Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-12 | Page 3 | New York Thugs Held for Murder

NEW YORK THUGS HELD FOR MURDER New York, N. Y. Jan. 12 Thirty members of East Side gangs today will begin serving five days' workhouse work-house sentences, and "Dopey Benny' Fein, leader of a band, that bean his name, and three of his lieutenants, are being held without ball on a direct di-rect charge of homicide in connection with the murder on Friday night of Frederick Strain A bullet fired by members of Feins gang at an enemy, struck Straus as he was passing n hill where the gangsters and their friends were holding a dance. The murder of Straus, who was a prominent German politician and assistant as-sistant clerk of the city court, came at a most inopportune time for tne gangsters The police dragnet io clear the city of profe-sional ciiml-nals ciiml-nals needed just sucli an occurrence to increase its scope to Include the members of warring gangs who have terrorized the Eas. Side lor several years. Fein and his three followers claimed alibis for Friday night, but Deputy Police Commissioner Dough erty announced last night that he had obtained sufficient evidence to hold the tour for trial on a murder charge. The thirty men sentenced to the workhou?e were arrested in a raid upon a club, the first since the order last week to clean up the city Many other arrests were made and several men must, stand trial for violating the Sullivan law which prohibits tuo I carrying of revolvers or other fire arms From the standpoint of the police, the killing of Straus is of more 1m portance toward breaking up gang violence in New York than was the murder two years ago of the gambler, Herman Rosenthal, for which former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and four gunmen were convicted and are now confined in the death house nt Sing Sine.