Evening star., 1936-07-14
Assault With Intent to Kill
Warrants Are Issued by
Turnage-D. C. Detective
Will Go to Get Pair.
LONG RECORD OF FALSE
ACCUSATIONS REVEALED
Police Intensity Grilling After
16-Hour Barrage of Quizzing
Ending at 6 O'Clock This Morn
ing-Detectives Say Victim
Changed Narrative Often.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Charles lucky LucidnoS am
bition to rule NeU York City's rice
rdckets succeeded so tDell he soon
became notorious and much
Sought-after gang lord. Last March
he tUdS Seised in Arkansas and re-
turned to NeD York under $4,000
bond. An aggressive prosecution
Uas begun by Thomas E. Dewey.
A special grand jury heard so
prostitutes tell the story OF Luci-
amos underworld poDer. A trial of
sir UeekS ended month ago iUtth
conviction for Luciano, ,Cho Uns
sentenced to 80 to so years in
prison. States witnesses feared re-
priSalS.
Two men involved by 23-year-old
Margaret Louise Bell in the investi-
CATION of an alleged "mutilation" as
sault on her life were located in New
York today and ordered held pending
arrangements to bring them here.
In wire to Chief of Detectives Ber-
nard W. Thomson, New York police
identified the two as Joe Silver, So.
and Leo Marmone, "a. both of Brook
lyn. Both denied being in Washing
ton Saturday and indicated they
would come to Washington willingly.
Assault with intent to kill warrants
were issued today by United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage
against both men. A Washington de-
tective was to leave Immediately for
New York by train to bring the two
men here.
Silver, it was said, admitted know
| ing the Bell girl, but Marmone denied
ever having heard of her. She told
| Washington police her assailant was
/ a former member of the gang ruled
by Charles lucky Luciano, one
time lord of New York's vice ring,
now serving long term at Sing Sing.
Regarded as Unreliable.
The girl told her story in New York
several months ago to investigators
who were breaking up Luciano's vice
ring. She was regarded as too "un-
reliable" to take the witness stand
against the vice racketeer, however.
/ She. herself pointed out to police here
i that letters and numerals scratched
on her body represented Lucianos
/ initials.
The girl, who has been arrested in
! Washington and New York on charges
of prostitution and has long record
for launching futile police investiga-
tions, declared she saw a man named
Joe Silver and another known to her
as Leo" at the Hangar Club Satur-
day night just prior to the alleged
| assault in her apartment on New
Hampshire avenue. Marmone said he
was in Boston at the time and Silver
declared he had not left New York.
Revelation that the girl had told
many wild stories to authorities in the
past prompted police to intensity their
grilling. A 16-hour barrage of ques-
tions ended at 6 o'clock this morning
and the young woman was scheduled
for another grilling at headquarters
later in the day.
Inspector Thompson. who returned
! to headquarters after working on the
case all night, admitted the long in
terrogation had elected no information
| of value. Detectives said the girl
changed her story "at least five times.
Hands Free When Discovered.
Investigators said the circumstances
under which she was found could have
been arranged by the alleged vic
tim" without outside aid. The
scratches on her body were only super
fetal and her ankles we're tied with
very light twine Her hands were free
when she was discovered in her apart
ment early Sunday. 1t was never ex-
planned why the girl did not unite her
ankles.
She said she was knocked uncon-
scious by a member of the New York
vice ring, who later bound her, gag
ged her, scratched the markings on
her body and turned on the gas Al
though several jets were open in the
stove, the CIR! had suffered almost nc
i'll effects when found. There were
no marks of a blow on her face OF
head.
Inspector Thompson said he had
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