The evening world., 1901-08-19
Police Arrest Man Supposed
to Be Responsible for
James Lyons Death.
BARNEY SWEENEY The MAN
Young Lyons Conducted lnvestiga-
tion and Learned Of His Father
Having Been in Fight.

There is much mystery and silence on
tho part ot the police surrounding the
death OF Jane. Lyons. whose body.
bearing mnrxs OF violencc. was picked
up In the Eas, River on Saturday.
| The police have been conducting "A
| careful investigation. ami las, night ar
rested Barney Sweeney, o, No. sls Sec
onl avenue. = s,rn., payer In the EN-
rI"y o; ;ac CRY.
! Il l. Sweeney who. II is believed. had
a nSh, with LIONS on tn" oulkhcah AZ
the ;not ot w.-t Fulton street on
Friday night. the time when the latter
disaPpctfcd from ais home. a, No. 'oo
West Forty-n!n,n street;
Actin; captain Dennis Grady. .. the
Detective Bureau. ss!d to-day that thcF"
was no evidence o. murder as yet. and
that he aas awaiting the result OF the
autopsy before moving actively In the
matter
a payer named Gcrr.ty. held as Wit
ness, says that Lyons came down 10
Desbrosses street dock full ot hghi.
challenging all the men 81, work s"e"-
ney To get him away, made as though
TO take up his challenge and walked him
away TO the buikhcad At Fulton street.
Grimes followed them. and when they
were beginning actually TO hSnt came
between them and induced Sweeney 10
return 10 work with him. He left Lyons
on the bulkhcad
Sweeney denied to the police that he
had gone to the pier with Lyons or had
amy words with him
According to the story told TO the
police hy the members ot the dead man =
family. who i've In the same house.
Lyons left home AT O'Clock on Wsdnes'
day night 10 go to work He was a
foreman o: PAYERS employed in the De-
par,mcn, OF Highways and had charge
OF Two gangs Who we're repairing the
| roadway In DesbrosseS street. near
West street
James Lyons. the son. who identified
the body OF his father AT the Morgue, be-
: gan an investigation into his father $
| When taken from the water Lyons =
face and head were crushed in. MS eyes
almost gouEed out: and tnere was ter
Young Lyons said that the !nvesiisa'
lions proved his belief tha: his fatnc
was murdered and hung into the r!ve'
inI OF the mans body in the East River
According 10 the story told to th'
police by Lyons. Patrick Grimes. o
Franklin street. the man !mned,atels
above James Lyons. told the son tha
his father had been engaged In nSh
with a fellow workman on the night OF
nis disappearance.
Grimes told me- said the younger
Lyons that at about II o'clock on
Friday niEht my father had dis
pute with on. %. the men IN his SanH,
He said the two men went down io the
bu!khcad. ai the Zoo; OF West Fulton
street. and fought II out.
Il learned the name Of the man. ana
ne admitted the fac; that a hight had
takcn place. He said that Grimes. the
head foreman. and two others OF the
gang went down to the bu.khead with
, him and Lyons TO referee the Tight. hut
that II was soon over. and they parted
friends"
My father was never Killed ny "a rs,
blow" said Peter Lyons. 'flc was hit
on the head back OF the right ear by
brass knuckics or n bludSeon. and was
dead when put In the water.
al tho Morgue they told US tina, q
body placed In the water before death
| would not come to the surface under
nine days. whereas my fathers body
was found just three days after the
hgh,:
isrrarty, He may be able TO tel lust
how my father was murdered"
Sweeney was arra!gnri before MnEis-
tratc Olmsted In tn. Centre Street Po-
lice Court to-day. and r-mandci n the
Coroner. In court there were a mum
| her Of witnesses TO swear fhnt ihey saw
Lyons after his trouble with SS"cncy
and that he was not bruised then.