New-York tribune., 1903-04-08
SAY THEY SAW OPENHYM.
IOnkers Police Sure 1t Vas He
Search IN Mdny Se1cers.

Two 4onkers policemen, Acting Roundsman
Michael Horan and Patrolman John C. Schiebel.
declare positively that they saw Adolphe Open
hym. the silk merchant. for whose body the
Harlem River has been dragged for more than
a week. twelve hours after the forenoon of the
day the man supposed to be him was seen to
jump from High Bridge. If the policemen are
correct Openhym in Yonkers week ago
last night at II 80 O'Clock
The policemen, who are two of the most re-
liable men In the department, identified a photo
graph of Openhym that had been sent to the
Yonkers department that of a man who had
been acting suspiciously in Getty Square on
Monday night, March 80, and who, on being ad-
dressed by Horan, walked hurriedly away
toward the Hudson River Railroad station The
two officers came here to-day to lay their in
formation before Morris J. Hirsch, but failed to
see him. They are positive of their identified
ton
IIoran and scheibel were standing in Getty
Square when their attention was drawn to a
we'll dressed man who was walking UP and
down near them In an aimless sort of way.
Every now and then he would saunter in a kind
of an irregular circle Horan determined to
question the man. Approa ching him he made
a remark regarding the weather. The stranger.
however, while acting politely, displayed
marked reticence and preserved silence. As
the man was committing no wrong. the officers
did not modest him.
Yesterday Captain Woodruff received several
circulars from Mr.. Hirsch, which contained
description of Openhym. Captain Woodruff re-
tanned two of the circulars one of them being
posted wall in the policemen's room As
soon as Scheibel and Horan the picture
they were certain that the original none
other than the mysterious man whom they had
encountered in Getty Square.
The search for Openhym's body was kept up
yesterday. Captain Ethan Allen. the Harlem
River boatman wading into the mouths of TWEEN
ty sewers emptying into the Harlem River,
thinking il might nave lodged in them. He
walked mile and half through Que. and half
a mile into nearly all the others, but did not
find the body
In the search for the body in Spuyten DuyviI
Creek boatman pulled up dead dog
A good sized reward was promised TO Captain
Allen for his trip into the sewers by the Open
hym family. He put on rubber wading boots.
with similar upper clothing. and. carrying a
lantern and bOathook, started into the first
sewer of Manhattan emptying into the Harlem
a boye Hghbridge. His theory that, the
water rises above these huge sewers at high
might suck the body into one of the mouths
Allen found the water in the first sewer about
a foot deep. He walked cautiously through il.
feeling about with his boathOok, until he had
got half a mile into the city and to the main
gallery.
The sewers at the ends of the various
blocks along the Speedway were entered by the
captain, and he went half a mile into each one.
the water being not more than two feet deep in
any of them. He went till he came to the
main sewer, where he gave up the search in
each one.
On the other side of the river Allen went into
the immense Kingsbridge sewer. running under
Broadway and in this one he went a mile and a
half. 1t is possible to go five miles in this
sewer but Allen thought IL impossible for the
body TO get further than mile and half If IL
should get into the sewer at all Allen walked
Inder Broadway through the village of Kings
bridge on the way 10 Riverdale with his lantern
ind his boathoOk. There were gases. but not
enough to overpOwer him. and he was not i'll B
when he returned to the air
Aliens trip took in twenty sewers. four
cen of them on the Manhattan side of the Har- I
en-