New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
MURDER THEORY STRONGFp
POLICE TRACE MOVEMENTS OF wov,r
FOUND DEAD IN CHRYSTIE-
ST. HOUSE.

Macomber, at the Eldridge-st. police station.
was said. had not been found but, as he had bssn
mail wagon driver. IL was thought that he wous -
found without much delay.
Macomber was well liked by his fellow sr,v,-,
and went to live with several of them AZ a a.
nished room house at No. 2SS Avenue A kept h
the Brener sisters Just before Christmas he toIs
the sisters that he wanted his wife to come ana
live with him. He said that she was living ut,s
her sister in Brooklyn he said that he was po,
allowed about the sisters house. The Brsns-
sisters consented to his proposition. and Mrs Ma
comber, as she was called. moved In. From d.
scription by several persons she seems to hava
been the woman found dead Saturday nigh,
AT the end Of two weeks the couple were requested
to leave the house
Two important developments were brought ors
in the supposed Chrystie-s murder case last nizbr
The identity OF the woman was established and 4.
made almost evident that she murderer
Captain Walsh announced that she was Mimi.
Clark. thrty-three years old. and that she cams
here some time ago with her seventeen-year-oa
daughter, May, and her husband. William 3 Clark
from st. Cloud. Mlnn- A year ago he became insane
and was committed TO an asylum. He had been
employed by the Manhattan Railway
After Clark was committed 20 an asylum Ma
went back to ST. Cloud and the mother became a
woman of the street She lived with several men
in the last year. but generally freGuented Bowery
resorts and solicited in the streets.
William Bauer. twenty-five years old a bartender
or
some time, Captain Walsh said. and last night hs
was arrested by Detective Walsh and locked I'd in
the Eldridge-st station important witness
He will be examined by the coroner to-day On
Friday afternoon and night he was seen with ths
woman in several resorts in the BOwery.
Harry Macomber and the woman together
on Saturday morning early They in a rsOrt
at No. Is Bowery. and Captain Walsh said ths
woman was intoxicated when she left there IN
company with Macomber. They lsft the placs
hOfI and val Ilxpd 210r0 he
lancey-st- That was the last seen Of them II IL
not known where they went to
David Willard, parole officer OF the CentrAst
court told the detectives last night that early On
Saturday morning he heard sounds Of somebody
but that, fights in that house being nightly occur,
some time later VIII when the quarrel seemed 70
his building but knowing the character Of the ire
quenters OF the house next door feared 10 20 10
know whether robbers were at work on the roof
but he feared TO venture there
and found that somebody had placed TWO pals q
ashes ashes there, In one one ne found a womans black
red liquid. which he said resembled blood.
lives at No. - B0wery was arrested last nirbt
and locked up in the Eldridge-st. station as Wit
o'clock on Saturday morning at the Bowery and
D hi ne KeW & M woman @ ana she called
Meyer replied that he did not know, and Macon-
Der and the woman walked east in Deancey-st Il
was learned that they had Just come out OF a
was highly educated and was the daagbtsr T01ia2 6f
minister who did missionary work in the North
west Bauer said that while was living with
her at Coney Island last summer she attempted to
jump out OF a window He said he interested mis-
Sionartes IN her and that thsv got her 90 20 an
institution, but that she diI not stay there long
and became worse when she came out.
When pressed further FOR information last night
Mr. Willard. who lives in home adjoining tbs
Chrystie-st. house. said that h in bed when
he first heard footsteps the roof The BOYS
lived in the home had shovened the snow from thu
roof Friday afternoon, clearing II. In addition
TO the skirt there was found a white chemise AMI
a faded blue wrapper. the neck Of which was
spotted with blood
The police scout the theory that the clothing be-
lOnged to the Clark woman. They said the
mentS belonged to woman named Rosie Carroll.
who lived at No. 121 ChryStie-St. She had con-
sumption and was removed from the house by ths
Board OF Health. When her room was fumigatsd.
the police say. her clothing thrown tbs
roof They maintain that the garments found by
Mr.. Willard belonged to the Carroll woman.