The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-24
ANGERED BY DELAY
IN CLEARY SEARCH
Foes Of Indicted Man. Missing
Two Months. Demand
Action.
SHERIFF DEFENDS WORK

H~AvERsrRAw. 81. T.. May 2S-The
anti-Cleary faction is again stirred up
over the speed, or lack of Il. they say.
with which the wheels OF Justice in
Rocklani count rcvo.ve, THIS time
the failure OF the authorities to APP
prehcnd William V Cleary. acquitted OF
the murder of his ~son-.n-law. Eugene
Newman. ana since then indicted on
no:her charge. is the argument New
mans father and his friends are using
TO prod the county authorities.
Though /; is admitted that visible
efforts are being made by the District
Attorney ami the Shcrin's ofiire to rack
the elusive former Tow clerk. those
who were dissatisfied with the conduct
OF the CleGry murder trial are now
openly criticising the means that are
being used to find him. Fred Newman,
father OF Eugene, in his paper this week
demands more vigorous methods.
On the other side. however. the
Sherifs office declares that not a stone
has been left unturned in trailing the
indicted politician. Circulars with
tiedry 3 photograph ana description
have been spread broadcast and Deputy
Sheriff Theodore De Noyeiles said to-
day that he had travelled from one end
OF the STATE to the other and through
parts of New Jerse y in search of Cleary.
but thus far without getting even "A hin
OF the mans whereabouts
Cleary's own family and friends say
they know nothing about him have not
,een MIN or heard from him in weeks,
and that II they did know they would
not disclose wha, they knew. The
authorities OF Rockland county have
been stumpel completely in their attempt
TO locate him in that quarter, SO eX-
asperated have the searchers become
that an appeal is 20 he made to the
county Board of Supervisors To offer a
large reward for information that may
lea to his arrest.
The last definite information about
him goes back two months. "A month
before the present indictment against
him for having "A revolver in his possess
sion was brought. The day before the
town election which returned his candi-
dates TO office he appeared IN Haver-
straw. hut dropped out OF sight i'm
mediately thereafter. He could not be
found when State Comptroller Travis
reported Irregularities in the Town
Clerks ONCE. and later when the Grand
Jury considered that report,
That Grand Jury returned indictments
against Warren Baisley. Overseer of the
Poor. for grand larceny, second degree:
Josiah Felter, town Supervisor and eye
witness to the Newman killing. grand
larceny, first and second degree, for
their part in the alleged irregularities in
accounts discovered by Mr.. Travis, and
Bernard J. Fox, another eyewitness TO
the shooting, for perjury at the Cleary
murder trial. II there was any finding
against Cleary II was not made known,
but a bench warrant has been issued for
his arrest on the Sullivan law charge.
Since the Newman and his friends
say they have founi persons who saw
Cleary himself In Haverstraw. Newman
prints that o merely as n rumor--
in his Haverstraw paper, the Rockla nd
county Messenger. this week. TO support
his criticism Of the means the authori-
ties are using to find clear>. The edi'
torial IL entitled where l. Clearly
civilian V. Cleary." says the edi-
tortal, Continues to elude the process
servers. This Is the apparent condition
but II is doubled by many people OF the
county who believe that an overvigor-
ous effort is not being made to locate
him.
There are. IN the opinion Of the
general pubic, more vigorous methods
that might be employed IN apprehend-
ing he Indicted ollloial, A!r any efforts
beng made &c !rlil tho WE, widow or
others closely identified with him and
possibly learn his hiding place through
them? Is there a large HGUush force at
work--;orcs commensurate with the
cr1me7"