Evening star., 1936-07-15
MT. ALTO PATIENT
PICKS HER OUT OF
PR|S0NERL|NE-U
Man Claims She Took Two
BilIfoIds From Pockets in
Baltimore Last Month.
HUMILIATION" VICTIM
WILL FACE ACCUSED
Pair Being Brought Here From
New York-Corroboration for
Her Story Slight.

A Washington veteran today iden-
titled Margaret Louise Bell %, alias
Jean Arnold and Jean Costello, as the
girl who robbed him of S700 in bonus
money in a Baltimore hotel, June 90.
The accuser, Philip R. Davis, a
patient at Mount Alto Hospital,
picked the girl from lineup at the
Women's Bureau and said she took
two billfolds from his clothes.
Meanwhile, the girl was scheduled
late today to face two New York po-
lice characters who are being brought
here after she involved them in the
Investigation Of an alleged assault on
her life.
Met Girl in Washington.
Davis told Chief OF Detectives Ber-
nard w. Thompson he met the girl
In Washington. He said he went on
q drinking party with her that ended
in the Baltimore hotel.
Baltimore police notified Thomp-
son they were mailing robbery war
rant today. Inspector Thompson
said, however, he would not surrender
the girl until every effort had been
made to verify her fantastic story OF
a "mutilation" assault on her life by
New York vice racketeers.
The two New York men to confront
Miss Bell are Joseph Silver, So, for
mer proprietor of Seventh avenue
cigar store frequented by tn Charles
Gucky) Luciano mob, and Leo Mai
none. "a.
Silver once served time for mail rob-
berry and Maimone has record Of
several arrests, police said.
Detective Sergts. Frank Brass and
Robert j. Barrett left last night to
bring the men here on warrants
charging assault with intent to kill
issued by United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage. Silver and
Maimone have indicated they would
waive extradition. Both deny having
been In Washington.
Little Confederation.
Three days of intensive investigation
by Washington and New York police,
however, have developed only tlinsy
corroboration of the girls story that
she was knocked unconscious in her
apartment here early Sunday by a
Luciano henchmen, who bound and
gagged her, scratched Luciano's ini-
tials on her body and turned on the
gas.
The girl herself, police say. has writ
ten and signed five conflicting ver-
sions of the alleged assault, repudat-
ing each before the ink was dry on
the signature. She has been interro-
gated for almost 80 hours since police
found her early Sunday in a third
floor apartment at 1890 New Hamp-
shire avenue
The girl denies that her story is a
hoax. Police say the superficial
body could have been self-inflicted, and
the girl showed no i'll effects from gas.
Once Gave Inside Tips"
Miss Bell once offered inside tips"
10 Florida authorities investigating
murder, and on another occasion de-
scribed how man had been killed
and thrown in a lake. The informa-
ton proved worthless.
For three hours last night police at
headquarters questioned Anthony
Thomas Costello, 20, of the 1000 block
Of New Hampshire avenue, concerning
his relations with Miss Bell. The girl
rented the New Hampshire avenue
apartment in which the alleged assault
occurred under the name of Mrs. H.
A. Costello"
Police convinced themselves Costello
knew nothing of the girls relations
with New York hoodlums.
The girl told investigators she saw
o man named "Joe Silver" and an
other she knew as Leo" at the
Hangar Club on the Saturday night
before the alleged assault. She said
she feared the pair because they
were connected with the Luciano mob,
and fed to her home.
Police said Silver admitted know
ing the Bell girl, while Maimone de-
MED it. Both men said they had
alibis.
Local police yesterday afternoon re-
leased Milton Rickard Reeves, %,
Washington bartender. who was Miss
Bells escort to the Hangar Club Sat-
urday night.