Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-24
AROUSED GOTHAM
SPEEDS GANG WAR
Acting Mayor Promises Dras-
tic Action After Farley.
Three Men RiddIed.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 24.-The City
of New York today declared war on
gangsters. and promised definite and
drastic action against them.
Acting Mayor Joseph " Mckee made
the announcement following a confer
ence attended by representatives of the
police department and the prosecuting
stats Of the district attorneys ofiices
The conference was brought about by
Fridays bandit chase which cost six
lives, including these of two policemen
and q 4-year -old child.
This is warfare against q dangerous
enemy who gives no quarter" the act
ing mayor said.
Every department in the city will
cooperate in this campaign. The
time for talk has passed. The city
will now show some action"
Mckee revealed that he had conferred
for three hours yesterday with the COM
manding officers of the Police Depart
ment. He said he expected to confer
later today with Police Commissioner
Mulrooney The conference this morn
ing was attended by the i've district at
torneys or their representatives. Chief
Magistrate James z. Mcdonald and
others.
The acting mayor said an appropria-
ton OF 100000 which the Board OF Es-
innate will be asked to make later in the
day would be used to provide the police
with Is additional armored motor cycle
side cars and with equipment for short
wave radio which will make IL possible
for news to reach quickly police in
cruising automobiles, in police booths
and in police stations.
Murray Leonardo, with q bullet in his
abdomen. was held today as one of the
killers of Anthony Ferrari in a gang
murder In Brooklyn last night
At first 1t was believed Leonardo. q
2l-yearold ex-convict, was with Fer
rari and Angelo Currani when they
were lined up against q fence by five
gunner. Police, however, ordered him
booked for murder after hearing the
story OF an eyewitness.
Eight men we're in the automobile
which drove away from a dance hall
and stopped at lumber yard along a
little-frequented street Ferrari and
Currani were ordered out of the car and
were lined up against the fence.
Taken to Hospital.
Leonardo, police said was with the
five Killers. whose fusillade Of shots
dropped Ferrari dead and Currani seri-
ously wounded. Leonardo was wounded
as he stepped forward q little In ad-
vance Of the others.
He was dragged back to the killers
car and taken to hospital by the gun
men, who drove away before they could
be Questioned. Currani dragged himself
to a garage not far from the execution
spot and was taken to q hospital
Neither Leonardo nor Currani were on
the list Of critically injured at the hes
pital. There were I'VE bullet wounds in
Currani's body.
Leonardo. denying completely in tho
attack, said he and Ferrari and Curran1
were on their way to meet three girls.
He would offer no explanation for the
attack. Neither would Currani.
United States Attorney George z.
Medalie said this morning that he had
not yet been informed oficially Of any
effort by President Hoover to bring
about joint municipal, State and ma
tional action against gangs Although
Medalie already has expressed himself
as favoring cooperation in the war on
gangs and gangsters, he declined to say
anything about the latest development
in advance Of offlcial notification.