Evening star., 1935-10-23
CUG|NO IS NAMED
AS WILSON KILLER;
SHOTGUN STUDIED
Seek to Identify Weapon
as One Used by Dead
RaCketeer.
GUN-IN-RIVER REPORT
IS NOT DlSREGARDED
Search to Be Continued if Proof
Fails-Case Ready for
Grand Jury.
BY JOHN II. CLINE,


The murder of Allen B. Wilson, shot
to death year ago tonight by gang
sters, who were paid less than $4,000
to kill another man." has been solved
and the case is ready for presentation
to the Montgomery County grand jury.
In announcing solution of the case
today, Maj. Ernest w. Brown. super
intendent of police, said his detectives
have recovered sawed-of shotgun
and are attempting to identify it as
the one used by Tony The Stinger'
Cugino, Philadelphia racketeer, named
as the actual murderer. Cugino killed
himself in New York several months
ago after admitting he had murdered
"at least" nine people.
The police chief, however, also said
his investigators have received infor-
nation that the shotgun used by
Cugino was thrown into the Susque-
hanna River as the slayers were max
ing their escape to Philadelphia
Unless the gun now in custody can be
identified, it was said, the river will
be dragged in an effort to recover the
other one.
Others Involved in Killing.
Besides Cugino, Maj. Brown said
other principals in the Staying of Will
son, who was mistaken for Mickey
Mcdonald. local gambler, were:
John slim" Dunn, former tri-State
gangster, who is serving time in AL
catraz for the robbery of the Heurich
Brewery.
Ernest W. Myers, also a former
member of the tri-State gang, who is
being held at the District Jail. Po-
lice say he drove the car used by the
killers.
William Cleary and Dewey Jenkins,
petty racketeers, both of whom al
legedly were present at the time of
the shooting.
Claude Bailey. who was killed re-
Gently in an attempt to escape from
Lorton Reformatory.
Police also have the murder car,
which Maj Brown said was in Jen-
kins' possession when he was arrested
In Baltimore a month ago.
Mai. Brown said Albert S. Sutton,
also in the District Jail, was not in
volved in the actual shooting, but is
being held in connection with the
case. Police are investigating reports
that he paid the gunner for the
crime.
Efforts to trace the money to one of
Washingtons better known gamblers,
he said, have met with little success.
AS police reconstructed the murder,
the gunner, after several unsuccessful
attempts to kill Mcdonald in Wash
ington, went to his home, in Takoma
Park. Md. shortly before midnight
last October % and concealed them
selves in a clump of trees across the
road from the house.
Unknown to them. Mcdonald had
returned home hours before and was
asleep in the house at the time.
After waiting nearly six hours a
car was seen approaching down the
road. Dunn. the lookout" man, took
his post and made the mistaken
identification which led to Wilson S
death. Cugino and Myers, police say,
opened fire and wounded Wilson, who
was delivering a newspaper to Nc
Donald's homA.
Fired Into Rear of Car.
Wilson, despite the wounds, tried to
drive away, but Cugino ran out into
the road and fired again, through the
back of the car One of the slugs
crashed through the back of Wilson S
head and lodged in his brain, inflict-
ing the fatal wound.
All but Dunn then ran back into
the woods. Realizing by that time
he had made mistake, Dunn ran
into the road to see who had been
killed. Inadvertently, he got ia the
path Of the cars headlights and was
seen by Mrs. Mcdonald, who had run
to a window of her home upon hear
Ing the shots.
Dunn, who was out on bond at the
time in the robbery case, was sur
rendered by his bondsman, who had
become suspicious that he might
leave the city. The other members
of the gang got away.
Cugino, however, was caught in
New York, where police had traced
him through a girl friend.
States Attorney James Pugh of
Montgomery County, in whose hands
rests the. responsibility of convicting
the suspects, said he was ready to
put the case before the grand jury.