The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-04
HIRES PROBERS
BosseIman Starts Private In
vestigation With Detectives.
Willing to Spend Million.

Announcing he is willing to spend
a million dollars TO determine the
real cause of his sons death, An
drew c. Bosselman, wealthy New
York city novelty manufacturer.
with the aid Of private detectives
today began a private investigation.
Bosselman's son, Carl A. Bosselman,
twenty-five years old, manager Of
a souvenir store at 473 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, this city, was
found on the streets Of New York
early Sunday morning with his
skull fractured. He died a few
hours later at Bellevue Hospital.
REJECTS POLICE THEORY.
The factor has refused to accept the
decision OF the New York police that
his son was killed by a fall and has
demanded a more thorough investiss-
ton.
Assistant District Attorney Mario.
OF New York. as a result OF Bossei-
mans demands. announced today the
homicide bureau Will make q thor
ough probe of the death.
! Attorney Mario will conduct a hear
| ing in the criminal courts building,
! OF New York this afternoon. He VIII
question Patrolman Walsh, who dis
covered Bosselman lying in the street,
and Thomas ]. McManus, Walter A.
Cakes and a Mr.. Bishop. three men
said to have been in the company OF
| Bosselman the morning he was killed.
ENGAGES DETECTIVES.
"If II costs me a million dollars. l
will find out the cause of my sons
death" said the older Bosselman to-
day. 81 have engaged private detec-
tiyes and do not intend to leave this
case in the hands of slaughterers."
Bosselman personally conducted an
investigation yesterday. He taike
with a Waterman. reported to have
seen a patrolman strike young Bossci-
man over the head with a club.
At the autopsy Patrolman Walsh
said he was never within Twenty-Five
feet of Bosselman, who. in the COM
pany of McManus. Cakes and Bishop,
| was celebrating the New Year, when
Walsh encountered them at Park ave-
nue. and Fifty-first street. He SAID
he chased Bosselman for calling him
names, but soon quit the chase TO
return to a police box at Forty-eighth
street and Lexington avenue. con-
WINGED the young man would hnd MS
way home.
But not long after this. Walsh said,
IL
man was lying on the sidewalk at
Depew place. There he found Bos-
selman. his head and shoulders on the
! sidewalk and brick against his
face Walsh called an ambulance
and waited for it to arrive. He said
he recognized Bosselman as the man
who shouted at him.
WILLIAMS TESTIFIED.
McManus testified that when Bos-
selpan ran, he turned down Lexing-
| ton avenue to head off his friend at
the Commodore, and when Bosselman
did not appear, he searched for him
and learned from a mail clerk what
had happened McManus communica-
ted with the authorities, first giving
| Bosselman's name as Robert Il.
Clark" to shield his family.
| Bosselman's father and Berton X.
Law, a neighbor, granted that the
| fact that $3.50 was found in the young
mans pocket was good evidence he
was not killed in a hold-up, but said
| they had other information which LED
! them to believe he was murdered ana
thrown into Depew place.
Dr. Benjamin NJ. Vance, OF the
medical examiners stan, who per-
! formed the autopsy, reported death
| was caused by fracture of the skull
| behind the left ear. There was no
abrasion or laceration. The police
said a blow by a club would have
| left mark. At the New YORK
morgue il was said a blackjack could
| fracture a skull without marking the
| scalp.