The sun., 1901-10-08
BOY MURDERED BY PERVERT.
FIVE ARRESTS ON ~ SPiCION
AND THREE MEN HELD.
Crime Of tnprintsbIe Airorit, In . u~-i
slide Negro District He'd, Thrust
in q sack and thrown into an Area.
wsy Victim tut, tt,e ,earS old.

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va, Victim Onp tt,e YEAR old.
clad only In cotton underclothcS and
stuffed together with the outer garments he
had worn. into coarr. burlap bag such ~
IL used by wood dealers for delivering their
war-e, the body Of fve-yeai -old boy
who had been murdered under circum-
stances Of imprint able strocity. wss found
by q policeman al ten minute. to q O'Clock
Yesterday morning IN the narrow areav av
IN front Of ia. hrown-ton" hou-- at 3ol
West Twenty second str'-st Tn. body
was carried to the Norgue and WA ideuti-
fled later In the day a. that Of Alier Robin
son. ia. son 81 a mulatto woman narne,i
Anna Robinson. who for three years has
b.en living with a white man named Sidney
Ryan. their present re-idencp bring 3Oj
West Twenty first street Five arrests
we're made Two. made last night. ths
police regard A. very important
II VA evident 10 tho police st a glance
that the boy had been murdered While
ther. wsre no outward marks ~ violence
sufficient to cause death. the manner IN
which the little corpse had be.u huddled
into the bag with the clothirg he had worn
when last seen alive, pointed plainly 20
cTim. and not To- actid"ut ~ the caus"
Of death The police biotter revealed that
the man RYAN. who - cook out OF
employment, had been to IA" station re
peatedly on th. night b.fOre. inquiring
for a lost boy who answered the general
description Of the body Ryan was taken
around to the station at s2O o'clock IN
the morning and he Identified the clothing
on tho boy a. Ina, Of the missing Albert
Robinson Then the Robinson woman
herself came around aud identified the
BODY
In the storie- told by the couple there
were som. tTifiug dIsCrrpauCI.s and the
police detained them They were -ub-e-
quently released by the Coroner, however,
a. here soemed no doubt uf th" Cprrectn--s
- their ststenents Ia all essential par
tic,Ilais
Oi, The str-ng, h OF information, the nature
OF which thew refused To- reveal the police
later arrested AonNp Watson, culored
aud III wears old lie In the sou ~ Hannah
Mat-un 10. Ianitrrs- of TN. hou-. whar-
the boN hia mother and Ryan lived. Wat
son - eInploSed Ia r'-I"'' Ahl" hoI-'
a. 81 Lexington avenue, "a man oi all work
lie alsn sings In ~ Marks VI ! Church
tro!oredi IN Fifty-thfd street Il was
Wat-un'- habit 20 ss@p at his m"ih''i-
runulr at West Tw.ity-frs' street and so
assist her In the mornlug- until o clock
Then ha went to the Lexington avenue
houS. aud remained all dAN OH sunday
he sang morning and "veyihs - n" chutch,
gong from his home 20 III" evening ~"r'it"
n- mother SAID that he Was al home IN
the afternoon of sunday. not feeling We'll
This story Of hi- uihe-s j. confirmed by
hS employer
Just before midnight detectives a.
rested Harry Iri",i"r. al tnglirhnan, aud
William De Lyons. culor.,d who lived
together az s?a West Tw"utv-trst street,
which ia only short distance from 'hc
hou-a ~ which ia" Rohiu-ons hv" WIN
the prisonerS AT 'hs, address also liv"d
a n.gro named Paine who IA rmpluved
on a SDupd stcamiuat and has been away
sin,,, SATURDAY. Trl,.,i.r aud De LYONS
the rolica aay are friends of Watson
although neither they nor Watson will
admit RI
They occ,plsd a room on the second floor
Of ,h. rear ious. and in II the detectives
found a bag like tina, Ia which the body
was discovered They also found a bath
robe on which wei. stains which lookei
very much like blood The polio" will
hav. ~. .taiu. analyy.d The police say
thai ,h, Eal,in-on hoy had often h,.,.ft -e.II
ulayiuy IN the ward and had bean noticed
by the men undet arrest Both men were
locke,l nm for th. night Watson IL held
,,,,t,, a. o,n taii
Tn. Unhin-dn woman gave the police
,hs ,a,n. ~ ~. l.o,'s fafTrr a. il said
,r ho an yigh,h nv.,u. business man with
a Wife and several childr-n Il wiz re-
pnrt.d that he ton. would - arrested
ibuugh what. n auN. evidence the ponce
mad against him wa- not made known
pr- O'Ua,I,u and Higgins mad. an
autopsv on the boy, BODY II revealed
,Nai I'M. chill hal l-ru tUr victim Of an
attack uf uusp.akahl. amt almost incnu-
g,iy.hI., brltaltv In" immediate cause
of death Wa asphyNiatiou and y ~""m"d
urohahl.. that the murderer had -moi hcr'Si
INN a. there were uu marks about the
throat to suggest choking Ite rhv-ician-
found IN ,h. stomach traces oi What they
CONCEIVE a chemical analysis wall show 10
h.. some -tup.fying drug such an analy-
.,s will hc made
The bag In which the BODY was carried
to the piaCa where n wa- finally thrown l.
mo-, likely t. IT, 81 much value a. a clue
Tho tvue ~ sack is common all through
the tenement district. ard there va no