The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-03
HE INDIANAPOLIS HoaRsBLE.
The Late Outrage ind D0I3le Muraer-Ar
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The Late Outrage ind D0u3le Murder-Ar-
rest of Suspected neutrality-suspicious. rs
to tho Perpetrators.
Indianapolis June 2S) correspondence of the Gin
c1nau lnqulrer.l
Since the Glenn nlurde.s nearly TWO years ago
indianapolis has not enjoyed feast OF horrors
girls, Ella Climber and Mary Hennerby, last FRIDAY
Though the CRIME was committed on Friday our
citizens Knew nothing OF the appalling features OF
the tragedy until Monday afternoon, having up TO
that time believed that the deaths OF the two girls
were due to accidental drowning This suppression
OF the facts is owing entirely to mat exquisite dcte
tive sagacly which holds that the first and only i'm
pOrIanG step III unravelng mystery and de-
tecung the perpetrators OF crime Is TO prevent the
publication OF the details Ia The newspapers. Ihe
poce theory seems to be thar murderer will FORGET
the commission OF MS crime and neglect the Usual
precautions for his safety, unless he Is reminded OF
the fact that murder has been committed by publl-
caten In the newspapers Having succeeded in
SURPRISING publication the detectives expect to
throw the criminal "oh mis- guard.n They think
thar he, finding little Is SAID about the affair." VIII
conclude the people are indifferent. and Will make
public boast OF what he las done In the first beer
shop he gets drunk In. Thac Is the charitable
explanation OF the stupid yiety displayed
by Indianapolis detectives to suppress pub
licalion OF the fact that crime had been
committed or, falling in That TO suppress all the
pal tIculars which the public are Interested in Know
ing. Persons less charitable offer another solution
or the problem. which, while 1t more credaple to
the detectives sense places his honesty In q less
favorable light. IL IS ntmatel that while there IL
often no reward for the apprehension a roDber or
a nef, frequently the robDer and thief VIII pay
of being allowed 10 escape. There are undoubteeiIv
some circumstances In which premature publication
might do harm, but In the majority OF cases it wouId
not only be harmless, bur might 90 good. The pub
location or the details OF crime would set the whole
community agog. and the detectives would have he
ail OF every citizen III ferletlng out the perpetrators
citizens VINO aad observed suspicious eli aracters or
circumstances would nave their ttention calleu To
the TACT by publ ation, whereas, under Tie dotic
strategy OF secrecy what they nadI observed would
not be avaiiablt.
Yesterday some half dozen parties were arrested
on suspicion, but all proved themselves innocent
Stimulated by the 0,er Of a large reward the uolce
are az busy as bees, but are WORKING blindly.
young maU named Jack Conroy, tailor II still
under arrest, but unless iresh evidence Is brought
~ anst him he must soon be discharged. Conroy ,s
pretty hard case for the day the atrocities were
perpetrated he was discharged from MS employ
mcnt and was missing all day Friday Saturday and
sunday from MS accustomed haunis
Suspicion was at time directed against Kelly
the guardian OF the girl Mary Hennerby. Il was re.
ported that the girl had about s15 900 coming to her
when she became OF age, and 1t wfs intimaJed that
Kelly had murdered her. mutiiaed the body to give
the impression OF rape murdered the little gill, and
then placed both the bodies in the Wafer.
This theory was abandoned when IL was dis
covered thar the girls fortune amounted to q few
hundred dollars only, ana that Kelly is good citi.
zen, well to do in recunary matters
The scene of the murder Is In part Of the river
bottom infested by those miserably degraded pros
ttutes who pass the winter In jail and 1--we il the
woods IN hot weather, subslsting on stolen poultry,
and such articles OF forage US are contributed by
their equa degraded associates. number OF boys,
fifteen to eighteen years OF age, but Already ripe
for the penitentary or galows, are IN the habit Of
associtlng with these wretched creatures ana 1t Is
supposed that some or these young dc reradoes have
done the deed. In fact, Two such boys were seen
Friday night while tne friends OF the girls were
hunting Tor them, but were not identined-