The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-07

turhance in the elevator and Roberts g
manner was placid The elevator man
helped the barber wlth III" mirror and at
O'Clock when rh" barber went home
there was mo light IN the elevator shat;
Under bcuch in the engine room the
detectives found pair OF shoes with
blood ON tho sJlo~ These shoes Roberts
admitted were hi lie said that he wore
them ~ Nv" building, and he picked up
the blood. Siill wCf. ~ IN" walked across
the celia, " hon he came in The police
said thai TN" blood was dry then. They
asked Rurorts whore he got fountain
pen which hc had in his pocket and on
which thor" was blood he said he had
found 10 ON IT," floor when h" came IN, and
he had intended - give It tu tn" police.
but had Forgotten about II. lie had u
ring with two diamonds. worth probably
$50 which he said IL" bought at hook
shop" for So Ia" police had not traced
the ring last night, nor had they found ont
If tn" fountain pen belonged To Nogcl
Just about the time capt foy, in charge
of the detectives on m" East Side, had
decided 'o arrest Roberts Mr. Nogcl
called up Jacob SchmuCkcr, who ha. a
shop in IN" building and from whom
Nogcl got about $3.50 worth of jewelry
on Tuesday. and asked about her husband.
saving that he had not been home all
night Schmuckcr told her that she had
better come down town, and when she
went to the EldrldEe street station with
her daughter an" was told that her hus-
band had been murdered
Roberts. SchapS and Ettile were taken
before Coroner Fclnbcrg The police said
that Roberts had made several contra
dictory statements but he was cool enough
when he faced the Coroner. tie ~ not
sturdy but he has large, strong hands
and wiry body He told the Coroner
that he was ready To answer any ques-
IRONS and he answered whatever the
Coroner asked him i'll words carefully
chosen.
He said that when he came looking for
Ettille. whom he had left on the ground
floor on Tuesday evening, Ettillc was
gone
Roberts was not asked to explain
how Ettille got his clothes He said he left
the building AT O'Clock and went direct
to 26 West \incty-uinth street. where
he lived with the jauitur. "A Mrs. DiCker-
son. Then he went tO "A house in The
Bronx because he wanted TO see a girl
and explain certain things To her" The
police had found in "A suit ut clothes which
he had not worn IN some time statement
which he had written out telling a girl
that he could not marry her because he
had wife in Porto Rico and he did not
want 10 commit higamy. This document
was dated November - and it was the
girl mentioned in II he wanted to see.
because she had left the house where she
had been living and he wanted her address
He saw her sister, came home at II 80
O'Clock. drank some beer with Mrs. Dick
erson and went to bed at . o clock. There
was no attempt to CrOSS-cNamine Roberts
and the Coroner held him without bail
until this morning to give the detectives
a chance to complete their investigation
Fttille was sent to the House of Detention
as a witness and Schaps was held as a
witness but released in 500 bail.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough-
erty was not disturbed over statements
made by members Of the Nogel family
there are six children that there had
been a family difference with a son-in-
law. Joseph shapiro. who makes dresses
at ~ Greene street. Mrs Shapiro started
n suit for separation from him two days
ago He says when he got to his home
al $50 Longwood avenue, The Bronx,
that night he found il in possession of
the Nogel family and they put him out
That night he slept in Turkish bath in
Forsyth street. On Tuesday night he
went To sec a friend named Cohen in
East l55th street He was at Cohen 5
house until after o'clock. he said and
after that he met Coroner Feinberg
He slept in Turkish bath in l25th street
that night. he said, and didn't know
anything about Nogels death until about
S O'Clock last evening or shortly before
the reporters called on him, Shapiro
said that he had given his wife icwery
worth SO n1o and II vas Quite possible
that she had turned IL over TO her father
The police remembered yesterday that
Roberts was arrested in April after a safe
had been broken open in A. Steinhardt' :.
jewelry establishment al 5l2 Broadway
where he was employed. There were 2Ot
employees in the place and none Of then
hesitated about giving specimens OF theii
finger prints save Roberts. He finally
gave mp "a sample of his and was arrested
as Capt. taurot. the finger print expert a
Police Headquarters decided that tn,
prints on the safe We're the same a. those
made by Roberts, fingers Roberts ya'
indicted but released on the recommends
tion of the District Attorney on his owl
recogni2anCe. The police also said tha
ten years ago he was arrested for assault
on another negro, but he was not con
viCted
A squad of detectives sent out from Po
lice Headquarters had not succeeded las
night in finding any Of the iewelry NOge
was supposed to have carried
Detective Woods went 10 % Wes
Nlnety-ninth street last night TO searcl
Roberts : rooms. but he found nothinl
there of any value in the C9se. He said
however, that he had found that Roberts
statements as to his wherea bouts at tn
time Of the murder were false. The wa tc
that was found IN the coal cellar Of tn
Canal street building was identified 10y
Jeweller SChmuCkcr as one he sold t. IN,
dead man.