The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
Police Desire to Capture
Thieves Who Killed Tene-
ment ROuse Inspector.
WERE AMATUER BURGLARS
Belief Is Held That Robbers
Did Not Intend to Kill When
Shot Was Fired >. Women
Seen Running With Men
/ in Lafayette Street.

Y Only the broken glass of the door
l and the marks ON the easement where
an attempt was made to force an OPEN
ing remain as evidence of the work
Of the men who yesterday morning shot
and killed George II. Fisher, a tenement
house inspector. when, from the window
Of his home at il0 Congress street. he
saw them trying to break into the(gro-
Gerry store of w. Feindt, next door.
None of the tools with which the men
worked, nor the revolver used. have
been found. and all trace of the men
has disappeared. The local police are
: considering the matter of having a re-
WARD offered for the murderer.
Daniel Dankowitz. 20 years old, no
4 home, who was arrested on suspicion
by Detective Sergeant Kuhn of head
quarters, this afternoon, is being held
while the police look into his record on
re Imposition that he had something
do with the Fisher shooting.
u is known that he had hand in
two house-breaking jobs in the city.
Articles were found on him after his
arrest that lead the authorities to be-
lieve that IL he choose he can throw
some light on the killing.
Plainclothes Policeman Mcconnell
who. with Plainclothesman Byrne and
Patrolmen Joseph Miller and John Mil
ler, are working on the case. said this
morning that in his opinion the two
housebreakers we're new hands at the
business
They never would have gone at 1t
-tne way they did If tffny were profes
ionals. he declsred The door has
two panes Of glass. one in each upper
panel These panes are fastened in
with a wooden moulding, nailed to the
|. framework ON the outside and so old
as to be very soft in places. Nothing
would have been simpler than to take
penknife and remove the strips. With
tho glass out. man could put his
hand inside and turn every lock on the
door.
Ipstead of doing that, the two went
at ii with jimmy. The door was held
by three bolts, at the top, the bottom
end the middle. An old hand would
have known that as soon as he went q
work. When the two did find that they
couldn't break the door open they went
and broke the glass. That was what
woke Mrs. Fisher"
The Fisher home is one door in from
Lafayette street. OF, Congress, the gro
Gerry store occupying the corner. The
door where the men tried to effect an
entrance is in an alley In the rear. he
tween Fishers house and an extension
on the rear of the store. The windows
of 100 Congress overlook this alley.
Mrs. Fisher says that she was awak-
ered about o'clock yesterday morn
ing by the sound of breaking glass and
got up to see whether the noise was
not coming from the lower windows of
her own house. Looking out Of the
window toward the grocery store she
was able to distinguish two men at
work on her neighbor's door, and she at
once returned TO her husband to tell
him.
At first he could not be reused, but
when he became wide enough awake
to grasp what she was saying he went
to a window nearer the front of the
house and closer to the street than
the grocer's doorway so that when he
shouted for help, IL he had to. there
would be greater chance of his being
heard in the street. i
No time elapsed between his demand,
What are you doing there?" and the
shot that killed him. according to Mrs. |
Usher
The police believe that the killing was
Intentional. as the thieves would have
difficulty in seeing Fisher lean out
Me window. 1t is probable, they de- |
that the shot was fired simply to
ten him and make him withdraw
be house long enough for the men
pver the fence that separates
cer's yard from Lafayette |
Without being seen.
Usher went at once to her hus- |
d found him hanging half out !
'indow with the unweighted
sash, which he had held up
hand while talking. fallen
is back. Otherwise, she said
would have fallen into the |
ted the sash and shouted
until neighbor. Mrs. Mar
Isle. who lives over the store,
window and, seeing the
n to Mrs. Fishers assistance.
anS Devlin, of SO Congress
md a physician from st.
Hospital were summoned and
Fisher and agreed that he
a few hours to live He was
to the hospital.
arlisle thinks that as she went
window in answer to Mrs.
Is call two men fled from the
She had heard nothing until
Usher screamed
other robberies. of a similar ma
n. polk place the same night, and
- Q saloon of Edward FutilIer, at
hey street. was taken .s2-cali-
oliver.
autopsy, made yesterday by
Physician Daniel Elliott.
that the bullet which killed \
was alsosa 81
ptiller's place and at the saloon
ontinusd on second Psse.)