New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-29
THE WRONG MAN CONVICTED
HOW THE KAHoUTS ROOMS WERE BURNED.
EDWARD WAS INNoCEyIr-HENgY iScULPArEs HIS
FRIEND KYLIAN.
uorrv opd Edward Kahout xybo xroro nan

EDWARD WAS INNoCENIr-HEYRY iyCULPArEs HIS
FRIEND KYLIAN.
Henry and Edward Kahout, who were sem
fenced TO the slate Prison for life soms M Is ago,
having found guilty OF setting tenement
house. No. 404 East sXty-fourthst, and causing the
death OF Mrs Mary Talka and her two children.
were brought back to this city from Sing Sing
on Friday. Some startling Information had been OBJ
taned by Inspector Byrnes and his assisants tending
TO show that there had been miscarriage Of justice In
the conviction Of Edward Kahout and that the chief
tor the crime for which the Kahout bro hers
rested was st;ll unpublished Henry Kahout had made
confession. and John Kylzn, his real partner in crime
had locked up at Police Headquarters. Inspector
Byrnes told yesterday how the evidence in the
was obtained.
AFTER .le conviction OF the Kanouts,' he said, al
was put in possession of facts which indicated
that Edward. the younger brother was innocent
Following the Information, detailed DetectivrSer
ceants Haley and finland to make a careful investga
ton They learned that on the night of November o.
| 1885, some large bundles carried away from the
rooms occupied by the kahouts. Those
| bundles not carried by either OF the
| Kahouts and the fire broke out early on the
following morning. Immediately after the fire dis
covered Henry kahout appeared the street fully
dressed while the brother Edward, escaped from the
| burning rooms with only few articles of clothing
which he carried In his hands. By careful
| inquiry Haley and rutland learned that the bundles
were carried away from the tenement-house the
night before the fire By John Kyian. Bohemian cigar.
maker had been intimate with Henry Kahont, and
who lived at No. 531 Fifth-st We suspected that KY
| Ian had concerned in the fire.
"on July Is went to Sing Sing aud had talk with
| Henry Kahout We talked about his wife and
the child which was born at the time
Of his trial He said that John
Kyan had not lived up to agreement mads with him.
When asked him about the agreement, he said Kylian
had promised to take care Of Mrs a.. kshout
| he willing to tell the whole trouble about the
fire bd ' SsS H;a S started the Is .n ns
had originated the plan to burn the tenement-houss,
as. ana out 10 the after the nr
In either arrested for the crime the man who
Ssrs clare innocent nn and did not know how the IRE was
started Edward In the prison. and he repeated
had said at his tralthat he did not know OF
de1ee Of convicted ieon did .uiceqt
to convict Kylau. consulted Judge and was told
s.@, the story co sGa By By
evidence Henry said tn AT late the night before the
nre while his wife and brother were asleep he opened
the and lie; In Kyan. who carried away the most
with Mr.. Kabout and she did not know what mai be-
come property that was In the rooms before tile
when she the after the fire, yet she did
think they mad been burned up asked her II she
cOui identify the properly II IL was recovered ana she
Upon nv application Police Justice Duffy granted
warrant Kyian's arrest and also search warrant
| In company with Haley aud Rutland and Mrs kahoni;
kyans place of business at Fourlhave and md
Tweutv-seventh-st. Thursday, and arrested nin lie
had a coat which had BELONGED to Henry hah"n.
number OF articles winch had belonged to the kahonts,
from Bohemia among the rest MTs. kahout idehtined
| them easily" ,, :.
| gent AZ Hradonartrrs by permission of Justice
! Dufy until further evidence could be obtained: on
r.moyal OF the Kahoat brothers Sing Prison.
anH hev were brougnt 10 Police Headquarters by De-
fectiye-Serseauts Haley and Drummer III the evening.
| Kyhan was confronted with them yesterday morning
Henry Kahout made a long statement duplicating
KHAN. Il wa. to the effect that he first became
acquainted with Kyan in jay, lss4' partly by means
OF crime that Kylian had committed, ana that kylan
atterward conceived the plan 10 burn up me
house in orter to get money out Of the
mcpt house No 4Os East SxtyfOurtn-st, but had not
| expected He afterward borrowed money from Henry
Kahout AMI worked upon him until Henry consented
TO The man Henry described their actions on the
night November % and the morning oi November 30
went down to Kylans house sixthst, between Ave
nues B, and left wife there and went out win
it would be another before could get at T.
and Do only S1 q me he sa we vii so S
to my house ana tel yE"r Me- 9 eT ND about $50 M and
excuse said he was II the anu sPp we
drank IT, Then kylan He SAID that he would re;
then Would come back He back at 1850 ?. had
e NY aGTr H S d cT g eH gallon demon and
benzne or kerosene oil He told me to bring hm eveyIng
hadeothes 9edcothes etc got my Wiies ana P53In
one should hear We tied it all in bundle. and
he p Sse de and went Wife o" aha y brother
and nT a0 ad Ea se0 Of a 0 ou T
what he did with the things e said that was no time to
Then he over the road once more ana picked mp some
them and having got al land and Pg em UNTO PSS
he put the bundle among Tie rocks OF gave II 10 some one
When he returned poured of the stuff the demi
john bucket and about quart into TN cam ana S sa
all my sell now it your to help me- told him
would rather all not an qepeS That it was
dark and rainy night and we VIII not have ,,on sqea
pocket cut Slip from aud tied our matches in II grabbed
s or ON nav wife bed close bv the door fye
eight Tne can soe hsar and in the hallway and
then TO out and wake my pTot1er ann e heard S e1
poson but scared and put The can under the pea
Di e ang heped her to the window Kyan had
should leave the door open as WOMB man dTI HIM
when once The , nre iNAu Tsts,d shnt the door
neove up Who had down. That was what
seaPeG with b0 my we aHd SHd Gat night slept with
Kyan lie asked me II an the house was burned up i nd s s
hot empted the the stairs lie SAID ad done wrong
no telling made compact both to keep our months
either of rs should Be aT ThG hight we OG a Not re
To- t Event ne one who was ont should for the family
Of the otber one nd they for nothing
Henry Kahouts story was repeated by him 10 kyian
in The 3resence of inspector Byrues. Kylan said IA:
fsshood II Kyiian Is convicted OF the crime OF when
he is accused probable that Ed kanou Tll he
mas he onged a small band OF desperate Anarchists
who make practice OF setting fire 10 houses Not long
auer the fire in KahOut's rooms, kynan moved rom
| a house In East sl1teeninst., Wiefe
bis wife and children now i've. Near that place,
| i'm Ave.-C, suspicious ire occurred aiteTwaid
| in the or German SOCIALIST namcu DECK
MIR. Beck and ner infant and shoemaker from Green
! noint were burned to death IN the rooms Beck was
way froml home az tho time, and the orlglu OF the
fire was eft The furniture was Insured Ior
an amount much argrr than us value kylan assaulted
noIc,man In IreenpOint about three months ago ana
was mt under 81 900 bail for trial. Bonds were FUR
obtained his liberty. IL IL possible that
me evidence the trial Kyan will imDll cate nun
! her of Anarchists IN the city.