New Jersey, S-Z, 1867-1994, Undated

Switchboard operators Eleanor Barthelmess and Judy Maczulak
found their switchboard useless when they freed thomsolves

force—both men and women—
‘locked the doors with furniture,
ing a huge refrigerator which
ned across both doorways. They
apparently had headed into the
r’s cage and rifled the open safe
funds, finally ripping wires from
titchboard. a

atic employes. soon pounded
vay free and rigged a quick phone
ction to call the police. The
‘s had failed to keep their faces
1 beneath their cap visors. Several
: office employes were sure they
identify the men if they gained a
ook at them.

1 the robbery and the getaway

two-door Mercury that
seen in so many places

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had shown careful timing. What had
upset the calculations of the bandits
‘was their unexpected meeting with
Sergeant Bond. How and why he had
come upon them the officers tried to re-
construct from the tracks and foot-
prints in the mud.

As Teufel figured it, Sergeant Bond
probably had pulled into the dairy yard
on a routine visit and had spotted one
or two of the bandits as they were leav-
ing. They, in turn, must have seen
Bond, too, For foot-prints showed that
one man had hidden in a shed. Bond
had gone after the others. From be-
hind him, the third man had fired.

. The point-blank shots had felled

Bond. Someone then had yanked his
revolver from its holster and clubbed
the dying sergeant to make sure he did
not follow them. This was determined
from the official autopsy report made
by Doctor George W. Horre, which
showed that one bullet had entered the
victim’s chest from the back, penetrat-
ing both lungs, while the other had
struck his right thigh. Bond’s head
showed severe lacerations which to all
appearances had been caused by blows
from a revolver,

“Clint never had a chance,” declared
Teufel grimly. “They shot him be-
fore he could get his gun out of the
holster. Then they ripped it out and
hit him.”

BoND's patrol car was taken to Head-
quarters and gone over thoroughly
for any clues. No traces of blood were
found in it, which substantiated the
theory that he had left it before meet:
ing his killers and also indicated that
none of his assailants had been wounded
during the struggle. A few finger-prints
were photographed and blown up to see
if they could be used. :

Similarly, desks, furniture, the big
refrigerator and the safe in the dairy
office were dusted for prints. None was

found. The office floor was swept, even _

cigaret stubs were picked up. During ~

this process the investigators came
upon their one bit of evidence.

It was a gray leather button from a
man’s overcoat, found in a corner
from which the bandits had hauled a
desk, a spot well away from the office
coat room. A rapid inquiry proved

that none of the employes owned a coat

with buttons of that type.
“One of the stickups was wearing a
gray tweed overcoat,'’ declared Teufel.

button.”

“If he doesn’t know he lost it,” added
Lombardi, “it'll finger him. We can
sure use that button.”

Five minutes later they had a chance
to use it.

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Three guns found in the third
state by officers of two cities

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“It was on account of Louise—" He let
out a yelp and whirled to run away.

Cribbs caught him by the arm, gent-
ly but firmly. Willie Ray squirmed
helplessly in his grasp. “Lemme go!”
he cried. “Mama tole me to keep my
mouth shut!”

Kindly, Cribbs said, “Son, I'm your
friend. I want to help you. But I can’t
do it unless you tell me the truth about
what happened to Bennie.”

ane. according to Cribbs, the boy

did.
Taken to Dyersburg, the youth signed
a statement in which he said that his
mother killed Bennie Halliburton and
burned his body in the open grate in
their living-room, Cribbs announced.
On the night Halliburton reportedly

vanished, Cribbs claimed, Willie Ray-

said he awoke to see Bennie, his face
and head covered with blood, lying
gasping on the floor. He watched in

horror, he allegedly declared, while his
mother rolled the body into the fire and
piled wood on top of it,

“Mama got the fire started and told
me to go get a can of coal oil,” the
statement attributed to him continued.
“Then she told me I could go to bed
again ...I heard the fire popping and
heard some funny noises . . . so I cov-
ered up my head and went to sleep.
The next morning . . . we. had a good
breakfast and Mama told us we knew
how he had treated us, how mean he
was to us. We went on to the fields...”

Sheriff Norvell had just returned
from giving blood at the local blood
bank when Cribbs informed him by
telephone of Willie Ray’s electrifying
statement. Within an hour, Mildred
Kidd and her daughter, Louise, had
been picked up and hustled off to the
Sheriff's office.

There, according to the Sheriff,

Louise, her dark, brooding eyes staring
straight ahead, told how Halliburton
had mistreated her. Her mother, she
said, had learned of it and numerous
arguments had followed.

“I saw Mama hit him with the poker
iron,” Norvell quoted the girl as saying.
“Then I saw Mama roll him in the fire-
place. The next time I saw Bennie he
was burning up. The next morning
Mama told me not to say nothing
about it.”

Mildred Kidd expressed no emotion
when she heard the statements read to
her. “I had t’do it,” she said tonelessly,
according to the Sheriff. “We argued
and I told him I was goin’ to have him
arrested for what he'd been doin’ to

Louise. He got his knife out and said he |

was goin’ to cut my throat. I hit him
with the poker iron. I hit him again.
I let him lay there and in a little while
he was dead.”

According to Norvell she admitted
burning the body in an effort to hide her
crime. “I sat there in a chair all night,
and every time the fire died down, I'd
throw another log on him,” she allegedly
dictated.

Shortly after daybreak, she report- .
edly said, she scrubbed the blood from
the floor and scattered Bennie Halli-
burton in a ditch at the side of the road.

“That’s all,” she finished.

Neither the poker nor Halliburton’s
knife has ever been recovered. .

Indicted by a Lauderdale County
grand jury during January, 1954, Mil-
dred Kidd is, at this writing, being held
without bond for further legal action.

To protect. the identities of persons
innocently brought into this investiga-
tion, the names Billy Batson, Josephine
Stetson and Tom Glasgow in this story
are fictitious.

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"Sergeant Bond, Come In... ."" (Continued trom Page 33) OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES

Not far from the town of Union

Beach, more than 20 miles south, Officer
Nagel was cruising slowly along High-
way No. 35, listening to his squawking
radio, watching for the gray Mercury
and wondering if ever he’d spot one of
these badly wanted cars. He swung
around a curve and there, in front of
him, was the answer.

The Mercury itself. A 1949 model,
gray, two-door sedan, and through the
back window Nagel could see clearly
four men in it, two in the front seat,
two in the back.

He grabbed for the microphone of his
radio set.

Not far behind him State Patrolman
Itchmoney was roaring along the high-
way. By sheer luck he had swung east
onto Highway No. 35 when the Garden
State Parkway forked, and he was
pressing his luck, hoping against hope
that he could catch up with these men

» before they left a main road and dis-

appeared. Mile after mile had gone by
without a sign of them, and Itchmoney
was about to give up when the magic
word burst from his loudspeaker.

Itchmoney, too, grabbed the micro-
phone.

With two separate police broadcast-
ing wave lengths in operation, he and
Nagel laid their trap. Four men were
in the car, and possibly they were
armed; police authorities were not go-

ing to allow one patrolman to face’

them alone. é

“Can this officer get in front of them
without scaring them off?” Itchmoney
asked into his microphone.

The relays went into action and soon
Nagel replied, “Tell him sure, I think
so. ”

‘And he did, swinging casually around ~’

the suspect car, passing it, staying well

in front for more miles. Until Itch- -

money came roaring along from the
rear, bearing down on them, catching
up to the gray Mercury, drawing abreast
as if he were about to pass it, too.

He didn’t, though. He stayed abreast
of that car. And in front, Nagel slowed

down abruptly. They had the gray ©

Mercury pinned in, Itchmoney on its
left, Nagel in front, and they slowed
= stopped, forcing it to slow and stop,

Carefully, of course, and cautiously.
For they were only two against four;
both of the officers had to divide atten-
tion between the Mercury and their own
cars whereas three of the others were
completely free. Itchmoney drove with
his left hand, his gun in his right; Nagel
kept his gaze on the rear-view mirror,
ready to duck, swing out, slap on the
brakes, whatever might be indicated.

Nothing was. The three cars

stopped; Nagel swung around in his car ~

and covered the four men while Itch-
money got out on the opposite side of
the road. They ordered the four into
the roadway while they were protected
by their own cars, and the men com-
plied, holding their hands high in the
air. oi,*

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. The men were unarmed, a fast search
revealed. No guns were immediately
in sight in the Mercury. No great
amount of money, either, loot from a
robbery.

The driver of the car produced li-
cense and ownership certificates, iden-
tifying him as Tom Rydal of Union,
New Jersey. Each of the three others
readily identified himself.

They were just driving around, Rydal
said, and they’d thought they'd take a
trip to the shore and see if their vaca-
tion fishing spots were lined up for
the Summer. At noon they’d been in
Union, riding around aimlessly. No, no
one had seen them; no one could sub-
stantiate their story.

It didn’t ring true. The guns and
the loot might be hidden by this time.
=a went for his microphone
again.

BY RELAYED broadcast and telephone
the news reached Acting Chief Teu-
fel, still in the dairy office in Union.

“Four men?” he asked excitedly. “In
& gray Mercury? Maybe the fourth was
the getaway driver. Look, find out if
one of them is wearing a gray tweed
overcoat.” i;

One of them had a gray overcoat all
right, although not tweed.

“Does it have leather buttons?”

No, the answer came. It didn’t. The
buttons were black and ordinary. And
none was missing.

But it still looked good to Chief Teu-
fel. That torn button might have been
dropped by some legitimate visitor to
the dairy, perhaps even a day or two
before. No one could be sure.

“Hold them,” he said into the phone.
“We'll get a couple witnesses there as
fast as we can; that'll prove things one
way or the other.” eae

‘As soon as they could arrange it, two
witnesses left Union with Captain Her-
bert Trube.. The case might be over.

But, also, it might not be. Teufel
and Edighoffer were too experienced to
pin all their hopes on this one chance.
Gradually, as the news of the slaying
spread over the entire town, they sum-
moned the top brains of their depart-
ment and the county offices—Captains
Trube, Alex Gourley and Harold Bond
and Sergeant Josevh Kitchell of the city
police as well as Spies and Reiss: De-
tective Chief Lombardi of Union
County, Prosecutor H.. Russell Morss,
Junior.

“Either this was an inside job or it

. was pretty well cased,” Teufel told the

detectives. “Let’s get busy on that

angle. And let’s see what rumbles we

= pick up from the informers around
ere.”

Thus, the detectives went to work.
Some of them were to question every
dairy employe closely, particularly
those who had been off duty, and learn
if anyone answering the vague descrip-
tions of the bandits had been seen
arourd the farm lately. Others were
to go over the list of employes, past

and present, and learn which if any
had criminal] records or criminal asso-
ciates or tendencies that might lead to
a crime of this sort.

And still others had the most diffi-
cult job of all—to see what could be
learned from underworld informers.
This is difficult because northern New
Jersey is a complicated web of cities,
interlocking, one running into another,
and each city has its own police de-
partment. Criminals step aeross the
borders freely but police may not; they
are limited to their own jurisdiction. °

Thus, to tap the underworld effi-
ciently, police of one city must rely on
the departments of a} the others. They
must visit each one, talk to certain de-
tectives in each one, correlate their in-
formation. It takes time—and the fact
that it works frequently illustrates the
tremendous cooperation these different
Police departments give each other.

Reutine steps also had to be taken—
the witnesses to go ovér the Rogues’
Gallery pictures, the entire story of the
double crime to click out on teletypes
for police departments throughout the
East in the hopes that something might
strike a.responsive chord. And the tele-
phoned tips and rumors and sugges-
tions coming in from the general
public to be sorted out and investigated.

Sergeant Bond was well known to the
people in Union. He had been a high-
school football star and shortly after
he was sworn in as an officer he had
rounded up a gang of bandits single-
handed. Married, he was the father
of two boys, one of them just a baby,
the other thirteen. His death surely
would arouse a great deal of clamor in
the city. - His killers would have to be
captured. ;

Were they already?

While Teufel and Edighoffer and the
others were awaiting word from Union
Beach one of their other lines brought
an answer. The chief in Asbury Park,
New Jersey, a resort town on the ocean,
had read the teletyped report and asked
Teufel to phone.

On January 13, he said whén Teufel
reached him, three men had held un
the Twin-Boro Savings and Loan Asso-
ciation in Eatontown, near Asbury
Park. They had escaped in a gray, 1949,
two-door Mercury. Then, a few weeks
later, three men had hit the Shepard
Savings and Loan Association in East
Orange and again the gray Mercury,
this time with a fourth man as the
driver, had served as the vehicle of
flight.

“It sounds like the gang you're after,”
the Asbury Park Chief, Fred Lembke,
said. “And if it is, I think we have a
line on them.”

Three men had been spotted slipping
into and out of a Summer cottage near
Asbury Park recently, driving off in the
early evening in a gray Mercury and
returning in the gray hours of the
next morning. No one knew them, no
~ — what if anything they did for
a living.

“They’re not around right now,”
Lembke declared. “We have the cot-
tage staked out and if they show up
we'll nab them. I'll let you know.”

Late that afternoon the witnesses in
the Tuscan holdup reached Freehold,
the county seat of Monmouth County,
where Rydal and his companions had
been taken. A line-up was arranged—

“and soon Captain Trube was telephon-

ing Teufel in Union. : '

“No soap,” he reported. “The wit-
nesses are positive. These four men
are not involved in any way.”

Furthermore, he added, they had
been able to produce a number of
reliable character witnesses. None of
them could have been involved in. any-
thing criminal.

Nov: unless the lead from Asbury
Park should develop, the case
would become one of dogged, deter-
mined plodding. Saperstein, Altman
and others were digging through the
Rogues’ Gallery pictures; detectives
were canvassing the vicinity of the
dairy; others were looking through
personnel records and comparing them
with the police files. :

Evening came and the tired witnesses
went home to rest.

Then came a phone call from Detec-
tive Captain August F. Winkleman, of
Elizabeth, New Jersey.

“Look,” Winkleman said, “we may
have something for you. It’s a tip from
an informer.”

Twice within the past month safes
in the mammoth Waverly Terminal
had been opened in Elizabeth, Winkle-
man said. As a result his men had
questioned an ex-convict, a character
with a record for safecracking, and
then released him when they could not
dig up enough evidence.

“Y’m clean,” the ex-con had told the
Elizabeth detectives. “But I'll tell ya
somethin’—there’s a big, two-story
house on Trumbull Street, near the
Turnpike bridge, ya ought’a keep your
eye on.”

So, Winkleman declared, his detec-
se had kept an eye on that particular

use.

“We've found out that a gang of
about six or eight men get together
there two, three times a week,” the
Elizabeth Captain said to Prosecutor
Morss. “We don’t know what they're
up to. But here’s the tie-in—one of
‘em drives a gray, two-door Mercury.
He might be one of your boys. We're
going to hit the joint tonight. Do you
want to come along?” -

Morss did. This was the slimmest of
their leads so far. Unquestionably a
thousand gray cars of this make were
parked in front of more than a thousand
homes in the Elizabeth-Union-Newark-
Jersey City area, homes in which men
might gather two or three nights a week
for perfectly legitimate reasons.

But the information from the ex-
convict gave this one particular sig-
nificance. Prosecutor Morss and

y Detective Frank Englehart
to Elizabeth where they met

eth Detectives Alex Rutkowski

heater Matiunas,

us could be the night to hit that

* Matiunas declared. “I was on

ake-out there a couple hours ago

t least six men went in. They're

nside.”

ee about the gray Mercury,”

asked.
the Elizabeth detectives couldn’t
there. It hadn’t shown up that

ie guy who drives it is pretty

' Rutkowski declared. “He parks

she dark, up the street from our

out. So far we haven’t been able
the license number.”

% drove out to Trumbull Street
d slowly, silently approached the
on foot. Half of them went in
vack door, half in the front,
aneously, up two flights of stairs
hen, still simultaneously, they
:d both rear and front doors.
vy cigaret smoke filled the place;
beer bottles were piled in a
*; on a sofa were the coats and
and jackets of eight different
And sitting around a dining-room
were those eight men, plus one
the host, with poker chips and
and money scattered all over the
sop.
vas a poker flat, that was all.
of the men was armed, only a few

light topcoats and they couldn’t ©

ly answer the descriptions of the
s, no matter how vague those
otions might be.
ough that night the investigators
oned the men and'in the morning
or line-up was arranged and again
tnesses looked at a group of men
sain they shook their heads. The
bandits were not among these.
wderly conduct charges, were
it against them and Morss ques-
each one closely on one more
What man who appeared oc-
ally for these poker games drove
* Mercury?
y answered variously and incom-
’, A fellow named Al, they said.
guy, inoffensive, short, mild; he
store of some sort in one of
tiés around there, no one knew
there. Just once in awhile he’d
ip for a game, lose a little money
rop out.
10 way did he sound like a man
ould be involved in a desperate
And the connection was too
1s, too thin to follow now—a man
3 @ gray Mercury, who played
Hundreds of men drive gray
f this make and play poker in
Jersey. They couldn’t follow each
very one to a bitter end.
so another lead vanished. Later
same morning, Saturday, Feb-
13, a third one did, too. Asbury
police had picked up the three
‘lous men and questioned them
‘eleased them. Their peculiar
were due to the fact that they
i at night; they were involved
hing extralegal whatsoever.
e more as the day slipped by
s’ Gallery photographs were
it out, and detectives dipped
’ into the personnel records of
uiry, going back further.
a, into the Elizabeth Police Head-
rs came a telephone call for
ive Rutkowski.
u kicked it around,” the caller
im. It was the ex-convict who
nt them to the house on Trum-
weet. “You sure muffed that one
you let Al get away.”
10 is Al?” Rutkowski asked.
unno his full name. Why don’t
‘k Marge Rendol?”

nan would say nothing further—
1 Rutkowski had another mys-
Who was Marge Rendol? And
as Al? If he spent hours on this
nebulous hint, would it lead to
ng? Rutkowski didn’t know how
e this informant was and how
fact, if any, he had to back up
y% But he decided he couldn’t
it.

ge Rendol, he discovered by close

questioning of the poker players, was
a girl several of them knew. Lately
she had been going out with Al. From
her, the detective realized, he should
be able to get more information about
this mysterious Al and either cross him
off the list completely or tie him in with
one of the crimes under investigation—
the safecracking, the two robberies of
loan companies, the robbery and kill-
ing at the dairy in Union.

But where was Marge Rendol?

Afternoon waned and the dark
shadows of an early Winter evening
were spreading over North Jersey when
Captain Gourley entered the office of
Acting Chief of Police Teufel in Union.

“We got something from the per-
sonnel records finally,” he told Teufel.
“A fellow who worked for the dairy

two years. or so ago and has a record. .

He’s been picked up twice on robbery
charges.” -
“What's his name?” Teufel asked.
“Wise, Albert Wise.”
And approximately at the same time,
Detective Rutkowski was sitting down

In Elizabeth and Union, detectives
set out to learn just who those relatives
might be, and where, and anything else
they could learn about Al Wise.

They discovered that he had a
brother, Harry, who'd also been in-
vestigated in connection with a robbery
as well as a shooting in a tavern, Al's
legitimate occupation was owner of a
small store in East Orange, “Al's and
Jerry’s”, in partnership with a man
named Jerry Stevens. But no one knew
the relatives of the Wise brothers in
Massachusetts. .

A TRUCK driver spotted the gray
Mercury first. The car had pulled
into a gas station, beside a pump, and
0d trucker was there, too, waiting for
uel.
at was in Charlton, Massachu-
setts, and as the car and the truck sat
there waiting for service, a police
cruiser appeared on the street, heading
toward them.
Instantly the motor of the’ gray
Mercury ground into action; the car

A Correction

|X ITS issue of June, 1953, OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES
Magazine published a story concerning the capture of a young
man and his bride for issuing bad checks, her subsequent escape
from jail in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and her recapture. With
the story appeared a picture purportedly showing Jailer Roy
Beheler and Sheriff Grady Kelley, Junior, after the jailbreak.’

Subsequent to publication of the story, D. L. Sitton, Senior,
day jailer of Rapides Parish, has advised that the picture shows
him with Sheriff Kelley, and not Beheler, and that he, Sitton,
was not on duty at the time of the escape.—The Editor.

a

with Marge Rendol, located through a
friend of a friend of a friend of one of
the card players. ;

“Al?” she said in response to a ques-
tion from the detective. “I ain’t' seen
him since Thursday night, when he told
me he was goin’ to visit some relatives

.in Massachusetts somewhere.”

“What's his full name?”

“Albert. But everybody calls him Al.”

“Albert what?” ;

“Oh,” she said. “You mean his last
name. Well, it’s Wise. Albert Wise.”

Within fifteen minutes the two
separate lines of investigation that had
brought out the name of Al Wise were
laid side by side. Al Wise became a
fellow the police very much wanted
to talk to. ?

“Look,” Teufel said, “he drove a gray
Mercury to the poker games—and a
gray Mercury was used in the loan-
company jobs and at the dairy. Let’s
see if Al Wise has a car registered to

m,

A telephone call to the state capital,
Trenton, produced the answer. Al Wise
drove a gray, two-door, 1949 Mercury
sedan. The license number, too, was
provided.

Now to find Al Wise.

He’d gone to Massachusetts, Marge
Rendol had said, to visit relatives.

. Teletypes clacked, giving the descrip-

tion of his car and the license number
to Massachusetts police.

made a sweeping turn and roared away
from the station—and the police car.

The truck driver’s suspicions were
aroused. He wrote down the license
number of the Mercury—it bore a
Massachusetts plate—and then he went
hunting for the police. Unfortunately,
the cruiser had turned off into a side
street; when the officers learned about
the mysterious sedan they were too late

* to chase it,

A message went to the State Police.
The only gray Mercury then wanted,
they knew, was the one .from New
Jersey, driven by Albert Wise, and this
car had a Massachusetts plate. How-
ever, license plates can be stolen and
transferred. Troopers on the road were
advised to watch for this car; others
ig Boston to learn who ownéd the
plate. .

A man named Alan Hobart did. He
lived in Roxbury, a suburb of Boston.
Roxbury police were advised and a
car was sent to the. Hobart address to
see if by any chance that plate had
been stolen.

But it hadn’t, at least as far as Mrs.
Hobart knew. Her husband was out
in the car at that moment and he hadn't
said anything about losing the license.

While they were talking, the gray,
two-door Mercury swept into the yard,
three men in the front seat. The driver,

short, dapper, wearing a gray overcoat, °

got out first.

“Mister Hobart?" the officer asked.

“That's right.”

“Btand axside,” the policoman said.
“I want to search you and your car."

ONE of the three men in the car had

a gun. Nothing resembling robbery ,

loot was found. But in the trunk com-
partment was. a road map of New
Jersey, with a penciled line showing a
route from Trenton to the New Jersey
Turnpike, off the’ Turnpike to Union,
away from Union down the Garden
State Parkway, then back north toward
New York and Massachusetts.

And on the door frame was a sticker
from a gas station in Union, New Jersey,
showing that Hobart’s car had been
greased in Union on February 12, 1954.

“Okay, boy,” said the officer, “what’s
your story?” :

“My. story,” Hobart asked. “What
do you mean my story? What do you
want to know?”

Where he’d been on February 12, and
what he'd been doing there, first.

“I’m a salesman,” Hobart replied.
“Specialty items; you know, kid games
and trinkets and toys. I was on my
New Jersey route Friday, visiting the
retail clients.”

“On a holiday?” the officer asked.

Hobart was silent.

“We'll find out. Give me a list of
those clients.”

Once again teletype messages
hummed over the miles of wire—to
Union, advising Acting Chief Teufel
there about Hobart, to Trenton and
other New Jersey towns asking if the
little neighborhood stores Hobart
claimed he'd visited actually had been
open on Lincoln’s Birthday and if Ho-
bart had been in any of them.

The day had passed and another pne
arrived before all the answers were in.
And they were surprising. For each
store Hobart named had been open.
He had been in each one. Furthermore,
he had been in one at the approximate
time of the robbery at the Tuscan
Dairy, 50 miles away. He couldn't
possibly be implicated. ~

Why had he roared away so pre-
cipitously from the gas.station when
the police car came in sight? Not be-
cause of the police, he explained, but
because he’d suddenly realized that he
had left his sample case in the diner
where he and his friends had stopped
to eat a few miles back down the road.

Once again the investigation had led
to a dead end. The police apologized
to Hobart and in Union, Detectives
Kitchell and Reiss unpacked their hur-
riedly assembled clothes and canceled
their trip to Massachusetts.

Hobart was in the clear, but not so
Albert Wise. He was still at large, still
presumably in New England, and the
request for his arrest was reported on
police radio circuits. :
THAT. very evening, Sunday, Con-

necticut State Trooper Frank Bay-
liss spotted a gray, two-door Mercury
buzzing along the Wilbur Cross High-
way. He had passed it before he realized
that such a car was on his wanted list
so he slowed down, allowed it to go
around him and read the license
number. :

This was it—this was the license
number, and undoubtedly the car New
Jersey wanted.

Bayliss radioed ahead. Troopers
William Matthews and John Kozma
joined him; near North Haven they
stopped the car.

Once again the driver was a short,
dapper man. However, he was coat-

“Sure,” he told the officers. “I’m
Albert Wise. What's up?”

They told him.

“You're nuts,” he said. “I was with
relatives in Springfield, Massachusetts,
Friday. Got there about noon. You
can ask them.”

Wise had been arrested in Con-
necticut; his alibi witnesses lived in
Massachusetts; he was wanted in New
Jersey.

“Look,” he told the Connecticut
officers, “I’m clean. I can prove it. I'll
go anywhere you want me to just so I
can clear this up in a hurry.”

They took him to Springfield, where

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Lieutenant Philip M. Griffin and Detec-
tives Joseph Budd and James Williams
of the Springfield police took, charge,
Detectives Kitchell and Reiss in Union
meanwhile repacked their bags and this
time they got to Massachusetts.

They found not only Al Wise but also

his brother, Harry, in the relatives’

home: ‘

“We got here about one o’clock, maybe
half-past one,” Al told the officers.
“Friday. Ain't that right, Harry?”

“Sure it is,” Harry chimed in. .

’ “So how could we ‘a done that job in
Jersey at noon?” Al demanded.

They couldn’t have, of course, if their
stories were correct. Lieutenant
Griffin and the four detectives ques-
tioned the relatives.

Then they questioned neighbors. And
friends. And anyone who might have
seen the Wises arrive in the gray, two-
door, 1949 Mercury.

And the story held up. Half a dozen.

persons were ready to swear that. the
Wise brothers had been in Springfield
at 1:30 p.m. They couldn’t possibly
have been approximately 150 miles
away only an hour and a half earlier.
Another lead gone. Albert Wise had
a@ police record, he’d worked for the
dairy, he drove a gray Mercury and he

Welcome

Captain McCarthy asked him what
he’d said in the tavern and he willingly
repeated Worden’s story.

“Then you knew she was dead when
you went in,” the Captain declared.

“Yeah, sure,” Leonard replied. “Like
I said. You see, I was upstairs lookin’
for a friend and when I come down
these two cops was in the hall and I
heard one of ’em say it was Mildred
pwr 14d and the other one say she was

ead.”

“At half-past eleven?” McCarthy
asked.

Leonard shrugged. “If you say so,
Captain. I dunno. Mebbe it was
eleven, mebbe it was midnight. I ain’t
sure.”

* “We have a witness who says he heard
you talk about it at half-past eleven.”

*¢“yKAY then,” Leonard declared.
“So it was half-past eleven.
What’s the difference?”

“It makes a lot of difference. Leon-
ard,” the Captain said easily. “Because
the police didn’t get there until after
midnight. If you knew she was dead at
half-past eleven, you sure didn’t get
your information from any officer.”

Leonard, however, was unshaken by
this statement. “Well, all right then,”
he declared. “So it was after midnight.
I told you I dunno.”

“We have a witness.”

“So he’s wrong, too. Look, Captain,
I couldn’t tell you what time it is now
within mebbe a half hour, exceptin’ for
that big clock up there on the wall.”

And, McCarthy realized, he possibly
couldn’t either. He switched to another
angle—who was the person Leonard had
gone up to see?

“A friend of mine,” the man replied

* evasively.

“Was he in?”

“Nope.”

“Did you see anyone else in the build-
ing—anyone who could back up your
story?”

“Nope. Not a soul. I heard a lot of

‘people runnin’ and talkin’ about the

killin’ but I sure didn’t see no one ex-
ceptin’ for them two cops. Them halls
is long and dark and twisty.”

The officers knew that well enough.
Though the apartment-house occupies
an entire block, it has grown to this
size gradually. One end, the newer por-
tion, has three stories. Between it and
the far corner, which has four floors,
are connecting sections only two stories
high. Each different section has its
own stairway and some rooms have been
given half-numbers as well as letters
to eliminate duplication.

The detectives turned their question-

48

played poker—but, apparently, that
was all.

“I.figure you don’t want me no more,
do you, Lieutenant?” Wise asked, as
they stood in the Springfield home. “I
figure it’s okay if Harry and me go out
and get a drink, ain’t it?”

He drew on his overcoat while he
spoke—a gray tweed overcoat.

“Let me see that coat,” Kitchell de-
clared.

Al Wise handed it over. It had six
big, black, bone buttons down the front
—it was double-breasted. Not gray
leather buttons but big, black bone
ones.

Kitchell handed it back.

Then he noticed the sleeve.

“You better forget about that drink,
Al,” he said.

“What do you mean?” Wise asked.

Kitchell held up the sleeve. On the
cuff were three little buttons, smaller
than on the front—but they were gray,
and leather.

“You had the front buttons of that
overcoat all changed when you lost
one,” Kitchell declared. “You knew the
lost button might incriminate you. But
you forgot about the cuffs, Al.”

Wise blustered and protested but it
did him no good. : He and his brother,

Harry, were returned to New Jersey
while Lieutenant Griffin and the Spring-

fleld detectives went to work on the sup-.

posedly iron-clad alibi.

It was set up, they believed, and they
broke it down when they discovered
that one of the witnesses had been at
work at the time he’d claimed he saw
be Wise brothers reach the Springfield

ome.

One by one, Lieutenant Griffin de-
clared, all of the alibi witnesses ad-
mitted that they had fixed this alibi and
that the Wise brothers actually had
Sen Springfield until well after

lark.

In Union, meanwhile, the canvass of
the dairy neighborhood cleared up some
of the mystery regarding Sergeant

Bond’s death. Three boys told officers |

that they had seen severa] men squeeze

into the dairy yard between the end of

bs cyclone fence and the wall of the
arn.

Apparently Bond had driven: up as
they were trying to squeeze out again
and, realizing rvetsege A was wrong,
had tried to question them—only to
have the third bandit step out of the
shadows of a shed and kill him.

Both brothers confessed participating
in the robbery, Acting Chief Teufel

claimed the next day, and named Alfred
—Snooky—Stokes as the third man.
They. also blamed Stokes for firing the
fatal shots, Teufel told reporters.
Stokes was arrested in Prince Edward

and Harry and Albert Wise were
dicted for murder by the Union Co
grand jury.

Al Wise’s partner, Jerome Stevens,
was arrested on March 3 and a man
named Hewson Powell on March 16,
1954, by agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, and these two as well
as the Wise brothers have been charged
with participation in the loan company
nega in East Orange and Eaton-

wn.

As this issue of OFFICIAL DETEC-
TIVE STORIES Magazine goes to press,
the Wise brothers and Stokes await
trial for murder in Union and Stevens
and Powell for robbery in Federal
Court. ‘

In this story the names Alan Hobart,
Tom Rydal and Marge Rendol are not
real but are fictitious to protect the
identities of persons who were brought
into the investigation although com-
pletely innocent of any wrongdoing.

County, Virginia, and returned
Union. There on February 25, 1954

from a Smothered Woman (Continued from Page 29)

ing to Vendig, who claimed that he
last had seen Mrs. Hosmer with another
man. But.Vendig, whose whole manner
seemed to be evasive, was rather vague
in his description.

“He was a little guy,” Vendig claimed.

“Kind of swarthy-looking. That’s all
I can remember. I seen him in the
Franklin but I didn’t notice him close.
He was waiting down the street a little
ways and Mildred stopped to talk to
him. Then she hikes off with him,
leaving me flat. I figured what the Hell
—she wasn’t no prize.”

He didn’t know where they’d gone;

when he'd said they’d been making the

rounds of the North End night spots,
he'd been only guessing.

“They went one way, I went the
other. I didn’t even look back; she
wasn't any prize.”

Here was another person to be found,
Mrs. Hosmer’s swarthy-looking ac-
quaintance—if such a person existed.

‘So far they had only Vendig’s word for

it.

They questioned him further and he
came up with only one additional detail.
le | man also had been in the Franklin

rille.

Captain McCarthy decided to ques-
tion Worden regarding such a man.

.With his memory for faces, perhaps

Worden could give them the help they
needed.

‘ Nor did he disappoint the investiga-
ors. ,
Mere mention of the man described
by Vendig brought a nod from him.

“He was a little fellow,” the man
said. “Young, maybe in his twenties,
with dark hair. I'd say he was a Latin
type.”

“When you saw him,” queried Mc-
Carthy, “was he talking with Mildred
Hosmer?” .

. “He wasn’t talking with anybody.”

“Do you know his name or anything
about him?” ;

“No. Anyhow, he went out before
Mrs. Hosmer did.”

The man’s existence, at least, was
established. He could have met Mrs.
Hosmer on Main Street right after her
own departure from the Franklin. But
who was he? How find him?

Once again the detectives questioned
the patrons of the Franklin Grille.
Some recalled the 8warthy man, but
none knew his name or anything else
about him.

Finding a man of that vague descrip-
tion in a city the size of Springfield was
an impossible task. Unless the descrip-
tion could be augmented, chances were
that the man would be a mystery for-
ever.

While the hours sped by, Captain
McCarthy received information which
took out of the case the men who'd
been imprisoned for attacking Mildred
Hosmer, They definitely could not be
involved.

And. Ralph Ramsdell’s story stood up
beyond any question. -The man had re-
turned to his own room to be welcomed
by the body of a woman who had been
throttled.

Officers continued to question the
customers of the Franklin Grille. And
— again Worden came up with a
clue.

“I noticed the trousers the little guy
was wearing. They had a stripe run-
ning down the side: Does that mean
anything?”

It meant a lot to a veteran investiga-
tor like Captain McCarthy. Meager
though the clue might seem, McCarthy
spotted it as an essential detail.

“He's probably a waiter or a bell-
hop,” McCarthy theorized. “And he just
came off the job and was still wearing
the trousers. We'll take it from there.”

Sergeants Moriarity and Martin
made another canvass of bartenders
and habitues of the night spots. None
could remember specifically any
swarthy man who had been around the
previous evening, but mention that he
might be a “waiter or bell-hop” brought
results. Such a man had been in sev-
eral taverns—and he had been wearing
a badge which tabbed him as a member
of a waiters’ union.

Captain McCarthy obtained a list of
local waiters and ran through it for
Latin names. Among several, he dis-
covered one that clicked in his mind:
Santos Rodriquez. His detectives had
picked up Rodriquez only recently.

Their records showed that Rodriquez
had worked at two of the largest
Springfield hotels during the past few
months. He had been questioned once
when seen acting in a suspicious man-
ner and later he had been involved in
a disturbance in a Ferry Street diner.
However no charges had been brought
against him.

FROM age, general description, as well
as working hours, Rodriquez might
be the man who had been seen ‘with
Mildred Hosmer.

Rodriquez lived on Chestnut Street
and McCarthy went there with Ser-
geants Martin and Moriarity. It was
early morning when they roused the
man and took him to Headquarters.

There, Rodriquez repeated, “No, no!”
when questioned about Mildred Hos-
= He could not speak English very
well,

Quizzed through an interpreter, Rod+
riquez persisted in his denials. He
didn’t know the woman; he’d never met
her; he’d been home asleep all night.

However, Vendig, Worden and sev-
eral others definitely placed Rodriquez
in the Franklin Grille. They were cer-
tain that he was the man who had
a just ahead of Mrs. Hosmer, police
said. ~
Rodriquez’ trousers had a colored
stripe and in his closet was a union
badge, which had been issued to him in
Chicago. Moreover, Rodriquez was un-
able to prove that he had been asleep
during the half hour following Mildred
Hosmer’s departure from the Franklin.

-
FINALLY, Captain McCarthy claimed,

confronted with these facts, Rodri-
quez broke down. The Captain quoted

Mrs. Hosmer, the woman had wi

at him and smiled when he win
back. He had ‘left and waited until
she came out with another man. Mrs.
Hosmer had held a brief conversation
with Rodriquez, their talk being limited
a of his slight knowledge of Eng-

h. :

She had refused to go with him, Mc-
Carthy claimed he said, and instead en-
tered the apartment-building alone; he
had hurried in there after her, trailed
her to the room on the fourth floor and
seized her.

Officers said that he admitted killing
her by holding a pillow over her head.

Following the autopsy, vital organs
of the victim were sent to the State
Police Laboratory, Department of Legal
Medicine, at Harvard University, for
further analysis to give the official
cause of death. The lab report veri-
fied the claim that she had been smoth-
e

Detectives and uniformed police who
had worked on the investigation were
officially commended for their job by
Police Chief Raymond P. Gallagher.
Those mentioned in the printed com-
mendation were Captain McCarthy,
Lieutenant McDonald, Sergeants Mori-
arity, Martin and Garvey and Patrol-
men Barry, Ryan and Martin.

On February 15, 1954, Rodriquez was
charged with murder before Judge
John Noonan in District Court. Judge
Noonan ordered him held for trial and
as this issue of OFFICIAL DETECTIVE
STORIES Magazine goes to press, he is
being held. ,

The names Terry Leonard and Joe
Vendig in this story are fictitious to
shield the identities of innocent men.

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_ Lizzie Peak’s Murder Avenged.

Sheri:f William A. Townsend to-
day made a reputation for himself
as coolest, nerviest Sheriff Burling-
ton County ever had. He carried
out the sentence of the law in the
Wisley Warner case with the cool-
néss .of an old hand. The act was
perfect as an execution could pos-
sibly be, and passed off without a
hitch.

At éor®mptly 10:15 the jury was |
sworn in in the side parlor of the!

jail by: County Clerk Worreil. The |
ceth they took was to duly carry |!
out the order of the Court, in see-
ing that Wesley Warner was ex-
ecuted at the time and_ place
appointed by the Court. In the
meantime Rev. Mr. Hare was ad-

solation--to Warner in his cell” bm

At 10:30 the death bpp he. was
read by Sheriff Townsend to Warner
in the presence of witnesses in the
side corridor . . . Warner was
cressed in black and the black cap
was fastened back over his fore-
head. Hisi color: was good and his
step firms He was handcuffed ...

to sayywhat he had to, and the
Sheriff gave the order to proceed.
Preceded: by the Deputy Sheriffs,
the solemn march to the scaffold
was resumed...

The jury followed ‘down the stenus
et the back of the Sheriffs office
and the‘ procession wound down
into the yard and turned the corner
of the jail behind which loomed the
seaffold :.. Up the steps of the
scaffold. ‘went Sheriff Townsend,
Constables ‘Brown and Severns; and
Warner. The noose, which was of.
rope-made to order by a Philadel-
phia firm, was adjusted over a
hook at the side of one of the up-
rights. Constable Brown pinioned
his feet with a leather strap.

“Good bye, Mr. Hare,” said
Warner.’ Mr. Hare was around the
cerner very much affected. 7

“Good bye,’ Wesley said then,
addressing those on the _ gallows,
and they all bade him good-bye.

Warner_then gave_his_first signs |
of wavering, “You’il all be ‘sorry

for this,”” he ejaculated, tremulous-
ly. The: noose was placed around #
his neck, the black cap drawn and
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his lips. There was not the slightest
struggle. The drop fell at exactly
10:36.

The execution of Wesley Warner

course of progress but 12 days less
than two years. As an example of
the terrible consequences which
sometimes follow the free play of
illicit passion, it is unprecedented.

Lizzie Peak, the victim of War-
ner’s knife, was 22 years old at the
time, of her_death.. ._

‘The last execution in Burlington
County was nearly 31 years ago. It
occurred when Edward Brooks paid
the life penalty on:December. 11,
1863, for the murder of his father.


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Because of the increase in the
number of violent crimes
committed in the United States
over the past several years, the
debates regarding
punishment have intensified.

The execution of convicted
killer Gary Mark Gilmore in
Utah and the legal proceedings
prior to the execution made
national headlines for months.

} The capital punishment
controversy is also apparent in
‘a the New Jersey as the rein-
‘office, Statement of the death penalty
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to the signature away.
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worite hanging. «
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performed in the western states
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\yates’ Bridgeton.
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‘A.wil} hanging of Job Williams, who,
Ythey was charged with the murder of
Loping John Holmes of Bowentown and
his housekeeper Catherine
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the proceedings, Williams was

quickly tried and convicted for
the murders. The hanging took
place three months after the
crime. Despite a steady drizzle
hundreds of people from all
parts of the county gathered at
the courthouse to witness the
execution on the morning of
Nov. 26

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Stories in the local paper were

not filled with legal
ramifications or moral
testimonies following the

hanging. Instead, a descriptive
narrative of the event itself was
presented for the people who
could not attend the
proceedings, quite in contrast to
the media coverage of
Gilmore’s execution.

Soon after Williams was put
to death, the state took control
over executions. The last
execution performed in
Bridgeton was on Feb. 15, 1905.

“Until the early 1960s
executions were performed at
Trenton State Prison. Then they
were outlawed as un-
constitutional.

However, the death penalty
may. soon be reinstated in the
state and. another convicted

criminal may be put to death. : |

But the public will probably
think about this execution a
little more than the Williams
public hanging.

Interest on Installment Sales

To lessen the capital gain tax .
on the sale of an asset such as a

home, consider spreading out
the gain with an installment
sale. Be sure, though, that no
more than 30 per cent of the sale
price is paid the first year, and
if you charge less than 6 per
cent interest IRS could impute a
rate of 7 per cent. This would
reduce the sales price and
possibly push the first year
payments over 30 per cent
killing the tax break

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David Wilson

David Wilson (colored) yesterday morning was executed for
. the murder of his wife, who he hacked to death with an
axe while she lay asleep on June 6, 1896.

Hang man van Hise, the Sheriff's Jury, the press and other
witnesses including the Sheriff, the Keeper etc. were in
attendance. The death chamber had been erected within 10
feet of his cell since the usual place was not available.

Wilson was 37 years old, a resident of Virginia had been married
about 6 years and lived in Morristown about 3 years. His

wife was industrious and thrifty while he was lazy and bad
tempered with a habit of getting drunk.

After the murder he went to the West End Hotel where he

was arrested while taking a drink. He was taken to jail, an
inquest was held the following Tuesday and a verdict rendered
to the effect that he was the murderer. Tried in the Nov...
term, convicted and sentenced to be hanged Dec 16 —- execution
deferred pending an argument before a higher court.

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Story of the Last Hours of the Murderer,
Final Devotional Service, and: Touching
Farewell With the Sheriff, Keeper and
Prisoners—March to the Gallows—Contes-
sion and Story of the Crime Dictated By
Wilson, and a Farewell Statement to
Friends—Progress of the Trial—fir, Wij.
son's Personality—Other Executions —Notes,

Yesterday morning, while the bright
June sun was shining, at 10.08 O'clock,
David Wilson passed from earth, under
the laws’ extreme penalty,—executed
at the Court House yard for taking
the life of Malinda, his wife, at the old
“Folly” Building on ‘Speedwell avenue

| just one year ago the sixth day of this

month. And he was swung off to’etern-
ity witha song upon his lips—*I’m go-
ing home to die no more.” Many men
have faced the Black King of Death with
Stout hearts but never was there such an
exhibition of calm bravery at the Court
House of Morrig County as that which
characterized the final death. march of
David Wilson as he Stepped ® the gal-
lows yesterday.’*:All through hig impris-

wee

oument of “xYear, he has shown very
little nervousness and evinced no fear of
death even to the last. Hig last. night
Was spent, as were the rest, in quiet sleep,

After short devotional service or, Wed-
hesday evening, he retired soou after

eleven o'clock: uxand- - Slept goundly}.
T

until 6:30 yesterday morning, He
breakfasted about 3. o'clock, eating
hearty, and entered into the final deyo-
tional and ‘song seryice with his spiritual
advisors at 8:45..0# the many services
which have been heid in the jail, this
was one of the most effecting.. The
Goomed man read aloud the fourteenth
Chapter of St. John’s Gospel—so oid, yet
inexhaustible,—“ Let not your heart
be troubled, ye believe in God, believe
alsoin me, In my fathers house are
many mansions; if it were not so I would
have told you. I goto prepare a place

for you I will come again, and receive
you unto myself, that where-I am, there
‘ye may be also,” and so on, And then
he joined heartily in the Singing of the
songs he learned-to love while ‘at’ the
jail. Among them were ‘Simply Trust-
ing” and ‘Safe in the arms of Jesus.”
His words of farewell to the Sheriff and
Keeper and to the prisoners in the adjoin-
ing cages were touching and heartfelt.
He bade them all live so that they might.

meet him in the better. WOT A oe ee vee te

_ heart throb recording itself at 10.2114,

thevaee 608 bulldings,. At ten o'clock
the several witnesses tock their places
in the small enclosure for the gallows
Which had been erected the-day previous,
At about six minutes after ten the deat
march was taken. Sheriff Durling and.
Expert Van Hise led the way, followed,
by Wilson walking between Rev.
P, Anderson and Mr. Hoehn, The
party passed across the front hall, cine
the basement stairs and through the!
lower hall to the back yard steps, the|
Prisoner singing in a clear voice his fa4
vorite song above mentioned. Almost}
running up the steps, he caught his last
glimpse of the blue sky, drew his: last;
breath of fresh out door air ard ‘stepped!
under the gallows. In a minute all was
ready. The white String that controlled}
the 350 pound Weight wag gently but
firmly pulled at just 10.08, and thé soul
of David Wilson went home to its Crea-
tor. All that was mortal had been ‘sac.
rificed to pay the penaty for a fiendish
crime,
». Death came by strangulation, the last

a.

13 minutes and 20 seconds after the drop.

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story of yesterday,. bes RM a Ste utae

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84

found guilty in Pennsylvania on charges
of highway robbery and breaking and en-
tering.

“Why did you kill Rose Sarlo?”

“PE don't know.” |

“What kind of tires did you have on
your automobile?”

“T don’t know.”

“Did you have Murray Cord tires on
your automobile?”

“I never looked at the name.”

“IT show you a Murray Cord tire, size
thirty-four by four, and ask you if you
ever saw that before?”

“T don’t know if it is mine or not.”

“This tire, which I have just shown
you, came off your automobile, off the
right hand, rear wheel. Does that re-
fresh your memory?”

“No.”

This was the tire which fitted into the
impression in the road at the scene of
the first attack on Rose Sarlo.

“Were your hands bloody when you
got home?”

OVag."

“Where did you wash your hands

“In the bath room.”

“When did you fracture Rose Sarlo’s
skull?”

“I don’t know.”

“What did you hit her with?”

“E didn't hit her with anything.”

“How did you get the body of Rose
Sarlo from your automobile and) throw
it over the bridge?”

“L lifted her out.”

“And what did you do after you lifted
her out?”

“Just dropped her down.”

“Did you think you were dropping the
body into a deep stream?”

“LT don't know. I didn't look.”

“Yarrow, this statement is made of
your own free will and accord, isn’t ite”

“Ves,”

“Yarrow, I am going to read a war-
rant to you,” I said.

I read the warrant charging Yarrow
with the murder of Rose Sarlo. He dis-
played no feeling and was led back to
his cell.

Three days later Coroner Oran A.
Wood held an inquest, before which we
placed our evidence. The jury verdict
was that Rose.Sarlo had met death by
strangulation and bullet wounds inflicted
by George Yarrow. The jury recom-
mended an early trial.

et

N the: days between the coroner's jury

action and the trial two months later,
Corporal Kelly and [ continued our in-
vestigation to strengthen the case against
Yarrow. We talked with the prisoner
daily, and a week before the trial he at-
tempted to repudiate his confession, de-
claring that another man had murdered
the little Sarlo girl.

This is the story which Yarrow then
told to Corporal Kelly and myself:

“I met a stranger on Broad Street,
Woodbury,” Yarrow said. “He told me
he was in South Jersey to deliver some
‘stuff’, I -don’t know whether he meant
liquor or dope. He asked me to get a
couple of girls for a party and I prom-
ised to meet him that Saturday night in
Woodbury—at ten o’clock.

“T met him and we picked up Rose, but
no other girl. This fellow, I only knew
him as ‘Slim’, was in the car when we

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drove out to East Red Bank Avenue.
Slim was caressing and bothering Rose
and made me stop the car and leave it.
While [ was away from the car [ heard
sereams and when [FE got back to the atto-
mobile Slim was in it and Rose on the
ground.

“Slim pulled out a gun and made me
help him put the girl back in the car,
Slim shot her and, still with his gun
pointed at me, made me help him throw
the body out. I drove Slim to the Kaighn
Avenue ferry of the Reading Railway in
Camden and he left me there. He said
he would kill me if I squealed on him.”

We did not believe Yarrow's second
story, but questioned him more about the
mythical Slim. Yarrow said they had
met in a pool room near Kighth and Vine
Streets, in Philadelphia. We communi-
cated with the Philadelphia police and
they combed the neighborhood of the
pool room, arresting one habitue of the
neighborhood who was known as Slim.

This Slim was taken to the Philadel-
phia City Hall and) questioned and his
picture and fingerprints were taken. We
then took the photograph to Yarrow, who
declared that it was not the Slim of his
story,

HE Yarrow case did not come to an

end with his trial, Tt was aecase in which
justice had a hard road to travel. At the
preliminary hearing young Antone Letz-
gus, who testified he had seen Rose enter
the Essex coach on the night of the mur-
der, confronted Yarrow and refused to
identify him as Rose's companion. That
was a blow to our case——-a momentary one,
at least.

At this juncture came still another de-
velopment. Mrs. Sylvia Michaels, of 1624
Suydenham Street, Philadelphia, Yarrow’s
mother-in-law, appeared in] Woodbury and
reported her belief that Yarrow, in addi-
tion to slaying Rose Sarlo, also had mur-
dered his wife.

Mrs. Yarrow, her daughter by a former
marriage, Mrs. Michaels said, had disap-
peared mysteriously two years previous,
after a quarrel with Yarrow, Her daugh-
ter had married Yarrow when she was only
ourteen years old, Mrs. Michaels said, and
the Yarrows had a four-year-old daughter,
Ruth, now living with Mrs. Michaels.

“Yarrow killed my daughter,” Mrs.
Michaels dramatically told the Gloucester
County and Philadelphia Police.

The Camden County Police Department
also was drawn into the case when Mrs,
Michaels declared that she believed her
daughter to have been the victim in’ the
mysterious “Hilltop Murder” in Camden
County about the time of Mrs. Yarrow’s
disappearance.

. The Hilltop mystery concerned the find-
ing of the hacked body of a woman, to-
gether with part of the. clothing, in the
Hilltop section of the county. The mys-
tery never had been solved and the identity

of the victim had not been established.

Yarrow denied that he had killed his
wife and insisted that they had parted
amicably. But when the effects of the TTill-
top victim were brought to Woodbury by
Lawrence T. Doran, Chief of Camden
County Detectives, Mrs. Michacls at first
identified them as her daughter’s property.

Later a dentist examined the skull of
the murder victim, after learning the con-
dition of Mrs. Yarrow’s mouth from her

mother. The examination revealed that the
victim was a woman of probably forty
years and the extent of the dental work
precluded the possibility of it being Mrs.
Yarrow.

This removed the suspicion that Yarrow
had been guilty of the murder of this
woman.

ARROW’S trial for the murder of

Rose Sarlo opened at the Woodbury
Court House on December 7th, 1927. It
Was a@ sensation sweeping three counties.
Supreme Court Justice Frank S, Katzen-
bach presided, and scores of talesmen were
examined before a jury could be obtained.

Attorney Lewis Lieberman was Yarrow’s
lawyer and he offered this defense—that
Yarrow was a Jekyll-Hyde personality—
that he had suffered a temporary insanity
because of a shrapnel wound suffered dur-
ing the war.

Yarrow’s sisters, Mrs. Hassan and Miss
Mary Yarrow, sat with the accused man.

Evidence brought out at the trial ran
along the same dines as has been ottlined
in our development of the case. “The jury
heard of the broken glass with the blood
spots; of the tire which had fitted the in-
dentations in the road on Red Bank Ave-
nue; of blood stains which had been
found on clothes worn by Yarrow; of the
meeting between Rose and Yarrow on that
Saturday night when the girl took her
death ride.

All of the evidence was followed by the
introduction of Yarrow's confession.

Then came the bombshell of the triad.

Attorney Lieberman offered no defense
Witnesses, not even an alienist, As the jury
retired he announced that he would make
an appeal on the ground that the Court had
refused permission to postpone the read-
ing of Yarrow’s confession for a day, so
that the defense might produce witnesses
to prove it was not a voluntary confession;
and because, in the opinion of the defense,
the Court had made out a stronger case of
premeditation than had the prosecution,

In his closing arguments, Prosecutor
Joseph J. Summerill, Jr., reiterated his de-
mand that Yarrow, the “ex-bandit, ex-
robber, now a murderer, be sent to the chair
for the most atrocious murder which ever
disgraced the records of the state.” Sum-
merill called Rose “the standard bearer of
American girlhood” and said “she sacri-
ficed her life on the altar of virtue.”

Dangling the strands of wire which had
strangled the girl, Summerill pointed out
wisps of Rose’s dark hair which still clung
to them. Tle declared the autopsy had
shown Rose had been unsullied before the
attack which cost her life.

A feature of the trial was the changed
testimony of young Letzgus, who, at the
preliminary hearing, had failed to identify
Yarrow as the man who had occupied the
Essex coach with Rose.

_ At the trial Letzgus did identify Yarrow,
saying, “I didn’t want to get anybody into
trouble. Later I decided to tell the truth.”

The jury was out only an hour and one
half. It brought in a verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree, and Yarrow
was sentenced to die in the electric chair
at Trenton Penitentiary in the week of
January 8th, 1928.

Yarrow was immediately sent to the
death house at Trenton, but efforts to save
him were continued. His aged mother.
Mrs. Mary Yarrow, seriously ill at her

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home in Barnsboro, was not told of her
son's trial and conviction, News of the
disgrace was kept from her for fear that
it might bring about her death, She was
told that her son was in the West. She
begged to see him, but was told that he
had gotten into some disagreement over his
automobile and could not come East at
that time.

HEN. dramatically, Yarrow’s missing

wife—thought “dead” for two years—
appeared. Unannounced, this pretty young
woman of twenty-one, accompanied by her
four-year-old baby, went to the death house
in Trenton Penitentiary and asked to see
her condemned husband.

“Pye come to help you, George,” she told
him, "2 was in Miami, Florida, when
read of your plight, so I immediately came
north to to save you.” *

Mrs. Yarrow obtained: the services of
Kdison Hedges, one of the attorneys for
the defense in the notorious L.illiendahl-
Beach murder case, to carry on the. last-
hour fight to save George Yarrow. She
went to Governor A. Harry Moore and
pleaded with him to commute the sentence
of death to life imprisonment.

The Governor explained that under the
New Jersey law he did not have the power
to do this, but promised that he would call
the Board of Pardons to consider the case.

Mrs. Yarrow then went to the grieving
mother of Rose Sarlo and begged her to
join in the plea for mercy. Gazing at the
picture of her slain daughter, Mrs. Sarlo
refused.

On January 5th, 1928, Yarrow’s execu-
tion was halted by an appeal filed by Mr.
Hedges. Technical errors in the trial were
the basis for the appeal The date for the
execution was moved back to Friday, Jan-
uary 13th. Hedges first asked Chancellor
Edwin R. Walker to order a review of
the case by the Supreme Court. This mo-
tion being denied, Hedges filed the appeal
and the Court of Errors and Appeals set
February Ist as the date of hearing of
his case.

Hedges argued that Yarrow's confession
was invalid; that it had been obtained by
force and intimidation,

On Mareh 22nd, 1928, Yarrow's plea
was refused by the Court of Errors and
Appeals, and the date for his execution
was set for June Ist, 1928, The execution
was set for nine o’clock at night. An hour
before that time still another desperate
effort was made to save Yarrow from the
chair,

Warden Timothy J. Murphy of the
Trenton Penitentiary announced that a brief
respite had been granted. Hedges had tele-
phoned from Atlantic City. The attorney
had asked a delay, saying he was trying to
reach Governor Moore to make a last
appeal for a reprieve, pending a plea before
the Court of Pardons for commutation of
the death sentence to life imprisonment.

Forty-five minutes later—only a quarter
of an hour before Yarrow was to be led to
the electric chair—Hedges’ secretary called
the prison by telephone, saying the Gover-
nor could not be reached and asking an-
other hour of life for Yarrow. ;

Murphy refused, and promptly at nine
o'clock fifty witnesses saw Yarrow strapped
into the death chair.

A few minutes later George Yarrow had
paid with his life for the life of Honey
Sarlo.

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“Did you stop your car at the time you
shot her?”

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“Tell us in your own words just how
you shot Rose Sarlo. Did you get out of
the driver's seat?”

“Now To sat there and I reached around.
She was lying on the back seat.”

“The first shot you fired—did that go
ito her head or into her back?”

“LT don't know, FT dida't look to see.”

“What did) you do next?"

He did not answer.

“When did you tie the wire around
Rose Sarlo’s neck?”

“TE don't remember when I did.”

“Did you put the wire around her neck
hefore or after you shot her?”

“TE don't even) remember putting the
wire around her neck.”

“Just settle yourself there and. think.
You must know. Did you put the wire
around her neck on the bridge between
Mantua and Wenonah before you threw
the body over the edge of the bridge?”

“T don’t) remember.”

“Was she dead when you fired the first
shot? Or when did you first know that
she was dead?”

“I didn’t know that she was dead at
all,”

“Did she ery out or scream?”

Oe.

“After you left this place where you
shot) Rose Sarlo, where did you go
then?"

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did you tell her you were taking her?”

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“TE don't know.”

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Rose Sarlo with it?”

“Between Woodbury and Barnsboro.”

“Where had the gun been prior to
that?”

“Under the front seat.”

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“No, T reached down for it.”

“After you shot the girl what did you
do with the gun?”

“T don’t remember touching it) after
that,”

“Where is the gun that you committed
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“T don't: know.”

was recovered.)

“Why did you burn your automobile?
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“Ves,”

“How did you set fire to it?”

“Threw gasoline on it.”

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poured on the car?”

“Out of the tank.”

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although the autopsy disclosed she had
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limply to the station platform.

Two of the detectives stopped

firing and hurried over to the women
who proved to be uninjured, having
just fainted from shock. But the
diversion gave Mais, at whom the
third detective was still blazing
away, a chance fo scurry to safety
behind a string of boxcars and dis-
appear into the night.

The other gangster leaped down
a 50-foot embankment and limped
into the protective darkness even as
Detective Peltz took two quick shots
at him, yelling, “Get him, he’s hurt!”

When the detectives reached the
bottom of the embankment, he had
vanished. Cursing, they climbed
back to street level.

eens immediately called de-
tective headquarters for re-
serves and ordered a raid‘on the
Sixth street house. The police radio
ordered three police cars and every
cruising detective car within a
radius of miles to converge on the
house. :

The night was clear and bitter
cold when Malone, the Little Mob,
and Federal agents surrounded the
house on North 6th street.

In a low, tense voice, Malone
ordered, “Richardson and Weldon,
take the back! Ryan and I will hit
them from the front. Peltz and
Hardy, you cover us from across the
street with Harvey and his men.”

He waited long enough for Rich-
ardson and Weldon to reach the
back of the house, then gripping his
machine-gun, nodded the signal.
Low and fast, the two detectives

Capt. George Richardson, at that time a
detective, today is Assistant Superin-
tendent of Police in Charge of Detectives.
It was a few words whispered into
Richardson's ear that alerted the police.

An apartment in this typical New York
tenement spelled the end of the trail in
the long search for Mais. But before
they found it, the law men played many
angles in their grim game, including
pulling as smart a trick as ever misfired.

sprinted swiftly across the street.
As they swooped down on the
house, an upstairs window slammed
open and bursts of gunfire spat
angrily. Bullets chipped the con-
crete street and screamed off parked
cars as the gunmen shot at the
charging men. A roaring blast of
fire poured from the guns of the
detectives and federal agents, driv-
ing the gunmen back from the
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Now Philadelphia's Director of Public
Safety, James H. Malone, then Chief of
Detectives, directed the grim search for
the mobsters and personally shot it out
with the killer in a thrilling gun battle.

Suddenly, Hardy saw one gunman
lean out a window and draw a quick
bead. on Malone and Ryan as they
leaped up -the front steps of the
house.

Firing from the hip, he hit the
gunman’s automatic rifle smack in
‘the breech, knocking it to one side.
The deflected bullets flung pieces of
brick over the detective chief and
Ryan as they forced in the front
door. From the rear of the house
sounded the crash of the back door
as Richardson and Weldon gained
entrance.

A burst of machine-gun bullets
tore at the floor and wallpaper a:
Malone edged into the first-floor
hallway, bent low and firing from
the floor upward at the second-floor
landing.

“My God! Stop. shooting!” a
woman’s voice shrieked over the din
of gunfire. “There’re children here!”

In the sudden silence that fol-
lowed, she crossed the detective’s
path, the three children clinging to
her, their eyes wide with fright.
Young, dark-haired, and shapely,

‘she stood blocking the line of fire,

as scurrying feet raced overhead.

The Little Mob members dodged
around her and raced along the
upper hallway, firing a protective
screen of bullets ahead. of them.

Two suddenly-cowed gunmen
crouched in a corner, their hands
raised high above their terror-
stricken faces. The room in which
they cowered was an arsenal of
automatic rifles lined up at the front
windows—a silent array of death-
dealing weapons with their owners
fiown.

“Up to the roof!’ Malone shouted.
“Hurry!”

But the fleeing gangsters already
had crossed the roofs and fled
through another house into the
throng of curious gathered at sounds
of the gun battle.

Angrily, the detectives dragged
those captured into an armored car.
Frank Wiley was one of them and
Malone was taking no chances of
Mais or Legenza silencing their
partner. The other man was Charles
Zeid, wanted by Camden, New
Jersey, police for the murder of a
Camden detective.

The shapely young woman who’d
used her three children as a gang-
ster-screen, was hurried into an-
other car. She was nervous and
tearful, hiding her face as they
passed through the curious crowd.
Malone smiled bleakly, “That babe
will talk!”

Taking no chances, the detectives
ordered Zeid and Wiley taken to
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“Who did it then?” ’

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“Mais had a whole Series of snatches
planned,” she told them. “I heard the
bunch of them talking over their plans
for days.”

“Who was to be snatched?” Malone
asked in a friendly tone.
- “A well-known fight-promoter who
left for California suddenly with a
stable of fighters,” she continued.
“They also planned to lift a wealthy

ew Jersey brewer and then some
criminal lawyer here.”

At first, Mais and Legenza had
counted on their victims not “squawk-
ing” to the police under the code of
the underworld. But as the Weiss kid-
naping had dragged on and on, their
talk had shifted more to snatch-
oe te to be certain no one would
talk.

As a final piece of information. the
witness added, “They planned to rob
one of the top banks here in town, too.
They even cased the bank and had
blueprints made to use on the job.”

During this questioning, the Little
Mob’ was in Bucks County searching
the banks of the river and scouring
the countryside for Weiss’ body. The
one-story - and - half bungalow was
gone over with a fine-tooth comb, but
yielded no clues other than finger-
prints of the gang and Weiss. .

Returning to headquarters, Rich-
ardson and Ryan disappeared into
Malone’s office. A short time later,
they were joined by Harvey, several
of his investigators, and other de-
tectives. This was a war session.

Malone said Sharply, “We missed
both Mais and Legenza at Wayne
Junction, but Legenza must be hurt
badly. No man could jump down that
bank without hurting his legs, maybe
breaking one of them.” .

he phone rang, and suddenly the
office was deserted.

Sirens screaming, the police cars
raced west on Walnut Street. As they
passed the University of Pennsylvania
the sirens died and only. the steady
hum of the motor signaled their
progress through the darkness.

Mais had been located in a West
Philadelphia apartment house! ‘

As they stopped at the street corner
and stared across to where their prey
was_ hiding, Malone pondered the
problem. The’ street was crowded
with homeward-bound workers. “A
police cordon was quickly assigned to
detour pedestrians.

Then the teeth-chattering rattle of
machine-gun fire staccatoed the night’s
quiet. The wild figure of a man
crouched in a darkened doorway,
flame spouting from the muzzle of his
gun as he sprayed the street in the
direction of the Little Mob. Richard-

son reeled and crumpled to the pave-
ment, simultaneously answering Mais’
challenge with a burst from his gun.

As suddenly as the quiet had been
shattered by gunfire, it was silent
again. Mais had fled into the apart-
ment house.

But Fate smiled on the. gangster
once more. Racing through to the
rear of ‘the apartment house, Mais
sped past lighted windows filled with
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alley’s end, and Mais leaped into it
with the heat of a rapid-firing gun
fanning his cheek as_ confederates
covered his retreat.

Richardson lirfiped, for, a slug had
grazed his leg. No one else was in-
jured. But once again they had failed
to take their man.

“We've got to get them,” one of the
officers exclaimed sourly, “or they’ll
get us! We've been damn lucky so
far that none of us have stopped one
where it counts!”

Again, Richardson dug into his un-
derworld contacts. The first infor-
mation came over the phone, a gruff
voice scraping the -wires, “Legenza’s
in N’Yawk wit’ busted legs. Youse
guys did it when he jumped the bank.”

Federal agents already had learned
that Farrell was in the big metropolis.
Immediately, they and New York de-
tectives were notified of the latest in-
formation and arrangements made for
the little Mob to go there. But that
same day, another tip came through:
Farrell and Mais had contacted each
other in New York City.

Even more important was the fact
that Farrell was phoning a Philadel-
phia contact every day. The contact
was a fugitive from the Georgia chain
gang. That night, instead of going
to New York on a blind hunt, the
Little Mob listened in on a phone con-
versation.

The voice of the “contact” came
clear as he made arrangements to meet
Farrell the next day in New York.

That morning, members of the Little
Mob were on the train to New York
as it pulled out of Broad Street Sta-
tion. When the train pulled into Penn

Station, they tailed the contact-man
from the station to a midtown hotel.
Flashing their badges, they got a
room next to his—and waited.

Less than an hour later, Farrell
walked in to keep his appointment.
Richardson tapped his ribs with an
automatic and the big Irishman
reached for the ceiling. The contact
was picked up at the same time, his
eyes wide with bewilderment and
fright, as Farrell snarled, “You tipped
them off, you louse!”

In Farrell’s pockets were a couple
of keys that did not belong to the
hotel. Nor .would he tell from where
they came.

Malone, who was with them, called
his old friend, Detective Lieutenant
Walter Sullivan, of the New York De-
tective Bureau, and one of the most
capable men in the business.

With Farrell bagged, the hunt
turned to Legenza. Malone figured
that with two broken legs he might
be found in a New York hospital.
There was always the chance he would.
be holed up with some gang doctor,
but no bet was worth skipping.

SS THE police started a systematic
search of all hospitals, asking
about patients recently entered with
broken legs and arms.

On the night of January 18, while
they were going the weary grind, they
arrived at the Presbyterian Hospital
out at 168th Street and Broadway.

When asked about men with broken
legs, the superintendent answered,
“We have a man with two broken
legs . . . they’re in a cast now. His
name’s Charles Stewart.”

Malone asked if he could see him,
then suggested quickly, “How about

dressing me up like a doctor? We may:

not want to nab him, now.”

The detective chief stood at the foot
of the bed, outwardly calm but in-
wardly excited. The doctor spoke
to the man who lay there, and the

man turned. It was Legenza!

Malone recognized him from photo-
graphs on file. The haggard eyes in
the gaunt face passed over the detec-
tive without recognition, and Malone
knew they were on safe ground. They
had Legenza. Would he lead them to

Mais?

As they walked away, the doctor
smiled, “There’s a redhaired ‘girl
comes to see him pretty often—a good-

* looking number.”

“Jane Veldon!” Malone exclaimed
softly, a feeling of triumph surging
through him. When he met the other
members of the Little Mob, he grinned
openly, “It’s Legenza, all right! What’s

more the Veldon girl must be his con-
tact with Mais. She comes to see him,
often. He doesn’t know we're wise to
him, so we’ll wait and nab the two of
them together.”

The next night, the pretty redhead
walked in and they grabbed her,
putting both her and Legenza under
arrest.

And then, Malone pulled a trick.

The Little Mob had learned that
Mais had an apartment in a certain
section of Manhattan. They had
spent days trying the keys found on
Farrell in locks of apartments
throughout this area. But so far their
search had proven fruitless.

Taking the redhead aside, Malone
said, ““We’ve just shot it out with your
boy friend, Mais. He’s back there on
a slab. ;

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I'll go with you.”
Jane Veldon shuddered. “No thanks,
I don’t want to see him,” she said,
turning away. “Let’s get out of here.”
Malone was hoping she would lead

them to the apartment where she had.

been living with Mais. Then someone
back in the’ group said, “Well, now
all_we have to do is catch Mais!”

For a moment, there was silence.

Then, Jane Veldon laughed shortly,
as she turned on the officers. “Why
you dirty, double-crossers!” she said
softly.

So the Little Mob and Sullivan’s
men continued putting Farrell’s keys
into locks. Only now they had learned
Mais was in one of two adjoining
apartment houses. Quietly but speed-

jly they hurried from apartment to

apartment. Mais at any moment
might become suspicious about the
absence of his girl friend. It wouldn’t
take him long to figure the detectives
had nabbed her and Legenza.

They’d be ready for him, if he tried
to escape. The whole area was under
close guard by New York police, Fed-
eral agents, and Philadelphia detec-
tives. But, they were aware of his
ability with a machine gun. It would
-be better to take him in his room.

It was early in the morning when
Peltz put the key in a door on Man-
hattan Avenue, and it opened. Beside
him was Jimmy Ryan. Gently, they
eased the door open and stepped
softly into the darkness of the room.

Scarcely breathing, * they tiptoed
across the floor. They were perfect
targets for Mais.

As their eyes became accustomed to
the dark, they saw a bed in the corner
and the dim outline of a figure on it.

Nearer and nearer they crept to the
still figure and suddenly Jimmy Ryan
shoved a machine gun into the man’s
back.

“If you move,” he said firmly but
softly, “you’re finished.”

Peltz switched on the light with one
hand as his gun covered the man on
the bed.

It was Mais, the killer, staring up
at them with terrified eyes.

Ryan sneered with disgust at the
man’s fright. He had seen many of
these “triggermen” and when caught
they were all the same sniveling
cowards.

Yanking the gunman off his bed,
they frisked him, then searched the
room, Under his pillow they found an
automatic pistol and a long-bladed
knife.

Before they left New York with
Farrell and Jane Veldon, Malone and
his men obtained a diagram from Mais

Donovan shook his head glumly.

“We traced the shirt,” he said. “But
that’s no help. It was one of a num-
ber stolen from a Pierce family in
Brooklyn several months before.”

DiSessa lit a cigarette and stared at
the wall. “We’re getting nowhere
fast,” he muttered. “The killer not
only has an eight-week start on us,
but has fixed it so we can’t identify
the victim.”

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showing where the body of Weiss had
been dumped. He also signed a com-
plete confession of the kidnaping and
murder of Weiss. Mais and Legenza
were then claimed by the Virginia
authorities.

The next day, Martin Farrell stood
on a bridge where the Bristo) Pike
crosses the Neshaminy Créek. He
pointed to the spot where Weiss’ ‘body
had been thrown.

A few minutes later, harbor police
dragging the creek from two rowboats
brought up a black cloth trouser leg
and half a man’s muddied white shirt.

As they cast their hooks into the
water for another try, the tide changed
and sharp cakes of ice drove the frail
boats back to shelter.

The next day, Weiss’ body was
i i up from the creek bottom, still
weighted with the iron plates.

With finding of the body, the State
was ready to prepare its case against
Wiley and Farrell, and lesser members
of the Mais-Legenza gang.

On February 2, 1935, in Richmond,
Virginia, Mais walked the long last
mile to the electric chair. Legenza had
to be carried because of his broken
legs and the plaster casts that encased
them. Just before Legenza’s execution,
a space was chipped in the plaster so
electrodes could placed ‘rc his
flesh and pass through his body the
death-dealing current.

Wiley and Farrell were tried before
Judge Calvin S. Boyer in Doylestown,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with the
sentence: death in the electric chair.

Both Farrell and Eckert testified
against Wiley in an effort to save
themselves. But only Eckert escaped
with his life, receiving a sentence of
life imprisonment.

Eckert had admitted renting the
house at Torresdale Manor where
Weiss was held prisoner, planning the
kidnap-route, and obtaining the iron
plates used to weight the body.

Zeid was electrocuted at Trenton,
N. J., for the murder of the Camden,
N. J., detective.

Barney Yarkett received a light sen-
tence as an accessory after the fact.
The woman with the three children
received a two-year suspended sen-
tence and was warned not to leave the
state during the time of probation.
Jane Weldon was held for several
weeks, then freed.

On November 18, 1935, Farrell and
Wiley were executed at the Rockville
Penitentiary, closing the law’s account
with the Mais-Legenza mob.

Editor’s Note: The names Barney
Yarkett and Jane Veldon are fictitious
for obvious reasons. °

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AMOROUS REDHEAD

(Continued from page 23)

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“It shapes up.as a sadist case to me,”
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would stab that id times.” ;

“Suppose you check the files,” Di-
Sessa suggested. “Round up all per-
sons suspected of having such tend-
encies. It might yield some worth-
while clue.”

Donovan nodded and left.

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ife.

“All cars!” the crisp-voiced an-
nouncer boomed out. “All cars...
armed robbery at Tuscan Dairy ...
Union Avenue and the Bridge ... All
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Cruising leisurely through the streets
of Union, New Jersey, on this holiday—
February 12, 1954, Lincoln's Birthday—
Detective Joseph Spies said, “Hey,
that’s pretty close. Let's go!”

He slammed down the throttle,
swung the car sharply around a corner.
His partner, Detective Kermit Reiss,
bounced against the door.

“Car Seven,” the anncuncer went
on, “proceed to scene...” .

“That's us!" Reiss cried. He
grabbed the microphone of the two-
way radio. :

“Proceed to scene,” went on the an-
nouncer. ‘Acknowledge, Car Seven
: .. Car Nine also proceed to scene
and acknowledge ... Car Two.. .”

Rapidly and crisply the announcer,
Patrolman Floyd Chamberlain, set the
trap p’anned long ago for just such an
emergency—the closest cars to rush to
the scene, the others to form a ring of
steel at the busiest exits from the city,
waiting for a description, ready to
Pounce.

“All cars, acknowledge,” Chamber-
lain finished. “Car Seven .. .”

“Car Seven, right!" Reiss yelled into
the microphone as his partner whirled
around another corner and cut loose
with his siren.

“Car Nine, acknowledge.”

The radio crackled and sputtered and
then was silent.

, “Car Nine, please acknowledge!”

Again no answer.

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First the officers saw the dairy,
then the crowd near the cow barn—

... Sergeant Bond

Then they knew why Sgt. Bond (far
right) had not answered the call

Right Through the Tollgate the Car Crashed, Without
Slowing—As, Over the Radio, Came the Report of the
* Slaying in Union, New Jersey. Was It the Killers' Car?

“That's Clint Bond,” Spies said above
the shriek of the siren. “Maybe he’s
out of his car, chasing ‘em on foot. He
should have been pretty close to that
dairy.”

“Car Nine,” Chamberlain repeated.
“Please acknowledge . . . Sergeant
Bond . . . Sergeant Bond, come in,
please ... Sergeant Bond .. .”

But no answer came over the radio
waves from Car Nine that morning, no
answer at all. Sergeant Clint Bond did
not come in.

Grimly, Epies muttered, “Come on,
Clint! Speak up, boy!”

“Sergeant Bond, come in... Sergeant
Bond, come in. . .”

Car Seven whipped around another
corner, Ahead was the giant Tuscan
Dairy, sprawling along the railroad
tracks, a high cyclone fence surround-
ing the crowded parking-lot. the office
building and barracks-like cow barns.

“Sergeant Bond,”. pleaded the an-
nouncer, “come in . . . Sergeant Bond,
come in...”

Another voice interrupted and Spies
felt a momentary surge of relief. But

‘it vanished, -for this was Car Two

acknowledging. Not Sergeant Bond.
One by one the other cars replied—

all except Car Nine and Sergeant
Clinton Bond.

“Sergeant Bond...” . .

Around another corner Spies swung
his car, through the broad gate to the
Tuscan Dairy, back past the big trucks
waiting there, to the office entrance in
the rear.

But they didn’t reach that office for
some time.

“Look!” Reiss cried. “Over there!”

A crowd of men was gathered at the
end of one cow barn, half a dozen of
them, standing in the mud, staring at
something lying amid their feet.

Spies and Reiss hit the ground and
were running toward that group almost
before their car had come to a full stop.
As they ran they realized why Sergeant
Bond had not acknowledged the radio
message.

Sergeant Clinton Bond was lying
there in the mud, on hig face, dead from
two bullet wounds, ;

SOON other officers reached the dairy,
led by Acting Police Chief Charles
Teufel and Deputy Chief Raymond
Edighoffer—rushing out to investigate
an armed robbery and finding, instead,
a killing.

“What happened here?” Edighoffer
asked. ‘How was he killed?”

No one knew. _

“Well, what was the call about?
Speak up, somebody!” ‘ ‘
The men, dairy employes, told him
then. Three armed strangers had en--
tered the dairy shortly after noon. They
had shoved the employes into a@ wash-
room and barricaded its door with
furniture and when the employes
finally had forced their way out, the
bandits were gone, the safe open and
empty, the switchboard - disconnected.
While one had been calling the police
on an emergency line, another had
peered out the window—and there was
—— Bond, stretched lifeless in the

mud. . :

Presumably, of course; he had inter-
rupted the bandits as they fied, and
presumably the bandits had slain him.
But no one really knew, for no one had
seen the shooting.

“All right!” Edighoffer bellowed.
“Everybody into the office—and don’t
touch anything. The first thing I
want is a description. Give it to me
fast while we get it out.”

Back inside the dairy Office, the em-_ .
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yandits, while Detective Spies relayed
the descriptions over the phone to
Headquarters. For this is the first hope
of police in any fast-breaking crime—
‘© nab the criminals before they can
role up.

About average height, the wit-
esses said, one of them a bit taller, the
‘wo others about the same as Detective
3pies; Spies is five feet nine. Wearing
‘aps, the bills pulled down low over their
‘oreheads but otherwise not masked.
Young, not over 30. The tall one wear-
ng a jacket, another a light-colored
opcoat, the third a dark-gray, tweed
wercoat. :

“What kind of a car did they use?”
idighoffer asked.

No one knew. No one had seen them
‘ither arrive or leave.

“They must have had an automo-

bile,” the Deputy Chief declared. “It
was probably parked in the yard here.
Didn’t—”

“Bond's!” Detective Reiss cried.

Bond's?

“It isn’t around!” he said. “It’s gone
—they must have taken it!”

Edighoffer grabbed the telephone;
the rest of the officers spread out in a
hasty search of the dairy yard, and the
immediately adjacent streets. Car
Nine had disappeared.

THAT was the first alarm which
flashed over the air to the police of
North Jersey. Watch for a black Union
City police car, three men in it of aver-
age height, average build, one in a
jacket, one a topcoat, one a heavy over-
coat. Take them—and use caution.
But the alarm was soon amended.

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More and more dairy employes had
crowded into the office as news of the
holdup and slaying spread. Among
them were Sidney Lerner and Philip
Gepner, .

Lerner had seen the bandits speeding
out of the dairy yard in the police car,
heading toward the bridge over the
Elizabeth River. And Gepner, a book-
keeper working in another building on
the same huge farm, had seen that
police car squeal to a stop just across
the bridge and three men leap out and
pile into another car and speed away.

Car Nine was found, all right, across
the bridge, empty and abandoned—
and another description of an automo-
bile crackled over the air. A 1949 gray,
two-door. Mercury sedan, Gepner had
said, with a Monmouth County license
plate—in New Jersey the first letters
of a license designate the county in
which the car is registered.

All cars—stop a gray, 1949 two-door
Mercury sedan, Monmouth County
license, three or perhaps four men in it.
They are wanted for homicide and
armed robbery. All cars—

It flashed across the air and droned
into the radios of dozens of officers and
it was picked up by other police and
relayed over other channels. Get that
car now if possible, before it vanishes,
before the criminals reach their hide-
out, before they ditch that car for an-
other-one to leave a second stolen, clue-
less machine behind and disappear
completely. Get it now, for if you don't,
the police then must settle down to a

long, tedious, perhaps hopeless investi- -

gation.
Two superhighways, both toll roads,
run close to Union, New Jersey—the
Garden State Parkway and the New
Jersey Turnpike. State Police sped to
the tollgates of these highways, hoping
that perhaps one of the men had
noticed such a car.
_ And one of them had!
A gray, two-door, 1949 Mercury
sedan had crashed through the toll-
gate at the Union-Irvington inter-

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change of the Garden State Parkway,

then backed up when Toll Collector
Vincent Guiliano blew his whistle.

Four men were in the car, not three,
Guiliano said. The driver was big and
burly, with big front teeth; he had paid
the quarter toll without commenting
on the breakthrough; then the car sped
away again. ;

And this had been only minutes be-
fore State Patrolman Itchmoney pulled
up to the tollgate to ask about a gray
Mercury. . .

Again the airwaves crackled. The
car was on the Garden State Parkway,

It was no happy holiday for

Mrs. Bond and her two'sons

headed south. Stop it; cover the Park-
way, cover the two routes that forked
off the still uncompleted highway only
fifteen miles south.

BANDITS intent on a getaway, the
police knew, might have roared
through the gates, unwilling to slow
even for an instant. Then they might
have realized that such an action only
would put more police on their trail and
they might have stopped and backed
up, just as this car had, to pay the toll.

This might be it.

Up and down the Parkway and High-
ways No. 9 and No. 35 that word flashed:
Watch for a gray, two-door 1949 Mer-
cury sedan—

Back in Union, Teufel and Edig-
hoffer, meanwhile, were assembling the
story, as far as they could learn it, from
Abraham Saperstein, dairy executive;
Joseph Altman, bookkeeper; Eleanor
Barthelmess and Judy Maczulak,
switchboard operators, and the others
of the eight employes who had been
locked in the washroom.

This was what they learned:

Because of the holiday, dairy collec-
tions had come in before noon. When
one of the bandits walked into the office,
his cap pulled down over his eyes, the
employes had thought at first that he
was the last of the drivers. bringing in
his day's receipts.

That scene had changed in a flash.
For two more men, also with pulled-
down caps, had followed the first. All
three brandished guns and announced,
“This is a stickup.” They herded the
office personnel into the washroom and
the coat closet which adjoined it.

One bandit snatched the wallet from
the hip pocket of Joseph Altman, the
bookkeeper, ripping the pocket and
taking $80 which Altman carried.

When the robbers had imprisoned the

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feeling nature, evinced no signs of uneast at { ericks that you will prowise to do what she asked 9”
the verdict. He was senienced to be hung jom the wae se “ig Lean dacwe é won's our,
2mh of Aprils pat, alter t EPORTBR—Rut: you 2 on't- ypu, no
re na nema ee he mattor how bard you may appear ? \

gra re-
“j t Gaited if @ verdic - WaRs—I don't like to havo people come round
co enlist eres here squaliiug about me. A mad only dies| once—-

first degree, and ne Ww ocord
a as a Ae gome one time and some Anolacr. What's the use

to be hang December 15. Mr. Scovel avone
untarned, but labored onceasingly in the D rs of making 9 ume about itt aS
behalf for a writ of error; but was wosc fal im Who could answer such gallows philosophy? I
i each tustance, and was Mnally obliged to b the oonld not, and continucd the conversation ch topics
hapless prisoner that he must die, and, ay piready that possessed an luterest for him, His fearleasnoss
reported in tne HeRaLD,. did #0 imform im oD , of death I cannot believe was assumed, for Hla cone
Wedncaday last. eration on other subjects was tot al all meryoHs.
' WARE STENT HIS TIME be oked and laugnca about pepple in the streot
: ginoe Weitnesday in company with his keepers, end and was immensely tickled when he told me that
io liatenmny, but not kecding, the words of unzel Jenkins, the District Attorney, came Up to 8 to
and advice that wave been ceaselcssly tendered. | bum yeaterda and he woalun't talk.
Leportery from didercat papers called on him and “J tell you bo went awsy downlicarted,’? he said,
found kim willing to converao about his tt and and then burst out in a loud ae forgetting, ap-
that he was todlo in lity minutes i

the people who swore agaiast bil, Qa oucr pereny ’

subjects he wasdumi, i t time. :
ossog HE Lagh NIGHT ON RARTH 1 could not bear to listen to him, and walked out

was not @ restiess one. He was visited by Mr. S<¢o- In the ball and Jooked out of the nvrih window into

vel, who had written & statoment: ‘of. the caso, the courtyard below, where workinen were busily

which, upon being read, be sigped with bis X mark. engaged adjusting the ropes and making fival pie-

Tho District Atiorney had’ given orders to bandcud |. parations at tbe foot of the scaffold, which waa

him pelore he slept, The order was conmontcated constructed op the falling sy principle ; -
mi MEARLY HANGED. ;

to bin, when he replied that any one tnat mnider- :

took to come into the cage to handcuff hi would _& Camaer policeman, while experimentlog he ie
meot with his death, for he would «ul him wih tus 1 the rope apd weight, aday or two FINC®, came ver
cnair, He was not handcuffed, Ves near hanging himself. tHe had the noose adjusted,

ARISING ABOUr BBVEN O'CLOCK but very loose1y when tho weigist fell and the novus6
esghey teary Mr, Vameron, nts keeper, asked him If pan avely Rilpped over bia Nead. A tit te! tighter
ue. ad reated well. He repiled, “On, I gngss 80." and he would have proved the ability of that Boal
a ate half an egg aud K somé coffee about fold in the moat signal manner. -
ven o’clack, and the: walked around bis cage it waa near eleven o'clook when I re-entered the
and jooke: down into the street at tne gathcrio roons ia which the trou cage 18 situated. Jolin came
crowd, Ateght o’ciock four oxnorters ol th Motte, up to ne Immediately and reco:umenced the Col-
| Oalst Caureh arrived and began their pert tt & yersation. I gave him a cigar, which be smoked ,;
| Dat without effect, When tbe ERALD raprese taut ” with evidont relish, pausing occasionally to Bay
arrived at nine ‘O'clock, accouspanien vy|/sbh at gomething smart about the peopie who had becan
| Fredericks and wife, tne party were ened: rei instrumental in convicting bua and thea laughing
prayer, Ware koeellug on ono kaeo and ne lh gioud., Jt was throu hont the mst heartrendiug
rubbing his leg with his rignt band, but ap Alpert | conduct for a wan in bis powition that I bave ever |
takivg No interest in what was being sald. cine | watnessed,
Fulaaed shale. prayer the exiorters withardw, an -
ra. Frodericks advanced aud’ attempted to spoak,

Dut her heart failed her, and she b

Canty courage ina lew moments aceeau’ —

we) “OM, JONN! FROMISR ME YOU'LL REPEST?:
promise to ask forgiveness tur your zins; promise to
try and meet us all ln heaven, Won't you be gia! to
meet your litle voy and your witein a better world)?
Not a word, or a tcar even, é3capod tho bdrdenca
wretch. She contuusucd:—* On, Join! Do promise
ms do, for my sake, for lL have been ktad to ypu, and
: ave done everything to make your position ¢asior. "
twas useless, Soe might just as wel) upve at-
tempted to melt a heart of stone. | | :

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Fea

is

. THR SHEHIPF ENTERED aT RLEVEN O'CLOCK

and tatroducca Noo. William &, Mann, District
Altorncy, and Bherif Leeda, both of Pilladelphia,
Ware touked at thein from under nis evevrows aul
slook them by the hand. Wara was then agkod to
smako haus with Mr. Jeuklus, but this be Poss.
tively reiuscd to d@ Ho turned bias heal away
and the tears camo into jus eyes, but ty
Woeld not relent. Tho sherit burst tuto leary, and
implured iin lo shuke Lauda with Air, Jenkins;
but he positive y refased, nor did he give an
answering pressure when that gentleman C2me
around in the cave and took bis band Within bis
own. ‘ i

With the exception of the clergy and reporters
, Overy One Was requested to leave, ang an omcer
"entered the cays, Landcuds in hand, and proceeded
to baodculf We prisoner, utterly

SUBDUBD IN BODY, BUT Nor IN arin,
The toars coursed down the criwtpal’s fuce, and one
could imaxivo: that sumo Iittle repentance for his
Jatuer's murder had possession of his Neart, Out nos
a@ word eet Dim. He suvmitted Passively to
the ministrat,
adjusted loosely ou the top oi tus bead, and im com-
vany with Sherif Leeds and his deputy, followed by
the press representatives and the clergy, the soiemi
procession began the marcn to the scaffold. &en)
two hundred special ,olucemen were on duty, ans
toe Lalls were kept clear and the pazsaye open
THE ENCLUSYURK

snd, ay the prisoner emerged {nto Open alr, a
kilenve ike death fell upon the scene. Even the
leaves hud ceased to rustle in the Cris December
air, a8 if, in unison with the scenes at hand, they
bad for the moment retracted tbeir allewiance te
tbe winds, Sheriff Fredericks turned to Waro wit

‘| Streauing eyes and wsked nis forgiveness, bus

NOf A WORD CAMA .

from the dumy ipa of the law's viotm. All heads
| Were upcovered, and au impressive prayer was
| ofered on benalf of ihe wreicied criminal. Whata
B0Irow!lul sigit ho presente standing under tue
| allows! His coat i rags and ais elbows sticking
| Gut, pants half jastened upon his body and his
‘Toot nervously beating wWme to the confsicunys
emotions in bis breast. “ina wiladow of the Court
| House were two female domestica, crying as i
. Wer hearts would break at tne sight below them,
! jes they would not have missed seolng it lor any.
‘thing. 1t 18 @ pecuitarity of people of their starica
in Jue that they are the frst to make & time on oo..
Caaion of suleriug, suffering which they neea not

the opportuhity to. gratlly Lae eh aE Pe

| Fertugately {et the spirit of the age executions aro

| COMparatively private, ~
The prayer ocing finished a number Of people
Gathered around the criminal and endeavored to
console him, (0 :3duce him to pray, but he was érm
ahd answered pot. A second prayer wua then
ofered by old. Mr. Cameron, the kind-nearted man
that has acted as Ware's pr ngipal keeper, yet tne
stolld heart wa3 antouched, and the old man arosa,
with tears running down his cheeks ‘John!’ said
Pheriuy Fredericks, ay he :
. PULLED THE BLACK CAP :

OWRD Over Waro’a bead. "I ask oe once nore,
gwall you pray for forgiveness? WH) Yuu not say

uc Mtue heartielt prayer--oner UP One last exoor-
talon?’ Ware way aileut for bout two sevonds,
aud replied: -

Ons Of the Officers, The black Cup Was:

Was already Miled with an anxious, staring crowds |

¥ w
ke fyain on earti. Lhe Sherif rh

anand: atid inten, picked up the ono eae Feed
' plow severed the rope. The welg _ eenees tr
| SY £0 tne Bre toue, end Bug Gp sad

and fell ba g DP oe

eck was broken at

bois was alowed to Tang soot nal au boar, a3
down and tu
ind thus oads ihe caribly carcer Er fengoth * us ers
' nardened criminals of the clay, Jat 34 hep

ali fund that mercy that ear

ie THE PARRICIDA’§ CONFES3ION, wing dba
' Ware, late lastevening, made tne foilo

oe : i,
. e CaMDEN Jari, il ae eterna Mehl
: Uod, word, am twenty (bie ears
pre ae) re ny nor wrist and, Bb 1 \old cee Of WAY

‘ 7 oie nrg
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Me entry ine: ne : The bias | i Sy dig '
mi the hack oeniry dovr ry drowned Phlood and water | Titey were ee IRON AND. sae ee i SUP if
Me kitchen and across | ts the; wagon weeping just a littl Y are Femme nie | deal eee hips vy et THE ? Ri ae
HOUSG, Into The wagon house and down Vor just how they falbavhion. they we re 3 | Me ANTES NEST MONDAY NIGHT Cy
Yrhe walk to the door batween tie Wide E Shot Miss Shinite! becaise bE did ae 14 d 6t BED.) REEVES | :
wen houre and the barn and up tao aon Want anvbody fo knuw | Shot Mr. | Pine ema eee = i}
wan ey sars hay right side of the driveway Holnies and beeause: b) wig éxeited, 4 Dr. O. B. Peck, Dentiat, iL
1¥ Occurred, at about | 80 P a Da Of? the! pee nea 1 | a i oe AMS ps tet. A Iv. No. 20 i. Commerce Bt , Ann.
: ea Hae 1ed) a ne doors.) of the’ barn ated Santemberpe es: LAO? ie
i ok Then I went back and! got Miss Shute) \Witncds: : ‘ dak for Piano contest tickets. J SI ()
and dragged her the same way. TiJaida Charle So) ae hia, See ist of merchants on fourth page, /) oe
Fithian is not on-| her might along sidevof him. She) was W. Co Tends, 10:10-d tf Ip Vie : sa
’ family, but a wice | Ne nearest'in the driveway. They were Hrank aie ei mh ARIE ee tae *h
MiP mourn his decease | Close together, 1 put Mirji) Holmeg’ yah J. Hampton oPithian. ae Hi dla Mami Scissors ic eRea
Ny : ‘ ‘ { ?. HLOTS Would say YC RCisROre Beast?
iness Interests of the } yo ea ea erie foro25e, but that fe mot ae Wav of mh
: | i fi t Ucn: me business Those scissors are a,j. eR!
Born 1 ebro Aida vii a | a hie, all steel forged, the peo a have Bring
pr 2 Raat i, Fr ; of } AD : 4 aver had for 25¢, and wa NOW foOd : can fi
Re HE the Schetrey i: ; u i} eae a } Lalas « ann chi ORD : me very ots
@nd a part of his as hee : a? ni ee Wier | Wentzel
Spent Beate hut ha : i i CCH fi Lambe itl SY
eT the old Harmony WRONESDAY: ANTIERNOON. en
anki! street. Later, “pj Court, attendance: 'was -auemented | . hut eee
Uadelphia, he was in| vesterday afternoon bY adlargwer crows Me iA
Of the: Philadel phia | at tie morning session Das : a
a the, prisenéer): came ine) | omelet ad a
Married Harrict Reeves | court this time with a: Piccadilly, col: :
@hildren. The loss of | lar and white necktie, having changed) ¢ al 1 J i
Pemve Years ago, and cf|it from a4. laydown. collar, and ‘blac 4 x ie i :
Jennie, nine montns | netkKtie, pt

re blow to Mr. Fith
Survive him: Wiliam
Bridgeton: Francis 1.
aden, and Alex R. Fith

aren rests of: " Bridge.

nied all that statements made by SR!
Was a pioneer. He ams Whileon the stand in the morMy.
#noOmpson sold the first! ing. : i f a
pihing ever sold in tne @haries J. Fithian was alsé recalied
i : to deny Statome rade by Williams
Was identified with He denied them fet 5
wer in: the lumber Mr. Iredell areued that inducements

Where J. F. Johnson has

ene of the pioneers

Stand and denied ever

were made to.
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then ant

Prosecutor) Fith lian again: took +A

Saving that 90s

Persons out |Of, LA00' bi tiewed. Job dil)
er: the .twoypesple or anything: sisi

conld be so eomseried:

Brank:Jv. Lore was recahiad: and de:

caused

that: Be

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7 have o baal ie :
asiry. here, and the futon Fithian. eited) (several ' Ny ad ee
& Pogue bad the fac. volun apg! @onfesstons! Hil. Owing to the: fact that tie ie: ‘ate ae Camp murist be
Hy John W. Stout. fonts about to be! of Sale’ ever in’ Bridgeton: ee teh lout exception, is reduced |
; a a retired life on idenee! was made. v ey * " cis
i iar on Bo i os } UST
in 1888 sa 8 a he Wilkathe Suu Otir, stock us re my An € drier ies s jus
“interest in tite Hight he wisned | to make: a invest be set iu nothing else 2 LO) Wh Seid
Wide gt x eel ba aement) as | it WOU Reeve) bis Ra nO ha iwe! peo rhe i lin
© of the Cumberland| a Hendrickson and.) Judes’ ‘wteat sale. Lec dai ats Hibenta: stock to
a i yet tl i * if
te oo Which Trenchatd retired, to a ‘back BORE he buying 4 aaa cioth: is a »
deliberate over’ the matter of admit! sarees if
ns the COMTESS 10D. of | Wilamipe: ty :
On retaking the bench Justice: Hen: i
drickson:) stated it they desired 46 i lis ireat Sal ie if fore
OME HM? yh bar Sheriff,/Hendea, before: Ma Gk

final dectkion.

ch Ye and fredel} ected “the sherl ite to. fe. Ot i for witttet Lae a wreat savin * on the reeular test. W have
na rede} he 3
ek eG oe i; oe wnchi reas ihe cial A OF the stock’ COM prises otoutsiSlin and Reoulsre
nd Lodge, a ne malay VY hearing in the caso was elos i , easy pire gues
and Was actively ident ial) ee Pete aid os) q
| First Presbyterian) Jndge Hendrick sor n said they would | 4 0) r Stock yf B % io i
Jl a eae re thie hearings “anu, Stiri ender u ( OF : |
Mr ah gaia sisleadaahe at rine bn the stand: and Beet o
ree oe | i
igh ae Sand. abet 2p r + ‘ *
loatir | a for dress aad school woar you dvd tak e advantage of, as we just re
“Ours | , a Rib wee pend ats rae ‘hal
nee a ARLOP another deliberation " ju ME. IN” Ss F2AIN rs We have vet 1000, Pairs « nd Ps int 5,
jes repirned (to the Bene di daaties at
th, on] Aoadrienst dtm uate s BIGIn -teduction in érder to move tai quickly
ay a Mig eer ext ha eee } Bi) y ‘ 4 . ' he ahaa
os eg be Haida OV ERCOATS—All the new and nobby styles in cul:aad
ei a a of Sente miuber tire } A ab Sai hy Ane ee td ue Reet ee
ehtctiain:linade w cin toxsion when hie Mie Panta 100 doze n soc Hleece Underwear will be sold tor 30¢. a
TChuren Nig! RATRO Wha i he yar ifound ey :
OF MTR. OW that: there werk nO pron BCH ide TOP i Ne Me h t. we il wn
4 hdiainy Maida. aah the orifoner) Gr that hit eee Vi ERY i Te Fist Bt Bt ere anh Al Of ing
“Floral: Dri, found that the! proge¢ bet warned hun eas ; :
uA TAO, ‘| i ‘ OO CaN vith inlese oH q Le IE 4
I tabs sie 4, ae pe rake a pes ge alg Hoh. you Bava gcniine bargains: ith cliehaet made to order from
Rhir: UGhc Leh era mae BY ated found: that Mp. i
~- EMER Aid net ninke. (ena on: promin, EEL the citylitewill be to, your advantage to come here firs:
t a . : A eae me i a ‘t ie | pie We ha an extra force of cle ‘ths employ ed to wait on you, wh
TEES att Vit) CARES) Gee. VCs Pat tb : be i ; Ai f
1 Am IN SEG Pye ee ee Maw cet Hes pe op TCU AN iyi Be Wiaranie ed. Any. article Th Ve Satisfac Lor ¥ <atk De returns
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any statorint 4 herefere) ttiey a * ag or
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ok EVER and | de

Pp Keon and Broadway Mr Iredell ane and! wae) Allowed
Bthe very best made | an everplion ee Pa Mies
65, South Latins). Charles J Fithian war) pecallde
16-13 a u VProseeiitor Fithian whoweds hin hee
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“IN THE NIG

ACH MORNING before going to work Wilson Edelman
took a long walk. He could be seen regularly swinging
along the Mantua-Wenonah highway from his home in

Woodbury, N. J., to a small concrete bridge spanning Mantua
Creek. The distance was about four miles.

He reached the bridge shortly after 7 o’clock on the crisp.

Sunday morning of October 2. As was his custom, he paused
for a few moments before starting the homeward journey.
* Leaning on the railing, he saw a splash of in the

bushes some 15 feet below. He crossed the wooden planking =

to the far ig of bp ohee 2 and ao down a narrow,
winding path to the sluggish, m stream.

Beside the water a young ect lay on her back, her eyes
staring vacantly at the lue sky. She was dead. Her
head was bloody and strands of copper wire encircled her
throat, Scrambling up the embankment, Edelman raced to
the nearest home and called County Detective Andrew J.

Less than 20 minutes later three men stood beside the
corpse. They were Detective Scott, Sheriff Jacob K. Tryon
of Gloucester County and State Trooper J. C. Smith, who
had answered Scott’s call to the Berlin barracks of th
New Jersey State Police. i

The girl seemed scarcely more than 18. Her hair lay in
long black curls to- her shoulders. She wore a pink dress
with splashes of red, a black cloth coat and flesh colored
stockings. On her left foot was a black suede, high-heeled
slipper, but her right foot was unshod. :

The hair near the scalp was thickly matted with blood,
while her features were badly bruised, apparently by blows.
Two strands of wire, similar to the type used in the ignition
systems of automobiles, were drawn so tightly around her
neck they were deeply em in the flesh. She had also
been shot twice. Yet a string of imitation pearls remained
unbroken despite the terrible beating she had taken.

Nearby lay a box of oysters. Inspecting her coat pockets,
Sheriff Tryon found a Christmas Club bankbook issued to
Louis Sarle by the Mechanics Bank of Woodbury, The last
entry showed a deposit of $3 made on Saturday, October 1,
the previous day. Ma ;

News of the murder spread so rapidly that by the time
Tryon and Trooper Smith prepared to leave,the scene a
large crowd had gathered on the bridge. Tryon quickly
drove to Woodbury where he braked before the Sarlo home,
a modest house at 122 North Broad Street.

Word of the girl’s death had already preceded them.
Julius Metzger, a butcher shop proprietor, who employed
Louis Sarlo, had already broken the tragic news to the

family.

Sarlo identified the Christmas Club bankbook as one
carried by his daughter Rose. The shocked father ‘led
Trooper Smith into a comfortably furnished living room,

left sh

News of the ¢ y spread rapidly.
A crowd | on the Dias betes
which (arrow) Rose Sarlo was found.

%..

while the sheriff departed to inquire of neighbors into the
character and habits of the dead girl ‘ ite 9
It did not take Tryon long to become impressed with the

reputation Rose Sarlo had as a model girl who worked at a-

woolen mill in nearby Camden, taught Sunday School in
her home town,:and who, while cheerful and even fun-
loving, had never had a boy friend. The father supported
the story that Rose did not go out with young men.

“When did you last see your daughter?” Smith asked. |

“About 8 o’clock last night. She came into the shop where
I work to buy some oysters. My oldest son Louie waited
on her. She told me had deposited the $3 I had given
her in the morning.” wae

Letters In Diary a

“Suppose we start at the beginning,” urged Sheriff Tryon.
“What time did she leave here last night?”

“My wife says Rose had supper with her and my two
youngest boys, after which she went upstairs to dress. She
after 7 saying she was first going to the bank,
then to the five-and-ten to buy a toy for Robert—our
youngest boy-—for his birthday next week. She was to get
the oysters and then go to a show. She promised to be
home by 11.” :

“aes she ever stayed out overnight?”

oO. F

“Then why weren’t the police notified when she didn’t
come home?” asked Tryon.

Sarlo shrugged. “My wife looked in her room around 2:30
this morning and saw the bed was empty. We were wor-
ried, of course, but just kept hoping nothing had happened
to her.”

“May we see her room?”

Sarlo led them up carpeted stairs to a neatly furnished

TO THE MURDER OF THE GIRL WHO DID NOT GO OUT WITH BOYS


Behind the “little green door" this
killer paid for the murder of a girl
who turned down his marriage offer.

chamber. The white mantelpiece was
lined with books. A long-legged doll
lay propped against the pillows of the
undisturbed bed. Their careful search
revealed a gold-edged diary. However,
several letters enclosed between its
pages proved more important than the
diary itself, which contained only inno-
cent jottings of a young girl about her
-work and her teaching in church.

The letters were written on cheap
scratch paper and in pencil. Tryon read

- the first.

Carly Head:- Would you like to go to a
show Saturday evening with me in Woodbury
or PhiladelphiaP I promise to bring you
home early. Shake your head “yes” or “no”
as I pass by.

I have never thought of anyone as I am

inking of you. I have to admit I have
fallen hard. Are you sure you tried to get
out, dear? There must be some way that
you can. get out fer two hours. Love.

An excerpt from a second of the
notes, all written by the same person,
read:

I would like to give you a note every day
when I pass by at 7:31. I am loving you
more every day.

* Still a third said in part:

I am sorry that you cannot get out and I
am very much disappointed. Can you slip
away for awhile and meet me on Red Bank
Avenue? Tell your mother you are going
for a walk.

Sheriff Tryon pocketed the letters, all
of which were unsigned, and turned to
Sarlo. “Are you positive Rose never
mentioned any boy?”

“Never. Not a one.” :

“When she came into your shop last
night did she have her purse and Rob-
ert’s present with her?”

“Yes.”

Upon leaving the house with Trooper
Smith, the sheriff broached two the-
ories: that Rose Sarlo had been slain
elsewhere and carried to the creek, and

36 that she knew the killer well.

Sheriff Jacob K. Tryon read a hidden
meaning in several letters which he
found in the diary the victim kept.

Supporting these, deductions, he said,
wére the facts that one shoe, her purse
and her little brother’s birthday gift
were missing, and her record as a
“home girl.” The absence of the shoe,
bag and present suggested that she
might have been killed in a car, in
which these objects dropped. -

“And from what we've learned so
far, Rose wasn’t the kind to go pick any
fellow up. Her schedule for the evening
must have been mapped out before she
left the house, else why would she
promise to be back at a certain time?”

At his office he learned that Detective
Scott had notified Coroner. Atlee B.
Adams, who had the body removed to
his funeral parlors in Weodbury where
Dr. H. H. Clark, county physician,
would perform an autopsy.

“While you were at the Sarlo home,”
said Scott, “I overheard someone say
Rose was fond of movies. The cashier
of the Wood theater says she remem-
bers selling the girl a ticket around
8:15 last night.”

Seen With Men

Further interesting news of the dead
girl filtered in when Blanche Sweeter,
a 19-year-old chum, said she saw Rose
talking to two young men at 10:30
Saturday night on Broad Street, oppo-
site the post office.

“I thought it so unusual to see her
in the company of men that I kept
watching her as I walked down the
street,” she continued. “Then I saw her
leave them and cross to where several
cars .were parked before the postal
building. She stopped and spoke to
some man in an Essex coach or sedan.”

“Did you recognize this man?” asked

on.

“No, sir, I didn’t.”

“Did she get in the car?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t stay to find
out.”

“How about the other two young
men. Do you know them?”

“No, sir.”

Two Woodbury youths substantiated
part of Miss Sweeten’s story, saying

_ On Monday morning the officers re-

witness that morning

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young men at 10:30 p.m.

“Did you notice anything peculiar
about these notes found in her diary,
sheriff?” asked Scott, fingering the let-
ters thoughtfully. .

“I believe I know what you mean—
where the writer says, ‘shake your head
as I pass by,’ and ‘I would like to give
you a note every day when I pass at
ou” j

Scott nodded. “That’s it. It seems to
me that only a man employed by a rail-
road or driving a bus would write those
words. Rose worked in Camden, eight
miles from here. She traveled by bus.
There’s a good chance she made the
acquaintance of a driver, who might
have been changed to another run, and
took to corresponding with her.”

“Maybe the guy in the Essex,” Tryon
ventured.

ceived Dr. Clark’s autopsy report. Rose
Sarlo had been killed by a bullet that
entered the left temple and emerged
from the right. A second shot entered
the body above the heart and lodged
against a metal stay in an undergar-
ment. It was of .32 caliber. Her skull
had been fractured by a blunt instru-
ment which, from the appearance of the
wounds, had been a rock. She had not-
been criminally attacked. Dr. Clark
placed the time of the murder at near
midnight Saturday.

Mrs. Emily Verfaillie, a resident of
Verga, N. -J., offered the information
that on Saturday night she and her
daughter Mary had alighted from a bus
on East Red Bank Avenue in Wood-
bury at approximately 11:30.

Tryon and Scott knew the street. On
the outskirts of town, it had long,
lonely deserted stretches. Used fre-
quently as a lovers’ lane, it would serve
equally well for murder.

she nor ¥

her daughter recognized the machine,
or got its license number. :
“We got a glimpse of a man in the cf
car'and he looked drunk, or crazy,” 4i

' the woman went on. “He was hatless

and his hair was mussed. He wore no
coat and his sleeves: were rolled up. 4]
When-I got home I told my husband . =|
about ‘ and lis arg back along Red =!
Bank Avenue looki g for the machine,
but it had gone.” a

“We know Rose was murdered “=
around 11:30 Saturday night,” said
Scott. “We also know she received let- —
ters from an unnamed admirer, and_.
that she was seen talking to a man in an
Essex. Our next job is to find the owner
of the Essex, for I’m sure she entered
that car.”

However,

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ure for comparison with the photograph
of the print taken on East Red Bank
Avenue.

“Look, sheriff,” directed Scott, huddled
over the left running board. “Notice the
aluminum step.”

It was spotted, apparently with blood.
They removed it and placed it in their
car. Further searching revealed several
bits of broken glass bearing suspicious
stains, which they also confiscated for
analysis by a chemist. The car reeked
with the odor of gasoline.

“The fire could have started the way
he said it did,” conjectured Tryon, “but
po ca is that this was an i i
job.

Scott nodded. “How about the state
police looking it over?”

Tryon nodded. “Okay. But in the
meantime I'm hauling Yarrow in on sus-
picion of murder.”

The former bus driver was taken to
Woodbury and: locked up for question-
ing later. The state police removed the
Essex from his front yard for scrutiny
by, their lab experts in Trenton.

Jimmy the Dope” Fennelli’s actions on

the night of the murder were: also o

to question. He said he drove to Wood.
b early Saturday night, played some
pool and cards at a local place, ‘and then,
having lost his money, went home, reach-
ing aca City shortly after mid-
_ Tryon learned that Yarrow had served
time in Philadelphia for robbery. He dis-
covered too, that the suspect had phoned
to his employer on the night of the mur-
der to say he was taking the night off.
Fennelli was cleared when Tryon found
his alibi tighter than a drum. At the
time of Rose Sarlo’s murder the man was
sullenly watching a card game after fail-
Ing to coerce his companions into making
a small loan so that he could continue in it.

Handwriting Matches

Lab reports the next morning from
Trenton made Tryon forget about Fen-
nelli. The bits of broken glass were
stained with human blood, as was the
metal strip taken from the running board.
Furthermore, the tire removed from the
charred Essex matched perfectly with the
print taken at the scene of the crime.

Another ing piece of evidence was
uncovered when a search of Yarrow’s

his handwriting which tallied exactly
with that of the letters found in the dead
girl’s diary. The circumstantial case
against him was now strong, but there
was even more to come.

One of the two youths who had seen
Rose Sarlo go to the Essex shortly before
her death identified Yarrow as the driver.

“And I not only saw Rose talking to
him, but while I was waiting for the bus
I saw her get into the car,” he said.

The final link in the chain of evidence
against the brutal killer came when the
police laboratory stated that the fire
in the Essex was incendiary in origin,
having been set with gasoline.

Despite hours of grilling Yarrow did not
break down. The officers questioned him
in relays, hammering home the facts of
the crime. Then, after 36 hours, he con-
fessed to killing Rose Sarlo.

He admitted knowing the girl for some
time, having first made her acquaintance
when he was on the Woodbury-Camden
bus run. He asked her many times for
a date, but she always laughed him off.
When he was shifted to another route he
wrote the letters, handing them to her as
she waited for the bus he had formerly
driven.

On the night of the murder he drove to
Woodbury. He spied Rose talking to the
two young men on Broad Street, blew his
horn to attract her attention, circled the
block and parked across the street in
front of the postoffice, waiting. ‘

When she crossed over to talk with him
he invited her in the car, promising to
drive her home. Instead he drove to the
outskirts of town, finally stopping on East
Red Bank Avenue.

“Out there,” he said, “I tried to tell her
that I loved her—that I couldn’t live with-
out her. I begged her to marry me. She
grew angry and demanded that I take her
home immediately. She said she never
wanted to see me again. I don’t know
what happened then—I was out of my
head. I killed Rose—killed her because I
was too crazy about her.”

Yarrow said he slugged and strangled
her in the car. Then he saw a woman—
Mrs. Verfaillie—approaching the Essex.
With Rose unconscious beside him, he
drove off to the lonely Green estate
grounds. By that time Rose was coming
to, and started to fight. He strangled her
with the wire, and then put one bullet

her heart.

Next he drove to the Mantua Creek
bridge, dumped her body over the railing
and went home. Fearing the brownish
stains on his car would be incriminating
evidence against him, he sought to destroy
it by setting the car afire. Waiting till the
flames gained considerable headway, he
called the fire department in order to
bolster his story. ‘

Yarrow was charged with the murder
and returned to his cell. A fresh sensa-
tion was created in Woodbury a few days
before his trial when Mrs. Sylvia Michaels
of Philadelphia stalked into Sheriff
Tryon’s office and demanded that George
Yarrow be held for a second murder, that
of her daughter Ruth.

She explained that Yarrow had married
Ruth when the girl was barely 14, but had
deserted her shortly after the nuptials
were performed. She had not seen nor
heard from her daughter in two years.
Yarrow was questioned, but vchemently
denied having murdered his wife.

This accusation was dropped a few days

- later when Ruth ‘Yarrow appeared in

Woodbury to aid her husband in his fight
for life. She stated that she had gone. to
Florida after their separation and hadn’t
bothered to write to anyone telling of her
whereabouts. . o

The trial opened on December 7, 1927,
in the Woodbury courthouse before Su-
preme Court Justice Frank S. Katzenbach.
Yarrow was defended by Attorney Lewis
Lieberman, who based his defense on a

“plea of irresponsibility, claiming his client

had suffered a shrapnel wound in the

head during World War I.

His brilliant defense of the cold-blooded
killer went for naught, however, for after
an hour’s deliberation the jury returned

a verdict of guilty in the first degree. Two.

days later Justice Katzenbach sentenced
Yarrow.to die in the electric chair during
the week of January 7, 1928.

After several reprieves, George Yarrow
walked through the “little green door” of
Trenton’s deathhouse shortly after 9
o’clock on the night of June 1, 1928, where
he paid in full for the brutal murder of
18-year-old Rose Sarlo..—

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could slump to the floor. A pulmotor was
rushed into the office and vigorously ap-
plied, but the man did not regain con-
sciousness. In a few minutes he was dead.

Simpson, Carpenter and Shaffer, who had
rushed to the Miami headquarters to ques-
tion the! prisoner, found that their quarry
ha > more “escaped” them through his

sui

While the .32-caliber murder ‘gun was
never ‘found, there was no doubt that the
impersonator was Newman’s slayer and
also Special Officer Burgoyne’s attacker.

Several fingers on his right hand were
matched up with the prints taken from
Newman’s cab and slivers of lead bullet,
removed from his amputated left thumb,
bore eight points of comparison with test
shots fired from Burgoyne’s service pistol.

Nor was there any doubt about his being
the slayer of Martin and Hudson in Ken-
tucky. The draft card, processed by Bar-
ker, turned out to be a forgery. Underneath

ison’s name was the original typing on
.the card. It had been made out to Paul

Eugene Martin of Newport, Ky. Martin’s

draft number—1876—was also on the card.

The police suspected the name Allison
was a phony. Inquiry showed the St.
George Street address in St. Augustine
‘was a sign shop operated under Allison’s
| - ’s clothes h i

woman’s clo e@ was wearing
leuk not be traced, but several railroad
stubs proved he had made trips to St.
laugnaiine, Atlanta and other places in
‘Georgia, where the costume could ‘have
‘been bought. It was likely, despite the
Cincinnati address the man had forged on
the draft card, that the dead killer had
come from some section of the South.

This was borne out on March 30, when
the FBI sent his real identification, culled
from the fingerprints Barker had dis-
patched to them.

: 7 Mark Allison, Jr., they said, was

in ' George William Fowler, 21, a

Navy aeserter. He had lived in Bessemer,

— and was the scion of a wealthy family
ere.-

The youth had enlisted in the Navy on
July 27, 1940, at Birmingham, and there was
no record of his discharge. In fact, his
parents believed he was still in the service.

In July 1940, just a few days before his
enlistment, Fowler had filed an application
for a job with the Federal Communica-
tions Commission in Washington. In con-
nection with the application he submitted
his fingerprints to the FBI. It was these
that turned up his true identity almost
five years later.

lice could not prove he was

onm the $30,000 holdup.
In | iy oh Be carried two twenties
nd a ten-dollar bill, Newman’s savings.

n his thumb he toted the remnants of Har- |

ld Burgoyne’s bullet. These were his sole
ewards for a brief but hectic career in
loodshed. . .

A Scream in the Night

(Continued from page 36)

Mantua Creek bridge at 4:30 on Sunday

morning. The fellow, he said, was Charley
Morino, 17, of Woodbury.

Morino was arrested. He denied having
seen Rose on the night of the murder,
but admitted having known the girl and
having tried to date her. He also said

he had crossed the bridge early on Sun-.

day morning, but explained he had spent
the evening with friends in Philadelphia,
had missed a late bus home, and so was
walking out.

Tireprint Clue

The young man’s story about walking
from Philadelphia seemed far-fetched.
Tryon held him as a material witness.

The two youths who had been seen talk-
ing to Rose after she emerged from the
Wood theatre came forward to clear them-
selves of any suspicion. They said they
met the girl while walking down Broad
Street and stopped to chat a few minutes
with her before boarding a bus home.
While they were talking a car approached.
The driver honked his horn, leaned out
the window and called, “Hello, Rose.”

“Did you recognize him?” asked Tryon.

Both youths shook their heads. They
said the car must have circled the block
for it appeared a few minutes later going
in the same direction. When they said
goodnight to Rose they watched her cross
the street and talk to a man parked in an
Essex.

“Was this the same car that passed
earlier?” e

Both agreed it was.

Detective Scott began trying: to locate
the Essex coach. A check with the motor
vehicle bureau in Trenton revealed a
number of Essex owners in the vicinity
of Woodbury. He decided to find those
bsg Magen igs amen either a cee
or the many ines passing ugh
Woodbury to Philadelphia. a

Scott was interrupted when James
Youngcourt, a friend of the Sarlo family,
excitedly informed the police he had
located the spot where Rose Sarlo was

murdered.

Securing the assistance of the state
police, Sheriff Tryon- and Scott drove
Youngeourt to a place along wooded
East Red Bank Avenue, a lonely, deserted
“or on the outskirts of town.

e
clearing were trampled, showing the girl
had put up a fight for her life. The miss-
ing suede slipper was found, along with
a change purse with 64 cents, a girl’s
high school ring and a ticket stub from
the Wood theatre. Nearby lay a package
in which were tin  soldiers—Robert’s
present. -

The ground, soft from. recent rains,

revealed the indistinct markings of a

man’s shoes, and the peg-like imprints of
a woman’s heels were plainly to be seen.

One detective found a lacy, blood-
stained handkerchief with the initial “R”
embroidered in a corner.

“Let's see ‘if we can’t get a tireprint,”
Tryon suggested.

The ground was searched with minute
thoroughness. The soft shoulders on both
sides of the road were inspected,
Scott suddenly exctaimed, “I think I’ve
picked it up, sheriff!” |

A clear print lay a few- feet from the
spot where Rose had fought for her life.
State police photographed it for future
reference. :

“There’s a farmhouse on the corner

weeds and bushes around the

LeLS see UW ne Can tell-uS anything.

Alexander Taggart, caretaker of the 4
Green estate whose property abounds East “4
Red Bank Avenue on both sides, admitted
he was at home Saturday evening but said ‘J
he saw no car nor heard any shots. a

Charlie Morino was released from cus- «j
tody when it was found his Philadelphia %
alibi stood up. He hadn’t left the Quaker {
City until nearly 3 a.m., which placed him .
miles away from the scene of a murder that “4

had taken place hours before.

After much work, Scott and Tryon 4 }
eliminated all but two owners of Essex
cars from the scores investigated. One of 9

these, George Yarrow, had once been em-

ployed as a bus driver on the Philadelphia- 4 |
Woodbury Interstate line, but had been -4

discharged three months before. He lived
with his invalid mother, sister and brother-
in-law. in Barnsboro, a few miles south
of Woodbury. e

The other Essex owner, James Fen-
nelli, known around the pool halls of
Gloucester as “Jimmy the Dope,” also
came under suspicion. He too, had once
held a job driving a bus, but had been
discharged for insubordination. He lived

in Gloucester City, but was a frequent ee
visitor to Woodbury and was well known 4

in the town. He had been arrested sev-
eral times on minor charges, but never
was convicted.

Works Nights

Tryon decided to question Yarrow first.
The sheriff and Detective Scott drove to
his home. Entering the front yard, they
spied the burned skeleton of what had
once been an Essex coach.

Yarrow’s sister, answered their Z

“We'd like to speak to George if he’s in,”
requested Tryon. ‘

“He

“He’s asleep,” replied the sister.
works nights. I'll wake him.”

The officers’ hearts sank at this an-
nouncement. If Yarrow worked nights
he surely couldn’t have been committing
murder on East Red Bank Avenue on.
Saturday night. A few minutes later a
medium-sized, pale-faced man in his early
30s walked into the room, rubbing his
eyes. ,

He sat down, lighted a cigarette and faced
the officers calmly.

“Did you know Rose Sarlo?” began
Tryon.

“Yes. I met her when I used to drive

a bus to Camden. She works there.” _

“Did you know she’s been murdered?”

“No, I didn’t.” Yarrow’s ‘eyes lifted- in
surprise. “You see, I work nights and it’s
early morning when I get home. I sleep
most of the day and then go back to
work. I don’t have much chance to look
at the papers.”

“I see your car is burned. When did it
happen?” asked the sheriff.

“The other nght.. I had just gotten to
bed when it started to blaze. My exhaust
had been backfiring all the way home
and it must have overheated,” he explained.
“The Barnsboro fire department came and
extinguished the blaze.” __

“Have you a phone here?”

“Yes, in the hall.”

Tryon turned to his partner, “Scott,
the fire department ~and check on. his
story.” :

Scott left the room, and soon returned.

“He's telling the truth, sheriff.” 3

Tryon rose. “Mind if I look the

over?” :

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still had no hint to the identity of the man
whose weapon had shot ‘down their fellow
officer in cold blood more than three
months before.

During the last week of December the
Camden police received a call from Cap-
tain John “Shooey” Malone of the Phila-
delphia Detective Bureau. “We've got a
tip that a gang of pretty tough characters
is holed up in a house on North Sixth
Street, and we’re planning to raid the
place tonight,” Malone informed Camden’s
Chief of Police Colsen. “Your boys may
be looking for some of this bunch, so
come on over and join in the fun.”

Captain Malone, it evolved, had been
tipped off by a. grocery-store delivery boy
who had glanced through a back window
ina house at 4352 North Sixth and-seen
three men seated about a kitchen table.
Two of them were busily cleaning a ma-
chine gun, while the third stood by with a
pair of heavy revolvers in his hands.

Inquiry about the neighborhood re-
vealed that “suspicious-appearing charac-
ters” had been coming and going from the
house at all hours since two men and four
women had moved in several weeks before.
Rarely, however, had any of the place’s
occupants been seen during the daylight
hours, and never were any of the delivery.
boys or peddlers who called at the place
admitted.

On the night of December 29th, a Sun-
day, Captain Malone led a dozen Phila-
deiphia and Camden officers in a raid on
the establishment. Lieutenant Mathew
Clark and Detectives John Hardy, James
Ryan, George Richardson and George
Weldon were assigned to watch the out-
side while the others prepared to enter.

As Lieutenant Clark was stationing his
men at strategic spots about the building,
three men were seen to slip from a side en-
trance. Clark instantly recognized one of
them as Robert Mais, wanted for months
in connection with the murder of a police
officer in Richmond, Virginia, and the
more recent robbery of the offices of the
Pennsylvania Rapid Transit Company in
Philadelphia. Another man answered to
the description of Martin Farrell.

To keep any others who might remain
in the house from becoming alarmed, no
immediate attempt was made to take the
trio into custody. Instead, Clark and two
of his men started following them at a
distance, walking rapidly through the light
snow that was now falling.

When the trio hailed a taxi a block

way, Clark turned and signalled to one

1 of the detectives following at a discreet

distance in a police machine. Then the
four officers tailed the taxi to the Wayne
Junction Railroad Station in North Phila-
delphia. Here was where they planned
to close in, but before they could do so
the three suspects piled from the taxi and
ran to the platform along which the
Reading Railroad juns trains between
Philadelphia and New York. :

’ The station has northbound and south-
bound platforms, with an iron picket fence
separating the two sets of tracks. The
fleeing men entered the southbound en-
trance, then ducked suddenly into a ‘small
tunnel that would take them - under the
roadbed to the northbound side.

. The man recognized as Mais, the Vir-
gina cop-killer, turned then and saw the
officers behind them. Before: Clark and the
others could draw their weapons Mais had
a revolver in his own hand ‘and was firing.
The detectives, seeing the platforms
crowded with persons waiting for a late

' train, held their fire. When, a few mo-

ments later, the running men hit the

‘| tracks and started north, the detectives

were several hundred feet behind them.
The trio being pursued separated and dis-

appeared in the snow, which was now com-
ing down heavily and obscuring the vision.

ACK at the house in Sixth Street, mean-

while, Captain Malone and Detective
Hardy approached the front door, pushed
it open and went into a brightly lighted
hallway. Camden Detective August Koer-
ner, who later was to succeed Colsen as
chief of police, was stariding immediately
behind the Philadelphia officers. He in-
stantly recognized the slim, pasty-faced
youth who appeared at the far end of the
hallway.

“It’s Wiley!” Koerner shouted. “Watch
out! He’ll shoot!”

But instead of shooting, Wiley turned
and ran back into one of the rooms off
from the ‘hallway. Outside the house, De-

,-tective John Hardy saw ‘the slim holdup
man climb out into the roof of an adjoin-
ing building. Hardy opened up with a sub-
an gun, and Wiley ducked back in-
side.

A minute or so later, Captain Malone
pushed his shoulder against the locked
door of the room into which Wiley had
ducked. He was met by a shapely blonde
in her early teens.

“Don’t shoot! Oh, please don’t!” the
girl cried as she threw her arms about the
detective. Behind her stood Wiley and
another man—a swarthy, cool-eyed man
whose features bore the tight, blank look
of the confirmed drug addict. Both stood
facing the doorway with . their hands
thrust above their heads. a

The man who was led from the house
with Wiley a few minutes later admitted
he was Charles Zeid, alias Rubin Seide, a
34-year-old four-time loser who had been
sought for weeks in connection with the
holding up of the Pennsylvania Rapid
Transit station with Mais and Wiley, and
for questioning about the kidnaping and
murder of Big Nose Weiss.

At Philadelphia Police Headquarters,
Zeid offered to make a deal with the cops.
He would be willing to turn State’s evi-
dence against his former pals, Wiley and
Farrell, in the Weiss kidnaping if they’d
“give him a break” on the robbery rap.
To prove his good will he even told. them
‘where they could find some of the ransom
money, in a house in the suburb of Tacony
where he and the others had hid out be-
fore joining Mais in Philadelphia.

Neither the Camden nor Philadelphia
police told Zeid that Wiley, informed that
his ex-pal was prepared to turn State’s
evidence, in turn accused Zeid of being

the actual slayer of Detective Feitz back -

in Camden four months before. There
would be plenty of time for that after
other witnesses identified the killer and
- Farrell. was taken so that he and Wiley
could stand trial for the Weiss murder,

A month later, while the hunt for Far-
rell spread to New York City where he
and Mais were reported to be hiding out,

. Wiley and Zeid went on trial for their
part in the Philadelphia holdup. During
the -trial both pleaded guilty and Wiley
drew from 20 to 40 years in prison. Be-
cause the police still hoped to hang a
murder rap on Wiley and Farrell for. the
Weiss murder, Zeid—whom they planned
to use as a witness against them—was let
off with from 15 to 20 years.

-At that time the leader of the gang
which had held up the Camden bawdy
house could certainly not -have suspected
that officials there had plenty on which to
convict him of murdering Detective Feitz.

Six months later Farrell and Mais were
picked. up during an attempted robbery

in New. York. Mais went back to Virginia, ,

where he .was later to be electrocuted for
the murder of the Richmond policeman.
Farrell was taken to the Bucks County
seat at Doylestown, where he and Wiley

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SP (Camden) June 2, 193

By BRADFORD JAMES

The suspicious policeman rang the bell to his own
disaster because he decided to investi-
gate the mysterious doings in the house

that was lighted—when men should be asleep

morning of Sunday, September 2nd,

Chief of Police Arthur Colsey pushed
his way through the crowd standing in
front of the two-story brick dwelling at
243 Sycamore Street in Camden, New
Jersey. His gray eyes narrowed as he
skirted the splotches of blood on the
pavement. Upon entering the house he
was greeted by Detective Lieutenant

Goring BEFORE 3 o’clock on the

George A. Ward, and Detective Ser-,

geants Gus Koerner and Thomas
Murphy.

“I just came from the hospital,” he
said. “Feitz is dead.”

“Did you have a chance to talk to
Leonhardt?” inquired Lieutenant Ward.
The officials were referring
to Detectives William T.
Feitz and Joseph Leonhardt. ,
They had been assigned
shortly before to prowl duty
in this section of the city.
The chief nodded and
launched into an account of

the events that had taken place at the
scene less than an hour earlier. The two
detectives, he began, had been cruising
around the neighborhood when their
suspicions were aroused by the number
of men who kept entering the premises
during the early morning hours. The
window blinds were drawn but the in-
terior was flooded with light,

Shortly before 2 o’clock they decided
to investigate. Leonhardt was at the
wheel of the car and pulled it to a halt
in front of the premises. Feitz then told
him that he was going in to make a
check. Leonhardt wanted to go in with
him but Feitz protested, saying that he
did not anticipate any trouble, The for-
mer agreed to wait outside
upon the other’s promise that
he would summon him if nec-
essary. Feitz walked up the
steps and rang the bell.

A few moments after the
door closed behind him four
shots rang out in rapid suc-

The woman explained that three

cession. A woman screamed. Leonhardt
jumped out of the car with gun in hand,
As he did so the door opened and Feitz
came stumbling down the steps. He
groaned, then fell to the pavement. Be-
fore his partner could reach him, people
began piling out of the house. Some
dashed in one direction, some in another.
Leonhardt picked the wounded man up,
placed him in the car, and sped off to the
West Jersey Hospital.

“Feitz was unconscious during the few
minutes before he died,” Colsey related.
“Three .32-caliber slugs were taken
from his back and there was a bullet
wound in his wrist.”

While fingerprint experts were busy
with their tasks, detectives were engaged

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strangers had entered the place and pulled out guns, ordering them to stand, arms raised, facing the wall

in interrogating the neighbors who had
formed into small groups in front of the
building. Some reported that though
different people kept visiting frequently,
one woman, whose name they did not
know, seemed to be the tenant. They
described her as a short, brown-haired
woman of medium build who wore tor-
toise-shelled glasses.

“That sounds like Emma _ Heisler,”
Chief Colsey said when he received this
report. “It looks like she’s back in the
racket again.”

The woman was a known underworld
figure in Camden, It was believed by
officials that she was.a cog in the wheel

‘of a widespread vice ring.

Shortly after the Recorder of Deeds

office opened that morning Lieutenant
Ward and Sergeant Koerner consulted
the files. They learned that the owner
of the dwelling was a reputable citizen
who had extensive real estate holdings.
His properties were managed by a local
realtor. They hastened to his office and
were informed that the place was rented
to a Mrs. Edna Harris.

“Does she pay the rent in person?”
inquired Koerner.

“T believe she does,” the businessman
replied. ‘I’ll make sure of it.”

The young lady whose duty it was to
receive the payments was summoned,
She stated that the Sycamore Street ten-
ant usually brought the money in herself.

“What does this woman look like?”

Lieutenant Ward demanded eagerly.

“T would say she’s about five feet,
three inches tall, and wears tortoise-
shelled glasses,” she replied. “She’s of
average build and has brown hair.”

Koerner took a photograph from his
pocket and showed it to the clerk. “Is
this Mrs, Harris?” he asked.

“Yes, it is,’ was the prompt response.

Mrs. Heisler was in custody less than
an hour later. Her face was impassive
and her eyes cold.as the grilling began.
In reply to preliminary questions she
admitted operating the house and being
present at the time of the slaying.

“Now, tell us about the shooting,”
Ward said.

The woman explained that three

“a

which was now com-
obscuring the vision.

n Sixth Street, mean-
alone and Detective
: front door, pushed
o a brightly lighted
tective August Koer-
2 succeed Colsen as
standing immediately
hia officers. He in-
1e slim, pasty-faced
it the far end of the
rer shouted. “Watch
oting, Wiley turned
ne of the rooms off
itside the house, De-
saw the slim holdup
1e roof of an adjoin-
pened up with a sub-
iley ducked back in-

iter, Captain Malone
against the locked
to which Wiley had
by a shapely blonde

, please don’t!” the
vy her arms about the
er stood Wiley and
wthy, cool-eyed man
the tight, blank look
g addict. Both stood
with . their hands
ads.
; led from the house
jinutes later admitted
alias Rubin Seide, a
loser who had been
connection with the
Pennsylvania Rapid
Mais and Wiley, and
it the kidnaping and
: Weiss.
Police Headquarters,
a deal with the cops.
» to turn State’s evi-
rmer pals, Wiley and
s kidnaping if they’d
on the robbery rap.
ill he even told. them
1 some of the ransom
the suburb of Tacony
hers had hid out be-
Philadelphia.
den nor Philadelphia
Wiley, informed that
vared to turn State’s
scused Zeid of being
Detective Feitz back
onths before. There
time for that after
\tified the killer and
o that he and Wiley
1 the Weiss murder.
rile the hunt for Far-
York City where he
rted to be hiding out,
nt on trial for their
iphia holdup. During
led guilty and Wiley
' years in prison. Be-
ill hoped to hang a
y and Farrell for. the
—whom they planned
against them—was let
20 years.
leader of the gang
the Camden bawdy
ly not -have suspected
ad plenty on which to
jering Detective Feitz.
Farrell and Mais were
in attempted robbery

went back to Virginia, |

to be electrocuted for
Richmond policeman.
to the Bucks County
where he and Wiley

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subsequently went on trial for kidnaping
and mutdering Big Nose Weiss.

Soon after the conviction and‘ sentenc-
ing to death of Wiley and Farrell, their
former pal Charlie Zeid was extradited
from Pennsylvania to New Jersey to stand
trial for the murder of Feitz. In February
of the following year he was found guilty
after Wiley and Farrell, themselves await-
ing death in the electric chair at Trenton,

ne
were brought to the courtroom in chains to
appear against him.

On the twelfth day of the following De-
cember, Wiley and Farrell paid with. their
lives' for their long careers in crime and
violence. Six months later Charlie Zeid,
the man who thought a cop’s money was
as good as anyone “else’s when stickups
were the order of the day, went to his
death in the electric chair.

CREEPING KILLER

Continued from page 37

Miss Doyle. On the carefully polished
desktop rested photographs of his attrac-

tive, smiling wife and three healthy, freshly.

scrubbed youngsters.

Sheriff Rickey probed for a lead to
the riddle. It seemed impossible, on the
face of it, that the disappearance of the
two factory employes at the same time
was unrelated; it was equally difficult to
believe that the two young people, so
closely associated, could have so com-
pletely hidden an illicit romance, if one
had actually existed between them.

NABLE to make any further progress

on this puzzling element of the dis-
appearance jigsaw, Rickey attempted
to determine whether either Miss Doyle
or Mr. Newman had made any enemies in
the factory.

Louise Doyle, it readily appeared, had
been extremely popular with her co-
workers, well liked by the women and
adored by the men. She had dated fre
quently without showing any special
preference for any one man.

A foreman, questioned about ‘the re-
lationship of Newman to his subordinates,
brought up the name of Claude Duncan.
“IT saw Claude and Mr. Newman argu-
ing about something in front of the fac-
tory,” he recalled. “I remember it because
it was the only time I ever sdw any of
the employes atting disagreeable to Mr.
Newman.”

Rickey nodded. “Do you remember
when the argument occurred?” F

“A couple of months ago,” his informant
replied. “Just before Duncan was fired.”

“Did Newman have. anything to do with

_Duncan’s being discharged?” \

“Yes, that’s what the argument was
about. Mr. Newman had recommended
his dismissal. Duncan told him he’d get
even with him.”

It was a slim lead, Rickey reflected,
but one which needed to be followed up.
He promptly .paid a visit to the home of
the discharged employe.

The home proved to be a rooming
house where a plump matron wearily told
the investigator that Duncan had mdved
out of town shortly after his dismissal
from the Portsmouth shoe factory. When
last she had heard from him, .she ex-
plained, he had been trying unsuccessfully
to find work in Cincinnati.

“The boy/was heartbroken,” the woman
told Rickey, “and pretty mad, too. It
seems.that the least the factory could
have done was give him a letter of recom-
mendation so‘'that’ he wouldn’t have
trouble finding another job.” ..

She added, in pitying tones, that Dun-
can was barely out of his teens, a nervous,
round-faced lad about five feet tall who
was extremely sensitive about his lack- of
stature. He had been forced to shift for
himself since both his parents had been
killed in an automobile accident four
years previously.

Rickey made some quick notes on his

r

pad. “Anyone else young Duncan knew
in town who might be able to give me
some additional information?”

“He kept pretty. much to himself,” the
matron said. “The. only one I know is
a girl he had a date with. The girl whose
name was in the paper—the one who
disappeared. You know, the swimmer.”

“Louise Doyle?” the sheriff asked.

“That’s right,” the landlady replied. “I
remember her because Claude had had a
. with her the evening before he was
re ”

Ghd returned again to the factory,
determined this time to obtain a com-
plete list of workers whom. Newman
had either discharged directly or whose
dismissal he had recommended. How
many of them, Rickey wondered, had tried
to date Miss Doyle?

An office. aide at the plant quickly
assured him that Newman probably had
discharged fewer employes than any other
supervisor in the firm. A check of per-
sonnel records confirmed her - statement.
Newman has discharged only one other
employee besides Claude Duncan. That
was a young man named Horace Riggs.

The ‘girl described Riggs as an intelli-
gent, serious youth two years out of high
school. “Mr. Newman discharged him
about three months ago,” she said, “for
inefficiency.”

“Would you know anything about this
boy’s personal life?” Rickey asked.

“No. Horace worked for us only about

ten weeks or so.” She laughed, and added: .

“It’s no wonder he couldn’t do his work
too well. He couldn’t take his eyes off
the girls.”

“Girls?” Rickey repeated. “Any girl he

. favored in particular?”

“The same one most of the men fav-
ored, I guess,” the young woman. said
evenly. “Louise Doyle.”

Rickey decided rd visit young Riggs.

Unlike Duncan, this young man had
deep roots in the community. His par-
ents were respected civic leaders. Horace
Riggs himself, according to his remark-

‘ably youthful mother, already had found |.

another job and had no interest in return-
ing to work in the shoe plant.

Horace, who arrived home shortly after
the sheriff’s appearance, confirmed. this,
adding: “I hold nothing against Mr.
Newman. I suppose he had every right to
fire me, since I wasn’t turning out the work
as well as I should have.”

“Was there any specific incident,” Rickey
asked, “that caused Newman to discharge
you?” .

The youth shrugged. “J guess it was
an accumulation of things. My not get-
ting the work out, and all that. But the

thing that blew the lid off was when he

came in and found me trying to flirt
with one of the girls when I should have
been checking bills of lading.”

The sheriff leaned forward.

“Do you
remember who the girl was?”

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THE TOWNSHIP OF UN

August 15, 1984

Ronald C. Van Raalte
Post Office Box 584
Arlington Heights, I11. 60006

Dear Sir:

During the 175 year history of this municipality, records indicate
that only one law enforcement officer lost his life in the line of
duty, either by accident or as a result of criminal actions:

Clinton E. Bond was born on June 25, 1916 and was appointed to the
Police Department on September 1, 1942. Officer Bond was promoted
to the rank of Sergeant in 1950.

On February 12, 1954, while on duty and riding alone, Sgt Bond
stopped at the Tuscan Dairy Farm office and surprised several men
in the act of committing a holdup and robbery. Sgt. Bond was over-
powered and shot to death with his own revolver.

An intensive manhunt resulted in the arrest of Albert Wise on
2/15/54, his brother, Joseph Wise on 2/18/54, and the trigger man,
Alfred Stokes on 2/22/54, (See attached for additional informantion
on each of these men.) ~—

All three men were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to
death on June 30, 1954, and after exhausting all appeals were, indeed,
executed on September 2, 1955.

As a historical aside, they were the last persons ever executed in this
State, Since the Supreme Court threw out the death penalty shortly
thereafter, and the State of New Jersey has had no executions under it's
new law as yet.

I trust that this information will be of assistance to you.

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Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006

D. 1. Type of weapon used - shotgun
2. Not officer's weapon
3. Routine traffic stop
4. Murderer apprehended, convicted and received death
sentence
5. November 9, 1935
6. Survivor benefits information not available
Es 1. Type of weapon used - handgun
2. Officer's own weapon
3.  Effecting an arrest
4. Murderer apprehended, convicted and received life
sentence :
5. July 16, 1945
6. Survivor benefits information not available
' F. 1. Type of weapon used - handgun
2. Officer's own weapon
3. Traffic check
4. Murderer killed while fleeing apprehension
5. November 1, 1955
6. Survivor benefits information not available
G. 1. Type of weapon used - handgun
2. Not officer's weapon
3. Routine traffic check
4. Murderer apprehended, convicted and received death
sentence - later commuted to life in prison
5. May 5, 1966
6. Survivor benefits information not available
H. J Type of weapon used - handgun
2 Officer's own weapon
a Routine traffic stop
ole 4. Murderer(s) apprehended, convicted and received life
: sentences
5 May 3, 1973
6 Survivor benefits information not available

I trust this additional data will be of service to you in your study.
Sincerely, i Zp
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State of New Jersey

DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
DIVISION OF STATE POLICE

POST OFFICE BOX 7068
PAGANO
JAMES R. ZAZZALI WEST TRENTON, NEW JERSEY 08625 COLONEL C. L.
Attorney General (609) 882-2000 Superintendent

July 17, 1981

|
Sergeant Ronald C. VanRaalte
| Department of Police
P. 0. Box 58
‘ Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006

Dear Sergeant VanRaalte:

;
if ~ Since the organization and establishment of the New Jersey State
Police in 1921, eight members have died in the line of duty as a
result of criminal homicide.

The years each of these murders took place are as follows: 192h,

1926, 1928, 1935, 1945, 1955, 1966 and 1973.

The most recent homicide occurred in 1973 when Trooper Werner
Foerester was fatally wounded while on duty on the New Jersey
Turnpike. His murderer was convicted of the crime and subsequently
incarcerated. However, in 1979 Joanne Chesimard escaped from prison
and is still the object of a nationwide search.

Unfortunately, I am unable to provide you with information regarding
the benefits surviving beneficiaries received as this is handled by
the New Jersey Division of Pensions and is not generally public
information. |

Each member of our Division is covered by a paid-up insurance policy
and eligible widows and dependent children are entitled to a pension
plus health care benefits.

I trust the information provided will be of some assistance to you.
Sincerely,

Wink

J. P. McGann, Major
Administrative Officer

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New Jersey Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

WARE, Ooh, Weta Masged Erawdia, NP 2-518

Si eee

Uxecufion of: John Ware at (ume
den, N,J., Yesterday.

Dor ee

Seed

DIES WITH A CURSE ON HIS LIPS

tS et Re

A Confession by the Murderer Fixe
oncrating Ilis hlother.

UAMDEN, N. J., Deo. 15, 1871,
The majesty of the law has been once more vind:

cated, and the victim thereof bas pald tue awful]

peualty of his most unnatural crime.

The excitoment caused by the murdor is yet un-
Abatod tn the qalet ittle hamlet known as Beriin
Crosé Rosda, and tho story of the dced Is still told
with bated breath ani nervous {imaginings -

Tue crime for which Ware died was the

A PARRICIDE. WANGED,

wuurder Of bis father, avout sixteen months ago, |
The unflagging devotion of hig counsel led many to
belleve not a thinst for reputation alone was the In-
centive, but an unshaken bellef in the heredilary
Mieablty of bis client's family, and the Injustice of
the extreme sentence of the law in this particular
c..8e There is every indication of hereditary in.
sanity in the Ware fumlly, but this Was & question
not devmed witnin the rovince of gn uneducated
jucy, and they conviolea the‘mian on the evidence as
they heard i. The strongest argumont of the prose’
cuting onicer was the evidence of one Bands,
who were positively that Ware bad made |
repeated threats againss his futher's 1 @ ‘This
wloug led the Judge and jury to veo that the
murder was Promeditated, and, thoug executed
{ua moment of pasalon, was tho result of a de
Uberate purpose, Mr. Sogyvel Maintained that Bands’
evidence was & Pérjury from Weglnalog io ‘end, and
Ware toid me more than eonce that he nover
mude @ threat against hia father, but, om the con-
trary, B gooa Jeeitug bad exited bétween them up

tu tha day of (he murder, apd thus ig the case tp g
fcwwornus Was

we bs

| Gofeud nis wife, and John ** went for’ him also, bat
: Willlameon was too much for him. Having

. load the gun,

———}

i Tg DELD WAS COMMITTED
Las the heat of passion, about sixteen months aince,
aud the murderer fed to Camdca, where he was
arrealod while trying to cross the Jerry from Cam-
den to PbUadelphia. On Ddeing accused of
the crime ne frankly admitted it and was
Jocked up ia the Cumden- County Jall to
awalt his trial) which in doe. course of
time waa called. The important witnesses against
Ware were Paticace Ware, his sister, married to
George Wilismson; Mary Ann Cbampion, and a
map named Sands. Jt seems that she and ber hus-
band resided with Mr. and Mrs, Ware, and that on
the morning of the murder—August 16, 1870—old
man Ware bad gone to a aelighboring store to
get some flour. While the o:@ man was absent &
quarrel aroze between Patience and her mother
about a milkpan, and Jobo arove and struck his
alster In the face, upon which her busband srose to

pollased
'O8 Jonn, Willlameos took his wife and calldrco and
jeft tne house. They had proceeded but a shuit dis-

tance When Jobo seized a gua and Dred at them.
Old Inn Ware was met on Bis way bome, bat Pa

tience asvcr saw bim alive

MABRY ANN UBAMPIOS

swore to the kilitny of Mr. Ware. From her win-

dow, in the upper part of the house, ere saw Joba
P and beard him say he would “pat a
Gvuble joad ia f, and Killtbem Doth.’ At this juac.
ture the oid man ret aad Blood SUL) in the mile |

eatloman told
fe gun, when


JAMES R, ZAZZALI
Attorney General

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DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
DIVISION OF STATE POLICE

POST OFFICE BOX 7068
WEST TRENTON, NEW JERSEY 08625
(609) 882-2000

September 8, 1981

Sergeant Ronald C. Van Raalte
Arlington Heights Police Department
P. 0. Box 584

-Ardington Heights, Illinois 60006

In response to your follow u

“Dear Sergeant Van Raalte:

homicides of police officers, the following data is supplied in
chronological order.

Incidents in which officers were killed:

A.

PwNrM—

Ho

fo, Sa) PwNM—

fo Sy) Pwnr —

Type of weapon used - handgun

Not officer's weapon

Routine suspect check

Murderer apprehended, convicted and received death
sentence

December 18, 1924

Survivor benefits information not available

Type of weapon used - handgun

Not officer's weapon

Stake-out

Murderer(s) apprehended, convicted and received
30 year sentences

February 17, 1926

Survivor benefits information not available

Type of weapon used - razor

Not officer's weapon

Domestic quarrel

Murderer apprehended, convicted and received death
sentence

December 28, 1928

Survivor benefits information not available

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COLONEL C. L. PAGANO
Superintendent

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nibshen, Xi as the coroner. the Sur

Weyor, Clerk of Grand Jury.

Samuel Sheldon, Civil engineer of
Millvilie, was called. Mr. Sheldon han | |
at) the, r reque st of the prosecutor pr: i

pared a map of the Holmes homestead,
preparing a careful and well defined
map of the place. Judge Hendricksun It Was pais g
took a Seat near the jury sa ae fo ihe i ‘
in front of the map for C1ose observa S yest
tion. while the prosecutor pointed ent
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answered by Mr. Sheldon @ man ;
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FRONT PAGE DETRUCTIVE
July, 19)

BY
CHARLES L.
BURGESS


—<—s

- the hunt.

a

ings and

By Dan Foley

Expert in
Criminological Research

The Month Five Years Ago:
June, 1933

EADLINES: Hell breaks loose in
the plaza of Union Station at
Kansas City when five men are

slain by machinegunners attempting to
liberate Frank Nash, bandit and killer,
who was being returned to Leaven-
worth, from’ which he escaped three
years ago. Victims are Nash himself;

Raymond J. Caffrey, special agent of ©

the Bureau of Investigation; Otto Reed,
Chief of Police of McAlester, Okla-
homa; - Frank Hermanson and W. J-
Grooms, Kansas ‘City detectives. Two
other G-Men are wounded. One of the
machinegunners is believed to be Har-
vey Bailey, pal of Nash and fugitive
from the Kansas State Penitentiary.
The barrage ‘starts as_ the officers
bring Nash out of station to their
automobile parked in the plaza. Killers
make getaway in car standing next to
G-Men’s machine. Far-flung search is’
begun for the killers, entire force of
J. Edgar Hoover being thrown into

SLAYINGS: ~David A. Lamson is
held for questioning in the death of his -
pretty 28-year-old wife, Allene, on the
campus of Stanford University at San
Jose, California. The body of Mrs.’
Lamson was. found in the bathroom
of their home, severely bruised, and
ploodstains were. discovered on the
walls. Lamson, sales manager for the.
Stanford .University Press, says she

died as a result of an accidental ‘fall. -

An_ice-pick ,is. the ‘unique. weapon

- used in the New York slaying of three

youths in the gambling racket—Louis ©
Cipolli, _ Salvatore Tulumello: and,

Charles Calabrese. Each man had been °

inet Pos

For Years” June Has Been a
‘Slayings.. Do You

1933: William
Hamm, Jr., right,
with friends after
he was kidnaped

rime —

Month of Robberies, Kidnap-

Recall Any of These

Max Parkin, members of a bank-rob-

bery gang, are found slain in West-
chester County, New York... Con-
necticut police grill a 61-year-old bur-
glary suspect in connection with the
mysterious 1931 murder of Benjamin
Collings in Long Island Sound. But he
proves an alibi for the night when two
men committed the crime on the yacht
Penguin, and is released.
KIDNAPINGS: William Hamm,
Junior, wealthy resident of St. Paul,

“Minnesota, is snatched and held for

$100,000 ransom. Leader of abduction
mob believed to be Verne Sankey,
also wanted for Boettcher and Haskell
Bohn kidnapings. After four days full
payment is made and Hamm is re-
leased. Twin City civic leaders,
aroused by repeated snatches, raise
reward for capture of the gang.

1928: Hazel Bel-
ford Glab, whose
husband was shot -
in odd. mystery

ihe

bound and gagged in a hotel room be-
fore being stabbed. The triple slaying
believed to be in retribution for a kill-
ing two weeks before... Third mem-
ber of the gang to die within a month,
William Oppenheim, a Waxey Gordon
follower, is put on the spot in Pater-
son, New Jersey. ‘
Identified as a ‘member-of a gang of
“Jove pirates,” Richard Bach, 20, con-
fesses the murder of Rose McCloskey,
nineteen-year-old  salesgirl, in Phila-
delphia’s Fairmount Park. He tells po-
lice he knocked out the girl’s escort

-with: a-rock, then assaulted Miss Mc-
Closkey and cut her throat.

New York jury votes a manslaughter
verdict in the case of Edward Maloney,
former State trooper, who slew Larry
Fay, notorious .racketeer, | on New
Year’s Day. Maloney, working as
doorman at Fay’s_ night. club, ‘ quar-
reled with his employer over payment
of back wages... Tripped up by the
clew of a carpenter’s pencil found at
the scene of the crime, Lloyd Price
is ‘sentenced to die for the sex murder
of - six-year-old ‘ Helen — Sterler ‘in
Brooklyn.

Victims of a double-cross. in the

‘division of loot, Marcel ‘ Poffo and

Kenneth Buck, convicted of kidnap-
ing little Peggy McMath on Cape Cod,
draws a 24-year-sentence. His brother
Cyril, who acted as go-between in ran-
som negotiations, is acquitted er
G-Men solve abduction of Mary Mc-
Elroy, daughter of the City Manager
of Kansas City, by arrest of eight men
and women. Walter McGee, ex-con-
vict, seized at Amarillo, Texas, con-
fesses he was ring-leader and gives up
part of ransom money.

QOuEERT: Bandit raid of the month
% occurs at Cullom, Illinois. Eight
gunmen terrorize the town with typical
Wild West shooting, wound two citi-
zens, loot two banks and escape with

$5,000. .

MISCELLANEOUS: | Lottie Coll,
widow of the “Mad Dog,” is arrested
with two boy friends and accused of
killing a bystander during a holdup in
the Bronx, New York City ... “Pretty
Boy” Floyd and Adam Richetti kidnap
Sheriff Jack Killingsworth, who tries
to arrest them at Bolivar, Missouri.
After wild ride of 500 miles the law
man is freed .. . Murray Humphries,
-notorious Chicago racketeer, indicted
for income-tax frauds. :

C-FlI3E

Crimes?

PENOLOGY: ‘Two lifers, Jim Ster-
ling and H. C. Bradbury, escape from
Oklahoma State Prison, kidnaping a
guard to use as a shield and later
throwing him from their stolen: car.
The fugitives had been taken outside
the penitentiary walls to repair ma-
chinery.

The Month Ten Years Ago:
“June, 1928

HEADLINES: Chicago gangdom in
ferment. Big Tim Murphy, powerful
mob leader, mail robber and former
State legislator, is put on the spot in
fight for control of the $1,500,000 ex-
tortion racket. Meantime, Government
graft inquiry in city shows payments
totaling $100,000 had been made by
underworld to prohibition officers. A
special grand jury investigating Chi-
cago’s alliance between crime and poli-
tics indicts ten gangsters for terrorism
in recent election campaign.

KILLINGS: Los Angeles detectives
try to solve puzzling slaying of John
Glab, wealthy retired druggist and
bootlegger. His bride of five months,
Hazel Glab, is questioned.

George Remus, former Cincinnati
bootleg king who was committed to
the State Hospital for the Insane after
slaying his wife Imogene, finally wins
his release from the Ohio Supreme
Court. ;

At Tulsa, Oklahoma, J. B. McNeal,
former County jailer, kills Miss Sabra
Green, 28, in. a taxicab, goes to a
phone-booth to notify an undertaker,
and then commits suicide... H. C.
Smith of Denver, foreman of a mine
near Mexico City, is assassinated while
driving to work, and a reward of 2,000
pesos is offere illers.
Thoerra . Leach is relieved witrs,
Manhattan detectives nab him for the
killing of his sister; “Now she is safe
from the spirits,” he says .. . George
Yarrow dies in chair at New Jersey
State Prison for the murder of Rose
Sarlo, sixteen-year-old Sunday-school
teacher. He was convicted of stran-
gling her after police learned that he
burned the auto in which he took her
riding.

War yout iy atira @ brunet,
meets death in the office of a doctor in
Philadelphia where she went to seek
work as a housemaid. Police attribute
the crime to Clarence Tull, butler, who
commits suicide before he can be ar-

rested.

KIDNAPING: New York police
launch a wide search for ten-year-old
Grace Budd and an elderly man call-
ing himself Frank Howard who lured
her from her home.

ROBBERIES: Heroic work of an
employe frustrates two bandits who-
flee with $50,000 taken from the
Clarksdale branch of the Bank of Ari-
zona. Cashier David Saunders gets
out of the vault in which he was
locked and gives chase. He shoots and
kills one of the robbers, William For-
rester, 30, and helps the sheriff cap-
ture his confederate, Paul Hauffman.

Scotland Yard discloses robbery of
mail-bags brought to England on the
Leviathan. Gems, currency and_ se-
curities taken from opened envelopes
and packages. At first the loot is esti-
mated at $500,000, but United States
authorities, entering the investigation,
claim it is much below that figure.

With machine-like precision six ban-
dits raid a mail-car at the Union Sta-
tion in Toronto, terrorize the clerks
with sawed-off shotguns and obtain
loot valued at $125,000. They flee in
ear which they drove through the
truck-entrance of the station, Cana~

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Mowry
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* pelow should be aflirmed.

N. J.) CREVIEL v. BEBERDICK, 959
puted form, deemed by the trial court to af-
ford no ground of defense. For this ruling, @
new trial is now sought.

The transaction was this: Crevier and his
wife (who is now his widow) had made a
mortgage to the plaintiffs to secure $24,000
upon lands of Crevier. his mortzage was
discharged and canceled upon the delivery by
Creyier to the plaintiffs of a second mortgace ,
made by Mr. and Mrs. Crevier on other prop-
erty for $7,000, a check drawn by Mrs. Cre-
vier alone for $12,000, and the note in suit for
$5,000, made by the defendant and her hus-
band. The effect was to extinguish the plain-
ceiving the purpose to kill, he must be held to | tiffs’ mortgage, and that, in turn, freed the
the responsibility of one who is sober, and that | defendant’s inchoate right of dower, and
is the language of the cases upon this subject. | hence was a penefit to her. Perkins v. Elli-
In Marshall v. State, 59 Ga. 154, Mr. Justice | ott, 23 N. J. Fa. 526.

Bleckley said, ‘To be too drunk to form the in- Whe defendant does not deny that this was
tent to kill, the slayer must be too drunk to the purpose for which the note was given by
form the intent to shoot.” This utterance was her husband to the plaintiffs, and, of course,.
cited with approval in Hanvey v. State, 68 Ga. | cannot deny the legal result above stated.
e14. If the faculties of the accused are not | The defense lies wholly in the circumstance,
so far prostrated by intoxication as to render | stated by the defendant, that when ber hus-
him incapable of forming an intention to kill, | band came to her with the note in question,
the jury would have no right to find that by | saying, “J would like you to sigu that,’’ she
reason of the intoxication the intention to kill | did so, without getting “any part of the five
was not present. In the case submitted the | thousand dollars represented by the note,”
trial judge charged the jury in the language | about which she ‘asked nothing and knew
of the court in the Martin Case, and in that | nothing else.”
respect there was no error. Lhe judgment Mhe assumption that this constitutes any de-
fense ignores, as it secs to me, the doctrine
established by the case just cited, while it
certainly does not tend, in the remotest de-
gree, to sustain the defendant’s plea, viz. that
CREVIER v. BEBERDICK et al. she made a contract of suretyship, from which
(Supreme Court of New Jersey. June 3, 1897.) | her estate received a benefit. If any effect
. ; scot _ could be given to the isolated fact of which
Nore of Manniep WomaN—Vatprny- | the defense consists, it would be that she had
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forming an intent, put determines to act on a
slight provocation, and such prostration of the
faculties by intoxication as puts the accused in
such a state that he is incapable of forming
an intention from which he shall act.” 4.N.
J. Law J. p. 339. This case was taken by
writ of error to the supreme court, and the
judgment there aflirmed in November, 1883.
As observed by the learned judge in the Mar-
tin Case, this rule should be applied with cau-
tion, that no undue or dangerous immunity or
license be given to erime by persons whose
passions are inflamed by drink. So long as
the mind of the criminal is capable of con-

————

A mortgage on the lands of the husband is | made no contract at all. This, however, would
held against husband and wife, and they unite in . ay ae :
a note that pays off such meumbrance. Jeli’, wipe out the law of agency. The case shows
that such a contract was within the capacity of beyond any question that the husband of the
a feme covert, as it was a benefit to her dower defendant was attending to the business out
Sean gtk ae pat ete of IE a ating i te de
she signed the note, and gave it to him withvut she was not personally participating in the de-
further knowledge or inquiry. tails, she signed all necessary papers, includ-
(Syllabus by the Court.) ing a check for $12,000 and this note. The
Action by Anton Beberdick and others defendant does not repudiate her husband’s
gainst Alice Orevier. Verdict for plaintiffs, | 28¢N°Y: or put in question the right of the
Order to show cause why a new trial should plaintiffs to deal with lim as such, but sim-
be granted. Discharged. ply claims that the written contract that she
Argued February term, 1897, before VAN | intrusted to her agent was beyond her capac
SYCKEL, LIPPINCOTT, and GARRISON, JJ. ity, because she chose to make no inquiry of
, him, or otherwise to obtain independent
J. F. Minturn, for the rule. Babbitt & Law- | knowledge upon which to base her conduct.
rence, opposed. nis does not vary the rule laid down by the
ease cited. A wife has a perfect right to act
through ler husband’s agency, and to rely
promissory note made by the defendant to the | upon him, if she will; and, as no one can pre-
plaintiffs. The defense pleaded that the de- | vent her from s0 doing, neither can any one
fendant’s contract with the plaintiffs was that | be injured by the mere fact that she has
of surety for her husband, the joint maker. chosen so to do, I take it that, where neither
Coverture Was not pleaded, but was assumed | fraud, imposition, nor negligence exists, an
as the basis of this defense. he plaintiffs | obligation of a married woman beneficial to
rested their case upon proof of the direct | her separate estate cannot be repudiated by
written promise to pay. ‘At the close of the | her solely because she had entered into it upon
testimony for the defendant and its rebuttal, | the advice and through the agency of her hus-
the transaction presented was, in its undis- | band; and that is all that is here chiimed.

GARRISON, J. This is an action on @&


to a juror that he has expressed an opinion on
the matter to be tried, if it was not done
through malice or ill will. In that case, re-
ported in 21 N. J. Law, 196, Chief Justice
Hornblower said, “A declaration of opinion, to
disqualify a juror, therefore, must be such an
one as implies malice or ill will against the
prisoner, thereby showing that the person chal-
lenged does not stand indifferent between the
state and him.” ‘This declaration was approv-
ed, without any qualification, by our supreme
court, in an opinion delivered by Chief Justice
Green, in State v. Tox, 25 N. J. Law, 566.
This question was again raised in Moschell v.
State, 53 N. J. Law, 498, 22 Atl. 50, and the
rule adopted in the cases above cited was in-
flexibly adhered to. We are of opinion that
the practice in this respect which has so long
prevailed in our courts is well-founded and
wise, and that no departure from it should be
sanctioned. The juror challenged in this case
disclaimed malice or ill will, and there is noth-
ing in his examination which rendered him
subject to a successful challenge, and it was
therefore properly overruled.

The language in the charge of the court to
which exception is taken is: “It is an essen-
{ial ingredient, as I have stated to you, of the
crime of murder in the first degree, that there
should be an intent to take life. Any intoxi-
cation may be considered with reference to
the existence of that intent, and its willful,
deliberate, and premeditated character; and I
charge you that if at the time of doing the act
the evidence shows you that this defendant
_ was so intoxicated that his faculties were Pros-
trated, and he was rendered incapable of form-
ing a specific intent to take life, which I have
stated is an essential ingredient of this crime,
then, although it is no defense and no justifi-
sation for crime, his offense may thereby be
mitigated to murder in the second degree.”
There is no rule of the English common law
more firmly settled than that voluntary intox-
ication does not excuse or palliate crime.
Lord Coke, Sir Matthew Hale, Sir William
Blackstone, and Lord 3aecon unite in pro-
nouncing the law of england to be “that such
a person shall have no privileges by his volun-
tarily contracted madness, but shall have the
same judgment as if he were in his right
senses.” The cases of tex v. Carroll, 7 Car.
& P. 145, and Rex v. Meakin, Id. 297, show
how rigorously the rule was adhered to. In the
former case Justices Park and Littledale de-
clared that, if it were to he considered law that
the fact of a defendant being intoxicated is a
proper circumstance to be taken into considcra-
tion on the question of premeditation, there
would be no safety for human life. The state-
ment that voluntary drunkenness is no excuse
or justification for any criine is too firmly estab-
lished by a long series of cases both in England
and in this country to he now a subject of con-
troversy. The apparent confusion upon the
subject which is introduced by the decisions in
some of our states arises in a measure from an

_ 87 ATLANTIC REPORTER.

(N. J.

to be assumed by the court. When the Eng-
lish courts declared that voluntary intoxication
was an aggravation of the offense committed,
they did not intend to assert that a criminal
act committed by a drunken man constituted
a higher crime than the same act committed
by a sober man. It was an expression used
to emphasize the rule that voluntary intoxi-
eation did not excuse. In my examination, no
ease has been found sustaining a contrary
view. ‘The true rule, in my judgment, to be
deduced from a mass of authorities is that
there is a situation in which the fact of drunk-
enness is eutitled to weight, not as an excuse
for crime, nor in extenuation of it, put as a2
fact tending to show that the crime imputed
was not committed. When the character and
extent of a crime is made by law to depend
upon the state and condition of the defendant's
mind at the time, and with reference to the
act done, intoxication, as -a circumstance af-
fecting such state and condition of the mind,
is a proper subject for inquiry and considera-
tion by the jury. If, by law, deliberation and
premeditation are essential elements of the
crime, and by reason of drunkenness or any
other cause it appears that the prisoner’s men-
tal state is such that he is incapable of such
deliberation and premeditation, then the crime
has not been committed; there is a failure on
the part of the state to prove the crime into
which premeditation must enter. Intoxication
is a mere circumstance to be considered in de-
termining whether premeditation was present
or absent. As between the two offenses of
murder in the second degree and manslaugh-
ter, voluntary intoxication cannot be a legiti-
mate subject of inquiry. What constitutes
murder in the second degree by a sober man
is equally murder in the second degree if com-
mitted by a drunken man. People v. Rogers,
18 N. Y¥. 1; State v. Tatro, 50 Vt. 483; State
vy. Johnson, 40 Conn. 136; State v. Mowry
(Kan. Sup.) 10 Cr. Law Mag. 23 (S. ¢., 15 Pac.
282), and the numerous cases cited in the notes
to that case. In the Warner Case, which was
affirmed in this court, the trial judge charged
the jury that if the defendant’s mind, by rea-
son of intoxication, was in such a condition.
that he could not econeeive the purpose of
taking life, he was guilty only of murder in
the second degree. Warner v. State, 56 N. J.
Law, 686, 29 Atl. 505. In State v. Martin the
defendant was charged with homicide, and
tried in the Essex oyer and terminer in 1881.
Mr. Justice Depue charged the jury as fol-
lows upon this subject: “If the evidence is
sufficient to satisfy the jury that the intoxica-
tion of the accused at the time of the homi-
cide was so great as to prostrate his faculties,
and render him in ‘apable of forming the spe-
cifie intent to kill which is the essential in-
gredient of murder of the first degree, the
prisoner will not be entitled to acquittal, but

his offense will be murder in the second de:

gree. You should carefully discriminate be-
tween that excitable condition of the mind pro-

inaccurate statement of the position intended | duced by drink, which is not incapable of

see

N. J.)

forming an intent, b
slight provocation, a
faculties by intoxici'
such a state that li
an intention from \
J. Law J. p. 889.
writ of error to th:
judgment there afi)
‘As observed by the
tin Case, this rule +
tion, that no undue
license be given 1
passions are inflan
the mind of the :
ceiving the purpos
the responsibility ©
is the language of
In Marshall v. Si
Bleckley said, “To
tent to kill, the s|
form the intent to
cited with approy:
Gi4. If the facu
so far prostrated
him incapable of
the jury would |!
reason of the int
was not present.
trial judge char:
of the court in (
respect there “
below should be

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At the moment that Mrs. Heisler was whispering to the
frightened girl at her side, and the slim youth in the back
room was adjuring his unwilling hosts to “take it easy” the
squad car arrived.

ETECTIVE William T. Feitz, a cold-eyed, hard-muscled
D veteran at 33 years of age, jumped from beside the
driver’s seat and said to his partner: “Seems quiet enough,
Joe. You wait here;-I’ll run up to the door and ask the old
girl what’s bothering her.”

Twice Feitz knocked loudly on the thin wooden door. He
suddenly realized that things were a bit too quiet inside that
house for that *hour #f the night. ‘

So he rested his right fist on-the butt of his .38 Police
Special, kicked hard against the door, and shouted: “Open
up in there! This is the police!”

His words were heard clearly by the little group of tawdry
people who were taking part in the drama being enacted in
the room ‘behind the closed door. The flat-faced gunman
who had put his weapon aside and was now quickly collecting
the wallets and cheap jewelry from the victims who stood
facing his pal’s .32 revolver, stopped in his tracks.

“Chuck, it’s the cops!” he exclaimed.

Not a flicker of emotion crossed the swart face of the
bulky gunman behind him. “Their dough’s as good as any-
one else’s,” he said. “Take care o’ these lice while I let ’em in.”

The leader turned, marched steadily out into a,small en-
trance hall and released the bolt on the front door. Bill
Feitz stood there with his right hand still resting on the butt
of his service revolver. When he saw the gun in the other
man’s hand he started to draw.

Detective Joseph Leonhardt, still sitting behind the wheel
of the squad car, heard no words pass between the ‘two men.
From where he sat he didn’t see the weapon in the hand of

the gunman. \

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CHARLIE ZEID— MARTIN FA!

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| On the steps of the house at 243 Sycamore Street, “A cop’s dough is as good as anyone else's,” this . Six months a
i Camden, N. J.. Detective Feitz was shot by gunman. killer told an accomplice just before the murder. : up while tryi

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whispering to the
youth in the ‘back
“take it easy” the

yed, hard-muscled

from beside the
2ms quiet enough,
vr and ask the old

wooden door. He
9 quiet inside that

of his .38 Police
d shouted: “Open

e group of tawdry
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flat-faced gunman
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victims who stood
tracks.

swart face of the
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while I let ’em in.”
t into a small en-
: front door. Bill
resting on the butt
» gun in the other

behind the wheel
ween the two men.
on in the hand of

vone else’s,” this
ere the murder.

the gunman. What he heard next moment was a pistol report.

It wasn’t until Leonhardt was out of the car and running
toward the entrance to the dingy brick house that he realized
the shot had come from inside the house. By this time two
more shots had been fired—into Feitz’ abdomen as -he lay
on the doorstep with one bullet already through his head.

In the general melee which followed—half-dressed girls
and men rushing from the house and trampling the dying de-
tective’s body as they poured out—the three killers made their

way down Sycamore Street to a small black coupe parked |

a block away at the corner of Locust. As Leonhardt rose
from beside his partner he saw the car speed off in the
direction of the Reading Ferries.

Feitz died en route to Cooper Hospital—the first police-
man to succumb to a bandit’s bullet in the hundred-year
history of the Department.

The inmates and. guests of the establishment were: rounded
up within half an hour of the shooting and taken to Camden
Detective Headquarters. There they were put into cells—all
except Emma Heisler, who sat chain-smoking cigarettes. in
the reception room while a dozen officials questioned her.

AMDEN’S mayor, Roy R. Stewart; the chief of police,

Arthur Colsen; and County Prosecutor Samuel P. Or-

lando, took part in the 48 hours of steady grilling. that .

followed. At all times one or the’ other of these officials was
present at Headquarters while vice-squad men ‘and homicide
bureau investigators worked in relays at questioning the
witnesses.

Mrs. Heisler told over and over. how a slim, pasty-faced
youth had come into the place earlier in the evening and asked
for a girl companion to “take a few drinks with.” The man,
she said, appeared to be under the influence of some drug,
and she had finally asked him to leave. It was then that

MARTIN FARRELL— ‘

she heard him remark to the girl at his side that he’d be
back—with friends.”

On the evening of the fourth, two days after the murder
of Feitz, Mayor Stewart announced that one of the city’s
finest officers would never have lost his. life if a few members
of the department had followed out orders given weeks before
to close the establishment.

“I don’t know how people go about this matter of buying
protection or immunity from the police, but I don’t: intend
to tolerate it,” the mayor declared angrily. Simultaneously
he announced a thorough shake-up in the Policé Department
and the suspension of a dozen men from the Second Precinct,
in which the bawdy house was located. ~”

On the theory that one of the “guests” in the establishment
had been planted there by the holdup trio, police were still
holding all those who had been taken into custody imme-
diately after the shooting. Emma Heisler, however, had not
yet been put into a cell for, as Detective Lieutenant George

‘Ward was later to explain, “We thought we could get more

out of her by treating her kindly.”

It was five o’clock in the afternoon of the same day, and
just after the mayor’s announcement of a police shake-up,
when the detectives questioning Emma Heisler left the room
to confer amongst themselves. Officers Clifford Carr and
Joseph ‘Carpani were at their desks, working. The buxom
madam sat on a hard sofa a dozen feet from them, staring
down. at the floor with weary, blood-veined eyes. A cigarette
dangled nervously from a corner of her loose lips.

Ponderously, Emma got to her feet. She started toward
the hallway off which the woman’s restroom was located.
Officer Carr rose to follow. But before he caught up with
the woman, she ran suddenly forward, entered tht empty
office of Lieutenant Ward next to the restroom, and pulled
open a window. (Continued on page 68)

ROY WILEY—

Six months after policeman’s murder he was picked He got off with a prison sentence in the. Feitz case,

up while trying to pull a robbery in New York City.

but “burned” for the murder of “Big Nose” Weiss.

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her back to carry the body to the Wind
River with death coming from the poison
gas seeping up through the floor on the
trip,” was the. theory of Prosecutor Pitt
Jones as he prepared kidnaping and mur-
der warrants for the Wilsons’ arrest.

eet WILCOX, special investigator in
charge of the Washington-Oregon dis-
trict for the FBI, informed local authorities
next day that an agent operating in Port-
land had run onto the Wilsons’ trail. It
had already been learned by city detec-
tives in Portland that the tan coupe was
abandoned on or about the 22nd of the
month, three days after Jo Ann’s dis-
appearance. : ;

Now, checking with bus depots, rail-
road stations and used-car dealers, the
local FBI man had turned up the fact that
on that same day two men answering to
the descriptions of the Wilsons had pur-
chased a 1938 Oldsmobile five-passenger
coupe bearing an Oregon license. At the
time of the sale the pair told the Union
:Avenue dealer, where .they';-baught ., the:
machine that’ they planned to goon to
California in search of employment.

Early next day every police depart-
ment, sheriff's office, highway patrol sta-
tion and FBI operator on the West Coast
was warned to be on the lookout for the
fugitives. Several hours later Grant Wil-
son; the suspe¢ts’ brother and a_ highly
religious youth with a clean record, ap-
peared in the office of Chief Diamond with
the Rev. Ralph I. Cranston, pastor of the’
Assembly of God Church in the little
town of Camus, )

“I know you suspect my brothers be-
cause Of their records and because they
used my cars,” Grant Wilson informed
the chief. “But I’m convinced of their in-
nocence and I’ve urged them to give
themselves up.” :

“He means,” the preacher took up the
story, “that he’s heard from his brothers.
‘They called him from. ‘Sacramento; - Cali--
fornia, to say they'd left his car in Port-
land and that they knew they. were being

hunted in connection with the girl’s death.
But. they claim they’re innocent. Grant
tried to get them to turn themselves in,
and when he came to me for advice I
brought him here to talk with you.”

Without waiting to hear more, Chief
Diamond called the FBI man, Wilcox, who
in turn got into immediate communication
with his Sacramento office. Less than two
hours later the Oldsmobile sedan that had
been bought by the suspects in Portland
more than a week before was spotted by
Sacramento agents and local police three
blocks from th governor’s mansion in the
California capital.

Officers waited for nearly four hours.
Then, at. sundown on that evening of
March 31st, 1950, they closed in on the
Wilsons as they approached the car after
walking from a nearby movie. Both gave

up without a struggle. In their car, and °

at the tourist camp where they had been
staying, were found two revolvers, fully
loaded, and $600 in cash.

he brothers refused to make a state-
ment, and were that same night taken be-

.fore, -U,..S. Commissioner .Adellia| Mc-

Cabe, where they were ordered held as
fugitives from justice under bail of
$25,000.

‘A week later they were returned to
Vancouver, still maintaining their stub-
born silence after they waived extradition
on the Federal warrants. There they were
formally indicted .for kidnaping and first-
degree murder. And as this is being written
plans are being made to bring them to
trial at a comparatively early date.

Eprror’s Note: A grand jury believed
the evidence against the suspects in the
foregoing case was ‘sufficient to return an
indictment for kidnaping and first-degree
murder. However, the trial is yet to
come, and their innocence or the extent of
their guilt will be determined at its con-
clusion. Under our system of law, no per-
son is regarded as guilty until convicted,

-and nothing in the above: story.is to be.in---

terpreted as implying any pre-judgment of
the case. ’

‘

COP-KILLERS

Continued from page 55

A second later her 160-pound body was

| falling toward the paved court five stories

below.

Emma Heisler’s: body’ was: virtually ‘cut |

in half when it hit the window-shield of a
‘small convertible: parked in the courtyard.

‘Following ‘her ‘suicide, the “police” ‘ari- -

nounced that shortly before she died_she*
had admitted having seen. all-three gun-

‘|'men prior to the Sunday -night of Feitz’

murder, but had consistently refused to
adentify-them.. $2.06 °" over ei Ren,

URING the following days the citizens
D and civic groups and» churches of
Camden rose up in arms to put an.end to
vice and corruption in the. city.. Mean-

| while, police announced that, several of

those. taken following the slaying . had
“given valuable information and further

‘arrests are expected momentarily.”
But it. was not. until early ‘in October,
1 after all those taken in for questioning had

been released, that the first hint of the

the investigation. This came when, Lieu-

| tenant Walter Welch,. assigned by Chief :

Colsen: to succeed. Ward, learned that a

“boxer who once had been very prominent

was being sought for questioning.
‘ Fl

A petite redhead entertainer formerly
employed by the late Emma Heisler in the
Sycamore Street establishment, told-Lieu-
tenant Welch that the boxer had visited at
No. 243 on the day before the holdup-

murder and tried to borrow money from :
~both her and’ the proprietress. pe

’ The day after the girl told her story.
Michael Tenerelli, 25, known to fight fans
as Mickey’ Blair, walked into Headquarters
and said he understood the cops’ were

.» looking. for him... A sleek, muscular .man..

attired in a ‘pleated blue suit and flashy tie,
Mickey Blair showed no trace of nervous-
ness as he said: ;

“I knew Emma Heisler and have known
her for years. I’ve heard that you suspect

- me of trying to shake her down. That’s

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as a finger-man, his eyes flashed and he
said angrily: : ;

“You cops gotta blame someone, I sup-
pose. It’s just my tough luck that I hap-
pened to be talking. with Mrs. Heisler a
short. time before that thing happened,”

At the conclusion of the interview Blair
was formally arrested.as a material wit- |
ness and held by Common Pleas Judge
Frank F. Neutz. under bond of $5,000.
This was put up, and Blair was’ given his
freedom. During the subsequent weeks
detectives several times tried to locate
Blair, but he had ‘disappeared from the
city. Ultimately his bond was forfeited
and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

(The next time Mickey Blair came to
the attention of Camden police was when
his bullet-ridden body was found outside
of an Atlantic City bordello early in 1941.
His ‘murderer was never discovered).

ba ape of known and suspected crimi-
nals meanwhile were being picked up.
By this time officers working on the case
had learned enough through underworld
contacts to become firmly convinced that
the trio who held up the place on Sycamore
Street. were “professionals,” members of
a widespread gang involved in numerous
other holdups and murders along the At-
lantic: Coast.

Early in December the Camden police
learned through these same underworld
sources that following Feitz’ slaying the
killers had “heled up” with three girls in a
Mickel Street rooming house in Camden,
not far from the scene of the crime. Since
then,the six of them were supposed to have
moved on to Philadelphia, across the Del-
aware in Pennsylvania.

When, on December 13th, a well-known
Philadelphia racketeer, William “Big Nose”
Weiss, was kidnaped from his swank home-
at 1835 Garden Road in North Philadel-
phia, it was suspected ‘that the Camden
thugs were members of the gang asking
$25,000. for Weiss’ release.

Weiss, turned over the money to two men
whose. photos he Jater picked out of the
| Rogues’ Gallery. Both had long criminal
records in Philadelphia and New York
City. Camden Detectives Howard Smith
and John Trout were dispatched to the
city across the river, along with several
persons who had witnessed the robbery
that preceded Detective Feitz’ murder.
The witnesses instantly recognized the
photos of the two men who collected
Weiss’ ransom as the fiat-faced member

faced youth who ‘had held the couple in
the back bedroom at bay. The former,

| Prohibition era gangster, was known to
Philadelphia police as Joe Egan.: His .25-
year-old pal .was ‘ Roy Wiley, an unem-
ployed gardnerer who had been arrested
-several times on minor charges, including
|. possession of narcotics. .

| ia one week after the Camden. au-
thorities learned the identity of two of
the trio they had been hunting for so long,
the body of Big Nose Weiss was dragged
from the waters of Meshaminy Creek, a
tributary of the Delaware just across the
Philadeiphia city line in Bucks County.
It had been tossed there, encased in a
barrel of cement, on the very day. that
Farrell and Wiley collected the $25,000
ransom, according to a passing motorist
who witnessed the occasion and later
called the authorities when he, read news-

paper accounts of the case.

Meanwhile, the serial numbers of the
bills paid for Weiss’ release were turned
over to the Department of Justice in
Washington, and the Federal men joined
in the search for Farrell and Wiley. Cam-

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lay low until this blows over and keep
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ta ay ”

We got busy immediately. Just before
dawn, Neill, Hackett, May and Mc-
Garrity, with some state troopers under
the command of Maj. William A. Clarke
of the Wyoming barracks, drove from
Wilkes-Barre to Harvey’s Lake. They
raided a bungalow the troopers had
staked out, and captured two hoodlums
who hailed from Scranton.

That night Pierce himself appeared at
the bungalow and felt the cuffs on his

wrists. He did not bother to stall. He -

named Blackie Zupkosky as the leader
of the bandit mob. Pierce, Manski,
Holtzin and a known auto thief and high-
wayman named Alexander “Red” Coch-
rane were the other members. Cochrane,
he said, would turn up to meet him at
the Harrisburg ‘railroad station at 10
o’clock the next night.

Pierce was not on hand to meet
Cochrane, but my men_ were. He and
Pierce were duly lodged in separate cells
in Central police court.

But Blackie never opened up. Miracu-
lously he fought his way back to life and
he sneered at me when I visited him.

' “The boys have put you in a dozen
holdups and attempted murders,” I re-
minded him. “You may as well talk.”

“T'll take a chance with a: jury,” he
whispered fiercely.

A nurse came in, looked at his chart
and flashed a reproachful glance at me
as Blackie sagged down on the pillows.

“What’s wrong?” I started to bend
over him but she shook her head.

“Please go,” she said. “He’s fainted.”

He had been in the hospital two weeks
when a staff doctor called me,

“T suggest,” he said, “that you remove
your prisoner before he disrupts the
entire hospital. He’s entirely too friendly
with one of the nurses.” He paused.
“The girl actually is in love with him!”

I blinked. “We'll move him,” I
promised.

“Thank you very much,” the doctor -

said. Then he added, “Inspector, I have
seen a lot of lady-killers in my time, but
for a man who was half dead two weeks
ago and still has a drainage tube in a
hole under his heart, he beats all I ever
heard of. The women go nuts over him!”

Next day, Zupkosky, with a_ police:

guard, was taken to Philadelphia General
hospital, a city institution, and we got
him a male nurse.

There he continued to improve and at
the end of the month although his wound
was still draining, he was permitted to
sit up a few hours each day.

We spent all afternoon of Aug. 18
assembling our data on him. At 4 o'clock,
tired and exhausted from the heat, I left
for my home. It took half an hour to

reach it. As I stepped in the front door.

the phone was ringing. It was Neill.
“You better sit down to hear this
one,” he said. “Blackie has just escaped
from the hospital!”
“We know what happened,” the su-
perintendent of Philadelphia General

told us an hour later asmy squad crowded.

into his office. “He let himself out the
second story window of his room with
the help of sheets he had knotted to-
gether and tied to a radiator.” :
“Where's his nurse?” I asked sharply.
“JT want to ask you a favor,” said the

superintendent, “and that is that you do

not permit her name to be known.”
“Her name?” Neill shouted.
The harassed doctor shook his head.

“He did have a male nurse, but somehow

one of our girls—an excellent and com- -

etent young nurse—became interested
in your prisoner.”

“Get her in here!”
.“T have sent for her. It seems she
offered to stay with him while the male

_ attendant went out for a cigaret—”

The door opened and a trim young
woman stood there. I had expected tears
and perhaps some fear but she showed
no trace of that.

“Yes, I helped him get away,” she said
quietly. “I felt so sorry for him.”

Neill stifled an ‘exclamation, turned

and stood looking out the window.

“You knew who he was?”

“Yes, I knew.”

“Did you know that he has shot at
least five persons?”

She was silent.

“How did he get away, dressed’ in
pajamas?”

“There’s a box on the grounds where
some workmen used to store their tools
and overalls. I told him.”

I stared at her. “Do you realize what a
serious offence you have committed in
helping a criminal to escape?”

Tears welled into her eyes. She flung
back hef head to shake them away.

“VYes—but he was so sick and lonely.”

Neill swung around from the window
mi said coldly, “You make me positively
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- We almost took the city apart looking

for him. Underworld haunts were
combed, criminals to whom he might
apply for help’ were brought in and
questioned. We put a ‘24-hour guard on
his father’s home and a constant watch
over relatives of Manski and Holtzin.

Lieut. Mock voiced: our combined
sentiment: “I hope he’s dead.”

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pital insisted he could not live without
skillful treatment. That he had managed
to get out of bed and go through that
window for a two-story slithering drop
was almost unbelievable.

Weeks passed without a clue to his

whereabouts. And then, when the:

morning newspapers of Saturday, Dec.
14, were carrying front page stories of
the daring holdup of the $5,000 payroll
of the Sikes chair company at 24th and
Passyunk avenue the previous after-
noon, a friend of mine dropped in at
headquarters. —

“Bill,” he said, “the funniest thing
happened Thursday night. I was in a
phone booth in a drugstore at Twentieth
and Fitzwater and I heard a man in the
next booth say ‘John, is everything set
for tomorrow?’ My party came on then
and I didn’t pay any more attention but
when I saw the Ledger a while ago.”
He pointed to a photograph in the paper
he was carrying.

The caption under. the picture read:
“Blackie Zupkosky, suspected in daring
holdup.”

“That,” said my friend, “is the guy I
saw in the drugstore booth!”

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company paymaster who had _ been
forced to hand over $5,000 at the point
of a gun, showed us a list of the com-
pany’s employes. There was only one
“John” on the list. He was a shipping
room man. I asked the paymaster to
send for him.

“John” and I understood one another
at once.

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on the door of Zane’s apartment. There
was no answer,

He slid the pass key in the lock and
with Hackett at his heels, entered the
living room and softly locked the door
behind them.

It was furnished with two arm chairs,
a sofa and a piano. On the mantel was a
picture of a man and woman in bathing
suits with their arms around each other,
The faces were unfamiliar to the de-
tectives.

In the next room was a bed and bureau
and beyond was a combination kitchen
and dinette. .

“Not much of a joint,” Hackett re-
marked, peering into a bureau drawer.

“Not a bad looking piano,” Neill called
back. “Seems to be new.”

“Maybe the guy’s a musician on the
side,” Hackett said, rummaging -in a
closet. “Got good clothes.”

Neill touched the piano keys with one
finger and struck a chord.

“Needs tuning if you ask me,” his
partner said, emerging from the bed-
room.

Neill played a slow scale, paused, then
raised the top of the piano and looked in:

A second later he held in his hand a
.38 caliber revolver which had. been hidden
inside,

Hackett seized his arm. “There’s
somebody coming in.” ‘

Neill thrust the gun in his pocket as a
key turned in the lock and the living
roomn door,opened.

They recognized the young man of the
photograph. At sight of Neill he stopped
in his tracks.

“Come on in,” the detective said
quietly.

In an instant the man whirled around
ai dashed out, slamming the door after

im,

Neill crossed the room in two leaps,
jerked open the door and charged down
the front steps drawing his service pistol.

He shouted to the fugitive to stop,
but that only increased his speed.

As he reached 17th street Neill roared,
“If you don’t stop I'll. fire!”

The man glanced over his shoulder,
Then he jerked out an automatic and
spun around. Neill crashed into him.

Each had a gun jammed against the
other’s body. Neill, with a split-second

advantage, pulled the trigger, His eh
t

ponent went down with a bullet straig
through hit.

Neill commandeered a passing truck,
loaded the unconscious form in it and
ordered the driver to speed to Hahne-
mann hospital, eight blocks distant,

He was waiting for Mock and me out-
side the emergency room.

“This fellow’s name isn’t Zane,” he
said, handing me a letter. “I found this
in his clothes after they stripped him.”

“Is he dead?”

“No, but there’s a hole as big as a
dollar under his heart.”

The envelope was addressed to one
William Zupkosky, and inside was. this
note:

“Darling, I will meet you at the
apartment Tuesday night so be there
without fail, I can hardly wait to see
you.

“Blackie dearest, I love you so
much. :

. -Your sweetheart, Jean.”

Neill said to me, “Come on in, In-

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spector,” and pushed open the door to
the operating room. A surgeon was
applying dressings to a slim figure on
the table.

I stood looking down at the face from
which every drop of color had drained.
His mouth was set in a straight firm line
even in the depths of unconsciousness.

“Recognize him?” Neill mutmured.

“No,”

“Will he live?” I asked the doctor.

“That’s hard to say. He’s got a bad
wound, If this detective hadn’t got him
here in such a hurry he’d probably be
dead by now. But it’s amazing how
strong he is in spite of that. Only a kid,
too. Not more than nineteen or twenty,
I'd say.” ;

While they were taking him up to
men’s surgical, we went back to find
Mock stepping out of a phone booth.

“He was sent to Glen: Mills reforma-
tory two years ago,” Mock said. “Let
out last winter, They call him ‘Blackie.’
His father lives on Wharton. street.
They’re Lithuanians.”

I turned to Neill, “You don’t think this
is the man we want, do you? Mike
Manski wouldn’t take orders from a kid
like this Zupkosky.”

“Maybe not. But the kid, as -you call
him, has a smart look even now when
he’s out cold. And the gunman we're
after has been smart enough to make
monkeys of us for six months.”

I nodded. “Send for his father.”

“Don’t Kid Me!”

Y THE time we returned to the ward
Zupkosky had beett put to bed,

screens were drawn around it and an
interne was taking his temperature.

“Blackie,” I whispered. “Blackie, your
father is on his way here.”

His colorless lips moved and his voice
was surprisingly distinct,

“Why? So you can listen to what we
say?”
'I shook my head. “You may die,
Blackie.”

A ghost of a smile’ touched his mouth.
“Don’t kid me, Inspector!”
_ Half an hour later a small man with a
worried: expression and a thick foreign
accent inquired for his son. A nurse took
‘him up to the bedside.

Zupkosky wasted no time in greeting
his father, ?

“Who is with you?” he asked in low,
painful tones.

“No one,” the older man assured him, /

bending over to touch his hot forehead.

Blackie twisted away and turned his
face weakly to the nurse.

“Come here,” he whispered. Blindly his
fingers closed over her hand and he
turned his trembling lips against it,

“You'll tell me the truth, won’t you?”

“Certainly, but you must not do that.”

“Yes,.I must. You’re so pretty—and I
have to trust somebody.”.

“What do you want?”

“Have the cops gone?”

“Ves,” i

Abruptly he released her, dragged his
head back toward his father and spoke
to him in the language of the old country.

He did not know that I had put one

of our court interpreters behind the
screen at the head of his bed!
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“Where did he go after he telephoned
you Thursday night?” I demanded.

The man’s mouth fell open. He knew
I had him. With a 10-year rap staring him
in the face, John talked plenty.

After Blackie Zupkosky had fled from
the hospital in a car that underworld
friends had provided, the youthful thug
had gone to “Legs” Diamond in New
York. That notorious gunman had
hidden him until he recovered.

“A week ago Blackie came back,”
John said. “He came to me. I used to
live near him and he found out I had this
job. He don’t stay in Philadelphia now.
It’s too cheap, he says. But we're
supposed to work together. I’m to tell
him where there’s a job and he'll plan for

it.

“I said I’d meet him Tuesday night at
Broad ‘and Federal at ten o'clock,” John
concluded. ‘

We were parked near that corner
when Tuesday night came, but we didn’t
feel too optimistic. A heavy mist made

even the street lights seem dim. We’

might not be able to spot Blackie quickly
enough. Or John might cross us. I sent
May across the street to tail John on
foot, just in case.

But John showed up: Walking swiftly
out of the darkness, he crossed the street
to the bank on the southeast corner.
Within! five minutes a man joined him.

“That’s not Blackie,” Neill said
tensely, “Too short and too old.” _~

I saw May start to drift behind the
pair, We drove slowly a block behind
them. To our dismay they turned south
on 13th street, and the fog thickened.
Neill shot down Federal to 12th, went
south three blocks and doubled back. He
stopped. John and the other man walked
past. Still no Blackie. The two figures
crossed the square at Tenth street and
continued east on Reed. I began to feel
desperate, We couldn’t waste any more
time, .

We drove ahead, parked the car and
took up positions along the street. Neill
sprawled on a step, hat low, collar \up,
head drooped as if he were half asleep.
He was the key man if anything showed.

Suddenly we ‘heard footsteps. Once
more John and his companion loomed
through the fog. It was the same man,
too short to be Blackie; too old to be
Blackie. “

Neill had had enough. He jumped up.
His gun suddenly prodded John’s com-
panion in the middle. Then Neill got one
of the biggest shocks in his life. The man
before him was stooped and twisted. His
face seemed middle-aged. But there was
no mistaking those piercing black eyes.
_ “Blackie,” Neill said. “Move just once

and I'll blast you.”

Six days later Blackie Zupkosky faced”

Judge Howard A, Davis in Common
Pleas court, With him were his pals.

Manski and Holtzin got 30 to 60 years
each; Cochrane 8 to 20 and Pierce 2 to 8.
Zupkosky was tried on: seven indict-
ments was sentenced to 10 to 20 years
for each—a total of 70 to 140 years in
prison!

Every man in my squad was relieved
when the gates of “Cherry Hill” closed
behind Blackie. Gradually he left our
minds.

Then, at nearly 3 o’clock on the
morning of Feb. 4, 1930, a nun on duty
at the telephone exchange of St.

Joseph’s hospital happened to look down

the hall toward the entrance door.

On the threshold sprawled a man, He
clutched a gun in his hand.

His lips moved. “Sister—”

The nun stifled a scream. Then she
pressed a button, under the switchboard,

50

hurried forward and bent-over the man.
As an orderly appeared in the corridor,
she said quietly, “Help me get him up,
please.”

But the orderly stopped as the
wounded man’s lips moved again.

“Call Inspector Connelly,” he said
weakly, “I’m one of his men—Neill.”

Then his head sagged to the floor.

I got there as soon as I could, A night
lamp still was burning in the room where
Neill lay, but dawn was breaking and in
the half light his face, was ghastly, He
had been unconscious since they re-
moved three bullets from his lower ab-
domen.

One of the nuns gave me a small nail
file they had taken from his vest pocket
over his heart. It was bent in half.

“That deflected a bullet,” she said. “It
saved him from certain death.”

“Can’t you rouse him?” I asked, “I
want to know if he recognized the man
who shot him.”

An interne shook his head. “You'll
have to wait. He hasn’t much resistance
left, He may not revive at all, Inspector.”

“Nonsense,” I said. “He was a, top
sergeant in France and he lived. He'll
pull through this.”

That wasn’t the real reason for my
confidence, though. I’m not superstitious,
but somehow, that bent file that had de-
flected a bullet seemed to go beyond
coincidence. Somehow I just knew Neill
would live.

Later he regained consciousness and I

-got the story. A car had slowed as Neill

was walking along the street. The gun-
man leaped out, pumped lead into Neill,
then leaped back into the car as Neill,
acting automatically, pumped lead after
him,

Had Powertul Friends

A MOTORIST had picked Neill up and
carried him to the hospital, only to
lose his nerve at the thought of being
mixed up in a gang shooting. The motor-
ist had dropped Neill, who crawled the
rest of the,way alone. }

After a search we found the car which
had been used in the brutal attempt on
Neill’s life. It was a Studebaker sedan
with a New York license. Two of Neill’s
bullets had penetrated the back and were
imbedded in the upholstery. It had been
stolen that same day from its owner in
Manhattan. :

I had my own theory about that tragic
incident. Blackie Zupkosky hated Neill
and he had made powerful friends in New
York through his nerve and daring.

I accused him in the penitentiary of
planning that attempted murder but in all
the long days that followed, while Neill
hung between life and death, I was unable
to break him. 5

“You got me where you want me,” he
snarled, “and I’m doing my time. That
ong to be enough—seventy years in this
joint!” ;

A week later, a woman called me on the
telephone.

“T have some information you want,”
she said. “How about meeting me?”

“You can come in here. What is it?”

“Look, you blame Blackie for shooting
your man, don’t you? You say he hired
somebody to do it. Well, you’ meet me and
T’ll give you the whole lowdown.” |

“Who are you?”

“You-don’t know me, But I'll be alone
on the southwest corner! of Twenty-sixth

‘and Columbia at seven o'clock. Okay?”

“T’'ll be there,” I promised.

She was a pretty girl, with blonde hair.
I could see that even in the shadows.

“Hello;” she said, and smiled.

I have never been able to explain what
made me take her arm and draw her over
to the curb. She didn’t like it and tried to
draw back against a building where it was
dark. I knew then by that gesture that she
had put me on the spot.

“thane out here in the light,” I said,
turning her around so that she faced me
with her back to the curb.

“What’s the idea?” She gave me an-
other sickly smile and tried to twist out
of my grasp.

“T just want to see how pretty you are.”

I could see a machine coming along
26th street, with blazing headlights.

“Let me go!” she screamed.

The car slowed down and she turned
and stared at it desperately. But I held
her there between me and the gunmen in
that car who could not shoot without
drilling her back. They roared off and
I looked hard at her.

Her eyes were glaring with hatred.

’ Then I recognized Her.

We were more careful after that. Neill
recovered and I couldn’t really prove any-
thing—so I let Blackie Zupkosky’s little
blonde relative leave town.

There was worse to come, however.

Alexander Sawczuk had only had his
job a few months but he was pretty proud
of his progress, It wasn’t every day that
a fellow of 23 was given such a responsible
position as senior clerk in one of the most
prosperous liquor stores in Newark, N. J.

But he was keenly aware of the fact
they often had large sums of money on
hand so he got himself a pistol and kept it
on a little shelf below the cash register.

He knew how to use it and had plenty
of nerve so that on Saturday night, Jan.
26, 1941, when two men entered the store
about 8 o’clock, pointed guns at him and
ordered him to get in the back of the
storeroom, he whipped out his pistol and
shot one of them dead, But he didn’t have
a chance to get the other one, who sent
six bullets into his chest.

William Knehr, a police officer on duty
at the corner, had noticed two men step
out of a car they had parked a moment
before near the store entrance. As Knehr
ran forward the surviving gunman dashed
out and attempted to enter the machine.

Knehr knocked him out with his club.

'Sawezuk was taken in a dying con-
dition to St. James hospital.

Meanwhile, Newark police had con-
tacted the Pennsylvania state motor po-
lice and learned the car was registered in
the name of a resident of Melon street.

That frightened young man faced mem-
bers of the Philadelphia homicide squad
that iy to explain he had loaned the
car to his uncle, Walter Marchinkowski,
to visit the Polish consul in New York
about enlistment in the Polish Legion.

But Marcinkowski had another name.
To police he was “Big Mike” Summers,
one of the toughest underworld charac-
ters in Philadelphia.

“Who was with him?” Capt. William
C. Engle asked the Newark police over
the telephone,

; “A Joseph Myers,” he was told.
‘Myers refused to give an address. But
we've taken his fingerprints and they
check with a man in Eastern State peni-

.tentiary. His real name is William

Zupkosky |”

.The Newark police department files
did not show that on March 17, 1939,
Blackie had been paroled from prison.

The plucky little clerk, Alexander
Sawcezuk, died a week after he had been
shot. And on Feb, 24, Philadelphia’s ‘mad
dog, Zupkosky, went on trial for murder.

Four days later he was sentenced to
die in the electric chair at Trenton. On
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190 MURDER DiD Pay

~ One day in mid-August 1884 Ella Watson, a budding girl of fifteen,
~was selling eggs and chickens to merchants in the South Jersey commu-
nity of Yorktown. That night she was found nearby—clubbed, stran-
gled, robbed, and raped. Two local blacks were promptly arrested—
on speculation, it seems—but released soon. A reward was offered for
discovery of the stump from which the killer had cut his club. Howard
Sullivan, a stout black teenager, found it speedily. During the girl’s
funeral, before a “profoundly attentive throng,” he and two others
were seized. A black detective posing as a fellow prisoner induced Sul-
‘itvan’s cUnfession. The death sentence was a shock, for he had ex-
pected a short jail term.

- Borton, Benjamin, 1841-1912.

The Yorketown tragedy; Ella Watson’s tragic death. Sullivan’s ar-
rest, trial and confession . . . Salem, N.J.: Press of South Jerseyman,
1884.

cover-title, 16p. illus. (incl. ports.) 22cm. DLC NHi NjR (copy)

HOWARD SULLIVAN

. Copy in NHi is inscribed: “Compliments o. the Author, Benj. Borton. Harri-
* sonville, N.J.”
- The former.spelling, “Yorketown,” is used throughout.

UNKNOWN

The parties to this case are anonymous at both ends. A woman of
about twenty-five, her throat cut, was found at the edge of Rahway on
Saturday morning, March 26, 1887. There were signs of a struggle
(clothing disarrayed, scattered bruises and bloodstains, her face
s:amped-upon) but not of rape. In the vicinity were a basket of eggs, a
small, bloody knife, a satchel containing female garments, and a
man’s shirt. For weeks the police and a coroner’s inquest explored a
flood of clues and allegations from far and wide. Several thousand
people viewed the body, after which a local church took it for funeral
and burial. Despite every exertion, the mystery remained: undeter-
mined were the motive and the identities of both victim and assailant.

National Police Gazette.

$250 reward. [Engraving.] The above is an accurate portrait. pub-
lished only in the . . . National Police Gazette. . . of the young woman
mysteriously murdered at Rahway, New Jersey, on March 25, 1887. It
represents her with every article of dress worn by her, and as she ap-
peared the day before the murder. To any person or persons, who from
this clue, may discover the murderer and secure his or her conviction, I
will, on proper proof, pay the above reward. (Signed.) Richard K. Fox.
New York: “Police Gazette” Publishing House [1887]

Broadside. 39 x 16¥2cm. NjHi NjR (copy)

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a MURDERS IN PRINT

WILHELMUS VAN @..

At the Sussex County jail in mid-January 1821 he wrote sen
tally of his wife: “I loved her unspeakably, for our hearts we
with pure love and compassion.” Yet he had killed her brutally «
Year’s Day. Clearly Van Auken was deranged, a condition of si
duration which expressed itself in morbid anxiety about his u.
salvation. “I thought probably I had fell from grace and could!
repentence.” An uncle “had often heard him say he had commit
unpardonable sin.” The sin is not identified but neighbors, sus;
it was the unsolved murder and robbery of a peddler a half doze
earlier, welcomed Van Auken’s hanging on January 25, 1822.

Van Auken, Wilhelmus, 1784-1822, defendant.

A succinct account of the trial of Wilhelmus Van Auken, who
indicted, tried and found guilty of the murder of his wife, Leah
Auken, and sentenced to be executed on the 25th day of January, i
at Newton, Sussex County, N.J. Together with a short narrative «
life, written by himself, a few days before his execution. Ne»
Printed for the publisher, January 1822.

12p. 20cm. Nj NjR (copy)

The trial of Wilhelmus Van Auken, who was indicted, triec
found guilty of the murder of his wife, Leah Van Auken, and sente:
to be executed on the 25th day of January, 1822. At Newton, >)
County, N.J. Together with a short narrative of his life, writte
himself, a few days before his execution. Kingston [N.Y.] Printed «
Plebian office, 1822.

15p,[1]p. illus. 2icm. DLC

Entry from DLC catalog.

GEORGE B. VOSBURGH

On January 1, 1877, the Reverend Vosburgh moved to Jerse
His wife fell ill in November and by February 1878 was near
Arriving to await the event, her relatives watched his strange
ior, decided the good ‘parson was poisoning his wife, and sen’
mens for analysis, which confirmed the presence of poison. Th:
contrived to substitute, in place of the husband’s offerings, me«
themselves had prepared. Thereupon Hattie’s condition im)
Vosburgh was cleared of attempted murder after a long tri:
extensive medical testimony. An incident to the proceedings °
allegation that Hattie had induced abortions on two occasion
the help of her mother.

ye

TREADWAY, Samuel Te

Treadway, a white farmer, lived near Elsinboro,

tching clothes when a shot was fired
Before she

a in addition to Mr
: Son, the testinony of his caMitits ag fo li
° his

threats, and the testimony of those who had seen Nim near the Bilder-
back farm, the fact that the wadding from the gun which was found out-
side the Bilderback kitchen gatched torn paper found in Treadway's
farmhouse. He was convicted and sentenced to die and, on Jan. 1l,
1853, after his conviction, he confessed to the murder in the presence
-of six ministers and his court appointed counsel. A considerable |
effort was made to have his XXXHXKSHKHEXA sentence commted to life
‘imprisonment EX&XEK but the Govemor refused to intervene and he was.
‘hanged in the rear of the old jail at Salem on March 1, 1853. It was
written that he was very composed and"prayed, sang hymns, smiled, and
left a dollar legacy to his nééce," OSG oe

THIS HISTORY OF SALEM COUNTY, N. J.3 by Joseph S, Sickles. Copyright
oe Sunbeam Publishing Companys, Salem, New Jersey, Pages ss
71-259 7 re
mp day or two after Judge Eimer sentenced Treadway, at Salem, NJ, to be
hung for the murder of his wife, a little boy, aged 8 years, whose pa-
rents reside in-the neighborhood, made inquiry of his parents respect-
int the manner in which condemned criminals are executed, The parents
heedlessly explained the matter, and‘shortly afterwards left the lad ..

‘alone with a small child lying in the cradle asleep. During the ab-
sence of the mother, the boy procured a cord and carefully adjusted


TREADWAY = New Jersey = 1853= Continued,

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adjusted it around the neck of the sleeping babe, and proceeded to
experiment on the instructions he had received from his parents. =
When the mother returned, she found, to her surprise, that her child
was quite dead, having been choked to death by the rope," CONSTITU=}
TIONALIST AND REPUBLIC, A,gusta, Ga., January 18, 1853 (2/6.)

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RESEARCH PROJECT
P. O. DRAWER 277
100 EAST MAIN STREET
HEADLAND, ALABAMA 36345. :
(205) 693-5225. PIB). 7999

25 July 1991.

The Reference Librarian,
The Salem Public Library,
Salem, New Jersey 08079.

Dear Librarian:

I am writing a book which will contain case summaries of the over
325 juveniles (persons under 18 at the time of their crime) whose
legal executions I have confirmed as having taken place in the
United States.

There is a possibility than one person executed in Salem County
was a juvenile at the time of his crime. On December 2nd, 1884,
Howard Sullivan, aged 18, was hanged there for the murder of Ella
Watson, aged 14 or 15, who he killed on August 18, 1884. If you
have copies of your local papers, either originals or on microfilm,
Bo for that time, I would like to obtain copies of the articles cover-

ing both the crime and the execution. Hopefully this will clear
up the question as to whether Sullivan was 17 or 18 at the murder
as well as provide additional information for narrative purposes.
Of course, copies of anything else that you might have on the case,
from local histories or other sources, would also be very helpful.
If you can help me, please send the copies with a bill and it will
be promptly paid.

Enclosed is a prepaid addressed envelope for your convenience in
replying and if you cannot assist me, I would appreciate any
suggestions that you might be able to make as to other potential
sources of information.

Thanking you for your kindness and cooperation, I am,

oh, as 4

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Case of Negro Tony. 1826’ for which
we have only A Vague retrospective account.

The attached is a Coronor’s inquest on the body
OF the victio, E: Mijah Beadle. ff comes from the

records vault of the Monmouth County Clerk And

it has taken Me FIVE ey. to wheedle it out of

them. Yad hitherto retused To release 1.

The ¢rime was commited on 12-20-1817. Ton

was slaven Joseph Dorset. The vicki had bohy

a whip fo Jon Y atrer Tony had made what Mity
or may not have been homosexua/ advances Towards
him. The ensuing braw! spilled into the street
| Where Tony Pulled a Ante on Beadle and fatally
Stabbed him. L cgally hanged a} Frechold NI
on May 29, 1818 per She New York Evening fost

é fp 7 18 2:4 Clars up Yas Case very nicely 7

The eadles, { am Yold, are Shi! a prominent family
in and around Freehold 7o this day. May expfein

why this Case has Taken So long To Crack.

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as Harry Stscoe, 841. Ldenhtal vichn'’s name 1h €ach Case.

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, VAN. AUKEN, , Wilhelms, white, hanged Newton, NJ, 1-2. ee for wife murders

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corporate the New.
riety for encouraging ~
afactures.

Banking company,
On Banking compu ©

Force Margaret Cam-_

roree Nathao ‘Talm.
ife Abigail.”

orise the efection yf
anarshes On the borrix>’
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vet th City of Trenton, this, A N

tweaty first dsy of Novem
~ ber, in the-year of ou? Lord
» one thousand ree buac red
and twenty ove

in RE tae 2) net

Isanc H. Williamson.
Sees SS eee

‘SUSSEX RFGISTER
7 _Necion, Nee. 4. 1821.

taterm of the Court of Over
agd rerminer, hield in this town
during the last and prescaot weeks,
at which. Judge Rossell  presid-

“- mecame +0 for wial the case cf Wil-
hhelmus Van Auken.for the murier

of his wife Lear Van Auken, evm-
mitied jo the night between the first
wad second of January {45¢, io. th:
= township of Mootague. two days,
- Friday and. Satutaay were princi-

= pally consamed j in €xaming witness.)
- @¢-The piisouer admicted the killing

bat plead 1 tosanity a8 ap excus-. Th:
—joty, after Feeeiving a very. Full and
Ai ae charge from the. bench
retired at about ten o’elock on Sai
urdsy evening to delib-rate, aod in
“about ove hour returned iste” Rpuee

} with a verdict of GUILTY. |

oe “Yesterday. ‘morning, at 9-0" sdlock
‘the prisoner was agsin placed’a: the

bar, when the sentence of the law

“passed opon him.» He is tq be bang
ed bythe neck until he is. dead/on
Friday the 2oth of geld ees

Memcentt

Se

~ Caution. SNS eS
= Connterfeit three dollars notes r oD

he Sussex Bank,’ are in, circulation.

_ The one we have seen was of dessert

~ Do made payable to David. Ford, 4

a light impression, the~ name- or

\-Dso’l. Stuart, the President. e@ritteo.
with’ a lighter Haad apd- the. Paper

goarset thawthe Renin” bills;

will howeve require. anepiions tol
- ace them» :

et N; Ye! Paps)

ty eden: ‘General.
is said Vana: fat Shed file

* Ad attempt was made. esterday |
morning: 40: rob= the: matt: between |”

<e New B: fener and Elizabethtown:

f the mail staze-was
eek raken® out —

eee eee a

Qn the Corner of Broad and Bridge streets,
vinta NEE MMe DO Se rte
thé road leading to the cuy of New York.
Meer & Whitehead,
~~ Offer foa sale at their
Dry Good, Grocery, Flour.
AND COMMISSION STORE,
A gcneral asscfrment of

Dry Goods,
: asiony:t which are
Sope fine abd Common Cloths,

: Ldies Pclisse, do,
Casimeres and Satincts, assorted
colors, Bed Vie kit gs Flannels, Ves-

i tings, Chee Kes Bhi: k and other
rOlorfd Bombs arts plain acd fgur-
od, Cslicors, Silks, Velvets,
lrmported and ‘Domestic Gingtams,
_ Cambric Book Jaconet aad

Common Mastin, —
Silk end Cotton Shawls, 200lbs”
Cotton: Yaro, and @ great variety of

other Dry. Goods—together ehh
Groceries

‘of the frst quility—consising of.

Cogniac and Cotamon Brandy, ‘
Hllaod and Couptry Gin, << ~

‘Jamaica acd Cider Spirits; New

ew Cheap Store. ie

| NOUICE. -
“ADL persons. having amy demands ac
the estate of my Father, Jecnb Butts, de
pode A URE RETE ICSE dedi! Lak
to the enbseriber. for e1amination : ack
persa@: indebted te ‘said estate are hi- rey
quested to meet meat the stgre of C
Lineback, ig Know!ton, in the county of
<€x, om Saturday the fifteenth dey af [>
ber inst. at tea O’cleck inthe faces non
settlement and payment, at wbich time
place the subscriber will axent forthe «
mentioned purposes. All persons ne rec

*@ prhis notice will be dealt with as few cir

~.” M. Robert Butts,
j Administrator of Jacob Bulls,
Knowlton, Dec, od 1g2i 46 St.

Real Estate ut ¥ eaink

AGREEABLY to The: directions < if tee
of Joba De. Ackerman, fac. the cobscr:
offer for sale.20d will expose at public ver
on the premises, on Tuesday the Seth ot E
fest, a bandsome FAR MV: situate in the t+
ship of Frankford, on whicithe widow 4
erman now. lives, coptaining 24 acres. °
prapertioned ter Wood. Plow and Mea
i2nd—om which ere a good ‘

ff) Daclling 1 House.

+ ae: other ont beildinegs; one snitahle

© pteant and an excelient bearing apple orc’
~- {of mbont 100 trees together with a eee

fiety of other frutt: Sale tacommence xt
@ clock, PM, when tonditions. wii be’ m
Keown, end attendance given hy

John F, Ackerman.
Loss Maa

‘Cotsica Colmenar and other

Wises; Cotdists and Cherry Brandy, |

eyes tum, Medeira — Tenerif > Nev

ay

+

Best J London Porter, Raspberry ©
; « ). Brandy, dc. eo. Ke.

+ bola. Losf and Lump Sagar,

«White ‘and Brown. Havaona.

8 3. by. the:bbl. or: by st
jerpoiot Hdwarda, Et ‘ ak: ugars y. the: or. Oey. Coffee

: of thie. cit «has been appointed, by
“the | overnment of, the, S- Consol

“(very hondsome,) Mace, C
mons Cloves, : ‘Notmer

= Ginger, Pepper,’ ‘Poailash,
6 Cisks first rate Cheese,

“and Common fis ur, Sst
Chachlate No, 4, 15,001 0, Old: Span-
ish, New Orleans avd American
"Scgars, 20 boxes 7
“8 by 10 Window Gites, Winter
pressed Lamp Vil, Sweet do, Must-
ard, 6 Kegs Powder, i5bags -
Shot, B Brimstone, So aud

Also’ Hys@a. Young Hyson fone
pauchiong Veas,. (warranted | 09) ie

2s barrels Sugar ‘assorted: qualities, i:

£Sy. Alspice, Be

Superfine | _ a

‘| Court of Common

ne Canciles,|

ske’a good COA
dy -empluy ment : and
aon to

Julia Boyd.

# ie tha 15 S
£ pet eR hy

OWANIED,

will: find stee |
“paod wager, by. apflying s

“the subscriber, living to Juhoson-

CIlss can m
burgh Ni Ji

i
wt

“Taleo ay Bite.

That we have applied tr the J: nudges of
lease, imarid forthe eu
ty of Sussex, for the benefit of the law
} New-Jersey, passed far the roliéf of insuls
dedtors—ant. they will meet al the C:
Louse in Newton, ie stid county an tne
day of Zanvart nest. at the hour of ten in
forenoon, tw-bear what can’ be alledged
antd agi ir cea from confiueme:


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. TREGLAWN, James, white, hanged Morristown, NJ, )~18-188 3, ; a

=) The gerseyn@ 5 oa
April; 20, 1883: 3

James Treglawn

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Murdered Minnie Chirgwin at Port Oram, evening of June 20, 1882.
He had been engaged to her but "in consequence of a lover's
tiff, she was receiving the attentions of another miner

named Henry James" Treglawn followed them on the above evening,
fired at them with a pistol whereupon James ran away. Treglawn
then shot the girl in the head dragged her to the canal and
held her under water till she drowned. Her body was found

a short time after. James gave the alarm Treglawn succeeded

in eluding arrest till June 24th. After shooting the girl,

he shot himself, inflicting a flesh wound in the head.

Trial commenced 29th of January - lasted 4 days - Jury returned
a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.

Time of execution fixed for April 18th many petitions for

commutation of sentence but the Court of Pardons decided
not to interfere and the execution took place according to
the sentence.

Born in Cornwall, England, Aug. 12,1859, worked in the mines
when very young - unable to read or write. Came to U.S.A.
March 1880 - worked at mines in Port Oram, N.J.-

The place of execution was a structure in the Jail yard
enclosed and roofed so as to prevent any view from the |
outside. Gallows brought up from Newark and is the property
of the executioner. Janitor Van Hise of the Essex County
Jail.

"Thirty seven people were present Sheriff Howell deserves a

. large measure of credit for the good solid sense he has used

in the Treglawn case from the beginning to the end" —- "The
New York reporters were on hand with all their cunning and
smartness but most of them remained outside even on the day

of execution" MThe Sheriff "has been abused and sworn at

by them (reporters) because he insisted on conducting
Treglawn's execution in a strictly legal manner and in
accordance with his own ideas of justice'!...(The reporters)

It was a disgraceful piece of business which any decent person
ought to have been ashamed.


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* Evening: Poat ; . x pods Ae Rete peite en i. the ‘ ae : nj wasbid d a 2

> 5b of counterfeiters} Sud

thy no! in this} : scotak “ands ot echoes vibe of
t ‘500 dul seiecriet [ring a Vohe Acré; ture oF lesgesead
inet | 29 the property “of Janes Staddiford, “Es5.
‘Phenix’ Back, are in the rights. aad ‘eBediis, monies sad eHects | 200 taken in bxecuting at the suit “of Joho
hich are so ‘well es poddused chattled, Jansds, tenemens aga her- “laa Esq. ae ipa and to be’ weld for
no roarks of sufficient editements of Mptthiss Gress, an absent debt] Pabe ye oy eo :
Hove dvissd ‘eo btpt} [bak tee eelpfeaed\ col weomsea sy
as uly served and return
tfore advised to apply Sheriff orasid county, at the term of Noy
b< fore they receive bills 1921; and noless the said Mtatihias Gress, Shall
igaci: on,
—

Sussex, af the suit of BiichaelPaalig, “agai

by two ‘sabechibing: W itoesses for the: fale by
> said: eit ‘Casad, to the said Joun coal

“No.3. ‘A farts} in the tacerithtp of. Knot:
tea, adjoining Jands of Thomas Yeouat’s
Jesse Kavvwles aud others, ‘suid “to contain
two“ bundréed aeres, aiore,or’ less: niso a
tract of wood Ind in the tew nship~ aforesaid,
containing One” handred and elevcis. acres,

apd beingin the Sheet of Fraakiord, id
the county af Sussex, adjoining lands of Joba”
Cass, and lands of the said Jobn Gates, con:

appear aad Ble speviel bail aud receive a det-
{aration at the suit ofthe plaintiff, Jadgmen

rdee of a Negro Slave is

cared a espilal erime,s

for defanh, wili be entered for the-plaintiif
rich death, ia Soath Gar:

ee
$ ’ *

pkee Iudians aeaniid to

their esuntry ines
cis, Did a ox on thei
id a edurt house in cach
uc Sigal: jus, Bes, &o,

lara Sactery of New
petitioned Congzess to}.
Psi (arin of faim and
fee. of: duty. Other
sis Aeseriprion are avi.

hagers

Pelise

‘of thel

acaind hin the said defendant; and the ‘pro-
ay: attached will

a3 - Green, Clerk,
1b THankineda Atty.

be sole accumu to

Dat oe December if, ig2t
Tees 42 13W

aarti inane

THE aubseribers beg leave’ to

inform (ieir fricnts and the pholic in general
that in ‘addition io their former slack they are
are epeniog, a iresli Assortinent of pit

a  etaaee Sabie b are,: P Soperiiae; Mid.

ling aad: low priced
lots. and Casimers:

‘Cloths, Blankets
“FL WANES, ‘Biizes

Colicees. ;

Domesiis: and linported
-Maslins and Stripes, « -

Lael am

and - a “genoral ” assoriment of

‘Silk, Goods.

‘They have also ‘an 2ssortment of

fron Be ate a ples y

“Bible Society: are | 10

Lat fhe: Asademy

wurgday the gist}

teal fouro’ clove

Wiz
f Onna Canton reper :

more or less : seized as the property of Sam-
nel Diltz, and taken in execotion atthe suit
of George Ribble, sen. ud others, aad to be
sold for cast. 2

No. 4.A house iter lot of. ‘laied
at Marksborough: inthe. township. of tHard-
wick, where John Mobre now lies; contain-
ing . weres, more Of less ;
seized ‘as the Property: of we said Joha
Mooré. and taken in esecution at the ‘suit of
Isane L: Hazen, and Levi Hazen, and to be
sald for cash,

ae

No. 5. A farin in the township
of Knowlton, where John Besherer now
fives, adjoin ing lands‘ of: Mayberry
and others, <aid to contain one hundred and
emhty sivas res, be the same more of Jess;
seized asthe fitoperty-obthe said olin Beshier-
er, And tchén in execution at the Suft/af Vm:
Green, znd William Efankinsow, and {tu be
told for cash, by Z

A Wan Darrah Inte sh’ r
gE De ES, dep. | ees Hi

Dated Nein, Susses CO,
Deveimber 22, nae

“ Sherii’s S Bales

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2

| Wilbetmos, Van: Wiha 08. Macy
Cole ard Joba Cole— William Lo-
[der ts, Mary Cole & Jolin Cole.

+ » Vierifavias de beues. et térris

> BY virtue of the above stated ex

Centign fo me Citected and. delivered, dcued
outof the abcve, stated-court, 1 have levied
“bony and shatk EXPOSE 10: gale at public veutlue,
on Friday the 22d day of February next, at
the house of Jason’ King, jr Inn keeper, in the

townshi ip of Newtan> between the boors of

bland 6 o'cioek in the atter noon Of said day;
the ic elge ies

Real K pst; ite, ViZ26, a
Nee in. the: township of Sandyston, where |

4} Mary” Cole. now lives adjoining tands of Jot}

eb sepled st asthrouk, Beajaniin: Fisher “and “o*!

thers; said to “éontain seventy actes, bé the
Sines more of less+) seized as the property
ofthe ‘defendants and taken in execution “at

3 pite suit of the plaintifs, and to. be sold: fer:

$  Vanlve Moore, sh sh’
j tzckiel Dennis, dep. ie

. me New denege op Cour
d Chas ome nd

thore or. less—The third bearing’ date thé

td.by two subscribing witsesses for ihe bald
by. the said: Job Cosad, 10 Amos. Wolverton,
Of a certain fot.or parcel of land, tying“ antl
being in the township- of Frankford, im the
county of Sussex, containing “about foily
oné acres of taud—which said article of a
greement and the lands thereom described
the sas Amuse Wolverton; ‘sold, transferred

and assigned to one John Allet;on ‘the. Brat

ease made and provided:

John Gastin, ne
Wiliam Hough be ae

Leonard St tenbies:

- ~ Brecuilors
Diced Decomts ist. faites he &

ay

; Arti ‘clea:

Flour W heat”

Do. Rye ©

Do, - Buckwheat do
Jodian: Seen

Batter=-fresh da™
Do... Shoes do
Pork = SAo
Salt eis

Citler. Spirits gall
aeeees Mo e

ATICLES :

Wheat Flour «ba
Rye age de. Oa
Wheat © eee spha.
Rye >

[Saray ig

taining twelve acres. of land, be thevsamé © 2.

26th day of February, A. D. 1314, Aka attest?”

day of April 1$17, persudat to the Bet ie eee 3 ee


“Trenton, N, 4 yuo fcit4= fenagee Watt.


WARE, David, black, elec. NJSP (Mercer County) on May 31, 1929
small card on Frunk Saze, White, electrocuted New Jersey
(Hudson County) on January 5, 1924, states that he was con-
victed of the murder of F olice Sergeant John d. Black of
Jersey City. cage was an escaped convict. This was taken

from appeal report (122 Atlantic 8<7) and is all that I have
so I will appreciate anything that you might provide.

Small card on David ware, black, elec. NJSP (Mercer County) on

May 51, 1929, item condensed from Columbus, Ohio, DISPATCH reads

as follows: "Had been living with a black woman named Pansey Keaton,
On night of le-27-1928 she summoned police because he had been beat-
ing her, Stute Trooper Peter Gladyes, only on force for six months,
was escorting him to jail. The next morning, Gladyes' body found with
thorat cut and search began for Ware," A ll I have, so if you get
anything eles, please advise,

Small card on Joseph J. ausnak, electrocuted New Jersey SP (Hudson
County) on July 14, 1931 states tha& he was convicted of the murder
of Policeman Stanley Zendarski on July 4, 1930. This is taken

’ 3 from appesl report - 154 Atlantic 754 - and is all that I have so
will appreciate anything additional you might develop,

4 Small card on raymond George, electrocuted New Jersey on April 25,
1932, contains a quotation from AGENT OF DEATH, by Elliott, pages
1354-135, as follogs: "One of the spiritual advisers of maymond George,
a Nezro wno had murdered a Jersey City p@liceman, came to me on the
evenings that the condemned prisoner was to expiate his crime. '‘'Please

| do your best not to maxr him on the face, mr, Blliott,' tae clergyman
pleaded, In spite of tne hizh voltage, I succeeded in fulfilling his
reyuest." This is sll tnet I. have - not even mame of policeman - so

anything you might develop will be aporeciated,

Small card on Guiseppe DiDolce, elect. NUJSP (Union County) on
July 20, 1932, states that he was convicted of murder of Police

uy Officer John wcvann of Elizabeth on Dec. 15, 1930, all I have and
was taken from appeals report (160 Atl. 516) so would appreciate
anythin: addition you might develop.

. Small carc on Charles Zied, elec. NJ. (Camden Co.) reas as follows:
" Trenton, Nd, June 2, 1936 - Charles Zied, 37-years-old, Philadelphia
Sengsier and lust member of the ‘Tri-State Gang,' died in the electric
P Chair at the state prison tonight for the Blaying of W illiam T,
Feitz, Jr., a Camden detective, Zied, his arms folded behind hin,
walked into the execution chamber unassisted, He was strapoed in the
ES Chair at 8:0 2 pm (ZST) and pronounced deed 5 minutes later. His
only words were ‘Goodbye, Doc; thanks a lot, Doc,' to Rabbi Abraham
Holtzberg of Trenton, his spiritual adviser. Once before Zied had been
Saved fom tne chair by the last minute reprieve of Gov. Harold G,
Hoffman, That was on March 31, when Zied and Bruno dichard Hauptmann
ere to have died on tne same night. Gov. Hoffmen' s reprieve was
ased on a statement by Zied that three Camden policemen shileded his
ccomplices after tne shooting. An ‘investigation was made, but the
urt of pardons yesterday for a second time denied clemency," TIwES
PECsYUNE, New Urleans, Lu., dune 3, 1936 (8/4.)

may have already sent you this. According to an undated Chicago
t IBUNE, 1883, pea iitns lists of executions in 1882, Elijah Franklin
was hanged at Silver City, NM, on August 11, 1882, for murder of Deputy
She#iff Johnson. I have found that all of these hangings did not

. chLually take place, so would appreciate anything that you might come
Ze with, esvecially verification of hanzine and wnether it was lesal


‘nying his wife here
“earn’s death, and
took place in their
ey reached the out-

‘aleased, but on the-
atives of the dead!
second inves- |
te Mi he was held >
as a Coroner's wit-_

Ww

f $25,000 bail.

ite and Ora Slater,
n Cincinnati, who
ne inquiry, declared
red discrepancies in
‘ory which warrant-
msideration.

Put at 97,842,668.
Mass.. Dec. 28 (*).—
aft, Newton candy
10 died on Jan. 22

wis,

$7,842.668. an inven- |
n Middlesex County ,
ywed., He left all his:
bers of his family.
dants. The personal |
518 and the real es-' )
i peal was made to the public by the

‘State Department today for assist-' eyenin

1 bytadio
The New
he City of
A graphic
lous prob-
ther diffi-
and North

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‘cials have been able to obtain from’ porte

Pramsil CuIniissigg ict cSsdiy 24 ee? Ee GUY Nd wap Src
operation of buses. The granting of ten years to life, also has received |
such a certificate was opposed by‘ a commutation on the express recom-
the B. M. T. until about a month mendation of the Distri¢t Attorney |
ago, when an adjournment of the’ who prosecuted him and the trial
‘hearings was requested. Soon after-: judge.

ward Mayor Walker was informed|” “{ feel that an} excemtion might
that an agreement had been reached‘ well be made in this case.’’ the judge

by which the B. M. T. would virtual- wrote to the Governor.

iF the Board of “Estimate. would
amend the franchise with | JERSEY TROOPER,SLAIN |
IN HIS AUTOMOBILE |

a

amend the franchise with respect to:

$ f
certain routes and terms.

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ASKS HELP TO IDENTIFY
DEAF MUTE IN PERU

‘State Department Believes the.
| Home of Wanderer Is in

Philadelphia.

‘Escaped Negro Prisoner’ Hunted
—Police Believe He Attacked
Captor on Ride.

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Special to The New York Times.
TRENTON, N. J., Dee. 28.—The |
body of Trooper Peter Gladyés of the:
State Police, attached to Hightstown |
| barracks, was found on the Robbins- |
'ville road near Metacong late this,

Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—An ap-'

:

g. He had been shot and his |
-ance In establishing the identity of] throat was cut. :

‘a deaf mute. totally illiterate, about;

_23 vears of age. who was found wan-,
dering aimlessly in the streets of.
/ Callao. Peru, on Nov. 10 and is now} :
'in charge of the American Embassy’ a negro woman at Allentiwn, N.
: there.

He is believed to be an American
‘citizen and from some hints offi-,?

The body was found near Gladyes's |

small automobile, in which he had;
left about 8 o’clock for the home of!
do

> f
| where David Ware, a4 (80-year-old |

egro, apparently a vagrant, was re-|
d to have started a sow.
sted Waré and the;

‘him may have been a resident of | Gladyes ‘arre
them in the car and.

“Philadelphia or West Philadelphia.) woman, placed

: Bennett,

‘with the project.

BANKERS READY T

: QUEENS TUBE PR

Blumenthal Gets Backins
East River Toll Tann
Cost $50,000,006

The investment banking

Converse & Schv
Wall Street is prepared tc
financing for Maurice Blu

construction engineer, in a
build a vehiaqular tunnel cc
Manhattan and Queens, bu
said at the firm's office :
that it was ‘uncertain whe
steps would be taken in cr
The ple
first be approved by the

Estimate. Mr. Blumenthal
working on the project f
years.

Mr. Blumenthal plans a tu
woulg be completed in five :
would cost about $50,000,000
is for tolls that would reim
financial backers in from |
fifteen years, after which
nel would be turned over to
His pMm provides for an e
tunnel from East Thirty-fif
near First Avenue, to Jack

| nue, Long Isiand City, an

for westbound traffic from
Point Plaza, Long Island (
point on Firgt Avenue nea

2
1

‘ Mirnos Long.

.The department has been unsuccess-;

|-ful in ‘establishing his identity.
‘| through its gwn channnels.
The mute ts unable to write In;

either English or Spanish and does:
not understand the deaf and dumb
alphabet. Some indications have;
.been given by him in his effort to:
‘tell his story that his name may be}
‘Manis Ferno, that his father is one
living at 5710 Pine,
Street. Philadelphia, or West Phila-:

.delphia, and that he went to Peru in}

‘a Grace Line steamer, being robbed |;
‘soon after landing of all his passes-|
sions, including $600 anda passport.
Grace Line passenger records con-
tain no clue and it is believed he
may have made the trip as a ,stow-
away. He is five feet six inches
, tall and weighs 140 pounds. He has
: black hair and eyes, olive skin, and
‘a sharp-pointed face suggesting Ital-
‘jan or Balkan parentage. He has
,an old scar on the back of his neck
‘and this. he seems to convey, is the
result of a bufet wound inflicted in

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started back to the barracks. When/fifth Street.’ Associated
Harry Newes of Mercerville passed, Blumenthal is Colonel Fr:
aleug the highway more than an Snyder, construction engine
hour later he saw the ear a mile}! Holland Tunnel.

northeast of Robbinsville. H _——-

That the trooper was overpowered | °

on the way, his throat smashed frat, WEDS GIRL, 15; IS ARI
with a razor and that he was then: :

shot with his own revolver was the! Youth, 21, Is Charged Wit
theory of State troopers who investi-| tion on Complaint of Bride’

$
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gated. Giadyes’s pistol, with one
cartridge fired, was nean the body.

Major
command ‘of the New
police; began a State-widd@ search for
Ware ana the woman. Kimberling
recalled that Gladyes wasthe second
trooper ta meet violent death in the
last sixteen months, another having
been killed near the samd place in a

ersey State

raid. : ; s
Every available troopet within a
radius of fifty miles Toined in the

search for the murderer ‘as soon as
word was received at the Hights-
town barracks. Two bsoodhounds

early childhood and the cause of his
physical affliction, »

up the trail

were. sent from the Wilburtha Train-
ing Barracks in the hope, of picking

ts

\SaQi -

Mark Kimberling. second in:

Charged with abduction f
eloped with 15-year-old
Cosgrove of 1.415 Amster:
nue, John Crimmins, 21 ye:
526 West 120th Street, was
\terday in $2,500 bail ‘in W
Heights Court by Magistr
for examination Jan. 2.

According to Mrs. Mary
mother-—of the girl, who
complaint, the young coup
Alpine, N. J.. on Dec. 24,
married. spon their re
daughter asked for her clot
could go with her husba
Tip abr gel haie and com

e police, whereupon n
arrested. eee

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‘ ad’ Was) found rN ‘har J. Fithian, Proseei
the office tr } } R
Stern.” Witness
Dakery ye ; sti J then : f Rel: as: the
went to nd veot.a horse t ast The
and went
Aliout 9
Fook at
tay Yet) he ! hé : ( : two loa
UMlentified ti i { r . Ya ~ } aroun
one he gai
how much
Banded it t«
+ Dhey went
about 2 a'clo
soa’ the shed
MWhile Job ran
peoples Job was
pantaloons
t&loons ;
Jodi had on
Mr. Holmes was on
deft the house
Mmerire ihey left.

Witness
mein tha I wondered an ‘ }
Were (meani mes ¢ Wise 4 eH Tee PEL) kay a ie
Shute). } Uh a 11 you had
hibhorse an
y at, Oak
night.
mornin
asked for
outa few
left the poc

Te Carnet af Q i¥ tf > ) \ 1s
was Lup bee 5 I anG ‘ } ip ; re J id John S
rm and slop hair and af ; seq at the fire and.|

Reilithe bed

Wantl to

page:

wut, but
a2 wheel.

a

him
him

hing the elit
lost’ a suit of-«

takety hi woedcd

WEDNESDAY MORNING

‘ 4 ‘wt sk u

wel
Willian
par’

dante

And which * : iy ‘ : ’
: oon thik 1 rnine when

Hender a

in the)

TON e170)

pA with

Phere w

while he

two piec:

shown

then as the ones he ' ;

) found some hones and ¢ ; , ' Ve rat Wifi

f dass Lares : ; | 1} tr Hepged the
Charles tH: ndrickson, who wis wi U4 the ® at Holic anid Raw

the fortne: WIiNneRe, Tegt i 5 1 ; { Ine On aA Mme iii’ ip fj ast? , } Pe ad

atthe fire at Bowentown 2 iis ti buateg Wt at ¥ Where Chiriesle bub lope py ef . Palani Ahn
, : bes prt (et cevolvar Pryde ‘ f . » Which was \

wihtad to

William on Thursday rt hia iH i h :
{! ren wer itl’ feck Wt Oe Witndtsda vid on bintited ‘aminat | ;
‘ att tea a) ang

iy Pe house in Oak Villa. Went. oud’, ru :
: oe reer ok SMOTALE 1 betticbes, C.ny: | th thik heowisired Fishy i Hh obtad Ly tof {i
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LARGEST CiRCULATION OF ANY DAILY OR WEEKLY PAPER IN A&W JERSEY SOUT

BRIDGETON, N ves WE DNES DAY, OCTOBER 15, 1902

| Be te I ey ie _r ‘ whi wak a 1, a terre: th +6 ti}
} eee Feet Zit ht forks ‘weiiding | s unt otal i
' ind pavell§ or dt, ne had Lat 3
Holness hi and gid notioknow of)”
any One taking them!) excert Charles
Vilas Wittess di him he could
UE SO SARE Ree Rn Geaeaey eats Se a PP t for’ Harr:

mer buying ice cra: ‘akes ete, O Pew OT, the nieh Hayit, Gak firey wes

‘Cloek. | Joby DiS. owe RIVES

Sasa, Tesimoy 22. ie aul :

rye
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coming, into: Oak
CORONER McPHER: SONG

* Corcmer Clayton McPherson vi ted EP Were Ver: kent a he barn and smak
. 4 therruias of the fireion the mornin if. Mas prohibited, always imstruci

He found bomes inithé ruins of | men: no smoke
Ried tte: Leni lbohes | were Avg) BSS GV IGeSS | pret ! Bs account
£ itate: their positions. Mit! Vine DOOK ID Which he kept his accalnt wilt
The State Will Introduce as Part vara li heetooki up theo ones an Fob VWoaableris ane Tread trom it the d
placed in. a receptaci Lereny Gaces and anrount of. \ meres

of Its Case the Prisoner’s Con-|' 4, 4 ay he! showed ithe bones. to | bald efaee aha
’ ) Lived ia i : ; bones hWiHi S commenced
feesious of Robbery, Arson and ne 1AMVS: CON) Ced

ap
if

te toons trom. the ruhis. |) TRereliawaa dpi Aieniay 27:
Murder. a Some flesh on some off the bones ant) Chari sy Ulams was calle
Peg Small (py Of he f£oods! |. THIS the person Whom Joly Militdiue accuse.
TUESDAY AF ERNOON, Was fownd ander: ty body. of: Miss fed’ Of stealing his wed. ling garments. NOW ON s
Tsaac showell another , colored | opate. On the day aie the fire wit | Charles ae he used to work for Mr ‘
youth, who was on) the pienie, was cail-| ness had 4 conversation with Job WoL Holiies He was the re On VARs USst 23. |p
ed. He was with Statem shen he slop | ams jasout the fire Job said Charles  dlolmes gwed him’ $0 cents, bu
ped at the Holinas house to talk to Willams bad worked for’ Mri Holnies!t| oy haar ho trouble over at
Willams On the might of the fire: He say aves Hed as idusrredil swith! Ape melds Jub. hel Rad trouble with
to Williams. who was dressed Hoimres about some Inomey he owed | ilolines aie vend Ganse: him on yb ; y
In dark’ coat and Striped pants and ie Didnt) say ‘he thought Charies | Wimess was ip Sprmiet own) on ithe ! Capes,
Straw hat. Saw Charles Willams. at fired the place, hut he indicated «it ten bite ir BST SOT EN: uh
Springtown. Jolin! Staten gave Job lire said:he came tr Bridgeton theinight | store’) The only ‘colversation he! had Monte Cas
Cigarette. of the fire and came: down. the. Bowl with Gob Was When he went after kis
Matry Hubbard testified’ that he Ev tentown road. Hic spoke of having: his Pelothes’ and Joh asked ‘him if! h t if Be ne Montel
On -ati Oalk : Villa It is about a mile wedding suit ae Said: he /boughtwius money and he told pin no, and Jory 7 ae i pe et
or mile and a quarter:ftor th: folmes | ity at entwelle Veber S and it wassa Jo° MOU! dev eal Puta dich m | Oue Lite acme of
house mm) Bowéntown, Tiere: are UWOd Prince Alpert iit nT would, go to: Bridecton. for it, winter, here at
doors di. his house ‘fading Biotin tue LinwoodWentzell’ was called to: corm | Said tie WiHneSS,
kitchen door is’ the hearest thea | r t the statement) made by. Job Kred Kampf, jail warden. was called |
extowh Toa! Job Williams and iN ams that he purchased a’ Prineé| to identify the clothes Jol) hau On fre Silk waists
sister, ¢ “Eel eeie Hub) lard, were to: have Albert suit-of chdthesi Ef ithe: firm of, dav He was arrested, Job took thera? Heh
heen married on Auk. 3S. MODTISs7e Wentzell & Weer, Heol said there off; Save then to him and he ini turk “Nes Ww Stvles i 1 Si
was ais house and the MAMMaee WHad Deen no suit of the Prince! Alpert’ gave om. to Mr. Lore Tatfeta and = at
was to be in Mt: Zion c¢hureh and anal Wstyle |soldjiin their store after: abou Harry Bond, stepfather to Job Wil i style sleeve. new
vention to follow at nis) house, ew aly .eth. Uhey do not Carry Prinee) liams,) was called Houde ayes ©ORt ae iad kal
Wes atohome on the nigeht of tie’ EC ee ea stdiek, sold. them only} Which he vot ati Mr obmes ain 63.50 and a ped
thas about) $40 paces tram) tse from samples, of Which! th y had, twor Save it. to him on the 88th of August. Cotton Blank
ontral Railroad: to has ee) In. 20; One of these was! dia) to Bridzevor leigave it te an officer on AUgUstLi29) |
pom Bow ehtown to his: house: th person and the other is in stock, CONS STABL BE LORE ner
MiGad Qsonearer Uian the main roa, Horatio Harris! colored, who works a
Williams it Lis Wome the e < Me IBA ath i as oy tyr : eS
Pang ii see hang ra pia a ga Weta iene ey vat | 2 August last he/said he was in New
peBnites| 10.8 Bnd» o-cio Lot Muease Se alcut 7 oclock, wii VObs asset On| mie RAtD ee |
With ee Po himiwhere the fire Was John Sian Aa isaac ¢Showell with TSE OL Cte Sd Of September he had #
fil Gerswd he. didn’ Leone iaL ig Hes eye singe a aes pas Pain” Ee Od Maeatamisay? bathe Mee Willia nis in
Wh, Bigdecion) Pela ni moithoweh sae SUSTICH SAMURL 31 ATI. Moreh aes : jeg Kim b was
hae SIR are res op Peat hy j pab olicer and was sent ae tO Work on
BEE amy NTR pas. fk Hever, Justice | Sipe At Fal said) Joo
HOOheC AO Wad | Tl. oi Sere VV With anis Came to his Office on the 2sth Phe Pcie: CABG: and ie Kelid mot Nays:
Habe as MSHE any more bat Say it Ant mut! tO ot ont a. sé ecu Warrant A eee: GUY EINE: tires 1a cia :
; , : dgyigetl ic I a ag tiga Bie fou Williams wrote threo letiens

fo ravk b Miller, one to Frank

uw e ae nel

Lalisce

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LOO pairs full-siv

pets in white Or grag
Constable Frank J. Lore was call on ‘

Hrd doh ag Ae ee estan frit, bedrg areh for his telothes at Charles

Wears: Care say he othe ELAN Spr Hl ke Ewen | s Parnes! Baia 4 ad PhO Y Se a ary
an aah Wie HA ale ei ae ee ES Cg aE Tet A ea mice and One! to Charles J.
aa i aatube tlh stolen from (his Reon ati tind f

ae a
yet) Bae tbe it hi
poy se;on the night ef the itive ata vie 9 ee wae Qi) tT a,
The wevoiver: Uhad |. hay onieined ipl ila Way, Of inducement to ge: |
DNC Aka His rooni hadi bcenytarne d ip

FART) CMR ET Td rae | bit tortell vouvanything 2”
Cham Bets When’ Ne sss side UOwn, “Skid. the night of thé) five |” “Ne. af - 5

ADUNE UGG) CHAM DOES Tat aaa ints tote bythe: Bowen
Pe Ue onw ibid dae rete Pies. bn’! (he “No. Bik?
- IgG fit ha Hon: demas Fae ; : i
OP UR stain: spoke Q Mr. ~ Abr i vedi “hohbieeted to the last ques:
CO | SPORE te. hima: Sai hey. : : ih :
: Naty, aye ; . | OR butt’ was loverrured) and) @xee p-
to Bridgeton down. Broad strect| eas

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ihyen make any pro mise to him

to! Commerce: and mht, owt

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CULATION ‘OF ANY DAILY OR WEEKLY PAPER ae NEW JERSEY SOUTH OF CAMDEN.

“BRIDGETON, N. J. THURSD. AY. OCTOBE RG, 1902) ee

OS. JOB WILLIAMS’ ane
cl AOUFESSTON pee

2000 Pa oniers S
headquarters

ry We estimate at the least Two T)
Vie ae “ibe “We are * giving ei] cea
‘presents with ka :
Merch-

; iis. we giv é premiums ihe checks. atiio
ay 3 M i
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Be sans] Pu ob the Jury.

sears

PREMIUM CHE CK

SALES NE
‘on ext ition

| ve
Our e cash sales.on Monday were ne:

Specia a] barg: LiTi$ otter ed < all OVE er the’stoa
| counters mah ae ers

Ks Recital Of - Tatas ‘
$0, 000. Worth of

Crime---He
Tells Hair and -Wh Elegant Furs & Ni

He Murdered the Aged NOW ON SALE

We have mever been ready so early W

‘ People. | Stich a grand and elevant Sto¢k of Coa — —

i.

ibuar Scans ofitinest durs from

t#h

i Bur Capes, SSO each down to s:
Wilde ei eS § ty) | put Miss

ee a, ee ' Monte Carlo Coats. a
‘a ovatneyine) | be Monte Girlo dm Silk, Tafera™.
tone the aeme of cand s be t

iy 0k cal 8 AE a een GANS
Oe ‘ WIRE Ty
ahh ESET Cece CHARS the Vas ey ks

dis SHS ea ee se rs a re
here at PLO, BS BTS

"the 7 + ; at
| SiK Waists.
New styles in ale
Taffeta and Pau d ba
style sieeve y ew ‘Meee. Start at
+ B3)50 and upto $8 eal 7.) )- er a at
‘ ee \ rt Sey ae
ee he eave’ Cotton Blankets. Sent
VET COORG an opin. ihe mee 1 A:ACTL S DOG
ke the AYR fecha iy fries of 160 pairs! full s:7¢ WOoUon Blak - | ; '
1 aa ee Aorogs Fels tn aA ee ion gray, d20 Orth soc $00 pais Mz

coe th Oe Wrapper fe ci
SEE OM bbe nek f- lannelette 8c. ey

tye a A ry
Coma pat WoO yards. of oprett
OOO gery har aineletio., ie oie WETS TY

ep Paes) BPH es f Comet
neeaeen MyRey attr

folie

ge Chas) Baily wa
Mt Ny | sends

HL PONE TA ob pine ts

Amy thers Targe mil ralleteles Bs wotth ie
a ed a ahah OPA eis ave Hiatnelétte
ot erseirts i With Grr i i

By attom, TENE

Stripe Kimenas cop Bry
ae each,

; wHieet bey ae iy) :

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continued drinking during the intermediate
time. It is my duty to tell you, gentlemen,
that intoxication willfully entered upon fur-
nishes no excuse for crime, and no defense
against the consequences which the law de-
nounces against crime. A criminal homicide,
as I have stated, is presumed to be murder.
The presumption is that it is murder in the
second degree. To constitute murder in the
first degree, and to justify a verdict of mur-
der in the first degree, the state must make
out by proof beyond a reasonable doubt, such
as I have described to you, those ingredients
which distinguish murder in the first degree
from murder in the second degree; and that
requires me to instruct, and you to under-
stand, the difference between those two de-
grees. It is unnecessary to define all the
cases which, under our statute, constitute
murder in the first degree. So far as this
ease is concerned, it is quite sufficient to de-
scribe one class of them. That class consists
of every killing of a human being, willfully,
deliberately, and with premeditation. That
has been defined by our courts in cases like
that before us as including such killings as

are those with an intent to take the life of the

deceased; not a mere intent to do bodily
harm, but an intent to take the life of the
deceased; an intent carried out willfully, with
deliberation and with premeditation. As I
have already stated, an intent is an act of the
mind, which cannot be seen by the human eye,
and which we can only learn of by inference
drawn from conduct, words, and acts. So,
with reference to the intent with which these
blows were struck, you may look at all the
evidence you find establishing facts in this
case,—the fact of previous threats, and the
particular fact of the threat of that morning,
that he would send her to hell, in connection
with all the conversation that I have detailed
to you before. The use of the ax, if an ax
was used, was likely to produce death. The
repeated blows, if repeated blows were neces-
sary, as the doctors say, to produce the sev-
eral wounds and fractures of the skull.

‘From that and any other evidence you may

determine with what intent the ax, was used,
and if it was an intent to take life, shown by
the use of that kind of weapon and by repeat-
ed blows, then, gentlemen, you may find such
an intent as would be naturally inferred from
the acts, and that intent to be one to take life;
and if you find it to be a willful intent, and
deliberate, from the threats of the morning,—
premeditated, from threats before,—then, gen-
tlemen, you may find that the ingredients of
murder in the first degree are hereby estab-
lished. fut it is said in behalf of the de-
fendant that he was so intoxicated that these
ingredients of which T have spoken were not
established, and ought not to be found by you.
This is not a defense put in by the defendant,
because, as I have stated to you, intoxication
in no respect is a defense for crime... It is an
essential ingredient, as I have stated to you,
of the crime of murder in the first degree,

87 ATLANTIC REPORTER.

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that there should be an intent to take life.
Any intoxication may be considered with ref-
erence to the existence of that intent, and its
willful, deliberate, and premeditated charac-
ter; and I charge you that if, at the time of
doing the act, the evidence shows you that
this defendant was so intoxicated that his
faculties were prostrated, and he was ren-
dered incapable of forming a specific intent to
take life, which I have stated is an essential
ingredient of this crime, then, although it Is
no defense and no justification for crime, his
offense may thereby be mitigated to murder
in the second degree. But I charge you, gen-
tlemen, that in dealing with such a condition
you ought to use great caution not to give
immunity to persons who commit erime when
they are inflamed by intoxicating drink. You
must discriminate between the conditions of
mind merely excited by intoxicating drink,
and yet capable of forming a specific intent
to take life, and such prostration of the facul-
tics as renders a man incapable of forming
the intent. Now, the proof is before you, and
you must determine from this evidence wheth-
er the faculties of the defendant were thus
prostrated, so that he was incapable of form-
ing this intent. It is said that he had been
driuking. There is no question, from all the
evidence here, that that fact may be inferred;
but to what extent there is no evidence ex-
cept the evidence of the defendant. Some
witnesses think he was drunk. Others did
not.notice that he was drunk, although they
did think he had been drinking. The defend-
ant says that he forgets what occurred; that
his mind is a blank on that subject. The de-
fendant is a competent witness in his own be-
half, and you must take his evidence into con-
sideration. You have the right, however, in
determining what weight should be given to
it, to remember the position in which he is
placed, and the interest he has in respect to
the verdict which you may render, and you
must first determine whether that story is
truthful. Immediately after the occurrence,
if you believe the police officers, he told what
he had done. If that be so, had he forgot-
ten it then? Directly thereafter he told them
the mode in which it was done, and the
weapon that was used. Had he forgotten it
then? Directly after that he took them to,
and produced, the weapon. Directly after-
wards, at the headquarters, he said that he
had killed her. If you believe, however, that
he now forgets it, does that indicate that at
that time his facultics were so prostrated that
he was incapable of forming the specific intent
to take life which you would otherwise infer
from the use of the ax directed upon the head
with suflicient foree to fracture the skull with
repeated blows? If he was thus capable, in-
toxication was no excuse; for, although you
may think that his excitement by reason of
intoxication led him further than it would if
he had been not intoxicated, the fact that he
was capable of forming the specific intent is

a fact that establishes the ingredient neces:

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sary to the crime of murder in the first de-
gree.
“Now, gentlemen, I have gone over this

ease with the utmost care, to give to the de-

feridant the benefit of all that appears in this
evidence. I must now leave it in your hands.
Of course, if there is no evidence that satis-
fies your judgment beyond a reasonable doubt
that the defendant committed this act, then
your verdict must be for him; but, if the evi-
dence convinces your judgment beyond a rea-
sonable doubt that the defendant took the life
of the deceased, then, gentlemen, the pre-
sumption is that it was murder in the first or
second degree, and he must be convicted of.
one of those degrees, there being no evidence
here which would reduce the crime to man-
slaughter. If the evidence convinces your
judgment beyond a reasonable doubt that he
had a willful, deliberate, and premeditated in-
tent to take the life of the deceased, then,
gentlemen, it is murder of the first degree.
Are there any facts that I have omitted to
state that counsel think desirable to be stated,
or any facts which counsel think I have mis-

stated? If none, I will pass to the requests
to charge.
“Requests to Charge.

“Defendant’s counsel requests the court to
charge as follows: ‘That if the jury believe
from the evidence that the defendant at the
time of the commission of the crime was, by
reason of intoxication, unable to decide be-
tween right and wrong, they should not con-
vict of murder in the first degree. Second.
If the jury believe that Wilson at the time of
the killing was, by reason of intoxication, un-
able to form a willful, deliberate, and pre-
meditated design, tney should not convict of
murder in the first degree. Third. That,
while intoxication does not excuse crime, if
it has been shown that Wilson was intoxi-
cated to such an extent as to render him in-
capable of judging of the nature and quality
of his act the jury should find a verdict of
murder in the second degree. Jourth. If the
jury believes from the evidence that Wilson
at the time of the killing was intoxicated to
such an extent as to render him incapable of
judging of his acts, or their legitimate conse-
quences, he should not be convicted of mur-
der in the first degree. Fifth. That, in order
to reduce the offense from murder in the first
to murder in the second degree, it is not es-
sential that Wilson should have been intoxti-
cated at the time of the killing to such an ex-
tent as to have been totally unconscious of
his acts.

“The first request I decline, except as I have
‘charged. The second I decline, but in place
of it I charge the first point in the Warner
Case, 56 N. J. Law, 686, 29 Atl. 505, the case
in the court of errors. This is the law laid
down by that court: ‘If an intoxicated per-
gon has the capacity to form an intent to
take life, and conceives and executes such
intent, it is no ground for reducing the degree

of his crime to murder of the seconu degree
that he was induced to conceive it or to con-
ceive it more suddenly by reason of his in-
toxication.’ he third, fourth, and fifth re-
quests I decline to charge otherwise than as
I have charged.”

I. A. Quayle and C,. A. Reed, for plaintiff in
error, J. 8. Salmon, for the State.

VAN SYCKEL, J. The grounds relied upon
for the reversal of the judgment in this case
are: First, the refusal of the trial court to
sustain challenges to jurors; second, that in
the foregoing charge to the jury the court erred
in its instructions in respect to the subject of
intoxication of the prisoner at the time he com-
mitted the homicide.

The question in relation to the challenge of
jurors is presented as follows: Juror Peter
Cook, challenged to the favor, having been
duly sworn, testified as follows: “Direct Ix-
amination (by Mr. Quayle). Q. Where do you
live? A. Budd’s Lake. Q. Have you formed
any opinion in this case? A. I have. Q. What
is that opinion? A. Well, my opinion fs, he
ought: to be hung, according to the papers,—
what I have seen in the papers. Q. Well, do
you think that evidence could convince you to
the contrary, if produced here on the witness
stand? A. Well, if they have got clean proof
of it, they might. Then I might be convinced.
Q. What do you think? A. Well, if they have
got evidence enough to prove he is not guilty,

why, then, of course, I will have to go ac-

cording to the evidence; but in my own mind
I possess an opinion, according to the papers,
that he ought to be hung. Q. And you have
already given expression to that, have you?
Would it take more than the ordinary amount
of evidence, then, to convince you to the con-
trary? A. Well, I don’t know, really. It
would have to be quite strong evidence to con-
vince me, any way. Q. Quite strong? <A.
Yes. Q. Stronger than the ordinary amount of
evidence? A. Yes, sir. Q. Have you any prej-
udice on account of his color? A. Not at all.
Q. Or general appearance? A. No shape or
manner, Q. That’s all. Cross- Txamination
(by the prosecutor). Q. If the evidence on the
part of the state should fail to prove the case
against him as it has been stated from which
your impression has been formed, would you
still feel as you do? A. Well, I don’t know
really how I could. If the state failed to prove
him guilty, I could not fetch out a verdict that
he was guilty. Q. Then you feel that you
could consider the evidence that may be pro-
duced here, and weigh it, and upon that evi-
dence decide whether he is guilty or not? <A.
Yes, sir. Q. And, if the state fails to prove
the case against him, you would not then feel
that he should be convicted? A. Oh, no, no; I
could not. The Court: The challenge is over-
ruled.”

Since the time of the case of State v. Spen-
cer, it has been the accepted law of this state

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io a daughter. 2 Redf. Wills, 73. These are
both in favor of Charles C. Zillah is also
married. She cannot act unless her husband
is joined with her. Vice Chancellor Van I*leet,
in Cramer v. Sharp, 49 N. J. Eq. 558, 562, 24
Atl. 962, while refusing to express an opinion
as to whether a married woman is competent
to take a grant of administration, held that, if
a grant is made to her, it must be in conjunc.
tion with her husband. When the question
arises as to the advisability of the appointment
of the widow or a child, the widow will be
usually preferred; but, if the widow has mar-
ried again, while it is no invincible objection to
her being administratrix, yet that circumstance
spayinduce the court to prefer a child. 2 Redf.
Wills, 72; Webb v. Needham, 1 Addams, Ecc.
494, 496. Unless Charles C. is proved to be an
unfit person to fill the office, he should be ap-
pointed. In my judgment, the circumstances
which aroused the suspicion of those opposing
his appointment have been satisfactorily ex-
plained in. the testimony taken in this court.
If this testimony had been before the orphans’
court, and that court had not been misled by
the supposed consent to the first appointment,
I think it would not have hesitated to appoint
Charles C. I shall advise a decree reversing
the two decrees brought up by the two ap-
peals, and a new decree appointing Charles C.
Hill, he to give a bond in the sum of $20,000.

—__

WILSON v. STATE.

(Court of Errors and Appeals of New’ Jersey.
June 28, 1897.)

J URY—COMPETENCY —HOoOMICIDE—INTOXICATION AS
A DrereNSE—INTENT.

1. A juror stated that he had formed an opin-
ion, from reading the papers, that the prisoner
ought to be hung, but that he had no prejudice
against him, and would not find him guilty if the
state failed to prove his guilt. eld to be no
ground for challenge by the prisoner.

2. As between the two offenses of murder in
the second degree and manslaughter, voluntary
intoxication cannot be a legitimate subject of in-
quiry. What constitutes murder in the second
degree by a sober man is equally murder in the
second degree if committed by a drunken man.

3. When the character and extent of a crime
are made by law to depend upon the state and
condition of the defendant’s mind at the time,
and with reference to the act done, intoxication,
as a circumstance affecting such state and condi-
tion of the mind, is a proper subject for inquiry
and consideration by the jury. If, by law, de-
liberation and premeditation are essential ele-
ments of the crime, and by reason of drunken-
ness, or any other cause, it appears that the pris-
oner’s'mental state is such that he is incapable of
such deliberation and premeditation, then the
erime has not been committed. Intoxication is a
mere circumstance to be considered in determin-
ing the presence or absence of premeditation,

4. The trial court properly charged “that if,
at the time of doing the act, the evidence showed
that the defendant was so intoxicated that his
faculties were prostrated, and he was rendered
incapable of forming a specific intent to take life,
then. although it was no defense for erime, his
offense may thereby be mitigated to murder in the
second degree, ’

D. If the faculties of the accused are not so far

prostrated by intoxication as to render him inca-
pable of forming an intention to kill, the jury
would have no right to find that by reason of the
intoxication the intention to kill was not present.

(Syllabus by the Court.)

Error to court of oyer and terminer.

David Wilson was convicted of murder in
the first degree in November, 1896, in the
Morris county oyer and terminer, and sen-
tenced to be executed, and brings error. Af-
firmed.

On the trial, Mr. Justice Magie charged the
jury as follows:

“The Charge.

“The Court: The indictment in this case
charges the defendant with the murder of
Melinda Wilson, in this county, on the 6th
day of June last. ‘Co support this indictment
the state must prove the facts sufficient for
that purpose by evidence beyond a reasonable
doubt. A reasonable doubt would exist when
the judgment of the jury, after a careful, re-
view of all the evidence, finds itself uncon-
vineced of the guilt of the prisoner. If such a
doubt exists, you are bound to give the benelit
of it to the prisoner, but you are not bound
to give him the benefit of anything but such
a reasonable doubt. Under this indictment
there may be a conviction of any grade of
criminal homicide established by the evidence.
If the evidence does not establish the guilt of
a higher degree beyond a reasonable doubt,
the defendant is entitled to the benefit of a
reasonable doubt in that respect, and he should
only be convicted of that degree of crime
which the evidence establishes beyond a rea-
sonable doubt. To make out the case the
state must have established by evidence be-
yond a reasonable doubt, first, the death of
Melinda Wilson at or about the Gth day of
June. If the evidence is believed,—and there
is no contradiction of it,—she was alive in the
morning of that day. About one o'clock she
was found by her son, lying, with her head
covered with blood, in what he describes as a
pool of blood, she being still living. Shortly
after she was seen by other people, and Police-
man Campbell stood by the door when she
died. She was found dead by Dr. Wright and
by Dr. Douglas, the coroner. If believed,—
and, as I say, there is no contradiction of this
evidence at all,—you may find her death proved
beyond a reasonable doubt. If you believe
the evidence of the physician who made the
autopsy, there were wounds inflicted upon her
head, fracturing her skull, producing an effu-
sion of blood upon the brain, and = eausing
death. If you believe that medical evidence,—
and there is no contradiction,—her death was
eaused by wounds inflicted upon her head.
The state must further prove by evidence be-
yond a reasonable doubt that these wounds
were occasioned, and therefore the death
caused, by some acts of the defendant, in or-
der to sustain this charge against bim. On
that subject you have the evidence of Mrs,
Stoutenburgh in respect to a quarrel between

the two in the cou
quarrel occurring on
As I have the evide:
defendant made som
ceased replied that
would see people as
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render him inea-
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was not present,

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the two in the course of chat morning, the
quarrel occurring on the stoop of the house.
As I have the evidence, she declares that the
defendant made some threat, to which the de-
ceased replied that she was not afraid; she
would see people as she chose. He suid that
he knew she was not afraid; she was not
afraid of God, and he intended to send her to
hell. She said she was not afraid, and, ‘if
you do send me to hell, you will have to 20;
and he said, ‘No; I am afraid of God, and I
mean to save my soul.’ If you believe that
evidence, it is important with reference to
the condition of the defendant’s mind, and
his attitude appearing towards the deceased.
The son of the deceased went to the house
during the course of the morning, and found
the defendant in the kitchen. He had been
there before, but I am directing your atten-
tion only to the occurrence then. You must
consider all the other evidence, however. I
do not mean to exclude from your considera-
tion, but I am only calling your attention to
the main points of the evidence. He asked a
question about the deceased, and in his direct
examination he said the reply of the defendant
was that he did not know; that he (the boy)
ought to know. In cross-examination he was
asked the same question, and he said the de-
fendant replied that she had gone out, Then
the cross-examiner said to him: ‘When you
testified awhile ago, you said, “I asked him
where was mamma. He said he didn’t know;
I ought to know.” Now, which is the truth
of those two? Answer. He told me [ ought
to know. Question. Well, now, did he say
to you, When you came in there and asked
him, “where is mamma?” did he say, “I don’t
know; you ought to know’? Answer. Yes,
sir, Question. That is the truth, is it? How
did you come to say just now he told you she
had gone out? Answer. I made a mistake,
I guess, because anybody makes mistakes,’
etc, You will observe that when he was asked
about the mother, whatever response he made,
he did not disclose the fact—which was a fact
—that the mother was lying in the next room,
then, in a helpless condition from scme in-
juries inflicted about her head. The boy went
to the door, and, looking through a erack, dis-
covered his mother’s body upon the ground.
He broke down the door, saw her condition,
and ran to the police station. Mrs. Stouten-
burgh was told by the boy, on the way, what
had occurred. She went upstairs, and she
saw, as she said, the defendant go to the
door and try to pull it shut. She explained
the difficulty of shutting it by the fact that
the boy, in breaking the door down, had af-
fected the lock and bolt in some way so that
it would not go to. That the defendant saw
her, and told her to go back,—“Go back; what
was she doing there,—and then told her the
deceased was sleeping, he standing at the door
where she was lying on the floor; she was
asleep, and that he did not want to wake her

WILSON y. STATE.

955

Morrison and Campbell went towards the
house, and on the way were attracted to this
man, the defendant, going into the West End
Hotel. They followed him there. He was in
the act of taking a drink, or had taken it,
when Morrison told him that he wanted him,
and put him under arrest. At that time he
told Morrison he had killed her, and Lhe was
glad of it, and would hang for it. Immediate-
ly after that, in connection with the same
topic, he said, ‘She would do more for him
than for me,’ though he did not explain what
he meant by that. He went to the house with
Morrison, and at the house took Morrison to
the door of this room, threw it open, and said,
‘There she is. He told Morrison that he had
done it with an ax. He went with Morrison
into the kitchen, and said he did not know
where the ax was, but, looking, found it be-
hind the stove, and came and gave it to Mor-
rison; and at police headquarters, to which
he was taken, he repeatedly said that he had
killed her. No contest by the counsel wio
have so zealously and ably defended the pris-
oner under the assignment of the court is
made over these facts, and, if you believe this
evidence, you may find proved that the death
was occasioned by the defendant’s act, be-
yond a reasonable doubt. Upon facts of this
sort, if found by you, as I have stated, the
law presumes the killing to be a criminal homi-
cide.
“Criminal homicides in New Jersey are di-
vided into two classes,—murder and man-
slaughter. The presumption in the case of
criminal homicide is that it is. murder. To
reduce the crime to the grade of manslaugh-
ter, the evidence must show a lack of what
the law calls ‘malice.’ Malice, as the law
uses the term in defining these crimes, con-
sists in the intent to do bodily harm. Intent
to do bodily harm is malice. Manslaughter
is a eriminal homicide, but mauslaughter is
without intent to do bodily harm. Murder is
a criminal homicide with malice; that is, with
an intent to do bodily harm. Of course, you
know intent is an act of the mind, which can-
not be seen, but can only be inferred from
the conduct and acts of the party. In this
case, if you find that the death of the de-
ceased ensued upon blows struck with an ax
upon the head with vigor enough to tracture
the skull in the way the doctors have describ-
ed, you may infer an intent to do bodily harm,
and therefore malice. That the criminal
homicide is murder has not been rebutted in
this case, and no contention is made that any
verdict of guilty of manslaughter would be
proper. So you may find that, if the defend-
ant did the act, he is guilty of murder, the
presumption of the law, which remains un-
contested, the evidence indicating no lack of
malice, unless the evidence furnishes some de-
fense.
“It is contended in defendant’s behalf that

at the time he was intoxicated; that he had
been drinking on the Tuesday previous to the

up. You then have the evidence of the police-

men. After being told of this occurrence,

Saturday when this thing occurred, and had


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Rackateer, on Trial as ee of|

jthey: planned to have him testity

| He said Lu

were!
| ie was asked. He said he preferred
| examination by Special Prosecutor:

| “a well-known Brooklyn fixer” was
‘| stricken out. The witness said he he.
| was slightly acquainted with a Lit-
‘| tle Augie when asked whether he!

‘| ster,
Henry Goldstone, bookmaker, tes:
tified} he had patronized a dice

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Boolanakers Say His, Source bef Decor auaded an
of Livelihood Lay in Games | Fo Outside Belleone.
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His Dice PARTNER, CALLED

Vice Ring, Likely to Go on :
the Stand Las 4 om

‘Goundet for Charles me ae
‘ano) Lucania called to the stand

makers and other gamblers to sup-
port the contention that his source
of livelihood lay in games of
chance. - ,

‘ Lucania is on trial hefon Supreme
Court Justice Philip J. McCook and
a jury on. charges of compulsory
prostitution, Others on: trial as
alleged co-members of a vice ring
are Ralph Liguori, Thomas Penno-
chio, David. Betillo, James. Freder-
ico, Benny Spiller, Abe Wahrman,
Jesse Jacobs and Meyer Berkman.

Liguori’s. defense, which began
Monday afternoon, rested’: a few
minutes after yesterdays session
opened, Lucania was not placed on
the stand, ° but his attorneys said

today. '

The first of the bookmakers was
Max Kalik, one of the biggest op-
erators in field | in the East.
's daily bets at the
track ran into hundreds of dollars.
In reply to a question by George
Morton ‘Levy of counsel to Lucania
he agserted that some of his clients

socially prominent.
“Including the Vanderbilts?”* Ka

not to mention names, Under cross.
Thomas E. Dewey he said he had

taken bets from Leo P. k. Mr,
Dewey’s characterization ae Byk as

knew, Little Augie Pisano, gang |

in Saratoga.,.

| |THUG SHOT, dog

| Willam T. Feitz, a Carden detec-

Die STORE R

_| store, manager for the possibility of
a hold-up, resulted last night in the
wounding critically of one of three
(ea who. Bald up the atore ar took
‘As manager of the East End Wine
jand Liquor Store at 1,590 ‘York Ave-
nue,’ near Eighty-fourth Street, Hy-
man Winterhoff of 1,82 Victor
Street, the Bronx, always: kept one
pistol] behind a counter and another
in a back room. While in the store
with his son, Hyman, Jr., just be-
fore midnight, two men ‘whe had
asked to see some liquor, drew pis-
tols arid forced Winterhoff and his
son into the back room.
As the two men looted ‘the aaah
register, Winterhoff observed them.
through a crack in the door, from
which he had previously removed
the lock. The manager took careful
alm and fired two shots as the men

in an: automobile.

help. A doctor found a young man |
West. Forty-fourth Street. .

up men. He was held at the hospi-
bery. ;

money. :

Zied Put to Death in Jersey |
Special to Tua Naw Yor Tras.

dits, was put to death in.the eleo-
tric chair at the New Jersey prison
here tonight for the murder of

tive. Two men arrested’ with Zied
were executed in Pennsyivania for
another. murder. Zied | was eéen-
tenced originally to die thé same
night that Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann went to the chair, but a re-
prieve was granted by’ Governor
Hoffman, pending an appeal to the

Twenty minutes later a telephone | |
operator on the ground floor of |j
Bellevue Hospital on the Thirtieth:|}
Street side heard a man calling for | |

lying: on the doorstep in a pool ofa ©
blood. He said ee ee Bra
Schmidman, 21 years old, of 414

Winterhoff and his son were sum- 1 :
{moned to the hospital“and identi/j 7
fied Schmidman as one'of the hold- | |

tal on a charge of assault and rob- ||
His Ge not mere, tap stores 4

TRENTON, June 2.—Charles Zied | amy
of Philadelphia, who was the last d
of the Mais tri-State gang of ban-| |

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was felt that, although the keeper
had been on duty on the floor of
the recreation building to which he
was assigned, he. might have been
lax in his attention to duty. The
suspension will continue pending an
lavestizaton. -. #

During the day four additional
prisoners were. confined to cells.
Seven other prisoners who were
surrounding Lopes when he was
found fatally wounded on the third

floor of the recreation building
were put in cells last night and all

left the store to join a companion Me

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THE BACK BEDROOM. 4a slim, pasty-faced youth
stood with a .45 leveled toward the sagging iron bed
from which the man had half-risen. The man’s naked
torso shielded a girl with scarlet lips who. lay trembling

Behind him. “That’s far enough!” the gunman warned.

“Now just toss over your trousers—and any dough that’s

under the pillow!” !

When the man complied, the youth Caught the trousers
that had been lying crumpled at the foot of the bed. Deftly
he transferred the weapon to his. left hand, quickly rifled
through the pockets and extracted a wallet.

The .45 back in his right hand, and the trousers thrown

to the floor behind him, the slim youth backed toward a
chair at the side of the barren little*room: “Now, ‘just stay
like you are till my buddies get through, out in the other
room. Don’t bother about me; I won’t be here long.”

While the youth sat waiting, half a dozen men and women
stood against a soiled wall in.the over-crowded, smoke-filled
room behind him. They stood with their hands raised over their
heads, their‘eyes directed at the guns held by two men in their
late twenties who had entered a few moments before.

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THEY AVENGED PAL’S DEATH— .

Front row, left to right: Detective Joseph Leonhardt,
Chief August Koerner and Ex-Chief Arthur Colsen;
at rear, -Detectives Howard Smith and John Trout.

The three hoodlums who chose crime
as a career were “slippery.” But
detectives finally ran them down,
and they couldn’t slip the straps
that-held them in the Hot Seat!

WM, T. FEITZ—
(Photo at the left.) Detective
shot down in line of duty.

Old Emma Heisler, the flabby, over-dressed hostess whom
the other women of the establishment addressed as “Madam,”
watched with tormented eyes the big man who appeared to
be the leader of the trio. Experience told her that the
nerveless calculation with which he directed the hijacking
of her South Camden brothel was induced by heroin or
cocaine. ‘

“Mother” Heisler turned to the half-clad blonde at her
side as the girl: started sobbing from fright. “Come on,
Dearie, take it easy,” she whispered huskily. “They’re junked
up, and might do anything.”

Later, Mrs. Heisler told police that she wasn’t too frightened
herself, because just beforé the trio entered and announced
their intentions to stick up the place, she’d “had a premoni-
tion and sent one of the girls to call the cops.”

“The slim kid with the pasty face came in earlier and
I heard him say he’d be back, with friends, about midnight,”
Mrs. Heisler was to amplify under further questioning.

That she was telling at least part of the truth was already
known—because at exactly ten minutes before midnight on
that first Sabbath day of September, 1934, a call was received
at the Camden, New Jersey, police’ headquarters from a
speaker who asked that a policeman be sent around to 243
Sycamore, Street.

As the caller refused to give her name or tell why an officer
was needed—and as the police already knew the reputation
of: the squalid brick house at that address—the officer on
duty not only complied with her suggestion but immediately
dispatched two detectives in a radio patrol car.

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The woman shook her head. She: was
" quite calm ‘now. | “It’s at home,” she said.

“But that’s only three blocks away. Will

“you come with me?” .-.,

“Right!” Neill. beckoned to his part-

HE dopfebation n OE the phareh at
the corner of 54th and Springfield

streets was singing the opening
hymn when two’ powerfally sbuilt men
suddenly appeared at the door’ Straight .,
» down: the aisle the two'-men' advanced. “ner, Detective’ John Hackett,, While the
They ‘stopped before the pulpit.’ bewildered congregation stared, the two
The minister took one long’ look at the | burly: men and the little: woman rushed
two grim faces, before him, then’ raised up the aisle and through the door. °
" his hand. The hymn, already wavering, os
Y.* ceased entirely. © °°  headquarters,: giving the license number
A “I’m terribly sorry to interrupt you,”- . of the stolen Chevrolet,
- 4 said-one ‘of the ‘men; his voice hoarse; . “We're blocking, every bridge in the
-4- with excitement.’ “But we've got: to. . ‘ city,” the desk lieutenant told him. “Go
’” There’s! been a holdup inithe garage _ out.to the Girard avenue bridge. The in-
across the street and the ie Ha aba has
been shot,” ' He wheeled -to: face* the
startled ‘churchfolk.. “The gunmen got
away ina Chevrolet sedan’ they stole
‘from the garage.’ The machine’ belongs Neill and. Hackett roared up, The strain
tova lady in this: church.:\We>want the, . of the last tWo days had ta’ en their toll,
* license number quick. Who owns it?” “| Four holdups‘in 48 hours is no joke, par-
.- After a second of breathless silence, a _. ticularly when they all have been staged
‘small ‘woman stood up, ‘It must be’. by the same masked gang.»:
mine,”, she said. “I store it there.” »». “Get in,”) Tosaid, and, ‘Neill ‘climbed
Headquarters Detective’ Harry Neill... into the front seat of our! car with me.
' strode over to her. “What's the num
ber?” he asked. : “Mock...In a second machine. Lieut. Frank
The’ ‘woman’ Saled and bit her lip,’ May’ and Detectives John. McGarrity,
Neill, who had. seen shock blank ‘the x er tie
. best of memories, pointed to her handbag. ¥
“Your eben | s card, then.” | ; ey

. there”.
We: were. waiting, all right, but we
must. have looked ‘plenty haggard when

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Former Inspector Connelly, now | _
’ chief of detectives, aonie orney'’s =.
office, Philadelphia, and quthor
of this story, commanded’ the ace. -
squad that captured the. Mad. Dog.
and'‘hung 140 years’ worth of raps.
“on him. While on parole the gun-
~. man lived in building marked by
” arrow Li sti he eee ee sp murder

Ten minutes later Neill phoned in to ~

Spector and his crew are Waiting for ydu '

“Hackett got in back with’ Lieut. Ervin -

Pat McDevitt and Jimmy Teevin kept

watch. We were a. team. “The Little
Mob,” I called my hand-picked squad of
gang-busters. ;

Neill looked at the luminous dial of his
watch, then frowned. It was 9:15 on

. that night of April 2, 1929.

“Almost an hour since the holdup,” he
said anxiously. “That’s son much of a
head'start. I—”

The shrill, far-off scream of police
sirens cut him short. .

’ “They’re coming from the center. of
town,” Mock said tensely from the back
seat, “Let’s get set.”

Neill. pressed the gas pedal and the
motor started humming. I touched his

- arm,

‘
“There they are!”

Two glaring headlights swept into the
parkway, and half a block behind them
came two of our boys on motorcycles. The
motor cops’ searchlights literally bathed
the speeding holdup car,

End Of The Race

fd hitke west drive along the Schuykill
river in Fairmount park was not de-
signed. as a speedway, and at night it
curves and writhes between ancient trees
through which pale lamplight flings mot-
tled shadows. But just the same, we made

- a speedway of it. We plunged scream-

ing.along the twisting asphalt, Guards
added their whistles to the uproar. Or-
dinary motorists swerved desperately out

of the way. Neill ignored them—and ~

death—as we hurtled forward.

In front, the motorcycle men. opened
up for all ‘they were worth. We could
see them overhauling their quarry. The
men in the hoodlum machine could see
them too. Ina last frantic effort to shake
loose, the stickup car doubled back
around the Lincoln monument in the mid-
dle of an intersection.

No car on earth could take that turn
at such speed. The bandit machine up-
set and crashed into a culvert.

The motorcycle men, unable: to stop,
plowed into it and were catapulted head
first onto the hard road surface.

And we were right behind them !

My heart stuck in my throat. Neill,
hanging desperately to the wheel, gave a
hard sweep to the right. We wavered,
jumped the. curb—and came to a stop on
four wheels.

.Groggily I sat up straight and tried to
get my eyes in focus. When I did, I let
out a bellow of astonishment. Full in the
glare of our headlights, a man crawled
from beneath the wreckage of the bandit
car, With astonishing agility he started
to run.

“Don’t let him get away,” I shouted.
But none of us could move quickly
enough. The fugitive reached the em-
bankment, where his tall, slim figure was

13

re Holtzin, the other
police record of high-
oldups and assault and

y became apparent that
1 done its work too well.
ely conscious. Manski’s
crushed. The doctors
us to question him.
tment practically floored
ad been trying to catch
» for three months. In

d executed 15 robberies .

spite of our frantic ef-
them to bay. Always
id defied identification
d Holtzin came their
ir brutality was some-
rilla’s blood.

tere the proprietor gave
n at all, they had kicked
line and tried to set fire
w their victim up. One
as almost completely
the sheer, destructive

‘ts at victims had been

owner of the garage

the _mob’s last fees.

fering from a painful

bullet wound, Clearly,

the mob was bound to do murder unless
we could stop it.

We knew: that the leader was a tall,
slim fellow with black, piercing eyes, that
had terrified victims. And every time I
thought of that tall, slim figure disap-
pearing after the bandit car piled up, I
got madder. The mob leader—a man
bent on murder if ever I had seen,one—
was making his getaway while his pals
lay in hospital beds, safe from question-
ing.

We all went home and tried to get some
sleep. The next morning we went to the
hospital, but it was not until afternoon
that we were allowed to talk to one of
the captured thugs.

Refuse To Talk

UT Mike Manski, our target, was

defiant.

“IT never helped a cop in my life,” he
said, hoarsely, ‘They tell me I’m in bad
shape. Okay, I can take it if I have to.
But I’ll die with my mouth shut.”

I glanced at Holtzin on a nearby cot,
separated from his partner by a police
officer. His head and face were ban-
daged but his little beady eyes were per-
fectly rational. Manski must have read
my thoughts, however.

‘You can save your breath talking to
Izzy,” he snarled. “If he starts blabbing
I'll get out of this bed and croak him with
my bare hands. I feel pretty good even
if I am supposed to be dying !”

Holtzin’s swollen mouth twisted into
a grimace, .

“Don’t worry. This ain’t the first time
me and the inspector has met. He knows
I don’t speak English.”

Meanwhile the city enjoyed a respite
from the holdups that already had netted
the bandits between $10,000 and $20,000
in loot. Manski and Holtzin began -to
recover, and still they would not talk.
Had the tall leader fled town, or was he
hiding out, gathering new forces and
preparing for more raids?

We combed the underworld. We fig-
ured angles to smoke him out, but we
got nowhere.

Then, in the middle of the afternoon of
June 24, the telephone cut into my con-

versation with Neill and Hackett. It
was the Breyer ice cream company re-
porting that three masked men had held
up their plant and stolen $6,000!

“It’s our boy,” I said to my men as |
replaced the phone. “Tall, slim, masked,
black piercing eyes. Told the paymaster
it was an effort not to shoot him!”

We went to work hard, and again reg-
istered a blank.

Two days later, on June 26, an insur-
ance and real estate broker shouldered
his way into headquarters to tell how a
trio of hoodlums had barged into his
office and demanded that he open the safe
of his company. They had held a gun
against his head and beaten him until he
gave in. They had taken two diamond
rings, about $300 in cash and a revolver.

One week later to the day the William
Scholes company, a yarn manufacturing
plant at Second and Indiana avenue, was
robbed of a $7,000 payroll. And on July
12, a bank messenger was held up on the
street in broad daylight and robbed of
$3,000. All these crimes had been ex-
ecuted by masked men, but we knew it
was all the same gang, under the same
leader we wanted so badly.

How were we going to get him?
Straight detective work had failed. We
were almost sick with worry.

Then, around noon on July 15, a man

been out playing poker, but just to be
safe we looked his name up in the files.
He had a record!

It was about 6 o’clock when Neill and
Hackett drove up to the house on Bran-
dywine street.

The ex-con landlord was in his apart-
ment on the second floor. He protested
bitterly when we forced our way into his
rooms, which he occupied with his
wife. ,

“A guy tries to go straight,” he said
bitterly, “and you cops never give him a
chance.”

“Who else lives here?” Neill said,
having heard such wails before.

“A man named Zane has the apartment
in there.” He nodded toward a door to
the left of the ground floor corridor.
“He’s got three nice rooms and works
for some electric company.”

A minute later Neill rapped sharply

[Continued on page 48]

' proprietor out that hour of the morning.

who had a milk route in the neighbor-
hood of Spring Garden street, stopped in
to see me.

He said, “Maybe I’m just suspicious,
but one of my customers is a fellow who
rents out rooms in a three-story house on
Brandywine street. And lately I’ve no-
ticed him going in there at three and half-
past three in the morning. That seems
awfully funny to me—a rooming house

What do you think ?”
We thought the man probably had

Big Mike Summers, top, tried a stick-
up with Mad Dog Blackie and got a
lethal dose of lead. Once Blackie
escaped from a hospital where he
was registered as shown here, but
at last the New Jersey chair got him.

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Detective Harry W. Neill, above, displays the Mad
Dog’s automatic which Neill, who captured him, kept
as a souvenir. Harry Pierce, hard straw hat, and
“Red” Cochrane, Panama, served under the kid with
the itchy trigger finger although they were years older.

silhouetted an instant against the sky. Then he disappeared
over the mound that drops down to a path leading into a rail-
road tunnel along the river.

McGarrity and Hackett plunged after him, firing as they
ran. But I knew it was no use. Because of the pitch dark-
ness down there, the man would make it.

The escape of the bandit was not the only miracle that
emerged from the ghastly crash, however. To my astonish-
ment, the motorcycle officers, John Roth and Robert Strange,
picked themselves up from the ground and lurched toward

me. Strange had a broken arm and Roth looked a wreck,
but they walked !

I ordered a detail to hold back the crow
to work, heaving at the overturned bandit car until we finally
dragged two men out of it. Their features. were so badly
battered that it seemed impossible to tell who they were. We
rushed them to Lankenau hospital.

There the blood was washed from the captured hoodlums’
faces and we recognized them. Mike Manski was a notorious
gunman who had been convicted of murder four years pre-
viously when he was only 17, and subsequently had been
14

d and then we went

int ‘ a ee om

released. Isadore Holtzin, the other
prisoner, had a police record of high-
way robbery, holdups and assault and
battery.

It immediately became apparent that
the car crash had done its work too well.
Holtzin was barely conscious. Manski’s
chest was badly crushed. The doctors
would not allow us to question him.

The disappointment practically floored
all of us. We had been trying to catch
up with this mob for three months. In

that time they had executed 15 robberies -

and stickups in spite of our frantic ef-
forts to bring them to bay. Always
masked, they had defied identification
until Manski and Holtzin came their
cropper, And their brutality was some-
thing to chill a gorilla’s blood.

In one place, where the Proprietor gave
them no opposition at all, they had kicked
over a can of gasoline and tried to set fire
to it, hoping to blow their victim up. One
drug store was almost completely
wrecked, just for the sheer, destructive
fun of it. Pot shots at victims had been
common, and the owner of the garage
which had been the mob’s last target,
even then was suffering from a painful
though not serious bullet wound, Clearly,

the mob was bound
we could stop it.

We knew that th
slim fellow with blac
had terrified victini:
thought of that tal
pearing after the bi
got madder. The
bent on murder if e
was making his get
lay in hospital beds
ing.

We all went home
sleep. The next mo
hospital, but it was
that we were allow
the captured thugs

Refuse

UT Mike Man

defiant.

“T never helped
said, hoarsely. “T!
shape. Okay, | ca
But I'll die with m

I glanced at Ho
separated from his
officer. His head
daged but his littl
fectly rational. M
my thoughts, how:

“You can save }
Izzy,” he snarled.
I'll get out of this |
my bare hands. |
if I am supposed 1

Holtzin’s swolle
a grimace.
“Don’t worry.
me and the inspect
I don’t speak Eng
Meanwhile the
from the holdups '
the bandits betwe:
in loot. Manski
recover, and still

Had the tall leace

hiding out, gath«

preparing for moi
We combed the
ured angles to s1
got nowhere.
Then, in the m1
June 24, the tele}


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days of his career, is shown : ae .

here emerging from a police

van guarded by detectives,

to be arraigned for the

murder which climaxed his

long string of lurid exploits.

DYNAMIC DETECTIVE,
March, 1942


“I remember he

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ot to gabbing and
y left together.
| load on.”

led. “We call him
him sore. He’s a

m.:

losing his hair.” .

not know any
but thought, that
by bowling alley.
here, where the
em the name of
he manager said
ed as a pin setter
wo weeks.
is showed that
on the Tuesday
he day Schenck
following day,
day, but had not

address for -him .
manager did not
“You can’t keep

he lained.
dri -
be v....dered a

n in Seattle and
*r Schenck had

n't killed until

“We've still
ar being parked
me until Thurs-

mised to expend
Bartlett and
about Schenck ©
| after they had

ned to Mount
aiting from the
ey had located.
0 had attended
suemes Island

never saw this
ingham detec-
you can find
their stories,

lo. :
He told the
he would call
ed that would
e beach party.
,W and Jensen
lagain. They
the $150 that
wed Schenck.
era,”’ Lindsay
for some

l th

mm \d.””
e we le.to
$15 had

two months.

the Tuesday
went to Bell-
1 until Wed-
d, giving the
Id. verify his

nd Friday?”

tively identified?” “What do you mean, he isn’t the.
“His wife was here and saw his one?”
. Clothes.” “The fellow w

“T’ve got a man
saying somethin
operator said.
talk to ‘him.
tails out of what he’s getting at.”

“Put him on.”

The caller identified himself as
Tokio Akagi, manager of the Glen Hotel
on Third Avenue in Seattle. Kramer
talked to him long enough to under-

““Okay, but you'll find it’s genuine.”
It was.

on the line who keeps
g about a killing,” the

Thursday went by without a single “Maybe you'd better

development in the case until late after-

noon when Hinshaw, Jensen and Gilkey

were sitting in the Sheriff's office talk-
ing over all of_the angles.

“It was confusing enough before that

_ deal came up about his car being in

-Des Moines,” Jensen said. “Now we

can’t be sure whether he was killed on stand that Akagi had information con-.
Tuesday, Thursday or Friday.” cerning a slaying and then sent
“What's the difference?” Gilkey Swindler and Leonard to see him. °
‘asked. “Tuesday or Friday, our prob- The detectives went to the hotel and
lem‘is who. killed Howard Schenck.” found Akagi waiting for them.
.. , “I Keep wondering about that missing “What's it all about?” Swindler
dog,” Hinshaw said. “It all seems to asked.
tie in, yet none of it makes sense.” Akagi pointed to a.

'“This .man.”

Up to the Minute

y—Alfred and Harry Wise by
the New Jersey State Prison’s
hey had killed when they mur- ‘
of Union, New J ersey, following
their confederate in the crime,
Smiling as the current struck

Alfred Stokes; all three men were
. their bodies.
The story of the detec
and the Wise brothers,
_in the June, 1954,
Magazine.

tive work that led to the capture of Stokes
“ ‘Sergeant Bond, Come In...’ ”, appeared
issue of OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES

d in
hreats of bombings. |
in this story, entitled, “And the Last Bomb

as published in the July, 1955, OFFICIAL DETEC-
S Magazine.

The detective work
Got Kermit”, w
TIVE STORIE

ued After Jail’,
One, Mrs. Ellen McNally, died from a
robbed. The other, Warre

Because OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES Magazine pub-
e stories of detective work and not of legal
maneuverings, these stories sometimes appear before the final legal
steps are taken. This department appears regularly to keep readers
informed of those final legal steps.—The Editor.

“If Schenck didn’t go to Guemes
until Thursday, maybe he did stop by
and get the dog,” Gilkey said.

“Wait a minute!” Hinshaw cried.
“Has Schenck’s body ever been posi-

picture in the morning Post Intelli-

gencer with a story about the slaying of

Schenck. .
“What about it?”
“He isn’t-the one.”

ho was here didn’t have
“I Know. But that’s not positive.” any hair, hardly.”

I can't make heads or

would be in operation at nine o’cloc! ‘
in the morning.

The visitor did
\
ght try to jump the

that early. Akagi
two nickles in the

number down,” the Vv
“IT think PY

would not have to be moved until ten
we've got a hot lead on that Schenck \

not want to ge
had offered to ,
meter so that the ca)

man had registered from California
but he had Washington plates on the
car.

The man went outside with Akagi anc
pointed out his automobile and Akagi
made a note of the license number. The
“I thought he mi
bill so I wrote the
manager said.
Swindler called Kramer.
case up in Mount Vernon. Maybe you'd
like to sit in on it.”
_ Kramer arrived and the questioning
of Akagi continued. He told them that
the man and woman had come down
from their room at ten o’clock in the
. Morning and Akagi had requested the
room rent because their only luggage
had been a paper bag and a briefcase.
The man tried to brush Akagi off -by
saying that they planned on staying
another night. However, when they re-

|

turned in the afternoon, Akagi refused _ J
to let them into the room. He held the »
paper sack and the briefcase until pay- VN
ment was made. :
The man finally talked Akagi out of
the paper sack which he said contained “
his wife’s toilet articles. He Promised , .
to return later to pay the two-dollar \
hotel bill afd pick up the briefcase. ‘>

“What did the woman look like?” rca
Swindler asked.

“She was about twenty-five, with }
hair, red pedal-pushers, red. sandals a at
_& short green jacket.”

“Do you still have the briefcase?” .
Kramer asked. ‘_ - *
8 it out from behind the <Q

AxkA4aI du
desk.
_ Examination of the

briefcase showed \
& number of pa

bers that identified it | t

as belonging to Howard Schenck the \\

Slain real-estate salesman. NS
Akagi’s description of the “Frank.

Schenck” who had registered indicated
one person to Detective Swindler.

Ba ea I'll bet my bottom buck,” he
said. :

“Sounds like him,”

“Who is Curly?”

The detectives ‘re
with Hinshaw to th
the bartend
of Curly.

~ “His real name is Fred Lee Bartlett,”
Leonard said. “We've been tracing him
and we found where he’d been staying
but he checked out a couple of days ago.
Our last information indicated that he
might have gone to Everett, but we
haven’t. picked up a line on him there
as yet.”

-“T’ll call Hinshaw,” Kra
“And we'll put out a new al
this fellow’s descri
If they stay with
to get them.”

Leonard agreed. .
Kramer asked.

counted their visit
e beer parlor where
er had given them the name

mer decided.

l-points with

ption and the girl's,

the car, we're bound - \
: \

N

Swindler said.

“They registered here before Schenck’s. \)
body was found They must have read

by now that we're looking for the car

and have the license numbers.” “™S

\

q

the information '

; “It looks hot, all right,” Hinshaw

“She claimed the body at the funeral “You mean Schenck was here?” Said. “We had an idea for awhile that
home.” | eg Akagi swung around a hotel register it might not be Schenck who was killed, 4
~ “That wouldn’t be a positive identi- and pointed to a signature. . ' but we got verification from his finge:- :
fication either; the way his face was so “That’s Frank Schenck,” Swindler prints this morning.” ‘
badly battered.” said. “The man who was killed is “wre US morning.” _—

CT nesta cost oS 2. .

Gilkey said: “I’ve: pot the fincoer.

}

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1

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Univ. of Okla, Press, 1961.

4

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SWAN

952 + Sullivan, Daniel J.

The. gallows! Daniel J. Sullivan, alias Joseph Woods, executed for
the murder of Stephen Barber, in Bellmont, August 26, 1877. Malone, N. Y.,
The Malone Palladium Extra, February 1, 1878. NH.

Broadside. 70 cm. Newspaper sheet of eight col. devoted exclusively to
this case.
Sullivan was a tramp who shot Mr. and Mrs. Barber, the former fatally, while

they were asleep at night and then robbed the house. This work includes a history
of other Franklin County, New York, murders; there is also a complete descrip-

tion of the gallows and how it worked.

Sullivan, Howard

The Yorketown tragedy; Ella Watson’s tragic death. Sullivan’s
arrest, trial and confession. ...Salem, N. J., Press of South Jerseyman,

1884. DLC, NHi.
16 p. illus. ports. 22 cm. print. wrap. cover title.

ho raped and murdered a fifteen-year-old
ho was put in the cell with him got him

953

Sullivan was a young colored boy w
girl. A colored Pinkerton detective w

to confess.

954 Susanna

Report of the trial of Susanna, a coloured woman; before the Hon.
Ambrose Spencer, Esq., at a court of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery,
held at the city of Schenectady, on the 23rd October, 1810, on a charge of
having murdered her infant male bastard child, on the night of the 22nd
June, 1810. Taken in short hand by Henry W. Warner. Troy, N.Y. printed

by Ryer Schermerhorn, 1810. MH-L, NHi, N-L.

50 p. 22 cm. errata note on p. 50.
Sus

child’s death. The trial contain
for freeing slaves.

< 955 Swan, Robert

The trial of Robert Swan charged with the murder of William O.
Sprigg, in the Circuit Court for Washington County, July term, 1853.

anna was acquitted, probably because there was a doubt of the cause of the
5 some interesting information on the procedure

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"Salem, N. Jey Dece 2, 188h-The legal execution of Howard

Sullivan, which took place in the county jail this morn-
ing, was the closing act in a tragedy seldom equaled, The
story of the crime is as follows: Ella Watson, on the
night of the 18th of last August, while proceeding to her
home over a lond y road near Yorktown, was waylaid, robbed
ravished and murdered, her body concealed in the bushes
nearby, where it was discovered a few days after, Sulli-
van, upon trial, pleaded guilty, Sullivan was hanged at
11:29 a. my, and died without a struggle."

NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 12-3-188) (19h).

See 953 McDADE 281 (young black boy, victim 15-year-old
whitegirl,)

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Ocean County Historical Society

For the Promotion of an Appreciation of the Rich

Heritage of the County of Ocean, N.J.
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April , 1977

Watt Espy, Jr.
Box 67
Headland, Alabama 36315

Dear Mr. Espy3

The only record which I have been able to find concerning
a person sentenced to death before 1907 is the following;

Peter Stout, of Goodluck (now Lanoka Harbor), Ocean County,
yew Jersey, washanged, after trial by jury, for the murder of lh year
old Thémas Williams on November 19, 1802.

Source: “dwin Salter's History of Monmouth and Ocean
Counties page 25. ,

I have contacted the Ocean County “Llerk's office to see if
there are other records and will forward them if I am successful in obtaining
theme

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26 WESLEY WARNER'S CRIME,
been instantaneous. ‘The time was exactly. 10.35, and at 10.47% Dr. Melcher

pronounced him dead. .

At 1040 no pulse was indicated. At 10.38 the heart. beats numbered 36 to the quarter
minute; 10.3%. they were 36; 35 at 10.39; 42 at 10 41; 32 at 1042; 18 at 10445 17 ut 1046; 9
at 1047; at 10.47% Dr. Melcber. with the assistance of astethoascope, failed to detect any
movement and pronounced the man dead. Dr. Jolin J. Flyun was first tu tuke the pulse
and heart beuts after the body dropped, and was followed by Drs. Barrington, Shipps,
Parsons. Melcher, Mattern.

‘The body remained su-pended thirty minutes when it was cut down and placed upon
atable asbort distance away, when the physicians named above ma @ @ su perticial ex-
amination of the body and decided death was caused by strangulation, the vertebrae Tre-
maining intact. Upon taking oft the b'ack cap the tace was found to be of a purple hue
rom coagulated blood; the eyes were bloodshot and there bad been a‘slight hemorrhage
at the nose. .

The body was given in charge of undertaker S!ack of Burling‘on, who took it to Bur-
lington in the afternoon and turned it over to the family. The funeral was strictly pri-
vate, interment being made in Coupe town graveyard rear Bridgeboro’. Sberitt Town-
send was congratulated upon all sides for the careful and successful manner im which he
executed the unpleasant duty devolving upon him by virtue of hisoffice. :

A farge crowd gathered about the outside of the jail, many women iningling with tbe
men who made up the curious crowd.

The scaffoid was erected in the northcast corner of the enclosure, sur-
rounded by a high stone wall, in which prisoners held for minor offens.s ¢n-
joy their daily exercise. .

Pertinent to this story also is the final cfforts of the murderer's assist-
ant counsel to save his neck from the fatal noose. Without indulging in
criticisin that might well forim a connecting link in this story, it may be said
that these final efforts iv the interests of the condemued wreteh did not meet
with popular approval. Forgery was resurted to, and an unworthy attempt
was made to use the charch as an influence, which wet with prompt rebuke.
Almost upon the day of execution an appeal was made to the Governor for
a two day’s respite upon the gronnd that the man had made no preparation
for the final repose of his soul.

The persons selected to witess Waruer's execution were as fellows :

SHERIFE’S DEPUTIES.

Samucl P. Cline, R. H. Parsons, M. D., Winfie'd S. Gale, Joseph G.
Bower, Mount Holly; Samuel R. Ware, Columbus; Josiah P. Borden, Chies-
terfield; Howard P. Haucock, Burlingten: Jacob Braddock, Ms dtord: Wil-
liam Rogers, Wiilingboro’; Louis R. iiibberd, Beverly ; Charles P. Challen-
der, Crosswicks; Benjamin R. Powell. Jr., Pemberton.

Cour’ JURY.

Evan F. Benners, Moorestown; R. C. Barrington, M. D., Mount Holly ;
J. Earl Forsyth, Pemberton; William F, Morgan, Cinnaminson; Wiliam
J. Irick, Vincentown ; William {1 Shipps, M. D., Bordentown; Alfred
Wills, Willingboro’; Stacy b. Taylor, Wrightstown, John Croshaw, Spring-
field; Richard G. Dudley, Mount Laurel ; Charles H. Pitman, Wocdiand 5
George A. Allinson, Burlington.

REPRESENTATIVES OF WARNER'S FAMILY.

Charles R. Fenton, Jacksonville; G. W. Lewis, Jr. Burlington; C. 5.

Ridgway, Lumberton.

MINISTERS.

Rev. J. Madison Hare, Burlington; Rev. Martin Aigner, Mount Holly.
PHYSICIANS.

Dr. William P. Melcher and John J. Flynn, Mount Holly.

CoUuRT STENOGRAPHER.
George W. Biack, Caimlen.

he REPORTERS FOR PRESS.

Fdward D. Stokes, Heraid: William L. Powell, MIRROR | George W.
Hand, News; Harry S. Prickeit, Lalerprise: Kobert B. Glasgow, Gazelle.
Sheriff George Barrett, Camdey county } iEex-Sheriff George B. Harvert,
Newhbold's Corner; Dr. Williaa K. Mattern, Philadelphia.
GUARDS.

George H. Branson, John |. Severas, Moant Holly, Thomas EK. MeNin-
ney, Marlton; Berzillai L. Thompson, Medford; Warry Bo Ridgway, Cross-
wicks; Harley Jobes, J. M. Thorn, Bordentown, Sann §
boro’; Martin J. Fitzpatrick. Howard W. Shinn, Hamiton Gaal, Buring-
ton; William Can#, Columbus; David MeDow-ll, Walter Broom, South
ampten ; John McCue. Ficldsbero’; Edward Lawrence, Pointville + Aaron
E. Burr, Elwood Watson, Chester: Albert. V. Horuer, Valoryra ; John
Demarest, Delanco. : .

The guards named above were not witnesses of the execution, but were
stationed outside to preserve order.

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THE MURDER OF LIZZIE PEAK.

HopE VANISHES.

All hope for escape from the gallows was then ended.
Nothing now could intervene but a natural death or suicide.
The death watch, two constables of Mount Holly, Robt. M.
Brown and Henry Claypoole, was appointed, and they kept
faithful vigil night and day over the condemned man, and
Sheriff William A. Townsend began making preparations for
carrying out the mandate of the law.

INDIFFERENT To HIS FATE.

Warner refused to believe that he was to suffer the death
penalty and acted in a most indifferent manner for one whose
days were numbered. He continued to eat heartily, slept
soundly, refused religious consolation, and only referred to
himself as a persecuted man who in all fairness should have a
new trial.

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PREVIOUS EXECUTIONS.
uring the present century four murderers have been
hanged in Burlington county. Two of them expiated their
crimes publicly, the others were hanged in the jail yard.

Eliza Freeman, an old colored woman, was the first. She
murdered her husband and was hanged publicly between
Mount Holly and Hainesport, on July 20th, 1832. The high-
way was then known as the Philadelphia road.

The next was Joel Clough, who murdered Mary Haiil-
ton, in a fit of jealousy at Bordentown. He was hanged at
the saine place on July 26, 1833, in the presence of hundreds
of people.

The next was Philip Lynch, for the murder of George
Coulter, at Bordentown, on the night of September 23d, 1559.

It was a brutal crime. Lynch and Coulter were drinking
together and quarrelled. On the way home they had a scuffle
and Coulter was so badly hurt that he fell by the wayside.
Lynch went home, secured his gun, and returned to the spot
where Coulter was lying and beat his brains out with the
stock of the gun. He afterward denied all knowledge of the
affair.

The trial was a famous one. Judge Van Dyke presided.
Ewan Merrittand General Browning represented the prisoner.

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24 WESLEY WARNER'S CRIME,

Garrit S. Cannon was Prosecutor of the Pleas and he was as-
sisted by Hon. John C. Ten Eyck.

He was convicted. When sentence was pronounced he
uttered the most profane language ever heard in a court room
and threatened dire vengeance upon the Judges and the State’s
attorneys., “May the devil die with ye!” he replied to Judge
Van Dyke, as the last words of the sentence were pronounced
upon him, and his eyes burned with malignant hatred and
ferocity.

He was hanged Friday, March 23, 1860, in the jail yard.
The gallows stood at the southeast end of the jail yard, be-
tween the prison and the high wall.

Lynch met his death stoically, refusing spiritual advice,
saying he did not pray himself and did not want any one to
do it for him.

There was a large crowd of spectators in the jail yard to
witness the execution, besides the National Guards of Mount
Holly, and Marion Rifles, of Burlington. Sheriff Thompson
was the executioner.

Charles Brooks was the next one. On March rath, 1863,
he killed his father, near Vincentown, with a club. He fled,
was captured, and then made a confession.

He was executed on Friday, December 11th, 1863. The
same gallows were used upon which Lynch expiated his
crime. Upon the gallows, after prayer by Rev. R. V. Law-
rence and William Doran of the Society of Friends, Brooks
made a short address. He admitted felling the old man with
the club, but his mother and Ridgway finished him. He said
they should be upon the scaffold instead of him. Brooks
was born at Vincentown and was not quite 23 years old when
he paid the penalty. It was thought he was of weak mind.

Over 700 people witucssed the execution, beside the two
military organizations that were present when Lynch was ex-
ecuted. |

The Sheriff was William C. Lippincott. As he was
about to cut the rope he said, “The Sheriff of the county is
his executioner—not William C. Lippincott.”

THE MURDER.OF LIZZIE, PEAK.

THE EXECUTION.

WARNER’S LAST HOURS,

Wesley Warner is dead !

God's law and the mandate of our civil government having been executed
at Mount Holly, on Thursday morning, Sept. 6th, 1894, at 10.35.

For the purpose of this historical article it is necessary to anticipate the
final act in Warner's life by at least one day.

On Wednesday, September 5th, it wasexpected that the condemned man’s
widowed mother and other members of the immediate family would pay
him a farewell visit in the jail, His mother, feeling unable to pass through
such a trying ordeal, failed to put in an appearance.

Warner arose in the morniug as usual and donned a clean white shirt and
a new suit of black clothes which had been made from measurements taken
the week before. He went without! a collar and necktie during the day.

Between two and three o’clock Harry Heck, who had been his barber for
mouths, entered the doomed man’s‘celland shaved his face for the last time.
Warry is a mere youth, and it was « trying ordeal, as he feared that the mis-
erable wretch might grasp the razo: ind do himself mortal injury. | During
this performanee Warner indulged ia a rambling talk entirely ignoring the
solemn factthat upon the morrow fic must die. Instead he talked at ran-
dom, hurliug sentences steeped in coarsest profanity at his guards who were
constantly in sight.

He ate heartily of the meals provided forhim, which since July 9, 1894,
had been furnished by Landlord Zeiley of the Washington House.

During the entire day there was not the slightest indication from his de-
meanor that his life would end abruptly upon the morrow.

Between 7 and 8 o’clock in the evening au open carMage drew up before
the jail and his brothers Bert, Will and Clarence and G. W. Lewis came
up the stone steps leading to the Sheriff's business office. They paid the
prisoner a brief visit in his cell and returned home,

Warner passed his last night in the same indifferent and unconcerned
manuer that he had shown for weeks previous, scemingly unaware of his
approaching death. He retired to his couch about ter o'clock and slept
peacefully until two o'clock inthe morning. Aros: then, dressed himself,
indulged in a short smoke and again retired, sleeping soundly until seven.
His breakfast was then brought in, consisting of beefsteak, bread and butter
and coffee and ten eggs, two of which he disposed of

Shortly after 9 o’clock Rev. }. Madison Hare, of Burlington, visited
Warner in his cell and proceeded to administer spiritual consvlation, during
which the condemned man collapsed courpletely, his stolid indifference and
iron nerve deserting him entirely. ife lay upon his bed and presented a pit-
itu! sight. He soon regained his composure aml the Sheriff said ‘Come,
Wesley, we will now go down for (he exceution and 1} want you to bear it
like aman.” Warner nodded in tos alirmative. Griffith Lewis, of Burling-
ton, was also intheeell, At the Sheriff's request he got out of bed and put
on his shoes, The Sheriff then placed the manacles ou his wrists. They
then walked down stairs where a halt was made in the h Ulway adjoining the
business office. Here the Sheriff read to him the ord-r of the court show-
ing his authority and instructions relative to the execution. Warner then
made a few remarks, searecly a word of which could be understood, — His
words were jumbled together without any apparent meaning.

The crowd of spectators were then sent into the Jail yard where the seaf-
fold stood, and Warner followed soon after accompanied by Rey. Mr. Hare,
Sheriff Ege, of Mercer, ex-Sheriff Harbert, of Newbold’s Corner, Sherif
Townsend, his executioner, Constables Brown and Claypoole, who had
watched him day and night since lie death sentence was pronounced, Ed-
ward 1. Stokes, of the Mount Holly Jlera/d, George W. Hand, Mt. Holly
News, W. 1, Powell, New Jersey Mikko, H. S. Prickett, Burlington Luter-
prise, R. B. Glasgow, Burlington Gazelle, W. W. Worrell, County Clerk,
and Turnkey William Reeves.

At the scaffold Warner, the Sheriff, Watchman Brown and Officer Severns
were the only ones who ascended tlic steps to the platform. A leather strap
was placed around Warner's legs above the ankles, the black cap was ad-
justed, Warner then said: “Gentlemen, you will all be sorry for this. I
thank Mr. Tare for what he has done for me. Good bye, Mr. Ehure ; good-
bye, all, [ere goes to the only begotten son.”

Hardly had the words left the condemned man’s mouth when the Sheriff
pulled the lever, the trap doors sprang open and Warner dropped through

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2 WESLEY WARNER'S CRIME,

CHAPTER I.
MURDER.

“Thou shalt not kill.”

“If any inan hate his neighbor and lie in wait for him
and rise up against him and s:nite him mortally that he die,
then the elders of the city shall send and fetch him thence
and deliver him into the hands of the avenger of blood that
he may die.”’—.

“And thine eye shall not pity.”

“But life shall go for life, eve for eye, tooth for tooth,
* * * for he that is hanged is accursed of God.”—L£or/racts
Jrom Deuteronomy.”

CHAPTER JT.
WESLEY WARNER—THE ASSASSIN.

Had Wesley Warner live] until October he would have
been thirty-one years
old. Up to the time
of the perpetration of
the awful crime which
he has expiated upon
the gallows, Ins life was
an uneventful one, ex-
cept im a very sinall
circle of acquaintances.

For several years he
earned a precarious liv-
ing by huckstering veg-
etables and fish upon
the streets of Burling-
ton, his native place,
and also in Mount
Holly. Laterhe learn-
ed one of the branches
in the manufacture of
shoes.

He married a Miss
Hannuin, of Burling-
ton, and four children
were born tothem. In
his way, fora time, he proved a faithful husband, and pro-
vided the ineans for the support of his family.

WESLEY WARNER.

THE MURDER OF LIZZIE PEAK. 3

In 1890, he met Lizzie Peak, and bee ming cramored of
her charms, he forsook his wife and children, and from that

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Ons in Suspenders.
ps, all the new.
eae this sale.

fethe goods.
et the bargains.
5 with every pur-
‘ Ollar book gets a

ty 00 to $15.00 bie

South Jere

1

\

Are the very newest:
j and ste spec InLens ani

a)

~ BUY» THE BES

blesboia

FOR SALE

TI

NT

fe
Mayhew Shoe Co,

BRIDGETON, IN, J.

NS 22 vty | wes be

1 ee

AGS
ie i

pat pul

ne N, ial street

aes ui

Hots
“PCW rate

4 fcr, Mila
i ish a0 uRGGi rave hs,

counsel:

‘ did:

Ip hi asidoeiark
Pe 1D

i 4a OVOIN

Ast Tier onty sre

Jthe

‘ mornings

[will stop the irritation: ltt ili
: HOY ing: ¢ OUP,
slcum, Horehound and. Ta
Hand see how qui ekly the le y
‘Pbowcs:: none of them couta

iams’ Newest west Confession,

SHOT ONE. OF His BTS) |
“VICTIMS. TWICE.

‘Stevens menting

_ Want the Whole of ‘the Hor-
rible Story. to Come, Out
While He is Alive.

is; Hat, ee rane of (Ne think han let?

it
ORL
ihett:

WwW as it uit
the Ja
ehir Re
Were cmpt 4
nnis original corfdsstan' Joly.
Od Mot he shor MP Hommes) iin t
bead) and Mise Shute age
both’ bullets doing eee
PXECQHON. TB tis
what berame Of the tha;
Sat UREN that his: ain
on both shots? On.
rary. atier sending the. Ar
thissile to do its deadiy We
Sitated, \ eal
Rei ena ion jon. t

ALEC I CLAS ied Pak Ly-

}
La
Woidhisuivis¢ PALE er
Chambers re
ied: }

unital

the!

temole,
$ the
ie lien

LS)

he rotund | Hn ihe Ney
ian, Whie Ay Wil Wiames WadGE te his!

Satiue hr) bredest i venue Tday,
CULLGE tins SONI Statemcugs | inade
the: first oO Casion, when © ae
Hat Want. itis OAL tHe  whie Gp Ul
horrible: @aath bafore: ne pUDTE:

hi dst Stated On) wage a
the’ let idontesaithy WATT: Bet os OFF
Barish cota In evened hye Horrible
Leelht. 1 bye thre » ghastly Stary ae has Rret
Confess) that an the Casenot
Bs eo. WAS ae wy or Wien Yih
death “ORME. SU

Lhe

Conte:
ho,

cbs

Miss

STK
doand CHI Tae Ny

t Shy ceic ie oc Ha peed le

tYGh ia PU OWas haturally we rie
Bteady: mthe Second GCeaslyay we

une

TOeASOM ty he eye

a Seeond We

Ly Regd ny

ON ioe Hi

Ore ie th aie al:
EtG Vath, rem: a edie ye

th: it lite Was Dat extin: Nene |

COUGH DROPS

We have Cough Drops of
lyicatiied inithe pocket:
Ledge

Mentholated Waite I

thie yates AD! PN a,

It is. Bxpinined in “Job Wille.

prew Sheriff to pe

| The Mlicdérer: Evidently, Biss Not,

hh POW spends his time

VOE HE Tia

Suats:
Naihe foe:

iInstantaneé |
CASO.) 6

Was SO ace:
Freon: i
addon)!

i huiict

“On?

Wik

Pt ep

"hese are hand ly) tO a: ne we ie

; She was shot the/serand ¢
| lng dragveg to me barn. i

ab t there was a Rood |
literally fiendisa

&

ime

ie CASE Of A
Neeidreded

end WIE Not make

uS! death. Evide

does- nit Want the

i Sun ci}
ntly th Ns mHurd
whole of the aN
ory to come our while he is alive.
Me Trede}] OuL of town to-day
amd hence could not be hy ei :
the News who Called at

Sentenced noaxt THC

fh IS stayed for six
as has i en indicated. thon. it} Gir
iwith sai

beanie first, duties of th. +5
erform the unpleasant | ; a
sleeve, s
$8, $12.

pre
' Rich,

Our
iy Feaas, ~ | lection fey
orneob ap to oy
ott. | 220, orn
Hnver.4
the SIL
du SO si]
&S “verted Py}

48 @ person |.
ath. : ish Co: ats

De - Golf Glo

id tel} Prosee utar
rad NO ilewil} against ain |

ait

}
;
is

seen
| Derter
alice,
| Willian
j Momday.

i Ai
MEL

of

4 if

task.
PREPARING FOR DEAT Hy,
Willianis has at once begun te
HBare for death:
Vavisere. Messrs:

twill Visit him,

Ua

Lostay “hj

Spiritva
Showell and Bayard
:
how in looking |
VOPR Y DSalm buok and Singing Vie |
TAS 2 Bible wiaeh He eoist
He also) finds solace
Pipes |
Hii professed | be! happy
FOl te; hano he stoke any
jctals are around, butshis who Ie. «
cation: is On the delay he fears in

LEeCUt on,

Has Appetite IS} g00d and he re]
MCAS IUSt the Same
i th €) Shadow ofi-de:
hb ilams asked Sherif

i he: wou
heh

HA

in

of ti

his

not

We open
Wy

| ata. mixé

‘Flannel

a ee ZeoSinte,?
.) eo 8 8% Cee bed bee }

c )

SP Pon® SenlestecSentast .¥._¥
eae LE Nt Oe Yee Ne poe Yer

DONT PUT

eek ae NG

GAS RADIATORS,
OiL HEATERS. or
Air Tight Wood Stoves,

Till the: tempest ature touches
freezing, |) Kverybody | will
want them then, ‘but some-
body will probably be disap
ported,

Let us show you the
ent’ kinds.

Martin tess Co.,

13 EB. Commerce St.
624° tu th aw Ip ty

A mh le
a ee

7 ha

iG loves

(7 oe
(ad ae ae 5

Seclesloelast 3.02.
Cet Seat Died er ee mae oe 5

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a ee oe ae ee oe

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all, iin one Bee bok to occ
the small package can

if . Wide at Very efficient.

tal tid sues And the Constaiyt

et “ine, Tae find wild Che try,

Titst try

We

OY) VOR:

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ary oan
Cay
of
mindreds
Wits

AYV One

ee
ba a at

Sv quick
Pleasant anc
& b )

; te SO) utely

UME Y Ahi,
ted igen

College

BTA ty ¢ ‘alle
Kkeepin
Blan, 5 ae, m

ow pag

My

»

> Principal.

ne |

TION.

{ Rie: soos in
we Urday eveb-
SULOAN I am

Store and

Peo mill and
PS usi ness,
Hive

Me 31 firs-
TOs in South
OOM terms,
me! With rood

PCNER,
MAY, pee Me
ee

cks

First cia |

Call

horse |

Strang

- sit
1}

arrant

yer

blackened if

With walked ‘Constal
Avars
watcher
Job ascended
the black cap was
his) he
adjusted
the
assisted. in
if

lim

and Wil
and the sheriff.

ly;

over ad
noose iround
ear (

these

knot) under ieft
Cresswell
tions and Job
words to the sheriff concer:

It
stood facing the b
AS
head and face

himse

was done

a
arn

tie cap was

he

jaik.

AaimMmost
beneath
“ood e.
and judgment,” and
replied

Hr the
trap

Just Worus

the WaS Sprung

all over,
Never, perh
ft} i 1d li ga
Vas No

he beady

over to
tne
and
Isive
tremori of

few seconds.

43 thrown

c:

Bs aking ol neck,
:

:

Ay

aneous, there

en a convu INOVetrie
Tit

a

such ¢:
had
who

in 1S

S00N pass

house Witnessed

ed

aver ine

Lknown
On

ConipyY
all county

tion of them, inowever.

. nclos

Owes

the officia
, officials and ex« ficials,
and In
former Sheriffs
i, Of this county:

ne

nen others the thror
Hendee
forméur
Weasley, Sell, of Camden,
Jolnai of

] hgygest of those

of admission ware

and
nia
anu
m, Salem

had

tian

who

rear ¥

GD

that var
d to

wh & kreat

LOS

Were rorurts to acc

Within the
there wa
pie Space and the ¢aecull

rnmog
gallows enclosure
ere

ho Crowding

liam Cresswell his

quickly

uttered

ay wa

e high steps pron

NeCK,
onstal

prepara}

a

ling them

nioment,

te

ver
from |

pi

uo

;| tram
PitPnech
the eounty

hing and iso

few |

T)

NASSEed

le Fent

Job
» (he! Sikih day
re hanged

the

|
| il roc
j
{
i

his }j
| it
IOs ©}

LT Vien

Holmes and Catharine

{their death:

On. the’
last. T waa
th

pay

hot enous

‘| suit and
‘de ding: "\q}
Hoimes’

toliars

Ty

a
if

On the
; 12:

j
‘

farm for Bridge: ton,

to chang:

up J picked up

belonged {ny

ried it with
y
4608 ti) 1}
on the BEE);
front
nto Mr
Noor I
HUIS Ppochath:,
POChaet ;
ATi
the stairway

it Wry ty

ion

types
from
he wad

he

7)
ml

thy gs

Cul

neha

Wesle vi
15

Oltleps

arr

Upon
of
hy

I}

To the Publ eC:

ence

Comp

1}

er

dress ie

to

yt

Twenty.

th is

Thi
November,
the

ticket

The bieb

elevation

Witnessed

Dinn the

be

in BhCridt’s
allowed to
to-day,

that peo

houses,

root

certain no TSOns

lrrrounding
Sell arived on the

and officials, from over
ved | carly: this morn-
to the

repaired jail.

bas been |
the Twenty
1902, 1 shall
ill am dead,
Of the musi

comunitted

of death
and on
heck unt
SSion of one
nan
Pre

ever

nalty | about to

make a Blate-
of
ind of just how Jotin

true
he

Hie just

Ww I-coin-
Shute met

ghth day

hye

Inv

STORY OF

The Time When All
Excited by the D

7}
inms Wiss
mitted
27th) \ last.
tlement
Bridgeton
and. half
ed up the
that the
was 1
Ok Wut
Willian:

lan, nej

f.John Ss
ar. and

the flames

It

was

expenses of Unie

Uhore “wag money in

desk and there war a few

thera,

Narles

the

fri
1d) floor and

Hotine

Uni tix

}
it

bine party Passi
oe haem my

which
aty

Clothing and

kod

I decided to luke
seventh day of
Ke

ahy

Luguet,
Holmes left the
ut half-past

evening T went a;

On My way

a wooden mallet whien

workhouse and car
After | was complete
the
of

Went down (ne

Went to door that

mt purt the

o¢ hallway and er} eon
8 bedroom On the jrst

his

ue

desk

And fook |

it into tay e

and
ret

inied upastas:

down and wey

leacs into the dina j

into) the man ro,

pien;

:

Partly and
icf of

Triinthe

b hla:
After

tit Oce@urted to me taaaat |

up
'

line tives

}

ahi

da
A

Lorn
8,

Willian
nit.
Was ire
Inet
atte
ler of C

with

or

self,

attention t

m
however, t}

re ont}
alibi

If Of a rall af
WVery on the night of
fire

fon
While tl
with

1e
Other
tended to
, ns

aviv

indireort

op!
TO jitre

the house

Kvepin
It

ay a ry
Weddin
OM Arian |
eled Kr
It
if

Wur
ie
Wiese ow

ay beh

Ware
of

past

rh buts.

ne) and

mon
Rot
barn
‘ama?
Holmes, why

AouSsekeeper,

Holmes
Porter

was
Oroner

apparep

Mat

ie he

hem

as!
PAY 1 bow fax
: & table
oe |
hy

at

rosecutor
at

sable

THE CRIME.

Bridget
ouble Murder.

on

Was

He awl orime for

Cxeenlod to-day
inesad
the
Bowent

It

ay Cvoning, Ali

CTOSSroads

sust
little Ket-
St of

cloeh

WA, Just. we

mite’
flarn

be {we :
turid

Sky

Was
when 3

estern

|
|

fiat \

the
Vieevard

an
Were

Mr.
burni

alin

thie
NS coming
until midn
had

known

be en

that

Catherir
had been

Miss

wl

! ry
HhnHoOwn

heen § Bela,
i few days ;
i tO have had
Him over

mn R
taken into

wi

KS

MePherso:
little
0 Chaz
matter
autt
Ti
Ji
nyo

tly

One v
12
Le wre

ans
an

he SI N
INE CO

Was ras

any «

nific
t ec
mand
MACHINE

nents

Week S—

for t

LUCE

til Dex € tty
hy

outt

‘ithe Crit

ere :
| Sout
wn
Jot onde) be
ORAN CO tell his

CONFERS
ifler the

singer mang

SWI

Ney

NTON

On tox]
made

Pa a | of

led mMeothey ti

i! if hos

ty of

1m Vet

OOD feosp ton
;

whet

his

treon

Tint

‘ ta

tre

ruil SAL He tom!

bide

Vered «| you
- ie) Ok and

New
; Od and stl ppedt iy

lob thie mitt liye
For

Whiff the Wwhon

en hat

8, COUfOnK On Get lis

THE:

atll

\!

rand

Pibe
%

AW) hee  « =
Dwi or ised le: *

ta el

4


Me git Boe
a) i 4 4
Holmes) ince
Caden! the iain hPa & |
ik beri teal) ty Con ti
a LY ON mitt, ay
Sahat e ft elant fo the

Holme Cet | of

Comings out,
in) (he warzonhousead
Imes down with tne y
in’ my itight haha,
terrible, blow land knocked him sense
my feet. ‘IT then dfagered | isis ch

buiy: inte the barn and i? it past

MANDATE OF THE LAW: CAR-| cist! abe tt 16 es

q barn. bad been burned. Miss Shute

RIED OUT THIS MORNING | |i tor te oe so
, ; ; fame info the barn throurh the \ agro

eEte VY

botise and when she godt half SAY it cach, bes
Mhe barn Tamet her and 8G her a stun. | With €

KMing tow with my fist and knocked

“4 S uffers Death Upon the Gallows--: li Mik, hte Sha I then vo he Velvet
; IF TRA Wr ink ign a Childrei’

The Murderer’s Remarkable}!!! tw tid went ot | 28°S 4 Ea

= jot the barn ow the the:

Courage Stands by Him to tines) Sines
Last. : bebe ee er ek

ia ii ey | sh RTI fe AP of my victims somew)
Bre Re last eceny! ; "f j spducted iy every. re

MacCted in Ube mitdst le drieg} Pproperly
arain his mor iine |) Av eotdon' or ome

eleven | net holding THe Shey

Ut T dO nut rere mver
hen ont’ with a mate}
(he shat and +

bam and went d

ea n OOM urray Willi ALrleg MY, Uhre eCOUrt house
end Me Nw a) yp if Y steps thati fey \ erent Prey ined  fronhsidoeeal
ALLOWS intyt Hy | wi wWwevér. :
Wey) vod nd) dliig
and On Lott: tread

Thos Mete dh hori.

” SOU Iemma,

ys ,


~ Yarrow’s car,
blackened ruin. It had been burned the ~

w
anid provide ultimately the answer to the
even more baffling problem of why his
victim had been so brutally murdered.
But the girl would have to be properly
handled. They decided on alittle

: diplomacy. - Sot

® ITHOUT informing her of their in-
ee tentions, Sheriff Stratton and De-_
” tective Scott decided to bring both Branch .
~ and Yarrow in for close questioning. As
* both men had cars, these were to be
. .brought in for examination, too. In fact,
the cars played ‘a big part in the officers
“scheme, for it was their intention to parade
the machines rather than the men before
© the girl’s unsuspecting eyes and watch for
“a reaction. “If and when it came, they
thought, they would know which suspect
concentrate on. = $56 sera
ndersheriff Tryon got Branch,and his
careasily enough. And Detective Scott
had no trouble in locating Yarrow, who
was at his sister’s home: in Barnesboro,
a small hamlet a few miles south of
“Woodbury. But when he went to fetch
all he found was .a

night Rose Sarlo had been murdered. —

Both officers were highly suspicious of ©

the fire and questioned Yarrow closely
about it. Z
-~- Yarrow said he had gone to bed about
midnight of the Saturday Rose Sarlo
disappeared. He had arisen about 5
o'clock the next morning, intending to
drive to upstate Pennsylvania for a

regular Sunday visit with his mother. It ~

was then he discovered his car ablaze.
- It had probably been smoldering from a
short circuit for some time, he said. He

had tried fighting it himself but had ulti- ——
“mately given up and called the Barnes-—
Substan- —
- tiating his story was an entry on the books .

“Dboro volunteer fire company.

~ of the fire company showing they had
. responded at 5:15. aR
Branch also had an alibi. His, too, con-
“cerned his car. He had driven it to
Philadelphia the afternoon of Rose Sarlo’s
disappearance. He had spent the evening
there with friends. He named names,
addresses and times, so that if his story
ultimately were to stand up, it would show

that he had been out of sight only 40.

-minutes during the time he said he left
_ Philadelphia and 4:30 a. m. Sunday when
--. he turned up at the all-night lunch- car
-back home. And 40 minutes is not an ex-
“cessive time to drive 20 miles at night.
Both men were locked up for further
investigation, but the officers were re-
luctant to confront the girl witness with
them at the time. There were gaps in
their stories, it was true, but these were

not serious enough to warrant putting ~

pressure on a young girl who was only
trying to be honest and fair. The breaks
had gone against the officers. The strange
murder—by throttling, shooting and beat=
ing—and its even stranger motive re-
mained as much an enigma as ever. They
would simply have to start over.

: But the tide turned with a vengeance
shortly after Undersheriff Tryon and De-
tective Scott had about given up on Yar-
row and Branch as suspects.

A Woodbury resident came into head-
quarters. He brought with him a black
suede slipper, black pocketbook, a gold
elass ring and a gold brooch. They were
Rose's. ©

= “Where did you find them?” asked De-

~ Scott and Undersheriff_ Tryon.

" fear of being implicated?

But the answers were pat. >

Back to Woodbury sped ‘Detective
Then

back again to Red Bank road. Only this

“time, each officer bore a tire, one from
_ Branch’s car, the other from Yarrow’s. «

Carefully, each tread was compared
with the imprint in the dust. Gravely,

-one was discarded, the other scrutinized

again. Then it was fitted into the earthen
mould—and the officers knew at last
whose car had been used in the slaying

One
Their informant, in her

~ of raven-haired Rose Sarlo.

-- But who had been riding in it?
“man or two?

“- account of Rose Sarlo’s movements after

the movie house had closed, had men-
tioned two men as having chatted with

~ the girl. But had both gone along to Red .-
“Bank road? Was an inference justified?

Or had one of them merely passed the
‘time of the day and gone about his busi-
ness, keeping silent his suspicions for.

Back to headquarters _went Sheriff

~ Stratton and his assistant. Tryon. They

“strode into the offices where Branch and

“Yarrow were being held. > rete
_ . “Take off your shoes,” said the sheriff.

- When both men complied in silence, the ©
_ sheriff handed them to Tryon with orders

to return to Red Bank road a third time
and compare shoes and footprints as they
had checked tires and tread marks. - =

Undersheriff Tryon was back in half an

#

- that man was as may well be expected—

the owner. 2 = =
. Meanwhile, Sheriff Stratton sent for
County Prosecutor Joseph P. Summerill.
When the prosecutor arrived both
officials set about clinching the case. — :

They brought Rose Sarlo’s girl friend
in to look over the men, and true to her
word she spoke at hast. - :

“That’s the man,” she said, verifying”

with pointing finger the evidence of the

shoes. “That's the man I saw with Rose. :

The other one was not there.” 2

They asked Coroner Wood to come in. ©

His report, made out by County Physician

H. H. Clark, stated flatly that Rose had
died fighting off an attempted attack. -

‘But Sheriff Stratton and Prosecutor

- Summerill were not through yet. They

had a good case founded upon a wealth

* of circumstantial evidence and could rely

“upon at least one unimpeachable witness.
But most of all they wanted the killer’s
-confession. Knowing the power of sur-
-roundings to weaken stubborn ,suspects,
they took Branch and Yarrow to the

«morgue. While one was left to shiver in —

an anteroom, the other was led into the

~. charnel house and forced to look down .

on Rose Sarlo’s lifeless body.”

* He shuddered and turned away, only
to meet Summerill’s stern gaze. The”
© prosecutor’s voice rasped harshly in. the :

. stillness of the room. ee
.“Why did you do it, Yarrow?

yulsively, but he remained silent. Poe
“We found the_marks of your tires near
~the place where you hid Rose Sarlo’s

shoe, pocketbook and jewelry,” Summerill $

- said. “What have you got to say?”

x

“Drop it here!” e a

_ George Yarrow’s face twitched “con- — ==

“~~~ girl was, in his own words, “straight,” he-

bly.
swept his hand before his eyes as i
shut out the sight of his victim. Sheriff

‘Stratton pulled it away. Then Yarrow

‘broke completely. —. 2 “ ag
“T killed her,” he muttered, “but I don’t

“What became of the gun?”. demanded
the prosecutor. ae :

“T don't know,” Yarrow said. “I don’t

A stenographer was speedily sent for.
‘The only one available was the wife of
a New Jersey state trooper. She was,
game, however, and after the body wa.

covered with a sheet the grilling coa--

tinued. 7

_ Yarrow proved willing to make a full

tonfession. He had met Rose Sarlo, he
- Said, before his marriage, but because the

had given up his attempts to interest her_
in his attentions. ge Ree?
On the murder night, he said, he had
~met her by accident as she came out of.
the theatre near the courthouse square.
He offered her a lift to her home and Rose _
accepted without hesitation. But Yarrow
efused to drop the girl at her house.

“had nothing except what came to him as
a gift from Mrs. Powers. ‘
Besides, the officers could not come to.

a definite conclusion about the scene of
he murder. Es : ‘
“H Parks had not been slain where he
was found, and the evidence was against
his theory, where had he been killed?
The examination of his living quarters
had disclosed nothing to suggest the
murder had been committed where he
made his home. What places was the
“youth accustomed to visit? Was there
-one among these that would show signs

_— of such a crime? :
--« The officers returned to Mrs. Powers
-., to try to find the solution to these baf-

fling questions. :
They found the congenial and smiling
woman burning rubbish in a stove in

~ Parks’ room and also in a stove in her

own room. She repeatedly brushed beads
of perspiration from her forehead back
into her hair as she answered their new
queries. The day was hot and it was no
_small glimmer of a blaze that burned in

~ the room where they gathered. A blasting

heat came from the fire-box, and the

_.. temperature of the place was that of an

z.

© gave it up in despair.

2

inferno, eid
The officers explained to their hostess
that they must have more information
concerning her‘young roomer; must find
something in his life as a starting point
for their investigation. < s
“Mrs. Powers still was upset over news
of the death. “E wish I could help you

_-but I’ve told you all I know,” she said

with genuine sincerity in her tone. “If I

could help you I would, but E can't.”
Though their questioning was - futile,

they kept at it hopefully. Finally they

Outside they commented on the roaring ~

- fires within. At first it had seemed one

more of those odd things that added to —

“their puzzlement. But then they realized

that a housewife has to burn rubbish

on a warm May dayas well as any other

: a He = Black

Pec ay ia te ae RAR GY Sen
“Something got into’ me,” he said.

drove on out to Red Bank road.-I was

mad because she wouldn't ever have any-
thing to do with me. She started to argue
when I took her out of ker way and that

“smade me almost crazy. I pulled her out
know why. I hit her here in Woodbury -
and shot her about a mile from Wenonah.”

of the car and began beating her. She
stood her ground, though, and said she'd
have me arrested for it. a
~ “T was afraid she would, too, so I made
her get back into the car. I had a record.
I'd served time for robbery and got a sus-
pended sentence for a stickup job. I knew
“t would go hard with me if she put up a
squawk.” oe :
After driving the protesting girl
through Sewell, Mantua and then back
- toward Woodbury again, Yarrow said, he
came to his decision to “play safe” by
murdering the girl. On the road near
Mantua he pulled his revolver from under

_ the seat and pointed it at the girl.

- “She screamed and I shot her,” he said.

“Once in the head and once in the back. —

_ I don’t remember what I did with the gun
and I can't remember when I wound the
wire around her neck. I must have been
out of my mind.” — . are ;

. «Then came the trip to Wenonah bridge.
where Yarrow threw the girl's body over

ic ontinued from page 21]

~ Sheriff Hicks and Deputy Stevens re-

turned to headquarters completely baf-~

fled by the case upon which they had
been unable to make any appreciable

progress. 2

They had unearthed no evidence that
could furnish any motive for anyone de-

- siring the young man murdered. Was it

possible that-he had made friends with
someone who was engaged in some il-
legal business? Could it be illegal handling
of liquor? Could Mrs. Powers be in-
volved?

r[ BE last question was quickly an-
swered because police records showed

‘nothing that indicated Mrs. Powers had

ever been even suspected of breaking the
law. Still, Hicks could not help but feel
that she was withholding certain informa-
tion which might aid in unraveling the
mystery. -

He turned his attention again to the
classified ad through which young Parks
had obtained employment.

Reading it casually there was nothing
to arrest the attention, but as he mulled
over it word by word, he was impressed
by its odd character.

“Single and no encumbrances” he read.
Why should a landlady be concerned
about those things? She might, of course,
if she was considering adopting the boy.
But nothing was said in the advertise-
ment about adoption, and the woman
herself had not mentioned having any
intention of taking such action. The
“orphan” angle of the advertisement also
would lead one to think that adoption
might have been planned.

Why “reared in the country” and why
“to assist in a very pleasant business“?
What pleasant business was there for a

tenant, who had taken up his: residence
there a few weeks after Parks’ arrival?
The officer recalled that Mrs. Powers

invariably had referred to Parks as her |

oe at ee

the “inorning, later setting fire to hi
bloodstained car, calling the fire company
and establishing the alibi which failed. ©
He was arraigned before Squire Friant
at Woodbury on Oct. 3, 1927, two days
after the crime and was held without bail
on a charge of murder in the first degree.
He pleaded guilty. ~~ ; = :
Harry Branch, victim of circumstances,
was promptly cleared of any connection
with the crime. : ; Sis
On Dec, 5, 1927, Yarrow was brought
to trial. The prosecution produced a
parade of 50 witnesses; the defense not
a single one. The jury deliberated just
90 minutes before returning a verdict of
guilty without recommendation - for
“mercy. Sei hee ee a
Supreme Court Justice Katzenbach of
New Jersey sentenced Yarrow to death i
the electric chair. The sentence was
carried out on June I, 1928.25 |

~~ Such was the ironic-end of a man w

-shot. strangled and beat a helpless girl

to “play safe.” — ee
(Editor's note: To protect the identity of an.

tmnocent man, the name of° Harry Branch a

; fictitions.) : : =

Widow of Macon

roomer; never as an employe, yet the
advertisement read “to assist in a pleasant
business.” Was it possible that she had
had some business in mind when she put
the ad in the paper, and had since given
up the idea or had come to the conclusion ®
that Parks was not suitable as a partner

_in the undertaking. The fact that she

did not mention it, however, suggested |

_ that the “very pleasant business” might
be something illegal, in which case she ~

would naturally keep her mouth shut. mi
It was all very mysterious. Anyone of
these oddities in the advertisement taken —
singly did not mean anything unusual. *
Taken together and considered with the -
Strange death of the young man, they
might have real significance. 2
But what? That was the point. There
wasn’t anything to justify suspicion and
the officers knew it. Yet every. theoretical
explanation of his death always drove the
authorities back to the apartment on
Cherry street as the place that held the
key to the mystery. 5 ;

Had the‘young man been taken for a
ride? If so, it must have been because
he knew too much. What had this com-
paratively innocent lad learned during
his residence with the motherly matron
that would thrust him into unexpected
danger? Hat he learned something in
the past of*the other roomer, Manches-
ter, that had resulted in such a violent
end?

Having_ng, one else to link with Parks
and his mysterious death, the-sheriff de-
cided to learn a little more about the
woman whose advertisement contained
sentences that intrigued his curiosity.

Shortly after these inquires were partly

.,completed, the officers once more as-
*cended the shadowy staircase on Cherry
: s ‘| ‘street. It was less than a week after the
“young man in a house presided over by § discovery of the bod¥ of young Parks:

an elderly lady and having but one other ~

: When they descended those stairs this
time, they were not alone: © Mrs.. Powers
accompanied them to the city hall where

» she was confronted by Sheriff Hicks who-

again questioned her about the di at of


By MACKENZIE GRIFFIN _

siete chteay nase aaah a ee

Over the rail of this bridge which the two women are exam- : sire : : at x : Sia Petite Rose Sarlo
ining, a fiend hurled the lifeless, battered body of his victim. ss : ae ae *3 was the mad
: ks : § c killer’s prey.

ROUND 7 p. m. of a

3 A certain October Sat-
urday, petite 17-year-

old Rose Sarlo slipped into a
green silk dress, black suede
shoes and black silk coat.
Spinning prettily before the
mirror, she pronounced her-
self ready to go downtown to
the shopping center of
Woodbury, the pleasant, old

fashioned South Jersey city go home and report failure. “Come to. Wenonah right away,” The girl lay at the foot of the bridge—
she and her parents and two

: ; . = Eas The mother, Mrs. Louisa . Metzger said. That was all, but Metz- dead ! :
brothers called home. She was bound ' ‘ : ; : Sarlo, decided not to awaken _ger’s voice had a queer break in it. And yet, at first glance that bright
for the Farmers & Mechanics national Rose’s father, Nicholas, home Joe Sarlo aroused his father. Briefly | Sunday morning, with distant church
bank to make the family’s weekly deposit asleep since 11:30 after along he explained: bells tolling a dirge and a light breeze
in the savings fund; to the fish market . break her word in- Saturday in the butcher shop. “Rose has not come home. Mr. Metzger _ making waves of the tall, October-
on an errand for her mother; and to the _ tentionally. In cases She knew her husband was — called. He wants us to come to Wenonah © browned grass, she-seemed anything but
movies, where she planned to catch the of unavoidable de-

r tired out and she had a_ right away. Something must have hap- that.
second show. As she crossed the threshold __ lay it always had mother’s very human desire to protect the _ pened.” : The body, lying on its back at creek’s ,
she called back to her mother: “Expect site 7. — to Sty" H is th arkened bank the girl from a tempestuous scene. She still The family embarked in Nicholas _edge-at the foot of the small span. had as-
~me by midnight. oa one her mother, to whom she was very € went to the now darke’ 7 1 he girl w Sarlo’s old car. They drove east f sumed th se of natiiral sleep. A slight-
: “At midnight Rose failed to appear. devoted, to save her from worry. Also, market, the motion picture house, to the oor bates hee Woodbury om Brandes ack alee uta = spies tne soto mittee pear
Neither did she return atl. Andat2a.m. it was definitely known that she had been home of Joseph Metzger for whom he and Sf i =

And so it went through the night, the they came to a small bridge spanning and the manner in which the black silk
brother searching, the mother keeping the | Mantua creek. It was just at the entrance _ coat had billowed up to form a pillow be-

~ Woodbury became a city of darkened anxious to get a good night’srestinorder his father worked as butchers. - He tried
homes and lifeless streets without either to look her best at church, where she was the all-night lunch car, the town police-

u naps ceaseless vigil. the father sleeping on, not _to the rural community of Wenonah, site _ neath the head. gave the distinct impres-

word or sign having been heard from: to teach a Sunday school class next day. men, the hospitals and the homes of his knowing the fear in the others hearts. of a famous military academy for boys. sion that here was a girl not dead, but at
the girl. As the clock ticked on and stillno word __ sister's friends. _Some had seen the girl Finally at 8 a. m. there came a phone There, after they broke through ‘the rest: a sleeping princess in a meadow. = |
Now 2 a. m. is not an unheard of hour came from her daughter, Rose’s mother early in the evening ; others had not. But all. cluster of men, women and children who Close inspection cruelly shattered the ~ = /
for girls of Rose’s age to stay out, particu-. became more and more uneasy. She none could give him any information to It was'not from the missing Rose, but __ had silently gathered around the spot, the illusion. Rose Sarlo had been brutally, =
larly on week-ends. But Rose had said finally asked Rose’s older brother, Joseph, indicate what possibly could have hap- from Joseph Metzger, proprietor of the family learned why Rose Sarlo had deliberately murdered. : 4

she would be home at “12. at the very to go out and search for her. << * pened to her. An hour and a half after meat market where the Sarlos were em- _ broken her word for the first time in her The girl’s throat” was bound tightly

latest,” and she never had been known to Joseph followed instructions faithfully. he started out, Joseph was forced to @ ployed. - life. with wire. The left side of her head was

fae aS fags ; ae DARING DETECTIVE


Rendezvous with

for a time. But eternal watchfulness in
_ this vicinity will, I'm sure, get us our
= man.” - 3 eh 2
It was decided to assign two detectives,
John Cilke and Philip Doherty, to devote
full time to the hunt for the killer. =
“Keep prowling around Forest Glen,
“men,” instructed Harrison. “With a little
luck, we may score.” i
- But success did not come. The warm
“winds of spring mantled the Sauganash
“woods with green, and still the mystery
“remained unsolved. But Sergt. Harrison
and the two detectives kept working.

_ Summer fled before autumn’s chilly ad- ~

vance, and grim winter followed. Hun-
dreds of times during the long months,
Harrison and the pair of plainclothesmen
hopefully questioned suspects they picked
up, and visited other police stations to.
interview jail morons.. But they did not
find the youth they sought.

Ni thes on Oct 2): lane were puzzling. First he tossed stones at
a tree. Then he sat on.a log for a half -

struck Forest Glen, =

Mrs. Kate Noble, a middle-aged resi-

dent, was walking along a woodland path.
A passing youth raised his cap. Ya
“Are you searching for. mushrooms?”
“he inquired, pointing to the basket, half
~ filled with the fungus, which she carried.
a: “Ves” she replied. Reinet eae $
“Come with me; I-know where there’s
a big bed of them.” : eee =
~~ He led her to the railroad tracks. There

"che suddenly turned and slugged her with ~

aclub. Then he criminally attacked her
in a freight car that was standing on a
siding. The scene was only 200 feet from

had been found. :

Be Sta SN ‘ Pe pd iss
* went on slowly, “are boy friends of girl

~- said; going toward the suspect.

AE ERS

oe

eaic ones frome teas

> 2 =

students, who'd carry their girl’s rosette
for sentimental reasons.” pe Ae %

’ He instructed Cilke and Doherty to re-
turn to the school and to take up the hunt
-along that line. a eS “
About 4 o’clock the next afternoon, the
detectives glimpsed a tall, gawky young
man boarding a west-bound Milwaukee

~ avenue trolley near the school:

“He’s over six feet,” ebserved Cilke.
“Then he’s the only six footer in Chi-
cago we haven’t talked to.” . Stes

ioherty started the automobile in
which they were seated. “We'll trail
him, John. The street car’s going in the
direction of the station.” =
With an increasing feeling of excite-
“ment, the investigators saw the youth
descend from the trolley at a point near

the Sauganash forest and walk toward ~
~ the woods. © = : : :

~“Let’s leave the car here,” said Doherty, i
“and follow him on foot.” = z
This was done. The youth's actions

_-hour and whistled, ~ - ee
-. “Let’s. question him now,” Doherty
- no use watching him forever.” *
~The young man identified himself as
“Vernon Royals, 16 years old, and said
“he lived about two miles away. He was

~~ six feet tall and answered closely the de-

scription of Mrs. Noble's attacker.

“Do you go to Schurz?” inquired. Cilke. story. At7Z o’clock,: Harrison arose.

*

z

- the ditch in which Mrs. Lavander’s body ~~

In serious condition, Mrs. Noble was

found and taken to a hospital. Thefe
Sergt. Harrison interviewed her.
“He seemed such a nice young man,”
she sobbed. ; :
“Her description of the assailant con-
vinced Harrison that here was the long-
. sought murderer. An observant woman,
“Mrs. Noble provided exact details of her
‘assailant’s personal appearance.
“He wasn't more than 17,” she related,

“and was about six feet tall.”

- Harrison was grimly satisfied. “Her

information,” he said, “plus the clues we

have from the Lavander case, makes me
- positive that the killer is a high school
lad.” i

He dispatched Detectives Cilke and
Doherty to the school to again investi-
gate tall students.

“He might even be one we talked to be-
fore,” he told them. “If he is, he won't
be able to lie out of it easily now; Mrs.
Noble can identify him.” :

The two detectives spent the entire day
at the task, but could not find a pupil who
fitted the description given by Mrs. Noble.

“That purple and gold rosette and the
circular are conclusive,” insisted Harri-
son. ~The killer might be a former pupil.

<

“There's _

Murder

you?”

“No; I quit sc
as :
“But you're

hool at the. seventh

interested in Schurz, aren't

“Yes, I have friends there.” eam
Taken to the station, Royals was ques
tioned by Sergt. Harrison. 3

“T haven't done

youth insisted. i : .
He was escorted to Mrs. Noble’s bed-
‘side. She took a single glance at him and

Royal

“T’m not.* I'm more positive now that

Ss. -

anything wrong,” the

2 I'm:

_ Fe heard your voice.” ee :
On the return trip to the police station,

~ Royals bowed his head.
“It’s no use, I guess. $
“-tell you. I’m the fellow you want.” -

~ Lavander case.

No mention had

been made yet of the

Sergt. Harrison waited

until a confession to the attack on Mrs.
~ Noble had been written and signed. Then
he suddenly asked: ~=

~“Aren’t yow going to tell us about the
murder now?” - - ae
Royals’ head snapped back with such
* suddenness that he gasped. 2

_ “What. murder?” he asked. the detec-
“tive shakily. : ; ree

Then he stubbor

nly denied having coin- :

‘mitted the slaying of Mrs. Lavander. In-
~ tensive questioning failed to shake his

oe

at Mi i a iy iy =

Check on tall boys who graduated or quit :

during the last two years or so.”

But this inquiry, too, proved fruitless.
Harrison drummed on his desk with his
fingers as he reviewed the case.

“Schurz school is our only hope,” he

_maintained. “We've eliminated all the
“present tall students, the tall graduates

and the tall boys who dropped out of ©
» school. The only suspects remaining,” he

56

“She doesn’t trust me.”

*

rE might as well 2

most the same as it had been on the mur-
= der night. Royals was led along the track.
“Look down the embankment to your

ht,” ordered Harrison. <> =

EVermon did as he was commanded. ae punishment was fixed at 25 years impris~ —

-“What did you do down there?” *
Royals stepped back as though to flee.
ut Detective Cilke and Doherty were
fose beside him. Harrison repeated his
~- question. ae Sa ee
Royals threw his hand up in a gesture
- of surrender. “Yes, I killed her,” he mut-
tered. -“I saw her in the station, asked
- her tora dime. She gave it to me. I pulled
gun then and marched her down the
tracks. I took three bucks from her.”
-. Denying the attack, Royals maintained
-he had shot the young mother only be-
cause she had resisted robbery. The re-
volver, he went on, was an old one that he
_had picked up in an alley.
- Through information’ pro
Royals, the gun was found where he had
~ thrown it. Ballistics tests made by Col.
“Goddard verified that it had fired the
fatal bullet oqo oa ees ie
‘The’ youth blamed an elderly woman

6

for his waywardness. “She seduced me

when I was only 14,” he explained. °

Before his trial, Vernon sought to cheat ==

is fate. He fashioned a noose from a

necktie and attempted to hang himself —
in his cell in Cook county jail. © ~~ «

Across the corridor, another youthful
killer was awakened by a gurgling sound.

e saw Vernon’s body swaying eerily in
the dim light. = gre epee!

Passion Crim

fare to and from work, bought little re

membrances for her mother and brothers. Sarlo did his work with vicious thorough- ©

and turned over most of the rest to her
family ever since. Most of her spare
moments, as far as Sheriff Stratton could

determine, were devoted to activities at ~
St. Patrick’s church, where she taught ~

the Sunday School class, evenings with

. the girl chums of her high school days -

and trips to the movies. None of her

- .- friends could suggest who might have

reason to kill Rose; certainly no one with
~ reason to throttle her with wire, shoot her
and crush her head against a bridge abut-
ment.
Rose, her mother said, had exhibited a

Shouts by the priso:
guards. They cut Vernon down and re-

_ vived him. He told them they would have
done him a favor if they had permitted —

him to die. -- ;

ght

: os geek ow
~~ «On Jan. 13, 1932, his trial opened before ~

“Judge Walter Stanton. Two days later
‘the jury returned a verdict of guilty. His
onment.." =:

tack of Mrs. Noble, who had recovered
now from her shocking experience. Found

» + guilty, he was given an additional term of ~

* five years in the p niventiary, ~~

2 TD Sisie he was serving time in Joliet on
_ the murder sentence, the Illinois Supreme

- Court reversed the killing
< ordered a new trial. ~~

~~» Because of his youth and the fact that -
ve-year term to serve,
the state’s attorney's office decided not

he still had the
~ to bring him to trial again. Seven years

- behind walls and bars, it-was felt, would .

reform him. = 4. = = :

’ ‘Though a veteran jailbird, Vernon was _

- only 23 years old when he was released
from prison in July, 1938.. He told. the
warden as he left that he intended to live
+a. Clean: lifes Ai See or tetas
noontime of March 9, 1939, when the
~ avenue, in the Rogers Park section. ‘
_.| The woman there admitted a young

[Continued from page 45] ;
"Nets, however. Whoever had slain Rose

ness. There must have been a tremendous
motive behind such a crime, the sheriff
felt; much more than the two possibilities
of criminal attack and robbery which ap-
peared on the surface. He told the mother
to search the dead girl’s room, tear up
the place if necessary, to unearth all
correspondence.

Meanwhile, in another part of town,
Detective Scott and his helpers also were
hammering away at the case.

They checked over the records of the
Farmers & Mechanics national bank and
definitely established that the girl had
reached there Saturday night and made
the deposit in the family account. This
clue struck hard at the theory of robbery
as a possible motive, for it seemed unlikely
~ that the girl would have been murdered

for the sake of a class ring, a gold brooch

and whatever few dollars she might have
_ kept in her pocketbook. It could not be

entirely eliminated, however, for the

officers could not dispose of the fact that

the jewelry and purse were definitely
=< missing. ss»

~~ Detective Scott and his men learned
- also that the girl had kept her promise to

- to the fish market for her mother. ©
box

ey found a record there of the sale of a
| of oysters to her. Bee a
“~ There were witnesses, too, to prove she
had attended the second show at the
_ Movies, he had told her moth

He was then tried for the Gosamar at-.

wo ‘Fears. after his conviction and

It was about eight ‘months later, aC

doorbell rang in a residence on Chase_

’ Thomas Kelly, Joseph Korzyk and Martin
. Gibbons were assigned to the case. They

obtained from the frightened woman

description of the bandit, and a list of
_the stolen articles. She said also that
- She believed the intruder had been in the
house some weeks before with a re-

_ frigerator repair man. © e

. The repairman was interviewed and
said he knew the youth only by nickname.

conviction and ~

Detective Kell:

y, Ww!
had worked out of the Irving: Fock ose tic
de

at the time of the Lavand
“Fecognized him: >

Faced and identified by the
* woman, Royals confessed his guilt.

The gangling prisoner was indicted by
the grand jury. He was examined by the
head of the Cook County Behavior Clinic
and adjudged sane though mentally dull

~On April 28, 1939, Royals went to trial,

~ entering a technical plea ‘of not guilty.

Chief Justice William McKinley «sen-
tenced him to serve one to 20 years

Joliet penitentiary. ©

“man who said he was a telephone repair- eS eee eC

~ man. He worked about busily until the. —
woman’s 22-year-old son left the house.

“(Editor's note: The name Mrs. Kote Noble «

- used in this i it te t ot i
saga - Boe lest gn o protect the identity

e of the Sex-Mad Strangler

and his colleagues that they were follo

ing a useless trail, so strictly had the gir!

adhered to her announced program for

the evening. iver eS :
But in that seemin

from home to. bank

out conspicuously. he

A girl friend who recalled talking to
Rose in the movies toward the end of the
second show told the officers Rose had
refused her invitation to “come up to the
house afterwards for a little party” be
cause “I told mother I would be in by mid-
night.” Another movie-going friend was
Positive she saw Rose loitering outside
the theatre sometime after it had closed,
talking to two youths who had a car
parked near fhe entrance. 4 ‘

Detective Scott sent -

~ and hinted broadly that he was a person
_ with whom Rose had come’ into conte :


The first act of Rose Sarlo’s death tragedy w:

es Wes Shs
crushed. © Some of the curls in which the girl had dressed her sleek,”

~ Faven hair were torn completely away. There was a bullet wound

through her face and another in her*‘efi..“~Ider, -
The. green silk dress was rippe” to shreds2as were her pink silk
undergarments. One black suede shoe was missing. So was the pocket-
book in which she had placed the family’s deposit for the Farmers &
Mechanics bank the night before. So was the gold class ring she had
received at Woodbury high school 12 weeks before and a brooch, gold.
and set with semi-precious stones, which she had always prized highly
And there was evidence that these had not gone without a terrific
struggle, for ugly, purple bruises already were beginning to stand out _
all over the slain girl’s body. : ae
Sheriff John B. Stratton of Gloucester county arrived to take charge
of the investigation. He immediately ordered, Undersheriff Tryon,

Detective Scott and Coroner Wood to search for clues, but they found 4

only @ wrapped package containing a toy the girl must have bought the
night before for her 6-year-old brother, Robert. They found no
weapons, no shoe, no sign of the pocketbook or jewelry and what mat-
ered 2 a rari ; : ¢
rom Wilson man, of Wenonah, the officers learned how the
body had been found. Edelman, out taking a morning walk along the
road that winds between Wenonah and Woodbury, had arrived at the
creek bridge at about 7:15 a.m. Then, after passing. the time of day with —
another stroller—a man he could not identify—Edelman started over
4 bridge. : : a: : pens
t was a bright sunny morning, that Sunday, Oct. 2, .1927,
Edelman little dreamed what a strange Giectetey ha was to make. a
Half way over the bridge he looked down at the embankment and saw
the girl. Because her coat was rolled up under her head, he, too,
at first glance, had thought her asleep. He started down to waken her,
but once he reached the side of the figure he learned his mistake and —
tan afoot to Wenonah where he got in touch with detective Scott..~
Oe ee : - ~~, Metzger’s story was similarly barren
as . of helpful details. He was, he said, on
: his way from Woodbury, through We- ~
~- nonah, to church in Mantua: for early ©
services, While stopping for gas in
» Wenonah he had heard that the body of

as played in the Woodbury, N. J.,

courthouse square, at top, and the curtain fell when the killer, above, was brought
to trial on a murder charge in the courthouse itself.

3. a murdered girl had been found. He drove to the spot, took one look at the

mangled features, and realized that it was his employee's child. It was then that
he had notified the family. :
Neither Edelman’s nor Metzger’s well-meant but fragmentary stories interested’
the officers for the moment. They were concerned with more vital questions.
How did Rose Sarlo’s mutilated body come to be lying under a country culvert
six miles from her home-town?

Who had killed her? Some one she knew or an itinerant tramp? What-was

the motive? Robbery or something infinitely more terrible? Where had the
crime been committed? At the bridge or elsewhere? Where was her shoe, her
jewelry and her pocketbook ?

~ To at least one of those questions the officers thought they knew the answer.
A great blotch of blood on the abutment half way off the bridge, the absence of
footprints, and the missing personal items seemed to indicate that the crime
had been committed elsewhere, and the body hurled over the bridge rail from a
passing car. :

There was, of course, a problem posed by the restful posture of the body and
the manner in which the coat had pillowed the girl’s head. From one angle it
looked as if those things had been carefully arranged. But weighing the battered
condition of the head and the blood on the bridge abutment against this, the officers
came to the conclusion that both had been made when the body was hurled over
‘the rail, and that the unysual manner in which it ultimately landed. was purely
coincidence. ; :

Their first move, therefore, was to dispatch Coroner Wood with ‘the body to
Woodbury, to start his physician on the necessary post mortem examination.
Their next, which Scott with the help of colleagues on the county detective force
undertook, was a complete checkup of the girl’s announced intentions of Saturday
night. And the third, which Sheriff Stratton handled personally, was to question
friends, neighbors and grieving parents of the slain girl for anything they might
have observed in her movements or mode of life that would lead to a person with
a motive for killing her. Z :

This last certainly was not the most pleasant task in the world, and one on
which the Sheriff had to exert the upmost tact:

The results of his. efforts were discouraging. He learned only that Rose was
a fine-looking, decent, obedient daughter who had been smart.at school and in-
dustrious at work. She had been working at a plant in nearby Camden ever since
she had finished school 12 weeks before. She had clothed herself, paid her bus

* [Continued on page 57] ets

>

Undersheriff J. K. Try-

on, above, was in the

forefront of the investi-

gation which cracked the

mystery of the 17-year-
old girl’s death.

Although flames de-
stroyed the interior of
the car at left, police were
able to use it as a clue in
the mysterious. case.


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WHEN FOUR DESPERADOES “BREEZED” OUT OF STIR AND SERVED

NOTICE THAT THEY WERE BACK IN BUSINESS AGAIN BY THEIR DARING
SNATCH AND RUTHLESS KILLING OF “BIG NOSE” WEISS, PHILADELPHIA'S
ACE DETECTIVE CREW AND FBI MEN KNEW THEY HAD TO MOVE FAST TO PRE-
VENT ALL HELL FROM BREAKING LOOSE IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE.


of Justice. A tough, hard-working
criminal investigator, detectives
knew him as a relentless man who
never gave up.

Seconds later, Malone was saying
over the phone, “Harvey? Malone.
We've just learned that ‘Big Nose’
Weiss has been kidnapped!”

He interrupted the conversation,
turning to Richardson, “Get the boys
together! I want to talk to them.”

Malone was impatiently tapping
the desk, when. the men filed into
the room. He said bluntly, ‘Fellows,
we've got our work cut out for us.
Bill Weiss has been kidnapped.”

He paused thoughtfully, then
continued, “That can mean gang
warfare, unless an out-of-town mob
pulled it. I’ve been talking with

Ryan nodded, “That’s right! Bill
Weiss has been staying out of the
rackets, living in the suburbs like
a gentleman commuter. Whoever
did this job hasn’t forgotten some-
thing in the past; otherwise why
would they want to pick on Weiss
at this late date?”

Two days later, Richardson again
had a “talk,” and learned that an
attempt was being made to raise 50
grand to spring Weiss.

“Which hasn’t been achieved,”
Malone smiled bleakly.

“So far $12,000 has been scraped
up toward the expected ransom de-
mand,” was Richardson’s answer.

“Still don’t know who did it, eh?”

The detective’s answer was a
worried frown.

“© Frank Wiley (left): ond Marty Farrell, who funneled thels
> way ‘out of Eastern State Penitentiary to join: forces with
“Mais: and Legenza_ in blueprinting a veritable crime wave

Harvey of the Department of Jus-
tice, and they are joining us. There’s
been a wave of snatch-murders by
gangsters out in Chicago and De-
troit. Harvey thinks this is the same
thing starting in Philly.”

His lips were thin and hard, “If
it is—oil your guns.”

Detective Lieutenant Jimmy Ryan
was sitting next to him, as he spun
in his chair, “Jimmy, I want your
men to dig into Weiss’ past, find
everything you can about those
who’ve worked with or against him.
Whoever pulled this job knows him.”

Shortly after midnight of the
same day, Richardson again kept an
appointment. He glanced down the
dark vastness of Callowhill Street,
near the Delaware River. A ware-
house and wholesale fruit district,
it was deserted and hazy with a
clammy mist off the river.

Shrugging deeper into his topcoat,
he turned up the collar, flipped
down the brim of his hat, and hug-
ging the dark, brick sidewalls
walked into the mist.

One hand nestled an automatic in
his coat pocket. As he neared the

darker shadow of an alley, a ciga-
rette glowed. The detective pressed
close against the wall, gun hand
swinging free and ready.

“Okay! Okay!” a hoarse voice
whispered.

The detective moved warily out
from the corner of the alley. Then
satisfied all was safe, he slipped
into the darkness.

By the faint glow of the lighted
cigarette, he saw the lean face of
the stoolie who told him first of the
“snatch.” Shifty-eyed with fear, the
man whispered, “Mais and Legenza
did it!”

“Who
manded.

“Frank Wiley and Marty Farrell.
But it was Mais and Legenza who
set it up. They fingered him.”

Richardson whistled softly. All
four of the men named were des-
perate killers sought by the police
of three states.

else?” Richardson de- -

ON THE phone, he quickly told
Malone what he had learned.
The chief’s reply was a pleased but
worried, “That means trouble. But
a swell job by you. Good work!”

Robert Mais and Walter Legenza
had recently blasted their way in a
hail of machine-gun bullets out of
the death house of a Virginia peni-
tentiary, where they were awaiting
execution for the murder of a truck-
driver on a hijacking job. A prison
guard had been mercilessly crum--
pled into a bullet-shattered lifeless
heap, during their escape.

The other two—Wiley and Farrell
—also had just escaped from prison.
They had crawled more than a quar-
ter-mile through the filth and slime
of a sewer to get out of the Eastern
State - Penitentiary, Philadelphia,
where they were doing time for
robbery.

The detectives already knew that
the gunmen had made a “meet” in
Philadelphia and were operating as
a gang. They had recently stuck up
a street car terminal and lifted the
$4000 payroll. This was the first
sign that they were going in for
kidnaping though it was well
known that Mais hated Weiss, still
blaming him for the death of a close
friend whom he believed was boiled,
alive in an alcohol still at Weiss’
order.

“Those two National Guard ar-
mory jobs were theirs, too,’ Malone
told his men the next morning.
“They’ve found fingerprints at both
Norristown and Hyattsville, Mary-
land. That means the gang is heavily ~
armed. They must have several hun-

‘dred rounds of ammunition, plus

about 20 machine guns and pistols.”

ILLIAM WEISS smiled as he drove up the
driveway of his suburban Philadelphia home
that October 24, But his smile was short-lived,
for as he stepped out of the car, craning to see if
anyone was watching for him from the windows, an

crazy eyes, sidled up to George Richardson, one of
the Philadelphia Detective Bureau’s “Little Mob.”
Richardson, whose prowess with a machine gun made
him feared by the so-called tough guys of the under-

BY LARRY SPRINGFIELD

world, frowned as he heard, “Weissy’s been snatched!”
Back at headquarters, Chief of Detectives James H.

At the detective’s nod, the chief exploded into action.
Grabbing the Phone, he ordered, “Get me Harvey at
the Department of Justice.”

R. George Harvey was regional director of J. Edgar
Hoover’s Division of Investigation of the Department

While two officers stopped firing to
ascertain how badly the women were
hurt, the third continued to pump death
dealing lead at the cornered mobster:


Nicknamed "Big Nose," William Weiss
was now living the quiet, peaceful life
of a suburban gentleman. But that didn't
stop gang vengeance, relentless and ter-
rible, from finally catching up with him.

“Tll break out the automatic
rifles,” Ryan said grimly. ,

The detective chief nodded agree-
ment, adding, “Better use the arm-
ored car.”

The same day, J. Edgar Hoover
announced from Washington that
the Department of Justice was mov-
ing into the case under his personal
direction. He stated that the Weiss
kidnaping was only the opening
move by eastern gangsters entering
the kidnaping game now that their
bootlegging revenue was stopped by
the repeal of prohibition. é

As a result, five of the Depart-

ment’s top men were brought to:

Philadelphia from Chicago and New
York to work with Malone’s men.

Harvey followed up with a news-
paper release naming Mais as “Pub-
lic Enemy No. 1.”

Then came the whisper, “Mais and
Legenza have killed him.”

On the night of December 14, de-
tective headquarters was tense with
the knowledge of impending action.
Malone and the “Little Mob,” with
the federal agents, were cruising in
armored cars in the neighborhood
of the suspected gang headquarters
near 6th & Bristol streets. Other
police cars cruised nearby, ready
for immediate action.

“We'll get Mais and Legenza, to-
night,” one officer said in a tone
that was grim. “They were seen

df:

Walter Legenza (left), and Robert Mais, as tough a duo as ever blasted their
way out of prison in a hail of machine gun bullets, made a fatal mistake
when they decided to add kidnaping to their long list of ruthless crimes.

The lighted windows of the spacious, well-kept house which “Big Nose"
loved, beamed a friendly welcome as he stepped out of his car that fatat
December night. But the next moment, everything blacked out for him.

here less than two hours ago. So
far they haven’t entered the house
we have spotted, but when they do,
we'll land on them like a ton of
bricks!” '

Harvey sat alerted for action, his

eyes following the -headlights of .a_

car that swung ahead of them onto
Fifth street, and came to a sudden
stop. Drawing close, the detectives
saw it was a taxicab and two men
were busily shoving heavy suitcases
into the rear seat.

The men hurriedly entered the
cab as the police car passed. With
a whir of tires skidding on ice, the
taxi started and swung around the
corner. Malone ordered sharply,
“Follow them close.”

They threaded the dark resi-
dential streets, then turned abruptly
toward the Wayne Junction station

of the Reading Railroad. As the cars
came to a halt, Malone and his men
jumped from the armored car, ma-
chine guns ready. The two men
stepping from the cab, glanced their
way, then raced into the station.
“That’s Mais!” MaJone exclaimed,
and raced up the station steps shout-
ing to the others to follow him as
the gangsters rounded a corner.
But the gangsters turned into a
tunnel and separated. The detec-
tives, too, broke up, some going after
Mais, the others after his partner.
Mais raced across one end of the
station, his automatic rifle spitting
wickedly. Malone fired a short burst
in reply, then stopped. Two women
came out of an enclosure and into
the line of fire. Jerking around at
sound of the firing, their mouths
dropped with surprise, then sud-

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THE HISTORY OF
SALEM COUNTY
NEW JERSEY

THE OLDEST ENGLISH SPEAKING SETTLEMENT
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328 HISTORY OF SALEM

i ) inted with pride to the
amsey at Centerville. The veterans pointe !
es that J. S. Kiger, then the state assistant adjutant-general,

was a Salem boy. Another Salem boy who made good on the ~

ic side was Dr. W. C. Cattell, president of Lafayette
ete Easkin Pa. In the hunt for notables came also the
revelation that Jonathan Ingham, the son of the Secretary Bf
the Treasury under Andrew Jackson, married Harriet Sinnic -
son of Salem and was a member of the Republican convention of

1860 which had nominated Abraham Lincoln. In the 80’s a boy |

i the Attorney Gen-
born at Quinton many years before, became the
eral of ee United States; his name was Benjamin Harris Brew-

ster.

rdette was popular in Salem. He made many speeches
ne. one of them ettered the well known words apr e
ing the Salem Oak. He said, “It is the greatest tree on the
continent and is four years older than the aro Ocean.
-timets, especially politicians, mourned the passing o
the Nelson Hose ficpny. "Prom 1849, when it was built, it or

served as a stump for politicians to lean across its Sag “a an
exhort the “dear people” in the street below. Here Joel ~ er
Leon Abbott, Jim Scovel, and the great McClellan had 5 en.
When the new balcony was erected a pint of app hu
placed in the open pillar and it remained there until 1931 when
the present owner of the Nelson House, Captain J. D. Summer-
lin, discovered it in tearing down this pera ad
rincipal event in the year of 1 was a most horrible
and econ cee. This was the murder of Ella Watson ~
August 18, 1884 and is very familiar to old Salem danas aay It
was probably the worst example of murder ever committed in
this county. Without going into the case too minutely, the main

details were these: Ella Watson lived near Gakland station, |

vnshi f August 18th, 1884,
Alloway township, and on the afternoon o
walked to Yorketown to sell some eggs and produce. A short
distance from home she passed a farmer, Charles Sickler and his
wife, the last people to see her alive. Not coming home at the

i ily larmed and near midnight a @&
expected time the family became a dn : 3
(eich was instituted and the body of the girl was found in a 4

clump of bushes along the railroad track.
The case was solved in a novel and interesting manner. Near
the young girl’s body was found a stick evidently freshly cut

from a tree. A reward was offered for knowledge of the origin 7
and location of the club. Present during this investigation near- |

d
ks after the murder, was a negro boy named Howar
Sultan of Yorketown. Hearing of the reward he led the sheriff

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SULLIVAN CASE 329

directly to a tree not far from the scene and pointed out a newly
severed branch.

The speed with which Sullivan designated the tree was
sufficient to arouse the suspicions of the police. Sullivan was
immediately arrested and taken to Salem. Later a small color-
ed boy produced a knife sold to him by Sullivan with which he
had cut the branch. Money in his possession also cast more
suspicion towards Sullivan as Miss Watson had been robbed of a
few dollars.

Sullivan’s inability to refrain from the $10 reward for the
club sent him to the gallows before the year was out. A short
time after his arrest Sullivan confessed. An interesting aspect
of the case was the planting of a Pinkerton detective in the
Salem jail under guise of a murder suspect. He talked with
Sullivan and obtained his first confessions. Later Sullivan made
several confessions in which he altered his story but finally
pleaded guilty.

Justice Reed heard the case and decided there were no
mitigating circumstances to save the confessed murderer from
the gallows. He accordingly sentenced him to be hung at Salem
on December 2nd, 1884.

Following his conviction and sentence Sullivan was placed
in the hospital room of the jail. The convicted prisoner was
anchored with a ball and chain, but when a short time before the
execution the sheriff set the death watch and attempted to un-
lock the fetters, he fotind the lock so broken and twisted that

the key would not work.

The authorities also had noted the absolute indifference of
the convict and had judged that something was wrong. Upon
close examination they found that Sullivan had broken the chain
around his ankles and had temporarily bound it with wire, which
enabled him to dispense with his shackles at his pleasure.

All of this was noticed three days before the date set for
the hanging. Finally, under pressure from police officers, Sulli- .
van told a story that sounded like a tale from the Arabian Nights.

The story is best told in Sullivan’s own words, copied from .
the files of the Salem Sunbeam for December Sth, 1884:

“I pried off the ventilator with a bed Screw afiter piling several boxes on
top of each other. The light was out and people from the street could not
See me. | got on top of the boxes and picked at the laths with a knife. That
is all | did that night. The next night, I broke the lath in two, the nails came
out of the slates with the laths: | pushed the slates to one side and got up on
the roof; I could have jumped down on the cedar tree in the yard but I was
afraid | would fall and kill myself and go to hell and I would rather be

ed than that. For several nights | would come out on the roof and look
at the town lights. I was out on Wednesday, the night of the parade and saw

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HISTORY OF SALEM

330 ;
: 5 ery pretty. I
i ion all over town below me. It was Very, PT

roe ihe blight Ejeming saW me as he looked TO cme “ pe : hee

ight 1 *clock when I got up 0 : :

et eT dike saitight before I eee ee ig oa ay Eat

. : bd e ’ ut 0 c a 1 :

tte . to Friday mo ghtning rod but found it broken. That night, Friday

cted :

the 28th, the guards were put a my eg ue oe mene knife which she

two weeks. A girl in
patie up through a crack in th
knife on it, I drew it up.

rade he referred | .
aéth of Movember, celebrating the election 0

e oe ea fall, Sheriff Clinton Kelty a ee hampae
anne Sullivan. The plans were better carrie ou

pen at the Treadway case and th idiy SS es

cluded. The new jail had been tht ne

. £ the surroga ;
mg took eae oe yes tye test execution in Salem county.

on December 2nd. It was
* * % *

r lighted by gas made its appearance in

"ary pbuilding on West
The Salem Library Sa aa Mele

e floor. 1 lowered a string and she tied the

the
hat of the Democrats on
soon £ Grover Cleveland

The first railroad ca

lem in April, 1884. 1 :
paws was erected in this same yeai.

eee history of a library in Salem goes back aD se se ae
circulating library was started in an old house 0

It was incorporatec -
Tneham acd Brown Buildings until the p”
built. ee

ther important event in _was
cee Society which has rendered incaicu
service in preserving for future times
Fenwick’s Colony. The Society ae Oo
House (built in 1714) and has the
pieces in the state ae ae Jersey
fternoon of August Y, :
heaior Revved in the form of a tornado which hit the

steamer in the Delaware river Op

at 3 P. M. with sixty passenger
eared almost without warning,
‘jot house into the river. ee ;
from the pilot house and his body recc
Gloucester Point. Captain

did the other passengers. The upper framework

d the morbidiy curious were €X-_

ime in the
i 72 and housed for a tine 10
sarees ae esent structure was

was the founding of the
lable and invaluable

the priceless records of
wns the Alexander Grant
nest collection of museum

saw disaster strike the
a Salem
posite Gloucester a.
j i before, ieft Arch Street a
boat had, just some few minutes Beet ike ee
lifting the upper deck and the
Townsend, pilot, was swept
vered two days later at

eybold escaped injury .as
ed of the boat —

PROGRESS IN THE 80's 331

was completely ruined but the crew and passengers were safely
taken off shortly after the accident.

One of Salem’s needs in the 80’s was a new cemetery. The
graveyards of the various faiths were overcrowded. Several
public spirited men discussed the problem, offered stock-for sale
and purchased a tract known as the Quinton Keasbey farm on
the outskirts of Salem for this use. It was named East View.
It is today one of the most beautiful and well kept burial grounds
in this section. The company kindly offered free ground in the
cemetery on which to erect a monument to the founder, John
Fenwick, but unfortunately the plans never came to fruition.

To add to the antiquity of the new cemetery, Superintendent
John Lawson secured four old tombstones and set them anew.
They may be seen today immediately back of the keepers lodge.
Three are of marble and one is of sandstone and the inscriptions
are perfectly legible. They formerly marked tombs in a family
graveyard of the Van Meters on Alloways Creek.

Churches were still being erected. There was a new Meth-
odist Chapel at Canton, and a new one at Pennsville, in which
was placed a bell weighing 800 pounds, given by an anonymous
donor. At Penton, in Alloway’s Township a non-denominational
chapel was built in 1882. Services have been held in this church
continuously ever since.

Industrial notes predominated in the news for 1887. Craven
Brothers shipped the first load of glass direct from their works
and in addition built a new tank. The Elmer Shoe Manufactur-
ing Company was organized with a capital of -$10,G00. Fogg and
Hires at Quinton illuminated their canning factory with gas and
arranged to cap cans by the same means. The factory of the
Fitzhugh Manufacturing Company at Centreton burned to the
ground with a loss of over $10,000 but within three weeks was
being rebuilt. A new creamery with the latest machinery start-
ed at Richmantown and another one at Monroeville. Benjamin
Borton started a butter factory ii Woodstown. Borton is
better remembered as a writer than as a butter manufacturer

‘because it was he who wrote and published “Awhile with the

Blue,” his personal recollections of service at Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville in the Civil War. This splendid story of the
Twenty-fourth New Jersey Regiment is well worth reading.

_ Most people recall 1888 as the year of the great snow. The
blizzard was just as severe in Salem county as it was elsewhere.
The railroads were blocked for days and the county roads were

impassable. For nearly a week Salern was cut off from the rest
of the world.

”

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eet


Published with Funds from

Friends of the Society,

the Estate of Edward J. Grassmann, i 19TH-CENTURY NEW JERSEY MURDERS
and an Anonymous Gift j | ;
Dedicated to the Memory of |
Delia Brinkerhoff Koster

Introduced by
JOHN & CUNNINGHAM

With a Bibliography by
‘DONALD A. SINCLAIR

NEWARK 1982
New Jersey Historical Society


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verdict: of! guilty.’ Judge Garrison: - sentenced
Warner to bahungon March 15th, 1893,.but his
counsel appealed to. the,Stpteme court for a new
trial; one of the grounds for which was that the
jury had erred in visiting the scene of the: crime
without permission from. the conrt, notwithstand-

ing the righs of objection bad been waived duriag |. ri

the trial whem the fact was disclosed to the coart.
Tha Supreme court, . however,’ refused a new trial
in November, 1893, apd in June, 1894, the Court
of Errors: and Appeyls also declined .to order a

new trial..: On the 9ah of July. Warner was again
sentenced the date df bie execution being fixed
on Septentber 6b; | After thas an appeal was

made to the. Board: of — bub wun

avail, |

“Warner Executed

At exactly thirty-six minutes. after ton
o’clock on Thursday morning, | Wesley War-
ner, despite: his oft-repeated assertions that he
would escape the death penalty, ‘was execat:d.
~ Sheriff Townserd. ; The assy a was
reapect @ successful one |...

Tha evening before Warner had a sien
ence with his ‘tor3e brothers; - ‘Bert, Wilbar and:
Clarence, who tried to impress upon. his mind
the fact that his. hours were- numbered, —_

the right thing. '

Then the visitors departed, ‘end Warner
went to bea. As.two o "clock inthe morning
at wh: ob t time be need to » be in the bent pos-
sible hunioy.? Then be Jaid, down on his cot
and slept until nearly seven o'clock, when: he-
arose, dressed himself aud ate a hearty
breakfast of eggs and . coffee, which be
acemed to enjoy thoronghly....He then lay
down on his cot for ‘a rest and had
a long talk with his - ‘religions adviser,
Rav. J. Madison Hare, of Burlington, who
urged upon him the necessity of preparing
for eternity. This seemed to impress the
pr soner very much. He listened attentively
and ut the couclusion of tbe address said he
realized that he was @ sinner, but that. he
hoped to be saved throug the meroy*
of God. There .was a period of silence after
this daring which time--- Warner seemed

‘to be completely cannerved, and trembled

violently. One of the constables took hold of
his hand t> compose him, and noticed that he’
seemed surcharged with electricity. . Ina few
moments the prisoner became more calm, the
color returaed to his face, and, a8 faras any
one coull observe, he was perfectly composed.
Toon he made a few farewell remarks.to. his
friend G. W. Lewis, Jr. ’ who jotted them
down on & piece of paper. By this time. Rev.
Mr. Hare was almost prostrated by the painful
daty devolving upon him, | but he neverthe-
less remained at his post. . :

At twenty-five. minutes past ten Sheriff
Townsend entered the corridor; accompanied
by Sheriff Barrett, of Camden county, ex-:
Sheriff Harbert, Jobn B, Tswnsend and a rep-

; resentative of Tus Heratp. Warner was
fonud lying on his cot with his head near the™
call door. ‘Come, Wesley, get yourself :
ready,’’ suid the Sheriff, in a kindly tone, ;

a a for your execution.” .

Warner quietly nroge to his feet as the cell
door was opened and faced the officers, who
@irected bim to put on his shoes, Con-
stibles Brown aud.-Claypool were prevent
to ag3st ‘him, but he quietly sat down
on bis cot, put on his shves and laced
them up nunassistad. ‘This took but a
shoit time after which he stood up while tbe
two coostables manaclel bis hands babind
him. As he stepped out in the corridor the
Sheriff urged him t» bear the ordeal manfally,”
as it could not-ba helped. Warner nodded as-.
sent. The sheriff next put the black cap on
his-head, loopiug it over his forehead, 60 that
it did not interfere with his vision, Warner-
waa apparently es cool and collected as any
ene present. , ‘There was some color in his face,”
his eyes were clear and he seemed perfectly
ritional, “Lo ofticer Brown be remarked thas.
he realized that his end -was near, but every
one remarked. that he didn’t act se. BY;
seemed like one dazed," "'*"” roy

The wondeiuned man then ‘marched down
stairs preceded by the Sheriff.and his. ‘assist
ants. Cotstable Brown and: Claypool walked-
on either side of him, but-- ‘tney did not have
to aid bim. « At the end of the corridor a halt.
was miade when the. Sheriff. read.,the sentence
of the court to the prisoner, and pouclnset by
telling him to die like a man... -:

“Have you anything to say before going vd ’
the gallows?”’ asked the Sheriff..-

After a moment’ 8 hesitation Warner, in a
ow tone of ‘voice that was scarcely . audible, .
said, ‘Mr. Hare is my saviour,-I- am his only
begotten suv. He will save me. He left his
only begotten son to save me. About my
tral I want to say my plea was intoxication.
Dr. Melcher told me I could say what I want-
ed to. I am of German descent, and my |
mot cher was of German descent. My connsel , |
Charles K. Chambers, is not here, 80 I'll talk
for myself. If there’s anythiag you want to-
say to me all right. My mother was taken
befure ‘the Governor, and she. talked for me,”

Af er a moment's silence the Sheriff asked,
“Are you throngh?’’ --Warner nodded his ||
head; and all started for the gallows, the pris- |
oner with head erect and’ showing no sign of
weakness, When the gallows was reached.
Rev, Mr, Hare was unable. to endure the or- |.
deal and walked back to the’ office, Warner’|'
ascended the steps without a tremor, and was |:
Girected to stund directly over the.{!rop. He
aid so witbont a moment's hesitation, where-
upon constable Brown and Claypool pinioned
his legs together with a strap. made especially.
for the purpose. As soon a8 this was done’
the black cup #28 pulled down over his face
ani secured.‘ All he’ said was, ‘‘Gentlemen,
you'll by sorry for this. “Good bye Mr. Hare!
Good bye Mr. Brown!” "

At 10,36 the trap was ‘sprang by the Sheriff
and with a thod the body shot through the
opening where it hung almost motionless. A,
suppressed groan was heard and all was still.
For a second or two bis: fingers worked con-
valsively and then stopped, Four minutes
later Dr. Molcher reported there was po per-
ceptible pulse, and at-10.47$ the heart bad
ceused. beating, and he was pronounced dead.
Nevertheless the body remained suspended for
thirty minutes, ‘after which it was tiken down..
The face was considerably discolored.and there |
wag a small qnantity of blood in the nostrils.
Loe eyes were slightly bloodshot." Death was

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The jury who viewed the execution there-.
npop signed a certificate to be presented to’
the court. The body was carried to a. table
by RG. Dudley, Dr. I. O. Barrington, LE. F,

Benners and Stacy B. Taylor where tbe rope
was removed, Is waa then: handed over to
undertaker Slack, of Burlingtoo, who put it:
in bis wagon and took it to. W -rner’s home in.
Burlington where tbe faneral will bs held on
S-tarday, + ’

There wns a large crowd in. front of the jail
whie the executiou w 8 going on, bat they
were orderly and the guards had no trouble
with them. : ¢ fans : :

Sheriff Townsend performed his duty well
and every one present commanded him for it,
A better arranged execution: probably. never
took piace in the stile. - : i

Those present at the execation were Evan F,
Bennere, Dr. R. C. Barrington, Earl Forsyth,
William F. Morgan, Wilham J. Lrick, Dr. Wil-
liam H. Shipps, Alfred Wills, Stacy B. Taylor,
John H. Croshaw, Richard- G. Dudley, Cnarles
H. .Pittman, George A. Allison. These above
named were all appointed by the court, ‘I'hose
present as special deputies were Samuel P, Cline,
Dr. R. H. Parsons, Samuel -R. Ware, Josiab P.
Borden, Howard P. Hancock, Jacob Braddock, :
William Rogers, Louis R. Hibberd, Winfield 8. :
Gale, Charlies P. Challender, Benjamin R. Powell,
Jr., Joseph G, Bower, Sheriff George Barrett, of |
Camden county, Dr. W.. K. Mattern, of Phila-
delphia, and ex-Sbveriff George F, Harbert.

‘Tne representatives. of the medical profession
were Dr. W. P. Melcher and Dr, Joho J. Fiyna.

Tooze preseat aa the represenative of the fam-
ily of the condemned mano were Charles ‘R. Fen-
ton. G. W. Lewis, Jr., of Burlington and: C, 8.
Rideway, of Lumberton... ed “ee

Tho represenatives of the. press were: William
L. Powell, of the Mirror; George: W. Hand, of
the News; Harry S. Prickist, of the Burlington
Enterprise; Dr. R. B. Glasgow, of the Burlington |
Gazette, aud o representative of THE HERALD, |

J. Madisuo Hare,. of- Burlin}}on, Was pregent.!
as religicua adviser. : alan

. Tho guards were George H: Brangon, John Jj. ;
Severas, Thomas GO. MecNinney, Barziilai L.;
Thompson,” Harry B. Ridgway,... Harley... Jobes,-
Samuel Hullings, Martian J. Fitzpatrick, William |
Comp, David MeDowell, Walter Broom, Howard?
W. Sbinn, Joho McCue, Edward Lawrenoe, Aaron:

l E. Barr, Elwood Watson, Joha M. Thorn, Albert ‘

,once during the night for a smoke, after which
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‘a lead color, and looking stroug enough iv. bear
almost any weight that could be-placed on it. It
, Was constracted by O. R. Appleton, of Mouut

Platform is eight feet, aud from the fioor td the

‘all. The platform‘on which -steod the Sheriff, bis
‘aasistants and the condemned man,’ was seven

‘the other, This gave ample. room, At. the side
of the gallows are two uprights from: which the

. The opening in-the platform is 344 feet eqnare.
: Eleven steps lead up to the platform. The drop

V. Horner, Jobn Demorers, Eamiltou Gaul:
Wednesday afternoon Sueriff ‘Lownaed went to
Warner's cell aud-toid hiuy-to- prepare tor his
dvom on the morrow, and to give him as little |
trouble as possible. At the same time the Sheriff
banded him a suit of clothés that had just been
purchased for him, telling him to take a bath an
fix bimeelf up neatly tor the ordeal on the mor—
row, 4 ;
At the sight of the clothes Warner's facy lights
ed upinstantly. ‘‘They’re first-rate he said ad-
miringly, a3 he surveyed them, ‘Then he tried.
them Go and seemed very much satistied with ev-'
erytbing except the fit of the coat, which seemed a
trifle too large. ‘*Lhey’re food enough for anyune
Sheriff,” he said. Now get. mea collar and neck-
tie and I'll be fixed all right, All I ask is you |.
won’t hurt my friend, Rev, Mr. Hare, who is goiag
to stand up with me. TEES =r ‘
The Sheriff assured bin) that Mr. Hare wonld
not be huct. Then be left, us he saw Warner was
more pleased with the clotzea than be supposed:
aoy humsn beiog would be under the circumstane
ces, eS i ,
Later on Warner was paid ‘a farewell visit by
his three brothers, who came over. in a carriage
from Burliagton io the evening and remained
several hours.. Warner syemed very much aff2ct-
ed by the interview, bus later.on recovered his

,

The gallows was a substantisl affair, ‘painted
Holly. ‘The distance from ‘thé’ ground to’ the
Cross beam is eight feet. ‘There are six posta in
feet six inches one.way.and nine feet six inches

rops is'wnapended with‘aldoubdle, book 10. the. end.

is Operated by & lever’ which drawa the bolts av-
ter the trap. ;‘The rope oxed waa. 5¢ of an- iach
to diameter, but. was stretched su that it: only
mersured‘half an. ‘ioch.  .Warner wae 5 -feetr 3

inches in height, aud: weighed about.133 tom J}

'

Tae crime for which Warner paid tue pepotty :
was committed on ths outekinta ofsMount Holy:
oo thé Shot Seprember, ESO > tis Vigil Wag
Lizzis Pak, danctter of Josep Peak. Sb+ esme:
to Mount Holly oon Saturday ‘mghs, September
17th, to wituexs a performance i tue opers house
in company with hee two sisters, Amanda aod
Katie Penk, After it was over they met Tuomas
Sbiun, Harry Matiack and ‘Chéster Stroad; whe |
escorted them home. cee

At the approach of the git!, without a word bay-
ing been euid to arouse bis anger, he: sroae from
behind the bush, cooily walked. down the line of
people, and, after he. had made. cure which was |

: Lizzie, with an oath’ co bis. lips, spreng to ber |

‘ side and pluoged the Knifein. ber breast.

_ Upon this night, Lizzie-bad- on her sister's bat.

‘and cape, so had he not have bat the possession
of bis'miod and faculties; Amanda Peak would
bave been the victimiustead of Lizzie, His slow-

posseseion:of his mind aud faculties, , c

Occurrence, substituting an unknowa man for
bimself, ‘ He next tried) to’ g6t a horse at Van-
sciver's, aud gave ag an‘excove for his eagerness
to.get away, that be bad ‘been’ stabhed. " A: few
minutes after this, when seen 6h Water street and
bailed by Bryan:as to who, be is,.be shrewdly dis-}
arma suspicion by saying: .::My name. is. Jones,
and I'm aftera doctor... Atter baving tried. io:
: vain to get in his friend--Durand’s honee, as a:

Frank Powell's. and when. admitted there, tells
them of the whole occurrence. While there he
produces a half-pint bottle of ‘whiskey, balf full,
which is full;of rignificatce ‘from the fact phat
when at Peak’s, before the tragedy, he had pro-
duced the same bottle half full. ..Tbis shows con-
clnsively, that from the time he lofi. the Pesk
house until reaching Powell's, ke bad‘ not taken
a single drink, and, everfat ‘Powell’s ke placed
the bortle on the table wifbout tduching it to bis
lips. The next. morning, afer vainly eudeavor-
ing to get a team, be goes.to his friend Wimley's
and tells bim he bas killed. Lizzie. In reply to
Wimley’s suggestion that-‘there are other women
in tha world beside Lizzis, he replies, “Nong like
,; her forme.” - pee oe
Warner's version of ‘the affair was that after
getting in-the wagon ‘at Burizagton on this Sate
urday, he remembers nothing outil he saw Lizzie
Peak at tbe Aronde hotel, Monnt Holly. He does
not know where be got ont of the wagon. doesu't
remember how he got down the street, but. when }
he seeds Lzzie, suddenly, remembers the conver- |
satico he bad with her, remembers her auavwers, |j
boticrs she bad not on herowna hat. After meet |i
ivg the Peaka that pigbt;:be forgets everything ||
that was said on the way outs remembers nothing |
in particnlar about-convérsation while there, bus
is able to give in.inivatess detail what led up to |i
his statement, “We will vee which will tive ibe
looxest, Uer-orome.” L on'c remombverrbeie going
to bed and’ don't kuow ‘whether they did.. R--
members knife is on tha table; rercembera picking
itup, putting itin bis pucker; bow be put it. au |
‘with the baudle down, and. why. be. put it in. f!
Thes forgets everything wutil be bears.a scream,
when bo finds himself on-the: road lying. dowu: |:
Recognizz3 voice ag: tuabof Lizzte, recoxuizer }!
dreee, and remémbera then he had noticed at the |
Arcade hotel early in the evening that she had on
a different hat., Remembers that he raised ‘up,
and that while raisiog up be.pulled the koife ont |
ot bis pocket, and xo well-was this last fact im |
pressed on bis raemory tbat he was able to show
the jury exactly bow it was done.’ Remembers
then advancing towards’ Lizzie, making a thrnst
at her, but don’t kuow whether be bit her.) Re-
members fleeing from crime,.and that.as bd fled,
he saw ber Jying on the road... Remembers, as he.
saw her lying there, how -sprry he felt for jwhat

she bad doce at the fair. -** oto Ee
Here ia an extract frota’ Warners ‘testimony at
the trisly pe ek .
Q. t You say you feit sorry for what. bad’ bap.
| peued ? wT geen aR

"A. “LT alwaya‘have., deereee fy.) f. ee:
Q. When did you. firat-begin .to feel jsorry

about it? : woe iene 4 : if
. A. From the time I saw her‘iying there. .
* Q > ‘Tbeu when you saw ber: lying there you
| felt sorry for what you bad Gépe?#% 096 Jos >

. the way ohe bad treated big) at the fuir groauds,

, Decvsddery for bim vw kill her'to satisfy himself,

., Tae motive for the crima wae here, and nothing

A, Ididn’t know that I bad done anythin, |

Q. Whats cid you feel surry for? |

A. I thought that Lhad. I fels bad over the.
way she tad treated me, 5

Q. You wers still teehog.badly over the way |
she bad treated you wheu you saw hor lyiug
there; were you? “8

A. Over the way she‘had treated me on the}

‘ .
fair grounds; yea, sir. /

Q. That was still in yone’ mind; was it ?

A. Yovs, sir. rn “ .

Io this we bave the key.to.the whole case. The
deed iy dove, sud the crimiual ia flecing from the
scene of the crime. He sees the budy of bis vic-
tim, lying by the road side, still sod euld ip
desth. ‘ He bas uo reimurse on aceount of the
deed, but op account of the canse which impelled
it. ‘ os .
From his own statements ther, this blow was
not struck from any sudden impulse, nor because
of any uucoutrollavle desire, vut on account of

aud that thougut was still rankliog ia his bosom. ,
ag be vaw ner prostrate body.ou the pround, ‘s
Although not married; fur a number of yeara
Weoley’ Warner aud Lizzie Pesk had lived toyethe
eras busvaud end wife. As » results of this
union, a warm attachment had develuped in tte
heart of Warner for thin women. ‘Lhoie life to-
wether had been pleasaai, except as occusiousi
fity:of jealousy, apou the- parc of Warner, bad
Marred their Dappiacss. ‘At tae fair grouuds, ou
Thursday, agsiugt bis Xpress command she bad
gone aronud with other‘méo. ‘nis so angered’
him that be euyayed in a. fizht with these meu,
In which be was-bacly beaten. On Thursday
night, as Lizzie and ber sisters were goiug home
in cumpany with two men; he passed them on the
streét,. aud ‘secreting bimseit- bebiud a post
Watched them as they passed by.” ;
Ou Friday bis jealousy bad become 30 great. be
declared be was going.to Kili ber for playing him
dict. Ou Saturday uight, iu the convereativun ate
the Peak house be.told Mra..Peak he was afraid
Lizzia was going to leave bim.. £$. 73 4,
Ail these things show ceuclusively that’ the.
demon of jysiously was. aroused, and evcu afier
the fatal Liow is struck, be bas no sympachy or
sorrow for the dead girl lying on the ground, bub
Ouly regret that she bad n3ed him so that it wes

Lo Wimley he stated theré was no other girl
like ber for bin. , :

With bim. jestousy had turned love to hate,
and waat hatred i more bitter: than love ouce
turned to bate ? :

Would Lave satistied the reveugstul spirit, whico
jealousy bad aroased, but the life blood of tbe |
girl he once loved. ° a5 we

The knife with which the deed was done be- ji
longed to the mother of the nurdered girl. Ware |
ver had been out at the house that viglt ‘to see
her, sud was ioformed that she was duwo ia the
town. He ssid be would swait ner return, aod
sat in the diniog room talking with her parents
until they became sleepy-»od wens to bed, leav-
iug bim sitiiug in. the room. -After they were
gone he procured the carving kuife from -the
dresser, shipped out inthe darkness and there lay
in wait for his victim. - 4

* Warner waa a married man, and had a wifeand
children living ia Burlington, but he bad refused
to support them, and bad been leading adissolnte |
life. When.in liquor he was always ready for
fight, aud boasted of his atmlity asa fighter. He |
was frequevtiy seen in M.ouus Aoliy where be
used to buckster shad, vegetanles, Kes!"

Since be bas been in jail be baav given the
Sheriff no eud of troubles: He was charzed with
trying to brain Dopuiy Sheriff Reeves witha’ bile
let of wood, aud theu eedupe from-jail,) }

Daniel Ryan, a Burlington. tramp, claimed ‘to
have been told all about.tbe plan by Warner, but
the latter-denied it vehemeotly, and said it was a
lie gotren.up by Ryan to prejadica people against
Since then he bag been confined in ‘another cell’
on the north side of the. jail, and since: the sen-
tence of death: was passed op him be has been
closely 'watcued night: and day by constaodles
Claypoole agd Brown ' ta prevent his escaping or
makiog way with himeelf. . . "s

As far a8 ‘any ove could: see the prisoner ‘haa }
experieoced :no remorse for. bis crime, or ;shown
aoy desire to receive the consolation of religion,
Tue only miaister he hav shown any! marked io-
clination for was Rev. J. Madison Hure, of Bur-
lington, who called upou bim frequeutly, acd
who was with him at the laet. Ip all bis: couver-
sations With those who.called npon him) Warner
expressed the belief’ that he-would. escape the
gallows; that by some unexpected event his |ife
would be saved, hee ~

a we. ee ’

Wasser’s Try,
Warner was indicted 2t the September term of
court, 1892, but was not tried untit the Decem-
ber term. Prosecutor Eckard P.-Budd appeared
on bebalf of the state. _Cbarles K. Chambers ang
Charles E, Hendrickson for the defense. The
trial lasted for oyer four days, and resylted in 4

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Questioned by police, he denied guilt.

Then suddenly the youth turned and gave a frightened
glance up and down the road. It was deserted. It was possible
that it might be another half hour before a car would pass—
so early on a Sunday morning there was little traffic on the
side road leading from Mantua to Wenonah. He wet his
dry lips nervously with the tip of his tongue. He ought to
go down there, he told himself. The girl might still be alive.
It might not be too late...

All at once he could stand the uncertainty no longer. He
swirled about and started, running down the road toward
the Woodbury highway. There was a house a few hundred
yards away.

A house and a telephone.

The call came through to the Berlin Barracks of the New
Jersey State Police. State Trooper J. C. Smith listened to
the excited, slightly incoherent message, then ordered sharp-
ly, “Go back and stay there until the police arrive. Don’t
let anybody near the body!”

He immediately then put through calls to the Gloucester
County sheriff's office and to the police department of the
neighboring town of Woodbury.

Less than fifteen minutes later, official cars began to con-
verge on the narrow bridge where the youth waited in white-
faced apprehension. First to arrive was State Trooper Smith,
followed shortly by County Sheriff Jacob Tryon. A moment
later County Detective Andrew J. Scott drove up, accom-
panied by Coroner Atlee B. Adams.

The coroner went directly to the body and began his
examination. Sheriff Tryon turned his attention on the
young man.

“You the one who reported this?”

“Yes sir.”

“How’d you know she was dead?”

“I didn’t.” The boy swallowed and seemed to have diffi-
culty finding the right words. “I said she looked kind of
dead. I had a feeling .. .”

Tryon stared at him through narrowed eyes, then de-
manded abruptly, “What’s her name?”

“I don’t know. I never saw her before.”

In answer to further prodding questions, he said vaguely
26

POLICE DRAGNET

New Jersey detectives are shown examining the car one suspect burned.

that he had just happened to be crossing the bridge, and
just happened to look down along the banks of the creek
and so. had discovered the body. He added that he lived in
nearby Woodbury, and reluctantly gave his address.

The sheriff studied him with faint suspicion. “That’s about
four miles from here. Just how did-you happen to be walking
around ont here at daybreak?”

He stammered, “I like to take long walks. I do it all the
time. Sundays in particular...”

Tryon grunted dubiously. The answers were far from
satisfactory, but their truth was something that could be
checked later. At least the frightened boy appeared honest.

T WAS at that moment that Coroner Adams finished his

preliminary examination of the dead girl.

“Someone wanted to make certain she was done for,” he
said as he straightened up. “Believe it or not, she could
have been murdered in any one of three ways!”

Tryon stared at him. “What's that again?”

The coroner repeated his statement, adding, “Take a look
for yourself. The girl could have died from a fractured skull.
Or from strangulation. Or from either one of two bullet
wounds.”

With a frown, Tryon stepped closer, stared intently down
as Coroner Adams pointed out his findings. The girl’s black,
wavy hair was thickly matted with blood and her face badly
bruised.

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“She was brutally beaten about the head and her skull
fractured,” Adams said. “From the amount of blood cover-
ing her scalp, I'd say that happened first. Then the strangu-
lation.’ He indicated two strands of wire drawn so tightly
about the girl’s neck that they were almost lost in the flesh.

Finally there were the two bullet wounds,.one through
the left temple and the other just above the heart.

The sheriff's face settled into grim lines. ‘“‘How long ago
would you say it took place?”

“From six to ten hours ago.”

“Was she raped?”

The coroner shrugged. ‘“‘No outward signs of it.”

Tryon sighed, and again stared down at the lifeless figure.
It was not possible now to tell whether the girl had been
pretty or not, but her figure was young and attractive. Her
nylon stockings were sheer and flesh-colored and from one
foot dangled a high-heeled, black suede slipper.

But the other slipper was nowhere to be found. Neither
was the girl’s purse, if she had had one.

It was Detective Scott, searching through the bushes along
the river bank beneath the bridge, who came up with the
one mystifying find. He held it aloft as he called. Tryon’s
attention to it.

A cardboard ‘container of fresh oysters!

Tryon frowned. It didn’t make sense, but neither did the
wanton brutality of the three-way murder. He turned back
to an examination of the girl's (Continued‘on page 50)

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of the Indore Air Force, K. Ponde, the
Maharajah’s aide-de-camp, a high-rank-
ing military officer named Mustafa, the
adjutant-general of the army, and the
chauffeur of the murder car.

With Sergeant-Major Shafi Ahmed,
who was already a captive, the round-
up was complete.

HE trial of the six accused killers

was set for April 27th, 1925, All
had been quickly indicted for the mur-
der of Abdul Bawla.

Pre-trial statements were taken from
each of the prisoners. Not by so much
as a whispered hint or suggestion did
any one of them seek to incriminate the
royal ruler of Indore.

“It was a personal feud between
Bawla and ourselves that led to the
brawl,” Dighe declared blandly. “We
were not acting under orders. We were
merely a group of gentlemen seeking
to uphold our honor.”

With equal blandness Dighe was re-
minded that none of the accused killers
was even known to the murdered man.
In what way was the matter of honor
involved?

Dighe, as spokesman for the group,
merely shrugged.

“It is quite personal,” he said vaguely,

“Did it concern Mumtaz Begum?”
he was asked,

The officer’s lips curled into a ges-
ture of contempt. :

“She is just a nautch dancer who
will wind up her days dancing on street
corners,” the man said contemptuously.

“Did the Maharajah consider her a
common dancer?” a questioner asked
tartly.

“She had nothing to do with the
fight,” said the prisoner stubbornly.

HE celebrated trial opened in the
city of Bombay as scheduled, before
Mr. Justice Crump. It was to drag out
for four long weeks. Hundreds of wit-

nesses were examined, among them the
70 from the province of Indore.

Mumtaz Begum took the witness
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by angry, unhealed wounds and dozens
of tiny pin-point marks showing where
the stitches had been sewn to hold
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upon her. ‘

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On May 23rd, the jury was given the
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Captain Sham Rao Dighe and Ser-
geant-Major Shafii Ahmed were sen-
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feur of the death automobile were sen-
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After conviction all of them vehe-
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Bawla and the dancer those who were
concerned in it acted purely on their
own. initiative. ;

The scandal, however, had shaken
the monarch’s throne, so that, on Feb-
ruary 27, 1926, he surrendered it to
his 17-year-old son, Prince Yeshwant.

Thus the Oriental potentate who was
eager to shower priceless baubles upon
the jeweled feet of a dancing girl was
thus impelled to give up his throne.

Some months later the Maharajah
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In January, 1928, his engagement was
announced to a Salt Lake City girl.
The following year at Indore their mar-
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ceremonies,

SLAIN TEENAGER IN LANE
(Continued from page 27)

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clothing in the hopes of finding: a clue
to her identity. -

That was when he found the bank-
book.

It was thrust deep in one pocket of
the black skirt. It was a small Christmas
Club deposit book, issued by the Me-
chanics’ Bank of Woodbury. It was
made out in the name Sarlo. é

A deposit had been made the day
before, October Ist, for $3.

Tryon beckoned to Detective Scott,
showed him the book and the inscribed
name. “Either we’ve got a lead to the
girl’s identity or a clue to her killer,”
he said. “You’re familiar with the town
of Woodbury. Know any family by the
name of Sarlo there?”

Scott considered for a moment, then
nodded slowly. “‘There is a family of
that name living out on North Broad
Street. One of the boys who works in
the butcher shop.” He glanced down
suddenly at the container of oysters he
was holding and added, “Now that I
think of it they sell sea food there, too.”

Sheriff Tryon came to a quick de-
cision. He turned to face Scott, with
instructions that the latter should check
the young man’s story that he had been
home all the night before and had not
lett his house until six that morning.
Then he drove into Woodbury and
sought out the Sarlo home on North
Broad Street.

The front door swung open almost
before Tryon had placed his finger on
the bell and he found himself facing
a worried looking man who quickly
identified himself and then demanded
nervously, “Is it something about Rose?

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Has she had an accident?”

Instead of answering directly, Tryon
held out the Christmas Club bankbook.

“Do you recognize this?”

The man glanced down at it quickly,
then nodded miserably. “It’s mine.
Rose had it yesterday to make my de-
posit. for me. How is it—please, what
has happened?”

As gently as he could, Sheriff Tryon
broke the news. When he described the
young girl whose body had been found,
the man broke in with a sob, “That’s
Rose. But why? Who did this thing to
her?”

To this question Sheriff Tryon had
no immediate answer. He could only
promise grimly that he intended to find
out soon.

But in the end he learned little that
seemed of positive value. Rose Sarlo,
the victim, had apparently been an un-
usually quiet girl and well-behaved
young girl. Despite the fact that she
was pretty and attractive, with a pleas-
ing figure, she had had no boy friends.

She worked in a woolen mill in
Camden, a few miles away. She taught
Sunday School in the church she at-
tended in Woodbury. For recreation
she sometimes went to the movies.

That was what she had planned to
do the previous evening. She had en-
tered the butcher shop where her fa-
ther and brother worked a little before
8:00 p.m. She had made the purchase
of the oysters, told her father she had
already made his Christmas Club de-
posit, and then had added that she was
going to the movies.

The rest of the family had retired
early, and the fact that Rose had not
come home was not noticed until morn-
ing, a bare half hour before Sheriff
Tryon’s arrival at the Sarlo home.

IRYON sighed wearily as he left

the house. For the moment he
seemed up against a blank wall. With-
out even a tentative lead to follow. It
was a murder without a tangible clue.
And if the coroner was correct, and
there had been no rape, then it was a
murder without a clear motive as well.

Back at his office, he found Scott
awaiting him with a report.

“The boy was telling the truth about
liking to take long walks early in the
morning,” he said. “He’s clear.”

So the rest of that Sunday afternoon
was spent in a painstaking and meticu-
lous checking of Rose Sarlo’s habits
and friends. Everywhere the story was

the same. In an age of juvenile wild-

ness, Rose had been an exceptionally
well-behaved girl.

Then, just about the time Scott was
ready to call it quits for the day, his
questioning led him to a 19-year-old
friend of the dead girl.

“Why, I saw Rose just last night!”
she exclaimed, and then went on
breathlessly, “Maybe I even saw her
talking to the man who killed her!”

Scott’s quick surge of hope was
dimmed, however, when further ques-
tioning revealed the meagerness of the
actual information she had to offer.

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She had been at the movies the night
before and when she left, had noticed
Rose Sarlo a short distance ahead of
her. She had been surprised to see her
stop and talk with two boys for a min-
ute.

She thought she knew one of the
boys Rose had talked to, and gave
the detective his name.

Twenty minutes later, Scott was
talking to the young man. He admitted
having talked with Rose briefly the
night before, explaining that they had
been class-mates in high school.

“Then all at once she left and crossed
the street to talk to a man in a car,” he
went on. “I looked close, but it wasn’t
anybody I knew.”

“What kind of a car was it?”

The young man wasn’t certain but
he thought it was an Essex sedan.

And so Detective Scott was faced
with the task of retracing his steps and
questioning once more the people he
had already interviewed, this time seek-
ing to find out if any knew the identity
of a man who drove an Essex car.

Scott was weary and discouraged
when he reported his findings to the
sheriff later that night. “Looks like
we're aS much at sea as ever,” he ad-
mitted as he finished. “Ihe Sarlo girl
was seen talking to a strange man in
an Essex car about 10:30 last night.

Nobody knows anyone with an Essex. If

she’d been another type of girl, I'd
say it was a pick-up.”

HE following day, Monday, was

crowded with developments, each
one of which held a tantalizing promise
that didn’t quite work out. First came
the result of the autopsy.

One bullet had been recovered from
the body, a .32 caliber slug. It had
been established from the nature of
the wounds on her head that she had
been struck repeatedly with a heavy,
rough weapon, probably a rock. There
had been no rape. The time of the
murder was placed around midnight.

Just as Tryon finished reading the
report, the phone. rang. It was a far-
mer living on East Red Bank Avenue,
on the outskirts of town, and he had
called to say that he thought he had
discovered the actual scene.

He found the farmer waiting on the
side of the road beside a lonely stretch
of bushy woodland. There was a little-
travelled dirt lane cutting off from the
highway, leading to a small clearing.

And here there was clear evidence
of a struggle. Here on the ground was
a black suede high heeled slipper, the
mate to the one found on Rose Sarlo.
Nearby was a blood stained lace hand-
kerchief with the initial R embroidered
in one corner. There was a small purse
holding less than a dollar in change,

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and a gold high school class ring that
had been mysteriously missing

There were footprints—a man’s and
a woman’s—but they were too blurred
and indistinct on the wet, muddy
ground to be of value, The same
seemed to be true of the tire marks of
the car that had been parked on the
lane, with the exception of one small
section, which the police carefully pho-
tographed.

“I’m going out to the Sarlo home,”
Tryon said briefly. “I’ve got a feeling
we must have overlooked something.”

At the house on North Broad Street,
Tryon requested that he be allowed to
look through Rose’s room.

At first glance there seemed little to
be discovered.

But in a desk drawer was a diary.

Impatiently Tryon flipped the pages
of the little leather book.

That was when the notes fell out:

“Curly Head: Would you like to go

to a show Saturday evening in Wood-

bury or Philadelphia? I promise to
bring you home early. Shake your

head “yes” or “no” as I pass by. I

have never thought of anyone as I

am thinking of you. 1 have to admit 1

have fallen hard. Are you sure you

tried to get out, dear? There must
be some way you can get out for
two hours.”

And elsewhere Tryon read:

“I would like to give you a note

every day when I pass by at 7:31.

I am loving you more all the time.”

That was it, Tryon thought heavily
as he walked downstairs. The girl who
never went out with boys hadn’t been
able to resist a woman’s natural craving
for admiration.

In the hallway, Tryon asked just one
question of the father. What time did
Rose usually leave for work?

When he was told that she had
customarily left the house about 7:20
to catch the bus that left Woodbury
for Camden at 7:35, he nodded.

It fitted into the vague outlines of
the picture.

ACK at his office, he went into
immediate action. First he put in
a call to the Motor Vehicle Bureau in
Trenton, requesting a quick check on
all Essex cars registered to owners in
Woodbury or neighboring towns.
Then he called in Detective Scott.
“It won’t be so much like Jooking
for a needle in a haystack as it seems,”
he concluded. “When we get that list
from Trenton I want you to go over it

&| thoroughly. The man we're looking for

is one whose path normally crossed
that of Rose Sarlo around 7:30 in the
morning. That ought to eliminate a
sizable number at the start.”

In that he proved correct: It was
long and tiresome work, once the list
came through from Trenton, but in
the end all Essex owners but three
were eliminated. Of those three, one
was a clerk who customarily drove to
work in Woodbury at that hour of the
morning; one was a young man who
had been in trouble with the local police

several times; and the third a man liv-
ing out in Barnsboro, some ten miles
from Woodbury.

None of the three had an alibi for
the fatal Saturday night when Rose
Sarlo had gone on her, first and last

date, but all denied knowing her.

Once again it seemed like a dead
end in the investigation. And once
again Sheriff Tryon went over the frag-
mentary clues that so far had led no-
where. Suddenly he recalled a line from
one of the notes found in Rose’s diary.
“I would like to give you a note every
day when I pass at 7:31.” Why was the
time set down to the exact minute?

Only a man to whom exact minutes
were important would do that.

A man who had passed Rose Sarlo
bre morning on a definite, set sched-
ule. .

Tryon picked up the reports on the
three Essex owners who had no alibi
for Saturday night. After a moment’s
study he eliminated the two men who
lived in Woodbury, centering his at-
tention on the work record of the third
man.

That man was George Yarrow. On
the surface there was nothing other
than the fact that he owned an Essex
car to connect him with the Rose Sarlo
murder.

Until a few weeks before, however,
he had been a bus driver on the line
running between Woodbury and
Philadelphia—the same bus route that
Rose took to work.

Then he had been transferred to
another line. A run that passed the
Woodbury bus depot at exactly 7:31.

With Scott accompanying him, Try-

on drove out to Barnsboro where Yar- °

row lived.

“Sure I had an Essex,” Yarrow told
the officers. “But no more. It caught
fire and burnt up yesterday. I had to
call the fire department to put out the
blaze.” ;

Sheriff Tryon nodded, then as his
eyes studied the charred heap they
brightened. The tires, he noted, were
still intact. There might be prints . . .

He turned suddenly on Yarrow, said
sharply, “I thought you told me you
didn’t know Rose Sarlo! Yet she rode
to work on your bus every morning
while you were on the run.”

Yarrow shrugged. ‘Maybe so. I can’t
remember all the passengers.

“Not even the ones you speak to?
Not even the ones. you try to date?”

Again Yarrow shrugged.

Tryon turned to Scott, and ordered:
“Get those tires off the wreck and
throw them in the car. We’re turning
them over to the state police lab.” And
then to Yarrow he announced, “And

-you’re coming along, too. I want a

written report from you as to what you
did last Saturday night.”

In a labored hand, Yarrow wrote the
same story he had previously given the
police. Sheriff Tryon took the written
notes, bundled them together with the
love letters from Rose Sarlo’s diary,
and forwarded them to the state hand-
writing expert.

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“You’ve got nothing on me!”

Perhaps, Sheriff Tryon thought.
Nothing definite. Nothing positive. Just
one thin bit of circumstantial evidence
and then another thin bit. But placed
together they began to form a solid
substance,

The tire tread found at the scene of
the murder matched one of the tires
taken from the burned Essex.

The notes found in Rose Salo’s diary

had been written in George Yarrow’s
handwriting.

George Yarrow had been seen driv-
ing his Essex in Woodbury on Saturday
night, just prior to the time Rose had
entered such a car.

George Yarrow had once owned a
.32 caliber pistol, a pistol he now claim-
ed he had long since lost.

At the end of 36 hours of steady
questioning, Yarrow at last broke.

“She did something to me,” he tried
to explain. “She got under my skin
some way. I even wanted to marry her,
without even having had a date.

Then, on Saturday night, he had
seen her coming out of the movie
theatre. He had honked his horn to
catch her attention, and when she came
over to speak, he offered to drive her
home. Instead he had driven her to
the lonely lover's lane section on Red
Bank Avenue.

When she had angrily rejected him,
when she tried to get away from him,
he had lost his head.

“She was in my blood like a sick-
ness,” he kept insisting. “I had to get
rid of her some way.”

On December 7th, 1927, George
Yarrow went to trial in the Woodbury
courthouse. It took no more than an
hour’s deliberation for a jury to return
the verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree.

On June Ist, 1928, George Yarrow
was executed in the electric chair in
Trenton’s death house.

Death had at last freed him from
the mortal sickness of his hopeless love
for a girl who always said “no.” *

CASE OF GLAMOROUS SHOWGIRL
(Continued from page 23)

Broadway show, Floradora. White was
instantly taken with the girl and he set
her and her mother up in a luxury
apartment, providing a very generous
checking fund for their needs. Even
while White was footing the bills, Eve-
lyn met and had a disastrous affair with
John Barrymore, then a_ struggling
newspaper cartoonist.

So upset was White at learning of
the affair that he packed his young pro-
tege off to a finishing school in Pomp-
ton, N.J. Unbeknownst to the architect,
Evelyn had already met Harry K. Thaw
who had begun courting the Angel
Child by sending her bouquets of roses
with fifty-dollar bills wrapped around
their stems. Evelyn had only been at
the school for a few months when she
suddenly had to go into the hospital for
an emergency operation, the exact na-
ture of which she declined to describe.
While Evelyn was recuperating from
her operation, Thaw suggested that a
trip to Europe might be more condu-
sive to speedy convalescence than a
hospital. Thaw even allowed that he
wouldn’t mind Evelyn’s mother coming
along as chaperone. Evelyn and her
mother accepted and told White merely
that they were going as guests of a
wealthy couple of their acquaintance.

It was while they were on this trip
that Thaw first proposed marriage to
the Angel Child in Paris in 1903. Eve-
lyn, however, declined and the two were
not married until two years later in
Pittsburgh.

Evelyn’s European junket did not es-
cape the notice of Broadway news-
hounds or theatrical pundits and in fact,
until the three shots rudely interrupted
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Manvzelle Champagne, Shubert Alley
philosophers held out a certain admira-
tion for the way Miss Nesbit was play-
ing off one millionaire against the other.

Somewhere along the line Harry and
Evelyn’s mother had had a falling out.
She returned from Europe alone and in
a huff, muttering all sorts of unflatter-
ing insinuations about Mad Harry’s
strange sexual perversions. After the
shooting of Stanford White she public-
ly threatened to come to New York
and take the stand against Thaw.

The big question in everyone’s mind,
though, was: Just what could Evelyn
Nesbit have on Stanford White that
could change the whole complexion of
the case and turn White, married man
of 22 “happy” years, from martyr to
villain? Whatever it was, the consensus
was that the Angel Girl was being paid
plenty to get up on the stand for Mad
Harry. There was also some speculation
that the Thaw millions would buy Har-
ry the same easy treatment at his trial
that he was getting in the tombs.

N THE midst of this swirl of specula-
tion and gossip of whitewash, Wil-
liam Travers Jerome, one of the fight-
ingest, most incorruptible D.A.s New
York. County ever had, publicly an-
nounced that he was going to conduct
the state’s prosecution personally.

“With all his millions, Harry K.
Thaw is a fiend,” Jerome told the press,
“and in the conduct of his trial I am
going to. prove something: No matter
how rich or powerful a man is, he can-
not get away with murder in New York
County.”

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retained to defend Mad Harry and as
his first act he sent the noted. alienist
Allan McLane Hamilton to the Tombs
to examine his notorious client. After
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bury, a girl of excellent reputation
and unimpeachable character. She
had ranked very high in her high
school studies and had faithfully
taught Sunday school and sung in the
church choir.

Under-sheriff J. K. Tryon turned
to the ever increasing crowd of
curious onlookers. “Who called Head-
quarters?”

“TI did.” It was Wilson Edelman of
Wenonah who spoke up. “I was out
taking my morning stroll,” he ex-
plained. “When I-crossed the bridge
I looked down, sort of from habit I
guess. It was then I saw this girl.
From that distance I couldn’t tell
whether she was asleep. _ So I came

down to see. I had an idea maybe
something was wrong.”

“Do you walk by this way every
morning?” asked Stratton, watching
Edelman closely.

“Every day when it’s nice, that is,”
Edelman seemed not at all perturbed
by the narrow-eyed scrutiny.

“And you were alone?” Stratton
persisted.

Edelman nodded in confirmation.

“Well, what did you do after you
called?” 5

“I came back here and waited for
you fellows to arrive.”

“That means that you walked down
the embankment twice and up the
embankment once?”

“Yes, that’s right,” Edelman con-
firmed.

Stratton was momentarily silent.
He had been the first one to answer
the phone call. He had examined the
ground very closely and found three
distinct footprint markings. If he as-
sumed that Edelman’s statements
were true, it meant that no one else
had trampled the vicinity on that fate-
ful October 17—not since the rain-
storm on Saturday morning. He

Killer, left, tried to brazen it out
until police found a shred of green
silk, a class ring, and a bag of
. oysters in a desolate thicket.

’ fore rain had not washed away any

turned to the coroner questioningly, 7
“How long do you figure she has
been dead?” see
“Off hand I would say about seve
or eight hours,” Wood replied. .
Stratton was rapidly forming a
theory in his mind. If the coroner's
estimate was correct, it meant the girl g
had been slain not many hours after’
the storm of the previous day. There:

possible incriminating footprints. How,”
then, did she reach the river’s edge *
and how did the murderer get there
to commit his crime? Unless she was
killed elsewhere and her body dumped
over the bridge into its muddy grave! :

The sheriff climbed back up to the ©
bridge, where he found Detective
Scott closely examining the ‘railing.

“Here’s blood,” Scott pointed to
several large dark stains. “Looks like
the body was thrown from this bridge
and she was probably. dead before
brought here. This is where her head
must have struck. That’s the reason
her head and face are so badly
mutilated.”

Scott's findings were all the sheriff
needed to crystallize his theory into
actual fact. He immediately delegated
groups of men to scour the entire
territory for the real scene of the
murder.

Taking Tryon with him, he called
on the girl’s bereaved family. Gently
he began to ask a few pertinent
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before him. Police officers motioned

to the crowd to step back and give
the grief-stricken father a little room.
His wife stood silently at his side, clutch-
ing his arm fiercely for support. Sheriff
L. B. Stratton of Woodbury, New Jersey,
knelt to the ground slowly. Carefully he
lifted a sheet and uncovered the face of a
young woman. A horrible shriek pierced
the peaceful Sunday morning countryside
as Mrs. Sarlo crumpled beside the body.

A younger man spoke up. “That’s my
sister Rose all right.” f

“Mighty sorry,” said Stratton to Sarlo.
“The worst thing that’s ever happened in
this county.” \

As young Joe helped’ his mother and
father ascend the steep wild ravine back
to their parked car on the bridge, the
sheriff called in his assistants. - .

“Now that the identification is positive,
we had better get right to work,” he
ordered sternly.

Coroner Woods bent over the victim for
his first perfunctory examination. He
realized at once that cruel viciousness was
the primary motive of this gruesome
murder. The throat of Rose Sarlo, which
had been slim and white, was bound
tightly with a thin wire wrapped like the
strands of an armature. One side of her
head had been bashed in by a terrific
blow of a jagged club and, from the
wound, part of her scalp hung loosely.
Beneath this large gap was a small hole,
obviously a bullet hole.

ING tere hi SARLO glanced grimly

She was lying on her back, her eyes
closed. One arm was indolently stretched |

was missing. Her beige silk stockings
were ripped about her trim bruised legs.
Detective Sam Scott arrived at the
scene. He gasped incredulously when he
beheld the horrible sight before him.
“Who would want to kill such a fine
girl?” he asked, not addressing anyone in
particular, but expressing his amazement
out loud.

T WAS a question that was soon to

arouse the entire countryside to in-
dignation. For this was
no ordinary slaying, and
the victim no ordi-

nary woman. Rose
Sarlo had been a

out. The green silk dress which she had Es

proudly donned the evening before was
badly torn, and her undergarments were

almost ‘in shreds. One black suede shoe .

This automobile caught fire acciden-

tally. But under the charred uphol-

stery alert police found traces of
human blood.

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George Yarrow, above, shown with men who
trapped him and brought him to justice. Left to
right, Sheriff John B. Stratton, Yarrow, Harry
Mager, Warden of the jail, and council for de-
fense. The slain girl's mother, left, prays for
strength to bear the horrible tragedy.

“When did you last see your daughter?”

“Last night at about seven,” Mrs. Sarlo said,
sobbing. “She had to go on a few errands and
was going to stop in at a movie.”

“What were the errands?” the sheriff prodded
gently.

“She went to the Farmers’ and Mechanics’
Bank to make a deposit. Then she was going
to Haley’s Fish Market to pay bill for me and
buy some oysters. After the movies she was
coming straight home. She said she would be
back before midnight. That's the last time I
saw my girl alive,” the mother concluded, now

‘erying convulsively. "

Stratton addressed Nick Sarlo. “Were you
home all evening?”

“Yes, we didn’t leave the house.”

“And Rose didn’t even call up?”

Sarlo shook his head in denial and whispered,
“ wish she had.”

The officers ascertained a few more vital de-
tails. The pocketbook which the girl had car-
ried upon leaving her house and which had not
been found near her slain body had contained
over $50.00 in cash. Her high school class ring
which she had always worn was also missing.
So far as her private life was concerned, her

family confirmed the impression of Rose Sarlo’s
friends and neighbors. The girl had led a very
quiet home life. She
had attended school
dances and an oc-
casional movie, but
never was known
to accept dates

(Continued on

page 69)

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j pa the lonely, dark, coun roa he expressed sincere Sorrow for the Yarrow’s ers also confirmed
ir The other, ess likely alternative, girl’s death. alibi was 2 strong their prother’s statements. They hadnt
sod- | was that she had been offered a ride ne. He orrobora Mateo’s te heard him come in, ut had seen him
bar? | by someone, probably a man, whom ments and that he had gone rush out © his bedroom pa y
snark she knew V Did she perhaps straight home after leaving mn dressed, the fire sta
yet: have @ date that evening? Was there wphere was 2 lot of excitement after Stratton called the Barnesboro Fire
rove in her life a secret romance that not Yd gone to _ I don't know how Company He learn! that the alarm
Tats even her family was aware of? | Al- long Yd been asleep, but suddenly ! had come in at 2:30 on Sunday morn
hase though her mother steadfastly claimed heard somebody yelling outside my |” By the time the engine reach
es that her daughter kept nothing from window. I opened my eyes an in- the Yarrow home, the fire was well on
aay cher, @ 1 of seventeen ight very tead of: it being 2 dark night, the its way Little could be salvage
fact: a logically withhold knowledge ofamild room was all red. I ran to the window “We haven't had a chance to chec
a he a flirtation OF perhaps even 2 case of and saw that my car was on fire.” yet, but it loo ‘ie too thoroug a
pe a puppy love. If such an affair existed, He recounted how he had quickly job to be accidental,” the Chief ex-
‘id Stratton was convinced that it was dressed and run downstairs. He car- plained. “Also I don’t understan
an p> very jnnocuous.- Rose Sarlo was wit ried several puckets of water wi why it was allowed to get completely
ators 7 out doubt 4 clean, moral, respect© which to douse the flame er out of hand before we were called in
pote @ person. numerous attempts he realized that
ied to ay The sheriff's trend of thought was the fire was out of control. He then WwW only @ slender thread of
beer ~ at this point interrupted. when one of sent in a call to the Barnesboro Fire seemingly ynimportant an is
h of fe his aides arrived handing him a letter. Company. PY the time the fire fight- connected facts, the sheriff order’
em It was addressed to Rose Sarlo and ing equipment arrived, the automobile Yarrow ocked up on suspicion. +n
oul- 7 postmarked October 12, Woodbury; was beyond salvage: couldn’t the next hour e had completed an air
rs of P NJ. It was 2 brief, note which simply estimate the time. In the excitement, tight case against the bus driver
Sasa 7 asked whether the girl had changed he claimed, he didn’t stop to look at At last the officer faced the prisoner.
te >. her. mind about that trip to New York 2 clock. He was certain, however, it “You may as well confess am make
oa - ie during the Christmas h lidays. It was was still night. it easy for yourself,” he said sternly.
st signed Leighton Hunsicker. On the “You say you parked the car, went Yarrow appeared ‘unperturbed.
: : face of it, it seemed incredible that the upstairs to bed and fell asleep,” Strat- “You haven't got a thing me.”
tar ily proprietor of Wood ury’s largest dry- ton reviewed. “Now how do you - Stratton began to pile uP the evi-
ssion.. J goods store, a pillar of the church, and figure that fire started?’ dence Fingerprints on Sarlo’s
vould a family man, might be writing in-. “My neighbor who noticed the fire handbag, whic found beside the
‘hem, sinuatin: notes to @ young girl like first and called me, said he thought Old Red Ba had been iden-
aying Rose. Stratton felt at once that there he saw some running from the tified as Yarrow’s. “That don’t mean
the <a an obvious gnation an driveway. It looked to me like maybe othin’! Many s the time I pick up
wasted no time in calling on Hun- acar ed to al the car- When girls’ pock tbooks when they drop
you mm _ sicker. he started it, it burst into flames 1 them getting into the bus.”
it she og ‘He was readily admitted by the don’t know why it caught fire I guess Muddy footprints at the scene of the
with 4 older man into the Jatter’s private the fire department can explain it.” murder ma ed the suspect $
e. It Bre office. The sheriff made no prelimi- When questioned directly about the “So WwW: t? There’s und of
y statements. He withdrew the slain girl, Yarrow also readily ad- shoes my size,” he scoffe
ment, ig letter from his pocket and silently mitted having spoken to her the pre- “But not all of them with red loam
Sarlo oa - placed it on the 5 desk. Hun- vious evening. ‘He said he knew her stuck in the ” the sheriff re-
e and he sicker looked up in astonishment. énly casually. His acquaintance was vorted.
x “t wrote this, if that’s what you limited to meetings 0” the bus, which “That?” Yarrow grinned. “Satur-
oe want to know,” he said. he drove and she boarded daily to and day afternoon I had some engine
. He Sh “How do you come to be inviting 2 from school. trouble on the road. I had to get out
own ibe _ young girl on @ trip to New York?” “{ now all those kids and-I stop io and fix it. That’s where the loam
iat he — The reply was straightforward. say hello whenever I see them aroun! comes from.”
inight ie 7 Hunsicker’s daughter, Gloria, was one town.” Stratton went on relentlessly. There
irther ae of Rose Sarlo’s best friends. There Yarrow’s neighbor told substantially were traces of gasoline on the inside
od no 4 had been some discussion of spending the same story: He had come in late of the burned automobile. The car
» and . the holidays in the city, and Gloria and was preparing to reti heard had been set on fire.
‘row’s ved had asked whether she couldn’t invite the low hum of a car engine, but paid “And this is how it happened. You
» vv, his ~ Rose to come along. The dead gir little attention to it. The motor was got home a little after two- That fits
home es: had refused because she felt that she left running and there were soft, al- in with th ime of the murder and
should remain with her family uring most stealthy footstep’ Suddenly @ gives you an extra hour to eof .
arrow ae Christmas. Since his daughter was pursting © low sent hi hurrying the bod: Then you sta the fire,
. once. i. greatly disappointed, Hunsicker had to. the window to investigate He re rushed upstalts and got undressed.
cd the " written the brief note, trying once eated that he saw a man racing down You never went to sleep that night
facts x. more to persuade Rose to come & ong. the driveway; around to the front of You rumpl the top covers of your
ble to > “Sorry | had to bother you, Mr. the Yarrow home. The fugitive was bed to mak it look good, but the
om all Hunsicker,” Stratton apologized. “But then lost from view. bottom sheet was as smooth as
‘ly her a - you un erstand that we can’t over- “{ never got 4 look at his face be- when your sisters put it on.
ime look a thing ‘i cause he ran in the opposite direction “{ don’t know what you're talking
the sha The sheriff found George Yarrow and his b ck was to me all the time.” about. Maybe somebody did set fire
nee the aa. Sa waiting for him. He was a man 0 When asked for-an approximate de- to car. I wouldn't know about
‘lose to middle height, with dark hair and scription, he said the ex was that. The guy next door told you that
nat she small black eyes; a high, pointed nose, - about five oot nine and might have he didn’t know the man he saw run-
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“He didn’t see you. Only your back
and only for a second. But his de-
The
sheriff’s voice was as hard and icy as

scription fits you exactly.”

steel.

He had saved his bombshell for the

last.
the tires on your car.
we got came from your tires!”

The suspect

drenched,” he announced.

The prisoner bit his lip. He was
His eyes stared

white with terror.
glassily into space.

“Let’s get it over with,” he whis-
pered hoarsely.

Stratton called in a stenographer
and listened to the detailed account of
George Yarrow’s harrowing torture
slaying of the young choir singer.

“I knew Rose for a couple of
months, ever since she began taking
the busI drove. From then on I tried
to date her but she wouldn’t have
anything to do with me. The more

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she refused me, the sorer I got. I
used to look for her every night. But
everytime I saw her she’d run away
from me. I got myself all worked up
on account of it and I was determined
she’d go out with me sometime. Well,
on Saturday night, I saw her go into

“Yarrow, the fire didn’t destroy the movies and I waited for her to
Those prints
Strat-
ton watched the effect of his words.
squirmed nervously.
“And. the fire didn’t hide Rose Sarlo’s
blood with which your car is

come out. Mateo was sitting with me
when she came out and I didn’t want

him around. So after I talked with

her I dumped him, and he was tell-
ing the truth about that, and then I
drove back and found her walking
home. I coaxed her’ to get into the
car. After I promised I’d take her
right home, she got into the car and
something came over me right away.
I got excited. Instead of driving her
home I drove over to Red Bank Road
and stopped the car. She fought me
off, and then I slugged her, and
knocked her out. I got scared I guess
and didn’t know what I was doing. I
must have taken some wire out of one
of the pockets in the door of the car
and wound it around her throat. She
came to while I was doing it and
fought a little but I pulled the wire

harder and then she passed out. I can
remember taking out the gun from the
dashboard shelf and shooting her once,
Then I started the car and drove like
mad. I threw the gun away some-

where. Then I dumped her body over.

the bridge and came home. I went
into the house and burned my clothes
and came out and burned the car. I
waited a while then I called the fire
company. That’s about all, except
I’m sorry for Rose and her family.”

Two months later, on December 5,
George Yarrow went on trial for
first degree murder. The prosecution
lasted three days. The defense, ten
minutes, just long enough for Yarrow
to admit to all the prosecution’s
charges. The jury was out fifty min-
utes and the verdict was guilty with
no recommendation for mercy.

ON June 1, this writer was among
the reporters who watched

George Yarrow die in the. electric
chair in the State House at Trenton, :
New Jersey.

His last words were, “I am getting
what I deserve.”

“ROAD TO HONESTY LEADS

(Continued from page 41)

The noises became louder, the im-
precations more vehement. About an
hour passed. Henry had succeeded in

. unshackling himself and was about to
‘sneak out and run for help. But he
quickly changed his mind. The foot-
steps were approaching again. He
heard the men descend the stairs and
fully expected them to come for him
once more. They passed right by the
closet, however, and out the front
door. A few seconds later, he heard
the motor of a car starting. He dashed
out of the house. When he reached the
road, the automobile was escaping at
breakneck speed. He could distinguish
only the vanishing tail-light. Then he
hurried to summon his neighbor.

“Which direction did they head?”
the sheriff wanted to know.

“Down Honesty way,” Henry ex-
plained.

“How come you heard the car when
it drove away, but didn’t hear it when
it arrived?”

“Don’t know. Except that there’s a
steep hill just around that bend. They
must have coasted down very slowly

and quietly. They probably shut the
motor long before they got to the
house. All I know is that I didn’t hear
them,” the old man protested.

“There’s another thing, Henry,”

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Way went on. “You knew your broth-
er must be hurt. Yet you didn’t go
upstairs to see if you could do some-
thing for him. And whén you got to
Harmon Smith’s house you didn’t call:
a doctor.”

Henry Conrath seemed dismayed at
his own lack of presence of mind. He
had already started down the road
when he had run after the car.

“T just kept right on going over the
hill. I guess I was excited. Harmon
has no phone, that’s why I didn’t call
a doctor from there,” he explained.

“And why did you get Smith who is
two miles-way, when the Dixon place
is less than half a mile?” Way con-
tinued relentlessly.

“I told you I was excited. Harmon’s
been a good friend for many years.
He was the first one I could think of,”
Conrath replied weakly.

The sheriff pondered a minute, then
resumed his questioning.

“You said that if it weren’t for the
guns you might have mistaken these
bandits for some of the boys. What
boys?”

“Harlan Lane and Ralph Treat, a
couple of young fellows who visit here
and help around the farm sometimes.”

Way kriew the twenty-one year old
youths well. Treat and his family lived
at Rainbow, toward Marietta, on the

opposite side of the Muskingum, They
had formerly resided at Honesty, the
village a few miles from the Conrath
house. :

Harlan Lane worked on a farm in
the bend of the Muskingum River at
Devol’s Dam, just outside of Marietta.

“When is the last time you saw Lane
and Treat?” Way asked.

“Yesterday, about ten o’clock in the
morning. We talked a while and then
they drove away.”

The old farmer said he had noticed
nothing out of the ordinary about the
two young men. They had not been ©
unusually inquisitive. They had not
seemed nervous. Their visit was no

different from the many other previous
ones. sO

TH sky was beginning to lighten in_
the east when the sheriff turned
his attention to Sprague. The coroner
had performed his first examination
and was ready to remove the body for |
autopsy. His conclusions were that

‘John Conrath had been tortured and

beaten to death. In addition to lacera-
tions about the head and face of the
victim, he had found three broken ribs
in the right chest. He estimated the
time of death at about midnight.
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t on, “and I told erson, Long’s former employer. He

He received a phone call from Chief he stumbled,” he wen
him I’d run from him the last time. recounted in detail difficulties he had

rt at 3
athome. “@ of Police Lee Harvey of El Reno, Ok-
ted toward me, I shot - had in carrying the heavy body of the

‘0 encour- "MJ. Jahoma. A. dairy worker had been When he star
ed a little. Then he fell murdered man across the field to the

ine ig
« howe ies “- picked up on a charge of drunkenness. him. He groan
} »then —@ The man gave his name as Jack with his head leaning uP against the abandoned well.
Moore, but an alert policeman, John door of the milkhouse. He was hit in A flashlight was lowered into the
eeble rays revealed no

ig

the left side. When I went over and well, but its f

n ~S
s pase ay y OW. Lively, recognized the prisoner as
nav, ke cahe a the man wanted by Plainview officers. looked at him, he was dead!” trace of the victim’s body. Then
* caller. He =o ‘Within an hour after receiving the Long then drove into Plainview, Hutcherson volunteered to be lowered
e court- 7 scalil, Martine and Andrews were on went to the. house of his friend, and into the cavern.
1 the road. After: an all night drive, they asked the man if he wanted a job. Silently the officers waited. At last
is desk in a confronted Long in the El Reno jail. “He helped me load the body, then Hutcherson’s tense voice drifted up to
white. 7 “{’m not mixed up in any murder,” he refused to do any more, so I took them. “I’ve found him. The body’s
ily in the | was all the disheveled prisoner would him back home,” Long said. “I drove here!”
say. . out on the Dimmitt highway about fif- With the aid of a plock and tackle,
see me.” : Long faced several days of grilling teen miles, and dumped the body in an pitiful remains were finally raised to
vou’d . a in the Plainview jail before he con-_ irrigation well.’ the surface. Only bits of flesh clung to
vou what fessed the crime. Then in a statement The murderer returned to the farm the bones. The skull of the victim was
, to District Attorney Martin, he out- and spent the night there. He admitted badly crushed, presumably from the
growing lined the horrible facts. that he cashed a $39.75 government fall into the fifty foot well.
folded a “Munger and I quarreled,” he said, check which he found on a table in Long was held in jail pending action
“because he blamed me for changing the house. He also admitted forgery of the court. He was brought to trial
‘se about the license plates on his car. That night of Munger’s name to some 00 at the November term of court in
ber,” he . we were drinking beer, and he ac- worth of cotton and cattle transac- Plainview, and on November 12th, was
ed a job’ cused me of going to honky-tonks and tions. found guilty and sentenced to 25 years
ger’s car drinking with his son. There was a 12 “The next night,” he said, “Mutt in the state penitentiary.
‘to the @. gauge shotgun that we'd used for rab- and I drove to illo, and I spent Mutt Munger was exonerated of any
ind Long 7 bit hunting in the car, and I started . all the money. So I went on to El participation in the crime, but he was
ffee, I after it. Munger told me to leave that Reno and got a jo Ng : convicted on the Brownwood charge of
a cup on gun alone, or he’d cut my head off and Long calmly agreed to lead officers forgery and sentenced to two years in
. ovveral : throw it at me.” to the well.where he had thrown the the penitentiary at Huntsville.
mped up * Long related how he had snatched body of his victim. The well which he No charges were filed against the
he milk- up the gun and run into the milk- pointed out to Chief Curry, Sheriff man who became an unwilling aid to
house, with Munger following him. Martine and Deputy Andrews, was the ghoulish plans of burial, as ordered
as he “When he came through the door, located on the farm of §. C. Hutch- by the murderer, Jess Long.
‘ the au- ;
se door,
re milk-
ina sit-
all over
. around
te put
cK seat. .
ced me ni” i | Continued from page 55) “Are you sure she bought her own 4 few minutes around midnight.
‘. When promiscuously or to keep late hours. ticket?” Stratton wan to know. “Did you see where she went after
Having obtained all the information “That she wasn’t with anyone, a man the movie?” asked Tryon.
ll this - they needed at the moment from the perhaps?” “J guess she was headed for home.’
. When -Sarlo family, Tryon and Stratton pro- “No,” the woman replied with cer- I asked her to come over to our house,
. ceeded to retrace the girl’s steps on tainty. “She went in all by herself.” but she said she had promised her
being the fateful evening from the time she “pid she stay until the end of the mother to be in before twelve.”
ed, - Jeft her home. From the scant knowl- picture and come out again alone?” “Did Rose have any boy friends?”
iwhile, edge they had thus far received, the “That I wouldn’t know. You see, I “All the boys in school liked her,
‘8 past. motive for the killing seemed to point get through here around ten o'clock, but there wasn’t anybody in partic-
suspect to robbery. long before the show is over.” ular.”
> year i By slow, careful inquiries, the offi- “Did she ever tell you of anyone
S con- 1 Bes only clues they had were the cers managed to ascertain a few names . who caused her any trouble? I mean
in-law, missing handbag and the class of young boys and girls who had also like quarreling with. her, or maybe
ers of ring. When they checked with rec- visited the motion picture theatre the trying to date her- when she wanted
thoma, ords at the bank, however, they were night before arid who.might have seen to have nothing to do wi im?”
: from greatly surprised to find that Rose had Rose Sarlo. Painstakingly they went “well...” the girl hesitated. “It
aview, made her night deposit just as she had through the entire list. They made wasn’t anything serious. ‘I know that
aurder set out to do. Further the inquiry very little progress, however. Most Jim Mateo often stopped and talked to
id re- showed that she had visited the fish of the youngsters remembered having her on the street. I don’t think Rose
it bul- market as well, paid her mother’s bill. greeted Rose Sarlo when they left the . liked it very much because he was
search and picked up the oysters. The theatre. All agreed that she was sort of an older fellow.”
“ong’s cashier in the movie ticket booth definitely still alone. - The two men left Charlotte Arber
remembered distinctly having sold her Charlotte Arber, a good-looking and went directly to the. greenhouse
the an admission for the last showing of dark-eyed girl of 17, one of Rose’s where Mateo worked. They found
irmer, the picture, which went on at nine classmates, said that she had stopped that he was out making deliveries and
' fruit, o'clock. on the street and talked to her friend wasn’t expected to return unti
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afternoon. During the next few hours
the officers checked on the boys in
Rose Sarlo’s class. Not that they sus-
pected anyone, but they did not want
to leave one stone unturned in their
intense investigation. They decided
that, as a whole, the young men were
a frank and wholesome lot. Most of
them had been in bed by one o'clock,
the estimated time of the crime, or if
they had not, all readily established
alibis which were easily checked.
The first real break seemed to come

a flaxen-haired, high-spirited teen-
age girl.

She left the movies long after it was
over, she explained. She had.a date
with a local boy, Phil Stewart. When
they reached the lobby, the girl
stopped to powder her nose, and found
that she had lost. her compact. The
couple went back inside again to look
for it. By the time they came out on
the street, the rest of the crowd had
cleared away. They headed for the
Goodie Shop on Main Street, when
they saw Rose Sarlo talking to two

Rose was standing outside at the
window looking in.

“When we went by, we just waved
and said hello,” Miss Sweeten con-
cluded.

“And you didn’t see her get into
the car?”

“No, we just walked past her. We
didn’t even stop to talk.”

“Did you know the men in the car?”

“I didn’t look very closely, but I
know that the boy behind the wheel
was Jim Mateo. The other was sitting
in the dark. I couldn’t see him.”

WHEN the officers returned to
Headquarters, they found Sam
Scott, who had arrived with another
Silently he
laid a carefully wrapped bundle on
the sheriff’s desk. Stratton opened it
cautiously and extracted, one by one,
a black suede slipper, a black leather
woman’s handbag and a Woodbury
high school class ring.

“I found these on the old Red Bank
Road, not six blocks from the Sarlo
home. Better look the place over just
in case there are some markings that
may interest you.”

Stratton needed no coaxing. Within
seconds he was downstairs at the
wheel of his car, with six men close at
his heels. Hardly managing to keep
within the speed limits, he drove over
the soft loamy back road to the
wooded thicket Scott pointed out.
“That,” the detective said, indicating
a crushed wet paper box, “I didn’t
bring in. Those are the oysters Rose
bought.”

70

when they talked to Blanche Sweeten, |

young men who were sitting in a car. '

Every inch of ground was carefully | |
combed. ' Telltale shreds of green and
pink silk materials were picked out °
of the thorny bushes. Human blood-
stains led a trail from the shrubbery
to the road. A decided tire mark
pointed to the spot where the murder
car had been parked and later started

by someone,
“she knew ve!
have a date t
~~~ in her life a

a even her far.

“again. Several muddy men’s foot- _ though her ©
prints were still clearly visible. There that her dav
were prints of a woman’s high heeled cher, a girl «
shoes and several of an obviously logically wit’
stocking-covered bare feminine foot. > >. flirtation oF

“There’s enough evidence here to = puppy love.
send the man to the electric chair— ey. Stratton Ws
when we get him,” the sheriff said. | fe. very anny

Leaving some of his investigators out doubt
behind to examine the area more person. h
closely, Stratton and Scott returned to The sne
the greenhouse in search of Jim at this po
Mateo. The young man had heard of » . his aides 7
their earlier visit and greeted them a It was via
warmly. He was tall, broad-shoul- * postmar*

dered, and blonde, about 30 years of : NJ. It *
age. He knew at once that the offi- asked w
cers wanted to question him regarding her mind
Rose Sarlo’s slaying. a “

“Funny thing is, I talked to her last % signe fit
night,” he said casually. face a
The two officers were momentarily Preis ste
taken aback by this frank admission.. S eainibt

They had expected that Mateo would 6 snuatins
try to concéal that fact from them. See ¢
Either he was innocent or was playing aa an
a very shrewd game to throw the Te aetad
police off the track. Tec

“We have witnesses who saw you He
talking to the girl. They say that she ider..1
got into the car and drove off with offi
you.” Stratton tried an old ruse. It “oy ‘
might work! iciber

Mateo stared back in amazement, jaced

“Youre all wrong! We left Rose Sarlo aka }

right there in front of the movie and . “Ty

then George drove me home.” want t

“You mean George Yarrow?” “Hoy
Mateo nodded in confirmation. He young
had no witnesses besides his own The
family to attest to the fact that he Hunsi«
arrived home shortly before midnight of Ro:

and went directly to bed. On further had b:

inquiries he said that he owned no the h:

car. On the previous evening he and had a:

his friend had been riding in Yarrow’s Rose

automobile. As far as he knew, his had
companion had gone directly home shou!
after dropping him off. Chri

Stratton ordered George Yarrow grea!
brought in for questioning at once. writ!

While he waited he reviewed the mort

brief, seemingly disconnected facts ate

which he had thus far been able to. Hu:
gather. The slain girl had, from all you
indications, followed out exactly her loo)

planned itinerary. Up to the time T

when she was last seen in front of the wai

movie everything checked. Since the mic
scene of the murder was so close to sm:
her home it seemed obvious that she and
had been overtaken while walking on bei


40 True Detective Mysteries

(Above) Ruth Jones Yarrow, who was be-
lieved to have been the victim of the same
killer who murdered “Honey” Sarlo. This
theory vanished however, when she drama-
tically reappeared, alive and well and led the
fight to save from death the very man who it
was feared had slain her! (Right) The grief-
stricken family of Rose Sarlo, from a photo-
graph taken after the tragedy. * They are her
brother, Joseph, 19; Louis Sarlo, her father;
Louis, Jr., brother, 16; Mrs. Sarlo and little
Robert, 6 years of age

been found under the Mantua Creek bridge on
the Mantua-Woodbury Highway. She has been
murdered.”

Without waiting for details I got out my car
and drove quickly to the bridge. There I met
Detective Scott and State Trooper J. C. Smith,
who had responded when news of the discovery
reached the State Police barracks at Berlin,
Camden County, New Jersey.

We climbed down the rocky embankment be-
side the bridge and made our way into the
shadows where the body lay. The body was
that of a beautiful young girl of seventeen
years. She was five feet, three inches tall, and
weighed about 135 pounds. Her hair was
dressed in long curls—they were black—which
hung below her shoulders.

She wore a pink dress and a black coat and
black stockings, and on her left foot was a black
slipper. The slipper for the right foot was
missing.

HE girl had been shot twice. One bullet had passed

through her head, entering the left temple and emerging
from the right. The other bullet had pierced the body
slightly above the heart. It had passed through the body
and lodged against a metal stay in an undergarment and fell
from her clothes when the body was moved. It was of .32
caliber.

Her skull had been fractured by a blow or blows, while
her features had been mutilated by repeated blows. ‘The
face was blackened by congested blood, due to strangula-
tion which had been accomplished with two strands of

systems of automobiles—drawn so tightly around her throat
that the wires had cut deeply into the flesh.

She wore a double rope of imitation pearls—-a touch of
vanity in the maze of tragedy which pitifully circled her
throat beside the wires which had choked out her life.

Beside the body was a box of fried oysters, still intact,
evidently thrown from the bridge with the body. In a
pocket of the coat we found a bank book. This showed a
deposit of three dollars made the previous night in the
Christmas Savings Club of the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank of Woodbury.

HE bank book bore the name of Louis Sarlo, and when the

name was read aloud, someone in the crowd which had
gathered cried:

“It's Louts Sarlo's girl! It’s ‘Honey’ Sarlo!”

It was Rose Sarlo, the seventeen year old daughter of
a Woodbury butcher. She had been known throughout
Woodbury as ‘“Honey’—a name which had clung to her
from babyhood. And among members of the Sunday
School of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Wood-
bury she was known as “Little Sunshine,” because of her
sunny disposition and general popularity.

With the establishment of the girl's identity I left the
body in care of Detective Scott, while Trooper Smith and 1,

in my car, hurried to the Sarlo home at 122 North Broad, *

Street, Woodbury to interviev the parents of Rose Sarlo.

EWS of the murder had preceded us. Julius Metzger.
employer of Rose’s father, had been informed of the
tragedy and had gone to the Sarlo home in an effort to
soften the blow to the parents. Despite his efforts, Louis

. Sarlo had collapsed when informed of his loss, and Mrs.

Sarlo was in hysterics.

Trooper Smith and To began our investigation in the
Sarlo home and its immediate neighborhood. ‘This is what
we learned in our preliminary questioning:

insulated copper wire—such as is used in wiring the apd


viring the ignition
around her throat
h.

warls—a touch of
tifully circled her
{ vut her life.
sters, still intact,
the body. In oa
:. This showed a
ous night in the
s and Mechanics

ano, and when the
crowd which had

arlo!’

r old daughter of

snown) throughout
had clung. to her

s of the Sunday
Church in Wood-
" because of her

dentity I left the
oper Smith and I,
122 North Broad

ents of Rose Sarlo.

is. Julius Metzger,
‘en informed of the
me in an effort to
ite his efforts, Louis
his loss, and Mrs.

investigation in the
hood. This is what

g:

“Toney Sarlo and the Fiend 41

mother, awakening at
2:30 o’clock Sunday
morning, looked into
Rose’s room and saw
that the bed had not
been disturbed. From
that time on, the
mother had been fran-
tic about the girl's
disappearance, but
had failed to notify
the police.

SEARCH through

effects in
Rose’s room, however,
gave us our first work-
ing clue. We learned
that Rose —_ the
“girl with no boy
friends’’—had at least
one ardent admirer.
Tucked away with her
cherished possessions,
including a diary
which told of her
conscientious attend-
ance at church and
her daily thoughts
about her work, were
a half-dozen notes,
most of them in pen-
cil and on cheap

Have they got the right man? This photo shows Yarrow, handcuffed, in custody of Sheriff Tryon (with paper.

his arm about Yarrow’s shoulder) surrounded by Gloucester County detectives and New Jersey
State police, as the murder suspect is being led over the scene where it was believed Rose “Honey”

Sarlo was brutally slain

Rose Sarlo was of a pleasant, happy disposition. She
was enwrapped in her work in St. Patrick’s Church Sunday
School, where she had taught young children) for more
than a vear. She had been a student in the Woodbury
High School, leaving at. the end of her sophomore year in
1926.

After leaving school she had obtained a position with the
Croft, Woolen) Mills Company, in Camden, New Jersey,
eight miles from her home. And daily she had made the
tnp to and from Camden by bus line.

Rose was looked upon as a “model girl.” Her interests
apparently lay in her home and in her Sunday School work.
Woodbury folks insisted that, despite her beauty and general
popularity, she had been a “girl without boy friends.”

Of her movements on the fatal Saturday night Mr. and
Mrs. Sarlo could tell us little. Her three brothers, Joseph,
nineteen years old, who was employed with his father;
Louis, Jr., sixteen years old, a high school student, and
Robert, six years old, were also unable to aid us in trac-
ing the girl to the scene of her slaying.

OSE never before had been missing from her home
later than it o'clock at night. On the fatal Saturday
night she had eaten her supper with the family, happy and
carefree. She had accepted three dollars from her father
for deposit in his Christmas fund account and said she
would stop at the bank, which is located on Broad Street,
near Cooper Street, in Woodbury, close to the County
Court House. As she left the Sarlo home, Rose called back
to her mother:
“Mother, I'm going to stop at the bank first, and then
go to the five-and-ten-cent store and get a present for Bob-
bie. I'l stop in and see Dad at the market, and then I’m

going to go to a movie--probably to the late show. But

IH be home by eleven o'clock.”
That was the last time Rose's mother saw her alive. The

One read:

“Curley Wead—
Would you like lo go
to a show with me
Saturday evening in Woodbury or Philadelphia? I promise
to bring you home early. Shake your head ‘yes’ or ‘no’
when I ga.by.

“71 have never thought of anyone as I am thinking of you.
I have to admit I have fallen hard. Are you sure you tried
to get oul, dear? There must be some way thal you can gel
out for two hours. Love.”

A note which bore no date follows:

“Zam sorry that you cannot get oul and I am disap-
pointed. Can you slip away for a while and meel me at
Red Bank Avenue? Tell your mother you are going for a
walk.”

Fragments from other notes read:

“If you will let me, I will meet you every day after school.”
“T would like to give you a note every day when I pass at
7:31. I am loving you more every day.”

Another undated note said:

“I am sorry, little sweetheart, that I could not stop last
night to get the note, for I was late. I was looking for you
every time I passed after that, but you were not around. So,
try to forgive me and I "ll try never to be late again when I
am expecting a note from you.

“Tell Agnes I did not see Charles until this morning and
I gave him the note then, and I suppose he will answer u
this afternoon. .Are you trying to go with me tonight?
Please try, dear, to go, and then I "Utell you how much I
love you. Give me an answer to the other note also. I am
anxious to have that question answered. So, I will close
with love.”

Still another missive said:

“Dear Rose-—Was so glad to see you yesterday. You
looked real sweet. I hope your mother, also yourself, goes
to town again, Don't you think, Rose, dear, that if you were
to ask your mother to let me take you to a show that she
would let you go? There isn’t any harm in that. I do


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“HONEY” SARLO

By JAcoB K. TRYON er

tasks oft!
vueriff of Gloucester County, New Jersey Sundays
pints ‘
tory. This

As told to P. L. TRUSSELL his denne

to spend

belo ed 4

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A popular, innocent 17-year- hearing
SWINKING

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which c

as “Honey” Sarlo—beloved by ee

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her neighbors and her many s«»1.'

friends. WHO would want when he

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burned condition,
as shown

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covered
decbrust
LMOST entirely covered by the shrubbery on the bank seven o«
A of Mantua Creek, four miles from Woodbury, New was ovat
Jersey, lay the body of a young girl. She had been on the r
beautiful—but not now. She had been a happy, inno-
cent girl of seventeen years, a teacher of small children in her Po Om
Sunday School; a girl who had found happiness in her home 4 fron
a “pirl with no boy friends.” paused.
Now, her mutilated body lay stretched beside the stream, leaned.
shot and battered, her face blackened by strangulation caused pet. ou
by two strands of wire, pulled tightly around her throat. delights
It lay there early in the morning of Sunday, October 2nd, and the
1927---in the ordinary run of circumstances to be undiscovered ture al»
for months or years, The girl's form) was hidden in’ the \a-
shadows of a concrete bridge fifteen feet above, which spanned about }
the stream. ticed
Only Chance could have brought about the discovery — and gravel.
Chance stepped in. of the
Wilson Edelman, a resident of the town of Woodbury, had b
county seat of turbed
Gloucester by seu:
County, New Jer- Inte
scy, Was a con- : etrans
(Above) Sheriff firmed pedestrian. looke:
ima oe mg , Daily he walked Vhere «
sensational case, a) the country roads dark sy
and who solved it outside of Wood- dirt -
See Ata bok
work which «
to ert
(Right) This is the search.
Essex car that small
played animportant ‘
part in the case. A tract a>
girl friend of severed
“Honey” Sarlo had from
the presence of mind ofthe +
to note, and write
down, the license the pur
number of this car Edel
when she yy the from
regent age Phone 3 railing,
not long before its below
discovery by de- then tl
tectives, in a badly his eve

tings
Fadel

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7-year-
known
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WHY?

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voodbury, New
She had been
a happy, inno-
children in her
vin her home

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ver Chroat.

v, October 2nd,

be undiscovered
hidden in the

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discovery and

of Woodbury,

| uinty seat of
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suntv, New Jer-

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med pedestrian.
aily he walked
e country roads
itside of Wood-

«

and the FIEND

bury before taking up his
tasks of the day. And on
Sundays he stretched his
saunts to) farther terri-
tory. This day he had left
his home early, expecting
to spend the day on his
bdoved countryside. He
stepped out briskly in the
bracing October air,
swinging down the Man-
tua- Wenonah Highway,
which connects the two
South Jersey towns for
which it is named.

As previously — men-
tioned, Edelman was four
miles from Woodbury
when he reached the con-
crete. bridge over the
Mantua Creek, a narrow.
duygish stream, running
between rocky banks
covered with tangled un-
derbrush. It was about
seven o'clock and there
was virtually no traffic
on the road,

PDELMAN, aglow
from his exercise,
paused at the bridge. He
leaned against the para-
pet, ruminating on the
ddights of the open air
and the beauties of na-
ture about him.

As he looked
about him he no-
ticed that the
gravel at one side
of the roadway
had been dis-
turbed as though
by scuflling feet.
Interested
strangely, he
looked closer.
There were several
dark spots in the
dirt — suspicious
looking spots
which caused him
toextend his
warch. The spots,
snall and indis-
unctas they were,
aemed to lead
from the center
of the roadway to
the parapet.

Edelman leaned
from the bridge

railing, scanning the sluggish waters of the Mantua Creek — before him, he ran toa neighboring farmhouse and telephoned
below. His eyes swept first one bank of the stream and — to County Detective Andrew J. Scott at Woodbury.
then the other. Finally, an unusually colorful object caught

Rose ‘‘Honey” Sarlo, central figure in this tragic case

his eve. Deep in the undergrowth beside the stream he dis- WAS having breakfast in my home at Pitman, eight miles
unguished a beaten human form that of a vounge sein. away, that Sunday morning when, at 7:45 o'clock, my :
Edelman clambered down the embankment beside the bridge telephone rang, When Lb answered it a voice manic:
tv verify his discovery. After a hurried look at the tragedy “This is Detective Scott, Sheriff. ‘he body of a girl has
39


42 l'rue Detective Mysteries

nal see why she should refuse you. You will po out with a
fellow some time, so why not now? Lam sure 1 would be
decent and respect vou in all ways. I cannot do anything
more than that, | am sure. What are you going to do
Saturday night? Are you going to stay home or have you a
party to attend? If vou have a party to go to, do not yo,
hut meet me. How will that be? Write mea nice long letter
next time, as you owe me one for the two long ones 1 wrote
vou. 1 usually go by at ten to one, so watch for me.

“Vy sister is trying to read this. She keeps walking in
hack of me, I have something else I want to tell you, but 1
must see you for a while to do so. 1 am getting nervous from
the walking around. I am going to close, sweetheart, and 1
hope the letter you give me isa long one. 1 could read them
‘orcver, 1 never grow tired of them, 1 will close with love.”

ROOPER Smith and [ took the notes and other bits of
evidence we had found in the Sarlo home and drove down

the street, spreading the notes out on the seat of my car,

after we had parked at a quiet spot.
We thought that the notes might lead to the murderer of
the girl, Our conversations with neighbors and members of

the dead girl's family indicated clearly that Rose Sarlo had
We felt sure that the murder must have

been a good girl.
been com-
mitted by some-
one who had
the girl’s conti-
dence and had
lured her to her
death, or that
force had been
used, for she
was not the
type of voung-
ster to be
“picked up" by
a stranger,

Yarrow, in his cell, is being questioned by Sheriff Tryon left)
The prisoner insisted that he did not know where she was, and that they had parted friends

Trooper Smith and | spread the dragnet and the county
police and State Troopers began to pick up bits of evidence
which fitted into our suspicions.

Further trace of Rose’s movements on Saturday night
showed that she had first gone to the bank on Broad Street
and made the deposit for her father. From the bank, ap-
parently, she had gone to the five-and-ten-cent store, also
on Broad Street, where she had bought a box of little tin
soldiers for her brother, Bobbie, who was to celebrate his
seventh birthday soon,

Her next stop was at the butcher shop of Metzger, where
her father and brother, Joseph, were employed. .\t the shop
she had chatted with Metzger and her father, and on leav-
ing had said to her father:

“Daddy, please bring home two dill pickles for my lunch

Monday. Pin going to the movies betore foo home.”

Rose next was seen by Miss Blanche Sweeten, nineteen
vears old, of t21 North Broad Street, Woodbury, which is
direetly across the street from the Sarlo home. She declared
she had seen Rose about 10:30 o'clock across the street from
the post office, not far from the motion picture theater where
Rose had told her mother and father she was going,

Miss Sweeten was a close friend of Rose. She saw her talk-
ing with two voung men. [ft seemed strange to Miss Sweeten
that Rose —the “girl with no boy friends’ — should be talking
with the youths on the street, so she looked back several
times to watch the group as she walked down the street,

5 Miss Sweeten watched Rose and the two youth. on the

sidewalk, an Essex coach passed them, the hora blowing.
When Miss Sweeten had passed down Broad Street as far as
Newton Avenue, she saw what she believed to be the same
essex car, parked in front of the post office. As she con-
tinued down the street, past the Brewer Hospital, she glanced
back again and saw a girlish figure—probably Rose-—walk-
ing down the slope near the Quaker Cemetery. Then she
saw Rose engage in conversation with another man and
finally enter the Essex car.

Miss Sweeten was so curious about Rose and “who her
boy friend might be’ that. she stopped to wateh the car
move off. Searcely conscious of what she was doing, she
looked for the license plates to see the number. She wrote

relative to the disappearance of Yarrow’s wife, two years previous.

it down on a slip of paper and put itin her handbag. The
number was Z-4303.

Benjamin Barrett and William Pollinger, both neigh-
bors of the Sarlo family, verified a part of Miss Sweeten's
story. They, too, had seen Honey talking with two youths
in front of the post office, or across the street from the
Federal Building. They, too, put the time at 10:30 o'clock.

N investigating the notes found in’ Rose's room more
thoroughly, we discovered one signed “George.” Further
investigation showed that Rose had been acquainted with a
bus driver. This led Trooper Smith and myself toe believe
that these notes had been written by the driver ot a motor
bus on the Philadelphia-Woodbury Interstate Line, whose

Name was George and on whose bus | (Contonned on Daye SO)

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Thalrose asked
nd the wheel.
or it,” T assured

“Here goes..."
i¢ highway, con-
1 Were chjyoying
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key which later
leath house to as
irderers as IT have
years of detec-

se’s story reveal?
jerers spoken of?
ognized them in
will tell you next
finishing touches
sleuthing. Don’t
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JETECTIVE MyYs-
ill news stands

Mantua’) Creek
body was found,
ck on the morn.
vt”.
he had crossed

Jenied know]-
le had crossed
ir because he

1 Philadelphia at
returning to the
vare River,

Avis as his at

on had turned up
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y, Who lived) on
vy, While walking
\venue—a donely
1 Woodbury—had

weeds not. far
investigation re-
slipper yt the
ver for the right
he blood spots on
dia girl’s bloody

ules from where
been found—but
chief were iden-

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nue was that of
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Taggert lived in
re former Mayor
Philadelphia was
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the murder, nor
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two unconscious
on the girl. Mrs.
-four years old,
rga, New Jersey,
-y Verfaillie,  fif-
1 of Rose Sarlo,
tor bus in Wood-
Jank Avenue, be-
turday night.

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“A few minutes after we got off the
bas,” Mrs. Verfaillie said, “we heard
cries of agony. We thought the cries
came from an automobile we saw parked
there. We saw a man in the car. He had
neither hat nor coat, and his shirt was
open at the neck. His hair and cloth-
ing seemed dishevelled.

“We were frightened. As we walked
past, the man started his car and drove
about fifty yards, where he stopped the
automobile again. We saw something—
someone—in the car. It must have been
poor little Rose, and the screams we
heard must have been hers.”

RRIVING at her home, Mrs. Ver-
faillie told the story to her husband,
Fred Verfaillic, a carpenter employed by
Hitchner & Holmes in Camden.  Ver-
iaillie went to the scene, but the auto-
mobile had driven away. Neither he nor
his wife and daughter connected the in-
cident with the murder until they read
cf it in the newspapers,

While these details of the crime were
Leipg worked out and with some of the
authorities concentrating on checking the
movements of young Matteo on the night
of the murder, further corroboration of
the story of Miss Sweeten came to light.

Two youths—Antone Letzgus, nephew
of State Assemblyman Charles W. Letz-
gus, and Maurice Sweeney, both of
Gloucester City, Camden County—had seen
Rose Sarlo and talked with her on the
night of the slaying.

The youths had gone to Woodbury
from their homes and were walking on
the cast side of Broad Street when they
met Rose. The three stopped in front of
the home of Doctor Duncan Campbell—
almost across the street from the Wood-
bury Post Office.

As the youths and Rose talked, young
Letzgus said, they saw an automobile
pass—-a small coach, It was about 10:30
o'clock, The car was going north on
Broad Street,

As it passed them, Letzgus said, the
driver blew his horn, leaned from the
car and called, “Hello, Rose.”

Letzgus and Sweeney said the car must
have been driven around the block, for
live minutes Jater it passed again --oing
in the same. direction—and in a_ brief
period of time, when they looked again,
they saw the same car parked on the op-
posite side of the street, near the post
office.

When the boys said “Good night” to
Rose and left her, they walked south on

road Strect. It was about this time
that Miss Sweeten reached the scene,
witnessing the conversation of Rose,
Letgus and Sweeney, and later the epi-
sode of Rose and the automobile driver.

Young J.etzgus, too, corroborated Miss.
Sweeten’s story of having seen Rose en-
ter an automobile with a man. He could
not identify the driver, however, he said.

HE manner in which the murder had

been accomplished now was clearly
outlined, Rose Sarlo had left home with
the intention of doing her Saturday night
shopping, secing a “movie” and return-
ing to her home at a comparatively carly
hour.

She had stopped to chat on the strect
with young Letzgus and Sweeney and
her meeting with the driver of the au-

True Detective Mysteries

tomobile could not have been prear-
ranged, Evidently the driver had known
her, for he had called “Hello, Rose” as
he drove past the youths and girl.

The slayer, then, probably had watched
—cither from his parked car in front of
the post office or from some other van-
tage spot—while Rose walked away from
Sweeney and Letzgus to a spot on the
slope near the Quaker Cemetery, where
Miss Sweeten had seen her talking with
the unidentified man,

The evidence disclosed on East Red
Bank Avenue indicated that the girl had
been beaten—and probably shot—there;
although no one could be found who had
heard the pistol shots. What had hap-
pened between the time of the assault
and the finding: of the body beneath the
Mantua Creek Bridge remained a mys-
tery.

We had checked carefully all the evi-
dence relative to the mysterious Essex
coach on the fateful Saturday night. We
took a car of the same type and had it
driven over the ground described by
Miss Sweeten, Letzgus and Sweeney.
This) demonstration showed that. their
stories tallied exactly.

State Trooper Smith, who had started
work on the case with me, now had been
transferred to other duties, while Trooper
Kelly, a corporal then and now a ser-
geant on the State force, was loaned to
Gloucester County as an acting county
detective for work on the Sarlo case.
Kelly played a prominent part in de-
veloping the evidence.

By this time young Matteo had sat-
isfactorily explained his movements ou
that Saturday night and Corporal Kelly
and I were concentrating on the Yarrow
angle. We had taken the bits of glass
gathered from the ruins of Yarrow's car
to a chemist for analysis of suspicious
looking spots on them. We had found
other spots on an aluminum step fastened
to the running board of the automobile.
The chemist also looked these over.

He determined that they were blood
spots,

Then, too, we had the tire which
Trooper Smith and T had removed from
Yarrow's  fire-wreeked automobile. — It
had ai clearly defined tread. It was a
Murray Cord, worn, but. still) retaining
the pattern of the tread.

Trafic on the Mantua:Wenonah Road,
of course, was so heavy that it had ob-
literated any possibility of tracing any
particular car by its tracks there. But
there remained the tragic spot on East
Red Bank Avenue, where Rose Sarlo’s
forgotten slipper had been found, and
where Mrs. Verfaillie and her daughter
had heard screams on the fateful night.

MICROSCOPIC search was made

of the ground at the scene of the
tragedy. The beaten down weeds and
blood spots told the story of the strug-
gle there.

But there was more to be found. We
examined the roadway carefully and the
ditch along the side where the murder
car must have stood. Finally our search
was rewarded.

There was a well-defined print of a
tire a mark of a familiar pattern. We
took the tire which we had removed from
Yarrow’s blackened automobile and_ fitted
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“They have swell cats here,” he said.

Glancing around in the direction he was
looking in, I> saw a young man slightly
over medium height sitting at a table
across the aisle from us. He met my ex-
pression of annoyance with a flashing
smile.

SIGNALLED to the waiter and paid

our bill.

“See you later?” the intruder positively
beamed on me as 1 passed him with a
curt nod.

“The District Attorney wants to speak
to you on the ’phone,” a waiter rushed up
and told mie in a low voice as I was about
to open the door.

“Tell him, I'll call him back in a min-
ute or two,” I answered in an equally low
tone.

I had left word when I left the jail
where I could be found in a case of emer-
gency. What had happened?

I didn’t want to return to the jail until I
had received Thatrose’s statement. Yet,

‘True Detective Mysteries

I must answer the D. A.’s call at once. I
didn’t dare answer it in the open res-
taurant with that man sitting here.

The problem was solved for me.

At that moment, Fogarty, my partner,
appeared on the scene.

There was an expression of chagrin on
his lips. “Tlave you heard the news?” he
asked. “Some little boy has tattled, and
the reporters know all about the arrests.”

Thalrose had entered the ear, and as
Fogarty spoke in a whisper, it was
impossible that — he could have heard
what was said. His face, however, had
grown haggard and I knew if I didn’t
get the story from him then, reaction
would set in and he would recede into
his shell.

“Call the D. A. on the *phone,” T. said
to Jack, “Tell him Thalrose is breaking.
If the message is more important than
that, chase after me. Ill be driving slowly
down the road. If it isn’t urgent, Vil
meet you in the jail in half an hour.”

“Sure that's true what you said about

them not roping me in?” Thalrose asked
as 1 took my place behind the wheel.

“You have my word for it,” I assured
hini.

“Then,” with a shiver. “Here goes...”

As we drove along the highway, con-
gested with motorists who were enjoying
the balmy spring weather, Thalrose put
me in possession of the key which later
opened the door of the death house to as
cold-blooded a pair of murderers as I have
ever met in over twenty yeaes of detec:
tive work.

Just what will Thalrose’s story reveal?
Who are these two murderers spoken of?
Have you already recognized them in
the story? De Martini will tell you next
month how he put the finishing touches
on this piece of master sleuthing. Don't
miss this thrilling wind-up of one of the
most sensational crimes in New York
annals—in July TRUE DETECTIVE Mys-

“Honey” Sarlo and the Fiend

Rose had ridden to and from work, This
man had been discharged, but until three
months previous to the murder he had been
a regular driver on that route.

lis name was George Yarrow. lle lived
in Barnsboro, Gloucester County, with his
brother-in-law and_ sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Tlassan. Yarrow's aged mother,
Mrs. Mary Yarrow, an invalid, also lived
in the home.

Trooper Smith and I hurried to Barns-
boro. As we drove up to the house we
left my car and went to the side of the
dwelling. Immediately outside the garage
stood the wreckage of a burned automobile,
the interior absolutely burned away, and
the metal work torn and blistered. “The
automobile was an Essex coach. Bits of
broken glass from its windows were strewn
on the ground beside it. Only the tires
had escaped the effects of the flames. I
took the license number of the car and
Trooper Smith and TP gathered suspicious-
looking bits of broken glass beside the car.

We removed a tire, the right rear one,
and then knocked at the door of the
Hassan home. Mrs, Tassan responded to
our knock. She told us her brother, George
Yarrow, was asleep in his room and we
asked her to call him.

Yarrow appeared, evidently just having
heen awakened. He rubbed the sleep from
his eyes as we told him who we were and
explained that we wanted to question him.

Questioned about his movements on Sat-
urday night, Yarrow told us he had spent
the night in Woodbury, after an early
drive to Philadelphia with friends. Yes, he
had known Rose Sarlo, but he had not seen
her for three months. They never had been
sweethearts, he said, and never had gone
anywhere together.

“Did you know that Rose Sarlo had been
murdered?” T asked him.

“No,” he responded, apparently little af-
fected by the news. Tle was not nervous,
only surprised. He seemed only mildly
interested in the details of the murder.

“Ts that your car—the burned one in the
yard?” he was asked.

(Continued from page 42)

"Yes," was the response,

“How and when was it burned ?”

“It burned up early this morning,” Yar-
row replied. “Twas going to take a girl
to Atlantic City, and as | backed it) from
the garage it back-fired, starting a fire
under the hood. The blaze spread fast and
soon ignited the interior of the ear. The
Barnsboro Fire Company was called to put
out the blaze.”

Investigation disclosed that the Barns-
horo Fire Company had extinguished the
blaze, having been called te the scene by
Harry Hassan, Yarrow’s brother-in-law.
By the time the firemen had reached the
Hassan home the interior of the car had
been burned away,

ARROW'S story, in our opinion, did

not ring true, so Trooper Smith and T
formally arrested him on suspicion and
took him to Woodbury for questioning,
The body of Rose Sarlo had been resting
in the undertaking establishment of Atlee
B. Adams, a county coroncr, awaiting an
inquest and autopsy.

Doctor H. HH. Clark, County Physician,
was performing the antopsy when we
reached the mortuary with Yarrow. We
took him into the room where the body
lay. Yarrow was unmoved.

The State trooper and T then took Yar-
row to the Court House where State and
County Police had held three other per-
sons for questioning. Those under exam-
ination there were Carmen Matteo, seven-
teen years old, and James McCourt,
twenty-one years old, both of Sewell,
New Jersey, and Joseph Downs, twenty-
two years old, of West Street, Wood-
bury. McCourt and Downs soon demon-
strated that they could give little evi-
dence relative to the murder.

Matteo, however, was held. He admit-
ted that he had been a friend of Rose
Sarlo, but denied vigorously that he
could cast any light on the murder, Mat-
teo had been picked up at his home after
a mysterious witness, whose identity was
withheld, had informed us that he had

TERIES—on sale at all news stands
June 15th.
seen Matteo cross the Mantua Creek

Bridge, where the girl's body was found,
shortly before 4:30 o'clock on the morn-
ing following the murder,

Matteo admitted that he had crossed
the bridge at that hour, but denied know!-
edge of the crime. He said he had crossed
the bridge at that late hour because he
had spent the evening in Philadelphia at
a party and was late in returning to the
Jersey side of the Delaware River.

Matteo retained James Avis as his at-
forney,

By this time our men had turned up
evidence which revealed more details of
the brutal crime. James Youngcourt, a
friend of Rose's family, who lived on
Walnut Street, Woodbury, while walking
along East Red) Bank Avenue—a_ lonely
road on the outskirts of Woodbury—had
noticed badly trampled weeds not far
from the roadway. His investigation re-
vealed oa osmall black slipper in the
trampled weeds-—a_ slipper for the right
foot—what appeared to be blood spots on
the grass and weeds, and a girl's bloods
handkerchief,

The spot was four miles from. where
4ose Sarlo's body had been found—but
the slipper and handkerchief were iden-
tified as Rosce’s.

The only house near the grewsome spot
on East Red Bank Avenue was. that of
Alexander Vaggert, a caretaker for the
G. G. Green Estate, which is owner of
the surrounding land. Taggert lived ir
the old farmhouse where former Mayor
J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia was
born. Taggert had heard no outery er
shots on the night of the murder, nor
had he seen a car parked there.

But, there had been two unconscious
witnesses of the attack on the girl, Mrs
Emily Verfaillic, thirty-four years old.
of Spiegal Avenue, Verga, New Jersey.
and her daughter, Mary Verfaillic,  fit-
teen years old, a chum of Rose Sarto,
had stepped from a motor bus in Wood-
bury, near Fast Red Bank Avenue, be-
tween TV) and 11:30) that Saturday night.

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automobile at the scene of the attack on
Rose Sarlo!

We were now ready for our session
with George Yarrow.

Trooper Welly and T examined Yarrow
in his cell in the Court Llouse. Ile was
obdurate. Hour after hour he denied his
guilt, while we repeated to him the chain
of evidence we had woven. We pointed out
the damning fact that blood stains had
been found on his car. We showed him
that his car could not have been ignited by
a back-fire, as he had said, for the blaze
had originated within the body of the car,

We showed him that we had estab-
lished the fact that he had written the
notes to the girl—an older man trying to
lead a young girl on, and how Miss
Sweeten had seen his car—for Z-4303
was his license number—stop and had seen
Rose Sarlo enter it.

And we told him, too, how the tire from
his automobile had fitted exactly into
the impression in the ground on Fast
Red Bank Avenue.

We tried to impress on him that we
bad an iron-clad case against him, with-
out a confession; but he angrily refused
even to admit that he had seen Rose Sar-
lo for three months before the murder,

At last, however, he broke.

“T'm ready to talk,” he told us,

We gathered in that room in the Court
Ifouse—Captain William J. Carter of the
New Jersey State Police, County Detec-
tive Scott, Sheriff John B. Stratton,
Corporal Welly and) Troopers William
Lewis and Smith of the State Police, G,
R. Schenck, Doctor H. H. Clark and my-
self,

ARROW sat most of the time with his
vwead in his hands, rarely looking up.
T conducted the examination, The con-
fession, in part, follows:
“Yarrow, do you wish to make a vol-
untary statement concerning this crime?”
“Ves,”
“On the day of the crime you started
out from your home at what time in your

ieare?”

“T started out in the morning, when |
went to work.”

“You came home and got your sup-
per after: work?”

“Yes.”

“What time did you start out in the
evening ?”

“Around seven o'clock.”

“Where did you go from then on?”

“Went up to Woodbury.”

“And what did you do after you got
to Woodbury ?”

“Went to visit some friends.”

“After you left your friends what did
you do?”

“I went around town for awhile. Just
rode around the streets.”

“Where and when did you mect Rose
Sarlo?”

“To met her around below the post
office; down by the hospital on the op-
posite side of Broad Street.

“And you had some conversation with
her there?”

“Ves,”

“What happened next?
her into your car?”

“Yes.”

“Did she wet into the car?”

“Ves,”

Did you invite

“And then where did you go?"

"Ont on the dirt road out there.”

“Hlow far did) you travel after you
went under the railroad bridge?”

“T don't know. About halt-a-mile.”

“What happened next?”

“We had some kind of an argument
there.”

“Tlow did this argument start?"

“TE don't know how it: started.”

“Were you asking her to do things
she should not do?”

“IT don’t even remember what it started
over.”

“Was the
gument?”

“Ves,”

“What did you do?”

“T hit her face.”

“With what?”

“My hand.”

“Was your hand opened or closed?”

“Closed.”

“Did you get out of the car, cither of
your?”

“We were outside the car.”

“Both of you?” .

Vou”

“Tlow many times did you hit her?"

“Just once,”

“Did you knock her down?”

“Ves,”

“Was it necessary for you to pick her
up after you knocked her down?”

“Yes,”

“Was she unconscious ?”

“For awhile.”

“Did you Tift her into the automebile 2”

He did not answer.

“Where did you put her in the auto-
mobile?”

“In the back seat.”

“What happened next?”

“T started the car.”

“Did you continue out to the Delsea
Drive?”

“[ rode a little way and then turned
back,”

car stopped during this ar-

HEN did she become consciots 2”
“Before I turned around and came
back again.”

“What did she say when she regained
consciousness ?”

“She said she was going to have me
locked up.”

“For striking her?”

OV on?

“And when she said she was going to
have you locked up what did you do?”

“[ turned around—oh, IT can't) think.”
(Putting his hands to his face.)

“And when she said she was going to
have you arrested what did you do?”

“IT went down Delsea Drive to Sewell
and from Sewell over to Mantua and as
1 drove between Mantua and Barnsboro
I shot her.

“You shot her where?”

“T don't know. I didn’t look to sce
where I shot her.”

“How many times did you shoot her?”

“LT think twice.”

“What conversation did you have be-
fore you shot her?”

“Nothing.”

“She said she was going to have you
arrested, Didn't she say anything after
that?”

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failed to identify any of the gunmen,

Late that afternoon Emma Heisler was
brought from her cell for further in-
terrogation. This time Mayor Stewart
and Chief Colsey were among those who
questioned her.

“You told us the truth as far as it
went. But it didn’t go far enough,”
Colsey said. “We know you're holding
something back,”

She glared belligerently at the offi-
cials. “I’ve got nothing more to say,”
she snapped.

“We happen to know that Mickey Blair
paid you a visit a few hours before the
murder,” Colsey persisted. “Why did
he come there?”

She paled, then grew thoughtful for
a moment. “Oh, just for a loan,” she
finally answered.

“Was it a loan?” the chief wanted to
know, “or was it a shakedown?”

“Let me put it this way,” she said.
“He came for money,”

“Did he get it?”

The woman shook her head. “T turned
him down.”

Her failure to give straightforward
answers to further questions convinced
the mayor and police chief that they were
wasting their time. They left her with
the warning that she was facing a long
prison term unless she told the ‘whole
truth.

Shortly after their departure she be-
came visibly agitated as the detectives
continued their grilling. She rose and
began nervously pacing the floor of the
little room. Then all of a sudden she

made a lunge for the open window. The
officers tried to grab her but she plunged
headlong into space. A few moments
later her body struck the pavement of
the courtyard five stories below. She
was still alive when picked up and
rushed to the hospital but died a half
hour later without regaining con-
sciousness,

Detectives who had been assigned to

apprehend Mickey Blair reported back.

that he was not in his local haunts, He
was known to have underworld connec-
tions in New York, Atlantic City, and
Philadelphia. Law enforcement authori-
ties in these cities were requested by
teletype to pick him up on sight.

Four days had passed since the mur-
der. Those who were held as material
witnesses had by this time been able to
furnish bail and secure their liberty.

On the morning of September 7th in-
vestigators were still interrogating resi-
dents in the area of the Sycamore Street

‘house. Among them were Detectives

Thomas Murphy and Mickey McCord
whose quest brought them to the home
of a woman residing on Kaighn Avenue
near Third Street, about three blocks
from the murder scene, ;

She told them that late on Saturday
night, approximately three hours before
the killing, she’ was standing in front
of her house when an automobile pulled
up.

“There were four men in the car,” she
related. “The man seated alongside the
driver asked how to get to the two hun-
dred block on Sycamore Street. He had

QUIZ

| boat questions deal with such
problems as deuteranopia, flam
paradiddles and _nightmares—all
part of a crime doctor’s work—not
to mention the legal phrases which
come up when he appears as an ex-
pert witness in court. How many
of them can you answer?

1, An elderly southern man and a
young Wisconsin girl were suspects
of a crime committed by a color-
blind person. Which one probably
was guilty?

2. If a murder suspect is found to
have papers on his person referring
to flam paradiddles, ruffs, and
double drags, what occupation
would you assign to him? (a) car-
nival pitchman; (b) dress designer;
(c) tympanist.

3. If you were the detective on a
case would you doubt a story that
a man dreamed he was being mur-
dered and became so violent that
he died of a heart attack while
asleep?

4. How would you know that a
ten-cent coin with the likeness of
President Truman is a counterfeit?

5. Where did the expression “straw
witness” get its name?

6. If you are convicted of the crime
of embracery, what have you done?

7. Which one of these terms is in-
appropriate in this general group-
ing? (a) habeas corpus; (b) demur-
rage; (c) garnishee; (d) subpoena.

8. If one of the justices of the U. S.
Supreme Court does not partici-
pate in a case and the remaining
eight are divided four against four,
what is the effect of the decision?

9. A man guilty of misprison is
(a) one who breaks out of jail; (b)
one who conceals a crime; (c) one
who accepts a prison sentence in
another’s stead?

10. In a deck of playing cards, two
of the Jacks are one-eyed; the other
Jacks have two eyes. How many
eyes are pictured on the Jack cards
in an ordinary deck?

(Please turn to page 94 for answers)

light, wavy hair and wore a gray suit.
The driver and the other two passengers
were dark. I didn’t take notice of the
make or license number of the car. But
I am sure that the automobile was green
and had Pennsylvania plates.”

Three days later a man walked into
detective headquarters, He had a flat
nose and swarthy complexion. He wore
a gray suit with wide stripes, a green
shirt, and gawdy tie. A large diamond
ring glittered on his hand.

“l’m Mickey Blair,” he announced. “I
understand I’m wanted for questioning.”

He was quickly ushered into the office
of Lieutenant Ward.

“Look, Blair, I’m putting the cards
right on the table,” the official began.
“T’ll admit that up to now the only thing
we have against you is suspicion. We
know that you were in the house a few
hours before the murder. We know that
you demanded money. And we know
that you didn’t get it. Frankly, we sus-
pect that you were the fingerman on the
job.”

Blair shrugged, remained Silent.

“The best advice I can give you,” Ward
went on, “is that you make a complete
statement of your connection with Mrs.
Heisler. We're going to learn the truth
anyway, So you might as well save your-
self and us a lot of trouble.”

The ex-prize fighter pulled out a
cigar, lit it, and took a leisurely puff.
“You got me all wrong, Lieutenant,” he
said finally. “I don’t play with fire.
It’s true I visited Mrs. Heisler, but it
was a little friendly call, That’s all
there was to it.”

“Tf that’s all you have to_ say,” re-
torted Ward, “I’ll have to lock you up
until we can get to the bottom of this.”

“Lock me up?” Blair protested. “On
what charge?”

“On suspicion of conspiracy in a
holdup.”

“Okay, Lieutenant,” Blair said. “How
about letting me phone my lawyer?”

This request was granted and he was
placed in a cell to await arraignment.

The police now concentrated their
search for the killers in Philadelphia.
The two key witnesses, Palese and Gulek,
spent the ensuing days in the company
of detectives inspecting the rogues’ gal-
lery in that city. The task was a tedious
one but they persisted in it, day after
day. During the course of this scrutiny
they picked out five criminals as pos-
sible suspects. Three of these were made
the immediate object of police investi-
gation. They were brought into head-
quarters and placed in a line-up. Palese
and Gulek looked them over and shook
their heads. They were sure they were
not any of the wanted men.

There was no trace of the other two
suspects, whose names were Frank Wiley
and Martin Farrell. The Philadelphia
police had been searching for the two
since the previous July when they had es-
caped from the Eastern State Penitentiary
in the Quaker city. The authorities had
been plagued during ensuing weeks by
a wave of unsolved crimes, Included
among them was the robbery of a
$4,463.52 payroll of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company at Broad and
Grange Streets. Local authorities and
the FBI were (Continued on page 80)

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SYCAMORE ‘STREET RIDDLE

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(Continued from page 51) also engaged in
attempting to solve the kidnapping ‘ of
William “Big Nose” Weiss, a Philadelphia -
businessman who was reputed to have
amassed a fortune by dealing in narcotics.
A demand for $100,000 ransom had been ©
made. Members of his family had carried .
on private ‘negotiations with the kidnap- :
pers’ that resulted in an agreement to pay

continued to be a mystery.

crimes were committed by members of the .
notorious Mais-Legenza mob which was

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seaboard. The police also believed that

Wiley and Farrell had become members

of this gang.

Lieutenant Ward reported these develop-

ments to Chief Colsey, who remarked, “I

can’t understand why they would bother”
with a place like Mrs. Heisler’s, Surely
they couldn’t expect a big haul there.” ..

“That’s true,” agreed Ward. “But maybe »

when all the facts are known we'll find |

a reason for it.”..

The scrutiny of the police Snotanraphe't

by Palese and Gulek was nearing comple-

tion early in October. By that time the two ;
witnesses had reached the Z’s. A picture

of a fleshy-faced, swarthy criminal was Put

before them.

“That’s the guy!” Palese exclaimed exe,
citedly.. “I’m. sure it’s him!”, .

Gulek nodded vigorously in caxeomant ‘

“Yeah, he’s the fellow who- stood on the

chair with the gun!”

The photograph was that of Charles R.

Zeid, a Soiith Philadelphia hoodlum who,

~- during recent months, had been suspected
of consorting with some of the underlings
of a notorious gang headed. by Robert Meu,

and Walter Legenza. ~

The spotlight of the investiga (ide now.
centered on Zeid... Detectives failed to ‘find’
him at his home or known hangouts, :: They

tailed members of his family and. others
- known to have been on intimate terms with ‘
him, See day. Ppesed into another without |
‘ results. ol 8%
. Other. witnesses stamped. “him as’ ‘one of
the killers when they saw his photograph,
The Camden County grand jury then in-
. dicted him for.murder. Prosecutor Orlando
had hundreds of fliers printed containing
his description and photograph,
These were sent to law enforce-

$25,000 for his release.. This sum was turned ©
over to the kidnappers but Weiss’ fate —
Underworld rumors had it that these ;

terrorizing communities along the eastern |

AB st

‘Police were on the scene a few minutes
later. A dragnet was quickly established
but no trace of the assailants was found.
As a result of the attempt on his life,
Palese’s bail was withdrawn and he was
placed in the county jail for his own pro-'
tection,

‘Early on the morning of December 12th

‘the Pennsylvania State Police sent out a

teletype that the National Guard Armory
at Norristown had been broken into during
the night and that a number of weapons
of various types had been stolen. The
newspapers came out with detailed accounts
of the crime a few hours later.

The following afternoon a North Phila-
delphia resident walked into police head-
quarters at the City Hall and asked to see
someone in authority. He was ushered into
the presence of Police Lieutenant Matthew
H. Clark,

“My ten-year-old daughter began talk-
ing about guns at the dinner table last
. night,” he advised. “When I questioned
her about the matter, I learned that another
little girl in the neighborhood had told her,
‘lots and lots of guns are in my Mother’s
bedroom closet,’”

The visitor went on to say that he lived
on Sixth Street near Cayuga. The little
girl’s mother, he continued, had recently
moved into the neighborhood. He was not
certain of the exact house in which she
resided but he believed that it was not far
from the corner of Sixth and Cayuga
Streets.

Lieutenant Clark passed this information

‘to Captain of Detectives James “Shooey”
' Malone, the spear-head of the hunt for the
| Mais-Legenza mobsters.
, evening the famed detective chief and a

By 6 o’clock that

group of picked men took up positions
near the intersection of the two streets.

' About three hours later two men came out

of a house on Sixth Street. They passed a
street lamp as they made their way toward
the corner.

“One of those fellows looks like Marty
Farrell,” Malone whispered to Detective
James Ryan,

' The latter pulled out his gun and took

‘a step forward.

“Don’t shoot,” advised Malone. “We've
got to be sure.” He signaled to his other
aides and as they drew close, he ordered,
“Come on, let’s get them.”

_

A taxicab with a lone passenger had in
the meantime pulled up to the curb. The
two men entered and the car sped away.

Detectives hastened to Malone’s auto-
mobile which was parked a_half-block
away. The taxicab had gotten a good lead.
They managed to keep it in sight and fol-
lowed it up Cayuga Street to Germantown
Avenue, where it turned north. The detec-
tives were about a block away when they
saw it pull in front of the Wayne Junction
station of the Reading Railroad.

By the time the sleuths had entered the

station the others were nowhere in sight. -

The officials halted for a moment to de-
liberate whether they should proceed to
the northbound or southbound platform.
They chose the latter. When they reached
it they saw the three men standing amid a
group of other passengers on the opposite
side. They began retracing their steps. The
suspects watched their movements through
the iron fence which separated the two
platforms, then suddenly whipped out guns
and began. shooting. At the same time
they backed away toward an embankment
alongside the station.

The detectives held their fire for fear
of injuring innocent bystanders. When the
suspects reached a spot where they were
the only targets, the officers’ revolvers
blazed. By this time the men were out
of range. An instant later they scrambled
over the embankment and disappeared.

The search which followed was fruit-'
less. .Malone then led the way back to
the Sixth Street house. The detective chief
and several of his men advanced to the
front door while the rest made their way
through the alley to the rear.

At that moment a man with a machine
gun stepped from an upstairs window to
the roof of the porch, causing the sleuths
who were approaching the front to dash
for the safety of the porch.

The detectives in the rear were electri-
fied into action. They broke down the door
and entered with drawn guns. A terrified
woman knelt in the living room with her
arms around three small children. Malone
in the meantime had stationed guards at
the front and rear exits and had gained
entrance by battering down the door. Two
of the sleuths stood watch over the fright-
ened occupants, while the others proceeded
cautiously up the stairs to the corridor
leading to the front bedroom.

“Come out backwards, with your hands
up,” shouted Malone. ‘We've got you
trapped.”

For a moment there was no

ment authorities over a wide
area, with requests to arrest Zeid
on sight.

Blair had in the meantime ©
been arraigned. His attorney
swore out a -writ of habeas
corpus. The prosecutor protested
the prisoner’s release but pre-
sented no evidence to sustain the
charge. In view of this, the court
was compelled to give him his
freedom. He was immediately re-.
arrested, however, on the charge
of being a material witness. The
cell door swung open for him
when he posted $5,000 bail.
Shortly before midnight about

:» a week later, Palese was stand-
ing near the corner of Broadway
and Benson Streets in Camden.
A black automobile containing
three men with revolvers in
their hands, slowed down near
him. He beat a hasty retreat to
the shelter, or a near-by restau-
rant, escaping by a split second
a volley of bullets that embefided
themselves in a door before ;
which he had been standing. .

“Look, do you have to advertise the fact?"

response, “Okay, we're coming,”
a gruff voice finally replied,
“Don’t shoot.”

Two men with upraised arms
backed out of the room. The de-
tectives were upon them imme-
diately. A quick frisk showed
they had no weapons and they
handcuffed them.

A search of the premises
yielded a large quantity of fire-
arms of various descriptions and
several hundred rounds of am-
munition. Most of the weapons
were later identified as those
stolen: from the Norristown
armory.

The man who had fired from
the porch roof, the detectives
discovered, was Frank Wiley, the
escaped convict. His companion
was Charles Zeid, The woman in
the house gave the name of Mrs.
Elizabeth Wilkes. The trio was
taken to headquarters, while. the
children were turned over to a
public -child-welfare organiza-
tion,

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He refused to talk about either the Weiss
kidnapping or the murder of Feitz.

The detectives learned from Mrs. Wilkes
that the men who had eluded them at the
Wayne Junction station were Robert Mais,
Walter Legenza. and Martin Farrell. The
Dart which the investigators played in
finally rounding up every member of that
gang need not be mentioned here.

It need only be recounted that following
the raid of the Sixth Street house the police
learned that Weiss had been killed in a
bungalow located outside the city, that his
body was trussed up, weighted, and thrown
into Neshaminy Creek. Moreover, the au-
thorities found out that Wiley and Farrell
were major participants in. this murder,

On January 16th, Zeid was »rought be-
fore the court in Philadelphia and pleaded
guilty to participation in the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit robbery. He was sentenced
to the Eastern State Penitentiary for a

HINDSIGHT

Chief Gordon R. Davis of Stam.

ford University police, reports
that one of his men stopped a car,
which was being driven back-
wards. The driver, a student,
blandly explained that the car
had been rented on a mileage
basis, and that nothing registered
when it was going in reverse,

term of from twenty to forty years. He
was later rearraigned, however, and _ his
minimum sentence was reduced to fifteen
years. Newspaper reports stated that this
was a reward for his cooperation with the
authorities in clearing up the murder of
William “Big Nose” Weiss.

That crime had taken place in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania, Wiley and Farrell,
turned over to the prosecuting authorities
there, were placed in the county jail at
Doylestown. Lawrence Palese and Stan-
ley Gulek accompanied Camden county
detectives to the lockup where the two
Suspects were placed in a line-up with
several other prisoners. The two wit-
nesses quickly pointed them out as the
men who had participated with Zeid in the
Camden slaying.

Camden County Prosecutor Orlando
wanted Zeid for murder. He knew what it
would mean if the trial should be delayed
until the expiration of his prison term.
Witnesses might not be available at that
time. Also, the Memories of those who
might still be around would have become
dimmed with the Passage of time,

Orlando took immediate action. He
brought the matter to the attention of Gov-
ernor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania and
requested that Zeid’s conviction in Phila-

delphia be set aside so that he might b
extradited to Camden. After months of
legal maneuvering, Pennsylvania agreed to
surrender the prisoner,

Zeid was turned over to Camden County
detectives by officials of the Eastern State
Penitentiary on March 22nd. A half-hour
later he sat manacled in Orlando's office.
Palese entered and once more positively
identified him,

The prisoner glared at his accuser and
his lips curled in a sneer. “You'll pay for
this one of these days,” he threatened vi-
ciously,

When arraigned in court on April 19th
he kept slancing toward the door from
time to time. One of the sheriff's deputies
wanted to know if he was expecting some-
one,

“T thought,” he replied with a grin, “some
of the boys might show up.”

When he went to trial five days later
the courtroom and_ the corridor outside
looked like an armed camp. State Police
with high-powered rifles were stationed at
strategic points. Detectives in automobiles
cruised around the City Hall and Court-
house.

After three days of testimony the jury
went out to deliberate, They returned in

three hours with a verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree. Zeid was sen-
tenced to die in the electric chair at the

State Prison on June 2nd, 1935. His at-
torney appealed, and the verdict of the
lower court was affirmed months later. He
went to his death on June 2nd, 1936, exactly
one year from the time originally set for
his execution,

New Jersey warrants were filed against
Wiley and Farrell, but they were con-
victed of the Weiss murder and electrocuted
on March 2nd, 1936,

Several phases of the investigation were
never cleared up. The Kaighn Avenue
resident who had reported seeing the oc-
cupants of the green automobile shortly
before the murder identified three of the
passengers as Wiley, Farrell, and Zeid, The
identity of the fourth man was never es-
tablished.

Mrs. Heisler’s suicide left other ques-
tions unanswered, especially concerning the
suspected involvement of Mickey Blair who,
it will be recalled, was out on $5,000 bail
as a material witness. He became a fugi-
tive until after Zeid's trial was over. When
he was finally apprehended he was given
a six-month sentence for contempt of court.
He was later murdered by an unknown
assailant as he was leaving a house of ill
repute which he was operating in Atlantic
City, New Jersey.

Lawrence Palese likewise came to a
violent end. Found guilty of attempted rob-
bery, he was sentenced to a three-year term
in the New Jersey State Prison located at
Trenton.

Paroled, he made underworld connections
and later became the victim of mob venge-
ance. His death is still shrouded in deep
mystery.

The motive which caused mobsters like
Wiley, Farrell and Zeid to commit a holdup
in which they could anticipate only a small
return has not been definitely determined,
but it is believed they may have been put
up to it by Blair as retaliation for Mrs.
Heisler’s refusal to pay for “protection.”
Another theory is that they needed money,
even a small amount, quickly and without
any great risk in order to secure pressing
funds required for their anticipated larger
operations,

Note: The names Jack ‘Wallace, Ruth
Vinson, Stanley Gulek, Jane Stevens, Kitty
Larrimore, Joe Patterson, and Mrs, Eliza-
beth Wilkes, as used in this story, are not
the real names of the persons concerned.
These persons have been given fictitious
names to protect their identities.

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strangers entered the place shortly be-
fore 2 o’clock that morning. They pulled
out guns and ordered those present to
stand with arms raised, facing the wall.
One of the gangsters was going through
the pockets of the victims when Feitz
entered. He stood rooted to the spot for
an instant. Then, as he made a move
for his gun, his badge became visible.
At that moment he turned and bullets
whizzed across the room.

“What did these men look like?” asked
the official. ;

The woman shook her head. “I can’t
tell you,” she replied. “I was too ex-
cited to take notice.”

Further questioning disclosed that
among those present at the time were
Jack Wallace, the doorman, Ruth Vin-
son, the domestic, and two girls, Kitty
Larrimore and Jane Stevens. She denied
knowing the names of any of the others.

“Tf you’re holding something back,”
Ward warned, “it will only make things
harder for you.”

She folded her arms across her chest
and looked out of the window. “I’ve
told you all I know. There’s nothing
more I can say.”

Sergeant Koerner entered the room at
that moment. He called Ward aside and
handed him a photograph.

“This fellow’s fingerprints,’ he said,
“were found on the knob of the back
door.”

The Lieutenant read the identification
data on the reverse side of the picture.
He turned to Mrs. Heisler. ‘‘There’s no
use stalling,’ he snapped. “We have
proof that Joe Patterson was at your
place.’ After a pause, he demanded,
“Well, what about it?”

The woman _= shrugged. “He was
there,” she replied. “So what?”

“When did he leave the house?”

Her answer came reluctantly. “Right
after the shooting he told Kitty, Jane
and me to scram over to his car,” she
admitted. “It was parked on Locust
Street. He was right behind us when
we got there and took Kitty and me to
my home. Then he drove off with Jane.”

“Where did they go?”

Mrs. Heisler pursed her lips. “I don’t
know,” she said slowly.

Booked as a material witness and op-
erator of a disorderly house, she was
placed in a cell to await arraignment.

Joe Patterson was another notorious
figure in the Camden underworld. A
complete description of the car regis-
tered in his name and the number of
the license plates were obtained from
the records of the Motor Vehicle Depart-
ment at Trenton.

“Flash a request for his arrest over
the teletype,” ordered Colsey, ‘and put
a watch on his house.”

Public indignation was strong follow-
ing the newspaper reports of the murder.

Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd’

issued an order to the September grand
jury “to make a sweeping investigation
of all phases of crime in Camden Coun-
ty.” The County Ministerial Association
passed a resolution urging citizens to
take measures to combat what they
termed police indifference to vice con-
ditions. .

Mayor Roy Stewart interrupted his va-
cation to take a hand in the investigation.

Michael Tenerelli, prime suspect in
mystery shooting of the policeman

Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando, whose
county detectives now joined the city
police in the hunt for the killers, issued
a public statement which expressed his
opinion that the condition out of which
the murder grew could not have existed
without a corrupt alliance between the
underworld and certain police officials,
Twelve such officials were suspended as
a result of the probe which followed.

Early that afternoon Sergeant Albert
T. Varrelman of the state police was
cruising on the White Horse Pike near
the town of Folsom, about forty miles
from Camden. A green Chevrolet sped
by him in the opposite direction. The
numbers matched those contained in the
teletype flash from Camden. Swinging
around, he overtook it and forced the
driver to the side of the highway. Upon
being questioned he admitted that he
was Patterson. Varrelman brought him
to state police headquarters in Ham-
monton and notified Chief Colsey that
the wanted man was in custody.

Less than an hour later, Patterson sat
talking to Detective Wirtz who ;had
arrived from Camden to question him.
He admitted having driven Jane Stevens
to the Atlantic City apartment of a man
whom he claimed to know only by the
name of “Skinny.” The two proceeded
to the address and found “Skinny” at
home. He advised them that Miss Stev-
ens had left a short time before their
arrival,

She told him, he went on to say, that
she was planning to stay at a hotel which
was located near the Reading Terminal
in Philadelphia.

Detective Wirtz returned to Camden
with Patterson, who was booked as a
material witness. Upon being interro-
gated he readily furnished the names of
several men who were present and cor-
roborated Mrs. Heisler’s account of the
events preceding the murder. He also
stated that he had heard her place had
been stuck up on two previous occasions
but she chose to make no complaint.

They next asked him to describe the
three gunmen.

“T can’t help you out on that,” he
replied.

“You can’t,” frowned Ward, “or is it
that you don’t want to help us out?”

“T told you all I know,” he insisted.
“IT can’t say any more.”

The roster of material witnesses grew
with the passing hours. Those named
by Patterson were quickly brought in
and questioned. Some of these in turn
gave the names of other persons. By 9
o’clock the next morning a dozen patrons
of the house were in custody. A few
were interrogated, their statements tak-
en and released. The rest were detained
for further questioning.

Detectives in the meantime had been
successful in arresting Jack Wallace, the
doorman, Ruth Vinson, the maid, and
the two girls, Kitty Larrimore, who was
found at her home, and Jane Stevens,
who was traced to the Philadelphia
hotel.

The information resulting from the
questioning of these witnesses advanced
the probe along several fronts. The in-
vestigators learned that another notori-
ous underworld figure had put in an
appearance in the house several hours
before the murder. He was Michael
Tenerelli, a former pugilist, who had
previously gained a reputation as a boxer
under the name of Mickey Blair. When
his fighting days were over he turned
to criminal activities. .As time went on
he was reputed to have attained a key
position in a widespread vice ring.

When he entered the Sycamore Street
house prior to the killing, the detectives
learned, Mrs. Heisler was not present.
The doorman immediately sent word to
her and she put in an appearance within
a half-hour. The two then went into
the kitchen where they engaged in a
heated argument over money.

Statements obtained from witnesses
gave the investigators a more detailed
picture of what had taken place. After
the gunmen had lined the victims along
the wall, one of them stood on a chair
supervising the robbery. A second was
in the act of going through the men’s
pockets while the third stood guard at
the door. It was at this moment that
the bell rang. The bandits hesitated for
an instant. The man standing on the
chair finally said, ‘“‘That must be another
customer. His money is good, too. Let
him in,”

The gangster who stood guard at the
door opened it and Feitz walked in.
When they saw his badge the bandit
commanding the operations shouted,
“He’s a dick! Let him have it!”

It was then that the guns blazed and
everyone made a scramble for the exits.

Two of the witnesses, Lawrence Palese
and Stanley Gulek, furnished descrip-
tions of the criminals. The leader was
stocky, about five feet, seven inches tall
and weighing around two hundred
pounds. He was described as having
a little black mustache and “pop eyes.”

The bandit at the door was a tall, thin,
light-haired man with hollow cheeks and
a sallow complexion. He wore a gray
suit, blue shirt, and white tie. The third
gunman was described as being the
youngest of the trio. He had blue eyes,
dark hair and a small scar near his right
eyebrow.

The witnesses were then taken to the
Identification Bureau where the photo-
graphs of criminals are filed. After
carefully scrutinizing every picture, they

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