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| J “sores te PRICE ONE CENT. an NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1904, “ Ctreulation Rooks Open to ” EDITION ‘DRUGGED GIRL MET. TRANGER IN FLAT sip (Mrs. Alice Novis: dhe #9 the “Woman with the Green Veil,” Who was with Min- nie Bardorf, Is Arrested and Tells ’ the Police a Stran ge Story, _dsays Miss Bardorf Had Been Jilted by Sweetheart Who Married a Rich Widow, and Offers Attempted Suicide as Possible Solution, The woman with the green vell who ‘was with Minnie Bardorf, the mani- eure who was drugged, has been ar. rested ¢ “|mplicates a strange man. He prced trom her by degrees, wat 20 0% fiar and so far wholly un- gubstantiated that the police are hold- ing her on @ charge of being a sus- piclous person, She is Mrs. Alice L. Norton, her- self & manicure, living in @ fur- nished flat at No. 10 West One Hundred and Fourth str which she had been asked to vacat Had « Morphine Injection, Assistant District-Aitorneys Appleton ead Chadwick and Detective- Sergeant MoManus took Mrs, Norton to the J. ' Hood Wright Hospital this afternoon ‘and confronted her with the girl. Mrs, Norton admitted that Miss Bar Gort had asked her to inject morphine Into her left leg and that she had done so. When the girl was asked if this was true she admitted that it was and began a rambling statement from which ne coherent story could be drawn. Mre. Norton was taken to the West Bide Court and held on a technical eharge of assault. She will be ar. Faigned to-morrow, when it is thought, Miss Bardort will be abte to testify, \ When Mrs, Caroling Pabst, mother of ‘Mite Bardort, who t# slowing recover- ing in the J, Hood Wright Hospital * fromthe ‘effects of poison, was tnken t One Hundredth atreet sta- tion to identify Mrs, Norton she be- ame hysterical and created a scene Mother Was Hyste “You've killed my daughter!” Shrieked, pointing at Mrs. fs @ large woman and wi dressed, “My daughter took her away with you, ell ty Mra, Pabst had to be led from the @tation back to her home, at No, 1 West One Hundred and Second street, It was not until after this identification by Mra. Pabst that Mrs. Norton admitted she had been with Mise Bardorf, Under questioning she made this state- ment; “Trent @ furnished flat and have been ordered to move, I suppose !t was be- cause I advertised for mantoure cus- tomers, I went down to the Bardorf home to get Minnie to help me look for another flat, She was not home and I left a note for her, Introduced as “Mr, Jon came up to my fiat later and while were there together alone a man called on me. I had known him before, but never heard his name, so I just introduced him to Minnie as Mr, Jones. He did not stay long. “After he was gone Minnie and I went down to Elghty-second street and Co- lumbus avenue to look at a flat, “On the way back we stopped in at a| saloon at One Hundred and Fourth street and Columbus avenue, and cn Minnie/had two glasses of beer, After that I walked up with her to her home, where I left her at the front door, She wa aggering a bit and I thought ») had become drunk very easily. Jilted, She Said, “On the way down to Eight ‘atreet Minnie told ine shé had been en- gaged to marry & man, and that he had ‘own her over to marry a rich widow. med to feel bad about that." in another ement Mrs. orton said that the man to whom Miss Bar- dort had been engoged lived at the Hotel Cadillac, Continuing, #he said: “She has not been herself since she confided in me that he had broken off with her and was about to marry some wealthy woman. Minnie was just lke a siave to him, doing his mending and attending to his wants, better, I think, than many wives would do. fust like @ sister to him, “A friend of Minnie—her first nama | is Edna, but I don't know the last! name—taught her the cocaine habit. 1] wouldn't be surprised to bear that Min- nie attempted suicide. talk for herself when she gets out of, the hospital.’ Another Story of Meeting Mra. Norton later told another story| of how Miss Bardorf happened to meet a strange man in her apartments. Bho! wald. “This man, whom 1 called Mr. Jones) but whom I did not know, called to me And ed me to manicure his na , L sald I was not feeling well and would met Miss Bardor!, When she came to my place I introduced her to the man, and she manicured his nails and mine nino, After he was gone we went to look for another flat.” Tt required much questioning by the \ paliga 0 obtain phig stasement trom the ete MIE she ‘orton, who attractively dying. You You trled to She was aid Tut she will! wy woman, They were not satisfied and de. cided to make @ formal charge against her so that she could be held. Mrs. Norton was questioned further about the man who called on her, but she insisted that she did not know his name, although he had been @ frequent visitor, Detective McManus secured trace of Mrs, Norton. It was belleved that the woman who had called for Miss Bar- dorf in a cab was a manicure. Work- ing on that, he found’ that a manicure who wore a green vell lived In One Hundred and Fourth street. Canvanss- ing several biocks there, he found Mra, Norton, and as her first denials to bis questions did not satisfy him he took her to the police station, Called tor Her in a Cab. Miss Bardorf, as a hairdresser and manicure, did most of her work at the homes of hee customers, The myste- rious woman called for her in a cab, Bardort was out and the stranger left an envelope with the hairdressers mother, Mra, Caroline Pabst, telling her to give it to Minnie when the latter re- turned, Mra, Pabst, who ie janitress of the butiding in which she lives, paid no attention to the address on the envel- ope, but handed it to Minnie when she came home. Minnie seemed much surprised and sald she would go to the address and meant, left home, ih taking the envelope with her, Some time later she was Wrought to tie door of her home in a cab. The same woman was with her. She seemed dazed, and the woman helped her to the steps und then asked some children to ring the bell for her, Collapsed on Stoop. The woman got back into the cab and drove away hurriedly. As the woman disappeared Miss Bardort collapsed on the stoop of the house, Mra, Pabst called a physician in the neighborhood and he said she was Intoxloated, This did not satisfy Mrs, Pabst, and she summoned Dr. MeInerny, He ar- rived an hour later, and, after a glance at the unconsclous young woman, an- nounced that she had been poisoned, He advised her immediate removal to the hospital, d Policeman Sullivan called an ainbulance. Dr. Fahnestock, the ambulance surgeon, said {tt looked Uke opium poisoning, He was not sure, Search’ Mra, Pabst reported the matter to the police at the West One Hundredtn street station, and detectives were sent ely to find the Pp ‘aterio d calied for Mi ty cl nit but she was , although toward mirnlag. ah ne delirious, She was strapped to the bed, a heavy canvas strap Deing passed over her chest, ieee ed, around her arms, e bed tT knees, siclans at the hospital are not | gure thei is fe & ease of opium poleon: ing and are somewhat puzzled by the se. They say there is no doubt t the young woman was poisoned, but owing to the peculiar symptoms are unable to say just what kind of poison was used, The story that Miss Bardorf had bean engaged to @ Young man who had cast her aside to marry a wealthy widow was denied. Mrs, Mary Meyer, of No. 40 West Forty-seventh street, a alster of Miss Bardorf, and their mother, both declared the young woman had never been engaged to marry. that she never had any men callers and that she never went out alone at night, FORT ERIE WINNERS. FORT ERIE RACE TRACK, Ontario, July 1.—Following are the winners of the races held here to-day: ur-year-olds . 192 (D. Roland), and even, won; Blue Blaze, 14 (Reichstiger), 10 to | and 4 to 1, second; Dr. Gurnsey, 1% (Munro), 6 to 1 and 2 to 1, third. Time—149. SECOND RACE—Maiden two-vear- four and a half furlongs,—Seare- mo (‘Treubel), 4 tod and 2 to |, pi ig Sam Hoffhetmer, 107 (Head), 19 *0 and Log ‘PRICE ONE CENT. |HIGHBALL BREAKS D GIANTS IN CIN CINNATI GOOD COLT PULLS UPON THREE LEGS Highball Went to Post Sore in Seagate Stakes, and Before Mile Had Been Run Was in Distress, —EEEEs KNIGHT ERRANT TAKES THE FEATURE EVENT EASILY. Flammula, at 15 to 1, Proves an Upset In Third Race—Stew- ards Collect Betting Sheets on the Palmbearer Raoe. . H THE WINNERS, FIRST RACE—Jack MoKeon (8 to 1) 1, Highborn (16 to 6) 2 B Lala 3. SECOND RACE—Merry Engia (6 to 1) 1, Honiton (8 to 6) 2, Grand be) 3 THIRD RACE—Flammuta (15 to 1) 1, Old England (18 to 5) 2, Reader 3, FOURTH RACE—Knight Errent (8 to 1) 1, 8t. Valentine (16 to 8) 2, Highball 3. FIFTH RACE—The Cricket (9 to 5) 1, Gold Money (13 to 5) 2, Illyria 3. (Rinecial to The Evening World.) PRIGHTON BEACH RACE TRACK, July 12.—There was a better card at Brighton this ernoon, and the crowd came down in large delegations. Superb weather. prevailed and the track we Mghtning fast. The conditions could not have been better for high-class sport. ‘There was culy one stake, the Ber: xa a mile and a furlong, with High- ball, Knight Errant, St, Valentine and other three-year-olds carded. There was a splendid sprint at six furlongs and four other races, each very attrac. tive In ite way. The betting was brisk, for the crowd beat the bookles yi rday and were naded for bear to-day. : The stewards of the meeting had be- fore them to-day the sheets on the races which Palmbearer lost and won, A thorough Investigation will be made Into the running of this herse dnck McKeon by Two Lengths. Jack MeKeon rushed to the front at the start and made the running to tne turn, Where Blue Coat joined ben ae for a quarter, where Jack Coat ng cn drew away nd won Fas ily by two lengths from High Born, who closed very fast from a bad Rees ond beat Benlala three Jengths for the place. Good Thing Went Wrons. the sec- 4 iton opened at 3 tol in backed. down to she had worked six ne we . Eng find, XN 1 chance, raced to the front start, and did all the running at thon easily by three lengths from Honiton, who W second all the way Grand Opera wae third, three lengths away. Flam ia at Good Price, tol Moments and Palm Reader, wae the, played horses in the thd race. Olf England opened favorite, but went back to 18 to 5 Flammula, a Ih to 1 chance, wertesto the front at art, made all the fanning and Ton wtattiy by two lengths from Old Bn land, who was second all the way tolen Momenta was third for six funones, bat dropped out of ft. giving way to Palm Reader, who held third place to the end, finishing a head be- hind Old giand Highball's Highballwas the favo it Race, In the Sea- ae mtakes. It waa hit last race Bent ‘to tive post sore, vd broak down ao helplessly at the en! of a mile (hat he had to be lead oi the track chree lege, Kright Errant made the} inning followed by Highball and St the later Iving behind the On the turn Highball was on the turns stowing that In trouble, Kolght Errant led treteh where Bt Youn Dass ror the! to “a: Highball and made play winner. Knight Errant was never ex- tended winning easily by two and a half fengths pe ew ST, LOUIS RESULTS. nds second: Cinel u m1 sae alah eto Land hte tut: | ATR GROUNDS RACE TRACK, ST ‘Time ab 3-4 LOUIS, Mo, July 12—The races run THIRD RAC Tey searege and| here to-day resulted as follows ward, one Mm lames F., 104 (Wile | FIRST RACE-Three-quarters of kins), 6.40.1 and? to 1, won: Bir Gal-| mic wor te rane tre een nt lant, i fran gt ae fine 1 to Sito 1; Bountiful, § to 1 for place... was secon Renekart t inder), even seen : nh, 2 and 1 to third. Time 1.49 24 ad] M saad A. Long, 2 to 1, third FOURTH RACE-Handteap; six fur] RECOND RACE—Fiv Jonge -Mergiment, 1% «Minder, 11 to 3 mile.— Won by Erla 1.ve even. fron; Rusk. ® (M Johnaon)| Lay 1 to 4 for place, wa i xf J and cond; Chamblee, 19 ing, @ to ! scow. third. Time- (Castro), 2 to Land even, third, Time—] 1.05 3-4 1.20 1-4. THIRD RACE—Three-quarters of ao sO FINISHES AT HARLEM, HARLEM RACE TRACK, CHICAGO. July 12—-Following are the results of the races run here to-day LTIRST RAC Five furlongs —Won hy to 1 and to hy Gay > jee ne a 3 sing Fun ey "ths mile—Won by Bensontiurst, 8 to 1 and 1 to 2; ner second: Alice third, Time—1.20, even for place, was ‘urner, even to show, AMERICA » GIANTS LINE UP CLEVELAND CLEVELAND .... ...---. 1 0 0000 ott eR 0000 ———_—-:+ $e —- 1100 0O— 3 0100 o—1 GIANTS AT CINCINNATI. JIANTS.. .. «. -9010000 000200 CINCINNATI... .. -- BROOKLYN AT ST. LOUIS. BROOKLYN ... ST. LOWS At Chicago (N. L.)—End third: Boston, 2; Chicago, 0. At Boston (A. L.)—End seventh: Detroit. 6; Boston, 12. At Philacelphia (A. L.)—End seventh: Chicago,4; Phila., 1. At Washington A, L.)—End third: St. Louis, 2; Wash., 0. ee LATE DETAILS HIGHLANDERS-CLEVELAND GAME. (Continued frem Second Page.) Anderson doubled, Etberfeld out. Fultz bunted. Anderson poring. Conroy fanned. McGuire out at first. One run. Fifth Inning—Lush fanned. Bradley out. Lajoie flied out, .0 runs, Huches fanned, first, No runs, Sixth inning—Hick out at first. Stoval’singled, Bay forced Stova! Abbott walked, Joss strolled. Joss forced, No runs. be EE 8 2 alae LATE RESULTS AT BRIGHTON BEACH, Sixth Race—Hum (9 to 5) 1, Racine (39 to 1) 2, Bill Bailey3 EVENING WORLD RACE CHART SIXTH DAY_AT TON BEACH. World's charts ed from fret Dougherty flied to Lush. Keeler out at The Ev eo at Aqueduct OWN; ACAINST “REDS” MoGraw’s Men Begin Series of Four Games in Cincinnati and Mathewson Does the Slab Work in the Opene PITCHER ELLIOTT, EX-RED, IS SOUGHT FOR BY M’GRAW. No Truth in Reported Story that Giants Will Be Taken Around the World if They Win the Pennant. BATTING ORDER. New Y Cincinnati, reanahan, cf. Hugging, rowne, rf, Seymour, et Hn, &, Dolan, rt Odweil, Ut Kelley, 1b. Steinfeldt, 3b. Corcoran, es, Pelt, ¢, Hahn, vp. CINCINNATI, July 12—The Giants began a four-game serie: here to-day against Joe Kelley's "Reis. Manager McGraw hopes to beat gut the focals on the sertes, ‘The first inquiry made by Manager| McGraw, of the New Yorks, on his arrival here was as to the whereabouts of Claude Elliott, the pitcher purchased by the New York Club from Ctneinnati about ten days ago. Killott waa to have Joined the New Yorks in St. Louls |a.@ week, but failed to put in an appear ance, McAraw expected to find him here, but wan di pointed Tt is possible Elliott has gone to his home In Wisconsin for a visit, and local club, directed a nut telegram order. ing Elitott to report to Me W al once If he arrives in time he will be used tn one of the games egatast his ghivteam before the end of the present series, According to Beorstury Knowles, there Will be No round-the-world trip for che New York players at the end of this 456 PRET RACE foro added: agitnk: for twoorearolde: fre and ove-hat j{iignas. | feason, unless they arrange that them: | Start fair Won easily ‘ime-10T 4 Winner, b. c., by OG Anson — Jhane! McKeuna. Owner, T. G. Munday solves, ___ Jockeys, Wt St Q&” Win Open. Clow. Pi sy. | “The story that the New York -“ 108 fn i) ~s Ny | agement would aake the tear pun bi fe bh a ® Vouk 13 ab the world tn case Wah ee He Benaia wos may ap i ist in case they won the pen- day tle, Pultereie m8 gh ee 20 Nant Js built up on a conversation that ar Prince, Joseph 3 wow 8 6 cceurred while we were en route from (481) Biue t (am (ae (Y ie, Pink ra i £ i if New York to St, Louls,” sald Mr. oy rush arta 0 7 oe 6 "Th thi t fH’ Breet . ria 104 i wht H Knowles, ‘The tour tha’ the Spalding 485 der f Mie a at at teams made some years ago was “ ta Filitpo.... en 102 now RB ‘0 D ersa tio df mA thing to take the Giants (or @ simiar atchee—ike §. ri de Marie Overweights—Bob * Jo 3. Jerry C.. 1. Jack ton casi beat Highborm caine fast enh, trip If they won the penr on, *h._ Beniala showed big improvement SECOND, RACE41.000, aided utyear-olde and. 1" 137 Won easiy Tine Winner, ch, rath % furlon it owna JE, Bemmram Inde Horwea, Jockeys. Wt Bt “ae Morty, Bagland .-.Wonderly vip 3 h . 4234 Honiton M 1 i 2 i 3 8 rf He a Gh 4 48 IN ite he 5 165 7-5 110 ae 8 3 Bt Be ht ih » 8 8 “4 4 84 6 & 8 8 SxS? South A SSR 8 7 WS 8D 443. Homest gowy oy » m MD Ton So: 7 7 1 12 62 417 Neiths » 1 Wh to " 1m Pt » 4a a alt wh T 8.8 2 : 130 19° 1349 10 900 JO <= Carroll D 3 iM M08 ak to 109 370 _Facurial M18 1874818 ton B00 19H Tom L awaon. Pitticus achanstes Honiton had no excuse Scratches Merry Eneand had speed to burn ABR THIRD, RACH st 000 ad ded. selling. tor thrge-year-oiA De ccnth Start peor, Won cheveri. iment ef deau—Gretchen Owner Kraft _ we Index. Horses, #41* Flammule ~ overiand Builieho SETI vce-acae— Rid Blo en Monvents ‘ie Wot ‘ 4 " i, oe | Kuna ta | Seratches—Nineavot and Hello, Overwel ehie stilieha. 1: Geli Dome, 1! Fianmula had the others safe all the Way Old Fngland just beat Palm Reader for the mace 59) FOURTH RACE. The Seagate, for three-year olds. $2,800 added, one m Bt Mildred. Owner, P Dwye Index. Horse Feaays. we 1 Fin. Open. Cioa PL th ratio He FS eee ey Odom 128 2m Soleht Rrrant toy nine j tenes Gold Saint Plammula Koelebt Brrant BRIGHTON BEACH ENTRIES FOR TO-MORROW, JHTON BEACH RACE TRACK,) 41" Mariba 4 Preen 1" BRIGHTON e & i: Mas wm Pi a q dy 12-The entries for to) |. N.Y. Jul Fourth Race tarcntea Bakes, ote f ae morrow’a races are as follows % 4 teiharn 10? "2 be adias 4 »-yemr-olde "8 HE vie H ” 1m ¢ Porti'n 3 erision 108 Becond Race 380 Gortnagalion 13) About two miles eo) Princess Chiet oh ay 100 Jirines 2108 Confed. Grey 14) 404" Ho ntire Terble Terryts shedee er and Dimple, Thomas MAN KILLED BY TRUCK, _Third Race-—Five and 4 bail pr * Five and a dait furtones John Hattner, forty years old, of No. a va Workman eg 21 East Houston street, fell from « R Bs8 See i Phat y biey alg varnes ae ol va Ate "Ruscsiijed s ; oa BLM ws @ = lee Sa alll a aos the end (60) PERTH Rack v there sear. spite af upmant ome mille and an elehth east ie Winner, bike, b Pessara——Dora D._ Owner, ( Index. Horses, 6% % % 1 Fin (418) The (Cricket + Cormack 1i2 2 1! ty te 1M Iu A Gta Stoney Widevrand 1) 7 Baty ay a ae) Uieria Dv Connor ioe oA 4” ay BF RF {on Wii thyme JS Martins 4 oa a a | Beratched Duke of I The Creket on ing at the end. Gold Money cinsed strona, Livrig ran ae Mr. Brush made oo uses on the subject, nor will he wage any The Cinclunath club tod Patoher Jno k Sutthof to the pe als It ts probable tna! Milladelphia aleo will get Mike Donlin, the suspended Cincinnaui outfielder, as soon as the term of his panishment ex- Pires. ft is certain that he will agt play ath untform again a k in In a Cine Jement credited to of the Pitteburg Club, jer $5,000 that the New | win the pennant. Ho: | ever, if the Smoky City magnate ip anx- e such a Wager, he w MeGraw not unwilling to take @ part of it, at lenat President Brush will make the entire Western trip with iis team. He fs eon fident (nat if the team does well in this Irv it will have no trouble In getting least an even break. in Pittsburg Chicag — PITTSBURG GA OFF, PICTEBURSG, Rein prevented the Honal ‘ hetwe Phil tsburg whieh fy to be bibyed here to-day.” here to-day NEW YORK MAN 1S CALLED A FORGER John A. Ritter, Formerly Confi- dential Bookkeeper of Ordway Chemical Works, Said to Have Robbed Firm of $18,000. announend \. Ritter, atios fifty-five years old wntidential book (A. R Ordwey's Now Mia had he nd wil to sta MeCh that Robinson the | Toepector | afternoon John A | for ten Jemlend manute vears Ves wiht at oon Tete t mode the acrest forgers to the tDairtet-Attorney « pore Ritter falsified his vthat it Was possible Cor him AWAY On A Vacetion las He took four weeks Instead of the two he was alowed. On nis turn he was discharged and bookkeeper soon discovered discrepa cle ingictments were then Hfound—two for forgery in the second {At |and one for forgery in the third ge. gree. {ter a search of many months i the potles located him in Columbus, pa —* deine , to this place President Herriman, of the} ‘} blood. this bi here he had established ® prowl station and put him through « rigid examination. a ae epee ass + ee ae 4 j Bes; shin aul adnan QUGLE. MURDER HUBBERG IN BROOKLYN SHOP George F, Abbott’s Face Battered Out of Recognition in His Store in Pearl Street and Frederick Van Buskirk Shot to Death a in an Adjoining Room, aie FIND THE BODIES WHILE FIGHTING A BLAZE, | Victims Had Been Dead for Two Days the Origin of the Fire Is a Mystery---Two Persons Are Now Detained by Police, Who Are at Work on the Case, Two men were found murdered in the junk shop back of chapel alley, a blind court adjoining No. 247 Pearl street, Brooklyn, and the police have arrested a man who, they believe, committed the crime iit § order to rob his victims, The men had been dead about two days. One of the victims was George F, Abbott, sixty-eight years old, af the proprietor of the shop. The other was Frederick Van Biskirk, forty years old, who worked for and lived with the old man, The bodies were found by firemen of Engine Company No. 7, ¢ corner and who were summone@ to the place on HOW BODIES WERE FOUND. § Abbott was found atvetched out uear the doorway of tae shop, bis taen > battered eo his features were barely recogniaabble. His body was tet f with ropes from head to foot and a market Lasket was pressed down over bis bead. On ‘The firemen then came across the body of Van Buskirk lying amid 4 # | heap of rags and scrap iron on the floor of a little den.in the rear of tht — Abulletwoun d was in his left temple and a .38-caltbre revolver | station is around th alarm of fre given by a boy. shop. lay across his stomadh in a way which, the police assert, he could mot have placed it himself. a = ae BOY GIVES THE ALARM. % Raphael Benedetto, a a twelve-year-old boy, who lives In the nelghbor- hood, was passing Chapel alley when he noticed smoke pouring through re crack In the door He went to the door ofghe junkshop and endeavored to look tre a crack, He could sée nothing and kicked on the door, He received mn response and ran out to Engine Company No. 7, that adjoins No, Pearl street. He cried to the firemen: “There's a fire in old man Abbott's juab stable,” and Capt. Matschke and his men hurried around the corner ae hand grenades. They burst open the door and found a little heap of paper blasing @ | the floor, After extinguishing the fire they found the oody of the j dealer. a The old man was flat on his back, his arms tied to his side with ropeg, 5 and his head covered by a market basket. When this was removed. only a part of the face could be seon, as & derby had been pulled down almost to the chin. bes When Matschke removed the hat he saw that the old man had been ~ | prutally murdered, The top of the head and the lower part of the thee | battered. The heavy beard he wore was covored with ~ were cruened ¢ | ‘The fremen made a thorough search of the place and on opening @ little office in the rear saw the body of Van Beskirk. Besides a small bullet hole in his temple, there was no mark of violence on his body to show thas he had taken any part in a struggle. Matschke telephoned to Police Headquarters and from there an 0! was sent to the Adams street station to send men to the scene, Harking and a number of his detectives were soon at the house, SAID HE KNEW THE SLAYER. As the police were getting together all the scraps of evidence they | conid find in the stable, Oscar Dahlgren, twenty-eight years old, of No, 178 Fulton street, Brooklyn, ¥ha was among the great crowd that had collected — in the litvle alley, came forward and declared that he knew on about the crime, Capt. Harkins at once ordered his men to place Dahlgren under arrect and get his story. Dablgren said that George V. Johnson, of No. 239 Pearl — street, a carpenter, who had often worked for the murdered junk might be able to throw some light on ft. ih Johnson made no resistance to arrest and declared that ne was tangs cent of the crime and could not give any information about |'. Capt. Hare kins then began to put Dahigren through the third degree, whereupon 4 2 became incoherent The police learned from him and from other sources, hawever, ‘that Johneon had been arrested some time ago at the instanceof old on a charge of petty larceny. He was convicted and served: ence of thirty days for the theft. | When Capt. Harkins began to evnestion Dablgren more closely be that be Johnson were enemies, When they were asked tognake @ | chorge net one another, however, both refused to do so, and denio ole quilt The police belleve the old men were murdered and robbafl, as @ | book that had been rifled was found | Abbott's body was tied from head to foot with ropes, JOHNSON CLOSELY QUESTIONED. Capi. Harkins took Johnson to die private office in “ Abbott sent