Gun Wielder Held in G.O.P. Club Row

GUN WIELDER HELD IN G.O.P. CLUB ROW Youth, 19, Says He Jumped Out Window on Second Floor to Escape Bullets Alleged to have fired four shots at a 19-year-old youth and to have forced him to jump from a second-story window of the Third Ward Republican Association's clubhouse, Daniel Circucci, alias "Tights," 25, of 322 Benson street, was held in $1000 ball today for the grand jury. Circucci was charged with threats to kill by Detective Anson Kelly, on information given by William Williams, colored, 19, who gave the clubhouse, at 108 South Second street, as his address. The defendant waived a hearing in Camden police court today, declining to make any statement. Keliy arrested Circucci yesterday on a warrant issued after the alleged shooting fray on September 9. The detective testified today that Williams had said he was sitting in the clubrooms on the second floor with two companions when four men entered and approached him. According to the statement by Williams, Circucci warned him that if he didn't leave the premises immediately he would be killed. Williams stated that he tried to explain he lived in the building, but Circucci became enraged and advanced on him, drawing a gun. One of Circucci's companions, whom Williams knew only as "Barney Googie," approached Williams from the other side with a knife in his hand, he said. Frightened, Williams leaped from his chair, and finding the exit blocked, dashed for a rear window, raised the sash and jumped out, the court was told. Williams said that Circucci fired three or four shots at him as he clambered through the window. According to detectives, the clubhouse is operated by the same colored Republican organization which had the clubhouse at Second and Stevens streets last February, when Alfonso Harris, 39, of 211 Taylor avenue, was shot and killed by Lee Robinson, 40, of 318 Washington street. Both were colored political workers. Robinson was tried last spring on a charge of manslaughter, but the jury could not agree on a verdict. He is scheduled to be tried again next week in Camden county criminal court.