New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
CAFE. CRIME MAY
HOLD BAFF CLEW
Feinberg Thinks Doyle
Was Slain to Hide
Gunmen'S Secret.
MURDERED MANS
SWEETHEART HELD
Police Make No Progress In
Solving Market Murder
Coroner Is Hopeful.

Impetus was given yesterday TO tne
Raf the West Washington Market
noultrv merchant, by the Staying. oil
William DOYLE, alias 4Itrie Patsy IN
a saloon at Eighth av. and 4lst ST. on
Saturday night. IL.
While there is nothing more thah
conjecture to bring the two murders
together. there is belief that Doyle
knew-orobably by grapevine com
munication-who shot Ban, ana that ne
vas killed because IL was feared ne was
about to "squeap 10 the police.
Coroner Feinberg, who IS particlpat-
inc in the investigation OF botn mur-
ders. said Yesterday ne believed the
ar was responsible for the second
DEVELOPMENTS, he thinks, when VIII
come coon will show that.
whether or not II turns out thal way
the theory is sufficient almost 70 con-
ceal the fact that absolutely no Pr"s
ress has been made by the pollc,es, III
their hunt for the murderers. lhey
have succeeded in establishing only one
fact-Baff did not commit suieloe.
With the revolver found few BLOCKS
from West Washington Market noun
ing has been developed. r
A19 West Seth ST., is being detained at
the West goth st. police station as
material witness.
According TO Coroner Feinberg, PINTO,
m an exarrination in the station house
lasting for several hours after ms ar,
rest at 4:30 q. m. yesterday, admitted
being in the saloon at the time OF the
shooting and knowing by sight the men
ybo fred the shots. He's said he did not
knew their names.
After this stage In the examination
had been cached Pinto refused 10
answer questions. He will be taken
before Feinberg at the Coroner's once
in the Municipal Building at 10 O'Clock
this morning. Feinberg expects to get
from him enough information TO take
important action in the Baif murder;
Doyle was twenty-five years old'
married and had one child, UP to TWO
months ago he lived at 349 west 4Sth
St. which the police blotter gives as MS
address up to his death. tie was
driver, and, it was said yesterday at
the 49tn st. house, a person OF regular
habits, apparently.
The police learned that ABOUT an
hour before the shooting woman
called UP the saloon at Eighth av ana
4lst st. and left word for Doyle TO wait
t;1 O o'clock for a friend. Mrs. May
O'Connell. of 2299 Eighth av;, is heId
"a a material witness, but the police
nave failed to make her admit that 1t
was her voice that came over the wire.
She is married and has two children,
but does not live with her husband
She is twenty-five years old.
According to the police Doyle stabbed
a man named Tony Rominollo on Au-
gust 10 The victim was in the hospital
eight days, and later Doyle was ar
raigned in Special Sessions. but was
discharged for want of a complainant.
Men around the saloon wherein
Doyle was shot said yesterday that he
had been an infrequent visitor. That
section has won no striking encomiums
for the integrity of some of its fire.
uuenters. Now and then straying mem
bers of the Gopher gang hold shooting
parties in the neighborhood, and in
some quarters the opinion is held that
the Gophers were concerned in the
Doyle killing.
Five detectives from the second
branch of the Detective Bureau We're
at work yesterday on the Doyle muir
der, but they were unable TO establish
any connection between 1t and the Bar
case.
Doyle's body in the morgue will prob
ably be viewed to-day by Harry Baff,
son of the poultry merchant, and
Adolph Danziger Danziger is poul-
tryman, whose stall is at Thirteenth
and Thompson avs, West Washing .on
Market. He saw one of the two slayers
ru from where Baff was shot toward
the automobile in which the murderers
made their escape.