New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-02
IrNRAVELLING A NEW CLEW.
rr1IrALE Bon COVER GIVES A HINT
OF HARRIS'S MURDERERS.

,nrST1FIrD BY BowERY MERCHANT AS ONE
IN WHICH A REVOLVER WAS SOLD TO THREE
Mry-pEsCRIPTIONs OF THE TRIO FUR
x,sBED To THE POLICE. WHO ARE MAX
ING piIIGENT SEARCH-TIE LOCH-
MEYER THEORY ABANDONED
The mystery connected with the murder Of Mr..
r D Rorden's butler. Harris. began to clear
somevhat yesterday. one clew was abandoned
and a new and apparently better one found. The
arrests Of Louis Dittmeier and Frederick Loeb
mover were of little aid to the police. The story
told BY Mrs. Krohme in the Yorkville Police
Court Friday. in which she cast suspicion upon
Iochneyer and a man named Billy Flynn. was
found 10 be only a scheme TO get square with
them I.ochmeyer was discharged In the Tombs
Police Court. but rearrested and turned over to
the police Of the East Fifty -frsi-st. station. 1t
was thought that sufficient evidence would be
nroduced to convict him of having robbed the
1.andon and Bissen houses. BILLY" Flynn is still
al large
7, ,ranspired Yesterday however. that the Gen.
trail Office detectives had another clew. which
NAV lead eventually to the arrest of the murder
ers The cew has been guarded jealousy by the
nolce since last Tuesday. and they fear that the
their efforts 10 trace the guilty persons. The
box found IN an area on the afternoon OF the
murder has proved TO be the missing link A. y.
Jacob. who keeps a hardware store at Nos. 272
snd pa Bowcry. and makes a speciality of re-
vo,vers. read the story of the murder in the
rewspapers and at once recognized the box.
7, was a box which had contained spokeshaves.
manufactured by the Derby Plane Company. Of
rerbv Conn. on the bottom marked b. b.
-25 This is a private price mark Of jacob and
nroves that the box must have been bought in
his shop He at once sent word 10 Police Head
Quarters. and when the box was shown to him
he promptly identified it.
He then told the detectives that on last Sat
urday afternoon three men entered his shop and
asked to look al some revolvers. They finally
purchased two Of 3S-calibre. and also box OF
cartridges The makers name on the weapons
was Hopkins IL Allen. The clerk who waited on
them it is said. placed the two revolvers in the
spokeshave box which was found by the police.
The clerks name is Frank Williams He gave the
police a good description OF the three men who
bought the revolvers and the detectives are now
securing the city for them. According 10 these
descriptions one Of the men was about . feet
inches in height stOutly built. and was dressed
in a rough black sui% The second man is SAID 10
be only twenty-five years old, with smooth,
shaven face and a sharp. small nose. Inc thiru
man. who is said to be taller than the other two,
is described as being ) feet inches in height.
with a mustache, dark hair and a slate-colored
suit of clothes
The police at once began a search OF the lodging
houses on the Bowery 10 discover II any three
r.en answering the descriptions given by VIII
Jams had stayed in any of them At the Hotel
Majestic three men had had adjoining rooms ior
several nights. and IL is thought they were
the men who bought the revolvers. Their names
appeared on the register as Robinson. Williams
and NJ Partland Nothing known Of these
three men by the other dodgers and none of them
would say whether the men seemed 10 be friends
or came and went together.
Detective Sergeant George McClusky acting
chief of the Detective Bureau. said yesterday
afternoon that the cew furnished by the hard
ware rlan was the most important one yet OBJ
tanned He would not say whether the clerk who
waited on the three men had identified them
among the pictures in the Rogues Gallery. The
proprietor OF the hardware store was loath 70
give any information TO reporters regarding the
sale of the revolvers He showed. however, th'
kind Of boxes in which he received spoEeshaves
and they exactly like the one supposed L
have been thrown away by the man w-o Killed