New-York tribune., 1915-03-23
Intimate Find of Blood
stained Clothing in House
Where Child Was Slain.
CROWDS AT FUNERAL
OF LITTLE VICTIM
TwoPrisoners Suspected In Muir
der of "Smarty" Cohn Are
Freed Soon After Arrest.

Even while the body Of Leonore
cohn was being buried, the police were
examining suspected persons yester-
Sav. Two men were picked up and
eross-examined, but both arrests proved
fruitless.
Patrolrar Schoenfcld, who was on
duty at $50 Third Avenue last night,
arrested half dazed prowlcr, who said
he was Thomas McCrea, musician,
homeless and forty-two years old. He
was pecring into the entrance Of the
house when arrested. At the Second
Branch Detective Bureau, where he
was charged with vaGrancy, he could
give no account Of his movements for
the las, few days. Spots on his shirt
might he bloodstains.
The police said frankly last night
they hsd no further clews than those
already worked on. and which centre
about the house 35O-352 Third Avenue,
where "Smarty," as the slain child was
Known. was found so cruelty murdered
last Friday night. Close watch was
kent on the house. Detectives hung
abou, il all day, and Captain Cray, OF
the First Branch Detective Bureau. and
Irspector Faurot were in the neighbor-
hood last night.
There was rumor that a man 3
blood. soaked clothing had been found
in one of the apartments in the house.
This probably arose from an enigmat-
cal question Deputy Commissioner Lord
asked:
If you found bloody clothes or
cloths in any OF the fats, and they
we're not satisfactorily accounted for'
what would you think
This was all he would say. He
stopped talking abruptly when further
questions were put TO him.
Two Prisoners Freed.
One Of the men arrested was found
N the Municipal Lodging House and
nc other in the Long Island City Hos
ritsl Both had blood stains on their
clothing. Both satisfactorily account
cd for their movements. however, de-
'ect'ves said.
The Cohn family are still confident,
Ike the police that the murder was
done hy some one thoroughly familiar
with the inside Of the house, and who
knew the child. Henry Ecker,
"Smarty's" uncle. said last night:
Wei get him yet. He'll give up his
secret by talking. A German motto
runs. Vie gespannen so zerommen.'
and mat means, so as the spinning so
the unravelling.'
], came out during the day that Leo
Ecker. one of "Smarty's" young
cousins. heard her cry in the hall
while she was being attacked. He
heard the same faint means Miss john
son did. He went out and listened and
tren came back, shut the door and
said. con. its only those kids down
stairs" He thought it was Hildegarde
and Alfred Spengler frolicking about
on the floor below.
Victor Quinn. Of 333 First Avenue,
took 10 Police Headquarters his four
year-old girl, who asserted she was at
tackled last June by q man in the hall
way Of 31l First Avenue. There were
eleven wounds in her neck. They were
thought then by some people to be
stab wounds. but physicians SAID the
child had been lacerated by a dogs
claws. She was so small her story was
not believed. Yesterday Inspector
Faurot questioned her to try TO get
facts that would apply to the murder
Of LeonOre Cohn.
4 general uotc was sent out from
Police Headquarters last night IN
,tructinc all detectives or patrolmen
who arrested men annoying women or
children 10 report the cases immedi-
atcly 10 the branch bureaus. The de-
'cctivrs hope the man wanted for the
Cohn murder may be among those
picked up.
Throngs at Funeral.