The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-28
TO ARREST FIVE MORE TO-DAY.
POLICE SAY THEY KNOW ALL
OF yERDUE'S ASSAILANTS.

The suspects Have Promised That They
VIII Not Run Away-Their Arrests
VIII Clear Up the Crime. Police Say
Martin Thought to Have Confessed.
The arrest OF James Martin of 81 West
Fifty-ffth street on Saturday night en-
suspicion Of being one of the gang of yourg
men whose assault on Detectives VerdLe
and Hansen OF the Mooney Boland De-
tective Agency the night before resulted
in the death OF Verdue, will be followed
to-day by five other arrests. With these
arrests, the police of the Yves, Forty-seventh
street station say the entire csse will
be cleared up. and all of the active partici-
pants will be in custody
For reasons which Capt. Handy would
not reveal yesterday, the other arrests
We're deferred until to-day, The men. it
is said. have agreed with the police that
they will not run away. They are all re-
spectacle young men livir q in the neighbor-
hood, ard their assault on the detectives
was. as stated In THE Sun ycst ert.ay. the
result of misiLterpret alton Of the latters'
motives in making gifts to little girls living
on the block The police do not expect
to be able to fix the crime on any one man.
Although the police would not say so
Yesterday. it is understood that Martin
has made clean breast of the whole affair.
Martin has been positively identified by
Hansen as one Of the men who held Verdue
while others struck him,
Martin was taken to he West Side court
yesterday morning and remanded to the
Gust ody Of the Coroner. The Coroner
fixed the bail in his case at $500 ard he
was released. He went at once to his home,
where he locked himself in ard refused
himself to all callers. Hansen was also re-
leased on 600 bail,
The story of the affair that Martin or
some one else told the police on Saturday
is to this effect Verdue and Hansen APP
peared on the block last Thursday alter
noon and spent several hours strolling
up and down. occasionally stopping to sit
on some stoop. There are number OF
little girls on the block and Verdue joked
with some OF the children and gave them
pennies. Then Hansen gave one girl
dime and told her to 60 and buy some caHdy.
Such unheard-of generosity set all the chill
dren on the block talking and soon mothers
and brothers heard of the affair.
As the two men still loitered around
and had no apparent motive they became
objects OF suspicion. AS they paid no
attention to repeated warnings, the in
dignation of the men living in the neighbor-
hood became greater. At 9 o'clock Friday
evening Martin came home and finding
the two men near his house went up to
verdue and told him to leave the neigh
borhood.
III you don't 60 III have you arrested
said Martin:
due replied.
"I've mind to arrest you myself, said
Martin, grabbing Verdue by the arm.
verdue shook Martin off and laughed at
him. Then Martin went home, and after
dinner. meeting some other young men.
told them Of what had happened. 1t was
then resolved to punish both men.
The woman whom Eerdue and Hansen
were shadowing when they got into trouble
called on Capt. Handy at the West Forty
seventh street station late on Saturday
night. She was heavily yelled and the
police will not give her name. She was
sent for by Capt. Handy. who wanted to
find out IL there was any possibility OF the
assault on Verdue having been instigated
by her or any of her friends.
The woman said that she had had no
hand in the assault, although she admitted
that she knew she was being Swallowed
She ia unmarried.