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(iROCERY BILL MURDERER NOT YET ARRESTEDPolice Work On, Without Any Clues as to Whereabouts of Missing Joseph Tabone.WIFE STILL HELD AT HEADQUARTERSMaterial Witness Has Noth ing To Say to Police — Tip After Tip Followed Down, but None Proves Good.Conatnt work by th« police ha* failed to uncover any Hue to the whereabout* of Joseph Tabone, 4 5 ears old. owner of a grocery store ut 1504 Washington Street, who .*■ alleged to hava stabbed and killed Theodora Hams, 19 years old, H. r. D. 1, Faleonsr, at 3:15 o'clock Monday afternoon In West Fifteenth Street, because of Hams' non-payment of a grocery bill for about 95.Whether Tabone has made his way out of town or is In hiding with friends or relatives In this city is not known, hut the police are hopeful that It wilt not be very long (.cfore they have him In custody. Various tips, all looking good enough when received, have been run down. All have failed to product anything worth while upon which to work.Few homicides have stirred Jamestown as much as the grocery bill murder and it was the topic on ai) lips on the streets yest-rduy. Assistant District Attorney John H. Leonard returned from a trip to Muffaio yesterday and conferred last night with Chief of Police Axel Levin. After the conference he said that there were no cluea to the whereabouts of Joseph Tabone.Funeral services for Theodore Harns, the victim of the slayer, will he held at the home of his parent*. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harn* Klm-wood Avenue Kxt«ru!on. Falconer, tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at ] o'clock.Police yesterday were told by acquaintances of Tabone that Tabone had a relative In Pennsylvania who several years ago murdered three or four persons and then took up an armed position In a barn, where he held the authorities at bay until they were able to set fire to ttm place. When the man came out, still fighting, he via* killed by offi• era, according to the stories told the police.Further search ha* failed io reveal any tralt;e of the knife with which young Hums was killed. The wounds In his body Indicated that it was a medium aiscd Jack knife which caused his death and it I* thought that Tabone folded that up and took it along with him.1-ate Monday night rumors were numerous that thete was a secret compartment sor.rewhere In Tabone'* grocery store or the home on the second floor of the eanta building. Police made a close march of the entire structure, but could find no such hiding place. To set at rest the rumor. Captain Edward M. Nyholm hnd a tear ga* lomb fired within the place. No• rlt;» tame out and no one could me remained after the bomb hadc xidoded.A crowd of about 199 persons had gathered and there were numerous expressions of anger and the words lynch him'1 were even heard. Before the bomb was set off fuptaln Nyholm ordered all spectator* across the street so the police would have an opportunity to k*»ep the crowd from getting at Tabone In the event that ho did lt;lt;m»‘ out. At soon as it was s«*rn that th* tear gas had driven out no one, the i rowd dispersed.It is thought that Tabone, wherever h# may In*. is armed. Several revolver shells were found m a dresser drawer in his home and the police think that if he had -hells around he undoubtedly had a gun.Young Harns waa killed when he was pulled out of a standing automobile in West Fifteenth Ktrert on Monday afternoon. Ills father and Harry lloldsworth, lt;S West Kif-icenth Street, saw the stabbing Tabone then went to hia store for i moment and disapepared. Young Warns died In the city ambulance -n the way to Jamestown General Hospital.Mrs. Joseph Tabone, wife of thH an who is sought, is still held ail uadquarters a* a material wljf ess. Police have been told that fm Saturday, March sth. she said tm is going to heat up Harns for,Bs i ocery bill and that If she dtjVt o It her husband would * him.”She is mum about the hlng and doesn’t talk to theaout It.Sought in MurderJOSEPH TABONEWashington Street grocer who is alleged to have stabbed and killed Theodore Hams. 19 years old, R. F. I). 1, Falconer, on Monday afternoon, because Harns had not paid him a $5 grocery bill. Police are making a determined search for him. He ia 45 years old, weighs 190 pound*, has straight black hair and walks with a slightly peculiar !■»».
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Jamestown Morning Post
Jamestown, New York, US
Wed, Mar 12, 1930
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