New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-31
MAY PROBE POLICE ACTS
At KLOTz DEATHbED
Coroner HeaIy Wants Facts Re-
garding Alleged Bomb Confess
sion at FOrdham Hospital.
SEEKS LEGAL ADVICE
Decides to Consult Corporation
Counsel After Obtaining Re-
ports of "Inhuman" Treat
ment Of Dying Man.

ment Of Dying Man.
coroner jerome Icaly Of The Bronx
viii to-day consult with the corporation
Counsel TO learn whether mo- has author
itr 90 investigate tho methods employed
iy tho police I'M obtaining the ALLEGED
confession OF Henry Klotz. made public
on Saturday night by Deputy Police COM
missioner Doughcrty
The confession was made Just before
hiotl died I'm Fordham Hospital 1t
quoted him as being responsible for the
manufacture ~ the three bombs which
caused the death Of two women. Grace
Walker and Mrs Madeleine Herrera. the
serious injury TO three other persons and
.tha wIcckinS Of The library in the home
"i judge otto y. Rosalsky. In the Hen
dHN Hudson apartment house.
The Coroner communicated with the
hospital during the morning and had
been led 60 understand that the patient
was i'm fairly good condition. md there
was no fear for alarm as To any imme-
diatc danger If Klotz requested to see
the police. hc is anxious TO know why ne
was not informed
lnhuman Treatment Alleged.
Reports emanatng from doctors o. tho
institution of the 'luhman" treatment
ny the police i'm examining Klotz since he
was taken TO the hospital added interes;
10 The case. and il was with a view OF
learning Just what took place at the in
sttutiou that prompted the Coroner Il
investigate.
Coroner's Physician Riccelman, who per-
formed the autopsy on the body Of IIlotz
Yesterday morning. said the method of
the police in taking the ante-mortem
statcmcut from klotz ON Saturday was
cot the usual one. THE confession YOU
see. was made 10y all leading questions
being asked" ne said. The man i'm his
state OF mind would say almost anything.
myself would never hang man for a
confession obtained IN this way"
The autopsy showed that death was
que to blood poisoning caused by the i'm
s7dd'ng Of a piece of jagged saspipe in
zine right side OF the chest which tract
wod three ribs and penetrated the lung.
"lt is q wonder TO me he lived as long
ass he did the doctor said An ordinary
uau would have died within I'VE hours
after receiving similar wounds" The
brain weighed five ounces more. than that
OF am ordinary man.
Despite tho statement i[lo,z made 70
his sister, Clara Klotz. on his dying bed
tLit bee Ola not send Tor Acting Captain
zoe Co make % Confession II was gen
orally believed yesterday by those IA
miliar with the facts IF the case that he
was responsible FOR ,he crimes to which
u, s. alleged % have confessed.
While visiting the hospital on Saturday
afternoon. about . O'Clock. Miss Klotz
said she was told bog Miss Lulu Jones. the
superintendent. that her brother had sent
for Acting CaDtaiu Price. She asked her
brother why he wanted to see Captain
Price. ana. according 10 her ne replied:
u don't want TO see Price, and I did not
send for him
Later mis- rather. Herman Klotz. ar
rived al tho oospitH lie was there but
short t.r5e when Acting %a2tain Price
got there
Psice QUIZ Oyin5 Man.
The father was led from the room by
Price. and after lapse OF about twenty
minutes Acting Captain Price and De-
tcctiv.s Morren and Landvoe left the
b,dss5e Of the dying man. The father
tnen coined his son, who was so weak
tha. Lc rclrained from talking to him.
he died soon afterward.
At the Fordham hospital Miss Jones
denied yesterday that the two nurses,
Miss Marguerite Crowley and Miss Sarah
KUlough. were present during the eX-
animation conducted by the police She
VII reasonably sure. however. she said.
that Edward j. Kelly medical invcstiga-
Tor Of the hospital, was present These
names. together Nith those Of the de-
tectives, were given out by Deputy Po-
lice Commissioner Dougherty as Wit
ncsses to the confession.
Right Man. Says Dougherty.
Commissioner Dougherty last night
gave ten reasons for his conviction that
Kiciz was responsible for the bombs, az
alleged. They are:
The positive identity Of Klotz by his
four women acquaiutances and the
Walker woman. and the quarrel between
him and Mrs. Walker.
THAT KIotz said the box which was in
DIS possession when the explosion hap
peucd I'm HE home was similar 10 the orc
used iu making the Herrera and Walker
bombs. The typewriter on which a.
cording 10 experts Tho addresses on the
bombs were written; the ingredients of
the three bombs being similar TO those
found In his room; the steel spring in
the Walker bomb. which was not de-
molishcd being identical to the one found
In the KIotz room. the binding posts
being the same as tine ones used in the
Herrera and Walker bombs.
'Tho dates found in Klotz's notebook,
au peculiarly marked, corresponding TO
the dates OF the explosion Of the three
bombs: Klotz's own admission as to his
interest in chemicals and electricity: the
dry batteries being similar in all three
bombs. the red Irvine used in the manu-
facturc Of the bombs and for wrapping
Flrposos.'