New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-15
BESSIE DAVIS Is FOUND.
MEYER KNEW II. III. GREEN
He Visited Her Ne.rt Door Neigh.
bOrS-FuneraI Nert Tuesday.

The element OF time has served to clear I'D
whatever mystery there may have been about
the shocking murder IT Andrew II. Green by
the negro Cornelius NJ. williams, The police
have discovered the woman Bessie Davis. whose
name figures I'm the rnurderers explanation of
the crime Her statement and other evidence
establish that she never saw knew Mr.. Green.
Many acquainted with Mr.. Green have
testified to his many charitable activities
among colOred people. both of New-YOrk and
other parts of the country. The whole tragic
incident resolves itself into a strange, half in
sane halIucnation of the negro. directed against
some Mr.. Green who he fancied had wronged
him. and whom he mistook for Andrew H.
Green.
Inspector McC1usky. basing his statement on
the Investigations of the Detective Bureau. has
fatty declared that Williams in the fancied as
ISOLATION of Andrew II. Green with his wrongs
absolutely mistaken. and the whole wild
story Of the negro has been demolished. On the
other hand. the machinery of justice has moved
rapidly. The coroner's inquest yesterday re-
suited in a verdict that Mr.. Green had died
from revolver wounds inflicted by Williams. and
the negro was held without bail to await action
by the grand jury on Monday
Richard Henry Greene, who close friend
end distant relative of Andrew II. Green. lives
at No. 235 Central Park West next door 20 No.
236, the house tenanted by the Davis woman.
On the other side of No. $50 is the home Of
Charles HasbrOuck, whose family were also
personal friends of the dead man. The prOx-
unity of these friends Of Mr.. Green to the home
of the Davis offers plausible explana-
tion of how the assassin came to select his aged
victim as the mark for his deadly hate. The
dead man was on terms of intimate friendship
with the Creenes and the Hasbroucks. and Is
Known to have paid several visits to both. When
he did so he invariably drove up in carriage
and was generally accompanied by his two
nieces. The sight Of the Green equipage stand
ing outside, he supposed. of No. 2:}6. may
have led the Infatuated and unreasonable COL
ored man to suppose that Mr. Green the
Green he associated with the Davis woman.
and on this slim evidence the assassin may have
shot down his innocent victim.
Richard H. Greene said last r.ght that the
last time Andrew u. Green had been to his
house was last Memorial Day, when he called
there with one of his nieces
v it'll reference to the Davis woman who is
known as Mrs. Hannah Elias. Mr.. Greene said
that to all appearances she was person of
considerable wealth. He himself had tried TO
purchase the house she occupied but the price
asked was too much. He said he knew that
Mrs Elias had to pay S25.OOO the house.
besides whatever balance of the purchase price
there was due
while he was talking to a newspaper man on
the stoop of his house, elderly man. with
white hair, left Mrs. Eliass house. He told the
newspaper man that he had frequently seen the
same person enter and leave her house.
Il do not know much about my next door
neghbor' said Mrs. Greene. but until now 1
always believed her TO be perfectly respectable
So far as we know she has always conducted
her household in perfectly orderly manner.
Mrs. Elias moved into her house about three
years ago She came perfect stranger TO
US and none of my household have ever held
any conversation with her. Sometimes we have
noticed different men call at the house. These
have always been white men. and, of course. il
is possible that one of them may have been the
Mr.. Green the negro speaks Of l am absolutely
sure however. that the late Andrew II. Green
never entered that house. He well
quainted with the Hasbroucks. and was 70 have
made a speech next Wednesday at the Murray
Hin Hotel before the Knickerbocker Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolution. OF
which Mrs HasbrOuck is regent We think
that it is a shameful thing that Mr.. Green's
iIlustrious name should he suled at such
hour by these scandals. Even supposing a man
Of his character could have been mixed up in
any such scandal. which is shamefuIy prepOs-
ferrous to suggest. 1 leave it to the readers Of
The Tribune TO Judge if he would have been
likely to have selected a house for the Elias
woman right between the residences Of two OF
his intimate friends We a very lively
household. always going in and out and am
positive that Mt. Green could not have visited
next door without some one in our household
knowing Of it. Ny husband ascertained yester-
day that the Elias woman owns the house next
door entirely in her own name. with mort
cages or membranes upon II. From what I
and my daughter have OF her do not
think that she = a negress She looks more like
cuban"
Mrs. Greene said that CoOred man had called
at her house yesterday. inquiTing whether Mrs.
Elias lived there. He went away before my
maid had chance TO summon any II us Mrs.
Greene added. That Is the only ColOred
we have ever seen enter the house next door.
cannot state too emphatically that the fact that
we are living next door 20 the Elias woman Is
purely a coincidence. Under the circumstances.
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