Three Suspects Arrested

Philadelphia Inquirer, December 11, 1893

Three Suspects Arrested, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 11, 1893
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 11, 1893
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THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED. Third District Police Think They Have the Murderer of Baker William Kairer. Three more arrests of suspects in connection with the Kairer murder have been made. The Camden police picked up one of the men and the Philadelphia police the other two. One of the latter so closely corresponds with the description of the colored man who tried to pawn the victim's watch that the Third district officers think they have the murderer. Their prisoner gives the name of George Harris and his residence as 604 Barclay street. He was arrested yesterday morning in the cellar of the house 619 Barclay street by Sergeant Woods and Special Carey, of the Third district. Lieutenant Smith, of the Camden force, was sent for, and, after looking at Harris, said he resembled more closely the supposed murderer than any of the suspects yet arrested. The fact that Harris shaved off his side whiskers yesterday morning also strengthens the suspicion that he is the man who shot down Baker Kairer. Pawnbroker Silberstein's clerk was out of town yesterday, but will be taken to the station house to-day to see if he can identity [sic] Harris as the man who pawned Kairer's watch. Harris claims not to have been in Camden for the past eighteen months. The other suspect arrested by the Philadelphia police was lodged at the Central Station. Detective Gallagher and Lieutenant Smith, of Camden, last evening looked at him and said they not [sic] think he was the right man. He is held as a pickpocket. Officer Richardson, of the Camden force, picked up a colored man last night on suspicion of being the murderer. The prisoner gave the name of Henry Hansom, laborer, of Sycamore street, above Seventh. He is younger and not so heavily built as the supposed murderer, and will probably be released to-day.
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