New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-10
SIX MEN UNDER ARREST
YIELD FOR THE CRIME IN WALTERS
BROTHERS. SALOON.

TO HAVE OPERATED
IN HoBoKEN
The police OF this city were active Yesterday in
srresting men who were suspected OF being the
masked robbers who kill d Richard Pope in the
saloon Of the Walters Brothers at Brown Place
and the Southern Boulevard. Morrisania on
Thursday night. Half dozen men were taken
- police stations where they were questioned
and looked at by persons who had witnessed the
murder Of Pope. but several of the prisoners
discharged. because II plain that they could
not be identified.
Three Of the who were arrested yesterday
on suspicion taken to the Morrsania police
station 10 be kept under guard until they could
be subjected to further scrutiny. They
Frank and Charles Schmidt. brothers. who had
been arrested in the clearinghouse at No. SO
Bowery by Policeman McCauey. and George
Lawson. who had been arrested by policeman in
Harlem. There also two prisoners at the
Central Office who had been remanded TO the care
o. the detectives. One was Raymond Elroy. who
arrested by Policeman Croughan. Of the
Delancey-st station. on Friday afternoon, when
he tried TO steal watch from Hebrew in the
street. The other prisoner at the Central ONCE
was arrested by detectives at the lodging-house
No. $50 Bowery on Friday night and gave the
name Of George Parker There had been no posi-
evening and the police were searching for more
suspicious persons.
ELROY'S CHARACTER.
Raymond Elroy Is a young but evidently des-
perate thief. After he was taken from the De-
lancey-st station TO Police Headquarters and
questioned by Captain O'Brien in the Detective
Bureau ne told several contradictory stories
about his recent NOV vnents He declared that
he came 10 this city from Boston on, Thursday
Might .ha raI fNprh Oaf 10 We d.
dresses in Boston where he said he had lived and
worked The police sent Inquiries by telegraph
and learned that Elroy was not Known at mos
places. He had in mis- pocket when he was ar,
rested revolver with ;hree chambers loaded
and three chambers containing empty shells OF
cartridges. He also had this recommendation;
Sneepshead Bay Sept: 5. 1885.
To whom It may concern: The bearer. Raymond
9y h Ss Sfn and aef o or
airy rider. Has always given satisfaction and take
KS service. Respectfaiiy. NATE SALISBURY.
PARKER's CONDUCT AROUsES SUSPICION
Thomas Walters William Gilen and Richard
Manly. who in the saloon in Morrisana on
Thursday night when the robbers entered went
u Police Headquarters and looked al Elroy
They also heard his voice. They said they
thought ne was the robber who first entered the
saloon and who robbed the cash drawer after
Pope had been shot. But they were not quite
wiling to make an affidavit on that point. They
also looked at the prisoner calling himself George
positively. Parker went into the Planters Hotel
in the Bowery Friday afternoon and was ap-
parently m lch excited when he saw newspaper
q account of the robbery and murder in the Nor
risania saloon. His behavior was so suspicious
that the proprietor Of the lodging house sent for
the detectives Parker admitted that he was In
Morrisania near the saloon Of Walters Brothers
On Thursday night. and he contradcted himself
fevera times In trying 10 account FOR his move
roents On that night. He had in his pocket
handkerchief which had been folded as II it had
been used as mask =
Detective Nelson, Of the Hoookea poIce. IN.
descriptions - the three men who robbed the
saloon in Morrisania and killed Pope tailed
closely with the descriptions Of the three masked
men who held up the bartender in the beersnop
at Jefferson and Newark sts. Hoboken on Oc-
-oher &C. and robbed the place Nelson will take
~ hartander and another Hoboken man TO look
ar the prisoners today. The police also have
learned that three masked men robbed saloon
In Baltimore in the same way recently.
NEwsBOY HELD Up.
There was another robbery by unknown men
in Observation-Disclosures eighth-st., under the
elevated station. a few minutes after ocloct
Yesterday morning Jimmy Mooney a news
boy. fourteen years old, selling his papers at
the foot Of the station stairway wlen two roughly
dressed men came along going west They
.topped seized young Mooney and held him fast
until they had searched his pockets several
other boys nearby paid NJ attention 20 "nat was
going on until the Two ul-1 ran up the elevated
stairs Mooney was frightened SO badly that he
could not speak a first, but when he recovered ne
gasped out that he had been robbed. He then
ran upstairs and told VI F Mead. the ticket
agent that two men had robbed him. Mead re-
menbered that two men had rushed into the sta
ZION a moment before. seemingly greatly excited.
He saws they cursed him because he was SION IN
giving them their tickets. and then Dolted through
The door and boarded a south bound train as II
pulled out Of the station.
Mooney at first said he had been robbed Of
only 80 Later he declared that his silver watch
had been stolen Samuel Groves. who Keeps
nevsstand near the One-hundred- and thirty
eighth-st elevated station the robbery, ana
his description Of the men TALES with that OF
Mead. ,,, - .o... -,
defective Titus last night denied the story OF
>t. newsboy hOld-up. He said the boy with some
- ads had tried 10 rob a penny-in-th e-slot
machine in Third-ave.. and when caught told the
A.; : o'clock last night Detective Nugent. OF the
fremont station. found suspicious character
=. pathgate-ave and One-hundred- and-seventy,
,.Anthst He said he Hartley Hurd, of
Mamaroneck. y. Y. He was tall had a n pear
re a slouch hat and belt and looked IKE a
Wasterner No firearms were found in MS pos
ses.ion He was locked up TO await idenuhca-