Del Duca on Trial in House Raid Case

DEL DUCA ON TRIAL IN HOUSE RAID CASE Cops to Testify Prisoner Was Proprietor of Fairview Street Place Arthur "Gyp" Del Duca went on trial yesterday before a jury of 12 men in Criminal Court before Judge Austin H. Swackhamer on an indictment charging him with operating a disorderly house. The trial will be continued today. The house, at 674 Farview street, was raided twice in 24 hours last June 29, once by armed bandits, who robbed two sailors of $26, and once by the police. Del Duca was not in the house when it was raided after the sailors notified the police they had been robbed. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but he surrendered the next day. The first two witnesses yesterday were Richard Powers, 17, and David Hickman, 21, inmates of the Rahway Reformatory. They were sentenced by Judge Swackhamer in Gloucester County Criminal Court last April 18 after they had admitted participating in robberies in Camden, Gloucester and Burlington counties. They were brought here by a guard and testified that on several occasions they had gone to the house and had seen Del Duca there. Anthony Fields, a vacuum cleaner salesman, said he had gone to the house to sell a cleaner and was there when the police raided the place. Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin introduced as evidence a certified copy of a deed in which Del Duca is shown to be the proprietor. More than 20 Camden policemen are expected to testify for the state. All of them took part in the raid. The first one called was John Kowal, district detective, who testified that six men and three girls were arrested in the place. Major Charles V. Dickinson, deputy director of public safety, and Lieut. George Frost will be among the witnesses today.