New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-19


that considering charges against them
No. there is no danger that the man will leave
New-York before he Is placed In custody. Inc
fact Is. the man knew ne wouid De ldentinea.
and. having returned to face what he well knew
would happen, there is not the shghtest propa.
bility that he will now attempt to get away. II
he had intended to attempt TO escape he would
have done 1t before now"
rs the man under the surveillance or the po-
| lice or Of your detectives
II will say as to that. that II the man attempt
ed to escape he would not get far
HEPBURN COULD HAVE BEEN HELD.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Marean's assurances
there was tendency to criticise his failure to
arrest Hepburn on the spot II he were an
ordinary criminal he would have been In safe
keeping now, Notwithstanding the fact that no
one was able TO swear to his identity for a war
rant A warrant for John Doe" would have
proved just as effective as warrant for VIII
lam Hepburn and the public would have felt
| that no distinction was being made between
| man charged with crime in the interest OF poll
| ticans and a man charged with the ordinary
| forms OF crime
| Mr. Clarke was asked II he had learned where
| Hepburn had been He declined to discuss the
| matter any more than to say that ne had no
| conversation with Hepburn on the subject.
The examination Of Charles NJ. Winant. on the
| charge of assisting Hepburn in his alleged effort
! to bride the Grand Jury through Isles: VIII DE
| held tomorrow morning at 9:3O o'clock In the
| Adams Street Police Court. Mr.. Maretn mas
| certainly secured in the discovery or Hepburn
the corroboratve evidence that he promised 10
produce at that examination. The nature OF tne
| defence that Is to be put up by Wlnant ana
| Hepburn appeared in the scurfllous treatment
Of Isles by Hepburn yesterday. In other words;
| the defence will rely upon attacking the RECORD
| Of Isles, which has not been perhaps as sa,Oly
as II might have been. His career as soidier
| and civilian has been ransacked. and everything
| that can he found against the man VIII pe useu
with the most telling effect that II Is capable or
I WANTS THE SUICIDE QUESTION SETTLED.
T)e-
| tective Bureau visited Dstrict-Attorney Marean
| yesterday and urged him to lay the death OF
Henry y. Ohlsen before the Grand Jury in order
| that that body might determine once for all
| whether Ohlsen committed suicide or was muir
dered Captain Reynolds asked that this be
| done that the Police Department might be
| relieved Of even shadow of imputation mat u
| had had any Interior motive In finding that OnI-
| sen came 10 his death by his own hand. MI
| Marcan told him that the Grand Jury was 100
busy at present TO take the matter up but sald
| that 1t would take up Ohlsen's death when ne
| had time Later in the day Mr.. Marean SAID
he did not know. whether or not he would pre-
sent the matter to the Grand Jury. ordinarily
| he did not take action unless formal charges
| were made.
Il believe tho man committed suicide" he
said. -
The first detectives who worked on the Ohi-
sen case were Matthew J. Murphy and Peter
| Mccormick OF the Ad st station. lhey
visited Ohlsen's place about : O'Clock in the
| morning. several hours after the mans death.
| Il notcei' said Detective Murphy yesterday.
mat the papers which insist that Ohlsen was
| murdered and that the murderers escaped
| through the back window. say that they have
found some rust that was scraped from the ilre-
escape. | scraped that rust myself IN examin-
| ing the escape. The hrc-escape had a layer
Of dust on II that had been undisturbed. All OF
the Hiids Oh that morning said tina, the suicide
nothing more than they had expected. as
| Ohscn had been acting queerly for year
was tho man that took down the placard marked
! with red crayon: you. ne , IN
ute Arthur HID. Who was familiar with ohl-
| sens handwriting saw this he said: That looks
| like the old mans marking. | have seen MIN
Mrs Ohlsen told us that her husband had kept
| his little revolver under his pillow for a long
time and that she first suspected something
| was wrong when she missed the revolver from
| under his pillow.
HIID DENIES A POLICE STORY.
A. NJ Hnd son-in-law Of Ohlsen. while at a
loss 10 And motive for dastardly a crime as
murder still insists that there are mysteries IN
| the case that have not been cleared UP.
| Mr. Hid denied yesterday that the police
found any dust on the Hre-escape. He says that
there vas a heavy rain the day before and that
! any dust that there would have been
washed away. The police have asserted that
| the iids trying 10 support the inurner
| theory with a view Of securing the Sl"Vp IN
| surance taken out by Ohlsen
There was no clause In those policies except,
| ing suicide as a cause 81 death" said Mr.. hld
! vns,erdov Every decision that has been given
| recently has been adverse to insurance COM
phnies that have refused 10 pay policies on the
| ernrnd Of suicide. We have submitted our
proof. and the company has not yet refused 70
pny 1t has a certain number ~ days TO con
slider the matter and We have NOT heard from II
yet"
Frank s Henderson. the undertaken. who
sworc AZ the inquest that Ohlsen had warned
him several days before his death that ne was
| going To- commit suicide. said yesterday that
| Ohlsen had asked him f." n loan ~ 500 the DAY
| before his death In reply to that MI ma salu
| AS meter Of fact Mr. Henderson hah oWed
my father -in-law money for spong's LOT SUN
time and think 10 still owed him Sl'o at the
| time Of his death
THE oppoRT'I- NIFTY OF THE POLICE FORCE.
While the police may be right IT. assuming
that there was not sufficient motive on which TO
base n theory that Ohlsen was murdered. they
ERE severely criticised for not attempting to find
scne OF tn mysterious men who shadowed
| Ohlson and other Grand Jurymen during the
| Investigation Of thu charges against Wills ana
| Phillrs. There Is no doubt that the Work "l
| hrlbng the Grand Jury was not left to Isles
| alone and that several other men were assist
| ing him In sounding the sentiment OF the frand
| Jurors and IN asccrtaining whether IL was safe
To offor brides to them. some OF these men
| have been described with sufficient minu'ehesS
| ~ give the police excellent clews. II they de-
| s,rcd "a ind them. For instance. the man
| with nowing black side-whskefs VINO oc'aslon-
| ally visited Ohlscn should be man as easy /"
find rs Hepburn ana yet so Tar as ~ known the
| police hay. not made d single move III the direc-
| tlon OF nnding him What Is needed no" ~
| moro evidence To corroborate the testimony or
| Frederick g. Isles The police know that they
| could sec,,r, this evidence II they get some or
! the men who assisted Isles. probapiy uhkho"h
to himself. why do they not act!
REGRETS FOR wrRsTERs MISTAKE.
II "a universally regretted by Brooklyn people
| that Mayor Wurster should nave succu'npco ~
the pressure brought upon him in the city con-
vcntIon when he consented 20 the plan that Mr..
willis was To hnvc the control or the CITY
,yorks Department The previous admlnisra-
| No., ,,dor Navor Schier n and Alfred r. White
| had been signally successful and free from the
| slightest suggestion Of scandal with the sue
'''r' .a,,i,s % Mayor Schieren's admnistra-