New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Son of John r.
IacArthur Identified
Police Line-Up by
Schoolgirl and Matron
Unperturbed, Flatly
Denies He's Guilty
Bosh Say They Were
Attacked Near Jersey
Home of His Parents

Atxander Macarthur, foster son of
Jokn r. Macarthur, engineer and con-
4aetcr, was arrested yesterday by De-
fvctive Barth at his foster fathers
l6me, 1T East Seventy-eighth Street,
q j young man who criminally as
aaulsed two women near Cedar Grove.
i, In October.
1t Police Headquarters Alexander
Macarthur was placed in line with
eixht other men. none OF them a men,
ssy II the Police Department, and was
pieked out by the two women without
the slightest hesitation as the man
x5o had attacked them.
Captain Arthur Carey said that wit
nesses in other recent cases of violent
crime in New Jersey would be called
ia headquarters to-day or tomorrow
to see if any one of them remembered
eeeing Macarthur near the scene of
any Of the crimes at the time they
we're committed.
Macarthur was locked up, charged
With being fugitive from justice. Ac-
cording to the police, warrant has
heen issued for him in New Jersey on
charges of criminal assault and rob-
berry, one of the women attacked hav-
ing accused her assailant of stealing
Eer purse.
Careless in Dress
Tho prisoner is pale, dark young
man, with hair which hangs down over
MS collar. He is careless in his dress
md $Ht hsa L
had studied in Paris and done some
work which had been praised by his in
stzuctors; He was quite unperturbed
sqparently, from the time Detective
Bafth rang the bell at III East
Ssseuty-eighth Street and asked to see
NJ Alexander Macarthur privately. to
the moment that the steel-barred door
ef his cell at Headquarters was
slammed upon him.
II was all mistake, he said, and he
could not imagine how the two women
had picked him out SO certainly as
their assailant. 1t was true, he said
shat he had been in the vicinity of
Cedar Grove at various times during
the summer and fall. He had done
s7n1e sketches around Monfclafr, he
said. and was familiar with the neigh
borhood.
As for the charge against him, it
vas utterly false and doubtless he
would manage to prove it so, he as
serted without heat.
It was the prisoners GOODNESS which
enabled Barth to get him out of the
East Seventy-eighth Street house with
out causing a scene or even letting
Mrs. Macarthur suspect that her fos-
tsr son was being arrested. After the
'.sinerup and lengthy examination by
taptain Carey, who questioned the
prisoner in great detail as to other
crimes of violence without reaching
any grounds for attempting to con-
aect his name with any of them, Mac
Arthur asked permission to telephone
. his foster moster and inform her
q his plight.
hls request was granted and brief
tsephone conversation~ensu He told
captain Carey that Mrs. Macarthur al
ready had read of his arrest in the eve
Aug newspapers.
yhe women who identified Macarthur
sfe Mary Louise Bradshaw, nineteen
yean old, and Mrs. Helen D. O'Neill,
uom Of Cedar Grove. Mrs. O'Neill is a
m5qule-aged woman, the mother of five
s s9Ils Miss Bradshaw is student at
upper Montclair Normal College.
Flourished a Knife
she was walking along the Mountain
Soad about 10 a. M. October 10, when a
Isq sltaped upon her from clump of
Sasnes He flourishad knife and drew
,ee nat OF the blade across her shoulder.
aeIou her he would kill her if she re-
us1ed. He dragged her into the woods
sea when he left her took with him,
sAT .eays, a purse she was carrying.
HSactly week later Mrs. O'Neill
VIZ W. attacked under similar circum-
taaees ts.a at the same point on the Noun
Oa'ei OF Police Watson Ryno of Cedar
Ns9ye compared the stories of the two
yonen and came to the conclusion that
sv svsR were attacked by the same man
saQ mat their assailant was a man
ti na9 vas known to persons living in
n's ~ vicinity. This was after posses had
sssvaied ssv the countryside in vain hunt
s;.. ~ .ie man and the police of sur
8 essSeau.ng communities had been asked
P,Natch for him.
yssn ysonn r, Macarthur, the prisoners
er father, who is widely known in
= tneering and contracting circles, is
sssu1er Of Macarthur Brothers, 12O