The sun., 1902-09-28

| The policemen forced an entrance 10 the
place by the Chinese restaurant door and
! Immediately went for the cellar door,
| through which volumes Of smoke We're
pouring. The smoke was caused by fire
in the furnace. The furnace has not been
used for months, and the chimney pipe
had been detached, 40 the smoke simply
poured out of the pipe, There was a fearful
odor in the cellar A. soon IA their eyes
got used To the light in the dingy, low
ceinged place, the policemen saw al the
| foot of the stairs a great pool of blood, in
| the middle of which was the block Of wood
which McAnierney says Tobin used in
beheading his victim.
| Blood was spattered all over the cellar
and here and there the policemen found
fragments Of mans clothing At the
mouth of the furnace they found several
articles Of clothing half burned as though
they had been showed into the furnace
and had fallen ont again. At this time
| the fire in the furnace. which had been
an affair of wood and paper, was beginning
TO die out and, looking in through the mar
! row door, Policeman Cox saw mans head
in the midst of the flames The policemen
| ran upst airs and got water and from he bar.
seltzer siphons, with which they succeeded
in extinguishng the fire in the furnace.
| Then with long poker they got the head
! ont. II had been only partially burned,
| still ident ification Of II seemed impossible.
save by means OF the front teeth across
| which some bridge work had recently been
| done
HEADLRsS TRUNK FOUND AT ONCE.
| d., a. IL 4
| Of his men and the detectives from Police
Headquarters had arrived. As soon as
| Capt Sheehan arrived he took McAnierney
who had come up with the detectives. aside
and made him repeat his story. He then
sent several men upstairs TO arrest every
body in the house, and took up the
search for the remainder Of the body with
the others.
They didn't have much TO do Away
back in the rear Of the cellar under a graf =
ing, through which the morning sun was
| just coming, he found the headless body.
II was lying on its back, with the legs
crossed. and was absolutely nude, Over
il number Of boxes and boards had been
piled, but they only partially concealed
| il. The head and the body were put to-
| was dispatched for Coroner Jackson.
roBIS SAT FEIuNE,G SLEEP
| Policeman Xieglnr had led those who had
| been assigned to arrest everybody upstairs
| The idea Of finding TObn never occurred
| TO the police, as II was supposed that he
had fed But when Zegler got into the
| dim Empire drinking room, h" thought
| he saw n man on a chair in the back. He
| went back and found 1ohln on the chair,
partially covered with an oriental portiere.
| and pretending to be- G,sleep. He shook
| up TObin, and questioned him, but Tobin
refused 10 say a word. Capt Sheet a.
was notified and he tried 10 get something
out Of Tchn. but was also unsuccessful
Kelly, the porter, who had been picked up
| in the Chinese restaurant, was also ques-
| toned, but declared he knew nothing about
| the matter As he hadn't been around all
| night He was arrested however, and with
| Tobin and McAnierney was sent around to
the West Thirtieth street station. Two
men who I. ye the names Of Thomas Bur
| cell and v liam Hopkins, were found in
| the hotel part Of the building. They said
| they We're medical students. Grace Bur
nett was found with one of the men. but
| Stella Davis, who had been with the other,
| had gone. She was arrcsted later. Coroner
| Jackson allowed the medical students to
| 60, but sent the women to the House of
| Detention. Later in the day Ida Craven,
| the housekeepcr, and Mamie Turner. were
| also arrested and also sent To the House Of
| Detention. A number Of others were taken
| in and examined AZ the station house and
| then allowed to 90. Among them was
| G. = Chin, the proprietor Of the Chinese
restaurant. He knew nothing about the
murder until he got to the place yesterday
| afternoon.
GIRL SAYS MASlERNEY WAS IN IT.
| Mamie Turner told Capt Sheehan last
| night that sh" knew nothing Of the murder
| until yesterday afternoon, when she saw il in
| the newspapers. IL was about or o'clock
| she said when she left Craft, Tobin and
| MCAnierney, and she went because the
two latter men practically ordered her to.
| She saw that the two were going TO try
| and get Crafts money, she said, and when
she left them they We're doing their utmost
to get him ont Of the drinking room and
upstairs. The police regard TINS statement
| aS important as II indicates that MCAnierney
had bigger share in the crime than he has
! confessed TO.
HAD TRIFD TO CrT THE BoDY UP
examination Of he body ort he prisoners
| was made bv the police unit the arrival of
| Coroner jackson at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing On the body a fearful cash ex-
tending from he left side Of the back Of
the head down TO the point of the chin,
Severing he ear, was found II is believed
that this was made by TObin while trying
10 hack The head on. There were three
bad gashes on the trunk, which were also
| evidentl ~ made 10y TObin with the cleavcr
He evidently had planned to Cu,the body
| into small bits and burn IL , but aftertryi
tto burn he head In "A detached furnace saw
that he couldn't do ii and gave up A
| superficial examination would not show
| the exact cause Of deat h, and Coroner Jack
! son ordered hat an analysis Of thecontents :
Of the stomach be made.
| THREE HELD PoR MURDER.
| Al the order of the Coroner. Tobn was
| brought around again TO the house from
the station The head and body were
placed before him and he was made TO look
al them, but he never finched. He declined
10 say anything. but not once during this
ordeal did he show any sign of weakening
A small dirk knife was found on him. There
was also roll of bills, $50 in all, which the
| police say was the money stolen from the
body Of Craft There was blood on Tobin' :
clothing There waa also blood on Mean
ierney's clothing. and Porter Kelly came
under suspicion because letter addressed
TO the dead man was found in his pocket
Capt. Sheehan decided to make a charge
ot murder in he first degree against all
| three men, and while his men and men
from District Attorney Jerome's Office
remained AT the Empire to find out who
Oners down to he Criminal Courts building
There Coroner jackson committed them
without bail to the Tombs.
| ToBIN SAYS M'ANIERNFY DID IT.
| On the way down to the Criminal Court :
building in The patrol wagon, TObin learned
that McAnierney had told all about the