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Show Held 'Accessory' ! $ -- rsi DR. HORACE PERLMAN Hie Office Raided MURDERGANG -USEDJEMLOCK PHILADELPHA, May 4 (UP) Hemlock, ons of the world's oldest poisons, was used by the murder-for-inaurance syndlcats when members mem-bers learned that arsenic left traces in tha bdies of their victims, it was revealed today. With this new evidence ef the Interstate ring's cunning, authorities authori-ties expected to arrest a second physiolan aa an "active participant" in furnishing tha "merchanta of death" with the lethal solutions used to kill an estimated 100 men and women. Or. Horace Perlman, 50, medical school graduate and a reputable practicing obstetrician here sines 1911, was held without ball en "accessory "ac-cessory before and after homicide" charges. In a spectacular raid on his mid-city office yesterday, detectives de-tectives arrested the dapper, wax-mustached wax-mustached doctor and stripped his office of equipment, books, records, drugs end filing cabinets. Meantime, the autopsy on the exhumed body of Pietro Stea showed traces of the subtler poison known technically as conium macu-latum. macu-latum. which contains the lethal alkaloid eonlne. The herb was called hemlock by the ancients. Socrates So-crates was forced to drink it at his exeoiitiAN Those from whom the poison was believed obtained were listed by police aa Dr. Perlman, David Brandt, typewriter salesman and former University of Pennsylvania veterinary student, and a third man not yet arrested. Polioe said s new list of victims had been given detectives in the latest confession of Herman Petril-lo, Petril-lo, 40, former spaghetti salesman under a first-degree murder conviction con-viction with a jury recommendation recommenda-tion of death. - Bidding desperately to escape the electric chair, Pe-trlllo Pe-trlllo has "told all." detectives said. Among the new victims is a wealthy man whose identity was withheld because of his relative prominence. His body will be exhumed ex-humed to determine the exact causa of death. |