Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-09
GLOVES BETRAYED A SLAYER
How the Murderer whe Wore Them
% Avoid Leaving Finger Prints
was-CaaGkt.


P.rhaps IN. greatest aid To The solution
10 the mystery N ,dep,I,,es and perhaps
the most effc,,n, wespoa thst modern
scientific method, have placed IN the
hands Of the cour,s il the Identification
by finger prints.
One would saw that ia avoid the jeop-
srdy the criminal would need only 10
wear gloves when he wan, about his
WORK Bu, /, xas the very fact that one
OF the assass,ns wor, gloves That led to
the detection Of the criminal agents in
one Of the most extraordinary cases re-
ported m New YORK. people against
Gonzalez SNY w
A spaniard named otero on his way
from Havana TO New York, fen in with
a eouptryman named Gonzalez. otero
wa. a Young frank xooa-natured fellow.
and an Gonzalez seemed 10 be an un-
fortunate person OF his own country he
took up and -eyinced a friendly interest
In him. : When they. arrived In New York
Gonzalez went with otero to the BARGE
Iona hotel I'm, Great Jones street. which
was known as the spanish house.
The proprietors OF this hotel were not
pleased with The appearance Of Gonzalez
and. as he earne without baggage. they
refused him a room. However, upon the
1 intercesslon ok otsro. he was finally per-
mitted 10 enter, 4
otero said that. Gonzalez was a poor
fellow whom he was going to help who
had come 10 New York for employment.
otero seemed to be very prosperous
/ person., he exhibited considerable sums
OF gold that he carried about him The
clerk at the hotel. advised hin to de-
posit his money In the hotel safe. but
he declined to take this precaution. II
was afterward remembered that Gonzales
watched the movements Of otero with
the keenest interest and constantly at
tended him.
| II was also remembered that within
an hour after their arrival at the BARGE
iona Gonzalez went to the Hotel dc Cuba
In Blocker street, a little more than a
block from Great Jones street, and there
met with another spanlard named PeIli.
cier, who had been a former waiter al
| the Barcelona hotel Soon after his ar
rival otero left for Philadelphia and did
not return to New York until the follow
ing Tuesday. At go o'clock wednesday
night Il happened that william c. Mills
Of Brooklyn left his shop in Fulton street
10 70 10 his residence in Cannon place
and IN the center OF the park he dis.
covered the body Of otero. The police
were notified and came Immediately. They
1
warm the assassins had been interrupted
bv the approach OF Mills and had no,
/ cornie,ed their work of robbing the
hodv
One Of the pockets Of otero was turned
inside out. hut another was left undis.
mrbed. althoagh II contained over 10
In rold and the recent for his bill at ths
Barc.lona hotel BY which he was a,
ouca Identified In the haste Of theil
Night IN. murder.rsl had dropped theil
limnlen,nt. and the police found a benz
dagger and the detached blade OF a razor
rhssa xsanons ooula NOT he Identified
ana d,d not indIca,. the criminals. bu,
fortunately on the ground near by IN,
nolle. psck.d uu a pair Of bloody gloves
wh.., thew came IN examine these glove,
mad found tha, The lef, one had been cut
A. the gloves ala NOT ut otero the no.
Inc. y.r, Of the opinion that they hat
4 been worn by ono Of the assassins. ant
,h.y constructed the following theory
A, o,.ro was an athlete and yirorou,
man bs had evidently been surprlsed ana
oyerpowered. and as there were too Inn
lplem.pts found n was reasonable 10 con
alud. that there had been two as,ass,ns
A. the mos, deadly wounds were stab,
M the back the police concluded that IN,
aAassln who had worn the gloves hat
clniched otero with his left hand .whil,
bs .nnlIed hi. aasser. from behind. an,
that IN. holder assassin while Rashin,
lotero IN front with his razor Inadyert
en,Iv cut IN. sloyed hand Of his confed
crate The pollo. had now a o,ev 10 N,
assassin. They had only "a find i ma,
with a gashedN Jeff hand As the victim
was a spanlard they began at once /,