The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-15
| SHAW MURDER MYSTERY.
POSSIBLE CLUE FURNISHED By AN
ULMER PARK HOTEL KEEPER.

Drunken Man Put Aboard n sailboat by
Two Companions ON the Night ef tho
Day Shaw Disnppsared-Shaw'" Move
mont Up to $3.50 O'Clock That Day.
What may prove to be clue to the
mystery surrounding the death OF Frank
II, Shaw. whose body bound hand and
foot was found on the shore at Scar
borough Beach. Rhode Island. last Friday.
was furnished by Thomas Gray. proprietor OF
the Torauay House,at Bay Forty eighth street
and Highway avenue. Ulmer Park. yesterday
afternoon. Gray said that about II o'clock last
Monday morning -riRped boat anchored
title distance of shore from tho pier in front
OF his house Two men put of In row-boat
and landed at the pier tying the small boat TO
the pier. They had several drinks. one NJ
the mon. according to Gray. was small OF stat
ure and light in weight. with a thin face and
aoouiline nose The other man was about D
feet | | inches tall: weighed about 10 pounds
and wore black mustache. One OF the men
asked II they might leave the small boat at
Grav's pier for a little while. and nav
ing received permit sion they went away.
The two men returned about 1880 o'clock
that night. supporting between them third
man. who was very drunk. The drunken man
wore dark suit and straw hat. and. according
to Grav resembled the newspaper pictures lie
had seen OF shaw They did not stop at the
hots hut went directly to the end OF the pier.
bundled the drunken man into the small boat
nd rowcd out to the sailboat
A man named Frank Rice. who lives in Bay
Seventeenth street. Bath Beach. reported TO
the police yesterday that he had seen three
men corresponding to the men Gray describes
on II Fifth avenue car returning from Coney
Island about 10 o'clock on Monday night. Rce
rememb ers the men because two OF them had
good deal OF difficulty in keeping the third.
who was drunk. in the car
Detectives Ruddy and Harrington. who were
detailed yesterday by Capt. Reynolds OF the
Brooklyn Detective Bureau to investigate the
case traced Shaw's movements week ago
Monday. tho day he disappeared. from tho
time he left the home Of Robert II. Thomas.
hisbrother in law. at - Second avenue. Brook
lyn in the morning until about 23O In the at-
ternoon. Shaw arose about 10 o'clock in the
morning and no one else was at home but the
housemaid.
According to the story which the servant
told the detectives Shaw took a light break
fast shortly before IL O'Clock and left the
house About II o'clock he returned wrote
letter and went out again. He reached the car
house OF the Third avenue trolley line, at
Fifty-eighth street and Third avenue. ut
| O'Clock and gave an envelope addressed TO
Newton Boen. superintendent OF that division,
to one OF Mr.. Boens assistants. When Bolen
got TO his office about 80 he found that the
envelope contained Shaw's resignation OF his
place as inspector The note was brlet anu
gave no reasons for resgning.
From the car house. according to the detec-
twas Shaw went to the office OF a friend in
Pine street. who had said some time before
| that he might be able to get Shaw q better Job
| than that OF inspector on surface railroad
| According to this friend. Shaw called to see
what prospect there was OF getting employ
mont within short time. Shaw remained in
| this Office there about half an hour. From
there he went to the office OF another friend in
the Times Building and remained there until
about go. The detectives have been unable
| to trace him after he left the Times Building.
According to everybody who knew Shaw.
| with whom the police talked yesterday. he had
| no acknowledgements with women. Neither did he
| have any trou BILE according to officers md en-
| ployees OF the railroad company with any OF
the strikers on the Third avenue road. rupt.
| Bolen says that Shaw did his work we'll and
| should really have had better place than the
one he held
| Mr. Bolen ia one OF those who do not believe
that 1t was Shaws body which was identified
at Scarborough Beach He saws that what pur-
ported to be SIX eches OF the face OF the dead man
were shown to him and he is positive that il
| the face OF the dead man looked like the
sketches the body was not Shaw's. 1t has been
reported that the dead man wore moustache
| Shaw had not worn moustache since early in
| the spring.
1t seems hardly possible however. that any
mistake was made in the Identification, Mrs
| Thomas said yesterday afternoon that she was
sure from the description Of the dead man fur
nished to her by her husband, the body wa:
that OF her brother. She called attention tc
several articles OF clothing which. she said
were on the dead man. and which could have
belonged to no one else When asked II hel
husband had told her that the dead man had {
moustache. she said Mr.. Thomas had said moth
ing about that
| Captain Reynolds said last night that h.
was investigating the case largely as matte
of form. He was positive that II shaw wa
murdered the murder was committed nca
the Rhode Island coast and was. therefore
case for the Rhode Island police
Tho funeral Of Shaw will take place. accord
ing to the statement OF his sister. Mrs. Rober
Thomas, in Providence to-day. Miss Shaw
another sister Of the dead man, went to Provi
dence yesterday.
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