Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-11-25
THE TRAGEDY IN BRooKLYN.

The TRAGEDY IN BkOOkLNN.
Further Particulars Of the Murder Of the
Cuban-Capture Of one of the Assassfns-
Interesting Details.
Last Wednesday night Jose Garcia Ortega
was found murdered in the City Hall Park Of
Brooklyn, N: Y. ItaPpears that last summer
the murdered man, who was then keeper Of q
public house and billiard saloon IN Csrdenos,
Cuba, drew q capital prize OF $1,000 In the
Royal Lottery of Havana. He resolved 70 in
vest this money in a new theater in Cardenas,
and In pursuance ce Of this resolve sailed for New
YORK 70 purchase paraphernalia- He had an
Interpreter with him named Gonzalez, and pu
Gonzalez and Captain Peterson, Of the bark
Thomas, who had engaged 10 take Ortega's
purchases hence 70 Cuba, were with him from
morning until night and at nightfall the Gap
tain bade Ortega and Gonzalez adieu near the
Astor House, whence they appear 10 have gone
directly to the Hotel de Barcelona. There thew
supped, and after tea an evenings rambie
was proposed. Previous 20 their departure,
Ortega paid q bill Of SIS at the ofhce. and when
he did so be exhibited large sum Of money in
gold and Treasury notes. He was couAseled
TO deposit his money in the safe; but he felt
quite secure with il on his person, and went
out with il in his possession, accompanied by
Gonzalez. This, according 70 the statement Of
Mr., John +. Samsony, bookkeeper OF the Hotel
de Barcelona, was at about O'Clock in the
evening
This was the last seen OF Ortega until ten
o'clock at night, when two citizens passing
through the Brooklyn City Hall, discovered
W hat they supposed TO be a drunken man. As
soon as the police had ascertained that it
was a case of murder, they took lanterns and
searched the neighborhood where the tragedy
took place. A dirk seven inches in length was
found; also two razors, hat (of the decessed)
and PAIR Of gloves, belonging evidently TO the
assassin. The gloves were cut across the
fingers. The hat was cut in three placee-one
cut in the rim and three in the body. The
dagger was bent al the point-it is presumed
by the force Of q blow al the hands Of one Of
the assassins. These articles were found
strewn along the path a distance of abeut two
hundred feet showing that the murderers
must have pursued their victim nearly that
distance before dealing the final blow. The
struggle, as appears from the victims wounds,
was fearful; but he must have been nearly
stunned by blow at the beginning Of the
fight. and thence forward fought instin cti vely.
On searching his pockets, a receipt was found
bearing the impriRt of the Hotel de Barcelona
A roll of gold coin, OF the value OF 500, and a
wallet containing SO in Treasury notes, were
also found.
The whole case was enveloped in mystery,
and the detectives were utterly at loss TO find
clue TO the murderers. 1t being Havana
steamer day, il was deemed prudent 70 watch
the steamship pier and search the steamer
which was TO sail al O'Clock Thursday after
noon.
The steamers were searched, but no one was
found on whom suspicion could rest, until two
O'Clock in the afternoon, when an officer who
stood on the pier, observed a young man, in
ordinately gloved, approaching. &ccosting the
stranger-who proved to be Theodore Martinez
Pellicer, once a waiter at the Hotel de Barcelo-
na-Roundsman Smith bade him show his
hands. Pellicer threw up the left hand, still
gloved and the officer experienced some DIM
Guilty in ungloving the hand. 1t was wounded.
The officers suspicious being confirmed, he
compelled Pellicer to unglove his right and
that hand being cut across the fingers, the on
Ger felt confident that he had captured the muir
derer. Handwriting Pellicer, the officers took
him to the Office of the Spanish Consul, and
there he was examined. After which he was
taken to Brooklyn and TO the dead house,
where he was shown the corpse. He shud-
dered, but said nothing. He was then taken 70
the 44th Precinct Police-station, and the gashed
gloves which had been found in the Park were
placed on his hands. The evidence OF these
gloves was damning; for underneath every cut
in the gloves was a bleeding wound on his fin
gers. His garments were new, and were pro-
baby the price of his part in the deed; for only
a trifiing sum of money was found on him.
He was committed to a cell, 70 await the in
quest, which is to be held this morning.
Pellicer is a Cuban, of about tventy-four
years of age, of slender frame, and has by no
means the countenance Of a murderer. His
victim was an athletic man, Of about thirty
years, and could easily have overborne hlm in
a single combat.
Gonzalez is yet at large, and has, it is sup
posed, some $1,000 TO $1,000 OF Ortega's money.