The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-08
sEyEN AnnEsrs wEnn MApE.

Probing Into the Circumstances of the
 Murder of Young LOng-one Womas Has
 Been Locked Up.
 Greenwich, June T-Acting upon the advice of State Attorney Samuel Fes- senden of Fairfield county, Deputy Sheriff Fltzroy has made seven arrests in his efforts to run down the murderer of young Edward Long, the hack driver who was found shot near the Belle Ha- ven docks, Sunday morning. The fol- lowing were arrested and are now held pending further investigation: Frank
 Starkins, Joseph Dorin, William J. Lindsley, William Sidney, Thomas Dob son, Michael Cullen and Stamford wo- man known as Lillian Olmstead.
 The Olmstead woman is locked up at
 Stamford. It is known that she was
 with the strange woman who came to
 Greenwich from Stamford, and was
 mixed up in the affair which culmin- ated in the shooting of Long. The Olm-
 stead woman steadfastly refuses to make a statement,
 The Story Of the Crime. Edward Long, aged nineteen, died at
 his home, Sunday, from a bullet wound
 in the head received in melee, late
 Saturday night. Long was unconscious
 when found and expired without being
 able to give any information as to the
 cause of shooting. A man thought to
 belong in Stamford and woman about
 town are supposed to be the principals
 in the affair, but as yet their Identity is n he, hparo
 made.
 The affair occurred in the vicinity of
 the freight yards near Belle Haven
 docks, where some hackmen met the
 unknown man with two women of
 shady character. It Is thought that the entire party was under the influence of liquor.
 A free fight was precipitated, which was continued between Long and the unknown man after the others of the party had gone. A passerby, about 3 o'clock, Sunday morning, found Long leaning over fence, and on investiga- tion it was discovered that he had been shot.
 Deputy Sheriff Fitzroy was notified and Long was taken home, where he uiCu dboul U CiOGh. A WOllldu , llGl found near the scene of the murder, has furnished evidence which, 1t is believed will result in the identification of the principals.
 About six weeks ago, Long was res cued from drowning by F. c. Benedict who discovered the lad on an overturn- | ed boat in the sound and when he was taken aboard the Oneida he was wholly
 Exhausted.
 Coroner Doten has been holding an
 all day inquest in the case Each one | of the six men under arrest has been summoned to appear be- | fore the coroner, and there make his | statement, The stories of the men agree substantially. They all state that l the woman and the missing man reach | ed Greenwich on the train from the | east due here at 10:57 The man went 1 into a saloon and when he came out he was joined by the gang" and proceed l ed to the freight yards, where the trag- l edy eliminated. After the shooting the man and the woman walked back to | Stamford according to the prisoners stories, and have not been seen since. | Word came from Stamford, to-day, | to the effect that the authorities there have examined all the women of loose | character in that city, and are now of | the opinion that the mysterious female | did not hail from Stamford, but prob
 ably from Bridgeport.