Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-03
A MYSTERY.
Body Shipped TO Roxbury
Is Not Wiener's,
|Rea| Wiener Now in Cell al
Phi|ade| phia City Hail.
Police Of Two Cities Are Mystified
Over the Matter.

Philadelphia, Dec. 1.-The body Of
Hynan Wiener. the supposed murder
er of Policeman Barnett, is not en-
route to Roxbury. Mass. This fact de-
veloped tonight when Wiener was ar
rested in the tenderloin district and
taken to the City hall. Who the man
was who shot and fatally wounded
Policeman Barnett. and was in turn
shot and killed by the officer is still
unknown.
The arrest of Alexander Mcdonald,
who came to this city in company with
Hyman Wiener, brought the climax to
the mystery surrounding the identity
% Wiener's body. Mcdonald had main
tained from the first time he viewed the
body in the morgue that it was not
Wiener's but the fact that Wiener's
father, who came here yesterday from
ROxbury, and positively. identified the
body as that of his son and that an I'M
Gle had also stated without reserve
that the body was that of his nephew.
started the police on a hunt for Nc
Donald and he was arrested later in
the day and held without bail "as an
accessory
to Inconsistencies on the night of the
shooting, made the statement thar
when he approached the man who was
later identified as Wiener the latter
was accompanied by heavy set man
who ran away. AS Wiener's father
identified the corpse the detective de-
partment spread a net for Mcdonald,
who had been Wiener's companion.
He was found at his place of business
and taken to the detective bureau and
later committed to prison. During his
brief interview with the police today Nc
Donald still maintained that the body
which had been shipped to RoXbury was
not that of Lyman Wiener and finally
told the police officials where they would
be likely to find Wiener. While little
credence was placed in Mcdonald
statement, the police decided to try .
locate Wiener Within two hours they
had him in a cell at City hall, and now
the question is whose body was shipped
to Roxbury. Wiener on being arrested
was charged with numerous petty rob
berries from boarding houses at which
he had been stopping since coming here
from Boston. Several warrants had been
issued for his arrest sprevious to the
murder of Policeman Barnett.
The police are completely in the dark
since the explosion of the Wiener 'ident~
iiication" and admit that the identity of
the body is more of mystery than ever.
HNman Wiener was brought to pO-
lice headquarters a few ininteS be
tore the time for the departure OF
tie train for Boston, which was to
carry the body of his double and also
his father. 4 rush was made for
the Pennsylvania Railroad stat ton
aud tho elder Wiener was found as
he was about to board the train. The
collin containing the corpse WAS also
taken tron the express car. Leon
Wiener. the father of the much sought
after Lyman, was taken to tie City
hall aud there identified his son.
Other persons who wehc acquainted
with young Wiener were also brought
to police headquarters so as to make
the Identification complete.
The money !Ound on the body Of
killed had been turned over to the
elder Wiener and when the mistaken
identity was proved the $lS3 was
turned back to the police officials
Mcdonald. who had been the butt
of the mistaken identification of Wien
er. was released from custody to-
night.