New-York tribune., 1901-09-04
NEW ARREST IN GOLF CLUB CASE.
A coLoRED MAN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
LATE LAST NIGHT-sToRY ABOUT
MEMBER WHO DISPLAYED
ROLL OF BILLS

The developments in the double murder which was
committed at the Siwanoy Country Club on Sunday
go to show chief OF Police Foley asserts. that
third person knows something Of the tragedy Rster
r,uckinghofT and Warner Sinlms. waiter and cook.
respectively arrested suspicion. are stth locked
up They we're given preliminary hearing before
Coroner Banning yesterday and remanded until to-
day when the Coroner will hold the inquest IN the
Mount Vernon city Court room.
II is now rumored jealousy over woman was the
cause OF the dual tragedy. and William Lynch. de-
tective Is working that theory. Who the woman
IS and in what she figures in the case the ponce
h pttn'r ept,vr s,5 Scott Who vas murdered have
wives living. John stevens the other dead man.
a bachelor. The assertion is made that Simms
expected that before the inquest another waiter;
who employed at the club two weeks ago, ana
who quarrelled with the murdered men VII. be
the clubhouse before ne left it and it is alleged that
The police observed great secrecy about colored
Ivnch The mans name is Thomas Williams and
he lives at Williamsbridge in The Bronx He is a
charleston 5 {. Il is believed that Williams is
one of two men who inquired their way 70 the golf
IT Is said. were seen at later hour coming from
the direction of the club by conductor on the
Chester Hin trolley road. Chief Foley locked
Williams up and Will have the streetcar conductor
take A look him this morning to see II he can
identify him In the meanwhile an effort is being
made by the detectives TO find the other man. and
his arrest may be accomplished before morning.
Chief Foley when asked about Williams's
ord and the part he may have taken in the trag
edy refused 10 make any statement. The chief
said however. that If the report that the two men
had inquired their way 10 the clubhouse late at
night was IT would form most valuable clew
10 the tragedy.
A story which has been reported to Coroner Ban
ming and is going the rounds among the club mem
bers is that n wealthy member of the club, whose
name is carefully guarded. left this city on Satur-
day night on a train that reached Mount Vernon
at 10 so O'Clock This man is said 10 have had
81 900 in his possession He had been drinking
heavily and when he reached Mount Vernon he
decided 10 try 10 brace himself up at the club be-
fore going home. he was driven there and re-
NAMED am hour or so. The theory is that this man
was followed by a New-York crook who had
seen him display his money, and that the crook.
not seeing the go home waited about the club
until the lights in the building were put out and
then went tiptoeng through the sleeping rooms
searching for him. In doing so IL is believed that
he aroused the steward and head waiter, and, in
order 10 escape. stabbed them and then beat them
with the golf club after the men were dead. The
man. II Is thought. may have seen the tin box con-
tanning the clubs money and taken II from under
Scott's bed.
The coroner expects to get at the bottom OF this
story to-day by finding out what member of the
club was there last Saturday night. and 10 this
end he has subpunaed at least a dozen of the
members to attend the inquest. which is 10 be held
at s o'clock in the City Court room.