The sun., 1907-08-20
THINK He IS The STRANGLER
PRISONER N JERSEY CITY MAY
RE MRS. kEHRERS W. RDERER.

Veteran Detective Caught Him bs Chance
Two Women and q Man identify
Him a. the Friend Of the victim DE
scription TslIie~ Pretty We'll. Too.
Detective Sergeant Henry Clay keenan,.
the pawnshop man" OF the Jersey City
detective bureau, walked into police head
quarters yesterday morning with an Italian
and told Inspector Leonard that he guessed
he had the man who strsngled Mrs. Sophie
Kehrer to death with necktie In her room
At %z5 West Twenty second street, New
York city. on July ~ last.
Keenan, saw the man enter Mayors pawn
shop at Bay and Grove streets at 10 O'Clock
with bundle under his arm. He held him
up and found that the bundle contained
crumb tray, a syrup pitcher and half q
dosen spoons. all silver plated ware bear
ing the mark Of the Churleigh Inn. Strouds-
burg Pa He suspected the Italian OF
being thief and took him TO headquarters
as disorderly person. The prisoner de-
scribed himself as Giuseppe Capuzzo. 27
years old. of nowhere in particular, and ex-
planned through an interpreter that he
had arrived from Philadelphia at Q O'Clock
after three months trip through various
parts Of Pennsylvania.
keenan, is a veteran OF the civil war
with eighteen years experience IA de-
tective and his faculty for remembering
descriptions OF crooks is as keen at 90 as
il was years ago He looked the sharp
eyed Italian over, sized him from all points
Of view and then oonfided to Inspector
Leonard that he was sure he had the
stranger.
Leonard notified New York Headquarters
Of the mans arrest and Lieuts. Petrosino
and Archiopoli, the crack Italian sleuths,
went oser the river. So did Edward Smith,
who worked with Charlie Davis an
Italian suspected by the New York police
Of being the man who had strangied Mrs
Kehrer. Smiths face lit up as he walked
into Chief Monahan's Office and confronted
the Italian.
How are you, Charlie1" he said offering
10 shake hands.
The Italian stared blankly at Smith
and pretended not to know him.
Smith declared that he WAS sure Of his
Identification and would know Davis
anywhere.
In the meanwhile the prisoner told Po-
lioeman Ricco. the cops Italian inter
prefer. that he had left a suit case con-
tanning his clothes in hotel in the lower
part OF the city and keenan, found it at
a cheap restaurant in Montgomery street.
IL contained among other things a black
negigee shirt and pair Of striped trousers
which answered the description of gar
ments which the. New York police said
Mrs. Kehrer's lover and supposed muir
derr wore when he left the city.
few days after the body was found
the Jersey City police learned that an
Italian had pawned a suit case containing
some Of Mrs Kehrer's clothes in Newark
avenue pawnshop. He carried a second
suit case when he entered the place and
walked OF with il. 1t is believed to be the
one that keenan, recovered in the restaurant.
Among the articles found with Mrs. Keh-
rers effects was a souvenir shell and when
this was shown to the Italian while the
third degree was being worked he promptly
recognized it and said that it belonged
to one OF his old landladies.
Early in the evening Mrs. Charlotte
Twenty-second street to &52 West Twenty
second street soon after the murder and
who occupied q room adjoining the one
rented by Mrs. Kehrer and her Italian
friend. called at headquarters accompanied
by Miss Margaret Gallagher, daughter OF
Mrs. Frederick Dayton, from whom the
pair got the room. Both positively iden-
titled the prisoner AZ the Italian friend of
the murdered woman. Mrs. Terhune be-
came excited when she saw the man in
q group Of cops and exclaimed. -Oh, don't
set him touch mel
Richard Wilson OF 257 Wilton street, Jer-
sey City. went 20 the jersey City Do.ics
headquarters yesterday and Identified the
Italian prisoner as the man he had seen
with Mrs. Kehrer in Moore's saloon at Com
munipaw avenue and Wilton street shortly
before the murder. Wilson said he had
lived with tho woman as her husband at
$40 Communipaw avenue until six weeks
before the murder. After the woman had
gone to New York TO live she visited Jersey
City on the occasion Wilson met her In the
saloon She pointed out the Italian to
Wilson. he said. as the porter Of the place
whore she was staying in New York, who
was with her to carry her suit case
The description Of the Italian wanted by
the New York police which they sent out
on August 3. corresponds with that of the
Italian under arrest, except that the prisoner
is badly in need OF shave. whereas he was
pictured in the police description an clean
shaven. He gave the same name as that
ip the description. Giuseppe Capuzzo. Lieut..
Petrosino had q long session with him yes-
terday. in which. said the jersey City police.
he refused to own up to the murder. The
suspect was locked up in the Second pre-
cinct police station on the charge OF being
a disorderly person but will be arraigned
in the First Criminal Court this morning
as fugitive from Justice.