New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-12
Newark, MontCiair and
White Plains Keep Guard
Over Children.
MAN WITH PISTOL
IS TAKEN HERE
Tried to Enticc Boys to Park,
Saw Detectives Girls Write
Threats as Hoax.

The "Jack the Ripper" scare. which
has prevailed since the murder Of
Charlie Murray. At 27O First Avenue,
continued to spread yesterday In
/ Newark the fear was acute. A class
/ had 10 he dismissed IN a Montclalr
school, ard rumor in White Plains
that a ripper" was about brought an
investigation py the police.
Meantime detectives here we're eX-
aiming men they had arrested. and
twO new suspects were added TO the
/ list
While Detectives Leonard and Multi
/ gan. of the Homicide Squad, were
1 strolling along Riverside Drive with
Captain Duggan, Of the West Sixty
eighth Street station, they saw man
AT Eightieth Street. near the railroad,
who, they say, was Offering children
money if they would enter the park
with him. After a time he continued
TO approach boys IN the park, accord
4 ing 10 the detectives.
They trailed him as he took bus
downtown. He aIightcd at Thirty
second Street. walked south on Fifth
Avenue a block and then crossed 10
+ Broadway Here he boarded n surface
car and got off at Sixty-eighth Street
Duggan, Leonard and Mulligan then
/ decided to search him, and found n
/ loaded revolver in holster. He was
I taken 70 the West Sixty-eighth Street
/ station and charged with violating the
Sullivan law. Further search revealed
penknife with large blade. The
prisoner said he was Neligeo locke
/ forty-fve years old. but refused 10 give
an address. lie insisted that he had
just come from San Francisco
Although the arrest of locke is the
most promising Of any of the numer-
Gus suspect arrests, Inspector Faurot
and Inspector Cray. the dual heads Of
the Detective Bureau, up TO late
hour last night had not seen or talked
to locke. Acting Captain Gildea. head
Of the 2d Branch Bureau, VINO has
been examining all suspects. knew
nothing Of Jokes arrest until told
of II by a Tribune reporter.
\ second suspect was caught In the
Williamsbridge district, after he had
approached a house and caused Mary
Faurillo to scream: Jack the Ripper"
While Mary was sitting on the porch
In front OF her home, at 1928 Webster
Avenue. the stranger pushed open the
gate and entered the yard. As the
daughter shouted her mother came out
from the house, armed with a broom,
with which she struck the man several
times on the head. Three hundred per
sons of the neighbornood hurried up
and continued the scufile. Detectives
Case and Bennano heard the yells. and.
aided by 4 squad Of six bicycle patrol
men. grabbed the suspect and bundled
him into an automobile.
He was rushed to the Bronx De-
tective Bureau, but the report that
the Ripper" had been caught spread
so rapidly that another crowd stood in
the street before the building.
The prisoner gave his name as Car
mine Kitty, and said he had approached
the house to get drink of water. He
added that he was chemist, out Of
work. and had no home. and although
he appeared ignorant Of the murders of
Leonore Cohen and Charlie Murray, he
will be sub elected to q further eXamina-
ton by Inspector Faurot
Sunday afternoon Mrs. Annie Noonan.
Of 1417 Amsterdam Avenue. and Mrs.
Della McMahoE, OF 495 West l30tn
Street each found notes purporting 10
have come from a ripper at their
homes. In each case the writer prom
Used 10 kill a son yesterday at 1880
p. m. They put the matter IN the
har Dis of the Fourth Branch Detective
Bureau. and yesterday two girls were
taken IN charge, who, the police say.
admitted writing the letters for joke.
They were released when the mothers
refused TO prosecute them.
Detectives McCarton and Bates
looked at the letters. traced them by
the paper used, 20 a public school, and
at $3.50 last night brought Helen Shea.
ten, of 1925 Amsterdam Avenue, and
Marie Brockwell. twelve wears old, of
506 West l36th Street. to the bureau.
Frank FIJI, thirty eight years old.
who was arrested Monday night. was
placed in a line with several detectives
yesterday at the Second Branch, but
Mary Murray. whose brother was killed
more than week ago, was unable to
recognize him. The detectives say that
he acted in suspicious way just be-
fore they made him a prisoner. Mary
Manning, ten years old, whose sister,
Helen, was attacked by man Sunday
night at her home, 257 Avenue C..
identified him, according 70 the police.
although the girl who was actually
struck could not.
The prisoner was later arraiigned
before Magistrate Levy. in Yorkville
Court. and held without bail for fur
Their examination this morning.
Henry Newman. sixteen years old. OF
4l9 East Fifty-siXth Street, accused of
having attacked Beatrice Hunter, SIX
years old, in the hallway of her home
1876 East Fiftieth Street, on May 6, was
held in $500 bail for trial after the
girls mother said she saw her daugh-
ter struggling with Newman.
Frank Lehr, OF $50 Bowery, who kept
shouting Pm not Jack the Ripper
at First Avenue and Eleventh Street,
was arrested last night and examined
at Headquarters. He said he had been
AZ Sixth Street and First Avenue when
the Murray boy was killed. but was re
leased by Magistrate krotel in Night
Court
Many children. especially those OF
foreign parentage remained home from
school in Newark yesterday after their
absence the day before had caused
the closing of the Seventh Avenue
School Several complaints against
q ripper" were made. and Joseph
Geary. who had a mask in his hat