New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-02
TRYING TO FIND KopFs MURDERER.
A poYsIIrE SAID To DE IN DANGER-MoRE ABOUT
THE BARGE RIOT

A BOYS LIFE SAID To BE IN DANGER-MoRh ABOUT
THE BARGE RIOT.
Coroner Levy Yesterday collected n jury Of intel
ligent business men and took them to No; l0S
Thompson ~. TO view the body of Frederick Kopf
who was killed on the excursion barge William H.
Morton on sunday fddecd afo the "rSS ody
the Coroner dismissed them with the understanding
that they should meet at the Corouers Office when
he was ready TO hold an inquest. lie afterward
sent word 10 Superintendent Walliug that he
wished tho police to collect all the information
posi- BILE about the murder and TO arrest as many of
the participants in the crime as possible.
Detectives of the Ninth Precinct late on Sunday
night arrested Patrick Judge, of No. 2i6 West
Houston ST.. an alleged ringeader Of the Houston
ST. rufians who killed KOpf Judge admitted that
he was on the barge but he denied that he partic-
pated in the attack on Eopf Two of kopfs sons,
however. said he was among the assailants, and
one of them said that he saw Judge throw
a beer glass at Their father. I he prisoner
is twenty -fouT years old and married lie is a
'longshoreman and the police assert mat he IS n
dangerous Iufan. AT the jefferson Market Police
Court Yesterday he was rcmanded until to-day,
when the police expect to have other prisoners and
more evidence against him.
from the excursion barge and was arrested by the
Staten Island police on Sunday night, was not
identified as of KOpfs aSsaiants, although twoof
Kopfs sons went to Staten Island TO look at him.
He was discharged, but was immediately rear
rested and brought to this city by Detective Ayers
of fine Ninth Precinct. He will be held on
pcion until other witnesses of the ARRAY have had
an opportunity To identify him. The police expect
important testimony from Mrs; Julia Rapfcld,
of IIoboken. who was on the barge with
her little son. The boy was struck in the
assault upon Kopf and information reached
the police that the lad was believed to be dying at
his home. Several other people are believed TO
have been badly hurt by the rioters on the barge,
but they have not given any information TO the p0-
lice Detectives were searching for companions TO
Judge last night and expected 70 make some ar
rests before this morning. They said that num-
her of the men employed as Ironers IN the Empire
Steam Laundry were ex-conylcts who learned
their trade in prison: Ii Is likely
that several Of the managers of the excursion VIII
be summoned before Coroner Lcvyat the inquest.
Captaiu Blacke. of the staten Island ponce. was
at Police Headquarters in this city, and explained
the failure TO promptly inform the New
York police of the murder. lie said that
he called up the Central Telephone sta
ton. and asked to he put in communication WIN
Police Headquarters, but tho operator had
that information of the murder had already been
given to the police. The first information that a
murder had been committed was not sent to Police
Headquarters until half an houraiter the excursion
barge had reached the foot of l'cthune-st. ,
Much sympathy expressed for the iamlIY
of the murdered man, consisting o1 ms
wife and two children, who are ieit
with scautv means of support. 1t was said that
koprs body would he buried in the Lutheran
Cemetery on Thursday. and that the expenses OF
funeral would bc horne 10y n society of which he
was a member. Kopf was private IN marine
corps during the War of the Rebellion.