The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-09
WAS HE A OF MEYER9
POLICE COLLAR ANOTHER CHURCH
POORRON THIEF.
Thoy Hone 20 Prove That the Murderer or
policeman smith Also KILLED the williams
burg s-.ton. ana That Their New Prisoner
vu.tn.a rpim-More Jurors cot 10 Try Mes or.

They Hope TO Prove That the Murderer or
Io,,c.unp smith Also KILLED the williams
burg SEXTON. and That Their New Prisoner
Helped HIn-More Jurors cot TO Try me'er.
While the trial Of Fritz Meyer, otherwise
Constantine Stieger, ns the confessed murderer
OF Policeman Smith, is being prosecuted,
the police are trying to fix other crimes upon
him. They are morally sure that IL was no
,yho tined stelz, the williamsburg bcllringer.
md thcy have unoarthed q lot OF evidence
that points that way, but mono that is conclu-
siyc. Yesterday they found the murdered
b,llrinper's watch and they also discovered
that IL was Meyer who pawned it. Further,
they arrested a man who answers the descrip.
ton of the smooth.faced youth seen hanging
around the church just before the murder.
They made out that he was a thief, with his
picture in the gallery, and at least ono charge
OF poorhux robbery AGAINST him, and there
they stopped. There IL apparently no connec-
ton between tho prisoner and Meyer, except
that the former lived in the street where tho
latter murdered Policeman Smith. At the same
time the coincidence is suggestive.
Tho prisoner is Frederick airing, plumber,
OF AZ East Fourth street. He was arrested on
Saturday night in the Bowery by Detective
Reap. Capt. McClusky's men had been search
ing two weeks for the smooth-fuced man, trot-
ting along tho Bowery early and late with
Capt. Loes OF the Brooklyn police, who WAS
conducting the campaign, and a boy VINO saw
the smooth.faced man. They had about given
1t up when they happened on airing. Ncster-
day the boy and Capt. Lcos took n look nj him.
Tho boy could not identify him, but Capt: Lees,
who also saw the smooih-faced nun on his way
To the station house on the night OF The murder.
was sure he was the same fellow.
Aring's picture is BIS in the Rogues Gal
lery. lie was arrested in 1898 on the charge
OF robbing the poorhoX in ST. Joseph Church
Ia Mount Vernon, and sat three months In Jail
only to get off after Ill. No. complainant ap.
pearcd. Ho says he mas not been In Brooklyn
In five months, and, tho New York, police are
do not.
Capt. Lees has Stelz's watch. A man
brought it to him., thinking II might be the one
that was wanted. The initials u. :. are on il.
pawnshops because the wrong number had been
given to them. II turned out that it had been
pawned in trankenstein's pawnshop at ls7
Delaney street on Oct. 2. The man who had
it had bought the ticket from Kate Lander, u
woman who lived In Orchard street, She had
moved away. but Capt. Leos found her yes,er-
day and then learned. he told CAPT. McClus-
ky, that it was Steiger. or Meyer, who had
given 1t to her TO pawn He lived In the Or
chard street tenement under the name Of
Meyer.
That is as far as the police have got. The
woman is not a prisoner. Meyer denies that
he knows anything Of the murder and holds
his tongue. Aring's record Is being raked over
with great care.
The trial OF Fritz Meyer. alias Steiger, for
the murder OF Policeman Frederick Smith was
resumed yesterday in the criminal branch of
the Supreme Court, with nine jurors In the box.
Two moro Jurors were got during the day, but
it was impossible to I'LL the box, although over
fifty talosmcn were examined. The twelfth
juror will probably be got to-day, and the trial
will 20 on rapidly after that.