The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-15
INVESTIGATION INTO
 YOUNG CR0KER'S DEATH
POLICE SATISFIED TT WAS NOT
 DUE TO FOUL PLAY.

Negro Porter Released and No Further Action VIII be Taken in the Case Un- [ less the CroISer Family Request It. Richard CroLer, J., Arrives to Take Charge of Remains-Intimntes That He Will Not Ask for q Further In- vestisation.
 Kansas City, Mo-, May 14.-The police
 have completed their investigation of
 the visit of Herbert V. Croker, son of Richard Croker, formerly New York Tammany leader, to an opium resort and to North End saloons preceding his
 death in an Atchison, Topeka and san ta Fe train near Newton, Kansas, Fri- day morning, and unless the relatives
 of young Croker request it, no further
 action on the case will be taken by
 the Kansas City police.
 Charles Wilson, negro porter at the
 < Fs-4 lJ ' r T
 Coates hotel, who accompanied Croker
 to the opium den and later put him on
 train, was released from jail to-day.
 An Lee and Gee Knee. proprietors of
 the opium resort. are held and will be
 prosecuted in police court for conduct ing an illegal business.
 Richard Croker, jr., passed through
 Kansas City to-day on the way to
 Newton to get sthe body of his brother, which, it is believed. will be taken to New York at once. Two detectives
 met Richard Croler, jr., at the station and told him the particulars of his brothers visit to Kansas City. Croker
 asked if 1t could be possible that his brother had been murdered, and when E told that the result of the investiga- tion did not justify that belief, he in- l timated that he would take the body to New York at once and that no fur ther investigation of the case would be Ireguested
 Croker said that his brother left New York with $10O and that his family did not know that he intended to stop at
 Kansas City. A man, said to be a
 brother of Lewis Nixon, was with Croker.
 Croker'sy companion said that Her bert Croker was a secretive man and did not take his parents or brothers Unto his confidence, and that 1t was not surprising that he did not give out his identity in Kansas City. He said that Herbert Croker had frequently left home without telling his family of his intended destination and that he never iexplointed his identity anywhere. Chief of Police Hayes to-day said: "I am confident that young Croker met with no violence or foul play in
 Kansas City. We have run down every Iclue and our search has always brought Jus back to the story told by the negro porter, which think is right On this account I ordered the release of the porter. In my opinion Croker came to
 Kansas City Friday morning, probably
 on the Santa Fe train which reached here at 1:30. He went to the Coates
 house and from there to the races. He
 returned from the track in the evening
 and was tEen taken in tow by the negro. We have investigated the story. that Croker won $2O0 on the races and was robbed afterwards and had been
 unable to verify. it. think the negro told the truth when he said that Crok-. | ed had only s20 bill. The case has
 now been dismissed, and nothing more Twill be done unless the relatives ask for further investigation. This, I think, is not improbable. I think that the young mans constitution was not lstrong enough to stand the form of dis Isipation that he indulged in here. After drinking hard he smoked opium, which lproved too much for his heart.''