Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-20
Exhaustive Search Started
in Pittsburgh for AIIened
Trigger Man."
WOMAN is QUESTIONED
BY WASHINGTON POLICE
Detective Sent to Pennsylvania to
Serve Warrant on Former
Bus Company Employe.

Following the arrest Of an elderH
woman here today, police secured from
United States Commissioner Needham
c. Turnage warrant charging Frank
Mahoney, %, Of the first block of Bates
street, with the murder of Louis Bush,
wealthy bus line owner.
Detective Sergt. Thomas Sweeney will
leave this afternoon for Pittsburgh. Pa.
to serve the warrant on Mahoney, who
was arrested there last night at the
request Of local authorities. Mahoney
was formerly an employe of the Gray
Bus Line, of which Mr.. Bush was presi-
dent.
The murder warrant was secured
after detectives had arrested and ques-
toned Mrs Sarah Margaret Sullivan.
so years old, of s25 Fifth street. Mrs.
Sullivan is said to be the mother OF
William j. Carnell, who is being sought
Tor questioning in the case.
Exhaustive Search Begun.
Mahoney was arrested as he stopped
from a Westinghouse Angeles bus in
Pittsburgh. CARMEL, said to have been q
passenger on the same bus, Is believed
to have escaped in the excitement Incl
dent to MahoneyiS arrest. At the urgent
request of Washington police, the au-
thorities in Pittsburgh Immediately
ordered an exhaustive search launched
for Carnell, who is 81 years old
A woman passenger on the bus was
also arrested in Pittsburgh, but was
later released. Police refused to divulge
her name or possible connection with
the case.
Bush was shot and fatally wounded
on the night Of October when he re-
sisted the attempt of an armed man to
rob him. Shot down in front of his
garage, Bush staggered into his home.
He was removed to Emergency Hos
pital where he died two days later.
Says Slayer Threatened Mother.
Inspector Shelby said he has learned
that Bush was slain by one Of two men
who waited for him In front Of his
garage.
The actual shooting, he declared, was
done by one man. who concealed HIM
sell in the garage while his accom-
plics waited out 'front.'
At o'clock on the morning following
thu shooting, Inspector Shelby said, the
man who actually fired the shot re-
turned home, his clothing soaked with
blood. AT that time, he said, the STAY
er threatened to kill his mother because
"she knew too much"
Shelby said he decided to order the
arrests of Mahoney and Carnell when
he received information yesterday after
noon that they had purchased tickets
to Los Angeles yesterday morning and
left Washington on a bus of the
Colonial stages. He would not say
whether the woman temporarily detain-
ed in Pittsburgh left here on the same
bus.
Employees at the bus terminal are said
to have recognized Mahoney as a former
employe when he appeared to purchase
his ticket. They told police he ex-
hibited large roll of bills.
Carnell, also said to be known as
"Bill Murray" has a criminal record,
according to police. He Is said to have
been out of work for some time prior to
his departure from Washington.
Mahoney Unknown to w. l.. Bush.
William L. Bush, 37o1 Massachusetts
avenue, son of the slain man, said he
had never heard of Mahoney and didn't
know whether he had formerly been
employed by the bus company.
The father, who lived at 1884 Fulton
street, told police before he died that
when the gunman first accosted him he
thought it was a friend playing
joke"
The investigation of the Staying was
conducted by the homicide squad under
the direction of Inspector Shelby, Capt.
Edward ]. Kelly and Lieut.. John Fla
herty. Police would not disclose the
manner in which the crime was solved,
but 1t is believed they were given VAL
liable information by Mrs. Sullivan.