New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-02
TRACED BY HIS PISTOL.
THE MURDERER OF HANIER CAUGHT.
PATIENT AND sKILFUL WORK OF INSPECTOR
RyRxEs-THE PRISONERS CONFESSION.

PATIENT AND sKILFUL WORK OF INSPECTOR
BYRNEs-THE PRISONERS CONFESSION
The burglar who shot and killed lied, Lo oIf
Hanier, last month, has been captured ana
confesSes his crime. His detection ana ar
rest show excellent work ny Inspector ByTnes
and his men. Hanier was a trenchman,
fcrtv years of age and kept dram shop at
No Al West Twenty sixth-st. About o'clock on
I'm. morning of December 80 he heard thieves IN ms
bar-room, over which he lived ne went do" H.
stairs and was just entering the room, when ne
was shot He staggered back TO his chamber ana
died i'm few minutes. He had been III me country
for six years and left wife and seven children :,
II seemed for some time that the murderer Wollo
NOT he discovered. The French people III the city
took great interest in the NATTER ana the CoudSit
Rrothers. the well-known French lawyers tired TO
oct some clevy but in Yanl. One arrest was mace,
and the suspected man, John IL. Brady was re-
leased. D. L., bJ
detectives hard at work upon the case. FIRST, az
the paWnshops III the precinct were examiner WIN
the idea that the pistol Win WhcIi Tue nAulueI "as
committed had been pledged. On January ),
pistol was found in pawnshOp In Nlntl-aNt;' near
Thirt which had been pawned on Deem
her ri tine dav after the murder, by man who SAID
his name was Evans and ms home was az NO. 40
West Thlrtv-sccoud-st. Inspector Bynes found that
the ball Which killed Hancr fitted the bore OF TINS
pistol and learned that no such man as Evans
lived at No 1872. By thorough investigator IL was
found that the real name OF the man VINO paWhcI
the pistol Michael McGiolIl, ana lhal ne ilNeu
AZ No Oh West Twenty-nlntl-st. lie was
ninerecn wears of age and had served sentence
of seven months for stealing sugar; McUloih was
then watched day and night by Detectives Ian
thier and Rogers. He found 10 he one 81 q
hand of yourg thieves which included Thomas MO
ran and Thomas Banteld, both OF No. l39 west
Twentyfifth-st., Robert Morllssey, OF No Z9f Nest
Sixteenth-sl and Oscar Hcaley. These facts We're
known the second week after the MURDER lhese
vonng criminals kept horse and wagon and would
start out about o'clock i'll the evening drive over 10
Brooklyn. stop before dlstlllery, selzc Rrs OF
liquor and drive rapidly away; or they would seize
goods in front of shop windows.
Meanwhile the police had issued circulars onerInS
ri
Hauicr These thieves fTeQueDted a place III
Twenty-seventh-st., between sixth and seventh
ayrs Kept by a negro named Cooley. detective
was there on the watch every night An oiIcer III
structcd by Byrnes. and IN uniform, went IN one
night and hung up one OIL be eS @ccr bad come
NcGlCin said to Banheld: Did turn white when
me hung that notice over my nead1'
NO said Banfieid, you've got - OF a
mis- was heard by the detective, and convinced
fha policc of McGloins guilt. !hc search Tor evil
dence was continued, however Giitl tues;uay
Schmlttherger Rogers Lanthier George Radiord,
Mclaughlin and Richard OCOnnor, went to beer
shop kept by Macdonald, an eX-conXlci, III Nlhe-
tpeutb-st between Seventh and EightIl-aYeS.,
where there were more than dozen tueVeS.
Tie officers entered quickly, Inspector ByIncs
to The back door, while two guarded
tI6e front entrance. The thieves sat i'll a
row along the wall. They made no resistance as
they were expected &c do. They hang tneir heads
and acted like lot of sheep Inspector Byrnes SAID.
| VrC;Ioin was taken to headquarters and dectcc-
ti,Jes were sen, 10 places IL Twenty hist.
where Banield and the other thieves OF McGloins
band were. Moran, Banheld, MorIissey and the
negro Cooley were arrested, taken 10 headquarters
| and locked up in different rooms. -
| The police had obtained exact knowledge OF all
! NcC;Ioius actions since the murder, and he was
| coufr, nted by Inspector Byrnes, VINO gave hlm a
minute account Ct all he had done. The Inspector
| showed McttlOin the pistol with which lie Killed
Ianier and then before his eyes fitted the fatal ball
| into its chamber. McGlOln became completely
| unneryed and burst out crying.
{" Tins will break my mothers heart" he sobbed
He added: = | shot in self-delenc5. | thought tn"
| man coming down the stairs had something IN his
hands, ,,r,..
statement. McOOln said: 81 want to tell the
| truth 1t has worried me ever since this thing
. Seven or eight days tefore the murder l bought
| y nstol from a man IN Seyenthave. for dollar
| The nlnht of the murder went INTO lianicrs about
| o'clock with Moran and the others, 10 give the
| Eranchman the 'faintng act / asked him e
| cIouge $40 bill 50 rs 10 see how much money ht
| had about him. lie could not change 1t, but tool
| ont n long red pOcket-bOok fu,I of large bills. i
tLcp went away from the counter and pretended &
he SICK i'm order TO get Hancr away llom the money
| Jraver He paId no attention TO me, and 50 we al
| go, idu Ne went TO CoOlcys again ut 1880 a N
| had nledped my pistol to Cooley and went their
| 70 GET Il When we came out IL was proposed tina
/ we sbould 90 and break into the fIenchman
| saloon steal what money We could, and cigars too
TbJee of us nushed our backs against the door AM
showed it in. flealey then went TO- pun the dra"e
| and took out the pOcket-DOOk. But he IOuhu ON.
| papers and 30 it was thrown INTO the street' Inc