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Detectives Bringing Him North to Meet Indictment—Latimer Case Gossip. A member of a private detective agency in Philadelphia visited Captain Reynolds of the local detective bureau the other day with a notion that he had a possible clue to the Latimer murder mystery. The result of the visit was that Detective John F. Brady and Detective Butler of the District Attorney’s office in Queens, who is also a member of Reynolds’ staff, arrested Dominico Ricco, alias Michael Rose, on the receiving ship Franklin, at Northport, Va., on a bench war rant from Queens. Ricco is not wanted for the Latimer case, it appears, but he is under indictment for certain burglaries committed in Queens County and alsoin connection with the cases of Clare, Blackman and Thompson, who were captured after the Sher idan murder in Long Island City. The police had been looking for Ricco for some time and they are glad to get him. His arrest was brought about in a curious way. When the chase for him became warm he en listed in the Navy at Philadelphia and was for a short time on the receiving ship Min neapolis in that city. While there he re ceived a letter from some friend in New York, a letter warning him that his friends the police were not looking for him or did not suspect that he had enlisted. The friend from New York had inclosed in the envelope with his letter two clippings from local news papers, one giving any account of the then proceeding investigation into the Latimer murder mystery and the story of the mur der of Detective Sheridan by thieves in Long Island City. Ricco, who was enlisted as Rose, carelessly dropped his Jetter and the clippings on the main deck of the Minneapolis one day and an inquisitive shipmate picked it up. The ship mate had dealings with a Philadelphia de tective agency and he carried the letter and its inclosures to one of the members of the firm. The detective was mightily interested in the letter and believed that it was his duty to communicate at once with Captain Rey nolds on the subject. That was in July last, for the letter was dated July 25, but the Phil adelphia detective was in no hurry, and waited until business would bring him to Brooklyn before he saw the captain. He came to Brooklyn one day last week and turned the matter over to Reynolds. He had been looking into the case in Philadelphia but had learned there that Rose had been trans ferred to some other receiving ship. Captain Reynolds decided to make an in vestigation at the Navy Yard here and he found that no person named Rose was on the receiving ship Columbia. He did get word, though, that there was an enlisted man of the name on the. Franklin, at Northport, Va., and on Saturday Detective Sergeants Brady and Butler, with a person who knew Ricco, and armed with a bench warrant for the man, went to Northport. The detectives and their prisoner will reach Brooklyn, it is expected, some time tonight. Then Ricco will be taken direct to Long Island City, where he has been indicted. Captain Reynolds is now satisfied that Ricco had nothing to do with the Latimer murder, but it is possible that when the man gets here he may be able to tell something which may throw some light on the case. Brady is one of the detectives who was most actively employed on the Latimer case and that is the reason that Reynolds chose him for the duty of making the arrest in Northport. (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City, L. I., October 27—Dom nick Ricco, the missing member of the Buck ley street gang, disappeared shortly after the murder of Detective John J. Sheridan, who was shot on Henry street on the morn ing of July 16 last. When the Buckley street gang was located and captured Ricco dis appeared. Charles Blackham, a member of the gang, turned state’s evidence. He de clared that Ricco shot Detective Sheridan. According to Blackham, other members of the gang and himself were returning to the Buckley street house about 3 o’clock on the morning of July 16 and they found Ricco on the stoop. He covered them with his re volver until he was sure who they were, says Blackham, and then he excitedly asked if they had noticed any trouble down Jackson avenue. When informed they had not, Blackham declares, Ricco told how he had shot a man on Henry street, near the corner of Jackson avenue. Michael Carr and Frank Donnelly, two youths, residing in Dutch hills, are under an indictment charging them with murder in the first degree, alleging that they killed Sheridan. Their trial has been set down for tomorrow before Justice Gaynor. The date was selected two weeks ago and an extra panel of jurors drawn and all the witnesses suboenaed. There are police officials in this city who have claimed all along that Ricco and his pals killed Sheridan, and not Carr and Don nelly. This information, while it has not been kept a close secret, was guarded suffi ciently to prevent the grounds on which it was based from becoming public. The ac tivity of the police in running down Ricco indicates that he is wanted for something more serious than burglary. The evidence against Carr and Donnelly is purely circumstantial. No one, it is as serted, saw the detective shot down. Two witnesses have declared they heard the shots and identified as Carr a young man they saw running through Henry street. District Attorney Merritt knows of the capture of Ricco and is thoroughly familiar with the reasons for connecting him with the murder. When asked this morning if he would postpone the trial until Ricco could be brought here Mr. Merritt said: “I have not decided yet what will be done. I have given the matter a great deal of thought since learning of Ricco's capture.”
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Mon, Oct 27, 1902
Page 18
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