The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-08-22
STILL BATTLES THE POLICE
CLUES IN MYSTERIO SCHARN
 MURDER LEAD TO NAUGHT.
Girls Rings Found in Pawnshop- Druggist Tyler Denies Any KnowI- edge and Objects to Questioning Funeral of the Young Woman Held Yesterday Afternoon.

New York, Aug. 21.-The first infor-
 nation given out by the police to-day in
 connection with the murder of Kate i Scharn, which occurred Saturday night
 or Sunday morning, in her apartments | in Second avenue, was the discovery of
 two rings in the shop of BoWery
 pawnbroker. The rings were paWned
 yesterday. To-day they were taken to
 police headquarters and shown to friends of the murdered girl, some of
 whom thought they were the rings of
 Kate Scharn, while others thought to the contrary The rings were taken to the station and shown to the brother of the murdered girl, and he was asked to Identify them. On the advice Of his counsel he refused to make any state ment. Captain McCluskey is of the opinion that they are not the rings worn by the girl.
 Dr. w. H. Tyler, the druggist who owns the house in which Kate Scharn and her brother had an apartment, was questioned to-day more fully as to any knowledge he might have of the case. He said: "I don't see why I am called upon for any information about this case. for I know nothing about the girl further than the fact that she and her brother rented rooms in my build ing"
 When asked as to his whereabout Sun
 p'a TNr Tyr1af pied That is my own business. will not say where I went that night except to the proper authorities. I have told the detectives all about my move- ments that day"
 The police claim that they have statement from Julia Lang, the former companion of Kate Scharn, who it is said quarreled with Kate Scharn about a man. The police refuse to divulge the statement made to them by Miss Lang, further than to say that 1t serves to fasten more closely the web of guilt about two persons under suspicion. It is understood that Miss Lang is al pres ent out of the city on her vacation.
 This afternoon seven men were lined up in the East 35th street station. Two
 
 man dressed in a blue serge suit brought in by the police and told to pick out some one, the name not being men, toned by the policeman for publication, walked up to Scharn and placed his hand on his shoulder. Inspector Harley refused to make any explanation of the incident
 The mystery was completely dissipat- ed later in the day by the announce ment that he was a pawnbroker and identified Scharn as the boy who had pawned a watch in his place the day preceding the murder. Which watch could not be ascertained. Brockenheim- CT the pawnbroker who identified Scharn at the station. said that after Scharn pawned the watch August 1 he came back August and asked him to give him s5 more on the watch as he, | Scharn, said he probably would not call again to redeem it. Broeckeimer gave him the additional sum.
 The funeral of the murdered girl !. took place this afternoon from an un- shop in Second avenue. Young Scharn and his sweetheart with | the elder woman walking by the girls side went into the shop. Scharn walk ed to the side of the caslset and gazed at the fact of his dead sister, his sweet | heart standing beside him. Scharn ap- peared composed. There was no ser f vice.