Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-05-18
Three PsddIers, in New York City,
atHigh Neon, on a Public Street,
Rob and Kill a Man.
The Speedy Arrest of the Three
Brutal Murderers and Their
Incarceration in Jail.
TIE Wonderful Array of Evidence
that Fastens the Awful Crime
on the HeartIess Brutes.

vas at noon to-day IN the most populou:
part of Third avenue, brutally murdered BY
three pedlers, who. Immediately after the
commission of the crime quarreled ovel
the division of their victims spoils and en-
gagged in desperate fight that ended in one
of them being beaten to an extent that en-
dangered his life and the arrest of the other
two by the police.
The murdered man was Joseph Barling
draughtsman and bOok-keeper in the en-
ploy Of Morgan 4 Co, monument sculptors
of No &c Maiden Lane, living at No. 202G
Third avenue. He was 81 years Of age.
Since last Saturday he had not been 10 his
place of business, and it is said he has been
drinking heavily At 10 o'clock he left
home and two house later his dead body was
discovered in the hallway of No. 1877 Third
avenue.
Mrs. Jewell lives on the top floor Of No,
1917, which is a tenement house. Her son
Eddie, bright little fellow of eight years,
returned from school about II o clock He
found the front door fastened He knocked
loudly and his mother looked ont of the
window Just then the door was opened
from the inside and the boy entered. Lying
on the floor on his face he saw an old man.
His shoes and coat had been removed. BE.
side him stood two rough-looking men, one
of whom closed the door again and said to
the hoy:
Never mind the old man, bub, he's only
drunk. Well take care Of him.
Yes, added the other I'VE II look out for
him.
The boy ran upstairs and was met on the
iilSt landing by "a third man, who passed
him and went downstairs. Suspecting that
all was not right, he peeped over the banis-
ters and distinctly saw the three men
searching the old mans clothes. He at
once rushed to his mother and told her that
an old man was lying in the hallway and
was being robbed by three strange men.
Mrs Jewell and neighbor at once went
downstairs.
The Murderers Flee.
The three men had fed, but they found
the old man lying mOtiOnless on the floor,
face down. His hat coat and boots were
gone, and the pockets of his trousers and
vest were turned inside out. They turned
him over and saw at once he was dead. He
had been chokcd to death.
Hardly fifteen minutes after the discovery
of the murder three men entered the saloon
of George GreiSS, at No 2lSs Second
avenue They seemed to he excited and
nuTrIrtllE USKpu M UrrI rhiUn the, refused
to paw for A row followed and one of them
weht outside and returning with a large
stone. hurled il at GrriSs narrowly missing
his head Realizing the dangerous charac-
ter of his customers GrciSS determined that
diScrcsiou was the better part of yalOr, and,
waiying the question Of payment for the
drinks, permitted the three rufiians to sit
down They took a table in the rear of the
saloon. and aving some money on the table
proceeded Ia divide it. I'm n few minutes
one of the party protested against the dlvl-
sion and declared that he was being cheated
He was promptly knocked down and while
one of his companions held him the other
bclabored him with beer glasses and chairs.
He became unconscious and leaving him
for dead his two assaiIants hurriedly left
the place and buardcd Second avenue car
bound down town.
Arrest of the Men.
Ms Grciss, who happened to be in the
saloon, her husband having gone out for as
sistance. called Michael Donovan, a boy
who works in grocery store on the 0ppl
site side cf the avenue, and, pointing to the
two men, told him that they had just killed
d man in the saloon and asked him 10 fol-
low them and have them arrested. Unob-
Served by the two men, Donovan got on the
same car and rode as far as the Second Az
enur Car Dcpot at Ninety-fflh street, WHERE
he sDied officers Jordan, of the Twenty
third precinct, and Brady, ofthe Nineteenth.
They at once arrested the men and took
them TO tie Eghty-eighth street station
There they gave their names as James
Grady, aged nineteen, of Seventythird street
and the Eastern Boulevard, and Michae!
Ahcarne. aged thirty-One, Of Sinety-thlrd
street and Fifth avenue They were charged
With assaulting Michael Healey, aged TWEEN
tr-six. of Seventv.third street and the East
River As they stood in front Of the Ser
geants desk the door opened and the body
of Mr.. Darlng was borne in on q stretcher.
In 10 that moment there had not been the
slightest reason for connecting the two pris
oners with the murder.
At the Prison.
As the body was set down in front Of the
desk both turned deathly pale and Grady
fumbled in his pocket and dropped on the
floor close to the body red Russia leather
pocke;book. A policeman saw him dropit
and picked it up. Henry Barling, the dead
mans son. at once identified it a. belonging
TO hi father To clinch this piece Of eyi-
dence. and establish beyond all doubt the
identity of the murderrrs little Eddie Jewett
lust then entered the station house and un-
hesitatingly recognized the prisoners as the
two men whom he had me; in the haliSay.
Both the men seemed utterly bewiliered
at the sudden turn that affairs had taken
and were too much dazed to make any CO
herent statement On one Of them was
found 4, pawuticket for Mr., Barring coat
that had been pledged in a pawn+hop
within two blocks OF the scene Of the mar-
der.
When examined later in the day by Coro-
ner Levy both prisoners stoiidly refused to
make any statement In the meantime