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, : » \ 4 von t FIANCEE ACCUSES MURDER SUSPECT Francesco Peffo Will Be Held feetbe Killing of New Rochelle Policeman as a Result of Her Testimony. HE IS RAPIDLY WEAKENING. ‘Confession Expected from Prisoner, Who Is Pacing Cell Like a Caged ‘\y Beast—His Brother Arrested in | Effort to Trace Peffo's Bloody Coat NEW ROCHELLE, N. ¥,, June %.— While the Pinkerton detectives and the New Rochelle police are forging a chain of circumstantial evidence that they be- Meve will convict Francesco Peffo of the muréer of Policeman Maurice Ahcarn in Rochelle Park on Saturday morn- ing last, the prisoner, who ts locked up in a cell at Police Headquarters, is on the verge of collapsing, and it is believed he will confess when Coroner ‘Wiesendanger concludes his inquest to- night. Joseph Peffo, an Italian laborer, of No, 605 Union street, Brooklyn, was arrested this afternoon, on a warrant issued by Coroner Ulrich Wiesendanger, of New Rochelle, charging him with being an accessory to the murder of Policeman Ahearn, Peffo is a brother of the Itallan now fn jail who 4s suspected of having com- mitted the murder. ‘The interception hy the New Rochelle police of letters sent by thelr prisoner to the brother in Brooklyn led to to- Gay's arrest. Peffo was taken to New Rochelle this afternoon, It was 1 o'clock this morning when the Coroner finished part cf his in- quiry, and then he sald: “There ts no doubt that Peffo killed Pollceman Aheurn, Everything points to him, in- cluding the testimony of his aweetneart, who swore she washed the bloody coat. f the most remarkable cases r heard of. It is a case of We have forged a complete chain, and everything points to Peffo as the murderer, I shall sure- ly hold him to-night to await the action of the Westchester County Grand Jury on the charge of murder.” Peffo paces his cell like a cared beast, and thero 1s a wild look in his eyes as he watches every one that looks at him. ‘ Sweetheart His Accuser. He does not know that Benardina Ser- taffo, the pretty Italian maiden who had promised to marry him, has confessed that he brought @ bloody coat to the Itellan boarding-house where she ;Worked, or that she told Coroner Wies- endanger that she bel he killed ‘Ahearn, and that she had suspected him of the crime immediately after sho saw his coat. Benardina js a pretty, twenty-five-year-old girl, with black hair and eyes and red cheeks. Detective Petrosino, of McClusky staff, who examined her for the Cor- ener, says he belleves her testimony ill go @ long way toward convicting er sweetheart. ‘How long have you known Peffo?" the Coroner asked. “Two menths.” i “Were you going to marry him?" “Yes; he notified me that I would have to be his wife; and we were to have been married Inst Saturday night.’ “Did he hire rooms to live in when you got married?” "Yes, at No. 99 Oak street, where I wus working for Mrs. Peepo."* “Did you go in his rooms on Satur- day?" “Yas, “What did you find?” “Tt found Francesca's coat In a pall, end Mrs. Peepo toi me to wash tt. When I squeezed the siceves blood flowed out. I said: ‘Oh, my Goa! What's this?" The girl sald she also saw a hat and a revolver in the room and four bloody handkerchiefs in a sink. The girl, who was detained as 1 wit- tess, has been released by the police, ‘Taken to Brooklyn, Benardina said that a stolen coat which Francesco had wgrn was brought back by his brother Raphael, and that he took the revolver and Francesco's hat away with him to Brooklyn, “4On the morning of the murder I sus- pected Francesco had done something wrong,” sald the girl; ‘and when I saw the bloody coat I told Mrs, Peepo that I did not want him for @ husband, and didn't intend to marry him. ‘The evidence. developed shows. these facts: That carnations were stolen from Henry Bilebrecht’s conservitories on the night Ahearn was shot, and that Petfo knew where they were kept, @s he had worked there; that Ahearn had quarrelled with an Italian bo- Meved to have been Peffo, two weeks before the murder; that Peffo lott a bloody coat in Peepo's boarding-house, where hig sweetheart worked; that his (ntended bride saw that he had a feuleed face, and that he tried to hide the scratches, which had evidently been made by the murdered polleeman’s club, by pullling his hae down over his eyes on the day the murdered man was found: that he has told les about his whereabouts, and is about to break €own; that Mr, and Mrs, John Peepo and thelr daughter Millie. say he brought a bloody coat and hat and re- volver to thelr boarding-house, and that they were found in his room. Blatement of Sweethenrt’s Brother Alphonzo Scarrofto, brother of the pri ener’s sweetheart, has made a statement to Coroner Welsendanger that the pri ‘ner told him he killed the policeman. ‘This completes the chain of elrcumstan- tlal evidence which the Coroner says will send Peffo to the eleciric chair, The witness said: “Francesco Peffo told me first that he had been In a fight. ‘Then when I Questioned him further he said ho had been held up én Rochelle Park by a policeman, They had a fight, and fran- ‘coaco told me after he had been clubbed by Ahearn he.put five builets policeman'a body and then ran away, He gaid he wanted to ket even with the policeman for holding . THE WORLD; THURSD AY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1903, SWEETHEART OF NEW ROCHELLE MURDER SUSPECT | AND HER FRIEND, WHO ACCUSE HIM OF THE T'SMY ANDY” SHE SNS OF FAD COOK “1 Believe It as I’m Sphakin’ to You,” Adds Mrs. Mary Nevins, “Though They Say I’m Afther) Inshoorance Money.” “As sthraignt an’ as folne a shilp o' a colleen as iver came out o' Kikenny was the same Mary Murphy whin she took Andy Nivins ilivin year ‘go," say the acquaintances of Mrs. Mary Nevins, of No 39 Greenwich street, who for a week past has been identifying the body of John Fergus, a cook, of No. 210 Bighth avenue, as that of her husband, And then the commentators on Mary add, wita hands in the alr and much staking of heads: ‘To think that the wumman could come to this pass! Wurra, wurra! ‘Tis too bad, too bad!" There {s more than one who speaks after that fashion that lose sight of the motive for Mrs. Nevins's action and lament to think that she could claim a cook for a husband jn the place of a ‘longshoreman; ‘an’ as folne a Sligo man at that as iver handled a hook,” albeit that there are as many good cooks as there are ‘longshoremen. Nevins Really Alive. But “Andy” Nevins is not dead; he's “shenangoing’ along the North River front, and a reporter of The Eventng World held speech with him to-day w will come hereafter. Notwith- proof—dngubltable proot of her lege lord’s existence—fhé wife refuses to believe that the body in the morgue at Bellevue is other than her husband’ ‘The reporter went td Mrs. tevins filled with sympathy and ready to meet the cry of a warm Irish heart in dis- tress. He was willing to delleve that the Morgue keeper could be mistaken; that Mrs. Nevins could not make euch a blunder as to take the body of a man, who was fifty-two for thut of cne of thirty-five; to go so far as to make affidavits that it was ‘Andy’ Nevins's dead face she had seen !n the cabinet at the foot of East Twenty-sixth street. "Tis kind yex are,” sald Mrs. Nevins, to come to a poor widdy that's sore beset wid thim all around that do be savin’ that Andy Is not @ corpse.” Mrs. Nevins was led on to tell her story “Ta a Monday two weeks ago since Andy Nivins wint out o' that dure there, an’ divil a hair did I see of him since till L saw bis dead face In the mor-gue. No Cook, but “Andy.” “oTis him an’ 'tls no e90k, I'll take me oath betire ie minit that the same was Andy Nivins. As | was sayin’, ‘tls a Monda two weeks since Andy left. He sez to me, sez he, ‘Mary, I took the plursy an’ I'l get me off to Bellevue this 1, ‘All right, Andy, and God wid you.’ [ followed him to the dure'an’ int the sthreet an’ 1 saw, two lp, trang earn Wee tould. Te 4: havin’ frinds who ae ee ES aa to the hospital an’ ould him si T gay no thought to the two strangers, ck to thi. i oa Fe a wurrd came back o' Andy da’ followin’. | 1 did not tert sen to anyselt, Mra, Nivins, ff onnything was wrong wid him you'd Hear it-soon enough. God knows bad news travels fast. As I was thinkin That thought tiers come a postal caard. It had no nam but ‘Andy's, an’ it sex "s dead in hospital. he's deaed meset an’ put on me bist black skirt an’ stharted for Be.levue. ‘Phwat did I do wid the postal caard? I ture it up. "Tis no good to keep writ- iu.’ It brings bad luck." ‘Then you don't know postal nor who the men your ‘husband eway?' She Went to the Hospital. ‘ot a bit do I know them. As I was caiee Twine to.the hospital an’ they tculd me thot no Nivins had died, there. They took me to the Mor-gue an’ there was no ‘Andy’ there, [ came back to Sullivan. the undertaker an’ tould him me trooble, an’ he wint out to invis#- ®Gn Monda inst he took me to the hospital an’ J saw the man thot I say is my husband an’ not a cook. T was afther allowin’ for the whiteness of | the dead an’ ail thot an’ I sez to me- self thot thot was phwat was afther makin’ him look go ould. ‘Tis not far from fifty-two to thirty-folve, I signed la paper that the body was Andy's an’ they laughed at me—me who had shlept him an’ ate him for jivin vear back an’ bore him five childer—three dead, God rest thelr sow! believe, as I'm shpakin' to you this minit, {hat the man they sea is a cook 4s my Andy, They do be sayin’ that I'm afther the inshoorance money. God knows ‘twould only be enough: to him—! He'd only be atther in the concern since Janooary tnst. ‘Tis all that I contd git; not an- other rid cint, if I was dyin’ for it, Fought with Brothers, ago that Andy fought the front, who wrote the were who took wid his brothers dow: fan’ It t to his heart. It giye him the Noomony an’ the plursy, an’ he niver was will afther thot. "His brothers owme tear me? Niver! We don't wants none of thim Tam .a@ poor CRIME BEPAPINA.AEIPRAFFO, a | ming of shutters. One remained open a trifle, and out from behind it came ® beckoning hand. Its owner turned out to be Mrs. Heaby, housekeoper of the premises. “What do thore Murphys be tellin’ you?" asked Mrs. Heaby. ou menns the Nevinses?" “Murphy's the name they gave me whin they came six months ago, I have heard their name was Nevin: “Well, Murphy or Nevins, the husband 1s supposed to be dead. “Dead? ‘Tis untroo. T saw him only yesterday comin’ from that house. Much “more was learned about yinses or the Murphys than the y"' had told, and !t was all carried back across the courtyard. "Tis throo I gave the name of Mur- phy," said Mrs. Nevins, "Tis me chris- tenin’ name, an’ there was good reason for me givin’ it. But ‘tis ho matther phwat. ‘Phe man in the mor-gue is, God Zelpin’ me, ‘Andy’ Nivins.”* The Hunt for “Andy.” “Do I know Andy Nevins?" asked Foreman Chichester, head of the steve- dores on the Norwich and Stonington pier, in the beginning of the searea for Nevins. “Aye. J saw him pitting on the bulkhead yesterday afternoon, Go along down the front and you'll find him. His brother ‘Bully’ worts down on the Al- bany pier," t ‘Andy’ dead nd when did he die tne td enapped Chi- & many the pint that he's had since then, id? Ha, ha, ha!" There was many a ‘trace of trail but not a sight of him to be had between Chichester's wharf and the Al- bany dock. His brother was found at the latter place. James is his name, and he's been the boss stevedore for the Albany line for years. He's e straight, sober kind of a man, and when Andy's name was mentionea his face sew and. Him!" said ‘he, “Dead! No such good luck. He was seen on the front yester- day. "l4s only another thrick of him and his wife. They'd be afther havin’ me bury that body at the Morgue for him an takin’ the insurance. Didn't they catch me a year ago wid that trick, an’ I buried wan of their babies for thim. Says He'll Be Sure Next Time. Andy's “Go to. n & Leake, the undert ers at Spring and Clark streets, they'll tell you. Thebe's an arrange- ment wid them now to bury the man whin he dies, but I'll be sure that (t's him before he goes into the ground.” Then “Jim" Nevins called to a young- er man, who was firing aboard the Dean Richmond. “When did you see Andrew?" he asked him. ‘sald “Jim.” “Is that “Who. “That's own brother—Andrew Nevins's brother—the same as I am, if you are anxious to see the other one go along the wharves, He's “shenan- goin’ "doing odd job: “along the Wharves, him. “You'll find him. And Andy Nevins was found not far up the river front. sleeping peacefully under the lee of a lumber pile and with his mouth open go wide that It looked as though the top of his head was fall- ong the front— Every one knows ing off. "£nere was aman with a gnarled, rud- dy countenance dozing beside him. He Was asked if his companion | was ‘Aye, that’s ‘Im,"" came tn the richest kind ‘of a Co “They said he was dead, "Im dead? Handy ‘ere's a tof wot says you is dead," and the Cockney Kicked the sole of one of Andy's bro- wens. the answer kney twang. “Gwan,” sad Andy, “or I'll knock ver head off.’ ‘And so he was left. | “For years the coffee habit had could scarce do it. Coffee, with request that I give up fair triat of Postum. is a thing of the past. AN’ of this was indeed pugsling—the strangers, the alleged indifferencé of Mrs. Nevins th “Andy” went to the hot i Minuit ‘thie posial Saal oe dnl out of Win. “on the four sidex of the co Sante Nev! live 4 Name given by A judge of Creeds, Va., announces himself as a “reformed coffee toper” and gives authority to make the following public statement: " my condition was getting serious. I have considerable writing to do snd had becomé so nervous that I had to depend almost entirely upon my wife to do the writing. Sometimes when it was imperative that I sign my name my hand trembled so I “Thad severe headaches, stomach trouble, heart trouble, also some rheumatism. A friend, Rev. ——, one day sent me a package of Postum “I took the advice and the headaches ceased, also the stomach trouble. I now have no heart troubie’at all, except when I use coffee for atime. My old nervousness “My wife also suffered for years with heart trouble and She has found relief by leaving off coffee and using Postum. We now think it ea much better drink than either coffee or tea. I have known of a number of capes that have been entirely cured or greatly benefited by leaving off coffee and using the food beverage, Postum.” | Postum Co,, TENEMENT SCARE OVER LITTLE FRE Small Blaze on the First Floor, with Plenty of Smoke, Clears Out Ten Families in Some- thing Like Record Time. The ten familles occupying the tene- ment-house at No. Ei enth street were roused from thelr sleep early to-day by a fre that etarted on the first floor, occuplea by Wendel Dulinger, his wife and four children, Dulinger aWoke and found his bedroom filled with smoke. He soon discovered that {t was coming from a fire tn the kitchen. He got his family safely into the street ang then called the other tenants. He then ran to the auarters of Engine Company No, %, which {8 new the house, and gave the alarm. In avout twenty minutes tho firemen had ex- Unguished the flames, ‘The damage is estimated at $500. ‘Nhe cause of the fire is unknown, but it was thought by the firemen that it started by a curtain in the kitchen being blown against a lighted gas jet. PRANK RESULTS IN HOMICIDE ARREST, Murphy, Accused of Causing Death by Lowering Electric Street Lights, Taken to Staten Island. Policeman Trochern, of District-At- torney Rawson's staff, of Philadelphia, arrived in Stapleton to-day with James Murphy, a fugitive from justice, who was arrested in Philadelphia. Ho is wanted by the Staten Island authorities on a charge of homicide, Murphy was committed to the county Jail at Rich- mond to await the September term of the County Court. Murphy was indicted by the Richmond County Grand Jury some time ago on caused an accusation of having the death of August Klein in November last. According to the testimony taken at the Coroner's inquest, Murphy, who is twenty-two yours old, and several companions lowered some electric Hghts on the Linoleumville road Thanksgiving Hve, and Klein and his two ¢isters While walking along the road came in contact with the live electric wires, Klein was killed instantly, whille Sis sisters escaped with severe burns. Mur- phy. was subpoenaed to appear at the Coroner's inquest, but failed to do so and left Staten Island. POSTUM COFFEE Wy The dudge's Decision , HE SUMS UP THE COFFEE CASE been growing on me until coffee and make a le Creek, Mich. SUES A LANDLORD FOR WIFE'S DEATH Frederick H. Wille Charges that Her Last Illness Was Ceused by a Drenching Due to Leaky Roof. DEMANDS $10,000 DAMAGES. | Plaintiff Asserts He 1s Poor and Cannot Afford to Lose Much Time | and Court Puts Case on the “Pre- ferred” Calender, Tustien Lev ¢ the Sup! Court, waa pr to grant am of preference to-lay to tho case Frederick H. Wille, who sues hin land- | lord, Samuel & berg, for $10,090] damages for the death his young | wife, which he | resulted from a | arge leaky roof. It will among the first cases tried after the su r vacation. Wille charges that on the night of} Jan. 7 last, while he and his wife, Alice NM. Wille, were asleep tn their apart ment in Engelborg’s house, No. 236 West One Hundred and Thirty-fourta street, rain water came in through the roof of the house and drenched Mrs. Wille and her furniture, running down through the floor of four apartments. Mrs. Wille became {11 of typhoid pneumonia, which caused her death, Mr. Wille says two physicians who attended his wife declaro that her ill- ness and death were duce to these causes, He has a little boy, Kenneth | R. Wille, who is now motherless, ahd) says: “1 ama poor man, @ carpenter earn- ing but $12.a week. I hay ced to great expense for und. £¢ and was obliged to from my) employment, Wife's sickness and now have to hire for the keeping and y mutherless boy.” | nis attorney, An- ed for a speedy funeral expens lose much time by reason of my death. Besides, 1 a servant to Inetruction of or these reasons drew J. Smith, ay trial, William’ A ny, sieorney, Ur | landiord, assented Yo the motion, the case was preferred over ali| or June causes and will be tried the week in October, MW’MAHON’S SLAYE LEARNS HIS FATE, To Be Imprisoned Not Less Than Three Years, Nor More than Nine Years and Three Months. Davis, in the Crim. the Suprenie Court, to- day sentenced Daniel J. Kennedy, who killed James D. MoMahon at No? 258 West Fifty-third street on May 1, to an Indeterminate sentence in State prison of not less than three years nor more than nine years and three months McMahon, who was a brother of Daniel J. McMahon, Tammany Hall dis- Justice Verno: inal Branch ¢ fot leader, had been on a protracted spree with Kennedy. ‘They quarrelled, and Kennedy kicked McMahon in the head, as the result of which McMahon died. PLAYED HOOKEY; NEARLY DROWNED, Boy Is Saved Just In the Nick of Time by a Medal Winner, Joseph Donnay, ten years ord, of $i Catharine street, played “hookey’ from school to-day and went with other boys to the Market street per in the East i “Joe” probrbly wel never play “hooke for to-day's ex- aan, FRIDAY SALE of MODEL FOODS. did values from the ceptional collection for Friday. 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