The evening world., 1891-05-01

room "a TIE room that Frenohy had been as
signed 10. there were blood marks shat looked
as though the door had been pushed open with
Jus, the tips OF bloody fingers.
"on the inside OF the Joor we're blood marks
that looked c, though the door had been
pushed shut with the inside upper half Of a
hand of bloody nngerA There were also blood
MARKS on the door Of room u. where tne mur.
der was committed
There were spots OF blood IN the bail, very
email ana hardly dscsrnIole. There were
spots on 'be noor OF room 81. There was Q
stain of blood on the chair in room IS, a.
though murderer had 81, down In It.
There were clots Of blood ON the blanket on
the bed. II vas an old army blanket The
clos were Of human blood. The other stains
IN the Llanket looked as though bloody hands
asd been wiped on It. There was blood on the
brdtick There were no sheets on the bed.
After all this blood had been found and
SITE. the examination OF FrenehyH clothing
we sent and got q bone nnger nail cleaner and
we cleaned on, the ant from beneath the unger
nails OF the prisoner we had. That dirt was
saalyzed and In 1t were found traces OF huma
OIood-
with Shakespeare, We arrested Frenchy No. 2,
about whom there has oeen so much talk, on
Sunday morning a 8 O'Clock. We found that
he had spent the night Of the murder At place
four and . half miles away from the scene Of
the murder.
"The people he was living with convinced
us that 1t would have been impossible for him
10 be away from the house Two hours that
uishi without their knowledge and We are
saisned that IL would have taken him that
iuueh time to 60 from vhers be was to the
scene Of the murder and return. we simply
let Frenehy No. 2go
"The man who went TO the room with
shAkespeare followed the custom OF the other
men who take women TO the hotel, ana went
out in q short time. There 10 this 10 be said OF
him. II he II an honest man he viii naturally
not come forward and acknowledge the fact
that be went 10 the hotel with the woman. He
would be ashamed to doit
Now. a. to the prisoners stories In the
nrst place he has lied to us in every instance
when he has made . statement He claim ed
o.; nrst that he old not etop At the hotel the
uigui OF the murder; that he did not have a
room in the hotel He said he slept In Brook
Ign that night.
1--WE found out that he did not sleep At tue
did have = room At the hotel Fitzgerald came
about the pennies
"Then he claimed to have come to New
York the Wednesday morning previous 70 the
murder from Jamaica L L, where he
said be had teen employed working about .
hotel. ] sen, men to Jamaica. They could
not nnd the place he described or Any place be
was employed In
"wisning to give him every chance TO clear
himself. on Sunday morning Al O'Clock sent
him 10 Jamaica handcuiTed to detective. He
could not md the place he had said he worked
at, nor could he IND the man he had said he
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"He was brought back and locked up We
found ont toa; he had been discharged on
April 10 from the Queens County Penitentiary
after serving 9 thirty-dAy sentence for va
grsncy.
'.wnen confronted By the women We had
arrested. Mary Ann Lopez, Lizzie Sullivan and
the Others, ne claimed not 10 know them Me
no know them. he said
"The women insisted that they did Know
him and that he knew them. and nnally they
made him admit that he knew them
"Msry Miniter. the woman who described
the old woman shakespeares companion. has
admitted thar sne has told several fAlSshoods
in the case. bu, sse stn insisis that the man
bad character, an opium and morpnine nend
and she oonBorts with Cinnamon.
"Tne night Of the murder she occupied
room in the hotel with man she met In the
barroom. She could not identity Frenehy No
3 when he was arrested
'.Frenchy. In the stories he told. explained
how the blood got on him, and Ia every in
stance his stones were run down and found to
be rank lies He has lied about everything
He has hardly told . truth since no was AZ
rested.
"Sow We come to the knife with which the
murder was committed. We cannot trace the
knife to Frenehy or any one else II 10 very
common sort OF knife and such - might Be
used on banana snipA II II 90 common and
cheap that there Is really no wy OF trsdpg II
eft 10 such knife a. might have been used
about . kitchen TO peel potatoes with. No
man who had premediiaied murder would have
taken that knife with him to commit the deed.
We are now working TO try and trace the knife
10 Prenchy. Tnst II why the inquest was ah-
lourned to-day TO give rs time.
81 have all tie evidence in the case In writ
ing. There are come thInzs ! cannot tell ~
tais time. because they would tend 70 interfere
with rs IN our work
"Frenchy may be able 10 explain the pres
ence of the blood on his shirt He may be able
10 explain the presence OF the blood on his
shoulder. but how can be explain the blood
under his nnRer nAils:"
YREScHY sEKS BIT A REroRTEE
Inspector Byrnes tns afternoon allowed an
EVENING WORLD reporter TO see the prisoner
Preneny.
The Inspector refused. however, TO allow the
reporter TO speak 10 him or 10 allow the prs
oner TO make . statement for reasons which
he DID not see 81 70 explain.
The reporter was escorted down 10 the cells
By Detective Seat. AulSolIaDd and allowed 70
stand in the onaeers' room while the prisoner
vas brought out.
Prsnohy Is tail, ungAinly. awkward man.
Abou; feet 10 or II inches high, and viii prob-
lOiJ weigh ADout 100 pouncA Apparently be
b about tnirty-four or thirty 1--we yeIn old. ana
bis nationality would seem 10 be wonderfully
ndennite.
His general appearance d that OF Moor or
m ArsbiSn. while sAsre are slight indications