Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-26
He WAS NOT G|RARD
Suspect Not Pfeifer Murder
Fugitive.
ALL CLUES 60 WRONG
TWENTY-EIGHTH CLUE NOW
FOUND IN PEEKsKILL.
Farmers Up in Arms and Systematic
Roundup Will Be
Made
ALL CLUES 60 WRONG

NEW YORK, September 26.-Capt. Bur-
feiRd of the Westchester police received
message from Detective Sergeant Barlow
this morning stating that the man arrested
yesterday in Central Bridge. N. Y, on sus-
picion that he was Joseph. Girard, who is
wanted for the murder of Guss:e Pfeifrer In
the Bronx, is not Girard. Thus the twenty
seventh cocksure clue to the discovery of
the vanishing fugitive has ended in a blind
trail like the rest. Barlow went up to
Central Bridge last night excited by a
message from the sheriff of Schoharie
county saying that Girard had been ar
rested and to please come and get him.
Barlow found that the man arrested there
was too old for Girard and that he didn't
have any bite on his finger as has been
reported.
To make up for this disappointment the
twenty-eighth clue has come to light in
Peekskill. Detectives nlig and SchewIng
who have been doing terrible damage to the
fauna and flora of Spitzenberg mountain
Tor the last few days In their pursuit of
Girard and his numerous doubles reported
to Capt. Burfeind this morning that they
were OH on the most promising clue yet"
Still Another Clue
A man named Nottingham, who lives on
Verplanck Point. on the Hudson river, close
by the Spitzenberg. reported to the detec-
uves that at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
Notwithstanding man. who answered the
description of Girard. had landed on his
property from boat and disappeared In
the Empire woods birmingham got two of
his laborers and gave chase he told the de-
lect1ves, but the man eluded them. The
three pursuers beat the woods for a long
time, but got no further trace of him.
The detectives took up the search there
this morning after teieDhnniuR
feind that they thought the clue was a very
strong one, as birmingham Is New Yorker
and responsible man, and seemed very
certain that the man whom he pursued was
Girard.
The detectives have got the farmers up In
arms on this trail this morning, and there
IS going to be systematic roundup of the
country about Peekskill today that they
think ought to settle something. Spleen
berg mountain is going to be swept from
bottom to top by a posse that will prac-
the top. They expect to find Girard roost-
Ing in the topmost branch Of the topmost
tree when they get through.
Constructing Theories.
In the construction of their theories the
detectives think that the man Nottingham
was the same man who was seen at 2
o'clock on Monday morning by Waterman
Jones Of the Chrystenah wharf rowing out
into the river The man had stolen a row
boat. This man was also believed to be
Girard. and a careful watch was kept for
him the other side of the river as soon
as Jones had reported to the police what
he had seen. No suspicious persons were
seen to land on the other side, however, SO
now 1t is believed that the man returned.
The wind was blowing very strong all Mon
day morning and yesterday, and rowboa.
rowing was dangerous.
The woods in which Hurlinghams sus-
pect disappeared, known as the Empire
woods. are the same near which a man
held up Charles Blakely at the point of a
revolver on Sunday and told him to right
about face, march"
Some One Hiding.
Unless the residents on and about the
mountain are seeing things it looks as
If there was some one in the neighborhood.
anyways who is not acting like an honest
citizen