Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-04
SUSPECT, ARRESTED,
ADMITS HIS PART
IN Staying OF BUSH
CARMEL Tells Pittsburgh Po-
lice He and Mahoney Killed
Bus Magnate.
SAYS HE WILL WAIVE
EXTRACTION TO DISTRICT
Two Others Are Under Indictment
as Participants in Robbery and
Death of Financier.

William Joseph CARMEL, indicted as
the suspected trigger man" in the
Staying of Louis Bush, wealthy bus line
owner, here on october 6, at his home,
1884 Fulton street, was arrested this
morning in Pittsburgh, according to a
telegram received by Inspector William
s. Shelby of the Detective Bureau from
Pittsburgh authorities.
CARMEL frankly admitted that he par
ticipated in the robbery, according to
Associated Press dispatches this after
noon, and said that he and Frank MA
honey, under arrest here, killed BuSn'
but did not say who fired the shot. -,
Carnell, the police wire stated, Will
waive extradition and come to Wash
ington to, answer the charge against
him.
Detective Sergt. Thomas s. Sweeney
of police headquarters early this after
noon left for Pittsburgh to bring Car
nell back to Washington.
Sought for Month.
Carnelps arrest, after more than a
months search throughout the country,
is believed by Washington police to clear
one of the most difficult crimes they
have been called upon to solve IN re-
cent years.
Mahoney and Donald Mckay are
under indictment for murder, with
CARMEL in the case. They were indicted
on November 4.
The other two men in the case,
Mahoney and Mckay, are said by police
to have implicated Carnel in the at
tempted robbery and staying. Mahoney
was arrested october 81. in Pittsburgh,
when he and CARMEL are alleged to have
alighted from a bus in that city in
fiirht from the Capital. Carnell eluded
the Pittsburgh police at the time Of
Malnoneys arrest, and has been the
object of Nationwide search by police
ever since.
Bush was fatally wounded about l
o'clock on the morning Of october 8,
by the garage in the rear OF his home.
He had returned to his home late from
q meeting, put his car away, and
stepped out of the garage and face-to-
face with a glnman, who ordered him
to put up his hands and submit TO
robbery.
A big. strong man, Bush put up q
fight. Several shots were fred In the
fight by the hold-up man and Bush was
mortally wounded when bullet entered
II Before he died. Bush told police IN.
vestigating the case that he thought
the gunman was only playing, and had
resisted for that reason.
Woman Held and Freed.
The police gradually followed out the
clues In the case, climaxing their in
vestigation with the attempted arrest
Of CARMEL when he and Mahoney
alighted from a Washington-Los An
geleS bus at Pittsburgh on the night Of
October 20. Mahoney was taken, but
the Pittsburgh police missed CARMEL. A
woman was arrested with Mahoney, but
was released a few hours after her ar
rest and her name was withheld by the
Pittsburgh authorities.
On Mahoney's return, Donald Mckay
was arrested here. Mckay, police say,
secured the gun for CARMEL.
According to the police, Mahoney and
Mckay were not at the actual scene of
the shooting CARMEL, they say, was the
man who attempted to rob Bush and
who shot him when he found resistance.
Carnell's mother, Mrs. Sarah Mar
garet Sullivan, before Mahoney's arrest,
Is alleged to have told police she be-
heved her son was the slayer of Bush,
but had said nothing about it for fear
Of what Carnell might do to her.
Carnell, police say, has police record
here.
The wire notifying police here of the
arrest of CARMEL was signed by George
w. Murran, chief county detective.