New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-21
An UNKNOWN MAN MURDERED
SHOT IN A PARK ROW BUILDING.

A MAN ARRESTED BUT NOT FULLY IDENTIFIED
AS THE ONE WHO COMMITTED THE CRIME
murder surrounded by the deepest mystery, with
no clevs by which either the murdered man or tho
murderer could be identified was committed yesterday
afternoon in a hallway In Park Row, within few
steps of where hundreds Of people pass hourly. ~
about half past g. stout plainly dressed man, walked
into Hilen's bar room, Just north OF the Bridge. At
the door he bought a copy Of an evening paper from
Levi Cohen, a young newsboy. The man took drink
at the bar and walked through sIde door Just IN
front of cigar stand. which is separated from tbs
long where liquor IS sold 20 little room leading
TO the hallway where the stairs to the hoor above
This little room Is seldom used In IL the stranger,
evidently by appointment, met acquaintance They
by several people who passed In and out Of
the barro0in. Tho stepped out Into the hallway
earnestly engaged in conversation. The newcomer
greatly excited He small man. wearing
light brown suit and liehtcolorcd Derby hat and by
some said TO have a on his check The men
bad not been talking long before the sound OF pistol
shot ruDg out above the combinations Of noise and
confusion that during the daytime make that place
about the nosest in the city, The pistol was one Of
heavy calibre, for people In the City Hall Park heard
the sound and stopped and looked in the direction
whence II
FINDING THE DEAD MAN ON THE STEP
T. was minute more before any one seemed TO
take any notice OF II. man could have run two
blocks before any outcry was made. The first 10
give the alarm was John J. Flaheriy business man
aver OF The Sporting Tines lie was sitting at his
dosk IN the Office Of tie paper which IS just above
tho entrance to the bar-room the windows OF which
look down upon the Bridge entrance lie heard the
pistol shot, but before going to see what the trouble
was, he stopped to close his desk and put away tbs
papers that he was examining After doing this he
ran down the stairs and there found man sitting
on the bottom step with his head leaning against the
wall. lie quickly that he was bleeding and on
I'm md bp ta
alarm.
by this time the employees in the barroom had re-
covered from the surprise into which the sound OF the
shot put them, and they with hundreds OF other men,
hurried to tho hallway. Two newspaper men, nanel
Phoebus and Mar, heard the shot. They saw
young come from the hallway and drop something
behind the fruit stand OF Italian. As no one ap
pcared to pay any attention TO the young man, the
two newspaper men did not trouble themselves about
him. They only knew that he wore light colored
suit OF clothes and brown Derby hat and appeared
be from tweny-thrce to thirty years old. lie had
a short, bristllng blond mustache.
PROVING THAT IT WAS NOT SUICIDE.
The rush Of and the crowd finally attracted
the attention Of policeman and he proceeded to IN
vcstigate the cause OF tho sudden excitement At
first the general impression among those who bad
not seen the two together was that II was
clear case OF suicide, but the pistol could not he
found. until Mr.. Goldbeck who has store at No 73
News of the murder quickly sent TO
CAPTAIN Carpenter, of the Fourth Precinct, and in
few moments all the available ward detectives were
working on The They obtained, as far as po,
sblc description Of the murderer, and with the
slight clcws in their possession set out to secure him
In the meantime a squad of officers with strccher
arrived at the barroom to take away the body. Tho
man apparently foreman I'm some place where
machinery IS used, engineer In some building
where there IS little hard work TO do His face was
round and smooth, bespeaklng good living 1t had
recently been clearly shaven, making rather heavy
black must acho stand out prominently He had on,
for outer garments, black suit Of basket diagonal,
considerably worn. His undergarmeDts were a blue
Shirt cheap cotton drawers, and heavy brown cotton
hose. pair Of Congress CATERS covered his feet and
a black Derby hat was on his heal The articles
found In his clothing few. There was meal
check of the Hotel Wellington ar MadsOn-ave ard
Portysecond-st, two Keys, silver watch and plated
chain two sheets of letter paper on which wele
written, Maggie Ryan, Islp L. L. Chinese laundry
ticket, and small picture Of himself which had ap-
parcntly been torn from large photograph. There
also SO 40 In small change in the mans pockets
DETECTIVE McCABE MAKES AN ARREST
While this investigation going OIL the detectives
werc securing the streets in the precinct for man
who answered the meagre description OF the murderer
Detective McCabr found a man in Park Row, near
Janesst, few moments after he had been detailed
the case He took him to the police station. and
the neMsDOy VINO haQ seen inc man WIN Inc urau
stranger was called I'm 10 IL he could identify him.
The actions Of the arrested man, who said that he
Bernard Manning, living at old No. 155 Prospect
IT.. Brooklyn, peculiar lie said that he was a
printer by trade He the light suit and the brown
Derby and had a his right cheek There was
also light cirusion Of blood under the left
though scuhie had taken place and he had been hit
lust hard enough To leave mark. lie refused 10 say
whether he innocent or guilty.
The newsbOy was not positive that this was the
man he had seen talking to the dead man. Manning
locked up. Coroner Edman examined the body and
found that 3S-calbre ball had entered the left eye
the Hotel Wellington nothing was known Of the mul-
dcrcd
The reporters also saw Manning ant
said that he looked like the whom they saw
running away. They would testify positively.
however, and late hour last night one had
been arrested who could be positively identified by
those who the fleeing murderer.
detectives Clark and Carr, on investigating the case
at the Hutel Welllng ton found that Dr. Casey, ~
missing from the botnl The officers went 10 Mount
Vernon and found the doctor wlo was brought 20 the
Oak street Police STAT on early this morning In
reply to Captain Carpenters inquiries he
said that few days ago he had talk with
man named Angelo Angelo and two
OTHER men at the Hotel Wellington with
regard supplying lahores for contractors. He
believed that Angelo barber In Blceckcrst. The
doctor thought that there had probably been some
disagreement among the partners. and that the mur
der had been committed by orc of them The doc
tor was taken TO the Morgue at rs a. m. 10 Identify
the body and will be detained until the investigation