The New York herald., 1869-01-17
The ROGERS MURDER.

The Search fer seTomps-A New TFail and
What IL Aunsuuss Te-Why tho ssWard De-
eectives,p Are UnsuBeensfhI-The euspeceod
Persons New n Custedy.
me police sre stil doing their utmost to get hold
OF the mysterious sTom" who escaped from the Sing
Sing Prison some time aso, and who. II u now gen.
orally believed, was one Of tho two men who muir
dercd Mr. Rogers in Twelfth street. Although the
ward detectives arc very rcticent concerning their
own movements in the matter, there h no doubt
about the fact thas they are becoming very much
discouraged over the nonsuccess which has 30 far
attended their enorta They say that they have
learned that ssTomn u not In this city;
at least they contend that they have
followed mp every clue they could find
- to his whereabouts within the limits Of the Me-
trop0ltan district and have made the city too hot
to hold him." The police are not infalible In their
beliefs however, and very strong proof OF this as
serOn can be found IN their statement last week a.
to their chase after James Logan Of West Twenty
seventh street. They firmly believed that he had
been compelled to leave the town: yet. when they
least expected 80 astonishing q denouement, the
"wantcd mann gave himself up In the Twentieth
precinct. Whether 'srom'' may not md 1t conve-
nient to follow the example OF Logan. when he nds
that his pursucrs have exhausted their strength and
whatever little brains they had when they estab-
lished the hunt for him, is question which few
days will determine.
NEW TRAIL
During all the search for "Tom, the regular head
quarters detectives have not been specially detailed
In the pursuit-at least II they have been. they have
all along been wiser than the stupid ward specialist
In keeping their own counsel and steering clear Of
the reporters. Two OF them, however, have under
taken to work mp the case, probably without any
special orders. and II their good record in the past
can be taken Q guarantee that they intend to fol-
low up the matter without regard to cost or labor
'Tomn will certainly have very hard time of It to
keep ont OF their clutches. whether the fact may
have anything to do with the plans OF these two de-
tectves not, It may not be out Of place to here
state that one Of them paid visit to Blackwelrs
Island at an early hour yesterday morning, where
he had long interview with convict who formerly
lived in the Eighth ward and who has been spending
several months In dursnce vile for attempting one
evening to beat his most intimate friends eyes out
This man is very notorious character, and has IN
his day been mixed up In great many little sJobs'
in which the Nineteenth street gang profitable
participat0rs. He is well known to the police as
he Is thoroughly acquainted with the various bad
characters about town VINO, the police have rea-
son to believe, know great deal about the mur-
derer Of Mr.. Rogers and where he Is to be
found. 1t IS SAID that the two detectives
above alluded to. after the visit to the
had o consultation with "gentlcman OF leisurc'' of
that foreign town In the presence OF Jersey official.
Whether not the Blackwell's Island convict gave
any Information which led the officers to this
mas nCe a. y yes peen & Dn. from
acted In the matter 1t Is supposed that they have
struck new trail which may turn the tables on the
ward specialists FAR as getting all the credit for the
arrest Of the alleged murderer Is concerned. One or
the officers has IN his possession photograph OF
man who is known to have been in times past boon
companion Of James Logan Of ofTwenty-seventh street,
and who had been seen roaming about the city late
as the soth Of last December When last seen he
in Mercer street, in the Fifteenth precinct Since
the day OF the murder the 3st or December this in
Observation-Disclosures All the eorts S Of the noce they
have failed to find his whereabouts HIS given name
Is "fom, !" but he is not the same TON" who es-
| capped from Sing Sing. and In search OF whom the
Fifteenth precinct men actively exerting them
selves SO II WIN be seen that the plans laid for the
Logan the st 'Se
be quite possible that aII the Toms" with certain
surname, VIII be gobbed up before the close Of the
WHY TIN PoLlcR HAVE BEEN uNsuccEssPuL.
At the same time that all due credit is given to the
Officers for the willingness" they have manifested
In doing all that they can In the working mp OF the
case rather for the energy they have displayed
far in following mp every little scrap Of evidence
point suspcIously towards any particular individual
Il must be confessed that they have NOT done as well
who will contend, ana In fact who always contend
whether the police are right or wrong in anything
pish-tnst when the police do their VERY very
best 70 fnd criminal and witha are una
censured for not doing an vet aDy per
son who has carefully watched the movements Of
the police in their search after the murderer Of Mr..
Rogers, and who may have had opportunities for
observing them that the general pubic has had,
cannot have failed to have been struck with the
has been sucn thing as general cooperation In
the matter az far as all the city precincts
labor OF the search has fallen upon the shoulders OF
four or five men, and these not renowned for any
Il is well Known occurred in the Fifteenth pre-
cinct commanded by Captain CAREY, who has
probably about nfty men under his immediate
supervision, and ever since the death Of Mr..
Rogers the arrest Of the murderer has been looked
upon as an afrair almost exclusively belonging to
other precincts, stimulated by the rewards offered
by Mayor Hail. have every once In while exerted
themselves In the matter, but always with the one
infallibe result-getting hold OF an innocent man.
All they have appeared 10 desire has been TO get
their names before the public as wonderful Hawk
whether they had the slightest chance Of stumbling
upon the mysterious something or not Ifan arrest
was necessary TO make their names all the more
prominent they have never been at loss to find
some unfortunate individual with bad
could lock mp in station house for q
few days and then when the public had forgotten all
there has been as vet no such thing cooperation
among oil the police or rather the special detectives
re2Afu 10 tnc case INC Oi nntter IL Inal
at bottom or the whole thing there lies species
Of partisan jealousy that has always prevented the
men OF one precinct from working hand In hand
with the common end In view. This feeling has
been at all times confined 10 the ward specials but
has more than once on important occasions crcpt
into the ranks OF the regular detectives attached to
the Central ONCE IL seldom fails thwart any gen.
eral plan that superintendent Kennedy or Captain
Young may happen to propose for tho
detection OF q criminal and n the Rogers
has undoubtedly had q great deal to
do with the want " success OF the
force In their search for the murderer Until remedy
nc applied 10 the evil the same efforts that have
already been made win continue to be made with
the same Improbable result that has attended every
exertion made so far TO get hold OF the criminal.
rrE PRISONERS ARREsTEp.
There now In the Mercer street station some
six prisoners, including Taans and James Logan,
who have been arrested from time to time on sus-
melon OF having been concerned In some wav or