New-York tribune., 1901-10-08
BOY MURDERED IN A BAG
RECEPTACLE AND IT'S CHASTITY con
TENTS FOUND IN AN AREAWAY.

one of the most CHASTITY crimes in the police
-scords OF this city discovered yesterday when
-be horribly uutilated body Of Albert Robinson
pan five years old. found. wrapped in a bur
ssn bag in the areaway in front of the four story
-.narrruent house at No. 3el West Twenty-second-
- Three persOns-two and a woman-vere
arrested They Sidney Ryan of No COO
West Twenty-hrst-st., cook the reputed father OF
the boy: Anna Robinson. the reputed mother. with
u,born Ryan lived. and Aonzo Watson, twenty five
years old the OF the janitor o. the house where
the Rvans lived. Watson arrested al his place
of employment No. 81 Lexington-ave. When ar
raigned IN the Jefferson Market Court in the after
noon the -hree prisoners remanded by Magis-
,rate Mott TO the custody of the Coroner
As soon as the body was received at the station
Sergeant Burke called all the policemen there TO
see If they could identity it, Policemen Hogan and
CuIhane Of the opinion that they had seen
the boy in the neighborhood. Detective Hughes
and Central Office Detective Mccarthy de-
railed 10 work the case Soon after O'Clock
little than two hours after the finding of the
body Sidney Ryan called Police Headquarters
70 report the disappearance Of his son. whom he
described Albert Robinson Ryan, five years old.
Ryan informed that body Of a boy an
svering the description of his son had been found
murdered IN West Twenty-second-st and was az
the West Twentieth-st. station house. Sergeant
Burke communicated with by telephone and
he gave such accurate description of the dead
boy that Ryan felt positive that the boy was his
He went the station house, but the body
had in the mean time been removed TO the norgu-
He was shown the clothing found in the bag with
the body, and seeing the blue cap exclaimed
YES that's my boys cap He identified each
garment as belonging TO his son.
Ryan said that he had the lad since
Sunday p m. when the latter playing in
front Of the house where he lived. When the boy
did not appear AT his home night Ryan went 10
the station 10 report his appearance. Sergeant
Coffee directed him TO the bureau Of Information
ted aPE N
the station he arrived there at L2:S5 o'clock Ser
turn to Police Headquarters again ard he re-
traced his steps. Once more he back to
the station. and reached there at o'clock Teat
the last tine he was seen until he called a.
Ryan lived was brought 70 the station house and
Tain Moynihan announced thar he had placed both
From the appearance of the body the police de-
cided that the crime the work OF q denegerate
The basement Of the house is occupied by
Michael Corpaccio a dealer in wood and coal He
uses bags similar TO that in which the body was
found. He reported 10 the police that none OF his
were missing The police now believe that the
bag belongs in the house where the boy lived. and
was used to carry rubbish the street.
The woman admitted that Ryan was not the
father Of the boy, who. Captain Moynihan said.
lived somewhere in Seventieth-st. The was
married and the father OF several children. the
captain said.
Drs. O'Hanlon and Higgins. who performed the
autopsy; said that death was due TO asphyxia. un-
outward appearances q stranguation. and the boy
the asphyxia produced with some drug.
Coroner Bausch. after examining the woman
Ryan and AlOnZo Watson. discharged all but Wat
who was held IN s5,oc0 bonds suspicious
person.
Captain Moynihan announced last night that he
had obtained what he considered most damaging
evidence against Watson He found the desired
elew in the socks that found in the burlap bag
that contained the boys body.
Tonight. said the captain Il sent Detectives
Hughes and Mccarthy over to Mrs. Watson. They
took the socks with them These socks pecul-
lar. They made from the upper part of
pair OF wOman's stockings. The legs Of the stock
ings had been slit down the front, and then sewed
up again. 50 as TO form feet And when they
were found the inprints OF mans feet were still
.n them The socks were shown TO Mrs. Watson.
and she asked If she had ever seen them
before
Why. yes she said: I've them before.
Tfey belong 10 my boy I've been looking for them
all day because l wanted to wash them.
she said that her son had made the socks him
self. When the detectives expressed doubt OF Wat
sons ability do this 4 neatly IL had been
done. Mrs. Watson. according the captain,
claimed. On. couldn't he? and showed them
patchwork quilt which she said her had made.
The detectives compared the thread IN the quilt
and that in the socks, and thought they detected
resemblance
Watson is a tenor singer. and has sung in the
Zion Methodist Episcopal Church in West Fifty
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