The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-24
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Nj. Behan Tells Of Fight Be-.
tween Kate and Brother.
IT MAYsoLvE MUROERMYSTERY
Fred SchaTn's Sweetheart Is still Faithful
and Accompanied Him From Court After
hs Was Indicted for Burglary.

New York, Aug. a-Teddie Behan' an
undertaker's assistant and embaimer'
made statements to the police and TO Dr.
W. III. Tyler. the druggist, which the po-
lice hope may lead TO solution or the
Kate Scharn murder mystery.
Behan lives on the second floor of NO.
3i5 East Thirty-third street,just one flight
above where Mamie Cunningham was
strangled to death. four years ago, ana
just one flight under the fiat occupied
by James Farrell. the young man VINO
was arrested for the Cunningham MUIR
der, and held i'm jail for eighteen months
before he was proved innocent,
IL was TO DR. Tyler that Behan first
confided that he had information bear
ing on the murder, telling him story
which III IL is TO be believed, bears
strongly against Fred Scharn, brother
of the dead girl.
II heard woman say that she had
seen Fred and his sister In fist fight
on the day the girl was murdered" BE
han told Dr. Tyler, according to the
iatter'ss statement 10 the police. THE
woman lives i'm one OF the fiat houses in
Thirty-seventh street. just east OF Sec
ond avenue. She told me she was look
ing out of her window. which overlooks
the rear windows of the Scharn fiat.
when she saw the brother and sister
come 10 blows. They fought for several
seconds before they disappeared from
the window, and she could see no more"
DIR. TYLER INFORMS POLICE.
Or. Tyler, who had lent every aid pos
sible to the police. hastened to tell them
what Bahan had said. The police lost no
time Ia looking up Behan.
Behan turns out to be the man who
caused the arrest of a stranger, Monday
night. because he had talked of the muir
der in saloon near the Scharn house.
The stranger was discharged.
Scharn was indicted for burglary. re-
Gently. for stealing the watch of Mrs.
Ann Kehoe, who lived on the same floor
with him and his sister. Earlier I'm the
day he was taken into court on the
habeas corpus writ obtained by Lawyer
Friend. but the proceedings were ad-
iourned TO IL o'clock, yesterday morn
ing.
Miss Nette Kubin met him at the
court room door. and in spite of the fact
that he was handcuffed. walked with him
back 10 prison.
Mrs. Charles McHatcet, who lives on
the top floor of No 676 Second avenue
the house adjoining the fiat In which the
Scharns lived yesterday stated that the
pOruercS winch were nung out or the
window of the Scharn apartment on the
day OF the murder were taken I'm out OF
the rain about p. m.
Much Importance is placed upon the
time these portieres were taken in. as
II in n measure bears out the alibi of the
brother. Fred. by proving that the sister
was alive at the time he says he was al
the home OF the Kubins In the Bronx.
RELIEVES BOY INNOCENT.
While Nettie Kubn. sweetheart of Fred
Scharn. has declared that nothing can
come between her and the brother of
the murdered girl. her father yesterday
said that IL young Scharn were proved
guilty Of the theft of the watch from
Mrs. Annie kehoe and OF the piano keys
from the piano factory in whk,h he
teen-year-old daughter and young Scharn.
II don't believe young Scharn guilty of
the murder OF his sister" Mr. Kubin said
when seen at his home In East one Hun
drad and Sixty-second street. NOR do I
believe him guilty OF the thefts of which
he Is accused. / can almost swear
Inspector Harley admitted yesterday
that there was no loophole In Fred
Scharn's alibi on the day of the murder
from 4:30 p. m, when he arrived at the
Kubin house. until he left there a few
minutes before midnight.
William F. Howe says he is satisfied
that Fred Is innocent and Alexander S.
williams says the slayer will be found