The evening world., 1895-06-28
TO IDENTIFY
WILLIAM HENRY.
Police Looking for the Farm
Hand Who Loaned q
Wheelman a Hatchet
WILL BRING HIM TO BROOKLYN
Failure of a Witness to Select the
Bad Son " as the Man Seen
Near the House.
PICKED OUT GRlFF0 INSTEAD.
Lodging. Houses and Other Resorts
Of the Accused Son Being
Searched for Clues.
PICKED OUT GRlFF0 INSTEAD.

dozen detectives are searching the
lodging houses OF this city and Brook
lyn and working In all the resorts where
William Henry Is said to have been In
the habit OF frequenting to find clues
which will connect the bad SON. with
the murder of his father. old Miser
Henry. Some detectives went to Pat
chogue yesterday to ind the farm hand
who loaned hatchet to cyclist on
the Jamaica plank road the day before
the murder. The wheelman took the
catchet away with him. They will
bring tho farm hand up to Brooklyn to-
day and try to prove that william
Henry was the wheelman. The latter
says he has not ridden a bicycle for q
long time.
Over score of alleged valuable wit
nesses have been questioned. They
have told great stories, but when put
to the test they were all found wanting.
The character of some of these wit
nesses can be imagined from a scene
which took place In Raymond Street
Jail yesterday. where william Is n
prisoner. The police had found a man
who was positive he had seen William
on the day of the murder In the vicinity
OF the South Portland avenue house.
and he was taken to the jail to Identify
him.
According to the story given out at
the jail, the detectives wanted their
witness to be given an opportunity to
| see william alone. but Sheriff Buttling
objected. He said that such an identi-
fication would be most unfair. He Of
fered to stand William up in q row of
| other men. and this course was finally
adopted.
Twenty men, with their hats and
coats on. were ranged up in the recep-
tion-room. and then the witness was
led in. The man took . careful survey
| Of the crowd and then deliberately
man he had seen.
| Griffo. who has been In the Jail many
weeks. enjoyed the situation, and begged
the witness not to identify him as the
murderer. even going on his knees to
ask him. The witness. however. grave
ly replied tnat ne was sorry. but that
duty compelled him to do so. Then
William Henry broke out into a laugh.
on which all OF the twenty men laughed.
The witness was then led away by the
disgusted detectives. who refused to re-
veal the name of the man.
William talks freely Of the murder to
| his associates in the jail, but refuses to
| answer questions. He has a theory that
the crime was committed by a thief
and points out that II was much easier
to gain entrance to the miser's house
than the police try to make out. He
says he often got In by window on
| the back. when his father locked him
out at night The only fastening. on
| the window was catch which could
| easily be turned aside with q knife.
His theory is that the thieves got In
while the old man had gone out for his
morning rolls and newspaper. and that
when he got back they were surprised
at their work and attacked him.
In order to account for the failure to
fnd the blood stained clothing. stories
have been given out that william
Henry had two suits OF clothing. one a
black diagonal coat. which he wore
when he surrendered to the police. the
other a blue serge suit. which he wore
| Immediately before the murder. The
| police have no positive evidence on that
point.