New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-04
POLICE SAY THEY HAVE
TAX|CAb MURDERER
"PrOtruding Eyes," Remembered
by Civil War Veteran, leads
to Mans Arrest.
PRISONER REMAINS SILENT
Police Get identification, They
Say, and Criminal Record Of
Man Accused of Killing
Stern and Robbery.

Stern and Robbery.
Inspector Hughes and Deputy Com
missioner Dougherty are sure they have
the man who killed Adolph Stern in
Jacoby's jewelry store, at 18th street
and sixth avenue on the night Of July.
22. Detectives arrested the man last
night. and he was taken to Police
Headquarters, where he was positively
identified by two witnesses who did not
know each other. Both were absolutely
sure the prisoner was the man who shot
stern. and was one Of those who
dashed away in the taXicab with the
trayful Of diamonds snatched from the
window
The man. who said he was Martin
Garvey. twenty-four years old. Of No.
60 Leroy street. was locked up. charged
with homicide. Last night the police
subjected him TO a series Of questions,
! but he absolutely refused TO say any
thing whatever. Garvey already had
criminal record. the police said. In 1907
he was arrested charged with grand lar
ceny I'm the second degree. He and a
man named Ed" Foster stole a pack
age from an express wagon In Third
avenue. Foster went 10 Elmira and Gar
yev was released on a suspended sen
tence
Insn .ctor Hughes has never let up on
the Jewel robbery and murder. He has
combed the city in every way known TO
detectives. one witness of the murder
who has accompanied the detectives in
their investigation Of suspected men, is
Civil War veteran. and it IS due largely
to him that Garvey was arrested.
Gould Never Forget That Face"
Il could never forget the face Of the
man who killed Stern" he told the in
spector. Those protruding eyes Will
ever be in my memory
And Il was the protruding eyes that
gave away Garvey. the detectives said.
The veteran walked with them many
nights snd on Monday night IN Green
wien Village he pointed out Garvey as
the man. without question. However,
the prisoner was not arrested until last
night Then the Deputy Commissioner
and INSPECTOR gave him a terrible three
hours. but he refused 70 give them any
information.
'I know my rights" he sullenly said,
and became more reticent as the hours
wore away He is fve feet nine inches
high and weighs about 100 pounds, and
is clean shaven.
According TO the veteran. he was
dressed in the same clothes he wore the
night OF the murder. a blue serge suit
and derby hat Another witness. Who
did not know the veteran, also positively
identified him.
He was locked up at the Mulberry
street station and will be arraigned in
Jefferson Market court this morning. In
spector Hughes said he could almost
have identified Garvey unaided accord
ing To the fine description of the man
the veteran gave him.
lust how the police first got line
on Garvey they have not made public.
but they said that he was member Of
the Neighbors Sons Club. an organi-
zation at No. 292 West 1lth street, and
that this club was a stiff rival Of the
Hudson busters" and the "Imperials,'
two other clubs not far away. one
theory was that this rivalry and antag-
onism between the clubs made somebody
"squeaW on Garvey.
The taxicab, the number Of which gave
rise to much speculation and fruitless
pursuit. the police said. was not the clew
that led to the arrest of Garvey
Further Arrests Expected.
The police said further that they had
information on which they expected to
arrest two other men, the man who
broke the jewellers window and grabbed
a tray of diamond rings as Stern was
shot and the driver of the taXicab. They
professed TO know now just where the
taxicab stopped to allow the robber and
his accomplice, the murderer, to get off.
The murder of Stern and the robbery
Of the jewelry store of his uncle, Jacob
Jacobv. was one of the most daring and
suectacular affairs in the annals Of the
police. Hundreds Of people were pass
ing the store on Saturday night, when
there was a crash. The jewelry store
window had been broken by a missile.
The man who broke the window thrust
his hands in through some thin iron pro-
tecting bars. wrenched them wider
anart and drew out Of the window
* 600 worth of diamond rings.
stern. who was clerk in his uncles
store. rushed out as he heard the crash,
and right on the threshold was met by
O. second man. who thrust a revolver in
his face and pulled the trigger. Stern
died instantly.
The robber and the murderer then
iumped into a taxicab which was wait
inc for them and raced away. Numer-
ops witnesses said they saw part Of the
number Of the taxicab, but the police
co,,ld not trace it by the sequence Of
numbers. although they searched for
weeks.
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