New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-18
More than One Person
Implicated, Says Mrs.
Humiston
Mrs. Cocchi Held
In Bail as Witness
Woods to Investigate Police
Work-Italy Asked to
Arrest Cocchi

prfh Cruger was the NicClm OF
a,;pper." This was announced yester-
dav by County Medical Examiner Otto
r. schultze and DR.. L. L. Danforth, the
Cruger family physician, after an
autopsy held at the Bellevue Hospital
norgue.
While the autopsy was in progress
A new force Of laborers invaded the
cellar Of the motorcycle shop Of Alfredo
Cocchi. at $40 West 127th Street, and
brought 10 light q pair of skates which
the Wadleigh High School graduate
had taken there to be sharpened on the
Ssy she disappeared. The only other
article found was long handled ice
chopper. which is believed to have
been used in digging the tunnel IN
which she was buried.
Earlier in the day. after more than
seventy persons had been examined
At an all-night session at the 4th
Branch Detective Bureau, Mrs. Marie
coeebj. wife OF the motorcycle repair
nan and Victor Blady and Joseph
pslunbo. friends Of Cocchi, who is
fugitive in Italy, were taken into Gus
.odv and are being detained as ma
tsrial witnesses.
Woods to Investigate
The outstanding development Of the
6av was the announcement by Police
Commissioner Woods that there would
he a sweeping Investigation into the
shortcomings Of the police in the case.
Gossip was rife in the Detective Bu-
resu Of an impending shake-up, which
nav exceed even that which followed
the murder Of Herman Rosenthal.
For more than three hours Commls-
sioner Woods, Deputy Commissioner
Guy Fl. Scull, head of the Detective Bu-
resu. and the Commissioners secretary,
Law Case. were closeted with acting
Csptain Alonzo P. Cooper at the Atm
Branch Detective Bureau.
Conflicting theories are advanced as
20 whether the crime was committed
b one person or whether others were
implicated. The physicians who per-
formed the autopsy characterized 1t as
> .lvst murder" and pointed out that
murderer Of this type seldom has an
s,eorplice. Mrs. Grace Humiston, the
LAWYER representing the Cruger family
Who was responsible for finding the
bo57 and who says she "still has some
thing I'd her sleeve" said she thought
more than one person was implicated
This theory is shared by Captain
Cooper
Again. there is q difference Of opin-
on a. 20 whether the crime was com
-itted in the cellar or on the ground
soor Of the motorcycle shop. The
theory vas even advanced that the
murder was not committed on the
premises. but that the body was taken
there for burial afterward.
Many Persons Questioned
Y was not until 7 o'clock in the
morning that the last witness was
examined at the Fourth Branch Bureau.
those who had sat up all night ques-
tioning them we're Commissioner
seull. Inspector Cray, Deputy Assist
ant District Attorneys Mancuso and
Fitzpatrick, Captain Cooper, DR.. Le-
hsne, Coroner's physician, and Mrs.
Humiston.
Orders were issued by Commissioner
Woods for every motorcycle policeman
n the city % appear at the Fourth
brsneh Bureau, and they arrived by
me dozens. Some had made three-hour
tFip. 70 get there. II was said they
we're called because one Of the wit
nssse', man named Pratt, had said
hs saw man wearing corduroy
teeeass IN the motorcycle shop on the
Sgte Cruger disappeared. Motor
I.ss policemen, many Of whom had
@ @I machine repaired al CocchTs
w formerly wore corduroy breeches
psH oi their winter uniform.
.'stry one who was known TO have
sps ms motorcycle in Cocchi's shop
% nave had u repaired there was
-s'1oheo. When the last witness
o. examined General Sessions Judge
-. - Eosalsky Was summoned 70 the
oNta Branch and held court as
u~mf'ing magistrate in a rear room.
r. paced the bail Of Mrs. Cocchi and
:. 10y a. 1890 and that Of Palumbo
me sfidavits on which the three
ce hs.o we're sworn % by Detective
i, ,'Wxssnt John Lagarenne. In regard
@,s Ioccai, ne stated that she haC
,."ispge % acts subscquent 20 the
r.nisaion ~ the crime, and that The
het Attorney now has in his pos
f.tpn letter from her husband in
80 arranging for her 20 return 20
e., country. lie feared she would
released, the affidavit stated. As
~ht District Attorney Fitzpatrick
ne was not convinced that Mrs.
D'sehi hsd told all she knows.
Alleged Messenger Held
oacy u twenty-four years old, and
-, a. 1905 River Road, Kdgewater,
He 10 q chauffeur, and vas iL
C,fai's shop on the day of Ruth
.Ysre visit, according % the aft
. Paiymbo, IN Italian who came
VIZ ccyntry about the same time as
'cechis, zen years ago. and who
Cta q, - Manhattan Street. near Mrs.
fhif home. is alleged ~ have car
mff1aZes between her ard her hus-
~ spDSeqDent ~ The lstter's disap-
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