The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-23
ARREST FOR AHEARN MURDER
ITALIAN WITH 4 BATTERED
HEAD CAUGHT LAST NIGHT.
Tried to Run Away when He Saw the Po''ce
wounds Like Those the Policeman
Must Have Given the Man VINO shot
Im-BIoodhOund Gets the scent.


Wounds Like Those the Policeman
Must Have Given the Man Who shot
Hlm--BIsodhOuEv Gets the scent
NEW ROCHELLE, June 22,-Tle efforts oil
the police and the Pinkerton men to capture
the murderer of Policeman Maurice Aheafh
~ New Rochelle, led late tonight 10 an
important arrest. The prisoner IL FRANK
Peffo. an Italian, 80 years old, VINO was
captured at a house on the California road
a lonely place on the dividing line between
New Rochelle Mount Vernon and East
Chester.
With Pefro the police arrested his brother
and brought in Ave other Italians Including
one woman. who are held as witnesses
PefYo had his head badly cut and two
fingers bruised, and the police believe that
the wounds. which are fresh were inflicted
bv the murdered officer in the death struggle
he had with the assassin.
The prisoner declares that he had not
been in New Rochelle since June A. but
Chief Timnons says he has witnesses 10
nrove that Peffo had been in New Rochelle
nearly evey night for two weeks and that
he was near New Rochelle Park on the
morning that the policeman was shot to
death. ,-,,.,
The arrest was made about o clock to-
night, The police surrounded the house
and after waiting an hour saw Peffo COM
ing down the road. When the Italian saw
the officers he turned and started to run
away Sergt Cody drew a revolver anu
brought him TO matt
AS soon as it was learned that the Italians
had been arrested the police station was
surrounded by great mob. Chlef run
mons and Coroner Wiesendanger were
obliged to lock the doors.
AZ 10 o'clock Father Manzello, the Italian
priest of New Rochelle, came to the station
house and was admitted. His arrival
rave rise to the rumor that the prisoner
Mas about to make confession. The police
declined to disclose the mission OF the
priest .,o,,
Chief Timmons said there were several
reasons for connecting the Italian with the
crime His clothing is said to bear BLOOD
spots and he had paper of tobacco IN MS
pocket OF the same brand as that which was
dTTopped ,1 on b the asss aMn fought
DR.. w. F. johnson. the young dentlst
who witnessed the murder from his bed
room window in the Park, has seen the
prisoner, and says he is about the size OF
the man who slew the policeman
The Italian explains the cut and bruises
on his head by saying that he received
them In falling over a fence while return
ing home from New Rochelle on June a.
Physicians who examined him to-night
are positive that the cuts are not more
than three days old.
The police attach no significance to the
arrest Of q colored man in Washington.
Tho bloodhound for which the. Knights
OF Columbus sent to Boston. arrived here
at II 80 O'Clock tonight.
The bloodhound was put at work late
tonight. Undertaken Frank McGrane,
who bossed the job, let the animal smell
the dead policeman's uniform and bloody
club and then took the hound to the spot
where Ahearn was killed A crowd OF
fifty people went along.
The hound took up scent all right. but
it was apparently that Of the policeman
and not his murderer, for the animal went
an around Ahearns beat, including back
doors, stoops and spots which, Ahearn
usually visited. IT was announced that the
hound would later be taken to the police
station and that the animal would have
chance to smell out the murderer if he was
among the prisoners.
WARRINGTON. June PA negro, who
Raye his name as Charles Green. was ar
rested at the Bennings Racetrack last night
and held on suspicion that he, was the
murderer Of Policeman Ahearn CT New
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