New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-04

known to have many friends. Police
authorities here are still of the opin..
ion that when Arnstein first decided
that New York City would be made too
hot for him he went to Huntington or
Hampstead, l.. l., and remained for
! more than week
The clew which took private and
| Federal detectives to Long Island yes
tterday was furnished by Justice Of the
Peace Arnold P. Kohler. of Westbury.
When Judge Koher saw the photo
graphs Of Arnstcin and Cohn published
| yes terday in an advertisement inserted
in The Tribune by Mr.. Myers, he at
once recalled an incident which oc-
Cured on Long Island train on April
81 and which aroused his suspicious
at the time.
Judge Kohlcr said yesterday that on
the morning Of April FL he boarded
train for New York. Something queer
about two men who sat just across the
aisle from him caused him to scrutinize
them closely. He thought at first that
one Of them was negro, but closer
look convinced the justice of the peace,
that he was white man who had
blackened his face with grease paint
used by Ministries. His hair was
brown and not kinky.
With the ".negro" was short, stocky
white man. Both were dressed IN
shabby clothes, the judge says, and
acted as though they desired to attract
as little attention as possible.
When the two men got off at Jamaica
to board train for Pennsylvania Sta
ton Judge Kohler followed them. He
continued to follow them after they
reached Manhattan and saw them en-
ter the Seventh Avenue subway.
When Judge Kohnler saw the photo
graphs Of Cohn and Arnstein, pub
lshed in Mondays Tribune, he immedi-
ately recalled the two men he had seen
he shaded the photograph of "Nicky"
and sketched on his head cap cimi-
lar to the one worn by the negro"
The retouched likeness left him con-
WINGED that the NEGRO" he saw on the
train was the much sought fugitive.
A cap sketched on the head of the
photograph Of Cohn turned the picture
into a perfect likeness of the "negro's"
companion.
These facts were communicated yes
terday by JAlge Kohler to the authori-
ties here, and last night thorough
search of Long Island was in full swing
Arnstein and his wife, Fannie Brice,
the actress, own property at Hunting
ton and spent several summers there.
Both are we'll known in the theatrical
colony of that place, and Arnstcin was
reported to have been supervising some
work on his place there shortly before
he disappeared.
Paraleling the hunt for Arnsten and
Cohn, there is an equally intensive
search going on for important wit
nesses whose whereabouts are as mys-
ferrous as those of the two fugitives
r Ioor
least one of these witnesses can be
found he will place the authorities here
in touch with evidence that would en-
able them to bring much graver
charge against Arnstein and Cohn than
that of having received stolen property
which is the count on which they now
stand indicted.
One witness who is being sought,
both in the United States and Canada,
can throw much light on the murder of
Binkowitz, former messenger for Rich
Street.
After he had disappeared with
$178000 worth of securities the body
of the messenger, mangled almost be-
You'd recognition and bearing many
stab wounds, was found in an open lot
near Mildorf, Conn. Binwokitz is be-
lieved to have been murdered after he
iSAuSCN W give up tiiC StOltH JULIUS
for $4,000. Information in the posses
sion of the authorities here leads them
to believe that the men who murdered
and robbed Binkowitz had been asso-
ciated with q number of the bond rob-
berries alleged to have been eng:-
neered by Arnstein and Cohn. About
$4,000 worth of the bonds held by
Binkowitz have been recovered, it is
reported. Some of them were traced
to the Cleveland bond ring" with
which Arnstein and Cohn did business.
Mr.. Myers denied yesterday that he
had made a statement to the effect that
testimony taken in the bankruptcy pro-
ceedngs before Federal Commissioner
Alexander Gilchrist jr. has indicated
that a we'll known member of Tam
many Hall was implicated in the bond
theft plot.
81 have not made any statement to
any reporter of any newspaper to the
effect that any witness examined by
me has connected any one we'll known
in the inner circle Of Tammany Hall or
connected with that organization in any
way in the Arnstein case. Any state
ment to that effect is untrue" said
Mr.. Myers.