The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-17

police. it seemed, were in their beds,
 and we had to wait until after break
 last before they could do anything" |"
 said the speaker. When the New Ha- ven police did not look for traces of the
 criminal he did so himself and hired private detectives at his own expense
 to help him. They had searched the premises about his residence at S9O
 Prospect street and had found numer-
 ous traces, such as blood on the pave
 ment, blood on the wire fence over
 which the assailant had dragged his victim, foot and heel prints in the
 ground near by and torn pieces of gar
 ments. The city authorities paid no
 attention to such traces, and even
 when he told Detective McGrath about
 them no attention was given the mat
 ter. Later the witness had requested
 the keeper of the Yale Forestry school
 grounds to make a thorough search of
 the grounds in the hope of finding fur
 ther clues. When this search was made
 baseball bat was found, which wit
 ness suspected was used by the assail-
 ant against his victim. The bat was
 taken before the medical examiner and
 stains found on it proved on analysis to
 be human blood.
 1 Witness stated that on May 25 he
 walked up Edgewood avenue in the rain, in company with Detective Nc
 Grath and man who was introduced
 to him as Detective Clark, of New
 York, who had come to help the local
 authorities in the case. They discussed
 the assault as they walked along. The
 young man called Clark seemed very familiar with the details of the case.
 At last this same young man flashed
 the statement upon him that he was
 reporter on the New York Journal, and
 not detective at all. Witness said at Ionee that he was talking to him under
 misunderstanding, and requested him
 not to publish what had been said as Ian interview. The next morning he
 talked the matter over by telephone
 with McGrath, and asked him why he
 had introduced the reporter to him as l a detective. McGrath replied that the
 young man had told him he was a de- Itective. When witness spoke with | Captain Cowles about the matter the lcaptain said laughingly that the re- porter wished to get Henderson's pho- ltograph or sketch of the grounds.
 MT. Henderson also charged the po- lice with neglect in. following up the clues in regard to the nervous young
 woman who got off the trolley car on lState street, on the corner of Gamer lstreet, on the evening of the assault, about 11:S0. His private detectives had found conclusive proof that the young woman was not Augusta Peterson, whom the New Haven police concluded lit must have been. The local police have been very negligent in following up the clue, in the opinion of the speaker.
 On questioning MT Henderson Isaid he did not know if the liquor sa- looms about the city were closed or not at the time he suggested to Sergeant Bowers to search through them for the criminal.
 Several questions were asked the wit ness in regard to the baseball bat. To the best of his knowledge the police de- partment did not see the bat for weeks after the bloodstains had been found lon it. They finally sent to him for it.
 His private detectives had taken the bat (which was a broken Boys Spal- ding Bat'') among the boys of the city land tried to find out whom it belonged to, and follow up the clue in this way.
 Several questions were asked the wit ness by the members of the committee in regard to the charges against the four men named. In regard to Officer Taylor, witness stated that in his opinion, Taylor was only obediently |obeying poor and negligent orders from the department authorities. In regard to the charges against Detective Mo Grath, MT. Henderson said: If the assailant had left a visiting card on the ground I doubt if Detective McGrath could have found out who he was" Several question were asked as to the exact time of the arrival of the officers at witness house on the night of the assault. MT. Henderson said he could call the motorman and conductor of the trolley car as witnesses in regard to the nervous young woman who left the car at Gamer street on the night of the assault Witness stated he had never IIleI tUG CuitL Ol litc pOilCS QC- partment.
 This concluded the testimony pre- sented at the meeting. Judge Harrison stated that 1t had been the plans of the committee to hold another hearing to- night, but as he would like to have City Attorney Webb and City Court Clerk Isbell present at the next hearing, and these gentlemen had stated to him that it would be impossible for them to att tend tonight, the next hearing would be postponed to Tuesday evening at o'clock in the aldermanic chamber. Mir. Webb and MT. Isbell had certain in- formation in their possession in regard to the police department which he would like to have come before the committee. As the investigation com mittee would like to exhaust all the evidence against the police commission before taking up any statements the commission might wish to make on their side, Judge Harrison suggested that all citizens who wished to make any complaint, charge or statement in regard to any neglect on the part of the police in neglecting to enforce any pool room, liquor-saloon or any other regu- lation should appear before the next hearing. As the mayor had appointed the committee and was the head of the city authorities, the commission did not feel that it could ask the mayor to be rresei1f