Evening star., 1936-01-14
GUARD FOR Jury
IN WILSON MURDER
ARRANGED
Special Panel Will Be Asked
to lndict Four in Staying
of Route Carrier.
MONTGOMERY OFFICIALS
FEAR GANG REPRISALS
District Attorney Pugh Announces
Two Eyewitnesses Will Give
Testimony.

A special grand jury, meeting under
heavy guard in Montgomery County
Courthouse Monday, will be asked to
indict four men for the mistaken
identity" murder Of Allen B. Wilson.
newspaper route carrier, by gangsters
lying in wait for Mickey" Mcdonald,
Washington gambler.
States Attorney James H. Pugh an
nounced late yesterday that three in
dictments each will be sought against
ALERT S. Sutton, william Thomas
Cleary, Albert McDermott, alais John
'Slim" Dunn, and Ernest S. Myers.
All are under arrest.
Sutton, former chief lieutenant OF
a well-known Washington gambler.
is in the District Jail. where Myers
also is being held. Cleary has been
held incognito in a police precinct
here since his arrest several months
ago, and McDermott, is serving time
In Alcatraz, in California. for his part
in the Heurich Brewery hold-up here.
Other members Of the notorious Tri-
State Gang, now extinct, participated
In the robbery.
Seeks Murder Indictment.
The indictments Pugh will seek are
for the murder of Wilson, the at
tempted murder of Mcdonald and
carrying concealed weapons. An in
dictment charging conspiracy to
murder also may be sought.
A dozen guards will protect the
dozen witnesses to be summoned be.
fore the grand jury from Washington
Baltimore, Richmond, New York
Philadelphia and North Carolina
These extraordinary precautions. Pugh
said, will be taken to forestau possible
gang reprisals.
Some OF the witnesses, including
two alleged eye-witnesses, already are
in custody, and others have merely
agreed to accept summons.
Two Others In Gang.
Pugh said he had evidence that two
other men were in the gang which lay
in ambush that October morning out
side the home Of Mcdonald, near the
Takoma Park town limits. They were
Anthony t"Tony the Stinger'D Cugino,
professional killer of Philadelphia,
who hanged himself several months
ago after his arrest in New York, and
Claude Bailey, small-time Washington
racketeer, who was killed last Sum-
mer while trying to escape from Lor-
ton Reformatory.
Pugh would not discuss the two
"eye-witnesses" he expects to testify
for the State. It was believed, how
ever that at least one member of the
gang Of killers has agreed to turn
States evidence.
Cugino, according to Pugh, was
paid for his part in the affair. He
said other members Of the gang had
personal reasons" for wishing to
dispose of Mcdonald.
The whole thing was believed to
have grown out of rivalry over the
gambling take" in Washington.
Some six or seven men armed with
sawed-of shotguns and pistols lay
behind trees and shrubbery, waiting
at the gate of McDonald's country
place for the gamblers return. Un-
known to his enemies, Mcdonald was
already asleep In his home, having
come in earlier than usual.
When Wilson drove up to the gate
to deliver a morning paper, the gun
men, nervous after their long vigil,
made a hasty decision and blazed
away. The first volley failed to cut
Wilson down, and an assassin ran up
and shot him through the head at
close range.
Judge Charles w. woodward yes
terday signed the order for the spe-
cial grand jury session, expected to
last about two days.
Should indictments be obtained
trial will be delayed at least a month
pending removal of McDermott, alias
Dunn. from Alcatraz.