Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
|MAHONEY ADMITS /
DRIVING CARMEL
Says He Drove Him to Bush
Home, but Took No Part
ss in Shooting.
.ScontInued From First Pase.l

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the Potomac River after the shooting
OF Bush.
The homicide squad, however, has
In its possession a light, blood-stained
overcoat, shirt and neektie, believed to
have been worn by the slayer the night
Of the attack on Bush. The coat was
turned over to the police by a second-
hand clothing dealer on upper Seventh
street, who said he bought 1t from a
young man for 81.
Sold Coat for Rum Money.
Mahoney is said to have told police
that the coat originally was sold to q
young man in Southwest Washington
to raise funds for liquor at time when
he and CARMEL had been drinking to-
gether. The young man read In the
newspapers of the disappearance Of q
light topcoat in connection with the
Bush case and gave detectives informa-
ton which resulted in the finding Of
the coat
Inspector Shelby said the coat and
tie, which also has several spots on II,
believed to be blood would be SUBJ
jected to Q microscopic examination by
Edwin r. Donaldson, the police depart.
ments new micro chemist.
Carnell's mother, Mrs. Sarah Mar
garet Sullivan, who was arrested when
she told detectives she believed her son
to be the slayer of Bush, is still being
held at the House Of Detention Several
times since her arrest she had been
questioned, but the only additional in
formation she has given the police Is
that her son regretted the shooting Of
Bush, and that he had no intention Of
taking q human life at the time of the
attack on the bus line owner.
Declares His Innocence.
Sporadically during the nearly nine
hour train ride from Pittsburgh to
Washington yesterday Detective Sweeney
questioned Mahoney, but was unable TO
draw any statements from him except
repeated assertions of his innocence,
and q more detailed account Of his
proposed trip to Los Angeles, which
ended abruptly with his arrest in Pitts
burgh.
Throughout the trip, Mahoney, who
Is suffering from chronic appendicitis,
complained of severe pains, and de-
spite passion Of hunger engendered
by two-day ration of jail food in
Pittsburgh, he was forced TO eat SPAR
ingly Of tempting dining car dishes.
A large and courteous crowd gathered
at Union Station last night to catch
glimpse of Mahoney as Detective
to waiting police vehicle, which took
him to police headquarters. Flash
lights in the hands of newspaper pho
tographers seemed to disturb the pris-
oner and he ducked every time one Of
them doomed.
In celebrating on the escape Of
Carnell from the Pittsburgh police,
Mahoney said that when the Los An
gelcS bound transcontinental bus on
wnirh they wnra NaaaarO0pa etn1n0A NJ
the bus depot, Carnell was one Of the
first to get of. AS he alighted, Q
detective asked him II he had been o
I, passenger on the bus, Mahoney de-
clared, and when CARMEL replied In
tie negative he was permitted TO leave
and lost no time in disappearing.
Carnel Changed Clothes.
Pittsburgh police. however, blamed
Carnell's escape on the fact that the
description given them by the WASH
ington authorities did not tally with
the man whom they permitted to slip
through the Gordon at the bus terminal.
CARMEL, 1t was said, had changed his
hat and clothing after leaving WASH
ington and stepped of the bus In dark
clothes and derby while the Pitts
burgh detectives were looking for o
man with light clothes and q cap.
MdnOney relCeraGeQ CLlaC MS sole pux~
pose in inviting Carnell TO take the
trip to Los Angeles with him was to
have a companion on the long trans.
continental ride. He said he had orig
inally planned to make the trip in his
own car, but discovered that the gaso-
line and oil and incidental expenses
would have taken about $40, and since
he did not have that much money he
decided to sell the machine to pay the
motor bus fare.
Although Mrs. Sullivan Is reported to
honey was at her home at o'clock one
morning shortly after the death Of
Bush, he fatty denied it, but told De-
tective Sweeney he did visit the house
one afternoon about the middle Of Oc-
tober. At that time, he declared, there
was no conversation about the Bush
case.