The Washington times., 1930-10-13
SAYS He DOES
NOT KNOW
GUNMEN
Wife and Roberts Girl viii
Face New GrIlIlngs; LEGS"
Shows Gain During Night
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!. partance, was not revealed in de-
tail
!. Detectives had found Diamonds
clothes hanging In her wardrobe.
They we're told by oeetse karileo,
q Japanese waiter in the hotel,
that he had brought an order Of
coffee and orange Juice at $3.50
Ia the morning several hours
before the shooting to room Sal
to q man ID pajamas, whom ne
! Identified from photographs as
:, Diamond
Il. Made N. j. Call
Il Police Commissioner Edward p.
Z Mulfoeney personally questioned
Miss Roberts. ne was extremely
interested LII reports that q New
Jersey telephone call was made
from the hotel shortly before the
shooting
The fact that the kunmen's
car carried a New Jersey license
caused authorities to regard the
Gall as perhaps significant.
The girl was apprehended by
: the homicide squad men late last
night ia the apartment Of Agnes
O'Laukhlin, at 664 Eighth Ave.
Miss OLauehlin recently sued
Rudy vallee for alleged breach
9 Of promise. Detectives found
Miss Roberts hiding in closet
When discovered, she walled:
"Oh, why must 1 so through
- thiS--4lt Will ruin me-"
she was taken to the West
!, Sixty-eighth Street police station
y = where Mulrooney and half q
dozen police officials were wait.
: Ing to question her. For four
!. hours she was srilled.
Then she was sent to q hotel to
spend the rest Of the night in Gus
: tody Of fflatroi1.
1, Came from Halifax
: Miss Roberts came to Broadway
from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Tele-
1rarns were found in her room
from her mother, congratulating
= her on her success In the show
business.
White Miss Roberts. was being
:. Questioned, detectives brought Mrs.
Alice Diamond, the gangster's
+ wife, in for questioning.
At Polytechnic Hospital, Diamond
informed Mulrooney that he did
:, not recognize the gttt1fnei1 who
shot him and had no idea way
:, they did it. Mulrooney's com
fnent was:
"He's lying about that. Of
course"
The facts in possession of the
police are these: Diamond was
shot while clad in his pajan1AS
:. In room 829 Of the Monticello
). BY two men who ran down stairs
! to the street and drove off In a
new black sedan with q New
: Jersey license. The automobile
had been seen five minutes be-
) fore the shooting parked oppo-
: site the hotel with door open and
, engine running.
- Staggered Through Halt
Diamond staggered out Of
room 62e and along the hall
until he collapsed at the elevator.
Ne was carried into room S25,
one OF a suite Of three rooms
which Jacob Ginsberg, rf1anager
Of the hotel, occupied with his
wife ana child.
Somebody ordered q private
ambulance from the MacDbugal
Ambulance Service in West seven
tieth Street. Somebody, identity
not revealed, also summoned Dr..
Howard Babeoek, Diamonds fam
lily physician from another hotel,
where he had an office. Diamond
was rushed to- the Polytechnic
HOSPITAL and It was not Until
1880 in the afternoon that the
police learned Of the shooting.
DR.. BabcoCk said the wounds
consisted Of one on the left side
Of the abdomen, one In the right
thigh, two through the chest and
one ia the center OF the forehead
close to the scalp.
The police threw q Guard around
the wounded gAIlester In the hos.
pita1 for fear that more eunrr1ell
would be sent to finish the job.
Ginsberg F'lees Hotel
y Almost Immediately after the
shooting, the hotel manager, Gins. |
berg, disappeared after turning
the wounded man III his room over
TO his assistant, Joseph Goldy.
Diamonds story to the police
was that he was sitting on the
bed in his red silk pajamas. read
Ing when the door opened and
three men entered.
Diamond made no mention of |
Miss Roberts In his narrative, Mrs. |
Diamond arrived ct the hospital |
last night and remained at his
side for 20 minutes Then, grim |
faced. she left Tor the West Sixty. /
eighth Street police station to con
Ter with Commissioner Mulrooney.
The shooting of Diamond Gre
Ated 4 sensation along Broadway,
where he is well known. He for
Hnerly ran the Hotsy-T Totsy night
club. 1t was In this place that
william Cassidy and Simon
walker were shot and killed in
July, 1929. Police accused Dia-
niond Of the double murder but
Legs" beat the case.
Rise q Mystery