New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06
HAD HOUNDS on HEAD.
One Negro arrested in Connection
sritk AHeged Murder Discharged.

The four negroes arrestsdyp p Tuesday in connec-
zion with the finding Of the rude body of a man in
the Harlem River. near the YVillLsave. bridge.
Rrraigned in the Harlem court yesterday De-
4ective Reardon. OF the East One-hundred-and-
twenty-siEth-st station told Magistrate Crane that
there was evidence that would connect William
Brown, of No. SAB East One hundred and twenty
second-st-. with the case and Brown was dis
charged. The other three were remanded TO the
custody OF the coroner They were Joseph Wilson
az OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ixth-st and Eighth-ave ;
Edward Cotton. Of No 423 East One-hundred-a and
twenty-fourth-st and Charles Carter of East One
hundred-and-tw enty-second-st. Assistant District
Attorney Kernoehan appeared in court for the peo-
ple's side of the case.
Detective Reardon said that the police were doing
sheir utmost try ind the clothes of the dead
man. According the story told the police by
Cotton, he said he saw Wilson carrying the mans
clothes under his arm while Carter the negro said
had the dead mans shoes one in each of his side
coat pockets The rooms OF the negroes were being
searched and also all the pawnshops in the neigh
hcrhood OF cumberland twenty hfth-st and
First-ave
The police Of the East -hundred-ard-twe
Eixth-st. station said later that an examination Of
the body Showed that the had been struck
several times on the back OF the head with what
they think was some kind of q blunt instrument
The body was taken to the Bellevue morgue
where an autopsy will be held this morning Cot
f+on told the police at first that the murder took
place on the night Of July 3. and then later cor
fHClea MS statement saying that the was
killed last Friday night. The police say now that
they think the body not in the water more
then twelve hours before it was found.
John B. Smith, promoter of sports. called at
the Harlem morgue yesterday 10 try 10 identity
the body. lie said at first that although the feat
l'res looked like those Of Ernest Roeber the urest
Ter ne knew II could not be his body as he had
seen Roeoer recently. He said. however fhat he
fsso sent Tor a man who lived in Washington
fieights. VINO would call at the Bellevue rnoreue
70 Try 70 identity the body. The police think the
man was u wrestler. the body had the aDnear-
ance OF being that OF athlete Roeber called
II the morgue later to the BODY As he stood
looking AT the body those present noted sim
naT1ty between the Two. The wrestler was unable
identity the body.
Saying that they came from the Union Settle
,nent Club, No. 237 East One hundred fourth
st. TWO young men called at the Morgue last
evening and viewed the body While NOT able 10
make an identification they stated that the body
appearec 70 be that OF a hanger on about the
Union settlement Club, who had not been seen for
a week. 49, -
There called at the East observation-disclosures
twenty-slXth-st. police station later Z bow about
eighteen years old, ana 4 woman. She waited
outside the station while the boy nerYouslv an
preached the. sergeant's desk and asked II he
would be allowed 10 look at the body found in
The Harlem River. lie told that the body was
At the Elorgue and in response TO interroga lions
l]y Sergeant NcNalY reluctantly stated that he
thought the body that Of a who lived in
FJEgsbridSe, and who had disappeared last Sun
and his companion 10 the Harlem Morgue
but there they found that the body had been sent
the morgue at Bellevue. after betraying an
unusual amount Of mental ureasiness the two
started FOR their home, saying that they would
he at tie Twenty-sixth-st. inOrsue this morning
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