New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-24
noe CAN'T FIND SLAYER.
bloodhound Search Abandoned-
Suspect in Terror.
MURDERED POLICEMAN BURIED.

The police and Pinkerton detectives who are
irving TO run down the assassin of Maurice
Ahearn the policeman who was killed in New
Rochelle on Saturday, held exciting midnlght
hunt Yesterday with bloodhound A brief &C
tNxlnt Of this appeared in yesterdays Tribune
Tts>hunt was a novel one. The bloodhound al
ter covering a ten-mile course in the darkness
without running the murderer to cover was
taken to police headquarters where at a. M
yesterday he was turned loose in the cell OIL
Frank Peffo, the Italian suspected of the crime
The ordeal was a terrible one for the sus-
pected man. All persons except those IN chaIse
of the hound were excluded from the ponce
station. and the doors were barred. Sergeant
Kelly then unlocked the cell door and the oos'
which was in the keeping of Frank McHrail d
prominent member of the Knights of Columbus
was let in. The italian. who was sitting On
cot was greatly frightened at the sight OF .ie
big animal His eyes fairly buIgeo from Ai
head with terror, and he started 10 rlse' @+N
fell back from weakness. Sergeant heLS IL
moved the mans hat and allowed the dog 10
smell it, and the wounds on his nead' which al
supposed to have been made by the Iiiul ueIeN
poIiceman's club. The dog after few minutes
Gave W, the scent and returned to the corridor.
which leads the police TO believe that IL REM
killed Ahearp he has since "asheu al VI ~
blood from his clothing
The dog was put on the trail by oeihg d.
lowed to smell the blood which was supposed TO
have been shed by the murderer when the po-
licenan struck him with his night Suck III 'He
death struggle. The club used by Ahearh anu
the blood stained uniform he wore were dISo
placed under his nose The animal set OUT a'
once through the park trailing its heao hedi
the ground and shifting and barking MI. NC
Gran held to the chain and could hardly keep
I'D with the animal, it went so rapidly LIT.
Fcote ACCOMPANIED him and the remainder OF
the crowd followed at safe distance behlno'
It soon became evident TO those in charge OF
tho dog that he was following the beat patroied
h. Abearn the night he was murdered, instead
Of the route by which his slayer fled. The dog
circled round and round the park. with It's huge
head close 10 the ground. and picked up every
footstep that the policeman is supposed TO nave
made On the night he was murdered After
thoroughly exploring the park and leading MS
followers a ten mile chase the bloodhound re-
turned 10 the spot where the TRAGEDY ocCulIeI 1
and took UP a fresh scent, which 1t is Eel eVeu
NAV have been the path taken by the mufueieI-
The bloodhound spent the night n cell at po-
lice baadouarters and started out fIe n yester-
day morning to renew the search he naue
several rounds of the park in the peinhg ran,
but the trail so cold that he coulo Hot pIoh
il I'D again, and at noon the hunt was apah-
doned 49,,
Wiesendanger. who is in charge of the case
one was that Peffo paying attention 10 a
woman in Oak-st.. New Rochelle, and that he
had been in the habit of passing through the
park when he went to call on her. 1t was also
learned that the raffia which was found on
the lawn near where the struggle took place
was stolen from the large greenhouses OF Henry
A Siebrecht florist of this city, who mas
nurseries near the park. Peffo formerly worked
for Siebrecht. but was discharged seven months
ago Coroner Wiesendanger says that the Ital-
ian has told conflicting stories regarding the In
juries on his head. He said that he was hurt
going over a wire fence and the police found
that the fence he mentioned does not exist Drs
Emberson and Brennan, who examined the
wounds on the prisoners head, are of the opln-
ion that they were made with a club.
The funeral of the murdered policeman was
held Yesterday in the Church of the Blessed
Sacrament and was largely attended by the
people of New Rochelle. The body was es-
corted to the church by the knights of Column
bus Foresters and Women's Catholic Benevo-
lent Legion. The coffin was covered with flow
ers several of the designs being the gifts OF
wealthy people in Rochelle Park whose homes
Ahearn had guarded for the last five years.
Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Thomas P.
Mclaughlin The burial was at Holy Sepul-
Chrc Cemetery