The evening world., 1911-05-05
SUSPECTS PROVE
THEIR INNOCENCE
Of BRIDE MURDER
Every Clue to Harlem Crime
Falls to Ground and
Mystery Deepens.
GRILL HUSBAND AGAIN.
Theory That Neighbor Com
mitted Deed Fails of Proof
in Questioning.
GRILL HUSBAND AGAIN.

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their new chief. Deputy Commissions
George $. Dougherty, TO find the slayer
OF Mrs. Ann Molnar, the comely
young woman who was stabbed TO
death Wednesday afternoon in tho
basement Of No. 52S West one Hundred
and Twenty-third street, were unable
To report the merest stop OF prog cse
today.
Every lead they had taken NJ had
led TO a blind pocket or "A barrier .;
alibis. With the motive clearly estab-
i!saed by the autopsy It was apparent,
ide detectives thought, that the SLAYER
could not have been stephen Molnar.
the husband. Then Molnar was able
to establish the strongest kline OF an
abb.
The button clue has come TO nothing
az yet. 1t IL a black patent button OF
the sort all weaiers OF railroad mems
uniforms substitute for their brass but
tons when they 20 off duty. There are
millions of such buttons In use. The
one found near the body OF the muir
dcred woman might have been In some
rubbish In the cellar. II might have
come down the dumb-waiter from tho
Hat OF some tenant months ago.
Nothing TO Prove Connection.
Lieut.. pclGhan'v, who ( urd The but
tar. SAYS L Is impossible to deduce that
s. was torl from the cont % the sla! o.
by lis young woman victim. The clasp
was broken. but there Is nothing 20 In
G.cate that this was freshly done.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty will
sIbjec, the murdered woman's husband
- III. lIa,.a Ny.l,a 80 friap1 NrhA
was with him when he went home nj
80 o'clock Wednesday evening and
FOUND the bcdy OF his wife on the kit
chen iioor. 20 another gr!lling to-day.
/. they repeat the same stories they told
yesterday both will DE discharged.
Niuluar has proved that he left Weser
BIOS piano factory N Vest Foriy-third
street at SO o'clock. Both he and Harra
swear that he arrived at No $50 West
End G where iIarri Is employed
az a fireman, shortly after C o'clocS. He
stopped on the way to drink "A glass OF
beer with two fellow employees He
waited for llarra to change his clothes
and then started for home.
This would accoun; for every mirut,
OF the mans time Up 10 the a:!.'di a
lis home and the discovery OF tl'
murder.
Suspect Proves innocence.
Nothing has been developed from the
story OF Mrs. n. A. McCaOc, VINO lives
ever the Molaar apartment, that she
saw a man lolter!pS about the stairway
leading down TO the Molnar flat Wit
l-sembleJ IN appearance = man wh'
lives In the nc.Ihho-hood. This mar
las been under suryeii anec for twenty
Tour hours. he Aas been questioned a
> eat length. but iotl lis attitude an'
s.s replies have served only to osla5
,,sh his innocence.
The detectives are certain that tn
slayer could not have committed tn
iced without staining his clothing. bu
he held the knife, which he returned t
a kitchen drawer after the crime, !
,:ch q way that he left no fnge
PRINTS. Altogether the mystery tina
.vrrounds this murder IS one OF III
most baffling sort,
Thinks Junkman Was Slayer.
Thomas Rowan. japitor of the hou,
mex, door, is convinced that the Grim
was committed by a junkman. o
Wednesday. he says, two Junh'ncn 81
aided his nat and ne drove them ava!
lie added the following statement:
4 was asleep most OF Wednesda
afternoon. My room is separated b
only n few feet from the kitchen o.
.4,pied by Mrs. Molnar, but l heard .
rolse. II she had screamed ] shou
yt.ely would have heard her. Ny d,
would have been aroused. / never ga
Mrs. Molnar In my life, and new
srolte to her. | nave been here abo'
,no months"
Fhe detective cannot understand W!
he did not hear Mrs. Molnar's outcris
.ue shaft separating the two kitehe
lie ng only two feet wide.