New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-24
A H0LD-UP-TW0 ARRESTS
ALSO ONE NAN RELEASED.
Ind, Altogether, the Reading Mar
der and assaults Still Nystery.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO The TRIBUNE. }

Wiliamsport. Penn, Nov 23.-Two men en-
tered the station at Montgomery shortly after 1
O'Clock this morning and demanded that the two
operators give them the time of the arrival of
certain freight train. The operators were averse
to doing this when the two men grabbed hold
of them and told them that if they did not give
the information asked for they would be done
up The operators then gave the time of the
departure of the train and the men left the
place
This makes the third holdup since the Glen
DENIM murder at Browns Tower.
P. J. Luce, station master. of Ansonia, Tioga
County, and his assistant have captured man
in connection with the murder of Clendenin.
The man, who has been travelling up and down
the line during the summer, was seen at Stokes
dale Junction this morning, and effort
made to capture him. but he evaded the officers.
His description was telegra pied up and down
the line, and when a man was seen jumping off
a freight at Ansonia the station master recog-
niZed him the wanted, and he and his
assistants took the fellow into custody He
says he is Jesse Price, of Syracuse. Word was
sent TO Welsboro, and posse was sent after
the man.
Coal and Iron policemen to-day arrested
Joseph Moscow, near Sunbury in connection
with the robbery and assault on Murrel Hafer.
the telt graph operator at Allenwood Ioscow
Jail at sunbury When arrested he was riding
on southbound Reading freight train No
charge was made against him in connection
with the assault on Hafer but, a revolver and
two razors having been found him. he
committed on the charge of carrying concealed
weapons. Meantime investigation Will be
made of where he was on the night OF the as
saut.
One of the railroad detectives said to a Trib-
une reporter this evening that the officers were
being greatly hampered in their work on the
murder and robbery case by the false reports
sent to many of the newspapers
The officer said that there was no longer any
question that the murder at Browns Tower
and the robbery at Auenwood were the work Of
an organized band that had its rendezvous
somewhere between Williamsport and AIuncy.
A number of detectives. accompanied by VI. a
Gill the day operator at Browns Tower, board
ed a special train to-day. and again visited the
scene of the Clendenin murder. Later they went
TO Lock Haven. so that Gill could see the three
tramps who had been arrested at Snowshoe on
suspicion As Gill could not identify them as
ever having been in the vicinity of the tower
and there was no evidence against them, they
were released.
surprising feature Of the day vas a denial
bv Gill OF statements alleged TO have been made
nv him To several persons, it was said he had
made the statement that he knew the murderers
of Clendenin: also, that an arrest had already
been made and that the prisoner had confessed.
Tonight Gill positively denied these statements.
and it is evident that he was severely cross
examined BIZ the detectives to-day.
The Coroner's jury investigating the case met
again this afternoon in the office Of District At
torne- Mccormick in Lock Haven and ad-
1ourned without examining any witnesses. The
1urv rendered a verdict to the effect that the
man came to his death at the hands OF per-
sons unknown TO the jury.
From the movements of the dozen New York
Central detectives at work near the Jersey
shore it is thought they have another clew.
| All their efforts are now being put forth in and
around Youngdae. the home of the murdered
man The rosters offering the reward have
been distributed by the thousand all over that
vicinity.