Washington Times, 14 October 1930, page 1: Still silent on identity of hotel gunmen

The front page of The Washington Times, Tuesday, 14 October 1930, Home Edition, runs the banner “LEGS DIAMOND GIVES UP HOPE, CALLS PRIEST.” The story itself, in the first column, is headed “STILL SILENT ON IDENTITY OF HOTEL GUNMEN,” by James L. Kilgallen, under a NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (I.N.S.), dateline. The OCR garbles the headline; it was read from the page image. The story continues on page 3. The page also carries photographs of two women the captions connect to the case.

Kilgallen reports that Diamond, a “bullet-riddled gangster and racketeer,” lay in Polyclinic Hospital and would not tell police who the two men were who entered room 829 of the Hotel Monticello on Sunday and shot him five times. He reports that Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney was directing the search and that a woman was held for further questioning.

The page is a wire report of a police investigation in progress. It names no one charged. This archive takes from it the room number as printed, which agrees with the Evening Star’s “eighth floor” (13 October), and does not name the women shown.