The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-12
POLICE WEAVING A WEB.
WORKING ON CLUE TO POLICE
 MANS MURDERERS.

Yesterday is Finally Appropriated the
 Total Rewards Offered Will Amount
 to Over s2O,OO9.
 Waterbury, March 11.-Although there is feeling at headquarters tonight that chain of evidence is slowly but surely being wound about the men con- cerned in the murder of Policeman Paul Mendelssohn last Sunday night, the po- lice refuse to discuss the situation. | That they have clue to work upon was learned tonight from excellent au- thority and from the same source it was leaned that an arrest is not at all improbable. Further particulars cannot be learned from the officials di- recting the case.
 Deputy Coroner Pond returned to his home in New Haven this evening and does not expect to resume his investi- gation until Saturday. The coroner said before leaving the city that it was not his intention to return here before the end of the week unless develop ments in the situation made his pres ence necessary. Further than this MT. Pond refused to discuss the progress made in his investigation. He declared there was a clue although it was a faint one.
 This afternoon, accompanied by three local detectives and Conductor Webern- dorfer and Motorman Chambers, Cor oner Pond made a visit to the scene of the shooting. A large stain of blood, independent of that which dripped through the car, was found on the ground outside the tracks. Weberndor- fer explained that he had been struck on the nose which caused it to bleed and the blood on the ground was his.
 The statement issued by the strikers tkis afternoon says as follows:
 As much as we desire to see the strike brought to a speedy settlement we must answer a thousand times mo- that the strike is not lost How can the strike be lost when 5000 union men and their families in this city have pledged themselves not to patronize the cars while the strike is on.''
 Although there were a number of people on the streets during the even- ing, there was no disturbance in the center of the city and it was thought that the night would pass as quietly as last night The last car from Nauga- tuck, however, brought in report of the only act of violence since Sunday night.
 Two supernumerary policemen were riding on the car and when it reached a dark spot on the return trip between Naugatuck and Union City two missiles were hurled at the car from the bushes near by. They were thrown with such force that they entered the windows on one side of the car and out on the oth- CT. The car was stopped and the off, cers made a search, but they were un- } able to find either the persons who were in the bushes or the articles with which the windows were smashed.
 This fresh outbreak although com . paratively small in itself has, to a cer- tain degree, shattered the hopes which !. have been entertained that Sunday ] nights performance would put an end to the violence The officers on the car reported the incident to police head quarters.
 If it takes money to unearth crime then the Waterbury murderers are al- , ready in the shadow of the gallows : The action taken by the state senate in the strike horror to-day, in author , izing reward of $10000, was not caus- l ed by an appeal for aid from the Wa terbury representatives. It was the rising of the state of Connecticut in its mighty wrath and stamping the seal of its disapproval upon the continued acts of lawlessness in Waterbury. Connect. icut does not stand for disobedience tc law. It proposes to bring the guilty tc justice. With this $10000 the tota amount of rewards offered would be over $20,O00
 Policeman MemdeIsshon's Funeral.
 The funeral of Policeman Mendels. sohn took place this afternoon from his late home, 50 Beacon street. One of the largest throngs that ever attended g funeral in this city was present, includ. ed among whom were large number of his brother officers, the members oi his societies and others with whom he had been associated fraternally and so. cially.
 The procession that started from the house after the funeral services by Rev. Oscar Haywood was an imposing one Headed by detail of police, the procession slowly wended it's way ovel Sumner street and to the Center, where large crowds of people had gathered tt witness the spectacle of brave officer followed to his grave by such con course Crowds lined the streets al the way from the house also. The police detail was in charge of Pc . ] lice Captain Ramon and was composed [ of the following members of the police department: Patrolmen Keegan, Kick ey, Mclean, Cavanaugh, McEvoy, Hal , pin, Bowling, Moore, Lawlor, McNiff Claffey and Bergin.
 The members of the board of public safety, including Mayor E. G. Kilduff were in attendance, as well as mum Der of other city officials. The line O march was from the house at 50 Beacof street to Sumner street, to Hill ant North Main, thence to the Center anc
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