Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-09-29
BUTCHERED IN, A DIVE
Captain }. b. Craft of Glen Cove Muir.
dered In New York.
HEAD PUT INTO A FURNACE.
The Empire. Il Resort In West Tween.
ty-ninth street, che scene of Foul
Crime-Suspect TObin, u Wait
er with IL Bud Record.

NsW York, Sept 2D.--ResdcntS {
West Twenty-n.ith street complailc
to Captain Sheellan of the Tenderlui
station of IL bad odor in the neiglbu
hood of No. -. and at once CHptni
Sheehan and several detectives WEI
to The place and traced the odor TO til
basement of the building which is use
as II Chinese restaurant. Here the
found the nude and headless body OF
man. Blood was all over the pluc3
Close by under pile Of lumber the pI
lice found another man feigning slpc]
who gave the name of Tobin.
There was Il fire in the furniup
which. the captain says. he ana hi
men extinguished with few pals o
water. Then with long bar IT,.
pulled out the cllarred head of Il ma!
which was found to belong to the bod,
Tobin was Immediately arrested. lie /.
known in the Tenderloin as big I ~
and was arrested Il short time ago ful
an excise violation.
The Body Identified.
Positive identification was later ST..
cured Of the hcadless body of the m4n.
He vas Captain Walter Craft of Isl,,!
Cove. \. Y. His son, Walter Craft, .Tr..
made the Identification from a des,lD
ton furnished Ivy the West Thirtipgl
street police. He Went to the III f4u,
later.
The body was viewed by Charl VI
Cox OF 1887 Seventh avenue ald VII
liam TraSenthal OF 2ti3 NNe>t one Han.
bred ana Twelfth street, both of whom.
identified it as that of Cal,uiI Craft.
Thomas Tobin. the waiter who wa,
found apparently asleep ip>!,lp I'll
rurnlce ANA near the body. is Hllrgr
to have been Crafts SLAYER. To,in i,
SAID to have Serve'! an eighteen yeas.
sentence for h N.cilr.
IDbll is said t. have attacked tle
captain ANA hacked him to pieces in
Enc presence of women and .AleXa.dp,
bartender in the place.
ne women fed. AMI the murderer
carried the body down TO tie furua.a
stripped it, c'll the head off and atuch
t III the furnace with the clothing
" hen the police arrived, the head WAS
'harred ana the clothing nearly con
'uhled, but some papers in a pocket os
'apet destruction and gave Captain
'heehall clrw to the murdered mans
IDENTITY, which later he fully estab,
ished.
McAnlcrney and half a dozen others
Who We're found in the place were
aiken into custody AS witnesses ana
lt'r We're brought before the coroner.
he women who We're with the cap |
ain are being sought for by detectives |
mo expect to have them in custody
Don.
Held AS Witness.
a woman who gave her name as
tella Davis. twenty-four years old, It
was arrested by central office
electives and ut once taken to police
AadI'lartrrS. The police say that she
ill be held as a witness to the KILN.
Captain Craft
There was blood on Tobin's shirt
eeveS when examined by Captain
letlian. Alexander McAnierney aiM
ohrrt Kelly. the porter employed at
e restaurant where the murdered
an was found, We're committed to
e Tombs by Coroner Jackson with
t bail to await the result Of the au
psy. McAnierney's clothes were also
tined with blood. Grace Burnett
10 gave her address as 9ls Hal
street, Brooklyn. was sent to the
use Of detention, while two medical
ldents taken into custody with her
re discharged.
The records ut police headquarters h
NV that Thomas Tobin, alias Tier =,
V. has served the following terms in
son: t..
SSO.-To Blackwell's island, New =,
Tx. for eleven months. T.
'eb. II, 1SS2.-To Sing Sing for two -,
'rs and six months for burglary. ia,
une, lSS3.-To the Kings county U
~ penitentiary for five years for
'glary.
eptember. 1s9O.-To Sing Sing for
EN- years and six months for bur til
ry. cl
June, 1892. Tobin escaped and III
+ later was arrested in Iowa for ii
glary and served a term In the III
"a state prison. Coming east, De 1t
i've Charles McManus Of police ar
dquarters apprehended him, and he IN
sent back to Sing Sing to serve VI
uneXplred term. He was released