The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-21
TRACING ARBUCKLE
The Dead Man Was Much
Intoxicated on the Night
of the Tragedy.
LATEST POLICE THEoR Y
Was Carried to the Terminus oil
the Il" Road and There
Robbed by Chance Thugs.

NEW YORK, Nov 21, 1Ss6-The police
this morning announce that the move
ments of Mr.. Arbuckle, the Denver, Col,
man who was found unconscious On
Eighth avenue Thursday morning and
subsequently died, have been traced up
to one o'clock on Thursday morning which
was only cne or two hours before he was
found lying unconscious The police have
learned that Mr.. Arbuckle went up town
on the elevated road. Thsp strengthens
the theory that the unfortunate man was
robbed, if at all, at or near the terminus
of the elevated road at Eighth avenue and
West 155th street.
The detectives are not working Aon the
case with the certainty that the man was
drugged with knockout drops. They are
rather inclined ito think he was not. 1t
was a simple matter, they say, to rob a
man who goes around saloons under the
influence of liquor displaying roll Of
money.
The new theory concerning the case is
that Mr. Arbuckle got on the elevated
train alone and fell asleep. It is thought
that he rode to the terminus of the road
ard there got aroused by the guards. It
IS a rather wild place at the elevated ter
minus, and a spot where a well-dressed
stranger would readily attract an attack
from any roughs lettering near. Being
aroused from sleep Mr.. Arbuckle would
have been rather dazed and could have
been easily robbed without his knowledge
and without causing him to raise an
alarm He may have walked along in a
stupified way until he fell where he was
found The excitement Of his nights
travelling around and the quantity of slim
ulants consumed by him would certainly
have had a bad effect upon his heart if ii
was not in perfect condition, as has been
claimed.
The autopsy showed that his organs
We're not in as good shape as they should
clined to d:scredit any M drugging theory
but in this case they explain their dis
credence by saying that the manner in
which Mr.. Arbyekle handled the money,
rendered drugging unnecessary. He is
said to have displayed his. 'roll'' in every
saloon he visited
No further arrests were made this
morning.
The latest information in the hands of
the police regarding Arbuckle is that he
was seen at 1:40 o'clock on Thursday
morning on the north side platform of the
| Forty-second street elevated station. He
was very much intoxicated and was hold
ing on to a post swaying backward and
forward Ten minutes before that he was
seen entering Jimmy WakeleyS saloon
on the northeast corner of Forty y-second
street and Sixth avenue. He was accom-
panied by a cabman The police think it
probable that Arbuckle was driven by
the cabman from the Thirty ninth street
place to Wakeley's saloon and that he
was robbed on the elevated station or on
one of the IL trains.
The four prisoners in the case were
brought to Court this morning Lawyer
Friend was present to defend the pr.s-
| oners. He had a dispute with Magistrate
Brann because the latter refused to allow
MIN within the ran where the prisoners
| are arraigned and the Magistrate ordered
a complaint taken against the lawyer for
contempt of court and disorderly conduct.
Lawyer Friend was held in $780, and adj
| mttted to b2ibon his own Tecogn,zanee.
With this disposed of the lawyers case
| the four prisoners, Stevens, Davidson,
| formally ranged up before Magistrate
| Brann. A detective made an affidavit
| stating that the prisoners had been ar
| rested on the belief that they had been
| concerned in the robbery and homicide
| of Frank P. Arbuckle. and that sufficient
| opportunity had not been offered to pro-
| cure evidence in the case. The affidavit
asked that the prisoners he held pending
| the investigation nows in progress.
| Lawyer Friend made demand for an
| immediate examination He declared that
/ his clients were innocent that the police
| had not a particle of evidence against
| them and that to hold them longer with
out examination would be an infringement
| of their rights.
| The matter was finally settled by an
| agreement between the Magistrate and
| counsel, whereby the prisoners were held
| in 81, 500 bail each for examination on Mon
day next and were remanded until that
/ time
| Captain O'Brien Informed a reporter of
| the Unsted Associated Presses today that
| his men were much confused at the out
| start of their invest cation by the state
ment made on unreliable authority that
| man who was presumed to be Mr. Ar
| buckle had been seen drinking IN the AT
| Atlanta Casino about ten o'clock On Wed
| nesday evening. This was proven false
| when the detectives found that Arbuckle
/ was at a late hour in saloon in Four
| teenth street and had been down town
| drinking the earlier part of the even
| ing:
| Arbuckle was at the st. Charles Hotel
a short time and left there about one
| o'clock Thursday morning. The ticket
/ chopper on the Sixth Avenue Elevated
1 Railroad, at the Forty-second street sta
| ton, on duty after midnight Wednesday
night has informed the police that he
| remembers that well dressed man who
| answered Mr.. Arbucxle's description in
every particular had come out on the
the train that left the station for Har-
| lem at 1:10 A. M. The ticket chopper
said he was positive that Arbnckle then
had his pin and watch. He was intoxi-
| Gated but not hopelessly SO. The train
1 which Arbuckle boarded at Forty-second
| of the road at 1:40 A. NJ 1t was 2.45
o'clock when a policeman found his body.
| This would leave the interval of an hour
during which his movements have not