The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-28

10 Newark. He found Pelardv and IRON
the druggists records he learned thai
palrrdy had sold one end half ounces o'
chloroform on Friday Last to a Mrs. kan'
q "a West Fiftieth street, New York.
Van Twistern hustled back to New
York and told the Commissioner what hs
had learned II was 3 O'Clock last night
when the detective met the Commissioned
at Headquarters. Acting Captain Glostei
and Lieutenant Detective Dominck Reilly
vent To tho address given FOR Mrs. Kane
They found that both she and her husband
were out and there was no one in tn,
apartment.
Al ~ O'Clock Detectives Finn and
Griffin. who were left on guard reported
To Commissioner Dougherty that fou'
men had entered the haiho,ise. The Com
missioner and Detective Van Twi t"rh
went To the house.
GEIDFL rorND ny rulitt.
They found Gcide and his roommate
Patrick ! Mct;ranc who like G,ide
comes from Hartford. sitting on the bed
in their room The kancs had not come
in yet
Van Twis,ern took Geidcl into another
room. leaving tho Commissioner with
Mctirane I'm few minutes Van Twis-
tern returned and told III" Commissioner
that Gcidel admitted having boon en-
poyed at tho Hotel lroquics up 10 last
Friday
The boy had taken the visit of the
detectives much as y Joke and had seemed
to he perfectly at ease. laughing freely
At iot5 o'clock while the questioning
of the two young men was still giong on
the Names came in
They were Edw ard Kane. 3 wears old
n hairdresser and his wife. Mrs Jo-
eephine Kane. 3" wears old. Mrs, Kane
said that Geidel Ind been renting n room
from her and the, week ago McGrGne,
who is c3 wears old and also is a hellbo!
by occupation. had come over from Hart
ford and since then hed been living viii
Geidel
MRS. ksSE HELrs POLICE.
Commissioner Dougherty took Mrs
Kane aside and asked her II she had .
bottle Of Chloroforir. She said she hac
and led the way into the bathroom ano
reached on a shelf. She seemed sur
prised when she did no, find what she " as
looking for.
The Commissioner then told her that Tho
bottle had been found in the room Of the
man murdered in the Hotel lroouois
She was silent for a minute and then said
Well poor Gedel must have taken II
Mrs. Kane said that last Wednesday
they were all. she ard her husband ant
the two roomers. looking ri tho bottle
Of chloroform Geidel. she said. had ask &c
her II there was enough in the bottle I,
kill man.
She had replied that she guessed there
vas, as she had bought it to kill "a puppy
and thought there was more than was
needed for that.
GEIDEL ARRESTED.
As soon as she had told these thing
20 Commissioner Dougherty he ORDERED
the arrest Of Geidel as the murderer an,
terial witnesses. Tho four were taken a
once to Police Headquarters,
Geidel was locked mp and the eSamina
tion of the others wss continued. Geide
had not been in a cell long before he son
word TO Commissi ioncr Dou ugheriv that h.
would like to have y tslk with him.
The Commissioner had the prisone,
brought to his office. A he entered th'
Office District Attorney Whitman arrives
with a stenogrdpher and almost immedi
ately the boy confessed to the murder ant
started telling his story.
Geidel said that he he'd pswred tn
watch in 2 shop in Park row near Brook
lyn Bridge and that the studs and cut
l;pLu bo no 4 ,brru-n iptn oman .nu,r
His own shirt. he said. was bloody an'
the threw it into an ash cln somewhere
in the cross streets between Brotdwd,
and Eighth avenue in the hotel district
His clothes were shattered with blooc
and these he had had cleaned. he said
by tailor named Gason in Forty-sevent
street between Eighth and Ninth avenue,
In Geidel's pocket last night the polio
found a cheap handkerchief, the counter
part of one stained with blood whiC
lay on the bureau in the room where IN
murder was done.
District Attorney Charles 5. Whtma
and his family were asleep in the apGrt
ment across narrow hallway, but tti
murderer came and went So shrewdl
that no sound reached the Whit mans
II was only when the Dstric: Atturue,
was starting lOT MS once tnat ne khe'
a man had been beaten 10 death with
few feet of his bedroom.
The lroquoiS i. one OF those Quie;
family hotels that stand among the club
east of the Tenderioin. On it, side q
the block between Sixth avenue an
Fifth are the Hotel Algonquin. the CIT,
Club. the IroQuoi-. the New York Yach
Club. the rear Of the Hotel Seymour am
the Berkeley Lyceum. II directly ad
Joins the City Club and il separated OF
the other side only by garage from tn
New York Yacht Club. Across the stree
az one goes east are the Hippodrome. tn
Royalton APARTMENTS the Bar Assoca
tion the Phi Gamma Delta chapter house
the Yale Club and further along Sherry
Mr. JACKSON A FAMILIAR FIGURE IN WAL
STREET.
William Henry jackson was 70 year
old we'll TO do, and one who gave til
impression of possessing large means, J
Wall Street his somewhat old fsshlone
figure was well known to veteran traders
Some of them with whom he used to les
were in the habit of calling him incl
Billy. Derby Crandall, junior partne
OF Van Schaick 4 Co, at Wall street
said that Mr. jackson had been the firm
cashier for thirty years.
He was kindly genial man" sal