New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-10

HEMPSTEAD POLICE SEEKING TO PROVE
HIM STEPHEN POWELI.S SLAYER.

BIOoDsTAINED CUFFS AND A BAR or IRON IN
A STOCKING FOUND WITH PART OF TIE
NEGRos ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AMOUNT
ING TO $1,000 OFFERED FOR
THE MURDERER.
The authorii!e- of Hampstead. Long Island arc
weaving about John Wayne, the negro prisoner, ar
rested on suspicion Of being concerned in the murder
of stephen Powell on Saturday night. a strong web
of evidence. What appeared to be an Almost per-
feet abb is oeing crushed rapidly, and the seemingly
truthful statements he made before the District
Attorney being shown to be false. The authori-
ties are in possession OF pair OF bloodstained
cuffs which are aid 10 have belonged to Wayne,
and were found with other portions Of his wardrobe
The implement with which Mr. Powel.s skui. was
crushed in is in the hands of the authorities IL
Was found with the bloody cuffs and parts ot
Waynes clothing.
Frank Doxey. CT Garden city, tod Deputy SheriH
John Doty and ex-Depuy Sheriff George j. Tyde-
man Yesterday that instead Of Wayne being at the
gashouse at midnight he III an old barn AT
Front and Franklin SITS. He had a bundle uhder MS
arm. H. cautioned Doxey. who saw him enter hoi
TO say he had been there. Doxey thought noth'nS
more of the matter until he heard thai Wayne was
under arrest on suspicion of being concerned III the
Powell murie~.
Doty and Tydeman at once went to the oai"'
Ruried under the hay they discovered coat
waisicoat. shirt. hat. pair oil Guns "a"e''
An iron bar ami stocking similar 10 the one
found with Waync's pipe In the swamp near Ter
ra,.-ave on the cuffs were stains which look like
hood The stains had been dauhcd with iresh nuu'
a. though an effort had been made to hide them
The bar Is heavy piece of metal about an Inch
and a half IN circumference. When found 1t was
inside of a woman's stocking. end the stocking was
tied 50 that the bar could not slip out' TN Ine
stocking near the foot vas daub OF mud similar
to tina, the cuffs. In the wallet were iou"'
bills made out against Wayne
Edward Moon saw Wayne at Main and Front Sis
at 30 O'Clock an hour and half after he asserts
he was asleep in the gashouse
Wavne admits that the clothing found in the barn
is bis and says he used the barn as dressing
room When asked TO explain the blood spots on
tho cuffs Wayne became confused. and huSitaied
Finally he admitted the cuffs were his but said he
loft them there on. night last week and had MOI
had Them sine Wayne taken from the town
hall and sen, 20 the county jail AT Long Island city
Yesterday as II WAS considered safer
He was accompa MED 10 the Jail by George Jarvis
and Arthur Mayhem. two other coored men. VINO
are believed 10 know something abon, tho affair
Van Rcns,clser simpson. who was under arrest
charged With takng par In the murder, was al
lowed 10 20 as hc had positive abb
Another thing which may prove bad for Wayne is
the denial he ma. relative II tho shoes m wore
on SATURDAY night When arrested he hal Oh par
that OF the men nal On pan OF ne" OF a.,moI.
now snua inei shoes. II IL no" almost positively
kuogn that on Saturday night wayne had on pair
Of new shoe. These tho authorities have not yet
been abe to nni ou, 1t rs thought they VIII D"
found In the barn ~hen complete search oil the
place IL made =
Tn. town 81 Homp-'ea1 has ofcrci reward ~
81 40 FOR the conviction Of the murderer. INC
county - Queens viii pay the same amount ana
The family Of Mr.. Powell has also offered similar
reward.
Thc murder has excited tho people n 'hc village
greatly Every move made hy the authorities Wes
eagerly watched. and zach new stop taken III SOW
lng IN, rnys.ery was hailed with delight
The funeral o; Nj Powell viii be nell this after
noon RI o'clock The intermcnt MI y, III frcen-
o.;d Cemetery. about mile from the Village The
services will b" conducted by the Rev. J. Y. May
n,rd OF tn Hampstead Methodist Church. Of which
Mr. Powell was member.
The key 20 Nj Povells store. which WAS taken
from his pocket py the murierers. has not been
founI II il thought possible that, II Wayne Is the
murderer. his presence IN Main-si on sunday morn
,ng can he explained by showing h. Intended 10 riie
the store. but finding that the Vi.ige was Already
alarmed over the murder he failed to carry out his
plan. . -, ,,, e., -
eral Of the brutal murders that have occurred IN
4 merchant Of Roslyn. who like Mr.. Powell. was In
the bit OF carrying large sums Of money. started
for home late on Saturday night lie was close to
his house when set upon ny Two negroes who beat
him in the head and crushed his skull lie was
robbed AMI the mu.derers escaped.
An old farmer named Jones was set upon few
years ago bv TWO negroes namei Jarvis and Jack
son at his home in South oyster Ray. His skull
son robbed their victim and threw the body into a
veil Tine murderers were caught and hanged in the
old county jail nj Mneoa.
chares Rugg. another colorel man. stranglcd to
death Mrs Maybec ana her daughter In the barn
. on tho Naybep place q Brookvie. Rugg was capt
ured convicted and hanged