The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-03
THE NATHAN MURDER.

The Vigilance Of the PoIice-NO CleW
10 the Murderer Yet known 60
Have Been Obtained by the Police
The People Still Greatly Excited
Over the Dreadful Deed-The Cor
oner Condemned for LOoseneSs i'm
Conducting the Examination.
New YORK, August l.-Mr. Nathan
was buried to-day. This afternoon the
city was terribly excited over the rumor
that a plumber had been arrested with
the dead mans watch and diamonds in
his pocket 1t was untrue. There new
er was a case Of the kind in New York
in which every citizen felt 50 deeply in
terested as ir the present one. From
the humbtest TO the highest in social
life, all desire that the murderer may
be brought to justice. The very thieves
would give information of his where
abouts if they could, and the miserable
waits and strays OF the city, the dock
rats" shudder under the wharves at
night at the very thought that the muir
derer NAV share the same shelter they
do Crowds Of persons of all classes
throng up to Superintendent JOurdan :
room, OF police headquarters, and at his
private residence on Prince street, near
McDougal.
0n Saturday night the Supcrintcnd-
ent, with Chief of Detectives Kelso,
and some others, secured the thieves
haunts throughout the city, driving
from one den to the other in carriages,
and the Superintendent reached home
shortly before o'clock Yesterday morn
ing completely tired out He did not
retire until o'clock, for at least twenty
people were in waiting to give informa-
ton in reference to the dreadful crime.
The Superintendent listenei with pa
tience to all their statements, and found
there was nothing of any point to them.
One German, who spoke very broken
English, rang the Superintendent : bell
about o'clock, and sent up word,
That he knew the man what done the
murder The Superintendent at once
ran down stairs and brought the Ger
man to his room.
After at hours weary questioning 10y
the Superintendent, the object OF the
Germans suspicion proves to be the
son Of a washerwoman, who never did
one days work in his life, and was Just
The sort of a man who would do such a
thing.
The vigilance Of the police Is una
bated, and every thief is closely watched
and followed by the shadows of the
Police Department. As an illustration,
Superintendent Jourdan telegraphed to
all the police captains to keep sharp
look ont for all persons whose clothes
might be stained with blood. Thomas
Costello, keeper Of Il liquor place at
the corner OF First avenue and Twenty
fourth street, was found in the street
bloody, and was arrested He had been
at q picnic, and was fighting. The son
Of an uptown Alderman got drunk,
rolled himself through the muddy street,
and then quietly sat down on the curb
stone 4 policeman passing by mis-
took the brown mud on the mans coat
for blood, and arrested him. Both were
released from custody when the true
facts in reference to them were ascer-
iained
Yesterday it was ascertalned that in
addition to the other plumber secured
by the robber and murderer, he car.
ried away an old gold watch and sew
eral gold coins, all of which We're in n
till in the safe.
From all the information gathered
up to late hour last night, it is be-
lieved the detectives have made up
their minds pretty cOnclusively a. 10
the individual who committed the muir
der, and that the person, who is being
closely watched, will he arrested soon.
The continual search for the slightest
trace of blood or other marks left bv
the murderer around the house have
proven utterly futile, and not the slight
est trace has been found outside the two
rooms, save the iron dog. Among
the many fallacics, the statement that
the walls and ceiling of the room were
stained with blood is about the most I'M
founded. With the exception of Il few
drops ot blood on the jams OF the door,
between the library and tie room in
which Mr. Nathan slept, and the large
pool of blood on the floor of the room
around the body. no blood could be
seen, and there were no prints of bloody
hands on the walls
The physician SAYS that the great
quantity OF blood proceeded from the
-evering Of the great artery on the tenn
pie Of Mr. Nathan, and that ten chances
TO one the murdered man then fell, and
the murderer was not stained with blood
at all. \ more startling fact Is now ap-
parent, or is said to he, namely That
all the wounds on the head Of the muir
dered man 10 not appear to be inflicted
hv the dog alone. One wound in es-
pecial, that which nearly divides the
ear. being far wider than the chisel
edge ofthe dog. It's thought, as the
investigation proceeds, that more than
one man may have been in the room
at the time OF the murier
The Coroner conducting tflc inquiry
into the Nathan murder ls universally
condemned
LATEST
New YORK, August The morning
papers give fearful record OF murders,
homicides and deadly assaults with
bullet, knife, bayonet and axe, While
the police are searching for. Nathan :
murderer, nearly as revolving ones have
been committed Notwithstanding the