Evening star., 1933-09-21
K|DNAP SUSPECTS
FACE MANY COUNTS
Police Decide on Prosecution
of Seven Held in O'C0nnelI
Abduction Case.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the ASSOClateQ freSS.
NEW YORK, September 21.-Prose-
cution on charges ranging from posses
sing revolvers to homicide was decided
upon today as the first immediate step
in disposition of seven persons rounded
up in raids in connection with the kid
naping OF John J. O'Connel, r.
Police headquarters announced that
three of the five men under arrest
| would be turned over to Rensselaer,, N.
Y, authorities for prosecution for the
Staying Of a detective in . Rensselaer,
bank robbery several months ago: that
the other two men would be arraigned
here in connection with a bank holdup
and that the two women would be re-
turned to Mount Kisco, N. Y, to an
Gwer anti-weapon law charges.
Meanwhile, it was expected police and
Federal authorities would continue their
investigation in their efforts to connect
the seven with the kidnapping of O'Con-
nell, nephew Of the politically powerful
O'Connells Of Albany.
Identified in Bank Hold-up.
The police headquarters announce
ment said Leonard Scarnici, ~, OF
Mount Kisco: Anthony RENO. 28, and
Charts Herzog, IS. of the Bronx. had
been identified in the $l1 900 hold-up of
the Bank of Manhattan Co. branch at
1l76 St. Nicholas avenue last Decem-
ber. Police said. however, that they
would be tried on the Rensselaer,
charges first.
Philip Ziegler, 80. Of Brooklyn. and
i Fred Plentl. 27. of Manhattan. the other
Bank of Manhattan case.
EleanOre Scarnici Wife Of leonard
| Scarnici, and Emma Rsino wife OF
| Anthony Reino. are to be taken back
to Mount Kisco, where they were ar
rested and where police said . veritable
arsenal was found in the house.
Handouts Held Link.
A pair of rusty handouts became the
link with which police strove today to
fasten the guilt of the OConnell kid
naping on the gang Of seven.
| O'Connell came here last night and
looked at the five men. Two Of them
RENO and Scarnici. seemed to him to
resemble the men who abducted him.
| But can't be positive" said O'Con-
nell. Il never got another chance to
look at them. And this Is a very Sc
rious charge"
He was certain, however, that hand
| cuffs found in an apartment where
part of the gang was seized we're the
ones that had been used to bind him.
| Telltale patches Of rust and tiny nicks
in the metal enabled him to identify
| them. he said
Although police are questioning the
gang about the Lindbergh as we'll as
the O'Connell kidnapping, they decided
| to concentrate for the time being on
| the bank robberies Three of these oc-
| CURED in New York CITY, and one in
Rensselaer,, where . detective was
| killed.
| Prisoners Taken in Raids.
Wholesale raids, beautifully timed, on
hideaways in Manhattan, the Bronx,
Brooklyn and Mount Kisco netted the
gang without q struggle. In . Mount
Kisco house the raiders found the
women one Of them spectacular blond.
In the same house was an arsenal that
| included three shotguns. three revolvers.
and much ammunition.
| the girls silly young women who reck-
! lessly threw in their lot with a gang Of
desperadoes.
"They were scared to death when
they found the kind Of men they were
with" he said.
Robberies totahng $3.50 900 were laid
to the men and accomphces still at
! large. After the Rensselaer, robbery. in
which detective lost his life, the bullet
| torn bodies of Marcel Poffo and Max
Parkin were found near Harrison, N Y,
on June 10. Police said they were
members of the gang and may have
been killed In quarrel over the loot.
! Months before that two other members