Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-05

D. Ihe Poiice peneNe, tndl lne murder
There Carey, employed as bar
tender by Nicholas White, rnay
have heard two of the crimi-
nails who habitually hung out
in the saloon, boasting in under
tone of one of the "jobs' they
had pulled off" Later, perhaps,
he had been in a drunken row with
one of the men and threatened to send
them up" From that time on the men
whose secret he knew plotted to kill
him.
Picking the spot for the crime with
the cunning cleverness of a hardened
criminal one of the men. short, lame
a typical denizen of the underworld
brought Carey to Newark. The two
men drank together in one saloon;
they went back to New York; they re-
turned to Newark again and went back
to New York once more. Finally the
lame man brought Carey over for the
last time and took him to the freight
car on the siding near the Plank road
crossing. There he was found dead.
The detectives today expect to find his
slayer
Since the victim was identified as
Dennis A. Carey, jr., by Mrs. Carey
yesterday the police have pieced to-
gether their case. They have already
drawn the net SO tightly about the
murderer that they believe there Is no
possibility of his escape. \,
A short lame,s jan was seen with Ca
rey on the day before his body was found
by three saloon keepers and Mrs. Carey.
Their descriptions all tally. Such a
man was seen going along Plank road
toward Jersey City early on the morn
ing of the murder. This is the man
whom the detectives expect to find to-
day.
Relegated to the police files as an
unsolvable mystery, with both murderer
and victim alike unidentified, the case
of the Newark freight car shooting has
been reopened and all but solved by
twenty-four hours of feverish work
on the part of the police detectives
Sprawled in the dark interior of an
empty car on railroad crossing near
the Plank road, the body of a man.
shot through the lung, was found
Wednesday, September 90 Yesterday
Mrs. Dennis A. Carey. jr., positively
identified the victim as her husband.
who left their home in New York at
1890 o'clock on the night before the
body was found.
Although, according to the wife's
story, Carey was only steamfitter
who had become a bartender and
often drank heavily he was the black
sheep of a highly respectable Boston
family His father was retired po-
lice sergeant, his brother is the Rev
Carey.
She unhesitatingIy picked from the
ROgues' Gallery, in New York, the pic
lures of the two men seen with her
husband a few hours before his violent
death.
Detective-Se Sergeant Quinn. of police
headquarters, and Detective Godfrey.
of the prosecutors office, working with
Lieutenant Detective Burke, of the
New York headquarters, arc hunting
for the murderer.
The new phases of the mystery are
these;
On the night of Tuesday, September
20, two men called on Carey at l0:30
o'clock. One of them limped, The de-
scription of him given by Mrs Carey
corresponds exactly with that of the
supposed murderer, who was seen by
a number of men going along Plank
road toward Jersey City on the day of
the murder. He is the man the police
want, and it is asserted it is only
matter of hours before they Win ind
him.
a popularity which the police have
not yet been able to fathom lies in
the fact that Carey was in Newark
three times on the day before his mur-
dered body was found Mrs. Carey can
give no explanation; neither can Nicho
las White, who keeps the saloon at
Hester and Elizabeth streets. where
Carey worked.
At - o'clock Tuesday he was in
Newark, drinking heavily. He was
seen in Charles Weimer's saloon, at 577
Ferry street, from which he was
elected for Objectionable conduct. in
company with the lame man.
In the afternoon he and his com
panion turned up at the saloon oe
Nicholas White where he had temper
arily stopped work.
At s clock he was in Newark again,
this time in The saloon of Joseph Ka
husky, at 572 Ferry street, with his
lame friend
He returned home at 10 o'clock. Half
an hour later two men appeared at
SO Second avenue. where he and his
wife roomed. and asked to see him.
They talked together in low tones
md then Carey said;
Were going up to Bellevue SO that
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