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Show AUTO BANDIT SHIELDS HIS ACCOMPLICES Confesses, However, to a Score of Daring Robber ies in Chicago. t IIK AOCH Jan. IT. James A. Perry, roufossed leader of the band of automobile auto-mobile bsndils who have committed a score of daring robberies is tha past eUty days,- firmly refused today to reveal the identity of his associates. "There were four of tie. but I'll never tell the names of my pals,'' aald t'rrrv. "1 have told all 1 urn going to about these holdups." ' Perry slept soundlv after making a confession of his career to Police tap-tain tap-tain l.avin and ritate Attorney Hoyne last night. Mrs. Feerv Rethien, who Uvea in the apartment building where Perry was arrested, told the police today that he was working as a awitehman in Cedar Itapida, I a., when aha met him three years ago. ' "I bad so ides he wss robbing people." peo-ple." she said. "I thought he was working sights in some respectable business. busi-ness. ' ' Adinieaion of Perry that it was he who tired the sbota at I'olit-eniaa rred Kti.-ken, who was wounded by auto bandits at West Monroe street and Fifth avenne led to a punling situation inasmuch as Kticken alreadv had identified iden-tified Albert Chare and James Mitchell as the robbers who shot aim from the automobile.- Mitchell and Cbarest have been booked on a charge of assault to murder the-perieemau,-but botlr deny the aeeaeatioa. . Walter' Krott, 20 yeara old, arrested with Pcrrj, refused to talk with the police. ' ' |