The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-22
MURDER WITNESSES MISSING.
THIRD TRIAL or DUNCAN Young
AFTER EIGHT YEARS.
Bissert, Against whom Young Led One Of
Those Curious Sing Sing D0.cotts. ma
Alice Kelly, Who Saw iCunss Mask
and Flstol, Cannot Now he Found.

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Those Curious Sing Sing Do.cotts. md
Alice Kelly. Who Saw iCuns's Mask
and Flstol, Cannot Now he Found
After two convictions Of murder In the
second degree, each upset by the Court OF
Appeals, the third trial Of Duncan Young
for murder will begin to-day before Justice
Davy In the Supreme Court, criminal branch.
1t Is expected that the prosecution will
have harder time oonvicting Young now,
for two Of its witnesses are missing. They
are George Bissert, former wardman under
Police Captain Diamond In the Fifth street
station, and girl named Alice Kelly, who
was a witness at both trials.
Bissert is said to be in Chicago. He was
tho wardman In the Fifth street station
when Young was arrested for shooting and
killing George Eberhard at 50 Seventh
street on the night of Jan. ~, 1897. Bissert
worked up the police case against Young.
After Bissert bad been witness against
Young at the first trial came the disclosures
In reference to conditions In tho Red Light
district and Bissert was indicted on the
charge of having accepted bride Of $500
from Lena Schmidt, a disorderly house
keeper
Bissert was convicted. When he got to
Sing Sing Young was there. The inmates
Of Sing Sing have no sympathy for q police
man who becomes one Of their number
Against Bissert the oonviots were especially
bitter. Persons familiar with what went
on in the prison then say that no prisoner
ever had II made so disagree cable tor him
as Bissert. Young it is said, did every
thing he could to Bissert and urged the
iotu IN
Young served nearly five years In Sing
Sing and then the Court Of Appeals granted
him new trial. The Appellate Division
gave Bissert a new trial, and he was re-
leased. Soon after that he made CON-
fession to District Attorney jerome and
the chief witness against Cross when Cross
was tried and dismissed from the force,
to be reinstated by the courts.
Since then the indictments against Bis
sert have been dismissed on the motion
Of District Attorney Jerome. Bissert
unable to get work while the indictments
were hanging over him. For the last week
the District Attorneys office has been
irving to find him. He was last seen in
Chicago. 1t is said that Bissert feels that
he has had enough Of being witness and
that after his Sing Sing experience he
doesn't want to see any more Of Young.
From the standpoint Of the prosecutions
case, however. the disappearance of the
other witness, Alice Kelly. is more i'm
portant. Alice Kelly was friend of TIME
r insdorf, Young's sweetheart. At each
trial Young tried to put in an abb showing
that he could not have been near Eber-
hare. : horne when he was murdered.
but the H insdorf girl testified that on the
hight of the murder Young showed her
the mask ne wore and the pistol he carried.
Alice Kelly corroborated her testimony,
saying that she was present when Young
showed the pistol and mask.
1oung's second conviction, was reversed
delayed because the District Attorney
couldn't find alice Kelly, Although a
nj, bor Of detectives have been employed,
they have been unable to get any trace of
her