Warrant Out for Slayer of Mose Flannery
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City Detective Chief Declares Murderer is Known to His Men
2500 MOURN AT FUNERAL OF GANGLAND VICTIM
Arrest of 'Trigger Man' at Any Moment Expected by Authorities
This afternoon detectives were searching the haunts of gangdom in South Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania for the man who shot down the Eighth Ward political leader at Kaighn avenue and Front street Tuesday morning.
"We know who killed Flannery," announced Captain John Golden, head of the Camden city detective bureau. "Detectives have warrants for his arrest on a charge of murder, and I expect his arrest at any moment."
Golden refused to reveal the identity of the slayer, nor would he say whether the murderer was a Camden or Philadelphia man. However, he admitted that the murderer was not among those men he had questioned thus far.
2500 at Requiem Rites
Kin and friends accorded "Mose" . . . in death . . . one of the finest tributes they could give him this morning.
Heads bowed in sorrow, relatives and a few intimate friends of the murdered political worker attended services in a Broadway undertaking establishment. Crowds of curious milled about the streets, outside.
With Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church filled with 1500, and more than 1000 persons unable to enter, solemn high requiem mass was said over the body.
All that remained of "Mose" Flannery reposed on a white bier in front of the altar on which he served as a boy for three years.
In the church vestibule, and outside on the streets, detectives and patrolmen sauntered through the crowds. They were there to preserve order. They had dropped their work, temporarily, in the search for Flannery's slayer, they said. They were there to see the murder victim respected by those who mourned his death.
The black walnut casket which contained the body and which was heaped high with flowers, was carried from the undertaking establishment of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway, at 9.15.
Buddies As Pallbearers
The pall-bearers, all "buddies" of the "Mose" they admired and respected, were Fred Corbett, Raymond Kirk, Martin Murray, Thomas Murray, Walter Quinton, and Joseph Derr.
As she walked from the undertaking establishment to the automobile which was to take her to the church, Mrs. Joseph Flannery (nee Anna M. Boggs), from whom "Mose" had separated, was prostrated with grief. It was necessary for Francis, one of "Mose's" older brothers, to assist her across the sidewalk and into one of the family cars.
The first automobile in the funeral procession to the church at Broadway and Ferry avenue carried the floral tributes which had been sent from relatives, "pals," and former political associates of the victim of last Tuesday's murder.
Then followed the hearse, the casket almost covered by sprays of blooms, wreaths and other floral pieces.
The father and mother, James and Joseph Flannery were in the first "family" car with their daughter-in-law and the four-year-old, blonde-haired son of the dead man.
A younger brother, James—it was he who promised "Mose" never to enter gang feuds—sat beside his elder brother John, and his sisters Elizabeth
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