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SLEUTHS BAFFLED BY HACKNEY CRIME(Continued From First Page.)back yard Monday night. She said she called to him and he ran away.When Finley was arrested he had clipping from a newspaper in his pocket telling of the murder of the telegraph operator at New Richmond Station, Ky„ on the night of Sept. 31. Finley will he t held pending an investigation of this crime also. hTwo. brakemen on the Chesapeake Qhio railroad called at police headquar- 3 ters last night to see if Richard Finley, ^ under arrest on the charge of suspicion, was the same man wiio Is suspected of * murdering a telegraph operator on the c C. O. about one month ago. opposite ^ New Richmond, O, The two men were passing- on a train shortly’ before the p operator tyas murdered by being shot I through the window, and saw a negro a f | who had trouble with the operator ear- a Her in the day hanging about the place, t The brakemen failed to identify Finley a as the man, although his general de- ]j scription answered that of the wanted | negro.Finley is a native of Cincinnati, but 1 l ad not lived here for eighteen years un- ^ til a short while ago,4 when he returned ^ and took up his residence on Canal ridge, n Cumminsville. He has a wife and sev- , ( eral small children. His wife said last ; tf night that she did not know what her j c husband had been arrested for. She said fl she knew he had no connection with the $ 5 j Hackney murder, and she could prove his ' jj innocence. ,°N Hackney, Eckert and Schwering left the ^ f police station together. Before leaving i Hackney declared to Major Crawford K► ; that his chief aim would be fo find the• murderer cf his wife. He said he wanted { JI | to co-operate with the police to this $nd. ; £II He declared that he was going straight :c I to bis home, where he expected to spend j , the night. Though lie left the police J j station before 5 o’clock in the afternoon• ; at 6 o'clock his house was dark and no ; r j one responded to a knock at the doer. ;No One Had Seen Him., No one in the neighborhood had seen t Him about the premises and his wife's ^ , | closest friend, Mrs. Lula Cavanaugh, to y , tvhom Hackney went first for assistance !, when lie discovered the murder, had not j clt; , ! seen him. Hacknev left the station with Ql , the same stolid air of indifference which ! j he assumed from the time he was ar- : tc I rested, never once during the time he 1 ! was held In custody having shown the j Vl ! least trace of emotion or that he felt in ' ni j the. slightest degree any regret for thehorrible calamity that had visited his ! q •J home. Deliberate in his actions, careful ^ j in his speech and guarded In his an- j ni swers to the questions put to him by'the ' al police officials, the police say he is the j coldest proposition they have met. j w“ft was his nature to Appear Indiffer- te ent on most occasions,” «Aid Mrs. O Cavanaugh yesterday “I always have pi been struck with Mr. Hackney’s in- : s« difference. He would remain quiet and j Jlt; unemotional on occasions when there was j every possible cause for enthusiasm. 1 j do not understand, however, how a ge human being possessed with human emo-? i tions and human instincts could- remain J al placid at the most horrible sight that -j ever greeted the eye.Telltale Prints. MI A microscopic examination of the se ’ bloody finger prints found on the wood- ! of j work in the Hackney residence has been I m 'made, with the result that they bear dis- na tinguishing marks whtch will render it le j possible to identify the murderer in the 1 tL event he is taken in custody. !The theory that the murderer was a j Clt; masked epileptic and that he Is .guilty of other murders in the neighborhood is ; le ! regarded in a favorable light by some of ' he the police officers who are working on e\ the case. It,is the opinion of. others that m the murderer of Mary Hackney is not ! ylt; connected with other murders in ^he vi- j a' clnjty. ! 4Among those who will be brought be-j to fore Finley today for the purpose of con- j neetlng him with the murder is Matthew w Fels. a plumber, w ho has a sh6p near | at the Hackney home. Fels told of seeing j ylt; a negro fleeing from the direction of the , sj-house in whtch the murder was commit- j ted between 8:30 and 9 o’clock Tuesday , ha morning. Fels will be asked to say I sv whether or not Finley Is the negro he saw. He said the Hackney dog w as bark- cV ing furiously at the time he saw the negro running.WB1I Known in Covington.Mrs. Mary IUcknev formerly was well ( 'known in Codington, where she was’horn and reared, nt-r maiden name was Lim-herger, and her sister married , the late I George Ricman, who at one time was a well-known semiprofessional baseball player. In 1878, when the victim of the 1S( ! Cumminsville murder was 3 years old. she was stricken with smallpox and was attended by Dr. James A. Averdlck. Her 'face was pitted as a result of the Illness.The body was taken to Allison A-] Yates’ morgue in Covington, and the fu- ■ I nefal w ill be held from the chapel of that 01 piace. Interment will be made in Spring ca ■I Grove cemetery. iL r*I Hundreds of the morbidly curious gath- | ce ered about the morgue last night, but ; oe were not permitted to view the remains. I M The dead woman's family were members , of the German St. Paul’s Evangelical rr.I church, and Rev. Gilbert Schmtdt. the -pastor, who preached Governor Goebel s lunerai, will officiate.BELIEVES HACKNEY INNOCENT.Sister of the Dead Woman Leaves for Covington.Serial Dispatch to Commercial Tribune.MOBILE. Ala.. Oct. 27.---Mrs. Many IFackney, whose death at the han^s of an assassin at her home in Canal ridge i aroused Cincinnati, was a sister of Mrs. J'ceph Frommel, wife of Joseph i Frommel, well known in this city.Mrs. Frommel left today for Coving-; ton; Kv., across the river from Cinein-! rat i. 10 attend the funeral service*. .Mr. Frommel said it would appeav , that tome fanatic was the perpetrator 1 of the crime, as he docs not believe i.iat i the husband of M:w, Hackney, who Is ; under arrest, had anything to. do with the affair.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 28, 1910
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