Evening star., 1931-12-09
ABBOTT IDENTIFIED !
| IN TEAHOUSE CASE
Victim Of Shooting Declares
He Was Man Who Fired,
Killing Amick.

Peter Abbott was positively identified
today as the glInnan who killed Grover
Amick, Washington gasoline station
employe, in the Old Colonial Tea House
shooting on November %, according to
dispatches from Philadelphia.
The Identification was made by Mrs.
Verne Edwards, "a, of Washington, one
of the five persons wounded when
gang OF gunner raided the Bladens-
burg resort and robbed the manager,
Charles Levitt, Of $3.50
From the witness stand in Philadel-
phias Central Police Court, Mrs. Ed
man to enter the tea house and the
one who fred the shot that killed
Anick."
Picked From Lineup.
Previously, she had picked the al
legged Philadelphia gangster from line
up at headquarters.
When Mrs. Edwards took the stand
before Magistrate Daniel Oswald few
minutes later. Abbott looked at her
and asked, Lady, do you know what
you're doing to rne7"
YES" Mrs. Edwards retorted. "You
were the first man to enter the tea
house, and you fired the shot which
killed Amickl"
Abbott's wife, who was seated in the
carried from the room and revived by
court attaches.
Lady, everybody knows I'm inno-
cent" Abbott asserted, after his wife
had been taken from the room. do
you know what you're doing?"
Mrs. Edwards repeated her previous
statement.
Released From Jail.
Mrs. Edwards was released from the
District Jail yesterday and was taken
to Baltimore by Sergt. Feehley.
Norman Carey, who likewise was
wounded, also was released from the
Jail yesterday. He was transferred to
the Hyattsville lookup, where Lieut..
Cornelius Roche, another Baltimore
detective, planned to question him
today.
With the approval of the Department
Of Justice, United States Commissioner
Needham G. Turnage released Mrs. Ed
wards on her personal bond. She is
wanted by agents of the Justice De-
partments Bureau of Investigation as
witness against several men arrested
as result Of the shooting and charged
with violation Of the Mann act.
Others Stn Held.
Philadelphia police, acting on infor-
nation obtained in investigating the
activities OF Thomas simone, another
OF the wounded and an alleged men,
Der of the bandit gang, captured Abbott
after q battle.
The others wounded-Levitt and
Felix Bocchicchio, alias Man o. War"
are still being held here, the former
at the jail and the latter at Gallinger
Hospital, where he Is under police
guard.
Meanwhile, the hearing OF Cisberto
Renzulh, one Of the men accused Of
Mann act violations, has been post
poned until December 20, according to
Associated Press dispatches from Phila-
delphia, where he was arrested q short
time after the shooting.
Arraigned Twice.
Abbott's arraignment before /Magis-
trate Oswald was his second within =
few minutes At about 1880 an, be-
fore Mrs. Edwards arrived from Balti-
more, he appeared in the court room
and, at the request Of his attorney
the hearing was postponed for two
weeks.
About Is minutes later, however, Mrs
Edwards, accompanied by Sergt. VIII
liam Feehley of the Baltimore De-
tective Bureau and Department Of
Justice agent, arrived. Abbott was re-
arraigned after Mrs. Edwards picked
him from the lineup.
Following the second arraignment
Abbott was taken to the ONCE Of IN
spector william Connolly, where Feeh-
ley began grilling him In the hope OF
breaking down his alibi