Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-02
Staying Anglers NEW YORK.
Public ClamOrs for Explanation o.
Sullivan Law Failure.


Sullivan Law Failure.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Aug. Tuesdays hail
of lead in New York's Little Italy
killing one child and wounding four
others, has stirred the public to a new
interest in underworld arSenalS and
ornaments. Despite Police Commits
sioner Mulrooney's drive in enforcement
of tbs Sullivan law, machine guns are
sill abroad. and official and non-of-
fetal agencies want to know why.
The New York police have killed 16
racketeers and wounded six others in
the first six months Of this year.
Shocked and angry, the Patrolmen' S
Benevolent Association has offered q
reward Of $4,000 for the Little Italy
killers. Mayor Walker and Commits
sioner Mulrooney enjoin their men TO
bring justice to these dogs who kill
little children" The city is in fight
ing mood, but it has not yet penetrated
the No Mans Land between the legal
manufacture of firearms and their use
by murderous criminals.
Cicero ILL.,, Is Source.
The sub-machine gun is the favorite
wholesale killing tool of the gangster.
It used to be comparatively easy to get
one in New York, but police here insist
that almost all of these weapons now
come from Cicero, Ill, domain OF Al
Capone. These guns, small and easily
concealable, spray from 80 to 60 bull
lets at the rate Of per second. On
occasions the abandonment OF Smok-
ing gun, blazing hot with a single dis
charge. has led to the capture OF the
criminal.
Manufacturers, on selling these
weapons, require convincing proof that
they are for legal useS-by police de-
partments, mining companies, railroad
companies or other corporations legally
empowered to arm themselves against
riots and disorder.
The police, driving hard to diSarm the
gang world, say that in between the
killers and the manufacturers there is
an elusive and carefully organized gun
racket, skilled not only in bootlegging
the floating supply, but in obtaining
new ones by false credentials and rep
reservations.
The Sullivan law, New York statute
governing gun carrying, Is rigid and
comprehensive, but its tnadequacy, and
possibly the necessity for Federal
statutes, is indicated by the bullying
hip pockets Of innumerable sleek gang
Sters.
So far as the law is concerned, the
police should have instantly available
the location and pedigree of every gun
in the State-but somewhere there is
a slip. Gangsters seem to have no
more trouble getting shooting irons
than they do cigarettes. Lower East
Side pawnshops continue to feature
guns of all kinds.
MuIrO0ney "Cop's Cop"
New York, facing crime waves in the
past, has tried hard-f1sted business men,
criminoangists, careerists and politicians
for police commissioner. It now tries a
cops cop" Commissioner Edward p.
Mulrooney. in the most critical en-
counter with gangdcm in many years.
The tight-lipped, cold-eyed commits
sioner has given orders to his men to
shoot to kill. Shotgun squads patrol the
city.
Mulrooney started pounding beat
on West street 40 years ago, when
Theodore Roosevelt was police commits
sioner. When Mayor walker made him
commissioner, May 81, 1880, his action
was attributed to desire to pick a man
who Stunned personal publicity and
who behaved like q lifetime policeman.
copyright, 1917
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