New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-11
New Police MatrOn VIII
Round Up RunaWays
in City.
BAFF CLEW SOUGHT
IN BUSINESS DEALS
Woods Says He Was Betrayed
and Defends Police-Bomb on
Tenement House Roof.

In accordance with the programme
for recognizing the Police Department,
Commissioner Woods yesterday an
nounced that he had decided to assign
a police matron to duty in the Bureau
of Missing Persons, at headquarters, 10
assist in reported cases of girls VINO
have run away from home. Mr.. Woods
said that the plan had been suggested
by Miss Maude E. Miner, head of the
New York Probation Society.
In Miss Miners work she frequently
has co-operated with the police IN re-
storing to their homes runaway girls
from other cities. She told the Com
missioner of boarding and furnished
room houses where most such cases
are found and where the presence OF
q man detective usually seals the lips
Of those who could give information.
The Commissioner yesterday again
defended the lack OF success on the
part of the police in solving the Barnet
Baff murder mystery. Mr.. WOODS
charged that certain person wnom ne
had admitted into his confidence had
disclosed secrets intrusted to nm so
as TO balk the investigation now under
way by the detective bureau.
The Commissioner burst OF mag
nation followed conference held IN
the Offices Of the Homicide Bureau, IN
which Mr.. Woods, Inspector faurot ana
Assistant District Attorneys Breckin-
ridge and Murphy participated.
u was regarded as Significant tnat
.he conference had before them mem
hers of the Live Poultry Dealers AS
sociation, rivals of the dead man IN
business transactions.
The police investigation, according TO
Inspector Faurot, is now directed tow
ard a thorough inquiry into the condl-
lions which obtain in the live poultry
trade. 1t is believed that the principal
cause for the killing of Batf was his
knowledge of a series of market crimes
in which the murdered man had volun-
teered certain evidence.
A new bomb yesterday aroused the
detective bureau at the Central Once
to activity. The bomb in question was
found on the roof of the tenement
house at 3f4 East 40th ST., directly
over the fat occupied by Charles SAT
font. who admitted having received
threatening letters which caused him
TO move from his former residence, at
$40 East 40th So.
The most curious part of the case
lies in the fact that the bomb was
discovered by Mrs. Mary Meyers, a
niece Of Inspector Owen Esgan, Of the
Bureau Of Combustibles, Who also lives
on the top floor of the house in ques-
ton. She found it when she went to
the roof to hang out washing.
The bomb consisted of papier
mache cigar box, pressed to resemble
cedar. and bore the label OF de Mobili
& Company, Pierce Street and Hamil-
ton Avenue, Long Island City" 1t was
ten inches long, six wide and four
deep. 1t contained a quantity Of dyna,
mite, wrapped in paper and bound
with 100 feet of wire. A hole had been
punctured in the side of the box,
through which a fuse had been in
serted, connecting inside with per-
cussion cap.
A similar box was used in the con-
structon Of the bomb which killed
Anna Annusewitz. bookkeeper for the
o. X. Bottling Company, at 5lO West
39th ST., last December. Both bombs
are believed by the police to have
been made by the same man.