Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-16
GUARDING A SECRET.
Killain's Confession Safe With Dis
trict Attorney Johnston.
THE JEWELRY is NOT RUDERTS.
A Tarentum speak-Easy Proprietor Wanted
by the Detectives.
SOME NEW THEORIES ARE ADVANCED

The visit Of the bereaved and robbed Jew
eler to Pittsburg yesterday was not produe-
tive of any satisfactory results. The goods
revealed by Killain's confession, it is UNDER
stood, are not from the stock of Mr.. Rudert,
which still further complicates the case. It
is now thought that the robbers, after hav-
ing hushed Killain with some property
taken at previous raid, hoped to implicate
him in some other crime.
The Coroner last evening said he had
never received any statement from Killain;
that he had never seen him since the day he
committed him for trial, which action Vir-
tually took the case out Of his hands. Fur
ther, he knew nothing of any confession
which had been made, as his interest in the
case ceased with the commitment.
As to the selection of private detective
to handle the matter he said that when a
homicide occurred in the city limits it was
customary and proper to put the case into
the hands Of the city police, but when it
took place in any one of the country dis
tricts it was equally proper to place it in
the charge of the county detective. This
had been done in the present case, and
Detective Lsnghorst being engaged at the
time on another matter the District Attor-
ney engaged private detective to look after
the interests of the State in the prosecution.
This caused some discomfort, if not jealousy,
and the result was loss of harmony in oper-
ations.
CITY POLICE WILLING.
City police officials say they are ready and
willing to offer all the assistance possible in
capturing the criminals, and are ready at
any moment to further the cause of justice
in every manner possible. They are them
selves kept to great degree of ignorance as
to what is determined on as the course of ac-
tion and although of course, always on the
lookout for tough cases or escaped murderers,
are still more anxious to get hold Of if pos
sible the perpetrators of so foul crime, but
have not got the opportunity.
The District Attorney was interrupted in
a pleasant chat with Judge Slagle yesterday
after the adjournment of the Criminal
Court, and requested to unbosom himself as
freely as Killain did. This he declined to do
and said it would not be to the best interests
of the county to disclose the revelations
made by the ferryman who usurped the place
of Charon. Mr.. Johnston, while ad-
mitting that he was great ad-
mirer of the newspapers and friendly
with them all, said he could not carry frienGs
ship to the length of giving the secrets
of his office for publication. Every eff rt
would be made, he said, to corral the otler
people concerned in Mrs. Rudert's murder,
and it was not improbable that an arrest in
with the case would be made
within the next 48 hours.
TnCAT nrc ADDr AH0u
In this connection it was learned yester-
day that possibly KilIain's exoneration of
Conroy might have come foundation in fact,
as attention has been directed to the fact
that the keeper of a Tarentum speak-easy
has been missing from the place ever since
the night of the murder. He is at present
in demand, and will be captured if the
parties after him can catch anything less
than the smallpox
County Commissioner Robert E. Mercer
was asked what prospect there was of re-
ward being offered for the arrest of the mur-
1erers of Mrs. Rudert, and he said he
thought none would be given. He, with
Ills brother commissioners, had been waited
upon by several people who suggested the
Of giving reward, but he failed
10 find any authority for such action in law.
He admitted that rewards had been offered
Ior such arrests and quoted three instances,
in two of which the murderers were brought
10 Justice, and in the other the reward was
never paid. The general idea was, Mr..
Mercer said, that the general public ought |
70 interest itself in such an outrage on pub |
ic safety, and turn out at once to capture |
The criminals, lending all the aid possible |
20 the officers.
He knew, of course, that the expense of |
IN officer, detective or anyone else pursu-
ng criminal who is seeking to e7ade |
ustice would be necessarily heavy, but he
aw no remedy for it In the law as no one |
vas authorized to provide any reward unless
ome private individual would offer a /
emptation to aid the cause of justice.