The Washington times., 1935-10-22
HOPE TO FIND
! 0NEWEAP0N
IN RIVER
Detectives Leave With
CIeary on Secret Mis-
sion EARLY To-day
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ing another grilling at the
Twelfth precinct.
It is definitely known that
Cleary has "squealed" and that
police are guarding him carefully
to save him from repriSalS.
Ever since he was brought to
washington a week ago from
Philadelphia, Cleary's where
abouts have been kept secret.
He was shifted from one pre-
cinct station to another until
finally lodged yesterday at No.
IL. There. closely guarded by
two burly policemen, he was kept
in the witness room Of the sta
ton.
Two Others In Jail
Two other suspects. Albert SUIT
ton and Ernest Myers are still in
the District Jail.
Myers is in the cellblock with
the other prisoners because they
haven't a seperate cell for him.
superintendent Th ON RiveS
said yesterday that Myers was
not permitted to receive either
visitors or mail. However, he
admitted that he could not keep
news from getting outsider in
because of the well-known priS-
onrs' grapevine" system which is
said to be working overtime.
Sutton, who is being kept in
the infirmary, not because OF i'll
ness but because of lack Of &C
commodationS, is closely guarded.
He is not permitted to talk to his
keepers, nor they to him. He is
not, in fact, permitted to see or
talk to anybody.
It has been definitely learned
that the gangster was brought
here from Lorton for three rea-
sons: First, to keep him nearby
where police could question him;
second, to prevent him from talk
ing to Myers who was also at Lor-
ton; and third, to prevent any
attempts at another escape.
Sutton is known to have made
elaborate plans to escape when
he felt things in the Wilson case
were getting hot last summer.
The gangster'S work was check
ing stock for the Storekeeper. AS
checker he could wander, unac-
companied by guards over the re-
formatory grounds.
It has been known for some
time that one of the reasons SUIT
tons parole was revoked was be-
cause of his connection with the
Wilson case.
Suggestion Ignored
At that time, Wilbur LaRoe,
head of the Parole Board. recon-
mended that Sutton be sent to
any other place but Lorotn. Mr..
I,aRoe who knew that Sutton
had been running dope and liquor
during his previous stay there,
was furious when he learned the
man had ben sent back to Lorton
despite his recommendation.
Sutton and Mickey" Mcdonald
grew up together, and just before
Wilson was shot he had worked"
for Mcdonald, his wife told a
Times reporter yesterday. They
had been so friendly, Mrs. Nc
Donald said, that Sutton brought
his wife and his brother Rudolph,
since dead, to the Mcdonald home
in Takoma Park on several occa.
sions.
Immediately after the dynamite
was found in McDonald'S car,
Sutton, Mrs. Mcdonald stated,
"just disappeared" without ex-
PLANTATION. She has not seen him
isnce.
Mrs. Mcdonald also said that
she went everywhere that
Mickey went" Sutton must have
known this and when wilson's car
was riddled with bullets the
killers apparently meant to get
Mrs. Mcdonald and her baby
daughter also.
Meanwhile the so-called secret"
indictments reported by the Dis
trict Grand Jury against Marie
McKeever, William Clearly, Ernest
Wellington Myers. George Davis
and Frank Ripka, having rested
in the desk of United States At
torney Leslie C. Garnett since
they were handed down, were
placed in the office files yester-
day. Davis and Ripka have not
been drawn into the Wilson case.
Charges in Indictment
The indictment against Marie
McKeever accuses her Of harbor.
ing Walter Legenza on April IL,
1884, after he had broken out of
the Richmond Jail, but to make
the indictment valid in this juriS-
diction, Legenza is declared a fugi-
tive in connection with the bur
glary of the Hahn Shoe Company
store here on February IS, 1884.
The men are indicted for house
breaking and larceny in connec-
ton with the burglary of the
Superior Motor Cars Inc, on No
vember 25, 1884, and the theft of
the office safe containing $88329.
The indictment against Marie
McKeever was reported on May
20, 1884, shortly after the Tri.
State gangSters, Mais and Legenza,
had been captured and returned
to the Richmond Jail to await
execution. The office of the
United States Attorney maintains
o tight-lipped silence regarding
the whole affair, but Washington
police say the reason the woman
was not arraigned several months
ago is due to the failure of Bal
timore police to hold her when
she was arrested there on a minor