New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
information Kept Secret.

Did you tell this TO the police at once?"
he was asked.
We'll, no. he replied Il figured that
the reporters and the police working on
the case were getting paid Cor their in.
formation, and l waited for a chance TO
get something for mine"
Other persons who were ready TO admit
yesterday that they could remember sew
eral odd circumstances We're William Fer
guson and his wife, who is the janitress Of
the apartment where the Swartz family
lived, occupying the fat directly under
meath.
Il was lying here on the couch" Fer
guson said. "r 4 n zee the shadow through
the glass 81 hr-r the footstep Of any one
passing - door right there. On Sunday
morning .oout o'clock heard strange
fortstep outside that door, going along the
hal.way. Ny wife noticed another odd cir
cumstance on Monday morning last"
Yes" said Mrs. Ferguson, Il saw Mr.
Alexander, brother-in-law Of Nathan
swartz carrying a suitcase out OF the
apartment upstairs. That was the first in
tmation we had they were going TO move"
Other bits of information casting inter
esting sidenShts on the actions and char
acter Of sw1tz and his family came from
other sources. Sarah Janick, of No. 1000
Third avenue, told Of a strange question
Lillian Swartz, a sister Of the missing
Nathan Swartz. asked her before attention
had been directed toward Swartz.
Lille Swartz asked me last Monday"
Miss Janick said, while a group Of US were
talking about the Connors murder. whether,
IL one member Of family killed any one,
the police could do anything to the other
members of the family. She seemed very
nervous and despondent at the time"
Seemingly Apprehensive.
Miss Ray Jermanski, Of No. 1910 Webster
avenue, told another story that seemed to
indicate to the police that the fear rested
on the minds of the Swartz family, previous
to their sudden move. that suspicion might
come to be directed toward member OF
their family.
"One day early this week" she said,
Lille Swartz came TO me and asked for
. photograph back she had given me some
months ago. When asked her In surprise
why she wanted TO take IT back she said
something might come up which made
her not want to have any Of her pictures
around, lest some one get IT that ought
not"
Yesterday afternoon Miss Jermansh said
she was afraid to say anything more about
the case She was afraid, she said, OF
Nathan Swartz.
IF we could have got information
like this In the beginning" said one Of the
detectives working on the case yesterday,
referring TO the above bits OF dialogue
which were repeated to him. I'VE might
have made faster progress Instead, every
one who knew anything kept mum, while
We were misled and delayed two days by
listening 10 the depraved lies OF the Molz
girl We have been baffled from the first
by unwarranted silence and lies"
The police spread their net wide yester-
day In the effort 20 find Swartz. He Is
wanted both 10 answer questions as to his
actions about the time of the murder and
also for breaking his parole. on which he
was released from custody under sentence
for attacking a girl two years ago. The
search Of the police for him was said to
have been extended yesterday as far as
Chicago
Went TO East Now York.
The police said they had found that tho
swartz family, since their sudden move OF
Thursday. had gone to No. 5sa Cleveland
ttreet East New York, to the house OF Mrs.
Nathan Ol'rinstein.
Mrs. Orr1nstein last night admitted that
the Swartz family had come TO her house
but owing TO the notor1ety that had come
to them she asked them to move. She did
not know. she said where they then mad
gone.
She said that the family had expressed
grave fears that Nathan might become
suspected In the Connors case. IL he were
guilty of any crime Mrs. Orrinstein quoted
Mrs. swartz as saying she hoped he would
be punished. Mrs. Swartz further de-
cared, she said. that she would not shieid
her son in any way, but would give the
police all the information about MIN she
could. She was greatly worried, she said'
because he had not come forward Voluh-
tarly and proven an alibi
She said that Nathan did not work ana
was a hanger-on with prizefghters' ana
therefore she had told him to leave her
house