Evening star., 1936-01-22

bert McDermOtt, alias John "Sltm"
Dunn; EdWard S. Sutton, William
Cleary and Ernest Myers Uere in
dicted by q grand jury at Rockville
yesterday.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, January 22.-
States Attorney James H. Pugh
moved today to return to Montgomery
County che four men he hopes to send
to the gailows for the brutal Staying
of Allen B. Wilson, newspaper route
carrier, who died amid a hail of gang.
land bullets.
Bench warrants we're issued this
morning and proceedings begun to ex-
tradite the Washington gangsters in
dicted bv the special grand jury yes
terday for the killing of Wilson and
for conspiring to slay Edward G.
("Mickey') Mcdonald, Capital gam.
bier ana intended victim of the mur.
derous fire.
Joint Extradition Possible.
Pugh said that Department of JUS
tice officials have given assurance they
will bring Albert McDermott. alias
John Sim" Dunn, back to Washing
ton from Alcatraz Federal Prison, OF
the coast of California. to simplify ex-
tradition matters
With Dunn's return to the Capital,
where he was convicted for participa-
ton in tie Heurich Brewery hold-up,
the four suspects in the Wilson case
would be concentrated there and a
joint extradition hearing would be
possible.
Albert S. Sutton, former lieutenant
of the late Eddie Killeen; William
Cleary and Ernest Myers. the other
gangsters indicted jointly for mur.
dering the newspaper carrier and con.
spring against McDonald's life. are
ell prisoners in the District of Colum-
bia Jail
Trial Seen in March.
While Pugh lost no time setting
the wheels of justice into motion to
bring the four men to Rockville he
said that no particular effort would
be made to speed up their trial and
that he would permit this phase Of
the prosecution to take its own
course
In the normal run of events the
trial will come up when the Circuit
Court next convenes in March.
A fifth man, Dewey Jenkins, former
member of the now extinct Tri-State
gang. which terrorized half dozen
Eastern cities, was named in two
indictments, but this step is seen
simply as move to hold him in
readiness to testify when the four
murder defendants come to trial.
Reputed to Have Confessed.
jenkins, indicted for conspiring to
kill Mcdonald and for carrying con-
cealed weapons in an attempt to in.
flict bodily harm on the Capital
gambler, is reputed to have made a
complete confession duplicating the
four men in the Wilson killing. and
will be used as States witness.
He is confined somewhere in Wash.
ington.
1t developed today that two OF the
figures in the Wilson case were ques-
toned at length some time ago in
another Montgomery County crime
before their connection with the news
paper carriers killing was eatab.
liShed.
Pugh declared that TONY the
Stinger" Cugino and Cleary we're se-
verely grilled in Philadelphia and
Washington regarding the Chevy
Chase car barn hold-up, in which
$1,000 was stolen and two men mur-
dered on January 81. 1884. Nothing
was learned from the men, however.
Cugino, named by police as one Of
the trigger" men in the Wilson slay.
ing. committed suicide in a New
York cell after admitting a number
Of murders. He was a notorious
Philadelphia gang czar.
A number of reversals have been
met by Montgomery County. Balti-
more and Washington detectives who
are collaborating on the investiga-
tion Of the car barn murders, but
the investigation is still being pressed.
The men slain in the hold-up were
James NJ Mitchell, 58-year-old clerk.
who was shot four times while seated
at his desk In the Office, and Emory
Smith, 40-year-old night watchman,
who was taken for a ride" after the
robbery and thrown into Rock Greek
after his body had been riddled with
bullets.