New Britain herald., 1930-10-14
MAN ADMITTED
 ID SEE DIAMOND
Rum0r Priest Took Last Con-
 feSsion of GangSter

New York. Oct. 14 (UP)-A man whose identity was closely concealed by police was admitted to the room today in Polyclinic hospital where Jack (Legs) Diamond is near death from four bullet wounds.
 It was reported the man was a priest who had arrived from Acra, N. Y. where Diamond has country home. For the first time since the wounded gangster was taken to the hospital, the two policemen who have stood guard at his bedside lett the room. That caused reports that the mysterious man was about to take Diamonds last confession and that the gangster had only little while to live.
 Grain Completes Probe
 District Attorney Thomas Grain completed his investigation Of tke Diamond shooting and expressed the opinion that Legs" had fought un- armed against the two men who in- vaded the Hotel Monticello Sunday The bullet holes in the ceiling indi- cated, Grain said, that Diamond had struggled with one of the men and that the shots had gone wild. The second assailant, according to Grain, waited until Diamond offered a good target and fired four or five shots. all of which struck Legs"
 Police announced they were in- tensifying their search for Jacob of ho Hntnl Monticello whom they consider the most valuable witness in the case. He has not been seen here since he drove away from the hotel in an au- tomobile shortly after the shooting It also was learned that Count" Miller, described as Diamonds s private secretary, had vanished. New York, Oct. 14 P-Activities which brought second young wom- an into the case, found police today no nearer a solution of the shoot ing of Jack Legs" Diamond than when he was found in a hotel Sun day with five bullet wounds in his body.
 The wounded gangster, after a day in which he rallied from the effects of his wounds, took 9 sudden turn for the worse early today. Hos- pital attendants said he became rest less and complained of being ,n great pain. Hypodermics were ad- ministered to quiet him.
 Police Commissioner Mulrooney said that the fragments of evidence which had been gathered indicated Diamond had been shot by mem- bers of his own gang and not by ri val gangsters.
 Jean Nash. formerly owner of a beauty parlor in Newark, N. J., was the second girl to be questioned. She was brought in after police received an anonymous telephone call saying she had been heard to say in a West 52nd street grill last week that Dia- mond had less than 10 days to live.
 Denies Knowing Diamond
 She denied knowing Diamond or any of the other persons mentioned in the case and vehemently denied making any statement regarding Diamonds expectancy of life. Po- lice released her after four hours questioning.
 Efforts were redoubled today to locate Jacob Ginsberg, manager of the Monticello hotel, in which Dia- mond was shot by two men who came into his room as he sat on the edge of his bed Sunday forenoon. Ginsberg who has been described as close friend of Diamond. disap- peared after having the wounded gangster taken into the Ginsberg suite in the hotel and calling an an- bulance.
 After day of investigation, Con- missioner Mulrooney said he did not believe there was any connection between the shooting of Diamond and the supposed Kidnapping of Leo Steinberg. 2S years old, described as 8 Brooklyn rum runner, who has been missing several days.
 Believe Him KdnaPed
 Brooklyn police were working on the theory that Steinberg had been Kidnapped by Vannie Higgins, an as- sociate of Diamond in the liquor business and that the shooting Of Diamond was a reprisal tor the kid naping.
 All day questioning of Miss Mar ion Strasmick or Roberts failed to add anything material to her origin al story that two men had been an- nounced while Diaomnd was in her room Sunday forenoon and that he had gone to his own room to receive them. She denied hearing the shots.