Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-05
Philadelphia Attorney Seeks
to Prevent Removal
TO Maryland.
TWO NEW ARRESTS
REVEALED AT INQUEST
Woman and Man Rearrested When
They Appear at Probe of
Killing Death.


to Maryland of Peter Abbott of PhiIa-
delphia, held in the Old Colonial Tea
House shooting, was begun in the Penn
sylvania city today with the filing of
habeas corpus petition by the mans
attorney, While Maryland authorities
rushed eXtradition papers to Gov
Henry M. Stevenson, attorney for
Abbott, filed the writ in the Court of
Common Pleas this morning, and a.
hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.
Meanwhile Department of Justice
agents, with two new prisoners in their
custody, continued their probe into
white slave traffic revealed by the
shooting.
New Arrests Made.
The additional arrests and several
features Of the shooting were revealed
for the first time at an inquest into the
death OF Grover Amick, Washington
gas station employee, in the Blandens-
burg fire house last night Amick was
killed and five persons injured when
gunner, believed from Philadelphia,
held up the tea house, November %
The inquest was continued until
December l8 to secure additional
witnesses.
Those arrested when they appeared
at the inquest were Samuel Kushner of
Washington and Marie Wilson of Balti-
more, Md. Both had been released on
bond by the county authorities.
kushner was taken into custody by
U. S. Marshal George w. Collier on a
warrant charging violation of the Mann
act. U. S. District Attorney Simon E
Sobelof said the mans bond had been
set at $4,000. Miss Wilson was held
as Federal witness and both were
taken to Baltimore by the Federal au-
thoritieS,
1t was brought out at the inquest for
the first time there were about 80 per-
sons in the Tea House at the time of
the hold-up.
Tells of Shooting.
George Osborn, first block of Madison
street, Washington, only eyewitness of
the shooting called to the stand, said he
saw ABOUT 20 or Is men and 5 women
IN the house when he entered a short
time before the bandits arrived.
OSBORN drove to the house With
annex and Miss Anna M. Lecklider of
washington. The two men LETT Miss
Leckllder in the car and entered Os-
porn said it was the first time he had
been there.
After describing the entry of the
bandits. the herding of the patrons of
the establishment in the kitchen and A
demand OF money from the proprietor.
OSBORN said he heard shot ring out,
Frightened by Shots.
About five seconds later the man
next to me turned and started shoot
ing, the witness said, but I could not
identity him, I was too scared"
Osborn declared he ran to the SPOT
where he had parked his car after the
bandits left, but the machine had been
moved. He then walked to Mount
Rainier and got a taxicab, believing
Miss Lecklider and Amick had ESCAPED
safely.
Miss Lecklider said she and her COM
panions arrived at the Tea House
sometime after l o'clock" and that the
time she spent waiting in the car
seemed like two or three hours"
State Attorney Alan Bowie questioned
her only about what happened after
she heard shots, apparently not wish
ing to disclose what the young woman
knew about the bandits taking distribu-
tors from the cars around the house be-
4O4G LllCy entered.
Tells of Phone Call.
Horace K. Fuller of Riverdale told
IN detail OF answering a telephone call
from Philadelphia when he went to
the house with police after the shoot
ing. County Policeman William E.
Clifton also described a telephone con-
versation with some one who called
from Philadelphia.
Others to testify were Constable An
drew F. Gasch, Constable Jack Wilson
and Chief of Police H. L. Mccormick
OF Colmar Manor, who told of con-
ditions at the house after the shoot
ing and the arrest of witnesses.
No effort was made by the State to
link Peter Abbott, now being held in
Philadelphia as a suspect in the murder,
with the shooting Police have an
nounced they found a witness who
identified Abbott's picture as that of
the trigger man" in the murder, but
no witness mentioned his name last
night.
Lieut.. Cornelius Roche and Sergt.
William Feehley of Baltimore, who have
been directing the investigation of the
shooting, attended the inquest, but were
not called to testify. Justice of Peace
Robert E. Altemus, presided as coroner.