Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1927, Page 16

EAST SIDE SIHELDS FIVE GANG SLAVERS Wall of Silence Confronts Po- lice Secking Killers of “) tle Augie” Orgen. By the Associated Pres struck by a train proceeding toward Baltimore between 2 and o'clock yesierday morning. An Inquest will be held Wednes- day night at 8 o'clock in Firemen’s Hall, at Hyattsville. It will be con- ducted by Justice of the Peace Her. bert J. Moffatt, acting coroner. The body was removed to Gasch’s under taking establishment at Hyattsville. Surviving Cousins are a son. W tiam J. Cousins, of Bradley Beach, N. J.: three brothers living in George town and_ Cherrydale, Va.. and a srandson, Everett Stormer, of Brent ood. Cousing’ wife died three vears ago. For nearly a year he had been living alone. S S S E. A new bank Is opened for business every week day in England. NEWMAN INDICTED ON MURDER CHARGE Georgetown Man Accused ‘ot Fatal Attack on His Wife ewman, colored, was in by the grand J nection with the death s Court in Georgetown and struck her over the head with a plece of brick, fracturing her skull and causing her deatn, it is alleged. The grand jurors reported 27 other indictments and ignored 8 cases presented to them. Tho charges Ig nored include: Willam T, Wilson grand larceny; Roy P. Perry and Cas- per Heck, joy-riding; Bugene G Smith, grand larceny: Richard Gan derson. assault; Walter Massenburg, housebreaking; Luther Charlton, third violation of prohibtion law, and Lee Blake, presenting a false claim against ihe United States. Others Indicted and the charges igainst them are: Morris Clarke, alias Zipp Taylor, i Anthony Ford, robbery; Robert E. attempted robbery; Charles s, George P. Taylor (two cases) and Russell B. Jackson, joy-ridin James A. Brown (two cases), house- breaking and larceny; James Dorsey, joy-riding; Albert Cutler, housebreak- ing and larceny; Max Oxi, Albert G. Ellis and James Hebron, grand lar- ceny; Max Oxi, Albert G. Ellis and Erastus Jarman, housebreaking and larceny; James R. Fleet, Frank E. Lee and Wilson Wallace, housebreaking and larceny; Willam Waple, Fred- erick C. Sampson, John W. Young and James F. Donovan, grand larceny Archle Simms, housebreaking; Law rence Simms, assault with dangerou: weapou; Lancaster E. Hall, Marvin Lewls Whitehead, Carl Hess, jr., and Augustine B. Grove, non-support; James Golden and Arthur Williams, foy-riding; Asa B. Carter and Elijah A. Spivey, housebreaking and larceny: Merrill Darcey, grand larceny, and Lewis Johnson, houscbreaking and larceny. BRINGS RARE MAMMALS. Explorer Returns With 150 Speci- mens for Chicago Museum. NEW YORK, October 17 (#).— Bringing back 150 specimens of rare mammals for the Field Museum in Chicago, Capt. Harold A. White, ex- plorer, arrived vesterday on the Red Star liner Belgenland from Somali- land, Abyssinia. He sald that among the specimens were a number of the rare Queen of Sheba antelop BRITISH AUTHOR ARRIVES. J. Alfred Spender to Visit All Prin- cipal American Cities. \ NEW YORK, October 17 (M).—J. Alfred Spender, English journalist | and author, who was formerly editor | of the Westminster Gazette, arrived last night on the Atlantic Transport | liner Minnewaska for a three-month | visit to the United States. | As first senior fellow appointed to | the American newspaper fellowships | established in memory of the Iate | Walter Hines Page, former United | States Ambassador fo Great Britain, | by the English-speaking Union of the United States, Spender will visit all | of the principal American citie ! Metal Weather Strip Copper at 5¢ Per Foot Fries, Beall & Sharp 734736 10th St. N.W. Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist 409-418 McLachlen NEW Y October 17.—Con fronted by t 1l of silence which surrounds fare on the lower East Side, polic ainly today for the 1 t 1e murder of Jacob Or il 1in known as *“Little ho was ambushed ! men in Delancey Augie’s” 1 a critical con s under his 1 not_tell detectives 1 and his chief as the crowded push-¢ tined police could find no o ho recog- nized the killers, three of whom trail ed their quarry afoot while two oper- ated the getaway car. Death Due to Feud. Despite this reticence detective knew that Orgen’s death was due to acti £ Dropy a T 1g profit d =0ld his services as a provider - as_well thugs ) support mem- e ki would stage harmless, fake b: , in which many shots were fired, no one hurt. “Little Augie” a Rising Power. “Little Au a rising power among East Side gan v the possibil- ities of taking of “the Drop- per’'s” trade. He organized a gang which competed with the older organ- {zation in furnishing thugs in labor s, rivalry culminated in the death of “Kid Dropper,” who w he sat beside a police taxicab. Kushner, h slibped up to the rear window of the cab and fired a bullet in the gang- ster’s head, a crime for which he re- ceived a sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing. Three weeks ago the enmity be- tween the rival gangs broke out afresh, wh me of the “Kid Drop- per” gang killed in the street by gunmen who also fatally shot a man seated on the steps of his home. “Lit- tle Augie's” gang was charged with this killing, and the leader’s body- guard increased its vigilance. Saturday night the five gunmen rolled into Delancey street behind Orgen and Diamond. Three, who had trailed the pair, fired a fusilade, leaped into the car containing two confederates and sped away. BRENTWOOD MAN KILLED BY TRAIN Body of Clande M. Cousins, 64, Discovered on B. & 0. Tracks at Early Hour. Special Dispatch to The Star. BRENTWOOD, Md., October 17.— The mangled body of Claude M. Cousins;, 64 years old, a carpenter, was found early yesterday on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks about 300 yards south of the Brent. ‘wood station. 4 Charles Hemphlll, while ‘picking up coal along the tracks, made the dis- covery. He notified Deputy Sheriff Arthur Hepburn. Identity was es- tablished by Lem Baldwin, who rec- ognized the victim’s coat as one he had given the man, and by Harry Clark, who sald the shirt was the same that Cousing was wearing the night before. Hepburn __ bell Cousins _was ISPIND ERS 3 Cor. 11th & H N.w. ™ § all & Deliver lean and Press Men’s Suits, 95¢ Valeteria Pressing SPECIAL PRICE This Week Only PLAIN CLOTH DRESSES \. ] ‘Are you trying to hide behind a mask of cosmetics? BEELTs e donr M pir abiiiza el rough or pi there is only one way 5 Descus e snhovanee P Biof the defects, You can do this easily by S st Oinemen e Iyt o skin is cleac and smooth again. Anbly lightly. 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