The sun., 1903-05-30
WATCHING RIVAL SUITORS.
yOLICE THINK JEALOUSY MADE
ONE KILL HEFFERNAN.
Have Three suspects Under Surveillance,
and May Arrest One. Mainly to Make
,,.S Campbell Talk-Bareheaded Man

FitSS euWpDeu Idlk-baFeneaueu Man
seen in Tarrytown Soon After Murder.
lRvrNaroN-oN-HUDsoN, May 2o-The
arrest Of a young Tarrytown man who is
known TO have been devoted to Miss Sarah
Campbell the young woman who was with
John lletiernan when he was murdered
near the ArdsIcy Club on Sunday night
last is momentarily expected The county
authorities have eliminated the theory that
HeiTernln was killed by a member of the
Ardsley Club in mistake for some other
person, and are now at work among the ad-
nirerS of Miss Campbell, among whom
they expect 10 find one whose jealousy of
Fofernan was sufficient to form motive
for the crime. With the complete exonera-
,ion Of Rufus L. Sewall and Edward Somer-
vile JaNray from participation in the crime
the scandalouS whisperings have ended,
and II is thought that the murderer Of Hef-
fernan will be found among persons of his
own social rank or among the wayfarers
ao' the line OF the HUDSON River Railroad.
Despite the statements that Miss Camp
he'll had no ardent admirers, it has hecn
learned that three young men in larry
town besides Heflcrnan were devoted to
tcr. Officers were busy yesterday trying
to trsca their movements ON the night of
the murder. 1t vas said on the highest
authority tonight that the movements Of
enc of thess men on Sunday night made it
ynite possible for him to be at the scene of
the shooting VIXEN HefTernan was assaled,
and Eis arrest is expected The evidence
against him, far as is known is of the
fimsiest character, but the authorities
still believe that Miss Campbell knows
~. Il. - 4 4 ~
nigh; Jog her memory as to the identity
of the murderer.
An important clue was furnished to the
authorities yesterday by William Paskett,
the night engineer at the plant of the Tarry-
is ABOUT five miles north Of where the
murder was committed. Paskett says that
abou, o'clock Monday morning he was
sitting al a small desk in the engine room
when a man whose head was bare appeared
al the open doorway and beckoned to him
He went over to the man, he says, and
asked him what he wanted. The man
asked to be put up for the night, but Paskett
had to refuse him. as he had no place. The
man then asked for hat, saying he had lost
his wEile beating his way along on a freight
train. Faskett gave him an old Rough
Rider hat, size 6Y, which he put on. remark
ingat the time that it was very good fit.
The man thanked him for the hat and went
away across the railroad tracks. The next
night Paskett says he saw the man at Wilcey
and Cortlandt streets, Tarrytown. lecog-
nizing him by the military hat. 1t wasn't
until the, following day that the significance
the direction Of Irvington appealed to
paskett. He heard then that the man who
mad murdered Heffernan had left his hat in
the road behind him.
The police feel certain that the man who
got the hat from Paskett murdered Hef-
fernan. Paskett WAS not able to give a
good description of him, but says he was
well dressed and didn't look like one who
tho fact that the man was s6il around Tarry
town twenty hours after Paskett saw him,
the authorities are certain that he is larry
The police theory .hat Hersrnan was
by a statement made yesterday by Mrs.
Hugh Kelly, the wife OF a Dobhs Ferry
ssoonkeeperr Mrs, Kelly says, that
HeSernan often came into her hushald's
place and that she knew him and Frequently
'slked with him. On Saturday night lasl.
she says, Hefernan said to her that some
folks didn't like it because he was friendly
with Sarah Campbell and had warned him
TO keep sway frop her.
Mrs. Kelly's bast recollection of what
Hefernan said was that people had told
him lie would be done up # he didn't keep
away from Sarah, but that he wasn't going
10 be scared away from girl by anv such
'hreat as that Twenty-four hours after
this alleged conversation HeTernan was
killed in Sarah Campbeils company.
Chief OF Police Minncty of Iarrytown,
who is ASS, sting the county officials, yes.
'erday told Of a strange story that had ,
heen repeated TO him by Edward Ham
mond cf North Tarrytown Hammond |
says til at he got on train at Tarrytown |
10 20 to New York on Sunday morning |
last and that two men who sat behind him |
were talking about a third man and one Of |
them said You must kill him" The !
other replied Il don, like The job"
Hammond turned around to look at the
men. hu, ,hey put their faces down :" that /
Ne couldn't see them, and ceased curver-
ssiiun. Whether the men got out al Irving
ton. Ardsley or Dobbs Ferry, Hammond |
could not say, but he is sure they got out
at one Of these stations. What little de
.o-iption he could give OF the men was
ain about is that they were young men. ,
The '!nkerton agency took cGarg' in !
earnest to-day Assistant Superintendent !
NIlAdm \. Fields drove over the ground, I
Interviewing every person who mas had ,
any connection with the case. He spent
ccnsiderable time at the Ardsey Gub and |
N the servants halls of private residences.
Field. refused to commit himself yester- ,
believes that FeGernan was killed by some ,
one Of his own class, and that careful ,
investgution viii reveal the person To- !
morrow he will have two other Pnkerton /
men Nere TO ASSIST MIN
Another statement Of Hefernan's was
made public yesterday. Father Fitzsim-
mons Of the Roman Catholic church at |
Dobbs Ferry wes summoned to the mans |
side by telephone and he met the wagon |
carrying TIE injured man to the hospital
on the road
Il asked him IL he knew who shot him
said Father Fitszimmons yesterday, "and ,
he said that he did not, that the man was /
stranger to him Was he foreigner" .
| asked. No. he was an American he |
replied He was perfectly rational and |
did not press my questions, ms felt certain |
that he had made full statement to the
authorities.
The hospital authorities in answer to the
criticism OF Coroner Russell that no official
was notified Of the case in time TO get !
statement from Hefernan, said yesterday |
that. as the patient came to the hospital
under direction of Dr. Shrady. they sup
posed he was private patient; Orc Of !
The nurses at the hospital found in liefIer-
mans clothing a pair OF woman's gloves,
for which the police are now trying to find
an owner They are of fawn-colored kid,
sze 63+, edged with black and have the
number 2-32 stamped on them.
The statement attributed to Henernan by |
F. l.. Eldridge, that Mr.. Hewitts coach
man shot him. has been investigated by the
l.aai a.. / L,,t 1S.ns nl hat m