Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-23
ANOTHER
 CLEW.
Mendelssohn Mur. der Revived.
Rumors That Police Are on Track of the Murder CTS Arrest of Men for Perjury Has Started the Story. Going.

the Story. Going.
 A bomb is liable to explode at any moment in the mysterious circumstan- ces surrounding the death of Supernu- merary Policeman Paul Mendelssohn, and the man who shot him arrested. The police authorities have been very busy during the past few days on the case and several new features have been developed, and if the expecta- tions of the authorities are realized the man who fired the shot that ex- tinguished the life of Paul Mendels- sohn will be under lock and key with in a day. lis Vandemark last week for perjury an impression was current in official circles that the authorities had struck a new vein of information in the case which has given them promise of con- siderable light. The arrest of Marsh and Vandemark coupled with the inn pending trial of James Whittie, for complicity in the Faber's switch as sault case, and for which eight of his alleged companions are spending a term of nine months in jail, furnished basis for considerable speculation and gave rise to reports that the au- thorities were at last on the track of the mantwho shot Officer Mendels- sohn.
 Now, it is said, the long desired in- formation is to come from a source which no one suspected before, John O'Brien, who was a hostler at c. A. Sackett's livery stable until he was arrested last summer on bench war rant issued by Judge George w.. Wheeler for burglary of Charles Don dero's fruit store next door to the sta ble. O'Brien forfeited bis bail, few hundred dollars expecting that would be the last of the case, and he would then make good his bondsman. But Judge Wheeler learned he was in town and besides having him arrested on a bench warrant raise<- his bail to $1,00O. This amount he was unable to procure and he has been detained in jail since.
 The other end of this expected source of information is said to be a young man well known about livery stables, and another young man who was one of the trolley strikers. The latter's name has so far been merely hinted at by the authorities, and it may develop that he will be omitted from the matter altogether, but his friend has become very conspicuous figure in the calculations of, the au- thorities.
 u is believed, that from O'Brien and the other two the authorities will find the men who were i'll the gang that assaulted the car crew and shot Men delssohn on Sunday evening, March s, 1903, at the trolley terminus on North Main street about 9 o'clock.
 Mendelssohn it will be recalled, was on duty on the car. He was the only one on 1t besides the crew. Irrespec- tive of the numerous stories regarding his mysterious death, it is now be- 1ieyed that the assailants drove to Forest Park or its immediate vicinity in teams hired at a well-known livery stable and that O'Brien can give in- formation as to the identity of the oc- cupants of one of the teams, and that the other two young men know who the occupants of the second team were It is said that the. trolley strfk- or referred to herein drove the sec ond team and that O'Brien and the trolley strikers friend harnessed up the other one and that O'Brien put the reins in the hands of the man who drove it.
 Though apparently sleeping on tue case since the discharge of%the eight strikers in the superior court last spring. the authorities in, fact have been as active as before that time. They even went so far as to hold private ntereviw with the s.White Mahatma" who was at Polls a week or two ago, and while it is a fact that no one appeared to give any credence to what the woman said, which was, that the man who shot Mendelssohn was in town. and that the policeman's death was accidental, it was neverthe- less worthy of sufficient attention from the authorities to merit inquiry The coroner's inquest then came back to them and they recalled that the evil dence lacked only one small link to hold certain man, while it point ed almost directly to him and another
 as two of the group which the car crew said assaulted them.
 It was always believed and it is still, that the assailants in the Faber's switch case were the ones who were instrumental in the death of Mendels- sohn, and it is now said that James Whittie will be valuable witness for the state in case the expectations of tho authorities come true .
 It was whispered around the court house that warrants have been issued for the apprehension of some of the other men, who were acquitted by the jury last spring, charging them also with perjury. Most of those are now in the west it is said. But even so, if the state is aware of their wherea- bouts their arrest would be an easy matter.