New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
POLICE SATISFIED
EVIDENCE Is SLIM.
admit Holding Denisou
Wholly on deductions.

While the police admitted yesterday that
they were holding Herbert Jerome Denson
on circumstantiai evidence for the shooting
of Arthur Shibley and Robert Lomas in
Hishbridge Park. Inspector McCanerty
said the case against the magician was so
strong that the upper West Side murder
was solved to his satisfaction. Assistant
District Attorney Rubin examined seven
witnesses. The police regard five Of these
as important to 'clnch" their case. The
other two. Mrs. Rodduck and Mrs. Turner.
were inclined to favor the defence.
The police witnesses will be called I'm the
Jefferson Market police court to-day. when
Denison will be formally arraisned for the
double murder and the shooting OF John
Fredel ick. of No. si7 Gerard avenue, at
Mott and Park avenues. Inspector Nc
Cafferty denied last night that the arrest OF
the demented magician was a police
plant" He insisted that his men had been
guided to the house at No l52 East 12Sth
street by an anonymous letter and that
there was no former report of Denisons 5
disappearance in the police record.
The bullets fired at the boys in High
bridge Park on January IL and at John
Frederick on January were of the same
type, according to Inspector McCaferty.
who described them last night. when he
said that the arrest of Denison was based
chain of police deductions The case
against the suspect as outlined by the in
spector consisted of the testimony given by
the five witnesses. three city employees and
two boys. one of whom was not positive in
his Identification
With the testimony OF these witnesses are
coupled the statements made by the mother
OF the prisoner. who said that her son was
shaved on the afternoon of the murder and
that he bought new hat and then was
taken to a sanatorium at Amityville, Long
Island. The revolver which Inspector Nc
Cafferty says was found in Highbridge
Park is also looked on by the police as an
important exhibit. The number of this
weapon is given as ISIS, and. according to
the detectives, it was made in Norwich,
Conn.,
Inspector McCafferty admitted that the
entire case included in these facts. He
was unable to give any further reasons for
the arrest which came Immediately after
District Attorney Whitman and Coroner
Feinberg ordered independent Investigations
into the murders. Inspector McCaferty
also said that Mrs. Denison. the prisoner 5
mother. was an expert in the use of fire.
arms. He announced that information had
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that led him to believe the woman prac-
tised regularly at targets.
These allegations We're denied by Mrs.
Denison last night. VIII" again assailed the
police for the arrest and hinted that there
was plot to place her son in an asylum
for the criminal insane. Mrs. Denison would
not name the instigator OF this alleged con-
spiracy. but she insisted that the man was
the author of the letter which the police
say was received a few days after the
shooting.
After all the witnesses had been exam
ined Assistant District Attorney Rubin
said he was more inclined to believe the
right man had been arrested than he had
been on any day since the murder. Mr.. Ru-
bin will represent District Attorney Whit
man to-day.