The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-26
EX-CHAMPION
HELD IN DEATH
OF PROMOTER
Johnny Wilson Put Under
$4,000 Bail as Ride
Case Witness.
GIRL ALSO IS QUIZZED
Police Think They Hold
Woman Who Last Saw
4 MARROW Alive.
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NEW YORK, June ga former
niddleweight boxing champion of
the world and four other persons
we're held in $4,000 bail each today
as material witnesses in the nlys-
terious shooting of Frank NARROW.
NARROW, Broadway habitue and
friend of the late Arnold Rothstein,
was found fatally shot near Flush
ing Monday morning
This morning in Queens court at
Long Island City Johnny Wilson,
whom NARROW once managed and
who later became middleweight
champion. Mary Mickey Seiden
and Al Siegel, dancers; ignatius
Coppa, a restaurant owner, and Ed
ward Lewis of Boston, who described
himself as a gambler, we're held in
$4,000 bail as material witnesses
TO the crime.
Later detectives appeared before
Magistrate Benjamin Marvin and
obtained a John Doe" warrant
charging homicide in connection
with the case.
They made every effort to keep
the obtaining of the warrant secret.
1t is returnable in the Flushing
magistrates court which does not
convene until Thursday.
The woman Mary Mickey Sci
den. 10, Coney Island, police be-
ljeved, was the last person to see
NARROW before he was taken for
a ride" from in front of Fifty
second street restaurant to Flush
ing, in Queens.
lost Money at Race
The four men accompanied Mar
low to the Aqueduct race track on
Long Island Monday in Coppa's car,
where NARROW is reported to have
had a hot tip on a horse which
ran far back in the ruck. NARROW is
reported to have lost $500 on the
horse.
Others in the party. likewise, are
reported to have bet heavily on the
horse on Marlow's tip.
Lewis repeatedly lost s2,7Oo on the
shot tip"
Meanwhile detectives had been
sent to Boston and Philadelphia In
the former city they were to check
q report that a girl, who had been
with NARROW recently. had said the
gambler knew he was marked for
death
nroa dv-oxr tho sce,7e 0f ,,,Oe+ of
Marlow'S activities. heard rumors
today that debt of $4,000 might
have had something to do with the
murder.
According to this story. NARROW
borrowed the money two years ago
and had failed to pay it back.
50 SIeuths on Job
Fifty picked detectives after a busy
day Tuesday submitted the follow
ing conclusions and theories:
l. That Marlow received no warn
ing OF his impending death because
he did not carry a pistol when he
was shot. although one was found in
his room at the Hotel Victoria.
2. That he entered an automobile,
; probablv somewhere in the theatri-
cal district, and was shot by men
whom he supposed were his friends.
8. That a man known only as
"Jimmy." living in Scranton. Pa,
probably could help them in the
solution of the case.
4. That NARROW was a close friend
of Doris Farris. dancer now ap-
pearing in The New Moon" in Lon
don. and that he had acted as her
manager and was to receive Is per
cent of her S200-a week salary.
5. That the flesh wound found IN
Marlow's thigh probably was caused
by an operation which he had un-
dergone recently in an attempt to
halt the spread of tuberculosis
through his system.
That Marlow's wife, Mrs. Minnie
Curto, could furnish little informa-
ton about him because she had
seen little of him recently.