Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
FAST LOSING HEART,
The Latest Capture in the
Rudert Murder Case.
ONE OF THE MEN WANTED.
Identified by the Chief Of Police of
80 Braddock, .-
WHO EXCHANGED SHOTS WITH HIM,

The colored man, supposed to be Joe An
derson alias New York Shine," who made
such a gallant fight for liberty and a ham
mered Uranium, was not feeling well yester
day. His first statement was to the effect
that he could account for every day he spent
both on and after December %, the day ol
the Rudert murder at Tarentum. He even
professed ignorance of any murder having
occurred, and wound up by saying he was
in Indiana when it happened.
He kept this strain up for greater part
of the day, but refused to give any reason
for his fierce fight to escape from Detective
Fitzgerald in East Liverpool, and ended by
acknowledging that he was the man who
was wanted, admitting his penitentiary rec.
ord and several other pleasant events in his
life, but still stoutly disclaiming any knowl-
edge of Mrs. Rudert's murder.
He came to this frame of mind after hav-
ing been identified by John Donavin, Chief
of the Braddock police, who gave the three
men chase the morning after the murder,
and fired several shots after them.
WANTED AT LATRoBE.
Anderson's next visitor was constable
from Latrobe who had read of his capture
in Yesterdays DISPATCH, and came down
with a warrant for him for larceny. 1t ap-
pears Anderson had been working at q La
trobe hotel, and stole some clothing belong
ing to the guests, two weeks ago. The con-
stable had a photograph and complete de-
scription of Anderson and fully identified
him as the man wanted as New York
Shine"
During the levee Mr.. Gilkinson, of
the Gilklnson Detective Agency, who has
had the case in charge ior the county
authorities since the dav after the murder,
called in, with one of his private officers,
to see the man the police have in charge.
He remained Just as communicative as he
has been since the murder, and the prisoner
might have been "Jack the Ripper" for all
the chief of the detective agency would
say.
Several other important witnesses will be
brought in to-day for the purpose of identi-
flying the prisoner among them the boy at
Brushton, from whom he got breakfast the
morning of the murder, and number of
Tarentum people.
The prisoner began to lose heart toward
evening as he realized the webs of evidence
that were being netted around him, but still
persisted he knew pothing OF the murder.
He accounted for dates perfectly as to his
whereabouts, except for about week around
the date of the murder, and from the 18th to
the aSth of December last he made a number
of contradictory statements.
HIS MEMORY CLEARS UP.
After that time he again becomes clear in
his memory, and can fix time and place for
almost every day Up to that of his arrest
1t was discovered after Detective Gilkin-
son left, that the visitor who accompanied
him was Braddock man, who had been with
Chief Donavin in the chase after Griffin,
Conroy and Anderson the morning after the
murder, at Braddock. It was also stated
last night that Chief Donavin had been
down himself and identified Anderson as
one of the three men whom he had the fight
with on the morning of December "a, but
the local police officials would not admit
that the statement was correct
Coroner Mcdowell was asked last night
whether he thought the right bird was
caught, and he said that if the colored man
who was in the Central station was New
York Shine" Anderson, there was no doubt
in his mind that he is the man who sat in
the boat the night of the murder and rob-
berry and had q share of the booty, which he
buried after rowing Griffin and Conroy
across the river, and then struck across the
country with them.
Every indication at present points to
Anderson being the man wanted, and the
police have several new clews to the MUIR
derer's location. through his admissions.