New-York tribune., 1910-01-18
NEW MURDER CLEW
FOURTH BOY VICTIM.
Lad Near Ossining 4ttacked
and ChOked-Three 4rrests.

a new clew liz the Highbridge murder
case developed last night when lie Grand
Wynants, who lives on Croton Dam Road.
about mile south from Ossinins, called
up Police Headquarters and said that his
son. a boy OF nine years. had been at
tackled and choked on Saturday night by
man who answered the description OF the
men who. the police believe. killed Robert
Tomas and shot Arthur Shibley in High
bridge Park on Wednesday. This makes
the fourth boy who had been attacked. all
supposedly by the murderer of young Rob-
ert Lomas.
Wynants said that he spoke of the crime
while he was reading an evening paper.
and that his son. who was playing in the
room, then told him of his adventure. 4
man. the lad said. had come up TO him
while he was playing in the road Saturday
afternoon and asked for q drink OF water.
The boys desert. ton fitted exactly that
given by the police of the man who is
wanted for the Highbridge murder. When
he had drunk the water he threw the glass
from him and then clutched the boy by the
throat and flung him backward into the
snow.
The lad screamed and struggled. and the
man let go his hold and ran UP the road 10
TIE AoIll- Inc DON was scared anu QlU
not tell his parents until yesterday.
4 man who gave his name as Franz Jo-
sef Shuhert. and who said that he lived
al the Nassau Hotel. Bowery and Houston
street. was arrested last night at 1S9th
street and Franklin avenue. The Bronx.
on suspicion Of being the man who shot
John Frederick, twenty-one years old, of
No. 81 Girard avenue. The Bronx, q week
ago last Saturday night. on the viaduct Of
the New York Central & Husdon River
Railroad. at Park avenue and 153d street
Detectives O'Neill and Remey were walk
ing along Franklin avenue when they saw
the man, and Renley said TO ONeill.
I'll bet you that there's the man who
did the shooting of the boys
You win," said O'NeilI. and they stopped
the man He was about 8 feet Z inches
in height. had about a months growth Of
beard. which was black, and q dark brown
mustache- He wore a black peak cap
and dark clothes. He was taken to The
Bronx Detective Bureau and locked up on
z charge OF vagrancy. Then he was taken
TO Lebanon Hospital for young Fredericks
tc see Fredericks said that he could not
say for sure that he was the man who had
shot him. as il was dark
From the Lebanon Hospital the man was
taken to the Harlem branch detective bu-
reau. where he was looked over by the
detectives. who all seem TO think that he
answered the description given Of the
child's shooter
Foreman Casey. of the Park Department,
said that while he did not care 10 make
a positive Identification he thought that of
all Of the men arrested so far this one
came the nearest 10 answering the descrip-
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little boys in Highbridge Park. A stack
OF papers found in the mans pocket pur-
ported. according 10 the man himself. to be
q history OF his life. 4 few extracts were
as follows:
October 13-I shook my head II times
0ctooer FL shook my head loS times.
January. 1913. at Snake Hill. y. J.,
while shaking my head in the street, l was
arrested and got seven months for va
grancy.
The police net swept in another suspect
in the person of Baruch Rothman a half
witted man, forty-three years old, living
at No. 443 Canal street. who in the course
of disjointed talk said he had shot at
some boys who were plaguing him at
Spring and Varick streets. He could not
remember how long ago il was.
Rothman was arrested al 42d street and
Park avenue yesterday afternoon. His
father, Bernard Rothman. keeps a pawn
shop at the Canal street address. The pris-
oner told Lieutenant Gilhooly about shoot
ing at children.
They had been pestering me- he said,
'and / only fired four or five times. Then
I ran. 1 threw away the pistol. I can't
remember when il was"
The man was taken TO Harlem to be
Looked over by Lawrence Casey. a fore
man Of laborers on the Speedway, who saw
the man who is supposed TO have shot the
children. Casey did not identify the briS-
oner the man he saw.
Elias Chadarowsky, a pedler, of No. 10
Eldridse street, was arrested for the sec
end time yesterday because he looked like
the man in the description.