Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-25
MAN HUNT STILL ON
Police Working Hard on
Pfeiffer Murder Case.
GIRA RID Is ELUSIVE
THOUGHT TO BE HIDING ON
sPITzENBURG MOUNTAIN.
Residents of Section Terrorized by
Hold-Up of Clarence BIakely
New Clues.
GIRARD Is ELUSIVE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK. September 25.-Police Chief
Nathan Seabury of Peekskin. with nearly
all his force. besides two New York de-
tectives, Schwing and Ulrich, a half score
of reporters and posse of farmers, every
man of them armed to the ears, started out
again this morning on the hunt for Joseph
Girard, the suspect in the murder of
Gussie Pfeiffer. Girard Is still thought to
be hiding among the Businesses of Spitzen-
burg mountain" which is a good-szed
wooded hill which overlooks Peekskill and
supports the settlements of Montrose Cen
terville and Buchanan.
Girard. answering the descrip-
tion of Girard, has been seen by the coun-
try people a dozen times or more during
the last three days in the vicinity of the
mountain" but every witness who has re-
ported what he saw has given such a diff
ferent account of Girard's appearance and
movements that the police have been driven
almost to distraction. Every hour almost
yesterday new clue would come in, which
would have to be run down, and detectives
were securing the outlying country about
Peekskill yesterday from morning till night
on sure thing trails which ended only in
uncertainty. 1t might have been the right
man, but If 1t was the quarry had escaped.
Today's Best Clue.
up yesterday afternoon too late to be fol-
lowed because of the falling darkness, and
1t appears that the man hunters are not
taking any chances on a suspected muir
derer in the dark.
One Clarence Blal1ely of Verplancks Point
telephoned to the Peekskil police about 3
O'Clock yesterday that a man answering
Girard's description had held him up
the point of pistol in Empire Grove, which
Is the SDitZPu hITR mountain. Blakely
said that while passing through the grove
he heard footsteps behind him, and, turn
ing. faced a black-halred, swarthy fellow,
who drew a pistol and ordered hirp to
march ahead
Are you looking for me? Blakely, said
the man asked him.
Well you better move on OF. LII plug
YOU. Now, march
B!akely decided that discretion was the
better part of valor, and marched on with
out once looking behind him, until he
thought that he was out of pistol shot
When he did lock, the man. he thinks. was
Girard making off through the bushes.
Biakely then called up PeekskiH police
headquarters. but the posse were out ON
another trail then and it was not until
sunset that they arrived at Empire Grove.
1t was decided to leave a couple of men
on guard over night.
1t was here that the posse took up the
trail this morning, the sentinels having
reported that they thought their man was
still in the vicinity.
Residents Are Excited.
The hold-up created good deal of ex-
Citement among the farmer folk of the
vicinity and they all kept their doors bar
ricaded last night and their firearms
handy.
Blakely was startled that he could
not give as accurate description of the
man the police would like. Blakely
said that he that the man was
Girard. nevertheless. He said he was a
little above medium height. wore a black
slouch hat and seemed 10 have a stubby
mustache.
While all this was going on yesterday UP
In Peekskill another clue was raised IN Pei
ham Bay, by a girl Alice Jordan, who
reported that she had seen a man like
Girard In a barn two miles from Pelham
Bay Park. There was not any one there
when the police arrived.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star
NORFOLK, Va, September 25-Joseph
Girard, the alleged murderer of Gussie
Pfel9er the New York girl, who was sup
posed 10 have left New York on the schoon-
er Aueville H Perry, was not found on
that vessel when she arrived In Hamnton