New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-11
IT is STILL A MYSTERY.
THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED YESTERDAY
FOR THE POPE MURDER.
THE MAYOR OF HrCXsvII.LE LONG ISLAND on A
CHASE FOR THREE MEN WHOSE ACTIONS
AROUSED HIS sUsPIcIoNs-CAPTAIN
O'BRIEN SUGGESTS OFFERING

CHASE FOR THREE MEN WHOSE ACTIONS
AROUSED HIS susPIcIoNs-cAPrAIN
o'BRIEN SUGGESTS OFFERING
REWARD
Acting Captain O'Brien OF the Detective Bu-
reau after having his best men at work on the
Pope murder mystery for two days, said last
night that nothing Of importance had been dis
covered which might lead to the' capture of the
three men who held up" Walters's saloon and
shot the man who resisted them. With regard
to the two men who had been arrested on sus-
pcion, there was nothing. h, said, against far-
ker. and he had been discharged. Hoy, VINO
was arrested by the Delancey-st. police on Fri
day for stealing n watch. and upon whom sus-
pclon has rested still held at Police Head
quarters yesterday upon that charge but the de-
tectlves 80 far have utterly failed to connect
him with the "hold-up."
Captain O'Brien yesterday sent photograph
of the prisoner to the Owl Hotel at No. l21 Bow
cry. whore Elroy says he stayed last week Ine
night clerk there thought that he recognized the
picture that Of a man whom he had seen III
Chicago. but he diu not think that the original
of the photograph had stayed at the owl lately
The clerk promised to call at Police Headquar-
ters to-day to Eroy.
lHe dtlecIlNeS also learned yeSFluoy '""'
man resembling Elroy had visited the store of k
Forgettson d CO.. at No. rs Bowery on Thurs
day afternoon and had exchanged Smith & Wes-
son revolver for a weapon of the Harrington <
Richardson manufacture. A photograph of Elroy
was taken to the store Mr.. Forgetson failed 10
identify it, but his wife thought it resembled some
one whom she hal seen in the store within the
last week No one has come forward who could
say that he had seen Elrov near the scene of the
murder Acting Captain O'Brien still clings to the
belief that the murdc- the work of the gang
which recently held up saloons in Baltimore ana
Hoboken. but he realizes that even should MS
theory prove correct the fact Will be OF httle
assistance TO the police in capturing and idenu-
flying the Morrisania desperadoes
A HoBOKEN VICTIM SEES ELROY
When the Baltimore and Hoboken "hold-ups'
were brought to the attention of the police here
a request was sent to Baltimore and Hoboken
that any of the victims Of the robberies in the
two places who thought they might be apie TO
identify the men who assaulted them might
come on to New-York and see Elroy NO re-
sponse was received from baltimore but last
night a bartender named Lynch, Of Hoboken.
who was assaulted and robbed in the hotd-up
there was taken to Police Headquarters by
reporter and inspected the prisoner lie failed
to identify him. however.
.ue looks like one Of the men who did the job
at my place" he said afterward 10 Captain
O'Brien that is to say. he walks like him and is
dressed like him, but couldn't positively IDENTIFY
him or anybody else. II all happened IN min
ute" -.
three cases could identify any one Captain
O'Rrien said afterward. Something more than
Identification must be relied on 10 trace tnese
men, and while don't think the suggestion
should come first from the police, think ii would
he well If a reward were offered for the appre-
hension # the murderer. 1t might tempt one
Of the gang u confess, or. at any rate might
create dissensiOn among them
EXCITEMENT IN HICKsvILLE.
"C1ews" to the whereabouts Of the murderers
coming in all day at the Detective Bureau
yesterday. About O'Clock in the afternoon the
telephone rang wildly and an excited voice OK
planned to the operator that the Mayor Of HICKS
Vile Long Island wished to talk to the chieI
detective When Captain OBrien was connected
with the Mayor the latter told thrllnng STORY
Three men, two occupying top buggy ana the
third a single vehicle. the Mayor said. drove mo
Westbury. a neighboring town in the course OF
the afternoon. The two men left the covered
wagon and entered the Grand Central Hotel Inc
third drove on quarter Of mile ana after pu',
ting up his conveyance at Il road-hOuse Joiheu
the other two Tho three remained in earnest
conversation until they excited the Apprehension
If the residents Of Hicksville. This speedily be-
came known to them ana they packed them
selves into the double wagon and drove on 10
Jericho. Yhey questioned the people there AS -
the number of inhabitants, the location and man
agcnlcnt Of the Postofice. and other matters
until the villagers ran for their guns and the
strangers made haste to depart.
When the Mayor telephoned he said they were
aproaching HYDE Park. and he was hot ON their
trail with the constable OF his town; In me rig
they had left behind had been found cowboys
hat a silk cloth trimmed with gold band and
canister containing three or -four pounds OF gun
powder. ~
All The men were under middle age and OF
| medium height No ] had an irOn-gray mus
tache and wore a slouch hat. and dark clothes.
40 was clean-shaven. ana mad square de-
fermined visage. He wore white shirt, black
tie dark clothes and hHt The third man had
a sandy mustache and was dressed Ike NO. 2
CAPTAIN O'Brien thought the men might possibly
be postofrlce thieves. He referred the Mayor 81
Hcksville to Sheriff Tamser, and mean time
recommended the arrest of the strangers on gen
eral principles, suspicious persons. -
Major John Burke Of the Buffalo BIZ Wild
West Show. yesterday called at Police Head
quarters and declared that Elroy had never been
connected with the show. He said that all the
men had been accounted for and ne did not be-
lieve any of them could have been concerned in
the "hold-up."
Three suspects were ested yesterday.
Frederick and Charles s, hmdt who were ar
rested Saturday in a lodging house at NO. %
Bowery on suspicion. were dis 'harged Yesterday
because the men who were in the saloon at the
time Of the hod-up unable to identify them
as having been connected with the crime.