The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-29
CLEARY USED CHIEF
OF POLICIES PISTOL
Ownership Of Weapon, with
Which Boy Son-in-l8w Was
Killed Admitted.
p IMPLEMENT STILL HIDDEN
Discovery May Play Important
Part in Establishing if Stay
ing Was Premeditatcd.

IAvURsrHAw. y V, July est was
established to-day bv District Attorney
Gagan tina. william V. Clcsry, tho Town
CLERK. who killed his son.in.lsw, Eugene
Newman. when the eighteen Scar-old boy
called to how his marriage certificate
last Thursday afternoon, used the revol.
yer OF Michael n Ford, chief Of police Of
Havorstrlw.
Ford had loft the pistol iu Cleary's desk
while h went on g. sunday school picnic.
bur until hc Vas closely questioned to-day
hc has wliutiincd that he had the weapon
with tim
II placed my revolver IN small drawer
IN q compartment on tho right hand
side or Ciearys desk" said Ford. 81
also placed the mail I had for Cioary
M the same desk always kept my
revolver there when Off duty. II was
rs calibre blue steel double action re
yoIvor with Eve chambers. All were
loaded when I came back 10 the office
that night ,after the shooting) looked
N tho desk and tho gun and the mail
were gone. | have not seen the revolver
since and du not know who has 1T
Tho drawer referred ." is IN the section
II the desk that must be swung out and
tho drawer must be pulled out com
pietcly before it's contents can he seen.
The necessity for this action on the part
81 any one getting AT the contents or
the drawer will have bearing ON the
question Of whether or not tleaw had
time for generalization.
Another important discovery to-day
vas another witness FOR the prosecution,
conrad Ilucbutr. " wears old, son OF "A
barber who said he ran TO tho window OF
the town clerks office Immediately after
the shooting lie told Mr. Gagan the
room WAS fun of smoke. lie saw New
mans body on the boor. Cleary and Fox
were standing beside It, looking down at
ClesTy's victim.
Huebncr did not soc tho gun. Cleary,
h. said. was standing quietly. his right
hand leaning on his cane and his left
hand hanging empty At his s'dc. Fox
asked Cleary 60 come on and Cleary
said ne would 60 any place. Roth then
loft the building.
NJ. Gagan considers that the testimony
of the new witness will have great welsht IN
determining whether or not tleary was
temporarily insane when he took the life
~ his gon-Iu-law. The solution or the
revolver mystery. he said, clears W. the
case entirely. Mr. Gagan said there was
nothing more to do ON the case until II
= presented to the Grand Jury In Septem-
l,er, when he will ask for an indictment
for murder h the first degree.
Clearv spent quiet day In his cell IN
the county Jau at NV CITY lie had no
t.sitn,s except Mr Comosky. his lawyer
r Fergus Redmond, Democrat ~
IIavorstraW, has been appointed by the
town board TO AL the uneNpired term oil
tho prisoner. Mr. Redmond. who is al
ox-justira Of the peace, Is practisins
lawyer IN Sew York.
IN, village trustees tonight corsid-
cred several complaints against tho po-
DC. department for neglect Of duty In not
pri.ytlus Clyary on the day h" KILLED
Newman They will hold . special meet
NIX ON Frida, night when formal charges
D - .. TNgrnYN.
NcNee and hart Conan compose the po-
lice committee. which will hear the
charges Nj. Tierney. who brought thu
matter 10 the attention ~ the board
threatened to resign unless some action
was taken