Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-27
HICKEY AlM|TS
 J0SFPHS KILLING Writer of Postal Cards Ar rested and Gives Way Under "Third Degree" /"
TAKEN TO NEW YORK
Eruck Murder of Ten Years Ago May Be Fastened On "The
 Strangle."

New York, Nov. 26-Unler the . "tairl degree at police heaaauar- ters tonight J. Frank II ckey, ac- cused of the murder ef Joseph Jos epils, age :, at Lackawanna, N. Y. year ago. made so the police say, lamag ng llmissiones that @elped to fasten the crime ufon hm.
 The strange prisoner brought on from Toms River, N. J.. by Police Chief Gilson of Iackawanna, on his way o Buffalo, where he $ 10 face rial, sq'irnled when jet Alter ney Dudley, of Er Q county, and In spectors Faurot, of headquarters, put him through seaT2aing eXamina- ton. Writh ng in his seat the wirvl fingered prisoner acknowledged that postal cards he had mailed to the police had been h's undoing. This
 YVES his f rst confession that he had
 written anw of the teltale cards through which he was traced to the Keswick colony fer inebrates at Tom River.
 Not only did Hickey manage to en- tang!e himself Il the JOsephs stran9- i ling but he admitted to the police that he was in New York the day that Nit chell Kruck, a newsboy was strang-
 led in Central Park here in Decem- 1 beu, 1902 Illusion to this murder was made in one of the postals mail i ed to Chief Began. of Buffalo, several ! years ago from Boston.
 1 H "key, pressed by the police to tell i of the Krucki murder, den ed that
 1e Commit;e cd it. He seemed sur prisetl when confronted by Captain
 Carey, formerly of the homicide
 bure U, who went to Buffalo in 1902
 when Hickey was under arrest on
 suspicion of having murdered kruck.
 The evidence aga nst the pr soner
 then was weak ana af,er the police
 had detained him few days, he was released. The moment Captain
 Carey saw the cringing Hickey at police Headquarters tonight he recog- nized him as the man he had called
 upon :n the Buffalo ja ten years ago. Hickey, turning pale, gas'ped,: Eve seen you before.' Under Captain Carey's questioning HickAy admitted then that he had com. from Boston the day before Kruc;, was murdered and that he was in this city until the day after, when he returned home.
 While deny ng that he had
 strangled Kruck the prisoner made pan tial confession that he had writ ten the postal cards referring to him. self as the man who had commit ed the cl ime.
 .Ycu'd never have found out any thing about me if it hadn't been for those posta!s." he exclaimed.
 H ckey r3ached police headquarters at I o'clock. manacled 10 Ch eff Gill son While waiting fer District At torney Dudley the police finishde out a half dozen of thirteen postal cards
 Hickey is alleged to have sent at var
 ous times !eilng of his remcrse over the Josephs and kruck strangling.
 The Irisoner looked at them closely.
 q. that your handwriting?' iae-
 mandod Inspector Faurot.
 Hickey muttered to himself. Later
 when District Attorney Dudley in- formed Hickey that the writing on the posta.s had been compared by hand
 writ ng expert to letters he had writ ten 70 friends in Lackawanna and found to be identical the prisoner blurted out.
 If you hadn't found these postals you would not know anything l Afrer Hickey had been interrogated for an ihour the police allowed him
 to sir for flashlight photograph for the newspapers. H ckey assumed brave pose. He appeared to like the experience.
 i After the prisoner had been. locked up for the night to be ready to de- part for Buffalo in the morning Chief 1 Gilson told the International News l Seryice that the case aga nst Hickey
 for sirangling Josephs $ practically
 complete. Although the police be- lieve they can also fasten the Kruck
 murder against Hickey they do not think he will ever be tried for it so
 certain appears to he the ev'dence in
 the Josephs strangEng.
 H ckey has forlorn appearance of
 a debauchee. It was while in his
 period of excessive drinking the po-
 lice say that he mailed the postal cards that now form the strongest
 link m the murder charge upon which
 he goes to trial.
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