Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Court Asked by Family to
Select Recipient of
$1,000.
THREE CLAIMANTS HERE,
SEVEN IN PITTSBURGH
Killers Caught on Information De-
rived From Several Sources.
Girl Made Identification.

Ten persons claim the reward OF
$1,000 offered by the family of Louis
Bush for the arrest and conviction o.
his murderers, the District Supreme
Court was informed today by his son,
William L. Bush, 1417 Pennsylvania
avenue, in petition to be allowed to
pay the fund into court End to require
the various claimants to satisfy the
court as to the m2rit Of their claims.
The court lis asked to adjudicate the
claims and decide who is entitled to
the reward, and if more than one, then
in what shares the fund is to be dl-
videG.
Through Attorney NJ D. Rosenberg.
the son secured an order from Justice
James M. Proctor allowing him to de-
post with the CLERK of the court $97l to
await the decision of the court as to the
party or parties entitled to it. Seven OF
the defendants reside IN Pittsburgh and
three in the District. The petitioner de-
Quoted from the 81 900 award. the COST
OF filing suit, $40; service OF local con-
testants, So. ard service OF foreign de-
PENDANTS, SIS, leaving 1911 in the 1uno'
Several Claimants Here.
The local claimants are Walter I.
Malone, Chastleton Hotel; Daley Joseph
Murphy, SO L street northeast; Gertrude
Murphy. same address. Other claimants
are Dixon Bonner. Louis Sedler, Sarah
L. Sedler, Edward Crowley and John
Halluska, all of East Pit sburgh. Pa.
and Walter Monahan and Thomas Nor
gan, Pittsburgh detectives.
Louis Bush. retired business man. was
shot in his garage in rear OF his home.
1884 Fulton street. October last, and
died two days later. William j. Carneal
and Frank Mahoney were arrested in
Pittsburgh, returned here, tried, and
convicted of second degree murder and
are serving life sentences.
The son tells the court that Walter
l. Malone, Daley Murphy and Gertrude
Murphy claimed the reward for 1nfor-
nation given the local police OF con-
versations with Carneal before and after
the assault and asserted this informa-
ton led to the capture. A. M. Con-
nelly. a Pittsburgh lawyer, made de-
mand for the reward, the son says,
on behalf Of John Halluska and Edward
Crowley of East Pittsburgh. who ar
rested Carneal in Pittsburgh. Claim
to the reward also came from the two
Pittsburgh detectives who arrested Ma
honey.
Girl Identifies Suspect.
Louis Sedler, a clotheir of East Pitts
burgh. and his daughter Sarah are also
claimants. Sedler wrote Attorney Ros-
enberS March II, last. that e customer
100 discussed the killing in his store
and had said he believed he had seen
Carneal in the vicinity. Sedler says
he sent to Washington headquarters
for picture of the accused and
brought local detectives there to hunt
for Carneal. The picture arrived. but
was mislaid and little later, Sedler
claims. the customer returned and said
Carneal had been picked up, but there
was no one to identify him. The
daughter volunteered to make the iden-
LITIGATION from her memory of his fea-
lures in the mislaid photograph, which
she did.
In a postscript to his letter, Sedler
wrote that several days later, after Car
neal had been removed to Washington
and his daughter found a signed confess
sion, dated Thurs 1890" singned by
Carneal. 1t was torn to pieces, bat they
put them together on piece OF paper.
They advised Rosenberg that the name
of the customer was Dixon Bonner, an
other of the respondents.