceding who employed you?"
O'Shea: Don't answer"
Burkinshaw: How did you enter the
room where Woodson's body lay?"
Fuschini: I'VE went down into the
basement and up on the elevator to the
second floor"
Burkinshaw: "How many telephones
did you disconnect?"
~ 5QGd. OOnt answer.
Eurkinshaw: Wasn't there special
wire leading to Sam Boards ofnce?"
Barbour named Beard in his testi-
mony yesterday as the operator OF the
place.
O'Shea: Don't answer.
Burkinshaw: Didn't you destroy a
quantity of betting slips?"
O'Shea: Don't answer"
Burkinshaw: isn't it a fact that
for the past eight months Sam Beard
has employed you to run a crap game
there?"
OShea: Don't answer"
Objects to Questions.
Barbour was again put on the stand
today. but his attorney objected to ques-
tionS similar to those he answered yes
terday. The questions were asked by
Campbell Howard, attorney for Ida
Kelly, colored, who is being held IN con-
nection with murder.
Burkinshaw sought to have the Kelly
woman identified by FuSchini as the
colored woman he had seen in the base
ment of the building Immediately after
finding the body. Howard jumped to
his feet and objected to her being
brought into the room as she appeared
at the door.
He said the identification might tend
to incriminate her. Fuschini said he
wouldn't be able to identy her any
way.
James Davis, colored furnace man,
told the Jury that he had seen crap
game in progress on the second hoor
several times. A large wooden bar
broken from pool table was intro
duced in evidence as the probable
weapon with which Woodson was slain.
"Frankest Expose" of Gambling.
Neil Burkinshaw, prosecutor Of the
case, termed the testimony given yes
terday by Barbour as the frankest ex-
pose of gambling ever made in this city.
Barbour's testimony revealed that
the room in which Woodson's body was
found was accessible only through an
electrically locked and reinforced door
and the freight elevator serving the
building, The lock on the door was
opened electrically by pushing a button
from the inside and by key. One of
these KEYS was in the slain mans
possession and the other was held by
Barbour.
With these two clues to work on
Woodson must have opened the door
from the inside to permit the entry
of some one he knew and of whom he
was not afraid, or the killer must have
entered the room from the freight ele-
vator, to which any one in the build
ing would have access.
Burkinshaw and members Of the
headquarters homicide squad, with
Sergt Carl Sandberg, fingerprint and
Photographic expert, visited the place
yesterday afternoon and were locked
in the suite of rooms which formerly
housed the gambling establishment for
more than an hour, taking pictures and
making measurements.
Barbour testified the place was used
for gambling and gave the name Of the
man who employed him to manage 1t.
No steps have yet been made to take
the owner into custody He said he was
the first to find Woodson's body. He
notified the colored janitor and then
telephoned his employer, who told him
to come to his Office. There he was In
structed to return and remove the tele-
phones and then notify police.
Detective John Fowler Of the homicide
squad was the first witness yesterday.
He said he went to the home OF Ida
Kelly. colored, the woman claimed to be
Woodson's wife, and who admitted that
she had been at the Tenth street ad-
dress looking for Woodson a short time
before the discovery of the body. Fowler
said he found a white dress at her
home on which, he stated, were num-
Der of stains, seemingly of blood. He
dress Tuesday.
GOES TO JAIL FOR YEAR,