New-York tribune., 1912-02-07
BOMB FROM UNDERWORLD,
POLICE NOW BELIEVE
Murdered Woman Doomed When
She Turned States Evidence
in White Slave Case.
NEW ARREST IS EXPECTED
Man Against Whom Mrs. Walker
Testified Is Now Sought, and
Dickinson May Be Freed
To- day, Dougherty Admits.

Expecting that Charles VI. Dickinson,
the man they arrested on suspicion that
hr was concerned in the murder Of Mrs.
Grace Walker by bomb last Saturday
night. would he discharged to-day, the
police turned their whole efforts ycster-
day to the finding Of one Carl KaIscrbcer
alias Carl Eohlcr." who, they now be-
llcyc. can furnish them with valuable
information In regard to the murdered
woman's enemies
Clifford 6. Roc. an investigator and
prosecutor of white slave" traffic called
or Dcputy Police Commissioner Dough-
crtv Yesterday and CAV" him b.tch ot
information about th" habits and prob
able Whereabouts ~ Kaiscrbccr. and
James Bronson Reynolds. Of the District
Attorneys Office, who came into contact
with K1is,rhcor when b" was arrested,
charged with placing Oliycte Leonard In
the walker household. which was then
II 30 IS West 6Oth street was In hour
lv communication with the police, aiding
Meanwhile District Attorney Whitman
snid tha case would not be put before
the grand jury IN its present form, nor
unless the police produced some evidence
TO serve as a guarantee that II would
not be another such failure as the Gar
vey case. Mr. Whitman was moved to
this comment by the apparent attempt
Ly the police up TO yesterday TO pin the
crime on Dickinson.
commissioner DOughcrty asserted last
high, that ne was not trying 70 pin the
,aqc on Dickinson and that Furthermore,
If the Coroner saw 1T TO discharge Dick
irson this morning. he. Dougherty, would
rot order his rcarrest But Dougherty
also asserted just as emphatically, that
rc had received no tips or leads from Mr.
Poe or Mr.. Reynolds that Roe, in fact
had not seen him Yesterday, when as
matter Of fact Roe spent at least an
hour with the Commissioner in his Office
Yesterday morning
Get OIivette Leonard's Story.
Roe and Reynolds made a trip to the
NIagdalen Home to which Olivette Leon
erd was sent after Mrs. Walkers fiat in
Goth street had been raidcd, last Decem-
Der. on Sunday, Immediately after the
murder. They went there with the the
or.v fr,nlv established in their own minds
that Mrs. Walker had been killed by the
orders Of "a ring" Of the underworld
whose head she had seriously offended
Oliyette Leonard who knew Mrs
Walkers friends and enemies as well as
any one. confirmed their theory, and the
detectives reported the substance Of their
theory to Commissioner Dougherty. That
Is the chief reason the police are now so
anxious 10 locate KaiscTbeer and IT was
said last night that they expected to
lay their hands upon him within twenty
four hours.
"It IS incCnccivable that this Dickinson
killed Mrs. Walker" said Mr.. Roe last
night. He was not her enemy why,
she was almost, you might say amusing
herself with him. He was not support
inc her doubt II he was even giving
her any money
The real story OF MIS-. Nain'i - iiui
der is interviewer with story OF the
underworld and It's most powerful forces.
She had broken the first of It's laws when
she turned states evidence on Kaiser
beer in the case of the Leonard girl,
and she was marked for death from that
minute. The ring which she offended
and 1outed when she testified before the
grand jury and in the magistrates court
with regard to the Leonard girl was far
moro than a white slave ring although
Il was that also
But in addition to its somewhat casual
activities along that line this ring con-
ducted other large affairs. One was a
legitimate wholesale liquor business, an
other was a stock selling scheme in Il
fake liauor business and still another
was a string of gambling houses in sew
eral Eastern cities Mrs. Walker knew
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