New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-22
MURDER PLANS F0ILED.
DISGUISED SLEUTH PAL.
Brother and Sister Of Stakeholder OF
S. /. SMpbmldtng Firm Arrested

A detective
whe was expected In cruel murder plot 10 piAs
the part of the villain, thrice saved the HE Oh
Frederick 1Iuis, of Ne Il Hatfield Place. Port
| Rich,nend Staten Island and while his alleged
| weuld=be aceen1,,i,ees were waiting to hear OF
| his death he had them placed under arrest.
| Last night i'm the Hiehmend Police Heaaaoaf-
ters George T. Ceruie, thirty-hve years olo'
| end bis sister Marion. thirty-seven years oio'
| also of No. Il Hatfield Place were prisoners
| charged with conspiracy with some others IN
| pletting to murder Frederick Hulz. Three oiI-
| fereut pians, * is eaid were tried TO do away
| with him.
The motive for the murder. according To De-
tect,ye Smith, who had the case in hand
was that there was a possibility that huiH
| would shortly marry and transfer TO MS "iie
| an insurance policy for $1,000 he had on MS
| life and which is payable to Marion CarHie'
| One Of the two who were engaged II Is
| said TO do the deed for $50 was Detective Bock'
| of Richmond headquarters, acting under the
| orders Of Smith and disguised longshore-
|
| fIulz Is a maChinist. He was married TO a
sister Of the man and woman under arrest Mrs
| Hulz died Hulz and his brother-in-law and
| sister-in-law continued TO live at No. Fl Hat
| field Place, Port Richmond, the woman keeping
| house for the men.
| Miss Carnie took out policy fr $500 on the
| life of Hull He did not know Of this. Huiz
had another policy for $1,000 on his life with the
| same company. This was also made payable
after the death of Mrs. Hull TO Marion Carnie
| Hulz time ago met a young Worlah III
| Bayonne with whom he became friendly. and 1t
| Is said he is shortly TO marry her. 1t Is said
| that IT was because when he would marry he
| would transfer the policy on which he paid the
| premiums his wife that the alleged con-
| spiracy TO murder him was hatched.
| Detective Smith learned of the affair some
| time ago. man with whom 1t is said there
| had been conversation about the AFFAIR
| told Smith of 1t far as he knew It. This man
has not appeared in the case since. except 20
| introduce Detective Book TO George Nc
Kenzie and Carnie. Book was made up as
a loater of a kind familiar along the Staten
| Island water front.
| According TO the reports of Book to Smith
| the first plan considered after he entered into
| the conspiracy to kill Hulz by turning on
| the gas in his room and asphyxiating him
| This was abandoned too dangerous. and then
| the plan was made to drown him in the bath
| tub. That, Also abandoned because he
| might struggle and there might be marks on the
| body TO account for
1t was finally decided that he should be
knocked on the head on the streets of Brooklyn
and left TO die. According TO the police Carnie
was TO en,ice Hulz Brooklyn and Mckenzie
| and Book 10 do the rest
| Sergeant Smiths story IS that he met the man
/ who first told him Of the affair outside the
| Whitehall terminal OF the Staten Island ferry
| on Monday. The man had just seen Mckenzie
| In South street and engaged him. He then saw
Smith and told him OF the plot. Smith took his in
| formant TO headquarters and interrogated him.
| The informant and Mckenzie were TO receive
| $50 or SEQ each for their work. Another man
| was needed and had been authorized. so Rock
| was assigned the case and was made ac-
| ouainted with Mckenzie The latter is now
| prisoner also In the care OF Sergeant Smith
| C-arrnie is alleged to have given Mckenzie and
| Rock SI4 purchase rubber tubing Ihls was
~ he adjusted TO the hall gas jet and the free
| end introduced into Hulzs room and the room
| alIed with gas After death the tube was 10 be
| transferred inside. all evidence OF suicide
| laid and the room again flooded with gas The
| difficulty OF two rough looking men getting
| a,yav vas the stumbling block. The neighbors
| would be sure to note them. Then the drowning
| plan was considered. but the danger there
| seemed greater, the get away would have
| been as difficult and the body might have been
| bruised
| The skull cracking scheme was finally deter
| mined upon Hulz was TO visit Bayonne Tues
| dav night Mckenzie and Book were to waylay
| hin, on his way home That there should be
| TO signal his approach when he passed under a
| light some distance down the street HUH went
| 10 Rayonne but he remained there. He had
been met by Sergeant Smith and ordered not to
| return that nightff Tfulz would not believe the
| officer when told he was be killed.
| Fearing that Hulz might not obey him. Smith
| watched all night at the ferry that he did not
| return Had he appeared Smith some one
| would have walked home with him. for although
| Book would not allow the affair to reach cli-
| max the police did not want their scheme
| drop.
| The Carnies committed without ball by
MAGISTRATE Croak. who waiting for the ar
rests Mckenzie remanded to the custody
of Smith.
| The police say that the money with which the
one of the insurance policies. and made debt
of Hulz's to the insurance company. He was in
duced II is declared, TO draw $50 policy
| loan.
| william Carme, of the largest stockhold-
| ers in the Burbee Shipbuilding Company of
| was at his home last night when he was sum-
| moned to the police headquarters He not
| permitted to either his sister or brother,
| but when told what the nature of the charge
| wa. he collar psed and scarcely able to go
| TO his home He believes implicitly in the In
| nocence of the prisoners.