Evening star., 1931-12-20
RITES FOR DIAMOND.
HELD;QU|Z PUSHED.
Wake for Slain Gangster.
Guns Studied Girl
Search Fails.

| NEW YORK, December 10 R).-i
wake was held over slain Jack Dia
mond's body here tonight while thes,
developments interested officialdom a
Albany, where the emaciated gangstel
was put on the spot in cheap board
ing house yesterday:
| 1.-Two guns were used to put away
the nobster, instead OF one as hereto
! fore believed. The pearl-handleC
police positive special" 38, found in {
churchyard near the scene Of the Slay
| ing. fired two of the Slugs lodged il
Diamonds head. This was determined
| by balliSticS experts here and reported
to Albany police. The other Stub came
from another 38, whose whereabouts il
mystery.
Misses Sweetheart.
2-District Attorney John Delany
who went to Boston to question 'Kikl'
Roberts, chorus girl sweetheart of Dia-
mond, was en- route back tonight. He
failed to find the girl. although hel
| fiamboyant story of love with the gang
Ster was told from a Boston hideout tC
! II
Diamond later perhaps, than anybody
else. She fled to Boston at the cry
/ of neWsboyS that Diamond had been
slain.
! 3.-Diamond apparently died pennl-
/ less, but money came from somewhere
| to buy an $500 mahogany caSket, ovcl
which the wake was held. Diamonds
wife said she didn't know where tC
get funeral money.
Police at Party.
4.-The Albany Times Union says il
has learned Sergt. Fred M Broderiek
OF the suburban Watervliet IN. "
police force attended Diamonds &C
quittal revelry Thursday night in ar
Albany cafe. The gangSter left this
celebration, visited Miss Roberts, ano
made his way to his boarding house
where he was slain in bed by two as
sailants. He had been acquitted
Thursday at Troy of a fogging charge
made in connection with racketeerlne
Upstate
Diamonds body. claimed by his
widow. was removed from Manhattan
| funeral establishment, after Mrs. Dla-
mond had said she did not see where
the money was coming from to bury
him. 1t was taken to MaSpeth Long
| Island, in an $500 casket, and placed
! in the home of Mrs. Diamonds sister
| According to tentative arrangements
/ burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. be.
side the grave of Diamonds brother
| Eddie, who died several years ago.
Girl in Hiding.
'Kiki" Roberts sat in hiding in Bos-
ton, where her mother lives, and tolc
the Boston American that my sweet
! heart, Jack" had been with her g
! short time before he was slain in q
drab Albany IN. " boarding house
but that she knew nothing about the
murder.
Alive Legs" had been hunted BY
| police, tracked down by personal enc.
mics and publicized as one of gang
dom'S most nefarious characters; dead
| he was ignored.
| His body was brought here from AL
bany shortly before dawn.
Widow in Deep Mourning.
About noon Mrs. Diamond arrived
dressed all in black. While she was ir
the building it was understood she ex-
pressed concern over how She-WidoW
OF the man reputed to have made a
fortune in the world of bullets anC
bottles-was going to pay the funera.
| bill
In its copyrighted story the American
quoted Miss Roberts as saying, II was
in love with Jack Diamond. l was
with him in Albany, N. Y, short
time before he was killed, But I don't
know who killed him, or anything
about his murder The last time saw
him was last Thursday night at IL
pm. He dropped into my room at
Albany to tell me the good news of his
acquittal for kidnapping.
He said to me: Did you hear the
good news, baby?"
I said, Yes, I'm glad for your sake ~
Girl Says She tainted.
The American said Miss Roberts
stated she had an understanding with
Diamond that she was to come home to
Boston and her mother as soon as the
disposition Of his case became known
He promised to drive her to the rail-
road station in time to take the 10
| O'Clock train Friday morning. Miss
Roberts said Diamond was with her
only Is minutes and left saying he had
an appointment with newspaper men
He die not tell her he was having q
party to celebrate his acquittal.
After he left me Thursday night
went to bed" Miss Roberts was quoted
as saying. MY first knowledge that he
was killed was the next morning when
I heard newsboys calling the extra out
side the house. I thought at first they
were crying out that Jack Diamond had
been acquitted. Then-it was like a
dream-I heard the boys calling, JACK
Diamond killed
When I awakened fully to know
what the words meant l tainted Lean
ing out the window of my room on the
third floor to hear that ominouS cry I
nearly plunged to the ground. I col
lapsed on the floor and don't know
how long I was there before came to. y
The former actress then took train
for Boston. She went to the home OF a
friend when she got here, called her
mother and then, with the reporters
of the American, went into hiding.
A year ago she was in a New York
hotel with Diamond when he was shot
down and seriously wounded by gang
sters. She told police she was taking a
bath and the running water drowned
on lr If che knew