New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-23
ERRORS IN SCHARN's STORY
POLICE SAY HE WAS SEEN NEAR HIS
HOME EARLY ON THE NIGHT
OF THE MURDER.

The police say that they have discovered ssva-,,
errors IN the statement Of Frederick scharn b-o,s
OF Kate Scharn who was murdered AT bar 49,.
No. s74 Second-ave-. On Saturday last scharn !.
IN the Tombs. held without bail in conueesio,
with the murder. Inspector Harie, daeIa-s, 80
the watch that Scharn pawned belonged to NJ,
Annie Kehoe. who lives on the same aoo- ,s,s
the Scharns. and that the young man also 49,
Kranich & Bach's piano factory while ernDIo0A5
there. Inspector Harley said yesterday that y.
had received information he regarded a. vsIuabla
although II did not attach the murder tn anv 49,,
Harley questions Scharn's abb. notufthstanst
the fact that parts Of his declaration are ssar,,
eorroborated BY others. He believes that the pri.
oner is retardng the work Of the police By dAclt,
ing 70 tell all he knows about the case
Detectives spent all OF yesterday sitting scbs-,l
story. and they say that there is period OF tina
something like an hour long enough for the tragedy
20 have been committed. yet unaccounted FOR Th.v
also say that the girl might been dead AZ Isa-+
Ave hours when the crime was first reported D.
Train. who answered the call sent IN by PoIIceua,
ORourke az 139 o'clock Sunday morning ssvs -
is not prepared 70 that the girl was dad a.
least half an hour when he examined her althau1b
she may have been dead two hours before II tba
time Of death could be precisely established as b.
ing early on Saturday evening the police saw tba
abb would be strengthened.
Dr. Donlin. Deputy Coroner. says that hs I,
positive he can tell the exact hour at which The
girl was murdered II he can learn what time ssa
ate food last He say he has discovered digestsd
caraway seed bread in examination Of the kris
body. As it takes four hours for caravay seed 70
digest, he says. the murder took place four hours
after she ate tn last time. He thinks that was
about O'Clock. from the rigor norris. confirmed
by Dr. Train II is believed the girl died between
10 and II O'Clock
The mysterious alleged TO have been seen
with Miss Scharn at Bloomingdale's store is fast
passing away. because Captain NcCIusky has found
Maggie Burke. who works in the Eagle Pencil
Factory, and she says that Miss Schar1 and a
widow named Mrs Bird. one OF the forewomen IN
the factory went TO Bloouiugdale's store together
on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Bird says that Miss
Seharn took a Second-ave- car for home at Fifty
ninth-st. at 2:30 o'clock and that she would have
reached home at about 2:45 o'clock
The detectives Of the East Thirty-hfth-st. STA
ton last night admitted that they doubted the
story that the murdered girl mad male small pur-
chases in the neighoorhood or her home as late as
pie who said so are mistaken, and that the buying
was done on the previous evening They also Inti-
m e ia - f StI 500 atyter w. &C., 49,
Bloomingdale's store. The brother IS unable 70
S 91 elI 70 '1s o aouS , he me frS5 m az II 30 s f1
neon at Nettie Harris's home. above the Harlem
IN tracing up Scharn detectives say they have 90
tanned information that he was in the vicinity OF his
according TO the abb. he with his sweetheart
b Eaaqei Friend soggasel for rrsasTs ss9s5a
Ts s@eI q MI o. ~ & Ia5 .r9nn
the Warden of the ToIabs TO produce Scharu in the
supreme NOuEl lO-ddy. view 20 obtaining lle
boys release Justice Fitzgerald also granted
writ of certorari directing Coroner Fitzpatrick
produce all the documents connected with the
mitment Of Scharn. Mr.. Friend states in his petit
ton that Scharn'S Imprisonment Is Illegal because
the mandate on which ne was imprisoned does rot
sufficiently charge the prisoner with The conlInis-
sion Of any act which warrants his Imprisonment
Under Inspector Harley's orders small hall bed
room window. which has bloody finger marks on
it, yesterday taken from the Scharn
TO the station house piece OF evidence in the
case Julia Lang. said TO have been a eonh6alr
Of the Scharn girl IN the pencil factory. Is helping
me oeteGtlNss' accoTol9S 20 1nS2ecloT Eiar!sy oy
Mrs Lppold, the girls mother. visited ths scene
of the murder yesterday She is firmly convinced.
she says. that her son knows nothing about the
murder. Mrs. LippOld was examined at length By
Inspector Harley. She asked for possession q her
daughters furniture. which she had bought sac
said.
Nettie Harris, Kuhn. Scharn'S sxestheart
visited him in the Tombs yesterday morning One
Of the keepers said that he did not know who she
was when he admitted her and that r shs called
again she would not be permitted "a see the
prisoner.