The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-09-30
MURDERED FOR GOLD
Display OF Money in the
TenderIoin is Fatal.
lanes Craft Killed by 4 Waiter OF The Umpire.
u;s Head Hacked eff and Partially
Burned.
NV the Associated Press.)

Now York. Sept. 27.-James b. Craft, Il
u.aa1+v resident of Glen Cove. Long
leland mas murdered today and his body
decanitated in a TenderlOin resort known
as The Empire Garden Cafe in West
Twontv-ninth street, within a few doors
of Roadway. All the evidence goes 10
show. say the police, that Craft, who
had been making the rounds OF the
Tenferloin. incautiously displayed .
largo amount of money in the Empire,
and was killed by one of the walters
| known as Thomas Tobin for the purpose
| of robbery. The police also say that
knockout drops We're first administered
| and that then the victim was dragged INTO
| tho basement and killed with a cleaVer.
The odor OF burning flesh attracted the
attaption of the occupants of the upper
| nart of the house early this morning ana
led TO the discovery by detectives OF the
| nude and headless body of q man IN
the The charred mead was
discovered a few minutes later IN Inc
| furnace, in which a fire had been re-
Gently made with the evident Intention
| of destroying all possibility OF ldentln-
| cation of the remains. Later the body
was identified by Walter Craft OF Glen
| Cove. as that of his father. The muir
| dered man was about 81 years OF age,
| and was a manufacture of refrlgeratlng
machinery in COrtlandt street, this city.
Tobin. who is charged with the murder,
+, was caught hiding in the house. The
police also arrested Alexander McAnerney.
| the bar tender; Robert Kelly, a porter
in a Chinese restaurant in the building,
- -~,,orol np,a who ware known a
be frequenters of the place. The police
| said tonight that Tobin's real name is
! Thomas Kelly, and that he is a brother
| of the porter Kelly. They also learned
that Craft attempted to get a check for
| 81. 25O cashed before he went to the En-
pire.
A woman named Mamie Moore, who is
| known to have been in the place with
Craft, and who is held as a witness.
made an important statement tonight
which the police declined to make public.
She is said to nave implicated Nc
Anerney as an accomplice Of Tobin.
There are now twenty-nine homicide
cases in the Tombs, including Molineux
and the recent acquisition, Young, the
alleged murderer of Mrs. Pulitzer.
At the examination at the coroner's
office the police declared that they found
on i OUlu, MICA HeIuey anu nelly lSlItl ,
and papers belonging to the dead man.
In his story to the coroner. McAnerney
said the man who was killed exhibited a
big roll of bills, and Tobin suddenly told
him he lied and struck him over the
head. He dragged him down stairs, and
as he passed through one of the lower
floors he picked up a cleaver and struck
the unconscious man across the chest.
Il followed him to the cellar Nc
Anerney continued. Il watched TObin
drop his burden and begin to hack at the
mans neck. He chopped and chopped,
and when the head refused to come off
he began to saw it with the cleaver. He
suddenly turned round and discovering
me he said he would cut my head off too,
As McAnerney related the story Tobin
jumped to his feet and said it was Nc
Anerney who murdered the mar and
not he.