The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-05
Hlghwaymen IN Their Hasts
to Escape Dropped the
Bag of Money.
ALSO WEAPONS AND MASKS
0thCr Evidence Discovered That
Points Almost Certainly
10 the Assassins.


assistant treasurer Of the AtlAs Building"
Material Company, and his negro drivr.
George Ragsdale. yesterday afternoon
fed through the woods in such hasa
that they dropped the treAsurer's suit
case containing $500 in gold silver and
Supt Jerry Leonard 81 the Atlas brick
yards stumbled upon the cash bag this
morning while they wsrs beating up tho
thickets with a party u armed men
Lane and Leonard found not only the
money that Denton Fowler had been hur- 4
ryinE with 20 the Atlas brickmaksrs
but within few steps 81 where Mr.. Fowler
and the plucky negro had been shot 90
death they came upon the weapons the
robbers had used in the killing. q VIM
chester repeating rife. a shotgun and two
revolvers. Searching on their hands and
knees through the wet bush. they found
two caps such as Italian iaborers COM
monty wear in this part Of the country,
two red bandanna handk erchiefs which
had been pierced with eyeholes and used
for masks. the scattered fragm Of an
envelope and the letter the envelope had
contained and the scrap strewn SPOT tiny
clear ing surrounded by almost impene-
trable thickets OF thorn bush. where the
robbers had made camp while they waited
for Young Fo~ler's buggy.
Pressing close 20 the ground and
fchting their way through the thickets.
Chief Lanes men picked up the tran Of
two % the aSsassins, and the trail I'D in
wide curve To the least likely place in tho
world the brick yard where $50 Of the en-
pl1yees Italians HumRarians and Pollcks
hrgeiy-had been waiting for Dent en-
Fow ler's approach with their three ws~ks
pay. And while Lanes country de,ectivel
we're skilf,iIly gathering clues from tho
woods which were telling tales on tho
robbers another party 81 policemen and
citizen volunteers under Sergt. Cruise
and Policeman Klemmer were finding
interesting things les than a quarter Of
a mile away on the other side Of the road
where Mr.. Fowler and Ragsdale were
killed
Here and there. leading In exactly
the opposite direction from the tracks
that Lane and Leonard were nosinG.
SerGt Cruise came upon the prints Of
hobnAiied shoes. impressions deep m
the mud and sharply marked on bushes
that had been trampled down by rushing
feet. These signs. broken. lost and re-
covered at long intervals, carried Cruises
party southwark away from tho brick
yard toward the river gradually. AZ
length they disappeared, imperoeptibls
on a regularly used road. Chief Lane
was swearing this after noon becauss
bloodhounds were not included in thu
police reserves 20 the city Of Hudson. /.
II he doesn't nail the murdersrs within
a few hours-And the evidence 10 suoh
already that he can almost give THAR
names. he aayshe will try to get doeu
from Albany or New York.
The discovery % the suitcase with tbs
pay envelopes unopened. untouched even: ,
the rife, shotgun and revolvers. the caps
and masks and the torn envelope and
letter and the clear significance Of ths
trail that led 60 tho brickyard almoso.
tell the story in themselves Of the inciss
dents that preceded and followed ths
killing and the looting Of the buggy.
They Indicate that employees Of Jh0.
Atlas company. Italians. almost certainly,
men who were entitled by their work.
TO n moiety Of the cash young Fowler
was conveying. men who knew every
step the paymaster had taken. ambushsd
him and then. unable 10 escape with tbs
heavy money case and in danger Of being
caught by the brickmaksrs who were
pouring down the road to the wooda,
droppsd the case and msds-two Of them
At Ieast-a long detour back 20 the brick
yard. These. the police think. had ths
audacity to run in behind the disappear
ing brickmaksrs and join in the hunt.
The second trail. the footprints going
south. show that the party had split in
sudden alarm and that three. perhaps
four. had dashed through the woods IN
an opposite direction.
OF all the things that the frightened
robbers had discarded the torn letter
and euvelope most interested the police
The letter was addressed 90 al Italian
living in Hudson. IL was worded IN
Italian But envelope and contents had
been torn across again and again and
hung in small fragments over twenty
yards IL ground IL vss To- -@.E and
tedious job to piece these papers together
BY a O'Clock tonight Chief Lane had the
reconsl rIcted envelope pasted on to a
sheet of paper That gave him the name
and address 90 a man. But the several
sheets Of the letter was a tougher problem.
Late tonight lane nan not euccee1en IN
max ing much 81 a. The little that he
could understand with the help Of an
Italian interpreter confirmed. he sald the
theory already formed.
The name Of the Italian who received
the Iet ter Lane declined for obvious
reasons to give out. He was able though
10 reconstruct from the sum Of the morn
inR's discoveries a story. not at all fanoiful.
4 ~. ~. -
what must have takeL place before and
after the crime. Every article found IN
the bush was a. good - q chapter IN ths