New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-23
TIGHTENING THE CHAIN.
MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST THE ALLEGED
MURDERER OF KNOOP AND SENS.

A CITIZEN OF HACHENsACK IDENTIFIES THE PElS-
oNER AS A MAN WHO TRIED TO, HEE,.A
ROOM WITH GAS IN THE VILLAGE HorE'@
George A. Coz cf Hackensack. called at Police
Headquarters in Hcboken yesterday. and asked 10
see John Tsohamann who IL suspected Of having
murdered Henry KnOop and John Seims the boys
who were found dead in MIXERS Hotel brooNEh'
on Sunday morning. Chief Donovan tod nm 'oae
Bohamaun had been sent 10 the County jail he
was asked why he wanted 10 see the prisoner, anu
in repy said he thought he could recognize tho man.
According to mis- story Bohamann Knoop and
Sein1s were at Tichmacher's Hotel at Lite rerty'
near Hackensack. on Saturday / light He saw them
at 7.So p. IN. They were eating ana drhhihs anu
playing cards He could not say at what time they
left the hotel but they could not have left HACK
ensack until l. p. m. There are Only TWO night
trains from the town to New-York The first leaves
there at O'Clock. and Coe said they could not nave
taken tina: one because it was 7:So oc,ock when ne
saw them and the hotel was three-quarters OF
mile from the station The IL o'cock train Is the
New-York Susquehanna and Western when en-
,e-s Jersey City 10y the Pennsylvania tracks AL
lowing that Bohamann. Knoop and Seims ieit
Hackensack by that train. they would have peen
abe 70 cross Desbrosses-st.. taken the draha-S'.
cross:own cars to the Williamsburg ferry ana
reached Millers Hotc. by o'c.ock SUNDAY hor"'"s'
the hour they are said to have arrived there.
Ch.,f Donovan did not put much confidence IN
Goes story but he sent Coo to the County Jan at
Jersey CITY where his mission was explained ny
an officer who accompanied him. Warden MtcheI
rlaced Ronamann among half-dozen prisoners ana
then admitted Coe to the corridor lie AT once
ncked out Bohamann as the man he had seen az
Hackensack In company with the Two boys. AI,er
Identifying Dohamann. coe was taken Dack 10 no
boken but could give further Information con-
earning the prisoner IL is believed that honamanm
took the boys TO Hackenslck. intending 70 XIII
them there but could ind no suitable noteI q.
else that his idea TO keep them moving doout
until they became tired. that they would steep
more soundly and thus fall reader victims 10 the
death he had planned for them.
Warden Mitchell says that Bohamann sept SOUND
~ in his cell all night and lay morning ate
n hearty breakfast. He said he did not wan: 10
sec any reporters and adhered 10 the story wAicn
he told his landlady. tina: he went 10 SecaucuS %,
Saturday and remained there until sunday, ara
that he was not with Knoop and Selms on SATURDAY
or Saturday night. He insisted also that ne Esd
no, murdered the boys. lie was rot aoe
however TO give the names OF any one Al Sectuvus
with whom he had spent the Mig Notn.ng Nh
he done IN the matter until ,hn New-fosk au' otes
applv for Bohamanns eXtraditon. lie says ne -
wiling 10 go 10 Williamsburg without lesal p.o
cecdlnCs but under the laws of New-Jersey ~
tradition proceedings are necessary. ~.
said that zoe told Warden Mitchell that wnie AZ
Tlchmacher's Hotel. Bohamann tried 10 hre
room hut wanted with gas IN IT, Wneh 70
was told the hotel was not supplied with gas, no
said he did wish the room