The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-25
STAY FIGHT l
PROMOTER IN
RACKET FEUD
Frank NARROW Found Bleed
ing to Death in CIump
of Bushes.
MYSTERY GIRL SOUGHT
Spoke II Words on Phone,
Vanished Just Before Kill
ing Is Discovered.
BIZ United Press

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NEW YORK. June 25.-Meager
elews to the killing of Frank Mar
low, night club owner and prize
fight manager, today set police on
the trail of a mysterious girl who
spoke twelve words over a telephone
and disappeared shortly before Mar
low was found bleeding to death in
a clump of bushes in Flushing.
Grover Whalen, police commits
sioner, said today several important
leads had been uncovered in Man
haitian by the battalion of detec-
tives sent out to solve the most SEN
sational gangland killing since
Arnold RothStein was nortally
wounded last November.
The first thing the detectives
learned was that friend of NARROW
called him on the telephone at the
Hotel Victoria Monday evening to
discuss business.
The friend, whose name police
refused to divulge, said a girl an
swered the phone and told him:
Frank is not here, but he ought to
be here any minute
Known as Racketeer
When police entered the hotel
room, they found it vacated and
there was no indication how long
the girl had been there or the exact
hour at which she had departed.
NARROW, known throughout the
United States as the former man
ager of two boxing champions, never
regained consciousness after he was
found by two motorists Friday night.
Police knew NARROW as a racket
eer, beer runner, gambler-an in
innate friend of Rothstein-and
more recently as an owner of night
clubs.
He brought Jack Delaney out OF
obscurity and taught the French
Canadian to fight his way to the
Zig h tW Gig h t championship; he
bought the contract of Johnny Will
son, former middleweight champion,
for $4,000 when the only contrAc
Wilson had was a verbal one; he
was reputed to have won $250,000 in
one bet on his horse Anne Mar
rome II.
The medical examiner found three
bullet wounds in the body-one
through the temple, another through
the jaw and the third in the neck.
Powder burns indicated the shots
were fired at close range, leading
police to believe NARROW was shot
in an automobile and left to die in
the bushes opposite a cemetery in
Flushing. A knife wound in the
thigh, freshly healed, caused de-
tectives to surmise NARROW had been
in trouble recently and probably
had been shot as result of
gang quarrel. "a
Sought to Hide e4naG;ntity
Recently NARROW had >een COM
muting between here and Boston,
living in the two cities alternately.
In his pockets were found mem
bership cards in the Massachusetts
and New York automobile clubs, a,
pistol permit issued at Brookline,
Mass, and one which he had OBJ
tanned in Suffolk county, N. Y. An.
other card indicated he was mem
Der in the Ohio State Athletic
Club.
Police learned that when NARROW
returned from Boston few days ago
he tried to register at the Hotel
Victoria under the name of Frank
Ross. Hotel attaches knew him,
however, and insisted on proper
registry.
He was born Gandolfo Curto
forty-1ve years ago, but changed
his name. His wife was located to-
day in Bellport, L. /. and police
said they would ask her to make
official Identification and also ques-
ton her concerning Marlow's asso-
ciates. She lives under the name
of Curto.