New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-06
Safe Rolls Downstairs.

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| and forced the cash drawers. He got
| about 500 in bills and coin. He pushed
| the heavy. though small. safe TO the
! darkened nook at the head Of the wash
room stairs and removed the bolts and
/ nuts from the hinges. Then he must
[ have tried to carry the safe down the
! stairs. but il slipped from his grasp
and tumbled down the wooden steps to
| the cellar. raising a dull series Of
| sounds that awakened Zinn and his
wife. The time was then 2:l5 o'clock.
THAT man Held must be fighting
/ Town there said Zinn, knowing that
on Sunday morning the porte. had cele-
/ brated with a party the christening OF
his second child. So. anticipating
nothing more than the exchange of n
/ few sharp words with Held, Zinn put on
| a few garments and told his wife he
would be right back She insisted on
accompanying him. They reached the
sidewalk. Zinn unlocked the restau-
/ rant door. tod his wife TO stay outside,
entered, and locked the door on the in
I side. so she could not follow.
Bloodmarks on the showcase glass
and on the drinking glass gave him his
first idea Of what he had to face. He
went into the kitchen and-thc police
tUeOIN OF 'NlS Seems pOoN tpOh wv
cleavers. and then stepped down the
rear stairs. Darkness shielded from
him the body Of Cumencew. BY the
Mushroom light he could see the safe
near the foot of the stairs. Evidently
he passed over to it and was starting
back toward the rear Of the cellar
when he met the murderer. who prob
ably had planned to get him in the
back. lie was killed with two blows
of the Ratchet on the top OF his' head
Wife Calls for Aid.
At the end of twenty anxious min
utes Mrs Zinn aroused Tauer, the chef,
who summoned patrolman. In few
minutes that patrolman's whistle had
brought a dozen other policemen.
Finding that all three men were dead.
the police. aided by a squad Of re-
serves, surrounded the block, which is
bounded by Third Avenue, Tenth
Street. Fourth Avenue and Eleventh
Street.
By footprints in the snow it was
seen that after the murderer had left
by a door which is always unlocked
Leading from the rear Of the kitchen
20 wood and canvas inclosed shed he
had raised himself to the roof OF the
shed. Then he dropped 10 the yard,
from which he stepped up one fight
of fire escape on the rear Of 81 East
Tenth Street From that he passed
TO the top of a one story. marrow cX-
{ nsion Of 81. This is bordered at the
street by picket fence, easy to sea lie.
And il is easy TO drop five feet to the
stone stoop of 50.
In the restaurant was short crow
bar. In the cellar we're a brace and
bit. the blood-staincd ceavers and
hatchet the latter brought in by the
murderer and the mask, which had
been slipped off still knotted in the
string.
Inspector Faurot and Deputy Com
missioner Frank b. Lord found plenty
Of fngerprints to photograph, and
these, they think, will land the muir
derer.
One arrest was made last night. The
man was Joseph Carroll, forty-siX,
tailor, Of 124 Greenwich Street. He
was arrested at Sixth Avenue and
Third Street. His head was cut. His
explanation was that he received the
injury from club welded by man
not known TO him. He was detained at
Police headquarters.
The arrest of man, who says he is
Edward Wester, twenty-four years old,
J.
/ steward Of the General Hubbard, a
Frisco boat that went through the
/ Panama Canal and tied up off Staple
ton, Staten Island. on Thursday last,
has caused activity in police headquar-
tiers. The arrest is being investigated
] TO determine if the prisoner was in any
way concerned in the murders in the
restaurant.
Patrolman Murtha. Of the West
Twentieth Street station, saw Wester,
with two soldiers, IN Twenty siXth
street, between Fifth Avenue and
Broadway, late last night. Westcr's
right arm was bandaged and in a sling.
His statement that he was in an argu-
ment with the cook aboard ship and was
hurt with a cleaver is being investigat-
ed The police say his statement that
he was treated in the Marine Hospital
on Staten Island already has been
proved false. The police say the pris-
oner had S45.S5.