Show q POLICE SAY THEY HAVE REVOLVER Also Declare They Have Evidence That He Pur Purchased Purchased Purchased chased it ata at a Second Hand Store i iI I Peculiar ar Circumstances Cir Under Which Weapon Was Found Dealer to Confront C the Accused Mans Man MansI II I II IC I I i I OF POLICE HILTON and his Mv III men have bave Do eIon of what Is be believed beLI CHIEF C LI to b be the feet Mt t element elet necessary ury to clear up the my of James JamesR JamesB I R B Hays murder on Oft oi Monday MoMy Right Night t of ot last t week It Is the weapon with arnica Ha Hay Is 25 believed to have hae been shot shet t down The revolver is of and was manufactured by Hopkins a Allen It has bu ba been beon traced to the sec sac secondhand store where It was bought by a II man mau answering the description of ot Peter not long before the murder I While bile the sheriff Bb and ud his hI men nien have bae been searching HUch in every direction for forthe forthe forthe the weapon with the was wag committed Chief Hilton has had De Dc Detective teethe Edward Davies following a II clue direct cUr ct yet for a II time seemingly hope hopeless less lea After Alter varied experiences ence and disappointments the clue due resulted in the recovery of the revolver hurt Ja t Today or tomorrow the man who wh h o 0 M it will Trill confront Peter Morten Mortea ten hen n and tell teU whether or not he is the Ute purchaser er IS SUR Hilton H ton when seen Hell at st his ho he me at midnight ht affected surprise e that the discovery of the revolver had Ud become known and Ad natty flatly refused to die dis discuss cuss i F Despite his hia refusal refu al to throw any light on the situation it is 18 a II known tact fact that thaL the police pollee have been In close eloe touch with every move that has been made at the Morten home and every incident t that has haa occurred there It i 1 he known that on Sunday moral mond ng DC a Up was received that a II search i under the floor of orten eus ira bare would reveal something of interest Of Officer Officer fleer Davies viea and a companion slipped out to tit the Ute spot and made a secret search of the th premises They found ev cv that the lour 10 Icu 1 had been recent 4 t V ly disturbed but bt no trace of or the weapon Well k At that tha t moment the revolver to which so BO much nuch importance is attached was In hi the possession of a youth living IvIn aar t Thirteenth South and State streets Be He had found it the Ute previous day d dya a week ago yesterday almost bled bied in the mud at that corner cor er For a week the officers searched the th entire UN neighborhood in the hope hop of or 7 finding some trace of the weapon which they bad had almost positive po m vas Was taken from under the barn floor on Saturday Sat THE PISTOL Last Lut night when th quest seemed almost hopeless Iesi Davies heard of uC the theia ia the youth had maae made tar far out on State sUet street He had cleaned up the re reviver reVolver viver Volver removed the mud that stopped Hopped up the chambers and had bad used it for fO target practice Many had bed known mown of this thIe tb yet et no JO one thought to notify the thelke theA police A desperate rIe search was begun and before many hour boars had elapsed the revolver was waz in t the e possession po of the U authorities The T e hour was so late ate when it was trac I to the store where It was purchased that if tte te proprietor refused to venture vent r forth to attempt to identify Some circumstance the details of 01 which are unknown caused him to pay particular attention to the purchaser of the t e weapon and without a moments hesitation he gave the description of on oils corresponding corre in every way with the tho accused man manWILL manWILL manWILL WILL The details of or the conversation conver that th at characterised the transaction the e paid and the description of the purchaser er have convinced the police that hut I they have bave the right weapon and the right man mD in custody Before any further work ork is done toward A completing the trench tren h to drain the pond near nearH tr H t grave gra e where the sheriffs force is II searching for t tl weapon the second li nd merchant who sold the revolver G discovered ed lest Kurt night will be he faken taken to Confront The police entertain a theory in connection with the removal of the re reoler reoler revolver oler volver which if 1 substantiated will make nake trouble for a very close clo e friend of the accused man They maintain that the murderer of James ames Hay concealed the weapon about bout premises temporarily little thinking that th thi the i body would be discovered for months month possibly J never When the discovery of elf the body of the missing man came cam and the train of unexpected ted develop developments developments developments ments followed in rapid succession uc it became 1 a source Huret eu of worry that the re reoh reoh oh er r rested rated sted where it was so likely to be found PISTOL DL OF OP I The day before the tip was w given the police to search the premises some or en deeply interested that the th weapon should not be found took it from its hiding place jumped on a car er rode rude liar fiur out tSie r ie street and thing flung it into the mul where it was not likely lI JJ to Iff ts found and where wh re It would not direct further lurther suspicion toward M premises p While it I t has nOt been e substantiated it is 1 believed that tile l M c this friend of Mort to set tote th bun III alone unknown wn Catcher I to notify the police The word ws s t t too Iet let and while 1 h v searched the revolver r i ol er was wa already In ra the hands rends of an innocent party rt p h atta nei no significance to the find beyond marveling that so good a r should be lost or thrown away The weapon corresponds in ift calibre to the bullet that ended James Jamsa Hays Ha s life and to the cartridge found f und under culvert only a a 3 few feet away a va from the barn w v the police searched in vain and where the sheriff ched without result sever ceTera v S later OFFICER DAVIES IS POSITIVE Of Ot leer Ed Davies when seen at his hig home at a late hour last night stated that he had every reason to believe beHee belle that the gun which was found had bd been een hidden first on en place then moved by some one who has been assisting Morten n to get rM rid of or evidence against him i l lWe We were given a Up tip from a reliable source said the officer several days ago age that the gun had been en under the floor or of barn barB Last Sund Sundy y Officer Sperry and myself elf went ve t to the place and aDd made a search aH of the barn floor believing firmly that tha t we would find And the gun there We f found that the weapon hail had been moved d from the place where we had heel reason to believe it had been and we have ve reason rea which Jeb w I do not care rare to mention now to belee that some one tOM was wan Induced Indu ed to get that gun away from there thereto to preclude toe the possibility p of It I its being found t f on that place We feel conO con t that the tile gun is ii the t he property of or en and we ex et expect within a short ort time to have ban it identified positively AH AN ALIBI MAY BE THE DEFENSE OF Peter Mx spent a t day 7 in hi inthe hithe I Ithe the county jail jan yesterday He l had d few rw w visitors and incidents tati to 10 dis disturb dI him we wee v few indeed CIs iz de demeanor demeanor meanor nicanor was quiet and reserved yet hopeful He baa haa ha not nt n t yet learned lerned that the man he sought BOucht to have come to his uis relief by falsely swearing he had hM j jI 1 I him hint money to pay jy the debt Hay Haw had come to collect had told a at J and aIM I I lawn the evidence more tightly o a t S Jua lii wa i ij j Two friends and neighbors both wo woi woJ i J ii en called upon the prisoner and ang chatted with ith him pIe antl on com corn commonplace commonplace subjects that seemed teemed to af at afford afford atford ford him cheer But his closer friends rind end his hi lawyer failed to present an ap appearance and time dragged heavily on the hands cf t r the accused man s legal counsel is in no hurry to what his defense will wilt willbe be b flor or the he reason it is generally be believed believed believed that the defense is w awaiting the Ute discovery of or what facts the prosecution Is in possession pos ff cf f A rumor was us cur current current current rent yesterday r on a word or orto orS S two to that leaked Jut ut at Forest Date Dale le and trifling Incidents incident that t point in the thed same direction d I that UA effort wilt will he be made to sift gift r for the crime by DRAINING POND IN INI SEARCH FOR PISTOL I With lusty blows blo seven Beven men at en attacked attacked tacked the hard earth of the huge base corn com common mon where James R Hay was wa burled buried r yesterday and by nightfall had nad com corn j something like feet teet of the I trench necessary to drain tiie ie t e slough where some officials have ba e bt the revolver that killed Hay was Wf thrust deep in the mire When he hp work we HIS p there still remained twice as much more to be tie done before both buth bothi i b o the tue swamp amp could be r i drained The Hie ItCh was vas dug under un er the dir c X 1 ns ins 01 County Surveyor Fox Pox no it off oft along a line Une that thet had hadn hadi i been n the course of a brook p ten li lal f from the arm of or the slough al ugh to Fifth East street watched I the work and it wa at a generally rn i 1 die tod that the swamp swami nIll not J e Hot troi I It t lY drained before bf f re Wednesday if it i ithen i then L It wi Wil was also aso believed that LUt tangible will be bo discoverer dl or orthe orthe orthe who hoi hov Hay flay i iwas the rea ream n that tha t the man was E n t likely ly to tl discard his hla hi weapon at that thai time and run tte the risk of o en 1 rig some one ont who I L might 1 o r hint him at his butchery butcho ry or oron oron on hi his d fc rm i J proving provine an alibi aUbi Mrs Henry Morten sen is regarded as the beet witness for forthe forthe forthe the defense in that direction Morten lorten san BUt and hit hie hi were and are very devoted friends The latter is un under under under der the ban baji ot o silence all now concerning how ow muck muc time spent at her home on the night of af the murder At the of arrest his declared declare that when he h ac accompanied acC companied C d her home he only remained long enough to strike a light It is isnow isnow now said 14 that she las fas had bad time to re reconsider reconsider consider the statement tatem nt and that when the nuN ease comes cornea to trial Mrs Henry HenryM M will be n important factor in proving an alibi if It she goes on the witness stand at all aU aUThe The various officials engaged in in investigating ve and prosecuting the case casere re ie inclined to discount the probability of an alibi being proven or attempted They say the statements made by Mor his wife and Mrs Henry Mor immediately following the ar arrest arrest arrest rest of the Ute former are of such a char character character acter aeter that not one of the three is like likely likely ly Jy to attempt to testify for the defense Stenographic Steno reports of their state tate statements ments menta were obtained at the time and andare are ate being beina preserved in anticipation of Just such an emergency MRS HAY QUITS HER HOME AT FOREST DALE The Tb darkness that has fallen upon U BaY Hay home hoite since the fateful night f tD Dee et 16 18 i when James R Hay Hs walked from troI it to hi his death will continue until untila a new tenant te nt occupies the premises Mrs 1 Hay Ha has declared she will never live Uve there again in amid the surroundings that recall the happy hours spent there therewith therewith with Ith her husband and the environment environ ent that suggests tB the story of his dt dl th Nearly every room has hu a window i t mt commands a view of the home and from fro the front frent windows the thede desolate de field where here James Hay was wu burled may be seen The last of the Hay household effects have haft been moved away and yesterday Frank Kruse the owner of the prem premises lees IMI h a conference with the widow and released her from a lease signed only last Jast summer Tomorrow the property will either be sold old or leased Jea to a new tenant as 8 it is a de desirable corner and Mr Kruse has bad had bada hada a II number of otters offers for tor it ft Mrs Kr Hays Hay property has been re removed r removed moved to the home of her father and he her sister Bister al tr said Mr Kruse Kroe yesterday The family told me they never neve occupy cupy the premises premise pr that so 80 strongly on 00 Page 10 P ji 0 J 0 POLICE SAY THEY HAVE REVOLVER Continued from Page Pago 9 It brought to mind the tragedy that has bas blighted their lives I thought Mrs Hay was right in leaving the neighborhood She te Is looking somewhat better than she did but is 18 still suffering terribly from the shock It is apparent that she wil never be the same woman again Things begin to look very dark for tor Peter but any one who w looks for tor a confession from him dont know the man they are dealing with After James Jame Hays body had been re removed removed removed moved from the Improvised grave grate in which it was found a number of oC neigh nOigh neighbors neighbors bors bore carried it to the awaiting patrol wagon A fence prevented the patrol from reaching the scene When we reached that fence Some ome circumstance caused the others to stand aside a and and I t itt ted td I the body h over We were allIa a tram trem ep I looked at then tIlen and wondered that he could stand the thing as he be did di I 1 had bad no idea then that would soon stand for formally formally formally mally accused of causing Hays death Any man who could look upon his dead neighbor nei hoor with the coolness he exhibit exhibited ed help to exhume him and carry him hint from trove the grave is not going to be frightened coaxed or cajoled Into makIng mak making ing lag any a y confession |