New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-16
NAY HAVE KILLED THEM.
sHEARN-s ADMISSION ABOUT THE
sMoTHERED BOYS.
CORONER HOLDS THE CARETAKER IN $500
BAIL WHEN HE HEARS 1T.

Cornelius Ahearn the caretaker OF the empty
house at No. Jos Edsecombe-ave in a closet of
which two boys were found dead Tuesday. at
first denied positively knowledge of their pitt
tui fate. but yesterday before Coroner yucca he
made an admission which viii strengthen the sus-
picicn against him. yucca asked him:
DO you know anything about the deaths Of
these two boys" and Ahearn answered tremblingly:
Il may have slammed the door of the closet not
knowing that the boys were in there"
yucca held him in $1,000 bail, which was fur
nished by ex-Polce Sergeant Charles Granger, Of
Brooklyn. Granger was a captain in the ssth New
York Volunteers. in which Ahearn served during
he Civil War He said ne would be responsible
Tor his appearance next Tuesday, when the in
quest Will be held
coroner's Physician Williams told Coroner yucca
later that he had made another examination of the
bodies. and found marks of violence. He SAID
they had died from suffocation and starvation
On Wednesday he said they died from violence. II
is difficult understand how they died from suffo-
cation and starvation both. A mere layman might
be excused for thinking that sufocation would not
wait long hunger do its work. 1t is reported
that leg OF of the boys broken, but
confirmation Of this runlor could be had.
Ahearn again arraigned before Magistrate
Hogan in the Harlem police court, yesterday
morning, charged with being a suspicious per-
son in connection with the Magistrate
Hogan said that it unnecessary TO have divided
responsibility. and, inasmuch the Coroner was
making an investigation into the matter, he would
the West ne-hundred-and-twenty- ffth-st. station
stu adhere to their opinion thaTAhearn had moth
Ing whatever 10 dc with the death Of the boys.
The funeral of Charles Berne, of the little
Victims, took place at the Morgue yesterday morn
lnS The Morgue keeper had put the body in Its
CONN IN me MorSue chapel. Ii about II O'CLOCK
MneIl the father and mother called with some OF
Inc DoNs friends, and his brother and sister All
went into the chapel and kneit down for about
i.iteen minutes. There clergyman and
there was no other ceremony. Some candles were
lighted, and that was all. AfterwaTd the coffin
was placed by the undertaken IL the hearse.
There were two carriages in waiting and into these
The parents ana the young people entered. They
We're driven off about II 80 o'clock St. Raymonds
Cemetery. in Westminster.
While The Beirnes and their friends Were in the
chapel the father of the Loef1er boy called at the
Morgue. He told the Morgue keeper that he wanted
as q memento the little white shirt which the boy
wore al the time he was found in the closet. The
Keeper gave il TO him. The body Of the Loefier
boy placed in a coffin with silver handles and
silver cross top. IL also placed by the
keeper in The little chapel of the Morgue The
boys parents reached the Morgue early in the af-
ternoOn, and they went into the chapel There
were some friends there also. The candles were
again lighted and the parents and friends knelt
down and prayed for a few minutes. The burial
in Calvary Cemetery.