New-York tribune., 1910-01-17
FOUR IN POLICE NET
HUNT BOYS SLAYER
Only Faint Clesos of High
bridge Murderer Found.


cause they answered the description Of the
man who murdered little Robert Lomas
and shot Arthur Shibley in Highbridge
Park on Wednesday One pretext or an
other WIS found for locking up all the
prisoners. The police say that the crime
is one of the most brutal that was ever
committed in New York, and they do not
intend to take chances of letting the per-
petrator slip through their fingers. Near
ly the whole staff of the Harlem branch
bureau. twenty TO thirty men from Head
quarters and six or eight from the West
152d street station are giving their whole
time TO the pursuit.
One prisoner was arrested early yester-
day morning at Lenox avenue and 125th
street He gave his name at different
times Frederick Wolker, Frederick
Wolka and Frederick Baker He could
not talk connectedly, and was plainly of
unsound mind. His head inclined to the
left side. The description first sent out
from Headquarters was of a man whose
head leaned to the right Policeman
Charles Picco. who arrested him, watched
him for an hour, and during most of that
time he carried his hands pushed into his
overcoat pockets. the description noted
In height and form he answered the de-
days growth. His hat and overcoat diff
fered from the description, as he wore a
black derby and long overcoat of heavy
gray cloth, while the man wanted wore a
felt hat and light, short tan coat
Under his overcoat the man wore four
coats of summer weight, and he had on
two pairs of trousers. When asked where
he got the hat he was wearing he answered
that his hat and shoes were given him by
kind friends at 160th street and Audubon
avenue The place named is only a few
blocks from the scene of the crime. Baker
said that he was forty-eght years old and
that he lived at the Arion Hotel, at 121st
street and Third avenue. He could not tell
where he was on Wednesday. In the Har-
lem Police Court he was held without bail
for fogty-eight hours by Magistrate Butts.
SiSmundo Nicito. a carpenter, thirty
three years old, frightened his neighbors al
No. 1913 Orchard street by hourishing a
knife and threatening to kill some one.
The police of the Eldridge street station
arrested him, and finding that his physical
characteristics We're similar to those of the
man for whom the detectives are searching
they took him to the Harlem detective bu-
reau.
Edward Dendson, who said he was fifty
cry, was seen acting suspiciously at
Bleecker and Carrnine streets. After watch
ing him for half hour Patrolman Will
lam Mott, of the Charles street station,
arrested him. He, too seemed to answer
the description and was taken to the Har-
lem bureau.
Ihe fourth man arrested at the Cen
tral Park entrance at East I'D street.
tie said he was Edward L. Johnson. tele-
graph operator. He said he recently came
from Washington to look for work. Three
detectives who are working on the case
said that his chief resemblance TO the
man wanted is that he is shabby and
bearded. They do not seriously think of
charging him with the crime. He was
locked up however, as a vagrant
Arthur Shibley still lies between life and
death at the Washington Heights Hospital
After relapse yesterday afternoon prep
aratons were made for the TRANSMISSION of
blood from his mother, Mrs. Ameen Shib-
ley. but he recovered slightly, and the op-
Grafton was postponed. His father and
mother have left the hospital for only a
few minutes since he was brought there
Messages OF sympathy are coming to them
constantly from their friends in the Syrian
colony, from their neighbors about 164th
street and from hundreds of persons in tha
city at large who have been touched ny
their aff1iction.