The sun., 1901-06-19
HUNT FOR WIFE MURDERER;
II NARRAU Is BL0SDIy NE WAS AT
900 THIRD AVENUE.

Detectives Thick In the Nsishborhood --Ad.
dress Given BY the Man Himself In . Let
ter Inquirins for His Baggage -Mauaa
Bow-LesseA Like the Man suspected.
The search for Joseph Wilfred Blondin.
! the bow-leggsd Canadian and alleged wife
murderer from Boston. was narrowed down
yesterday to. two adj dining houses on Third
avenue, the baggage room at the Fall River
Line pier, the Grand Central Station and the
branch post ofIlcs at Lexington avenue and
Forty-fourth street. Each place was watched
by Central Ofice deteotives, detectives from
Boston and several Boston reporters who
had been be ping hunt for Blondin In Montreal
and who came on here to help. too. On
Monday night, when the search began In
thi, city. Capt. Titus's men were set to watch
half q dozen houses In any ono Of which tho
supposed Blondin. or Joseph Marrau.' a.
he calls himself here. might have sought
refuge.
| The pslios learned yesterday that Marrau
had tried TO engage lodgings st $50 Thira
| avenue and at the house next door They
! got the clue from the man himself.
Tho murdered woman's head was found
| and idenLned o N June II and the same day
Blondin disappeared on June 10 tho bag
gage master Of the Fall River Line at fall
River received letter. dated from New YORK
| on June l2, and signed Joseph Marrau. Inc
| letter contained q baggage receipt Tor trunk
| and bicycle, the check numbers being written
on the receipt, and . request that the goods
| be forwarded to the Fall River pier here.
| and the receipt returned TO the writer. NO
| other address than New York was given by
Marrau Tho baggage master forwarded
| the luggage The trunk and bicycle reached
| here last Friday, aud are held at the faii
! River yier
| Yesterday ct Fall River. Agent Ackley
| Of the New Haven road got this letter:
| NEW YORK. n. Y, June "a, 1901.
| L send TO you tho ~ June one letter con-
tend 20 check one for bicycle. and one Tor
| trunk from Boston No OF check for wheel
2e4,l5i No. or check for trunk 1868. and
ben down tonow In Boston and met one OF
| my friend. and told him | want go to Fall
| river. vel he told mo come With me In New
| york and get ysu lob withe me. said al
| right. and after we ben to Newyork he took
me to tho Post ONCE this morning. ma
| the adress was RoNn and would you be good
| for me to writh TO the other address, II your
did not have the check and letter send tho
trunk and wheel to this adress: 600 Third
Ave. And my letter near Grand Central
station. Tho oosr letter | send 10 you Just
| give my address Newyork but the Post once
pear v here live his the branch p z station
mail M Il You T please. ! am yours.
Jos MARRAu.
And with Q letter to yop 20 send my
and =, ShSs to MswBSss sEs ccs nGE %ous
| you please let me now In my address, by return
'Sst SsSr 'e.sss sts nSx sSr... Sss Sss
letter. the Asept fallriver. Mass and after
p, s. SEND me the check an bl and what
Jos MAnRAt. go Third Ave. Nsvyork.'
The ID re.s was l,sraphed 90 the Nav.
Yori 10 leo once.
wednesday At the houfe ss, Third avenue
the s second s%s' door. i he could have board sHa
Sf no room @ for him and hs went svay She
| told the detectives yesterday that shs sent
tho man away because she didn't IKE his
.S So, ssvs "a tssd H.d With that T slondin fur-
nishsd BY the Boston I.llQe. ME. Bergen
a!s9 aenffd phCs9HSrips ,sHSo Of ne fqsaye h.srs
on Saturday and told her Mat that as he
had taken Il for granted e. that % oeu.d oosfo 70
her hous. hs asked ber II !SAe would 70
SI .d H ,S, .aS H9d 3 Dn he s.. mailed s.
he asked Mrs Bernard Xonahaa to take him
IN a. = bOard.r She also Refused Then
| BE trunk to be sent to her address and asked
s. c.sd ioT ' Z sSs '.a ths, 81. you'd .,
trunk when the Detectives called on them
and Informed them that their visitor vas
if shs ,hsTy s.n Sq s1HH sa.r & S $ So%
and d hfy3s honan the 3 S'seF sxiSa RsSs
.lhoH P;0nHr and :.Ost6y bHit, With a deep chest
broad pair Si 9,r snd ndrs
The humber Of the check mentioned by
SumS.r MhT Sa o hs he cSess & attached TO +. green
| trunk which Blondin sent from Boston I"
So Some ne Of Of the people in tn. n.ishborh.sd st
600 Third avenue said last night that married.
psl named blondin had lived at 2es East
Third syerue house .evs5M SI,y years ago and
The invsstiga tion being done hero for the
Boston city police !. In chsrsep q lnsS.s'sT
tho Massachusetts State police and State
Detectiye Neal are also hero,
ssa.S iSan came to SsV Roehse from New
York on Saturday morning apd tried 10 get
| Job IN a stable FROM here he went 70 Pel-
ham. where he snplied to Stabletnsn c. 4,
went to Port Chester on Sunday night and
there applied at Charles ii Bsnedict's stable
| that he could no to work on the next dsy,
| He did not come back the next day.
The descriptions OF the man furnished by
| the three liverystable men ana the Motel pro-
| prietor are the same as that OF Blondin fur
nished by the police
MONTREAL, Que June is.--A French paper
here saws hat Blondin spent several days
| at Rouse's Point, stopping at hotel irsqurntos
BY Chinese smugglers md that he rode into
| the town on n bicycle White there he shaved
| OF his mustsche and had his hair cut entirely
| changing his appearance When he took the
| trim for Montreal he left behind him pair
| OF bicycle stockings and his Anickerbockers