The sun., 1910-05-22
LURE OF CITY DREW hin BACK
AM POLHE KNEn HHITW ~
~ ms "TWITCH."

NanIed R IsnnertIan MIN unr,ler IN
lWOl HAD Dren Thrsugh Nr~i And
TFlrd llaRtI AI CoNpunChlRE aud
PrrarhnG. huiN earned ter New NOrk.
A man with queer twitch 90 his
head come up Ia two detectives Yesterday
aftsrnoon al l?Sth street and Third avenue
aud asked Tor the priCr ~ a cup of COIcc.
lie said he had just reached iOWn from the
West and Was hungry The detectives.
Hart aud Skeeuan of the Harlem de-
teCiiyr bureau, thought they knew his
face aud especially the tNitCh ot the
bead
Where have you been IN the W-st''
ask'd Hart.
-Way oul. = said the man
Ohio said Hart I'm glad vou'ys
cufns haci, WhiJewav IloW are vou'-
Then came the tWitch oG the head again.
~ though the man we're booking for
blow from behind -l'm not MhitewAv.
Said he I am from the West and tn
hungry
Hart told him he thought he'd be,t ter GO
and have a talk with Capt kuhne of The
Harlem detective bureau The man KEEP,
hs nerv. with him even after hs got 20
the OfiCe Of the detectives He declared
that he was a stranger to New York and
didn't understand what all the hlSs was
abont
Capt Kuhns sent around ~ the West
leSlh stree, police station after Police.
man Foster. who he'd been on the trail ot
the murlerers ~ Theodore Johansen, a
young contractor who was held mp and
murdered in The Bronx back in 1911
Foster came over 10 the detective bureau
and looked AZ the prisoner
Sure said ha. that's Billy WhtWay :
He recognized the tWitch ~ tho head ard
the queer way Whitway had Of looking
out Of his eyes WhitWav had grown
heard IN the nine years since ne left New
York. but tho Identification seemed com
plete. The man himself made II certain
by admitting at last that he was William
Whtway. alias Nick Carter and that he
and Massey Schufeldt and John Fisher
had held mp Johansen nine years ago
There's nothing that ] haven't been
doing. he told the detectives. I've been
an evangelist and a cowboy, and I've
beaten my way from place % nlacs on
freight trains Bat ! couldn'' make a
% Of IL. I got tired of the bluH | was
singing. and ! wanted TO come back 10
New York So came He said he was
hungry and didn't care a Whoop what
happened Tomorrow ~ long as he got
something 90 eat to-day They fed him
and sent him down TO Police Headquarters
to be locked up.
whitway - 70 wears old On the night
Of July q. ioOi. he and his two friends set
out To be highWaymen Fisher was the
lsader The plan was - leave New York
by the New Haven railroad, drop ~
freight somewhere Out in the country
and hold up a farmer But Fisher saw
easier game nearer home
The three bought a revolver and a hpx
Of cartridges. On the way hack 20 the
freight yards Of the New Haven railroad
IN The RronX. in a street car Fisher
whispered a. his twO companions urging
that they hold up the two passengers in
the car then ard there Schufeldt ard
Whitway thought II was too spon t0 Jegin.
N the game fell through.
When they got IA the orr Fisher stuck
10 his idea A. southern Boulevard and
LegRett's lane they met two men corning
home from Oak Point. where they had
been looking over their boats. which
were hytng nt anchor Ihe two men
were Theodore Johansen and his brother
in-hW. Frederick hAfner They were
told n hold up their hrnds. but they were
to- slow rhout II One u the highway
men shot twice One - the bullets struck
Jullansen in the pbdomen and he fell
H,fucr mn IN search of polio eniEn
He = "a that three men had hid in the
shadow - veil end t'uat one " them
hrd shot his hrUther-in-hw He thought
the wounded mru was dying The
policeman could find nothing Of the
hlghwnymen Ne had lOhAnsen t-ken
% hospital. where he died
The police looked for the assailants
for two days without finding them. They
locked up two vagTants on suspicion.
but harmed nothing until Schufeldt went
into q police station and confessed Tie
Faid that he and WhifWay hal given
Fisher the slip soon after the shooting
because they hadn't meant 10 begin busi-
ness 20 roughly Later the police caught
both Fisher and Whitway. working from
Schufsldt's confession. All three were
indicted Fisher pleaded guilty and vas
given a life ssntenoe Schufeldt was lot
on with ax years. WhitWay got away
bsfore the trial and wasn't heard from
until yesterday afternoon. He vas
locked up on charge Of completely In tho