The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-24
Boston Night Club
 Owner Killed
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room.
 "Im shot" ho told Maurice Johnson and Ezra Dorsey. guests. As they applied ice to his wounds, Solomon collapsed.
 Meantime other guests, who had been dancing to tho strains of "Howm l Doin', Heh! Heh!" gath cred around tho trio.
 solomon was taken In a taXlcab to City hospital, where he died In less than an hour without giving any clue to the identity of his as- sailants. A hint that he may have known them was his exclamation, "The dirty rat!" when police ques- toned him.
 As soon as they reached tho Cot ton club. m establishment operated by Negroes on Fremont street, Roxbury, police rounded up all guests and employes--27 in all--- herded them into patrol wagons and took them to the Roxbury Crossing police station for ques- tion!ng.
 Among tho guests were two who Mrs John E. simpson Of 141 Cot tage street, New Haven, Conn. The others were from Boston or vicln. ity.
 Tuxed do-clad men and women with evening gowns were held In the detention room Tt the station while Police Superintendent Mich. ael II. Crowley personally queS' tioncd them, one by one, in an anteroom.
 If waa known that mono Of the gunmcn was among those detained, | for Miss Eva Richardson, Cotton club cioakroom girl, reported that the quartet daShed from the build. ing without paying their checks i'm mediateiy after tho shooting.
 With Solomon at tho table, just prior to tho shooting, were hts brother, Joe, orchestra leader ni the Cocoanut Grove night club which was operated by tho sl1ln man: and tho Misses Claire Whit, and Helen Ethrldge, New York gir members of tho Cocoanut GroVe floor show.
 Witnesses said q total of five shots were fired. Marks on the tile floor of tho wnshroom indicated that solomon struggled with his aDsail. ants.
 On January { Solomon and three others were indicted by q federal grand Jury in New York as the al' legged heads of q $14,000,0o0 rum smuggling syndicate operated be- tween Portland Me, and Washing ton, D. C.
 Besldes Solomon those indicted were Alexander and William Lil- lien, brothers, of Newark, N. J.. and James r. Murphy of New York. All were charged with con- spiracy to violate the federal radio act, the tariff act and the prohibi- ton law.
 Later, Solomon described the charges as "cheap politics" and an Attempted shaked0wn." He was to have appeared in federal court | tomorrow for q continued hearing face the conspiracy charges.
 received the news of his death at her roadhouse, the Wampanoag Automobile club in Taunton. She said she would come to Boston to claim the body.
 From smali.time bondsman, soi- omon rose to be an outstanding figure in Boston's night life. He had c court record dating back to 1923 when he was convicted of subornation Of perjury in c0nnec- ton with c narcotic case. In sen. tencing him to five years in At- ianta penitentiary, Federal Judge Georga w. Anderson denounced him as "a pest to society,". Solomon served only 13 rnontha but soon after his release ho was arrested on . fugitive warrant charging him with compIicity in q 11 500, 900 mail robbery in Los Aii- esles, Calf, in 1921. More than sseo,oeo ff bonds had been dis.