The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-28
'BAFF MURDER CAR
REPORTED FOUND
Police Said to Have Located in
Brownsville Auto lSed
by Gunmen.
ONE LINK STILL MISSING

Information came yesterday to the 20
Ice searching for the murderers OF Barne
Bafr that the car from which the murde
, was done is now in garage In Browns
VILE The detectives have pieCed together
. stray bits Of Information 10y which the!
account for the consecutive NOV. ments %
the murder car from several hours befor,
the murder until well after Ban had beer
killed.
According to information in possession
of the police the ear was in IIoboken
garage until two hours before the muir
der a telephone call came to the place
directing the car to be sent TO the Lacka-
wanna ferry. Either then or just as the
lcar reached Manhattan the murderers.
supposed to he four in number, took
possession OF the automobile and drove
TO the West Washington Market. The
New Jersey license shield in the meantime
had been changed from red to blue.
The owner Of the car. "A reputable
Brownsville man, is said to have knuwl-
edge that his car was taken from his
garage without his permission at a time
when he was H.
District Attorney Whitman will begin
his final week at the criminal Courts
Building to-day by going before the Grand
Jury with the chief witnesses IN the Bar
nett Baff case. lie hopes TO leave the in
Vcstigatiou IN such shape that Mr. Dele
hauty and other assistants VIII have no
difficulty in completing it and obtaining
Indictments not only against the actual
murderers but also against the men who
were behind the scheme to rid West
Washington Market OF the troublesome
poultry dealer.
The witnesses already heard by the
Grand Jury have established the pre-
iminary facts necessary to al indict-
ment. Mr. Whitman viii question those
whose stories are expected to show con-
c,usively the nature Of the plot and The
identity of the persons who conceived
it, This IS cons idercd a rather delicate
task. because il IS apparent tina: the in
stigatOrs of the crime achieved their
purpose by devious ways and called TO
their aid the suhtlost trickery of the
underworld. Their tracks have been we'll
covered aud are to bc made clear only
by patience and perseverance
While they have the reviewers with
which they believe the murder was done
and the men through whom they be-
lieVe money Was paid for IL, the
District Attorneys aids realize that tho
important thing. SO far as the Grand Jury
is concerned, Is 10 be able to Sc; forth
connected ard convincing outline of the
crime from the moment IL was planned
until the gunner laid away their weapons
in the Hohoken saloon. To this end they
are par. icularly .'-ious to get hold OF a
man not now among the dozen or more
who are in cells or out N bail
Whether this man is chauffeur or gun
man or other acComplce has not been
dlvulged II has been said OF him only
that he was with the gunner when Baff
~ 49, n.iiy,i. J; a., IL THE chauffeur % the
murder car he may assume az mpor-
lance In This case equal to that OF Will'e
Shapiro in the Rosenthal matter. lie
could clear up the mystery of the cars
identity. tell who hired him, help in the
identihcation Of The gunner and disclose
where he took them after the murder
/ These are matters OF which. SO FAR as is
known outside the District Attorney
office. little information has been given
up TO the present time.