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“HEMP2AND! POISON DO THE WOBK.

ON OF CHARLES OSCHWALD FOR THE
fUKDER OF OFFICER BROCK—THOMAS
RYAN, HIS ACCOMPLICE, CHEATS” THE
GALLOWS BY TAKING POISON-—THE
STORY OF THE MURDER AND TRIAL—THE
CONDEMNED MAN PROTESTS HIS. INNO-
CENCE TO THE LAST.

Charles Oschwaid yesterday mornme suffered.

the extreme penalty of thelaw at Newark. Convict-
_ ed in November last of the morder of Officer Brock,
of the Newark Police force, ne was, with Thomas
yan,bis compavion.in the double offenseof burglary
and murder, sentenced to be hanged. Both men

* were) defended by able: counsel. The friends of

both, accepting their protestations of ianocence,
urzed upon their defenders tne necessitv.of using

1:9 pereona. His companion,

avont three hours before, with sym

tn the conclaston, after s saperficial post-mortem
examuation, that poison had enher been taken by
or adwninirtered to the condemned man. The event
caused a great deal of excitemeat to ‘Newark,

“crowds of people threnging tne streets in the
perzbborhood of the County Jail from 7 o'clock 18
we wornioz until noon.

THE STORY OF THE MURDER:

Zatiy in the morning of Aug. 3, 1876, Officer J.
Stauley Drock, of the Newark Police force, left bis
home at. No. 120 South: street, Newark, to watch
p.mo Kéuses which ho had been. detailed to cuard.
Ja Muzray street, near-Clinton avenae, bis atten
tion was attracted by a noise in the cellar

* «f the unoccupied bouso of Mr. Horace ‘$s.
Bedell, on the north-east corner of Murrey street
aud Clinton avenue. Crossing the sircet, he found
that the bare vcfure the cellar window had been
pried off and the sacb removed. Withont hesitation
bo jumpe? into tbe cellar, groped his way to tho
stairway leading to the tloor above. asceuded 1f,
and, fiading no une on the parlor fisor, kept
on to the tivuwr above. Oo trving the bath-
coom door, some one resistei. Revolver in band,
he pushed it open and was confronted by two mes,
one uf whom commanded him to stand, and. jmme-
diatcly afterward fired a shot at Brock, the officer
atthe same time returning the fire. Brock de-
ecanded. the atairs, staggered out into the
court-yard, and fell upon the grase

plage Sr <Foasell,* who lives; in Mure
ay sireet. pext door to the Bedell house,
| beard the two sbots, ran 2 his window. overlvok-

“tng Mr. Bedell’s yard, and. caw two moa coming
pnt of the cellar.’ He shouted: ‘What. are you
doing there ir’ Both looked np, and Sir. Fassell

As they walked. toward

Fussell’ shouted to them 8

again, saw their faces

the fence. Mr.

"second: time, and

* when they turned. Climbing. the: fences, the two

mentescaned.to. Murray strect, Clinton avenue, and
_, High otreet. “Mes Fassel! observed that one of
”' them carried in his baud s bisck baz. Officer Brock
was taken frst to bis own house, and afterward to

St Barnabas Hospital. He died on Ang. 10.
The Chict of Police at once took measureé to stoure
the arrest. of the murderers, and detore night on
be dcy of the: murder enouch evidence bad: been
secured to warrant» the arrest of - Thomas

a Charies Oschwald, the: keepers

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morning. s0 that he would not be hanged. Rev. Mr.
Allen and Rev. Mr. Weed camo to tho cell of Usch-
wald soon after-6 o'clock, ana from that timo until
the execution the sound of prayer was hoard within
tho bara. Oschwald wasshaved earty in the warninz,
and ‘requosted the barber fo remove his mouatacie

He then prepared himself for the cxeention, wenr-
ing dark pantaloons, a white shirt with black studs,
aud a black waistcoat. He appeared to be entirely
collected, and eouversed with all who came newr the
door of bis. cell, wearing. no. air whatever of
bravado... He said he had not slept. He bade fare-
well to bis mother and father early in: the
morning. * Don t cry,” he said, “it can’t bo holped
now.” The galluwa stood abuut 50 tect away frow
Oschwald's cetl, at the north end of the cormdor,
whuse. five windows looked ont towatd the east.
The eun streamed in freely, excent at the two Win:
dows opposite the gallows winca were acreened
with muslin. The gallowe bad lecu prepared
for two. victims, and alter Ryan's) death
a change was mace in the: weizhts, which wero re-
duced tu abou: 490 pounds, Qutsice the prieon
the crowd—which was kept a bluck away in eaca
Wirection—pumbered several thonsaba pe
ple, and was® compoded in - gtcat part. of
chidren, who could eee puthine = what-
ever to. gratly their cunositv. Within the
prison at 10:30 there were about 150 perecus, ¥ ho
clustered bebind the rope mark.vz the ltne beyoud
which the crowd could net go. Aovut 2 or ww net.
sony c.im bed upon the water-trouzh alonz che eastera
wall; another group stood upeu plattorm at the end
wf the room oppu-rite the gatlows, while aboat 30 re-
porters had seats ov the platturm heture the second
ter of ceils. A few Under Shevitls appeared. wi b
their. etaves of office, but thev bad bo
duties to perfurm, ae, the room | was
pot half fillet with apectator aod all
were cisposed tu bo orderiv. Ai 10:50 Cal, Davia,
Deputy Sheri, entered Oecbwal2's cell, announced
that tne time bad come for hie cxreculivn, and read
the death warsant. Revs. Air. Weed tven kaelt
with O-chwala in prayer, aud af ite conclusion
Uschwald kissed buth his epiritual advinere,
and. sheok bands wanriy with Col. Davia,
who aid, ~ Don't gv before your Gud with a talee-
bood on your lips.” . To whieh UOcchwald replied:
«Colonel, J die an tnnecent man.” Ilis artus Were
Dinioned, the nuves hang chout hie neck, and the
black cap pul vv. Uschwald’s face wore a pauned
look, bat he did net quail. There was a
slizbt stir when he Camo Mit ot bis
ecll and feil into the short precession
to the gallows. ‘Lhe sheriff aud bis first deputy lod
the way, the prisuwuer, supported by tur Warden and
a constable, fullowed, the clergymen walking clo<o
behind them... The cords about the prisoner's aukles
made it sumewhat difficule for hinr to walk,
but) he mado his way steadily ta. the
gallows. A chalk line bad been marked on the
floor upen which he was te stand, aud he carefally
placed his» {vet, as auguested, ono on csen
side of the mark. Col. Davia ad-
asted the noure, connected it with the drop
ine, pulled the biack cap over thy m sn's face, and
then wd & pace to the rear. ‘pulding on tu ddects-_
wald’s elbow. At 11:08 he nodaed sughtiy; tocre
was a du!l puine as tuo treadie wax moved, Osoh-
wald rose quickly tote tho tr, fell again to the
length of the rope, and then ewan, about foar ft
abuve the tor irow whica uc had vven litted.
Tho erme were twisted ciowly but strongly
in their intone, the legs wets drawa ap aud back-
ward atiitic, the shouldcrs were inttod couvalsively
a tew times, aud thes al! motion crated. At 1i:ls
the pulsations ceased courely, and Oschwald waa
pronounced dead. At 11:30 the budy was lowered
and 4aken to the Jaundry, where the budy of iyau
already lay. :

Soup atter Dr. Ward and Dr. Beumley mate a
second examination of the body of Kyau, aud found
new indications vf poisoulny ip the-beart and
viscera... The. heart, a eectiou of the liver, the kid-
nets,and apart of the wtestwes were removed for
avalysis by 2 chemist. wae leaued tbat
ail. the meals vf tho -prisoucr hud been

repared . out of the, jait and broacht. to
the. prison by the famiy, and 1¢ had. pot occurred
to the snesilt chat tus privileze woald be turned to
the uce that it nuw appears Was made of 11. Coroner
Usborne issued sum:acnses for jurors, and called an
inquest tu be held at 4o'clock tn the a'ternoon. Ltis
inumated tbat a searching inquiry wil bo mate with

the view cf ascertaining whoever ‘Kyan was supplied,

with. puisux and voluntarily tok it with iuteat to
commit: suicide, or received 4, tu bis toud as it wee
eS by. som one essa, and it waa thought in
Sewark-yestcruay that perbaps auutber.uial would,
grew out of ihe cases: » : .
Duriag: the afternoos Corenet Osborne sum-
moned a jury who viewed Ryao’e body. Pending
the analyeis. uf the swmach tho Inquest. was: ads
journec to await the reeult... ajay

FRAUDS UPON/1HE REVENT.

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AN EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF SMUGGLING DE-
TFCTED—HnoOW!) THE CHIEF OF TIE
SMUGGLERS MADE A Fuktusk—two
‘ARRESTS IN TIS CITY.

For several sears past the Treasury officials

beem aware of the existonec uf an cxicnaivs
eyetem of smogeiing Leiween Canais aud this
couatry, the Teouls of which: afB st thea utesves
rte tadiscorer. Laat Septewber Major William

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MAKES AN EXPLA

Jersey Central Ratlrvad,

Mfr. Potts occupied the

but he had failed to de so,
that the outy: notification
throug: the newspapers.
man of the commttce,
found ‘gilence, sugzested
rectors, all.of the om
presen
and that the books be brow
Ilo then read extracts fre
issued by the company sid
ture and et the order of

dent, whose glowing
promises appeared extrem
what fullowed. The read

nor the right to expend

etpette: . , 3

1o the stock of the C
of New-Jeracy:

Your committee not bein:
with the- means ary
fally inee proper Getatla,
of month, bat. woe. can la
facta ts enadlo yea to fore
value of yuur stock ta thoe
ot its pust management. 5
the existence of the Lovig
Company is thetr balance
1x74, at which time the
merger of several coal 00
provements, ovet-

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aud: Wilkesbarre Coat C
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mergerot the Huperd
stock in December jast
snudenty iacreased trons §3
increase of thase other
same merger coul’ sot
Junited ume allowed, Wit
barre Coal Coss 5
of NewJereey. as
133,593 shares, costing, we
the Central. Katlroad C
their annual etatement uf.
(OF the cerrectness of neit
-we been ablo to -sattely
chased §5.600,000 bonds 4

0u0 of the bonds of.
Company. . of i
guarantecd 13,180,006.
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provements. varda,
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UNLUCKY JERS

THE DISSATISFIED:

REPORT U¥ THEIR COMNE
CENSURES, THE MA
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OPERATIONS—M ISST.
ANNUAL REPORTS

MAN OF THE COMM
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PICKERING, Francis

Pickering, alias Mason, alias Price, a white residant of Maryland,
was known to be a thief. In 1756, he and a 20-year-old many Simon
Hussey, alias Anderson, went to Cumberland Co., N, Jey And stole a
horse and a mare from a man named Charles Davis, They were arrested
about one mile from Davis! home and claimed that they had only borrowe,
. the’ animals and were in the process of returning them when taken into
custody, Because the jail was considered insecure, the Governor or=
dered a special session of the court and on Aug, 22, 1758, they were iq
both tried and convicted of horse theft, a capital offense, and sen-
tenced to die, Hussey had considerable Sympathy because of his youth
and because it was felt that the older and notorious Pickering had
actually led him into his first criminal act, and for this reason, the
justices of the County and many of its prinfipal citizens petitioned
the Covernor for a commutation of his sentence which was granted ang
Hussey was pardoned two months later, Pickering was hanged on KX
HXAEXXEXAXSXER what was then a common at Bridgeton on Sept, 16,
1758. The site of hix execution subsequently became a part of the
Presbyterian graveyard on Broad Street,

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GENERAL HISTORY.

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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

531

Ogden, and Jeremiah Parvin refused to be sworn on
the grand jury, and were committed to the custody of
the sheriff for contempt. At the end of December
terin, 1748, the courts adjourned to the fourth Tues-
day in February, 1749, and ordered the clerk to make
all writs returnable at Cohansey Bridge. An election
had been held by which the latter place had been se-
lected as the county-seat. Atthe February term they
met at Cohansey Bridge, at the house of Isaac Smith,
who’ kept a tavern on the west side of the river.
Until 1752, wien the first court-house was finished,
they usually met at the Parvin and Cotting taverns.
In August, 1750, one David Smith plead guilty to
larceny, and was sentenced to “ be whipt on the bare
back 25 lashes.” At the August term, 1752, they
met at the court-house for the first time. December
term, 1755, Elias Cotting, the clerk, presented a new
commission to hold during good behavior. He died
in 1757, and at the December term of that year Daniel
Elmer presented his commission as clerk. He died
May 2, 1761, and Maskell Ewing presented his com-
mission to succeed him on the 26th of the same month.
At the December term, 1761, Isaac Mills, Jr., of Stow
Creck, hud his tax remitted, “ having been out in his
Majesty’s Service the present season.” Atthe August
terin, 1765, the record says the courts were “holden
- Bridgeton,” this being the first mention of that
@.... but it continued to be used after that. At the
- September term, 1776, the date is simply the year, the
year of the reign of the sovereign being dropped.
During 1777 and 1778 the principal business was the
prosecution of those refusing to take the oath of alle-
giance to the new State government, and of others
for disaffection to the government, and some for
reviling the same. Many of them were fined up to
£100, and some were imprisoned for three months.
In 1779-83 a number of those disabled in the war,
and the widows of some who had died in the service,
‘ applied for half-pay, and it was granted by the court.
All crimes of a high grade could only be tried in
the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which was held,
previous to 1794, by a special commission author-
izing a justice of the Supreme Court, who was named
with the county judges of the pleas, and sometimes
two or three justices of the peace, all of whom were
also named to hold the court. When a person
charged with a crime of the higher grade was ar-
rested application was generally made to the Gov-'
ernor, and he then issued a special commission. By
an act passed in November, 1794, the justices of the
Supreme Court and the judges of the respective courts
of Common Pleas, or any three or more of them, of
whom one of the justices of the Supreme Court
should be one, were constituted Courts of Oyer and
Terminer in each county, to sit in each county at such
sie as the Supreme Court should appoint. In 1799
a act was passed requiring them to sit at the same
time as the Circuit Court in cach county, which then
was twice a year,

The number of capital cases in this county has
been small, and to the honor of the county it can be
said that no white native-born citizen‘of the county
was ever executed.

the day appointed, by Sheriff Maskell Ewing. The:

hanging took place on what was then a common, but
is now comprised in the Presbyterian gravevard on
Broad Street, near the northeast corner of the yard,
An oral account of it, which the late Daniel M.
Woodruff, of Bridgeton, had from his mother, who
was born in January, 1749, says that Pickering, who
was a remarkably handsome man, had taken the
horse for some purpose, and was within a mile of
the place where it belonged and about to return it
when arrested. However this may be, the extreme
severity of the law was such that in 1769 the Legisla-
ture passed an act reciting that the punishment of
death, “which by the law as it now stands is directed
to be inflicted upon every person indiscriminately
convicted of horse-stealing,” had not answered the
purpose intended, and enacting that thereafter the.
punishment for the first offense should be such cor-
poreal or other punishment as the court should think
fit, and for the second offense made it lawful to impose
the death sentence as before, but even this harshness
has long since passed away.
The next conviction for a capital offense was during
the Revolution, upon a charge of highway robbery.
A messenger was sent after Judge John Cleves

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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

GENERAL HISTORY.

In 1779-83 a number of those disabled in the war,
and the widows of some who had died in the service, |

- applied for half-pay, and it was granted by the court.

All crimes of a high grade could only be tried in
the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which was held,
previous to 1794, by a special commission author-
izing ajustice of the Supreme Court, who was named
with the county judges of the pleas, and sometimes
two or three justices of the peace, all of whom were
also named to hold the .court. When a person
charged with a crime of the higher grade was ar-
rested application was generally made to the Gov-
ernor, and he then issued a special commission. By
an act passed in November, 1794, the justices of the
Supreme Court and the judges of the respective courts
of Common Pleas, or any three or more of them, of
whom one of the justices of the Supreme Court
should be one, were constituted Courts of Oyer and
Terminer in each county, to sit in each county at such
time as the Supreme Court should appoint. In 1799
an act was passed requiring them to sit at the same
time as the Circuit Court in each county, which then
was twice a year.

The number of capital cases in this county has
been small, and to the honor of the county it can be
said that no white native-born citizen of the county
was ever executed.

Capital Crimes and Executions.—The first case
of hanging in this county was for horse-stealing,
which at that time was a capital offense. Francis
Pickering, alias Mason, alias Price, and Simon Hus-
sey, alias Anderson, both of whom were inhabitants
of Maryland, and came here but a short time before,
were arrested for stealing a horse and a mare belong-
ing to Charles Davis. Owing to the insecurity of the
jail, although it had been built only three or four
years, the board of justices and freeholders sent a
special messenger to the chief justice of the State to
induce him to solicit Governor Bernard to issue a
special commission of Oyer and Terminer for their
trial. The errand was a success, and on Aug, 22
1758, a special court was held in the court-house, pre-
sided over by Samuel Nevill, one of the justices of
the Supreme Court, and they were convicted and sen-
tenced to be hung on September 18th. Hussey being
a youth about twenty years old, and it appearing he
had been led into it by Pickering, who had the char-
acter of a notorious thief, the justices of the county
and many of the principal inhabitants petitioned the
Governor for his pardon, and David Ogden, one of
the justices of the peace, was sent to Perth Amboy
with the petition. His errand was successful, and
Hussey escaped the death penalty, but was im-
prisoned about two months, and then released on the
application of the justices and freeholders, who sent
the sheriff to Somerset Court, probably to the chief
justice, to get his discharge. Pickering was hung on
the day appointed, by Sheriff Maskell Ewing. The
hanging took place on what was then a common, but
is now comprised in the Presbyterian gravevard on
Broad Street, near the northeast corner of the yard,
An oral account of it, which the late Daniel M.
Woodruff, of Bridgeton, had from his mother, who
was born in January, 1749, says that Pickering, who
was a remarkably handsome man, had taken the
horse for some purpose, and was within a mile of
the place where it belonged and about to return it
when arrested. However this may be, the extreme
severity of the law was such that in 1769 the Legisla-
ture passed an act reciting that the punishment of
death, “ which by the law as it now stands is directed
to be inflicted upon every person indiscriminately
convicted of horse-stealing,’” had not answered the
purpose intended, and enacting that thereafter the
punishment for the first offense should be such cor-
poreal or other punishment as the court should think
fit, and for the second offense made it lawful to impose
the death sentence as before, but even this harshness
has long since passed away.

The next conviction fora capital offense was during
the Revolution, upon a charge of highway robbery.
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DORIS L. GRADY
LIBRARY DIRECTOR

CAPE MAY COUNTY LIBRARY

Cape May Court House, New Jersey 08210

TELEPHONE (609) 465.7111

March. 31, 1977

Mr. Watt Espy, Jr.
Box 67
Headland, Alabama 36345

Dear Mr. Espy:

Enclosed is a copy of a newspaper article
from the July 13, 1894 issue of the Cape May
County Gazette. As the article states this was
the first hanging in Cape May County. This
information is confirmed by the entry in Stevens'

I was unable to find any further reference
to hangings in Cape May County. I spoke to
warden Thompson at the county jail and asked
him if he had any further information. He said
that according to his research, this was the first
and only hanging in Cape May County. He also
said that this was the last hanging in the State
of New Jersey. I was unable to verify this last

piece of information.

I hope that the enclosed material is of

some use to you.
Sincerely, ]
Ss

Thoma . Leonard
Assistant Director

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532 HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

Oyer and Terminer, and he was convicted by a jury,
The name of the prisoner is not now known. The
party robbed was proved to be a Tory and a person
of ill-repute, and the court recommended the prisoner

; ]
Symmes, who attended and held a special Court of |

for pardon, which was probably granted, as there is

no record or tradition of his execution,
On Feb. 28, 1797, John Patterson, an Trishman,

murdered Capt. Andrew Conrow, and attempted to -

kill two others of his crew, badly wounding them, on
their vessel on Maurice River, between Dorchester
and Leesburg. The cabin-boy escaped up the rig-
ging, and thus saved his own life, and afterwards was
the chief witness against Patterson. What induced
this fiendish act is now unknown. On his arrest he

ber, 1797, and he was convicted, chiefly on the eyi-
dence of the cabin-boy. The trial took place in the
Presbyterian Church on Broad Street, the court-house

men and boys eager to see the prisoner and hear the
evidence against him. During the course of the trial,

while the cabin-boy vas giving in his testimony, Pat-
terson, frenzied with anger, seized the lad by the

was with difficulty the people could be restrained
from tearing Patterson to pieces.” He was con-
victed and sentenced to be hung, but hung himself
the next morning with a silk handkerchief on the
upper hinge of his ce]] door, thus cheating the gallows
of the most deserving victim who ever faced that
dreaded reality in this county.

Ata court held June 7, 1799, before Isaac Smith,
second justice of the Supreme Court, and Jonathan
Elmer; Azariah Moore, Amos Westcott, John Mulford,
and Eli Budd, judges of the pleas, the negro Joseph
was tried for the murder of Peter Jackson, also a

mitted near Page’s Run, not far from Newport, and
it is said that he was goaded to the act. This trial]
took place in the court-house, and the jury convicted
him. He was sentenced to be hung on the 21st of
the same month, and his body to be delivered to such
Surgeon as should apply for it, as the law authorized.
The sentence was carried out by Sheriff George Bur-
gin, on a lot on the Roadstown road, just west of
West Street. The lot was then uninclosed, and coy-
ered with heavy timber, and it is said that an oak-tree
was used for the gallows, « The condemned man was
taken to the place of execution in an Open cart, es-
corted by the military, the band playing a dirge all
the way there. The military were formed in a hollow

) Newspaper article by Robert B. Potter, who obtained the facts from |

the late Daniel M. Woodruff, Esq., who, then a mere boy, was an eye-
Witness of the trial.

2m hcnpnmacee ee

Square around the tree, and after the usual prelimj-

' naries the deluded mortal was launched into eternity

amid the firing of musketry. The trees swarmed with

: men and boys as thick as blackbirds, and there was
| @ large turnout of the people from all parts of the

county, as if it were a gala day,’?
The next case of hanging was that of Rosan Keen,

a mulatto girl about sixteen years old. She was em.

ployed as aservant in the family of Enos Seeley, Esq.,
who about a year previous had been county clerk for
a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Seeley were both taken
sick, and in about ten days Mr. Seeley died, but Mrs.
Seeley recovered. Suspicions were aroused when jt
was learned that the girl had obtained a rsenic through

_ 4 neighbor, and she was arrested. Mr. Seeley’s body
passed by the name of Robert Brown, A special ©
termrof the Oyer and Terminer was held in Septem- ,

was taken up and the stomach sent to Philadelphia
to be analyzed. After being in jail two or thrée
weeks she confessed the crime. The arsenic was
mixed in a lump of butter, and Mr. Seeley had sey-
eral doses of it before he died. The motive seems to

"have been to possess some articles of dress or jewelry

which she had seen Mrs. Seeley have. She was tried
in September of the Same year, Judge Danie] Elmer
presiding, and was sentenced to be hung on November
3d. She was deficient in intellect, and there are grave
doubts about.the justness of her conviction: -When
sentenced she remained indifferent, although the judge
and many of the Spectators were in tears, The Bridge-
ton Chronicle said at the time, “ From what we have
been able to ascertain in relation to the previous
character of this poor, ignorant, demented girl, we
are fully persuaded that she is much more deserving

ment on the ground of insanity.” She was reprieved
for a time on account of some efforts made to secure
her a pardon, but was hung on April 26, 1844, in the
jail-yard, by Sheriff Harris B. Mattison.

The next and last case of capital conviction was
that of Charles T. Ogden and Washington Howard

' for the murder of Zadoce Damrell, a short distance
negro, for whom he worked. The crime was com. ;

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effect of the wounds in a few hours,

above Shiloh, April 28, 1864. The wife of Ogden

_ had left her husband in Gloucester County and Patt
r

off with Damrell. Ogden and Howard hunted fo
them, and met them along the road, and Ogden as-
saulted Damrell with a large pocket-knife, Howard
holding him while it was done. He died from the
The two were
arrested, and convicted on June 2, 1864, Judge L. Q.
C. Elmer presiding at the trial. They were sen-
tenced to be hung on July 20th of that year, which
Sentence was duly carried into effect in the old jail-
yard, by Sheriff Charles Ls, Watson, on that date.

- CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

GENERAL HISTORY. : 531

Ogden, and Jeremiah Parvin refused to be sworn on ; The number of capital cases in this county has

the grand jury, and were committed to the custody of

the sheriff for contempt. At the end of December |

terin, 1748, the courts adjourned to the fourth Tues-
day in February, 1749, and ordered the clerk to make
all writs returoable at Cohansey Bridge. An election
had been held by which the latter place had been se-
lected as the county-seat. Atthe February term they
met at Cohansey Bridge, at the house of Isaac Smith,
who kept a tavern on the west side of the river.
Until 1752, when the first court-house was finished,
they usually met at the Parvin and Cotting taverns.
In August, 1750, one David Smith plead guilty to
larceny, and was sentenced to “ be whipt on the bare
back 25 lashes.” At the August term, 1752, they
met at the court-house for the first time. December
term, 1755, Elias Cotting, the clerk, presented a new
commission to hold during good behavior. He died
in 1757, and at the December term of that year Daniel
Elmer presented his commission as clerk. He died
May 2, 1761, and Maskell Ewing presented his com-
mission to succeed him on the 26th of the same month,
At the December term, 1761, Isaac Mills, Jr., of Stow
Creck, had his tax remitted, “ having been out in his
Majesty’s Service the present season.” At the August
terin, 1765, the record says the courts were’ “ holden
at Bridgeton,” this being fhe first mention of that
name, but it continued to be used after that. At the
September term, 1776, the date is simply the year, the
year of the reign of the sovereign being dropped.
During 1777 and 1778 the principal business was the
prosecution of those refusing to take the oath of alle-
giance to the new State government, and of others
for disaffection to the government, and some for
reviling the same. Many of them were fined up to
£100, and some were imprisoned for three months.
In 1779-83 a number of those disabled in the war,
and the widows of some who had died in the service,
- applied for half-pay, and it was granted by the court.

rested application was generally made to the Gov--

ernor, and he then issued a special commission. By
an act passed in November, 1794, the justices of the
Supreme Court and the judges of the respective courts
of Common Pleas, or any three or more of them, of
whom one of the justices of the Supreme Court
should be one, were constituted Courts of Oyer and
Terminer in each county, to sit in each county at such
time as the Supreme Court should appoint. In 1799
an act was passed requiring them to sit at the same
time as the Circuit Court in cach county, which then
was twice a year.

been small, and to the honor of the county it can be
said that no white native-born citizen’of the county
was ever executed.

Capital Crimes and Executions.—The first case
of hanging in this county was for horse-stealing,
which at that time was a capital offense. Francis
Pickering, alias Mason, alias Price, and Simon Hus-
sey, alias Anderson, both of whom were inhabitants
of Maryland, and came here but a short time before,
were arrested for stealing a horse and a mare belong-
ing to Charles Davis. Owing to the insecurity of the
jail, although it had been built only three or four
years, the board of justices and freeholders sent a
special messenger to the chief justice of the State to
induce him to solicit Governor Bernard to issue a
special commission of Oyer and Terminer for their
trial. The errand was a success, and on Aug. 22,
1758, a special court was held in the court-house, pre-
sided over by Samuel Nevill, one of the justices of
the Supreme Court, and they were convicted and sen-
tenced to be hung on September 18th. Hussey being
a youth about twenty years old, and it appearing he
had been led into it by Pickering, who had the char-
acter of a notorious thief, the justices of the county
and many of the principal inhabitants petitioned the
Governor for his pardon, and David Ogden, one of
the justices of the peace, was sent to Perth Amboy
with the petition. His errand was successful, and
Hussey escaped the death penalty, but was im-
prisoned about two months, and then released on the
application of the justices and freeholders, who sent
the sheriff to Somerset Court, probably to the chief
justice, to get his discharge. Pickering was hung on
the day appointed, by Sheriff Maskell Ewing. The
hanging took place on what was then a common, but
is now comprised in the Presbyterian gravevard on
Broad Street, near the northeast corner of the yard,
An oral account of it, which the late Daniel M.
Woodruff, of Bridgeton, had from his mother, who
was born in January, 1749, says that Pickering, who
was a remarkably handsome man, had taken the
horse for some purpose, and was within a mile of
the place where it belonged and about to return it
when arrested. However this may be, the extreme
severity of the law was such that in 1769 the Legisla-

ture passed an act reciting that the punishment of —

death, “ which by the law as it now stands is directed
to be inflicted upon every person indiscriminately
convicted of horse-stealing,” had not answered the
purpose intended, and enacting that thereafter the
punishment for the first offense should be such cor-
poreal or other punishment as the court should think
fit, and for the second offense made it lawful to impose
the death sentence as before, but even this harshness
has long since passed away.

The next conviction for a capital offense was during
the Revolution, upon a charge of highway robbery.
A messenger was sent after Judge John Cleves

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THE HISTORY |

‘NEW JERSEY,
FROM
THE ABORIGINAL TIMES
108
THE PRESENT DAY,

EMBRACING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE ABORIGINES: THE DUTCH IN DELAWARE BAY:

({W7HE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY; THE WHALING: THE GROWTH
OF THE VILLAGES; THE REVOLUTION AND PATRIOTS; THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW GOVERN\ ENT; ‘THE WAR
OF 1812; THE PROGRESS OF THE COUNTY; AND THE
SOLDIEKS OF THE CIVIL WAR,

Lewis Townsend Stevens.

Illustrated.

CAPE MAY. CITY, N. J.
Lewis T. Srevexs, Puesrisnen.
1Su7,
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Cape May County,

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if. Jy Bwin
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pet was -of
cr end were
went by the
af. 4. Sabbath:
fect me there

wad read

y' Was
ee with\a

‘e Of the de

@ dtho. birth-
worth League
ablé manner,
asion Ofna
Chapters. of
‘After singing

phe: Barth |.

: fu took}

yurding the Pura

train neared Court House and sane
thé little cabin in which he had lived
the greater part of his life.

TS * *

herif! Hand went’ to
ne naieeneenng Ape tern

Bridg

Pierce, who was thoroughly. ¢ém posed,
and at the conclision of the’reading he
Wrapped the Sheriff on the back and.
said, “Now don’t get nervous ; just
‘keep | cool,!”” aie te after five this
morning Sheriff Shinn called Pierce,
aud “after answering he turned ‘over

y ullows began, the con-

-Emilys W.
‘hite Shield.”
feart Rejoice:
recitation,” by.
that “Mother:
was followéd

Be
4 demived man being the least affected of

the party. “At Millville he was greeted

- ‘by at least 1,000 people, and. on the
‘arrival ofthe train bere thestreets were”
‘ined. with people, who lad come ‘in

from the surrounding country inv the
hope‘of seeing the prixoner...On-reach-
“jug the court-house> Pierce was taken
‘to the grand jury room. where he™ was
“allowed an hour and half with: his
parents and baby, the time being oecu-
pied in singing hymns and prayer, the
Hiegro assuring those present that he
Was trustiug in Jesus and Was going to

} Heaven in a few minutes, -

“At 1226 the following jury: was called

©] and entered the enclosure surrounding

the scaffold: Albert Foster, James B,

_) Stites, ‘Thos. Stewart Jr. John Stanton,

tal © Pro-
Court House,
of 1894,” by
wf Woodbine,
Stervopticon..

sLETS,
COTES. ss

at the hands
op“ Athy

Alfred Cooper, James Shoemaker, Ed-
muud 'T, Benezet, Ellis Hy Marshall.
‘Eltou Holmes, James Mecray, Me=-D
Julius Way: Me D,, and Edwin of.
“Wentcott..-. ee hr Die a

“Then came Sheriff Hand’s ex pert as-

| sistante, Sherifte Johnson) of Atlantic,

Shinn, of* Cumberland, “and” Iege, of
Mercer, and Sherift™s Deputies David
W. Rodan, Alfred Cresse, eo pga Bh,
Erricson, © John Sy Soffe, Robert 3.
Warwick, A. -Cariton” Hildreth, J?
Swing Willis; Wai. 8. Crawford, James
tT, Hoffman, Chas. J, Devitt, Horace 8,
Richardson, A.) Haynes. y h ae

The. pres representatives were: J.
Clément: Fosters of the Couxry «Ci;
werrk, Aaron, Woo Hand, “stary’’ iid
hots So Ludhun, 'Sca>fsle Pines.”
Lewis’; Stevens represented. the Asso-
ciated Press and National Press.

While the details for the execution
were being arranved, Pierc@? was aak-
jug ivconfession of his crime, udimitting
that he bad killed dis wife ine a fle of
Much of what He saidis un

bili ee Fe id ete oe

4 year, the dead. body

; A Aci of driving the old lady to her work,

1¢ Teatline verti wW arsait “2

J ttubsamect here again todo battle,

ed him at the trial was #0 strong in
every part that co ove who heard the
evidence bad the slichtest doubt either
that he committed. the murder or that
it wae premelitated—for several hiaim

About eleven. o'clock on Monday
morning, February Ith, of the present
of Rarah -Pierve,
wife of Richard, was found tn the barn
at their hone near Greheu, her head
battered and herthroat cut from ‘ear to
eat and through to the spinal column.
Near the left temple was a deep wound,
apparently inflicted with the pole of a
hatchet, anothegsamoubd on the top pf
‘the head had ‘eWifently been” i
with the same fostrument, N
body war a felt hat known to ha¢
worn. that: morning ~ by the

woman's husband, and eit a
bloody hatehet, afterwandgrduntified ax
one’ belonging to ~thy mily. Two

hour later. Plerce vfas found at his
father’s, four miiled dixtant, lying on
the lounge—h rovered with a
coat. At th roner’s. ibuuest, held.

the san noon, itsvas shown that
Nancy#¥gmer, the mother of Sarah,
had “home soon after sunrise to go
tO. ti’ day's work, leaving her daugh-

afaid son-in-law. at the break fast
¢ that contrary to his ° usual cus-

Pierce had. on the previous night en-
en rs BOE eh kidtan te take the
old lady, ~ Pierce claimed that when he
left home ‘at eight o'clock’ his wife
was standing by the Window looking
after hint a he weut down the road,
and when asked to” produce his fazor
he said he had- lost it on the previous
Saturday at’ Goshen. A moment later
a young man rushed into the’ room
holding: aloft’ an open razor dripping
ais hood, having found “it hidden in.

‘the-art: up to this time Pierce had
raninta

lage an air of impudent ince
fer@iuce put at sight of the razor he iF
most*ollapred. ‘The tool was promipt-
ly ‘identified by ‘several witnesses as
havitig belonged to the accused, At
the trial, which: took placein May, the
State “made: out’ a very -strong Case,
showing jealousy to be the motive: of

had been seem. rulining into the: bari
nealy an hour after-he claimed to have
left the premises. The trial. occupied

case Was givelt to’ the jury they re-
turned a verdict: of murder in the first
degrees -A-chalf-hour later’ Pierce was
sentenced to be hanged on June 29th,
butawas reprieved by Governor. Werts
in order to give jis counsel an oppor-
tunify to apply to the Court of Pantoue
for a comunutation- of the sentence to
imprisonment. for Jife. The case was
heard at Sea Girton Friday last, and
the Court having refused to futerfere,
the death warrant. was placed inthe
hands of the Sliériffou-Saturday, the
Tthiust. 2° eal Rte pote

‘7 PPENED WITH’ PEFEAT,

The base ball nine‘of the” Cape .May
Court »Efouse “Base Ball Association
played its first exhibition match game
at the. kair Grotnds.on Saturday after-
noon lust, at three o'clock, with” the
Goshen club. The honie nine not only
met defeat to the tune of 6 -to- 4, but
history repeated itselfin Uhat-this nrade
the third suécessive year in which: the
CGioshen aggregation has administered
the sanic palatable(!) dese to our ‘de-
fendérs’’ on the first occasion oof the
semon they, crossed bats. While the
gaine last Saturday was dn jnteresting
one, Yebitecitinot be shid that’ cither
pine wes in dipst-class fora, they not
having bec in opractice wy sullicient
lenyth oftimes A bett@r-exhibition of
seiontific ball tossing tay be looked
for to-morrow” afternoon, wher these

Last week's Bcore:

taken suddenly
found. stiekingoin his cherl ato.
e-half lnotas with the Peto toun

very lame, and it ta aemyeters
needle vaing from,

Reve Mrorort) tin popular
Presbyterian church, spreagtre:
sermons On Sunday and stayed oir
tiles peopl’ tuotll Tharetas
broad-mipded tian andhei
beiug led by his ow n conascicive
sees like hinior not.

Sammut

the crinie, and also proving that Pierce”

two “days. Forty minutes~ after the }-

bas ae

¢ a bey
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village. wr re marist

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Tite O4i a tripio Te efn atl Lp the Keane?
Siver ter.

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yastoring
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bury was out

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maConipwarnied
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and invites al] good men to join.

benefit of the order.

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a. Sehellinger: Master of Hecorda— 1,
man? Ae oF FB. Laneia Rosas ot) ot),

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Frank Lrougiass {8 bubtdivey a ae we rete

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ta Cape. May,

—Thowias Sayre gets bis water

wnew itriven well,

ser large number of Fish ire
upT @b Doughty" poud.

“-Mroand MrsoNathaniet

ed with Hid Grande friends.
Robt, Steel watehoake cand fe wele re will

be at Court dlouse every Morilay, ts

—Mroand MrsoJames shaw
ing Cumberliaul coloty friends tints week?

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Miss Jennie Woodtin af Part Norse:
the home of pareuts here.

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Mr ands Mrs, Whifetehls Titotapson

tended charch sery ive at Green Creek oft Stine

diay.

—Rov. dere, Posteroof Green reek,
Led service at the Bip iist «

day;

Rev, Joseph Ac Kiuekor uroseayiite
the first Of the week witthsonienmoNorray, |

familly,

—Our Epworth League
anuiversary-of Court bests Leoagwhe on.

day evcning,

Mr. Dockerly anltniend of Piitadeign 4
spent lhe fourth here fstiloes bur or t

“fisherman's luck,’

—Overkeer Douginss witha tore

makltg-. great improve turits: to

tround Bhaw's cortier.

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father died and he was left to care for himself. He became
a gneral contractcr, doing work in all parts of the coun-
try, such as building railroads, bulwarks, cte. Fle served
in the Cape May City Council from 1875 to 1878, and im
1876 was the president of the council. ;

—_On the fourth of July, 1893, the celebration was partici-
pated in by ex-President Benjamin Harrison, who made the
principal address from the piazza cf the Stockton Hotel,
Cape May City. Those who took part in cclebration were
Mayor James M. E. Ilildreth; General William J. Sewell,

rte: Sanpete

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Litt of iy Jil

COUNTY PRISON, BULLE by TSO4.
of Camden; Congressman John te. Ke vburn,of Philadelphia;
Hood Gilpin, Esq. of I’liladelphia, and Rev. james N.
Cockius, pastor of the Presbyterian Church.

The one hundred and eighty-second anniversary of the
founding of the First Baptist Church of Cape May was held
at Cape May Court House on June 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and
21, 1894.

In 18 4 South Cape May was created a borough out of
West Cape May.

The first hanging which ever took place in Cape May
county was that of the murderer Richard Pierec, a colored
man, vi Goshen, aged about 24. The hanging took place in

$M) INDGRY GF CAPE MAY COUNTY,

the court house yard on the afternoon of July 13, 1894.
Sheriff Robert FE. Hand was in charge of the execution.
Pierce had killed his wife on February 10.

In 1894 the present county prison was erected.

By the census of 1&5, the school property in the county
was valued at $64,000; public property, $46,150; church and
charitable institutions, $173,450; cemeteries, $2,100. The
totalznumber of residents in the county was 12,855; each politi-
cal division containing the following inhabitants: Anglesea.

EDMUNI? |. BOSS.

247; Avalon, 105; Cape May City, 2452: Cape May Point, 136;
Dennis township, 2370; Holly Beach, 300; Lower township,
1063; South Cap? May, 65; Midlle township, 2500; Ocean
City, 921; Sea Isle City, 424: Upper township, 1420; West
Cape May, 742; Wildwood, rog. There were 3367 dwelling
houses in the county, occupied by 3193 families.

Edmund L. Ross, who represented Cape May county
inthe Senate during the sessions of 1895, 96 and ‘97, was
born at Cape May Court Louse, March 10, 1852. Ile was
educated in the public schools and at Mayville Academy.
He followed the sea for some years and then entered into

home,

eee

phe?

--& man meets with a misfortune

already. Ree cet a fi, Reka eo re Ngee ia abe
"A girl who was asked if she had ever

~The dog

~ Bick lst for several weeks,

last Sabbath at Court House.

Charles. Crawford and family are
down from Glassboro for the ‘Summer,
Chas, Hickman “is: at the resi-
of Benj. Hall, Jr. for a few: days.

is at Henry
fora season of

vie 0 Me
- dence
“Mrs. Emma H. Ludlam
cageernhe Mayville,

Lae iF
-~ kinds of dress making at Iszard’s

~ For the latest novelties in wall pa
=Millville.
Mr. Ralph

Larsen of
5B. F. Hewitt’s.

The walls of the new
the gables and’ the iron
_Toof is now being put in place,

‘Don't forget’ that Robt. Bteel, the
watchmaker and jeweler, will be here
next Monday and every Monday. tf

For SALE.--Store and dwelling on
Cusy terms, (For particulars address J,
I. Steel; Cape May C,H, N.J. 1-12, tf.

This is_a considerate world. “When
évery-
one Hopes that it will be a” lesson. to
him, ;

~The yearly locust, whose ‘shrill ‘note
is waid to presage frost within six weeka
from. its first sounding, has been “heard

Fong

tead 'Shigs that Pass in the Night,”

ei 1g law has evidently |
<)\., Succumbed to the heat, 3

“) ® Stephen F. Hewitt has been on the

wife spent

A. E. Hand is repared 2 todoall
: Cot-

; ot of
ne per
". » Bend to Naylor’s for samples and pice

Sparks and. Miss Myra
hilada., are vacationing at

jail are up t6
frame. for. the

planned ou
and” from |;

: took
afternoon at the M. E.
church, Pastor fagee officiating. © The
all-bearers were. Messrs, . J, Swing
-Willis, Edwin G. Mills; W. 8. Hand
John §, Douglass, Wim. 8. Tyler. an
. The casket was © of
white plush, and at either end were
beautiful floral pillows, sent by the
Epworth League and the M. E, Sabbath
Schoutt “The choir sang“ Meet me there
Pastor Magee offered ‘prayer and. read
some appropriate’ scriptural. passages,
after which Miss Hannah Hand sang:
most touching’ly ‘There is' Where. the
Angels Stay.’! The sermon, from a part
of the 4ith-verse of the 24th chapter. of
Matthew, “Be ye also ready,” waa
directed to the livin

few well-choseil.
bright Chostain

g,- closing with a

p | the greater

- words. regarding the |: :
expereice of the de-|

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His Cri
$Te-day!

GUILT:

Ay ESS

jniliction of

Bie,

the.
the morning: of

the ‘last act of the tra

to make: an. orphan of h
old baby. The agony
ride this morning
and the sheriff and

ouse

Hand: went “to :

Shetiff

: . PR eacihastithet” an wie Dh his 2
Pe a. A

P ee sane dan
= ee ¥
as ne

‘ — ee ey of Cape May Count y
ct at. courthouse ya

ae ; the unfortunate victim

ble edict

Bb than they would have
“been ‘undef normal conditions. “A few

y..to get a law passed
the Incarceration
at Bridgeton until
last day, when he.
was to be brought back to his home for *p
Y Which was
is fen months
of that 30 mile
can never be told,
his deputies felt
| deeply. for the unhappy /man as the
train neared Court

‘the little cabin in which he ha lived
part of his life.
ay id ‘3 a é é . %

here
being

, and it
of ‘the

jug

and passed

ut leasc3

Morn
Year,

Hiatedret
thet. bikes:
Witha thi:
body ws

AW tres

Bridgeray 2 2
8 5 paee aS ag
me A

Whout
tak’,
if
wife of Richard, Was f
at theie home pear Ce
battered “aide her thre
ear-and threugh tot)
lef tenmiple wy &

Near P
Upper yeta

The fam

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Woriethay iy:

he rns 3 wt
ANGED}
on the onde
stl showed
smiled as he
don't hurry; take fi
The hlack~«a
the face by J
and before elther
Spectatom were af
ready;-the weight [@
the body wae thro
rettling- down. in
WHE 10 convulsion ¢
is no doubt. that t
painless one.
. The dro
ceased at_
tinct at 1:0
at f:18. :;

At the edd of-th
Way reported. the
144) rd mgiutel
INinute GO iand att
minute 72) a
Davis agreed that 1! €
minute past oie;

¥
€

3 Prt}
Thecrime for whi.
the gulléwsavas on
PCr} ot
County cand Wiitle
RaW hind do the dec
CUnIstamMtigd evidercs
ed hingy atthe
every part that one %
evidence had the sin
that he committed :
ita Premioditated

Caevehi
Feébiu

ite ned

a i
fan th

Warwick at orice f
about the legs, whe
of Atlanti¢ (Zant

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hose 68 theta! N Gai:
Sherif! Handel - 6
; ane! | Ht upon Hew fi
‘ ach of il. . The ur- | Careful nmuner sw!
| founding ‘his execution were peculiar | fTmed this the sade
% Pah mgdtee 6 reepects: harder for both The-body Se
the condemmed man aid kindly heart. | House and laid op §
ed Sheriff Hand

Dro Wav of Courtck
Cape May; and Dac g
of Bridgeton, tad
nation ofthe neck. &
the verte$ra was tho
Y thertael é
mains add thee we
tefred ie thieé colored
Goshen by Uindertaks

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his

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hens

‘his, spirity
| accompan i
, hymns, from. hi
‘| the ground ‘Just.

away. ‘trot the jail and tov

the barn; -the, black

E from: all par rt ny ‘the! :
witnessed the cefecton

marKahle man in his courage)
and the spirit Aran seemed
to animate him.’ “
a ‘It was: Lcotoaable! ‘that ‘the
“ 4aourthouse bell, ‘close by, was
. | clamoring out 10 o'clock, just,
or, 88 the condemned man was on|
xge) the ‘scaffold. | _Evén while the,
noose’ was being radjusted its
oe ‘were sounding. '

id|.' But the courthouse bell, by|

i with asinger | Vouched- for watche? in oe

ue this. partys, was four minutes fast
Soon after the execution the:
ver Chris- le yuds'and snow gave way to,
ined the ‘sunshine and the earth became’
d pray ed|radiant: again, as though na-
during ‘the tare rejoiced. that, the- erew:
Sound’ of| some scene ‘was ended. ° 4 |
Dr. Stites headed the col
bi lof physicians who felt .
‘pulse and declared when death
had. completely ; ensued. <Un-|
\dertaker’ Lewis S.' Pierce took
charge: of the corpse and re-|
Eymaved it to his morgue, await.
further instructions. |: oe |

liver ‘and. Glendon, 0. D. Car.
ib /\George ‘Reeves, W. ; G.
| Hislop, - Charles . Richman,
(George Pfeiffer, Frank Tice
and Alonzo. T.. Bacon... Not all
of them: were present. ne |
|. The sheriff’s jury was ‘com- |
|posed of Drs. J. 8. Halsey, M.
K.. ‘Elmer, Joseph | Tomlin-
on and Ferd’ Jones, Furman |
Reeves, Harry O'Hara, J oseph |
Onens, Charles T. Jones,James |
Boyd Potter, J. T. Schiller and
Clayton | McPherson. One or
wo of these were also absent
‘and substitutions made.

the friendless "foreigne )
gner" who h
his behalf was brought forth Ai powerful friends interceding in’

crowd shed tears,
cooper to a plein After he had been ha

children, many ef the moved
mged, the authorities took

him a remmutation of sentence if he a body. They then offered

confess that he and the abe

REYNOLDS, David

Reynolds, a 30-year-old white man, lived in Morris Coe, Ne Jey where
he was generally believed to be an Irish national, On July 16, 1773,
the Colony was rocked by the news that Reyndtds and five: distinguished
citizens of leading and aristocratic families, Samel Ford,’Benjamin
Cooper, Dr. Bernadus Budd, Saymel Haymes and Peace Ayres, had all
been arrested and charged with counterfeiting. Reynolds was charged
with having supplied the type for the presses while Ford was the ac-
tual counterfeiter and the others charged with MBE passing the funny
money. Prior to their Rm trial, ford, the actual leader of the
ring, managed to escape and was not recaptured. The others were all
convicted and sentenced to die. Over 15,000 persons gathered in
Morristown on September 17, 1773, to witness the executions, Reynolds,
the friendless "foreigner" who had no powerful friends interceding in
his behalf was brought forth first. To the surprise of the crowd, he
sang a mournful XEIXK ballad about Irish kings of long before and
then knelt in prayer. He made a brief speech and when he asked those
presant not to be harsh on his wife and children, many ef the moved

crowd shed tears, After he had been hanged, the authorities took
Cooper to a window and showed him Reynold's body. They then offered
him a vemmutation of sentence if he would confess that he and the ab-

REYNOLIS, David, white, hanged Morristown, New Jersey, e i360

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REYNOLDS, David

Hanged for coubterfeiting at Morristown, Ne Jey on
September 17, 1773

_ See large card

NEWARK SUNDAY NEWS MAGAZINE, Newark, Ne Jey Dec. 1h, 1969

a ce Ne ne ne
RUSNAK, Joseph, white, 24, elec. NJSP (Hudson) 7-1-1931.
. somali caszd on Frunk saze, woite, electrocuted New Jersey
(Hudson County) on vanuary 5, 1924, states that he was con-
victed of the murder of F — Serseant John Jd. Black of
Jersey City. oe, w2s an escaped convict. This was taken
from appeal r (12e Vidntic 627) and is all tha have
so I will app anytaing that you might Prowide.

Small card on David ware, black, elec. NJSP (Mercer County) on
May 31, 1929, item condensed fron Columbus, Ohio, DISPATCH. reads
. as follows: Ned been living with a black woman named Pansey Keaton, '
a On night of l<e-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
thorut cut and search besan for Ware." A ll I have, so if you get
anything eles, please advise,
small card on Jos Jd. musnak, electrocuted New Jersey SP (Hudson
County) on July 14, 1931 states thef he was convicted of the murder
of Policeman stan Zenédarski on duly 4, 1930. This is taken
J 3 from appesl report - 154 atlantic 754 - an 1d is all that I have so
will apprecia te anything additional you might develop.

> ct 4 @
am
ae

Small card on nxaymond Gecrge, electrocuted New Jersey on April 25,
ig3e¢, contains a guotation from sGhNT OF DEATH, by Elliott, pages
134-145, as follogs: "One of the spiritual ea dvisers of mxaymond George.
x Nezro wno nad murderec 2a Jersey City paliceman, Came to me on the
evening that the condemned prisoner was to expiate nis crime. 'Pleas

] Go your best now to maar nim on the face, sr, Elliott,’ tae clergyman
pleadec. In spite or tne nizhn voltage, IL succeeded in fulfilling nis
reyuest," Tnis is sll tnet I. have - not even mame of policeman - so
anything you mizht adeveloo will be aporecisated,
Small card on Guiseppe Didolice, elect. NJSP (Union County) on

“y July 20, 1932, sts=tes tnat ne was convictec of murder of Police

ve Officer John wicvann of Elizabeth on Dec. 15, 1930 All I have and
was taken from appesis report (160 Atl. 516) so would aporeciate
anythin: addition you mignt Gaevelop.

Small card on Charles Zied, elec. Nd. (Camden Co.) reas as follows;
" Trenton, Nd, June 2, 1956 - Charles Zied, 37-years-old, Philadelphia
Sangsier and lest member cf the ‘Tri-State Gang,’ died in the electric
Chair at the stxte prison tonight for the Slaying of W illiam T.
Feitz, Jr., a Camcen detective, Zied, his arms folded behind hin,
walked into the execution chamber unassisted, He was strapoed in the
tS chair at 8:0 @ pa (2ST). and pronounced dead 5 minutes later. His
only words were 'Soodbye, Doc; tnanks a lot, Doc,' to Aabbi Abraham |
Holtzbergz of Trenton, his spiritual adviser. Once tefore Zied had been
saved fFom tae chair by tne last minute reprieve of Gov. Harold G, |
Hotfiman. That was on Marcn 351, when Zied and Bruno Aichard Hauptmann
ere to have died on tne same nicht. Gov. Hoffman' s reprieve was
ased on a stutement py Zied that three Camden policemen snileded his
ccomplices after tne Sacoting. An ‘investigation was made, but the
urt of pardons yesterdzy for a second time denied clemency," TIwk S=
PUCAYUNE, New Urleans, Le., dune 3, 19356 (8/4.)

may have already sent you this. According to an undated Chicago
T TSUN, 1883, containing lists of executions in 1882, Elijah Franklin
Ss hanged at Silver City, NM, on August 11, 1882, for murder of Deputy
SHewiff Johnson. I have Found that all of inese hangings did not

pe ually taxe place, so would appreciate anything that you might come
“uplwith, esoecinlly verification of hangings and whether it was lesal

RUGGEIRRI, Stefano

White, 17, elec. NJSP (Somerset) Dec, 22, 1914,
"electrocuted at 17...Stefan Ruggeiri in
1914,..Ruggierri contended he was hired by a
relative to kill an enemy..." EVENING NEWS,
Bridgeton,, NJ. Dec. 2, 1935.

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' ‘(Continued from page 9)

* at the same time that Roscus. was in no mood
_for conversation,

* He darted for cover behind a jukebox as the
gun went off. Pellets shot through his cap and
coat but he miraculously escaped injury. -Ros-
“cus fired again. His aim, however, was bad,
“and the barrel of the gun was bent. Four

patrons—three men and a woman—were

“wounded, Another patron dashed into a rear
-room. Roscus fired a third time, hitting

nothing but plaster.

The drink-crazed man’s next stop was a tav-
ern, a few blocks away, where a 46-year-old
’ trucker and small-time hoodlum named Sam
‘=Cozzolino, Was watching the fights on televis-
‘ion. Cozzolino, who called himself Trixie King

during a short career as a ballroom dancer,:

once paid a $100 fine for striking a‘ woman
- friend. During a drunken brawl on Christmas
~. Eve of 1951 he struck Roscus and knocked him

down. Cozzolino was destined to pay far more

. than a fine for that assault.
~~ Roscus entered the tavern at 10: 45, without
his gun.

~ “Wadda ya know, Hot Dog?”.Cozzolino said

*. when he saw his friend.
Roscus didn’t answer, and Cozzolino turned
.. back to watch television. It took Roscus two
drinks to. make up his mind.. Then he went
. outside to his car and came back with the
sawed-off shotgun. Before anyone realized
- what was happening Roscus-was standing be-
hind Cozzolino with the gun.

“I’ve waited a whole year for this, Trixie,”
he shouted, “I’ve shot four people already and
I’m not done yet!”

Cozzolino turned around. Roscus let him
: have it in the stomach. Cozzolino fell from his

stool and then Roscus stood over him and fired.

. again.
'* Roscus paused a moment to get his bearings.
_ He ‘noticed that one of the patrons was stand-
-» ing near the telephone booth.
“+ *No telephone calls!” Roscus shouted. He
ripped the receiver from the hook.. Then he
* took out his box of cartridges. The patrons
fled out both doors of the place before he had
- a Chance to reload. Roscus went back to his
car to go hunting again.
'. Cozzolino died on the way to the hospital.

*, By this time every prowl car in the city had .

‘been alerted to watch for a black sedan
~ bearing license plates FL696, a car driven by

cee mre
¥ , ¥

Roscus: is sullen, drunk and defiant.

shoot anyone who stood in his way.

an uncontrollable killer whp could and would

Heavily armed plainclothesmen from the
Third Precinct station were sent out with
orders to find the killer before he struck again.
Headquarters gave similar orders to the ace

trouble-shooting team under the command of |

Sergeant John Duhig. Top-flight sleuths from
the night defective bureau, men like Joseph
Fruchter, George Vetter and others, retraced
the killer’s itinerary in the hope of finding a
clue to where’ Roscus would strike next.

FEAR and darkness spread through the’

Tronbound section of Newark with. the

‘news that Hot Dog was on‘a rampage. Porch

lights were switched off, window shades were
drawn and taverns were dimmed and bolted.

A bar situated a few steps from the killer’s
home on Chestnut .Street was one of the few
that remained open. Twelve patrons were
inside, all neighbors of Roscus who had first-
hand knowledge of his temper. Police, had
warned them that the killer might head home

at any minute to get more ammunition. The-

patrons decided to take their chances in the
tavern rather than risk walking outside.

-At 12:15 the tavern door swung open.

‘ But it. wasn’t Roscus. It was a reporter.

The patrons gathered around: him as he

phoned his city desk. :

“They got Roscus,” the | reporter’ said.
“Right outside the gin mill where he wounded
those four people a few hours ago. Yeah, they
got him alive. Two cops in a radio car

spotted him driving on South Street. They |
tailed him until he pulled up in front of the

tavern. Sergeant Lewis and Patrolman Wal-
dron were waiting for him there. The Sarge
went up to Roscus while he was still in the
car and pointed a revolver at his head. Ros-
cus gave up without a fight.”

While “being driven to headquarters Rescus

* talked quietly about his rampage.

“So Trixie’s. dead. Well, I’m not sorry.
That’s what I wanted to do and I did it.

“There are plenty of other guys I wanted to

‘straighten out tonight. Guys who used to
take advantage of me when I was drunk.
Guys who thought I was kidding when I told
them I’d pay them back someday.
you were. pretty. lucky getting me when you

did. I guess I could have filled up your whole...

morgue.”

Waldron holds sawed-off shotgun.

I guess.

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behind ‘the walls
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carly by telling the foreman at the paint com-
peny where he was employed as a yardman
that he was sick and wanted to go home to his
wife: and kids. Instead of going home he
went to a bar and downed five whiskies.
‘Three taverns and 16 drinks later he realized
he was almost flat broke. He went to a loan
company and borrowed $100. ;

Then he started drinking again and brooding

‘about his defeat a few weeks earlier when he
had run for reelection as‘a steward ini the
painters’ union. The boys made a mistake
when they didn’t vote for him, Roscus decided,
and he was going to correct it. _

He drove to Mulberry Street and bought a
12-gauge shotgun and a box of cartridges. He
went back to his car and sawed off the end
of -the barrel so he could conceal the gun
under his clothes. He waited in a tavern until
shortly before 8 P.M., consuming 12 more
drinks, and then headed for a ballroom on
Broad Street where the union was going to
hold a meeting. ’

Roscus found his prey in a second-floor
foyer, where members of Local 1310 were wait-
ing for the meeting to start. He spotted the
business agent of the union, and moved towatd
him. The agent, sensing trouble, ran into an
adjoining room and slammed the door. Ros-

cus pulled the, shotgun from his trouser leg
and fired through the door, missing the man
by inches. The-agent suddenly yanked open
the door and managed to kick the gun from
Roscus’ hands, Then somebody -said some-

thing about calling-the cops. Roscus fled, —

leaving the gun ‘on the floor.

“After that,” Roscus was to tell police later,
“J figured I was in for it and I might as well
‘go all the way.”

He did. He bought another shotgun, sawed
off the end, and started on a macabre tour
of the Ironbound in search of other scores to
settle,

QNCE again he began making the rounds of
the taverns. But this time he wanted
blood, not whisky. At his third stop he found
a 37-year-old co-worker who ‘had once
won some money from Roscus in a dice
game. Roscus had been waiting five years to
get even. .. .

“Move away from those other guys,” Roscus
shouted’ to Martin as he raised. his shotgun.

“Wait a minute,” the man pleaded, realizing

(Continued on page 10)

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and secluded at night. No one had
seen an automobile drawing into the
curb in front of the Dobbins’ domi-
cile. But several neighbors, attracted
by the sound of the shots, told the po-
lice that they had seen a car draw-
ing away immediately afterward. The
car was without lights, these witnesses
divulged, but they had obtained a
pretty good glimpse of it because just
as it started another car came along
the street and the headlights of this
second machine flashed on the ve-
hicle apparently used by the assailant.

The car in which the criminal sup-
posedly rode was variously described
us green and gray. It seemed to have
been a sedan in the low-priced class.
Although it had not particularly given
the appearance of age, two witnesses
who lived across the street—Mrs. Mar-
vin A. Wolfe, at number 242, and

Mrs. Edward Blodgett, at number 244
—informed the investigators that the

motor of the departing machine
coughed and sputtered and that the
meshing of the gears made a loud,
metallic sound.

Chief Start
“H-m-m,” he said.
tor and noisy gears ... That’s a very
old car. In the past five years cars
have been a good deal more silent than
they once were, especially the gears.
Add noisy gears to a coughing motor
and you only have one answer-—-a car
that’s ready for the junk heap.”

The usual alarm went out to near-
by communities and to Philadelphia,
across the Delaware River from Cam-
den, but the police held little hope of
results along this line. They had
nothing definite enough to go on.

stroked his chin.
“A coughing mo-

HE next morning, with Curt Dobbins
battling valiantly for his life,
Camden County officials got on the
scene. Prosecutor Orlando and Chief
of County Detectives Lawrence A.
Doran went to Haddonfield and began
looking into the background of the
shooting victim. The motive, to say
the least, was most obscure. It could
hardly have been robbery. The screen
door had not been locked and the in-
truder could very well have entered
the Dobbins home, gun in hand, and
forced Curt Dobbins to hand over
more than one hundred dollars which
he was carrying on his person, without
the necessity of shooting him. As it
was, by the victim’s own admission,
the intruder had made no atten pt to
enter the house. Not only that, he had
fired in cold blood without the slight-
est provocation. What, then, could be
the motive?

Chief of Detectives Doran was in-
clined to scout the theory that Dobbins
had been shot by a paroled convict in
mistake for his father, the Federa)
parole officer, against whom a former
convict could have held a real or
fancied grievance. “A con wouldn’t
make a mistake like that, Sam,” Doran
said to Prosecutor Orlando. “Young
Dobbins is a_ six-footer while his

father is comparatively short, and of
course much older. The two would
never be mistaken.”

At the time of the shooting, the Ra-
dio Corporation of America, young

Dobbins’ employers, was torn with
strike — strife. The prosecutor was
quick to recognize the fact that a

crime of this kind was typical of those
committed during labor ‘troubles. But
he was just as quick to discard the
theory of labor trouble when investi-
gators learned at the Radio Corpora-
tion that Dobbins’ duties as an engi-
neer kept him far removed from labor

disputes of any kind. Specifically the
prosecutor was informed that Dobbins
positively had not been involved in the
recent trouble in any way, nor had he
been heard to so much as express an
opinion as to who was right and who
was wrong in the labor dispute.

At first blush it looked as if Curtis
W. Dobbins could very well have been
the target of a jealous sweetheart, an

Dejected, scorned, the
finger of accusation
pointing inexorably at
him, William J.
Stephan pauses a mo-
ment at police head-
quarters to collect his
jittery emotions

Outraged husband or an aggsressi
brother. Tall, handsome, wealth,

socially prominent and otherwis< quit
eligible, he had caused many f
nine heart to skip a beat as he \
or drove through the streets o; }
ionable Haddonfield. But no soon
had the authorities begun to lea
ward an affair-of-the-heart angle th
they found cold water dripping o
their efforts.

Curtis Dobbins was a most unusu
man. So far as could be learned,
was definitely disinterested in the
posite sex. Studious, athletic,
forging ahead in his chosen protessiv:
the man simply had no time for wom-
en. Deeply religious, he was ¢!
treasurer of the Sunday School of t

Centennary-Tabernacle Methodist
Episcopal Church in Camden. where
his father is superintendant of
Sunday School. Less than two week:
prior to the shooting, the prosecuto:
learned from some of the young man’s
friends, Dobbins and two male com-
panions had been lying on the beach at
Ocean City when three beautiful girls
attired in bathing suits as scanty as
the law would permit, passed by and
gave Dobbins and his two compani
“the eye.”’ One of Dobbins’ comp
ions had made a suggestive ren
about the girls, whereupon Dob
arose and left his two friends, out
that anyone should have such
about young women!

HEN it began to look as if Dobbin

disinterest in the opposite sex bor-
dered on the unnatural, the autho:
toyed with the theory that the
man possibly had been abn
some way and that his shoot
been inspired by a strange rela
with someone of his own sex. This
sibility, too, was also quick to go ur
smoke. Dobbins had been h
express his opinion—one of v
gust—at unnatural relationshi;

the
the

Inside Story of the Camden Dobbins Murder (Continued from Page 7)

say that as if he’s used to getting
mixed up in things.”

“Yes, he is,’ answered the ex-
convict’s wife. “I know he’s chasing
around with a woman over in Phila-
delphia and not supporting me or the
children.”

Mulligan, smart sleuth that he was,
detected from the tone in the woman’s
voice wher she mentioned “the other
woman” that she herself was a wom-
an scorned. He remembered ‘the old
line—“hell hath no fury .. .” and so
he decided to play on that chord.

For an hour Mulligan worked Mrs.
Stephan to a higher and higher pitch
against her husband and “the other
woman.” At the end of that time a lot
of things that had been boiling within
the unwanted wife came to the surface
under the detective’s skillful urging.
When the hour was up she pictured
herself as a downtrodden, cheated
woman, married to a man who de-
served no consideration whatsoever.

Then a bombshell exploded!

UDDENLY she arose from a chair
where she had been sitting opposite
Mulligan. She was breathing rapidly,
and her eyes shone with rage. “So
he’ll let me and the kids starve while
he spends his money on someone else,
will he? Well, I’ll show him, the
dirty low-down rat!”

Mrs. Stephan spun on her heel and
went into the kitchen. Mulligan fol-
lowed her, fearing she might do some-
thing desperate. (Bear in mind that
up to this point the murder of Curtis
W. Dobbins had not been mentioned
to the woman.)

Mrs. Stephan walked to the kitchen
range and flung open the oven door.
“Look in there,” she said to Mulligan,
indicating the oven by a nod, “and see
it you see anything that interests you.”

Mulligan’s eyes widened as_ he
looked in and saw a gun. He reached
for the weapon. It was of .38 caliber.
Three chambers were empty.

ULLIGAN looked at the woman.
“Where,” he asked, “did you get
this, Mrs. Stéphan?”

“It belongs to—him.”

“Is this where he keeps it?”

“No, not as arule. But that’s where
he’s kept it since Tuesday night—the
night that the Dobbins man was shot!”

Mulligan looked levelly at the wom-
an scorned. “Do you suspect that
your husband knows something about
the Dobbins shooting?” he asked.

Mrs. Stephan nodded. “I’ve thought
so all along,” she said. “I hadn't said
anything because of the children. But
now I think I should talk. My hus-
band took his gun out Tuesday after-
noon. He usually kept it in the bureau
in the bedroom. Wednesday morning
it wasn't there. I asked him where it
was and he said it was none of my
business. He acted very nervous and
upset, and I was sure that he had got-
ten into some trouble. I hunted all
through the house for the gun Wed-
nesday and I found it in the oven. I
haven’t spoken to him about it—not a
word—but I’ve kept an eye on the
kitchen any time he’s been here since.
Twice I saw him look into the oven,
apparently to see that it was. still
there. I guess he figured that was a
sate hiding place because I don’t use
the oven during the hot weather.”

ULLIGAN rushed back to Chief
Doran’s office with the weapon,
and within an hour a sleuth was on his
way to New York with the gun, the
bullet that had been taken from Dob-
b'ns’ right side, and the two pellets
that had gone wild in the Dobbins
home. The sleuth’s destination was the
New York Police Department—in par-
ticular, Captain William A. Jones, in-
ternationally known ballistics expert.
Ex-convict Stephan still didn’t put
in an appearance Friday night. And
Frieda Rogers didn’t contact him.
Early Saturday morning the Cam-
den sleuth returned and reported to
Detective Chief Doran that Captain
Jones, in a quickly conducted test, had

found that the three bullets figuring
in the Dobbins case had, without doubt,
been fired from the weapon taken
from the Stephan kitchen!

T= investigators moved swiftly. It

was suspected that Stephan was in
Philadelphia, and that he would turn
up sooner or later either at his place
of employment or at the address of his
sweetheart on Robinson Street. But
the manhunters didn’t want to tip their
hand in Pennsylvania, and be obliged
to go through extradition red tape. So
they had Mrs. Stephan swear out a
non-support complaint against her er-
rant spouse. Armed with the papers
in connection with this charge, Mulli-
gan and Murphy went to the furniture
store where Stephan was employed.
The man was not expected in until
Monday. This was Saturday morning,
August 15. No doubt Stephan and his
blond friend would have plans for the
week-end, they reasoned. So. Mulli-
gan and Murphy parked their car
down the street from the Robinson
Street address.

Shortly before noon an old, black
Chevrolet sedan chugged past them.
The motor was coughing—just as the
motor in the Haddonfield getaway car
—and the vehicle looked as if it were
ready for the junk heap. The sleuths
noted the license number.

“That’s him!” said Murphy. “Let’s
go, boy!”

William Stephan honked his horn in
front of his inmorata’s house and sat
there waiting for her to come out.
Mulligan, gun drawn, approached one
side of the car and Murphy, also fin-
gering a weapon, stole up on the other
side. ‘

“You’re under arrest, Stephan,”
Murphy murmured.

Stephan looked up, first to the right,
then to the left.

“What’s the idea?” he asked. “What
have I done?” A

“Your wife wants you in Camden—
for non-support.” ae

The two sleuths noticed an expres-

sion of relief flicker across the man’s
hard, deeply lined face. “Oh,” he said,
“just non-support! Okay, boys, let’s
go.” -
Just ‘then the Rogers woman ap-
peared at the door. Mulligan strode
from the car. “Your friend Stephan
is in some trouble over in Jersey,” he
said. “You’d better come along and
help him out if you love him,”

“Sure I will,” said the woman. “I'll
go right away.”

“All right,” said Mulligan, “you can

ride with me in Stephan’s car. Mur-
phy, my buddy, will ride with Stephan
in our car.” ‘

MBS: Rogers and Stephan were kept
apart as the two cars proceeded to’

the nearest magistrate’s court, where
Stephan was to waive the formalities
of extradition. No sooner had Mulli-
gan started Stephan’s car than he
noticed that the motor coughed loudly
and the gears meshed laboriously.

Early that afternoon Stephan sat in
the office of Prosecutor Orlando, faced
by the prosecutor, Detective Chief
Doran, Murphy and Mulligan and
other kingpins of the probe. Word had
just come from West Jersey Memorial
Hospital that Dobbins was _ sinking
rapidly—which would mean the dif-
ference between felonious assault and
murder.

With the Rogers woman in an ad-
joining room, Stephan was asked
where he had been Tuesday night.
Without a moment’s hesitation he
poured forth the details of an elaborate
alibi—including a visit to Mrs. Head-
ley’s in Berlin. “Frieda and I didn’t
leave Mrs. Headley’s until one
o’clock,” he said with considerable em-
phasis.

“Stephan, you’re lying!” barked
Prosecutor Orlando: “Mrs. Headley
says you left about ten—and that
statement is corroborated by her thir-
teen-year-old son, Bernard.”

“They’re lying!” shot back Stephan.
“Ask Frieda in there!”

“Well, now wait a minute, Stephan,”
broke in Detective Chief Doran. “Why
are you making all this fuss about
when you left Mrs. Headley’s Tues-
day night? What has that got to do
with not supporting your wife?”

Stephan squirmed in his chair. He
seemed to realize suddenly that from
the moment of his arrest not a single
word had been said to him about the
shooting of Curt Dobbins.

' “Well,” he said. “I just wanted to
keep the recgrd straight. I was in
Berlin until one o’clock.”

ORLANDO nodded to Mulligan. The
latter reached into his pocket and
threw-on the desk the gun that had
been found in the Stephan kitchen.

“That’s my gun!” said Stephan.
“Where did you get it?”

“Your wife gave it to us,” said
Doran.

“Well, if my wife had that gun, she
knows who did that shooting!”

The officials looked at each other in
amazement,

“What shooting?” asked Orlando.
“Nobody here has said anything about
a shooting.”

“That Dobbins affair,” said Stephan.
“T had nothing to do with that. But I
knew they’d try to pin it on me.”

“Stephan,” said Orlando, “you're
pinning the Dobbins affair on yourself.
a didn’t bring up the subject. You

i Fag

“Well, I had nothing to do with it.”

“Listen, Stephan,” said the prosecu-
tor, “so-long as you’ve chosen to open
the subject, let me remind you of a
few things. We decided that the man
who: fired those shots through that
screen door was a six-footer. You

happen to be a six-footer. We also

knew that the car in which the man
who fired those shots rode was an old
gray car with a coughing motor and
gears that woke the neighbors shifting.
Your car is just like that. At least it
was until you painted it black. Then
in the bargain you had its ownership
transferred to Frieda Rogers. .

MNYOU’'VE gotten the Rogers woman

to alibi for you. Well, that won’t
work. Your alibi about being at Mrs.
Headley’s until one in the morning is
too perfect. Not only that, you wouldn’t
attach so much significance to when
you left there Tuesday night if it
weren’t for the fact that you were try-
ing to place yourself away from Had-
donfield at the hour when Curt Dob-
bins was shot.

“We've checked up on you back-
ward, forward and sideways. You
knew the Dobbins home. You did
some work around there after you
were paroled. You knew there was

-always money in that house. You

boasted in front of Mrs. Headley and

‘her son Bernard that all you had to

do to get money enough to buy Frieda
Rogers a fur coat was to pump a guy

' full of lead. Your whole history here

in Camden and elsewhere shows that
you are a braggart of the worst sort.
You’ve simply got to show off to make
an impression on people... You were
afraid: you: couldn’t hold Frieda Rog-
ers unless she thought you were a big-

“shot, a dangerous guy. So you bragged

in front of her, and you went to the
Dobbins home last Tuesday night in-
tending to rob whoever was there.
You shot Curt Dobbins when he
wouldn’t stick up his hands, then your
yellow streak showed and you beat it
as fast as you could.

'tX TOW don’t try to kid us about not

being in Haddonfield when Curt
Dobbins was shot. We’ve checked every
place between Haddonfield and Ber-
lin, and we find that two people an-
swering the description of you and this
woman stopped into a lunch-wagon
within ten minutes’ drive of the Dob-
bins home before ten-thirty Tuesday
night, and that both you and Frieda
Rogers were pretty well liquored up.
You must have hit up a bottle pretty
quick after leaving Mrs. Headley’s,
because she tells me both of you were

completely sober when you left there.

“Stephan,” then concluded Orlando,
“that’s all I’ve got to say for the pres-
ent. Just think it over. You'd better
come clean about this whole thing.
It’ll be best for everybody concerned.”

Stephan wouldn’t talk, so he was led
away and the Rogers woman brought
in

“Well,” said Doran, “your friend
Stephan has turned out to be a fine
guy. He says you gave him the gun
to shoot Dobbins.”

It was the old, old police trick, new
with every new case, of playing both
ends against the middle. The blonde’s
eyes shone. “Why,” she rasped, “the
dirty dog! He had that gun when we
started out!”

“Why did you lie for him about
what time you left Mrs. Headley’s?”

“He said he had gotten into some
trouble, but I didn’t know how seri-
ous it was, and he asked me to lie
about what time we left.”

“Just what happened when you
drove up to the Dobbins home?” asked
Doran. :

Act old police trick, that.
Doran did not ask if Mrs. Rogers
had been on Mountwell Avenue at the
time of. the shooting, but asked her
what had happened when she had been
there.

“We didn’t drive up.to the Dobbins
home,” the woman confessed. “We
parked across the street. I had fallen
asleep. I was awakened by what I
thought was backfire from an automo-
bile. I looked around and didn’t know
where I was. He wasn’t in the car.
Then I saw him come running over.
He jumped in and started off at a
furious clip. When we had gone a
block or so I recognized where we
were—in Haddonfield.”

“And did he say anything to you
about what he had done?” asked
Doran.

“No, just that he had gotten into a
jam. Next day I saw in the papers
where this chap Dobbins had been
shot. I put it up to him. He just
laughed and said to keep my mouth
shut if I knew what was good for me.
Then he told me to fix up the alibi
about us being at Mrs. Headley’s un-
til one o’clock. We left there about
ten, stopped in a lunch-car outside of
Haddonfield and had a hamburger.
We had had some drinks from a bottle
after we left Mrs. Headley’s and I got
sleepy and went to sleep after we left
the lunch-car.”

Curt Dobbins, at the end of his mar-
velous physical resources, breathed
his last at dawn on Monday, August
17—the sixth day after the shooting.
Ex-convict William Stephan was ar-
raigned and charged with murder in
the first degree. He pled not guilty.

He was taken to Haddonfield jail
and grilled by: investigators working
in shifts. At 4 o’clock on the morning
of Wednesday, August 19, a little knot
of people stood in the courtyard be-
hind the jail while Orlando, Doran
and the others rushed in for the kill
in a room on the second floor.

Suddenly, those of us outside the
jail heard Stephan’s frenzied words:

-“All right, I did it! I might as well
say I did, for I’m going to the chair
anyway!”

A little while later Prosecutor Or-
lando appeared in the courtyard and
told reporters: “He admits every-
thing, except the actual firing of the
shots. He says he was too drunk to
know what was happening. But he
wasn’t too drunk to remember in great
detail everything that happened just
before he drove into Mountwell Ave-
nue, and everything that happened
after he drove away. His admissions
are damaging enough to convict him
when he goes on trial at the Septem-
ber term of court.”

A strange case it is, indeed. Brag-
gartism for a motive. A woman
scorned for the clew to the riddle.

a modern Sir Galahad in a
murderee’s grave!

could easily I.ave been in Haddonfield
before and during the time of the
shooting—10:41. Still, the fact that he
had left Berlin at ten o’clock didn’t
.Place him at the Dobbins home at
10:41, by any means.

The two detectives had the idea that
Mrs. Headley, obviously an honest,
conscientious woman, had something
on her mind that she preferred not to
talk about. Not letting her know why
they were checking up on Stephan,
but indicating that they were investi-
gating his affair with Mrs. Rogers be-
cause his wife had charged him with
non-support, the sleuths kept ham-
mering away at Mrs. Headley, and
finally she came out with this rather
arresting information:

"WE ALL had a beer at my house.
That was all. I don’t go in for
drinking myself and I don’t like to see
other people do it. The three of us—
that is, Mr. Stephan, Mrs. Rogers and
myself—were all perfectly sober. That
is why I have been so worried about
something Mr. Stephan said,

“We were talking about fur coats, I
said that I would have to be getting
myself a fur coat this Fall, that my
old one wouldn’t do any longer. Now,
Mr. Stephan is my boss and he has
been very kind to me and I don’t like
to say anything against him, but he is
considerable of a braggart. When I
mentioned a fur coat Mrs. Rogers said

Detective Thomas Murphy, astute

member of the Camden Police
Force whose work on the Dobbins
case was invaluable

that she would like to get a fur coat,
too. Mr. Stephan piped up and said:
‘Oh, Sweetheart, if you want a fur
coat I’ll get you one. That’s easy! All
I have to do is to pump a certain guy
full of lead, and I’ve got the thing
right out in the car to do it with.’ I
looked up at Mr. Stephan and told
him that I wished he wouldn’t talk
that way, especially in front of my
little son, who was there. He said he
always talked that way because he was
a tough guy. And it was those re-
marks I thought were so strange.
“Well,” continued Mrs. Headley,
“Mr. Stephan and Mrs. Rogers left
about ten o’clock. The next day I
noticed something unusual. While the
rest of us went around canvassing, the
two of them would usually sit in a
beer joint somewhere in the neighbor-
hood and drink. We would usually
pick them up there after we had gone

through the neighborhocd and would
go on to the next neighborhood.
“Well, last Wednesday morning—the
day after Mr. Stephan had made that
remark about pumping somebody full
of lead—I met them after I had done
some canvassing here in Philadelphia,
and he was trying to kiss her. I used
to get embarrassed for them, the way
they would kiss and make love in pub-
lic. She always seemed very willing
but this Wednesday morning she

shoved him away. She didn’t want’

anything to do with him. She said:
‘You’re a bad egg—and you know what
I mean. You better nct.bother me any
more.’ ”

Mulligan and Murphy cautioned the
woman to say nothing to either
Stephan or Mrs. Rogers about what
she had told them. They asked her if
she knew what kind of car Stephan
had. “Yes,” she said, “a nineteen-
twenty-nine Chevrolet.”

“What color?” asked Mulligan.

Her answer electrified them:

“Gray. That is, it was gray. Mr.
Stephan recently painted it black.”

“Recently?” queried Murphy. “What
do you mean recently? This week?”

“Tt must have been some time this
week. It was gray on Tuesday night
when he and Mrs. Rogers visited me.
Now it’s black!”

“Where’s the car now?” asked
Mulligan.

“They’re using it—Mr. Stephan and

Mrs. Rogers. We were over in Bur-
lington, New Jersey, yesterday and
there was some talk went on about
the car between them. I don’t know
exactly what it was, but they stopped
into a motor-vehicle agency on High
Street over there and left me sitting
out in the car,”

Mulligan went back to Camden, re-
ported his findings to Detective Chief
Doran, who in turn assigned Mulligan
to shadow the house on Friends Street
where Stephan lived, and another man
to go to Burlington to find out what
had taken place at the motor-vehicle
agency regarding the automobile that
was once gray but now was black.
Detective Murphy remained in Phila-
delphia, haunting the house on Robin-
son Street until Mrs. Rogers put in her
appearance.

|* BURLINGTON Doran’s man learned

from: Miss Helen Morrissey, a clerk
in the agency of Frederick. W. Peter,
that Stephan had. had his car trans-
ferred to Mrs. Rogers’ ownership the
day previously. Miss -Morrissey re-
called the incident very clearly be-
cause she said that Stephan, during the
transaction, divided his time between
trying to impress her as a big-shot, and
“mauling” Mrs. Rogers.

“For some reason or other,” said
Miss Morrissey, “he wanted to im-
press upon me that the car was black.
He kept saying: ‘There it is across
the street. That doesn’t look like a
gray car to you, does it?’”

A smartly dressed, worldly looking

From left, Prosecutor Porlando, who aided the in
car; and Mrs. Emily Headley and her son Bernard

Detective James J. Mulligan,
who used his head when
Opportunity came his way

blond woman walked up to the Robin-
son Street house that Detective Mur-
phy was shadowing shortly after six
o’clock that night and the Camden
sleuth knew that this was Mrs. Frieda
Rogers. Murphy followed the woman
to her rooms, then rapped on the door.
She was considerably agitated when he
revealed his identity. He told her that
he was investigating a charge by
Stephan’s wife that Stephan was fail-
ing to support his mate and their two
children, owing to the fact that he was
spending all of his money on the
Rogers, woman,

Mrs: Rogers tried the outraged in-
nocence game, but it didn’t work.
“All right,” she snapped. “I’m in love
with Bill and he’s in love with me. So
what?”

Still concealing his hand, Murphy
gradually steered the conversation onto
the murder night. He got Mrs. Rogers
talking about the visit to Mrs. Head-
ley’s, fabricating the tale that Mrs.
Stephan had trailed the two there.

“Didn’t you see Stephan’s wife when
you left at ten o’clock?” asked Murphy.

The woman looked up and stared
hard at the sleuth. “Who?” she asked

slowly. ‘Who ever said we left Mrs.
Headley’s at ten. o’clock Tuesday
night?”

So there was going to be an alibi!

“Mrs. Headley told me.”

“Mrs. Headley’s a damned old liar,”
snapped the blonde. “Bill and I were
there lapping up beer until one
o’clock.”

“What time did you get there?”

vestigators; Helen Morrissey, who knew things about the
—who had a clear recollection of the time a beer-party ended

“About half-past seven.”

“And you and Bill were there all
the time—from half-past seven right
through until one in the morning?”

“Ab-so-lute-ly!”

“Oh well,” shrugged Murphy, as if
the time element made no difference,
“when you left is neither here nor
there. The point is, you’re chasing
around with a married man and his
wife’s sore as hell. Got a date with
Stephan tonight?”

“No. And if I have it’s none of your
business.”

Murphy left, but kept the “blond
alibi” under surveillance. It looked
very much to him as if she were cov-
ering up for Stephan. But for what
reason?

EANWHILE, over in Camden, De-
tective Mulligan had spent several
hours watching Stephan’s home with
no results. It was wearing on for mid-
night. Mulligan called Doran and
asked for instructions. “Lean against
the place, Jim,” said Doran. “Take the
bull by the horns. Question the wife.
We've got nothing to lose now. We're
going to pick that bird up as soon as
we lay eyes on him anyway.”
Mulligan found Mrs. Stephan a lit-
tle woman, young and attractive but
with lines deeply etched in her face.
He told her he was hunting for her
husband.
“What is he mixed up in now?” she
asked.
“Now?” repeated Mulligan.
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“You

tween people of the same sex. In fine,
Curtis W. Dobbins emerged as a mod-
ern Sir Galahad after Orlando, Doran.
Start and the other investigators. had
scanned thoroughly the pages of the
open book that was the young man’s
life.

Twenty-four hours after the mys-
terious shooting, with Curt Dobbins
still in that twilight zone between life
and death, the investigators found
themselves behind the eight ball.
They had no idea where to strike in
an effort to locate the perpetrator of
the crime that had Haddonfield’s out-
raged citizenry up in arms. Only one
avenue of investigation held the slight-
est promise of results. That was a
thorough check-up on every paroled
convict in Camden County, on the
theory that there might be some tie-
up between a paroled convict and the
household of the Federal parole officer.
The shooting victim’s father, however,
doubted that such a probe would lead
to anything, inasmuch as his relations
with paroled convicts always had been
most cordial. Some of them even had
worked for him.

HIEF of Detectives Doran well knew

that the one piece of physical evi-
dence that would bind Dobbins’ assail-
ant positively to the crime, confession
or no confession. was a .38 caliber
weapon. Doran further realized that
when a man commits a crime with a
gun he often strangely enough holds

on to the gun until such time as he
thinks the weapon is too hot to handle.
With this in mind, Doran wanted to
put Dobbins’ assailant at his ease and
assure him, whoever and wherever he
was, that to keep the gun would be
quite safe because the police were on
the wrong trail. Doran therefore re-

sorted to one. of .the oldest but best.

tricks in detective .work—giving’ out

a misleading statement to the newspa- .
pers. Thus, the following two para- .
graphs led off the story about the .

Dobbins case on the front page of the

Camden Courier on Friday, August 14: :

Discovery of a revolver with three
cartridges discharged sent detectives
scurrying to Trenton and then to New

York: today on a secret mission con-.

nected with the mysterious shooting of
Curtis W. Dobbins at his home ‘in
Haddonfield. cat

The wife who
was scorned and
the woman who
wanted a new
fur coat: ‘Mrs.
William Stephan
in circle; Mrs.
Frieda Rogers
shown at the
wheel of the car
that once was
painted gray,
then changed to
black over night

County investigators refused to dis-
cuss the reported new clew, but it was
learned the weapon was found in or
near Trenton. Who found it or where
or any other circumstances surround-
ing the discovery, were cloaked in
secrecy. They attached enough signifi-
cance to the gun, however, to send de-
tectives to New York.

Another bit of strategy resorted to
by Camden County investigators was
that.of announcing that the car that
had been seew departing from the
shooting scene, had been green. The
manhunters had established to their
satisfaction that the car had been
gray; but they realized that green is
a rather usual color as automobiles
go, and they didn’t want to let out the
fact that they knew the color of the
machine for fear its owner would paint

. it and thus lessen his chances of dis-

covery. Not one in a hundred auto-
mobiles are painted gray, anyway, and
for that reason Detective Chief Doran
was more than anxious that the man
who shot Dobbins be lulled into a false
sense of security and thereby persuade
his owner to leave the car in its
original color.

7 County Detective James Mulligan
and Detective Thomas Murphy of
the Camden City Police Department,
had been assigned the task of going
over the records of all convicts who
had been paroled in Camden and vicin-
ity during the preceding year. This
was not a particularly difficult task, in
view of the fact that the man they
were after owned a gray car with a
coughing motor. It was on Friday,
August 14, that Mulligan and Murphy
checked among others, merely by way
of routine, one William J. Stephan, an
ex-convict living at No. 403 Friends
Avenue in Camden. Stephan, a pa-
roled Federal convict who had report-
ed periodically to the father of the
man who was shot, had been a member
of an East Camden gang of petty hood-
lums known as the Hell’s Half Acre
crowd. In this company he was known
as Ace-in-the-Hole. And the more
they checked on Ace Stephan, the
more interested did the two detectives
become.

Cautious inquiries about the neigh-
borhood revealed that Stephan, who
was married to an attractive blond
woman, mother of his two small chil-
dren, had not been hitting it off very
well with his wife. The two, the
sleuths were informed. frequently en-
gaged in nocturnal tilts, much to the
annoyance of the neighbors. And the
neighbors were of the opinion that
Mrs. Stephan was a very nice little
woman who minded her own business,
and that it was a shame that-she had
gotten herself tied up to a “no-good
bum.”

Mulligan and Murphy inquired as to
whether Stephan owned a car. They
were told that he did. Pressing for
what kind of a car it was. the sleuths
learned ‘that the ex-convict. owned a
oo colored,” old-mode] Chevrolet

an.

HE two dicks further learned that
Stephan was employed as a can-
vasser by a large Philadelphia furniture
store.. Obtaining the name of the store,
the two hopped into their car and
dashed across the river to Philadel-
phia. Little did they dream of the
amazing revelations they were to un-
cover. At the furniture store they
found that Stephan had for some time
been the crew manager of a group of
salesladies who had done house-to-
house canvassing. ‘

In fact, Stephan was out canvassing
when the detectives arrived. They ob-
tained valuable information, however,
from a Mrs. Emily Headley, whose
home was in Berlin, New Jersey. and
who worked as a member of Stephan’s
canvassing crew. Mrs. Headley di-
vulged to the detectives that Stephan
had for some time been engaged in a
torrid love affair with another member
of the canvassing crew—an attractive
blond -woman named Mrs. Frieda
Rogers. The Rogers woman. Mrs.
Headley said. was the mother of a
twelve-year-old child. roomed at No.
2550 Robinson Street, Philadelphia,
and had for two years been separated
from her husband.

“Mr, Stephan and Mrs. Rogers visit-
ed me at my home in Berlin last
Tuesday night,” Mrs. Headley an-
swered in reply to one of a series of
questions that swung her around to
the night of the shooting.

“What time did they leave?” asked
Mulligan.

“Oh, along about ten o’clock. I'd
say.” answered the woman.

“Sure it wasn’t ten-thirty?”

“No. it couldn’t have been that late.
1 went to bed as soon as they left and
I looked at the clock just before |
turned out the light and it was a quar-
ter after ten.”

Mulligan and Murphy eyed each
other knowingly. If ex-convict Stephan
had left Berlin about ten o’clock he

the family. The outside prints might
be valuable, however.

There was nothing more to be done
at the Dobbins’ home, and Prosecutor
Orlando and Doran left for the form-
er’s office to discuss the case. Al-
though Curt Dobbins still lived, it
was apparent to both that at any mo-
ment they would be faced with a
murder probe. Dobbins’ thread of life
was a slender one.

ORD of the shooting was flashed
Wi. Edgar Y. Dobbins, meanwhile,
and the victim’s parents were now
on their way home.
“There are two possible motives
here,” Orlando said reflective-
ly to Chief Doran. “Robbery
appears to be the most ob-
vious, although the gunman
apparently didn’t even make
an attempt to enter the place.
He just said, ‘Get your hands
up,’ then shot. That, of course,

HER HUSBAND——

the striking blonde: told.
_ had been “stepping arguad:
-Sqoman,” and something

might be camouflage for another mo-
tive.”

“What’s that?” Doran inquired.

“Revenge. It might have been
some convict with a grudge against
Mr. Dobbins. Someone, perhaps,
who’d once been sent back to jail for
parole’ violation. Convicts carry
grudges like that a long time,” Or-
lando said soberly.

“Maybe,” Doran offered tentative
agreement. “But young Curt doesn’t
look like his father. He’s consider-
ably taller, slimmer. Perhaps it was
intended for Curt after all.”

“We'll check on that, too,’ Or-
lando said. “It’s still too early in

the morning,
though.” .
Later that day
detectives were
dispatched to ques-
tion friends and
acquaintances of
28-year-old Curtis

W. Dobbins. From these people the
officers drew a composite picture
which they laid before Orlando and
Doran. Curt Dobbins held a respon-
sible position in the engineering de-
partment of the RCA-Victor Manu-
facturing Company in Camden. He
was known by many, had a host of
friends who thought highly of him.

No one, it appeared, bore the hand-
some youth the slightest ill will. His
popularity with both sexes was un-
questioned, As for any possible en-
tanglements with a woman—the de-
tectives’ findings ruled that factor out
completely.

Tuesday, the day of the shooting,
detectives ascer-
tained, Curt had
gone to work at
his usual time,
returned home
after work. Then

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been fruitless; the bullets fired by
the gunman were useless without a

un with which to compare them. A

opeless standstill loomed in the
offing.

Curtis Dobbins had not yet died but
recovery was patently impossible. He
was slowly but certainly sinking. His
death was only forestalled by his ath-
letic constitution’ and stout heart.

URNING in a new direction, Or-

lando and Chief Doran marshaled

all the forces at their command for
a concerted sweep. Pawnshops in
Camden and Philadelphia were can-
vassed for anyone purchasing a .38
gun within recent weeks, or for any-
one hocking such a weapon immedi-
ately after the crime. nown crimi-
nals were picked up in both cities
and subjected to grilling.

Particular attention was paid to
those men who had at some time been
under the supervision -of Parole
Officer Dobbins. These individuals
were questioned, but it seemed that
all were engaged in honest activity.
All had apparently . benefitted from
the fine rehabilitative work of Mr.
Dobbins.

The avenues of investigation were
fast becoming dead ends when a rel-
atively minor incident occurred late
Friday evening.

A small, striking blonde walked
purposefully into the Camden _detec-
tive bureau. To Detective Thomas
Murphy, she firmly announced she
wanted something done about her
husband.

“Bill’s stepping around with an-
other woman,” she said, “and he seems
to forget all about his own family.
This isn’t the first time I’ve had trou-
ble with him. Something must be
done to make him support us.”

“I’m sorry, Mrs. ” the detective
looked at her questioningly.

“Mrs. Stephan, Mrs. William J.
Stephan, of 403 Friends Avenue,
Camden,” the woman supplied.

“I’m sorry,” the detective said again,

“but the police department usually ~

doesn’t interfere in a case of this
kind. You’ll have to see someone in
the Department of Welfare about
him, they’ll do something for you,
I’m sure.”

The woman was silent for a while,
then, before leaving, she thanked the
detective.

Murphy, one of the ace sleuths of
the Camden police department, re-
turned to his desk. Like the other
members of the force, he -was well
aware of. the facts of the Dobbins

shooting and had done exhausting ,

work on the case. Camden police
had been active in the matter since
its inception and he had been one of
the men engaged in checking the
records of former convicts. At the
moment, he was tired and his weari-
ness temporarily beclouded his usu-
ally alert senses.

As the general work of a city’s
police department must be carried on
at all times, he bent back to a rou-
tine task, forgetting his last visitor.
Minutes passed while his mind re-
volved about other problems. He was
hardly conscious of it at first, but in
a little while he felt something in his
brain giving him the signal for at-
tention. He stopped, puzzled and
annoyed that he couldn’t quite lay his
hand on this elusive matter.

It continued to vex him, and he kept
thinking harder and harder trying

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THE SUSPECT FAINTS

Taken to the Philadelphia, Pa, alleyway

on viewing the corpse. He's alleged

where the body of May Turbulis
William Delancey, above, collapsed
{6 have contessed strangling her.

ment that possessed him. Suddenly
he dropped a sheet of B ie he was
holding. That name Stephan! That
was it, he thought.

He raced back to the files of crimi-
nals, dug feverishly among the cards
and photographs until he found the
one he sought. He held it up, reading
the notations upon it and looking at
the photograph attached to the card
carefully.

Detective Murphy was_ beginning
to remember the man. He was one
of the many who had either been
brought into headquarters or sum-
moned to appear for questioning.
Stephan had been accosted on a
Camden street by an officer while
walking with a woman, and both had
gone to headquarters. There, Stephan
had introduced his wife. Then he had
told Murphy he had been working
in Philadelphia at his job as crew
manager of a group of canvassers for
a furniture company: On the night
of the 11th, as on several nights pre-
ceding, he had worked in Philadel-
phia until 9 P. M. ©

Just before 10 Pp. mM., Stephan had
said, he. had met his wife in a tavern
a short distance out of Camden. They
had spent a couple of hours in the
place before going home. A quick
check with the woman, who was in a
separate room, corroborated what
Stephan had said. Also, the furniture
company officials had said when asked
by telephone, that Stephan’s crew had
indeed been working until 9 on the
night in question. Later, when de-
tectives were able to check with some

on the 11th, it was found that Stephan
and the woman had been there. As
to the exact time of their departure,
no one in the bistro could be sure for
the place was crowded. But they had
been there for a while, that was cer-
tain.

HE thing which made Detective
[murphy ponder now was the fact

that the woman with Stephan was
not the same woman who had ap-
peared to complain at the bureau this
evening. One of the women—and
Murphy reasoned it was the first one
—was the “other woman.” An idea
was forming in the sleuth’s mind. He
reached for his jacket, took another
look at Stephan’s card and mug shot.

Stephan’s record showed an arrest
in 1928 for larceny and robbery, for
which he was given a suspended sen-
tence. Later, that same year, he had
been involved in an auto theft, and
again he’d gotten off lightly with a
5-year suspended sentence. In 1929,
Stephan had been nabbed for the
robbery of a post office in Greenloch,
N. J., and for this crime he had been
sentenced to Atlanta for 5 years. On
his emergence from the Federal in-
stitution he had been placed under
the wing of Parole Officer Dobbins.
His parole had expired in 1934.

The picture was changed for
Stephan now, as far as Detective
Murphy was concerned. His ap-
parently flawless alibi had a serious
weakness. The “other woman.”

Murphy reasoned that a man who
had created such a domestic situation

rsons who had been at the tavern as Mrs. Stephan had briefly described

way department. These alert young
officers went to Crosbyton on the
night of December 8th, a few hours
after they learned of D. T. Smith’s
death. Picking up Howard Payne,
a local officer, they began circling
quiet streets, scrutinizing every car
in the hope that, eventually, the
hunted man might try to contact his
people.

This went on for hours while Mann
was riding in the country. Why
wasn’t he stopped? Probably be-
cause no one expected to find him
with a girl much less one so young.
Ellen Daine, only 16, was due for a
shock when she learned who her
escort of the evening really was.

He took her home about 1:30 in
the morning and turned toward Cros-
byton. Johnson, Woodell and Payne
spotted him at the edge of town. He
saw them in the same instant and
was off in a flash, the patrol car in
hot pursuit.

Remembering the experience of
Beall and Zachary at Abilene, this
time the police did the shooting.
Mann must not escape again. Twelve
miles he sped over country roads
with the car behind him spouting
flame. Then he struck a curve too
sharp to turn safely and his car
crashed into a ‘fence.

The police car had to slow down
or crash, too. By the time it negoti-
ated the turn its lights fell on the
Chevrolet. It was empty. There was
no sight or sound of Mann. In his
flight he left behind one shoe and
a broken handled .38 Colt revolver.

The country is rough at this point.
Mann had plunged into a canyon too
wide and deep for any three men to
search. By daybreak 50 officers were
on the scene. No one expected the
fugitive to get far without a shoe
but again they underestimated him.
He was in familiar territory; ground
he had played in as a youngster and
hunted as a man. Somehow, he man-
aged to keep out of sight during the
day. Saturday night found him ap-
proaching a farm home in the vicin-
ity. The family had gone to town.
He helped himself to food and a pair
of shoes, then dropped out of sight
again.

HEADQUARTERS

DETECTIVE

he had gone to the Camden Y.M.C.A.,
where he had spent the evening play-
ing handball. He had had no quarrels
with anyone, had engaged in no
activity which might have aroused the
enmity of a vengeance seeking foe.

“The angle of personal revenge
doesn’t seem to stand up,” Doran said
to Orlando after all the facts had been
accumulated. “The next thing we can
do is question his father.”

The elder Dobbins, worn with his
sudden grief, attempted to assist the
investigators. He told them he could
not recall any criminal whose re-in-
carceration he had ordered in recent
months. Nor could he think of any
convict who had uttered threats.

The theory of revenge as a motive
seemed to be going a-glimmering.

Still fighting desperately for his

HEADQUARTERS DETECTIVE

Sunday forenoon a group of deep-
ly chagrined officers met in Crosby-
ton to consider the next move. By
then they had exhausted every re-
source. The canyon had been covered
from end to end without revealing
a trace of the fugitive. The planes
were no help in this wooded section.
Bloodhounds had’ picked up the trail
only to lose it again. The secret watch
kept on the home of Mann’s rela-
tives proved unavailing. Sheriff Abel
voiced the opinion of all when he
said they were probably wasting their
time in Crosbyton.

“The way that guy covers ground
he could he 500 miles away by this
time,” T. C. Laws grumbled. “Looks
like we’ll have to wait for him to pull
the next job.”

“I don’t believe it,” Young Billy
Johnson averred. “I think he’s close.”

Laws turned to his comrade. “How
come?” |

“A hunch,” Johnson said, settling
his cap firmly on his head. “Just a
hunch. I’m going out to find some-
thing to back it up.”

HREE hours later he met with
them again.

“Pve been inquiring,” he said,
“about Mann, and I’ve found a lot
of people know him around here. One
of them is a friend of mine. A chap
I used to go to school with. He and
Mann played together as kids.” John-
son looked around the expectant cir-
cle and grinned. “He says he and
Mann used to_spend hours in an old
abandoned cellar at the edge of town.
It was their favorite spot. The cel-
lar,” Johnson added significantly, “is
still there.”

Woodell broke the silence. “You
think he’s hiding out there, Billy?”

“I think he might be. I drove by
the place. It’s sort of a dugout. It’s
grown up to weeds and no one ever
goes near it. What better place
could he want? It’s close. He could
slip out and get food right under our
noses. It’s the last place anyone
would think of looking for him. I’m
going to chance it.”

They were with him to a man.
Carefully they laid plans, and short-
ly after dark they closed in.

Waist high weeds veiled the cellar
from the streets. They were dry and
rustled in spite of every effort to move
quietly. After three gun battles there
was every reason to expect Mann,
provided he was there, to come out
fighting. Instead, he emerged at the
first call, hands high in the air. The
alert officers saw a dim moving
shadow in the opening and heard a
voice cry, anxiously, “Don’t shoot,
fellows! I’m giving up.”

It- would have been a different story
had Mann been armed. He was not.
In the police station, 30 minutes later,
he told of creeping into the cave after

dark the night before. So J. W. Manr~

came to the end of his c just
one week after he had embarked
upon it.

In Morton, where he was taken to
face murder charges, he made a full
and detailed statement to District
Attorney Burton S. Burks. Later,
Sheriff Tom Abel summed it up. ©

“They were just two young punks

on the prowl. He and Lackey both
had the courage of rats that run when
they can and fight when they’re cor-
nered. According to Mann they
‘made’ more than 40 towns in their
week’s jaunt, pulling three outright
hijackings, robbing nine oil stations
and stealing five cars. His tale of
their travels reads like a tour of west
Texas. They covered close to 2,000
miles.
. Mann was captured December 10th
and tried within a month. The trial
lasted two days, with the result in-
evitable., On January 5, 1940, Mann
was convicted and his punishment
fixed at life imprisonment.

Raymond Davis was released. He
had no part in the robberies and
seems to have been simply a victim
of his friendship for Mann.

Mann made one more bid for free-
dom. While he was being taken to
prison he struck the transfer officer
on the head with handcuffs and
escaped. Ten days later he was

caught in a beer tavern.
2

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 45

life, Curtis Dobbins was interrogated
at some length in the hospital. He
could add nothing to what he had

- already told Patrolmen Githens and

Meader immediately after the shoot-
ing. A_ further disappointment
awaited Doran and Orlando. The
fingerprints found on the screen door
were those of policemen.

Other aspects of the crime were
being explored, meantime. The police
‘of Philadelphia, just across the Dela-
ware River, were asked to co-operate
in a widespread check on garages for
a sedan. with grinding gears. The
owner or driver, garage proprietors
were warned, was probably a man
about six feet tall, or over. At best,

these clues were slender, but for the
time being that was all
to go by.

police had

A_ brief stir was created when de-
tectives learned that a‘ man matching
the description of the gunman was
seen loitering about the Dobbins home
Tuesday afternoon. His actions had
aroused the suspicion of a household-
er on Mountwell Avenue. A rapid
investigation soon disclosed that the
man was a part time workman for a
family several blocks away. When
he was picked up and questioned, he
told the police he had been inquir-
ing at houses on the avenue concern-
ing the possibility of more work. The -

workman’s background and alibi for:

the night of the 11th was checked
and found good. He was released. ~

Two days after the shooting there ~

was still no tenable clue develo ,
for the investigators to sink their..

teeth into. The check of garages had af

ped. ae

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58 HEADQUARTERS DETECTIVE

to him would need money, probably
more than he earned as a furniture
canvasser, to keep his illicit flame in-
terested. And a man, especially one
with Stephan’s past record, in such
a fix might resort to anything—rob-
bery, perhaps even murder—to get
more money. Besides, Stephan was
undoubtedly acquainted with the Dob-
bins home through his contact with
the parole official. And Stephan was
tall and dark. ...

At the Stephan home on Friends
Avenue, Detective Murphy reminded
Mrs. Stephan he was the detective
she had seen at headquarters..

“It occurred to me after you left
that the police might be able to do
something for you after all,” he said.
“Where is your husband now?”

‘The woman stiffened, bit her lower
lip. ‘With—with that woman,” she
sald.

“Oh,” the detective murmured un-
derstandingly. “By the way, Mrs.
Stephan, was he with her last Tues-
day night, too?” He asked the. ques-
tion casually.

. Mrs. Stephan nodded. “I believe
so. He didn’t get home until 4 the
next morning,” she answered wearily.

“Who is she, do you know her
name?”

“IT just know she works with Bill
in his crew,” Mrs. Stephan said. “I
think her name’s Della.”

Murphy thanked her and left. He
was convinced that Mrs. Stephan had
no suspicion that the detective wanted
to talk to Stephan for anything other
than the matter of his failure to
properly support his family.

He decided to place the whole thing
before Prosecutor Orlando. So far
-+he had no concrete evidence, but the
“wife” Stephan had had to substantiate
his alibi was an impostor. And that
incident alone served to point a sus-
Picious finger at him.

Prosecutor Orlando listened to De-
tective Murphy’s story, and agreed
that Stephan was trying hard to con-
ceal or cover something up.

_“There’s the possibility that Stephan
simply wanted to save himself the
embarrassment of explaining what
he was doing in the company of a -wo-
man other than his wife,’ Orlando
suggested, “and, therefore, he intro-
duced her as his wife. He probably
believed the cops would never find out
the difference. But there are some
other factors which need explaining.”

A watch was placed over Stephan’s
home that night, and when he didn’t
show up by the next morning, Satur-
day, August 15th, Detective Murphy
and County Detective Mulligan mo-
tored to Philadelphia. At the furni-
ture concern, they quickly learned
that Stephan and his crew were not
working that day. An official of the
company readily gave the detectives
the address of Stephan’s fellow crew
member, Della Starck, and the two
men sped to her home. :

As they drew up across the street

from the Starck woman’s house, a tall, -

gangling individual came through the
door. He sauntered down the steps
and got into a 1930 blue Chevrolet
sedan parked at the curb.

Murphy nudged Mulligan. “That’s
Stephan. Let’s tail him.”

HE detectives held their car ready,
Tana when the Chevrolet started off,

Murphy, driving the police auto,
made a quick U turn and got under
way.

“His gears made an awful lot of

noise then,” Mulligan said _ signifi-
cantly.

Murphy nodded. He, too, had no-
ticed the clashing of metal from the
car ahead. -

The man in the Chevrolet drove
at a leisurely pace, unaware of the
two sleuths behind him. Soon he was
on the bridge crossing the Delaware
River and heading into Camden. The
detectives now wouldn’t have to bother
with extradition on the non-support
warrant they were holding against
Stephan. They could pick him up
in his own city. The non-support
charge had been trumped up as a
rusé to get him out of Pennsylvania
without arousing Stephan’s suspicion
that he was wanted for anything more
serious.

Straight for his place on Friends
Avenue the man drove. At the mod-
est frame home he drew up, went in-
side. Before following him, Murphy
quickly telephoned Prosecutor Or-
lando, advising him of Stephan’s re-
appearance. Orlando told Murphy
that Detective Chief Doran would hop
right out there.

Less than 10 minutes later, Mur-
phy, Mulligan and Doran walked in.
They found the man in the small
kitchen with his wife. Stephan, who
had been talking angrily, abruptly
subsided.

“What do you want?” he asked bel-
ligerently, not recognizing them.

Doran flashed his badge.

“Oh, coppers,” Stephan said less
forcefully. “I’m clean.”

“Maybe,” Doran said quietly. ““We’ve
got a -complaint about you. Non-
support. You've been chasing around
in Philadelphia quite a while, haven’t
you?”

“That’s none of your business,”
Stephan snapped sullenly.

“It might be,” Doran countered
ominously. “That’s just what we’re
here to investigate.”

“She’s been shooting off her mouth,
eh?” He whirled on his wife.

“Never mind that,” Doran said
sharply. “You’d better come down
to the prosecutor’s office to answer a
few questions.” Doran signaled Mur-
phy to remain behind, giving him the
high sign to look the place over.

After Mulligan and Doran had left
with the angry Stephan, Murphy
turned to his wife. He eyed the
pretty, bewildered woman compas-
sionately. :

“Has he got a gun?” he asked sud-
denly.

Mrs. Stephan didn’t reply at once.
After a few moments she nodded
slightly. “It’s in there,’ she pointed
to the kitchen stove. ~

Murphy opened the stove, poked
around in the baking chambers until
his questing fingers fell on a bundle
of rags. He unwrapped the cloths
slowly.. A shiny .38 caliber pistol
was exposed to view. He examined
it, saw that 3 shots had been fired.
Murphy didn’t have to look for any-
thing else. He thanked Mrs. Stephan
and strode out.

At Prosecutor Orlando’s office,
meanwhile, Stephan was stubbornly
parrying all questions.

“I’m an ex-con, that’s why I’m on
the pan,” he asserted bitterly. “I
haven’t done anything.”

“Well, then what have you been
doing lately that would cause you to
be brought here?” Prosecutor Or-
lando asked.

“Not a damned thing!” Stephan ex-

ploded. ‘Maybe I have been around

with Della, but that’s okay.”

“You’ve been seeing her a lot re-
cently?” The question was smooth,
deceptive. —

“Sure, nearly every night,” Stephan
shrugged defiantly.

“Even Tuesday night? Remember,
you said you were wih your ‘wife’
when you were questioned last?”

Stephan paled. “I know, I pulled a
boner on that, And if you think for
a minute I shot Dobbins you’re crazy,”
he blurted out.

Murphy entered the room at that
moment. He whispered to the prose-
cutor and the detective chief. Or-
lando finally turned back to Stephan.
“We didn’t say anything about Dob-
bins, but now that you mention it,
we’ve found your gun. A ballistics
test will tell us what we want to
know, even if you don’t admit it,” he
said, sternly.

Stephan was sweating now. “You
can ask Della,” he shouted. “We were
at the tavern I told you about until
after 11. Then—then we went toa
place and parked for a while. I didn’t
take her home until after 2. Ask
her, she’ll tell you.”

“We will,” Stephan was told. “Don’t
worry about that!”

HILE Stephan was being held, De-
W tective Mulligan sped to New York

with the suspect’s gun and the three
bullets Chief Doran had recovered.
In New York, Captain William A.
Jones made a quick comparison be-
tween bullets fired from Stephan’s
gun and Chief Doran’s pellets. The
riflings on all bullets were identical!
On Monday, August 17th, Curt Dob-
bins died. Stephan was formally
charged with his murder. Stephan
was still clinging to his alibi when he
was brought back to Prosecutor Or-
lando’s office. A sharp-eyed, worried
looking blonde woman was with the
official. Stephan glared hard at her,
gulped nervously.

othing was said for a few electric
moments. Then, “You said you’d get
me dough for clothes, furs, maybe
even a piece of Sbdriast the woman
snapped contemptuously at Stephan.
“So that’s how you were gonna do it!”

“Bah! You were too drunk to
know what happened,” Stephan re-
torted quickly.

“Not too drunk,” she corrected
bitterly. “I fell asleep in the car, all
right. But I woke up when I heard
the shooting.” She turned to Prose-
cutor Orlando. “He told me if any-
one asked any questions to say that
we were at the tavern ’til some time
after 11. But we left a couple of
minutes after 10. The joint was
crowded, no one missed us. And I
could recognize that house where we
parked, where the shots came from,
too,” she added stonily.

The loose ends in the case were

coming together neatly now. Exact-
ly as she had said, Della Starck dem-
onstrated she did _ recall where
Stephan had parked on the night of
the 11th. From an automobile cruis-
ing along Mountwell Avenue, she
pointed unhesitatingly to the Dob-
bins residence.

“That’s the place,” she said firmly. ©

The motive for the crime was clear

now, too. Stephan wanted to show —~

Della Starck a net time, buy her
pretty things. ut he didn’t have
enough money. He had gone to the
Dobbins place to commit robbery. His
nerve must have failed him, however,
and in a moment of panic he had

a a

ee ae

OSCHWALD, Cparles, white, hanged Nwark, New J,rsey, on Fbruary 15, 1877.

ne Ea ee
“the southern: endtsa of the

— week the work-
be carried aver the
ork tower.
_@ and a'|..-wed to rest
he: Way «f ng vease's ux

The rope
m howto Ms 2 the Sew-Tock

NULE B URE. 4 v.
Ore THE. “PROSPERITY OF
. NEW ORGAKIZATION—
To ACCOMPLISH.

"part of last Spring a num-
Fchente copcludiog that coms
iptorder. shat thie commercial
éne if mot all of the trade ehe
:. discrimination af the railroad
f otherguipte, and from wapy
© discuss the best means toob-
alt. After masy informal
has: now been: got inte good
*York Mercantile Bareaa bas
= oUjest of -waicd: is: throazh
ts members...‘ the prometion
setropolis. with: the torerior
{the country.” It is: ured
cactivity of: the: wercbaots of
Ned to anite io any comoined
eso. evils. very: maay: of toe
or towns: have: ceased to visit

. owing. to the abusers” which
extst, 606 which have caucea
pe uletribetimg trade: fermeriy

‘aiverted to wterwe

= diradvaatage
nth the boteie tn th «Cite of New-
Feanire mascna tee NE e
‘a06 Whice 1s cou
Aenenger fares to wer
Fiat’ ‘xs es .7kOR for purimecs of.
cocypanies woald |.

enass!

~ John Bell, Suaineal thirty-five.y
and. Christopher Bat er, aged tweat Is ,:
proatrates by the Beat yesterdar.

for lest nicht cid not come off. Oaly a few: paove-
pboresrent gleams shot acrcss the sky. :

Gilmare'n Garden, commencing op.the evening of
the 19 b of S-ptember.

Edward Tuber, aged eight years, while fying
a kite from tbe roof of hie parents’ residence, Ne.

10 Weat: Fortv-eizntn atreet, vesterday atternoon,
toll to the sidewalk aod was instantly billed.

A Gre occurred at 7:30 o'clock last evening in
the show «indow of the: fancy-zvods etore of Sire.
E. Katwke, Ne. 1.157 Second avenar, caaced bv a
liested match taliivg among sone goode. Damaze.
6200; tuliy 1ue0red in the Lafaye te Company-: *

_ Controller Green. paid yesterday, the gate-
‘Keepers, ep.ineera, and. laborers of the Departmestt:
of Pable Perks to Aug: mounting to 67.311 52.4
ang will pec to-day ihe Lauptore of the: Healtn: De-:
cactronets $608 30.

The- Poiice) Board yesterday: anpointed
Charles. _H.. Cole, James: T. Velieles, and David
Barry to: the: position of ‘patroimen. The resizoa-
ones Asron: Melcbing, 2 patcoo'man, attached to
she Ghirteenth Precinct, wae accewted.

* Active operations have been: resumed. szain
ia the coastraction of the Gilvert Esvevatet Railway

10 Weet. Third ‘» reet. Ties oiz. inches square. of
the best Nustn: Carviisa poe. and. icachiug trum
—_ $a. trpes orem, arebelog emylored = the

+) The wilt of the late. William. T. Garner; owner
‘Of the yacht. Mohawk; woe: was. drowned recent-
ly when tbat: ill-fated: vesee! capsized at Stap'+
ton, States Ialand, was. yesi-rday admitted to pru-
- bate by Surrozate Cavin... Tho tull text. ot the. —
_bas been. published.

- John.Carey.: who: did: ‘business. as.9. roofer! at
‘Noe 2 Marion stcect, conmmicted anicids: at his resi-:

dence, Ne. 192 E.m etreet,.vv tazirg munatic acid
on . Weduenday=.. Cacev had. bees of int-mporate.

“TV pabits, a.d-is aupposed- to Big taken the Dusen

: pavhene: ease ~

swnile goed ipsane.*

moten sands by the defen: santo in the: cait of Joke
Pauen: against: the New-¥.rk- E:e vated. Biilroad
‘Company, to compel the piainuff to sucrense tho se-
cority.oa his injunctios trum $500 te $25,000.
Henry Bunte,: the: Germaz:. whi: shot: two:

Sis named James Keely and: George: Lurnier with:

ta.10¢ in the yard of Nv. 1,385 Toird: avenue.- on

Wednesday afternoon, was atr: st<d last evewng oy
Capt. Csffrey, . ot. the: Fite: Precinst,. and. held. for.
meee

» Daring a fraveeaes ‘Wednesday night between
‘Mary Murrow and ber busbaad, Junu, at their: real.
denos, No. 102 Cherry street, Joba: arracs his “i
on the: heal witb same: biaut: @ infit
a eevere-scalp wound..: The :
takeu:.to. tbe. Caawmbers: €

of the Eig

| thy: Precinct:
" jcatepdas/wecsinal arrested. Wils

«Dwyer, euias

‘Man: | ~ Pawsey.” aliae="‘the Irlen. necro,” s. well-known.

a «
were
botel
order: taat: : the: hotel
staat a ecw roan |

Jie 'H. apical touk p

‘wagos.thief. whow Le caught 10 the act of. steauug.
-a-toux of crackers, valneu at $20. from the wWaguD ot
Sesry Fel.mao, a gtcer, whurst Was 8 at.
: f South Fitth agenue and: :

of age: applied 40 Joatce, Marrey, at: the Tumbe:|-

3 i y:-for assistance, stating that:
was olarving. He wae-st: one: time e watermas.

? is: {he beCrsvii in comfortable: circumstancea,but be

fabled a few: vears-ago, aad. bae since beun destutute.-

: ‘He will be cared tor oa.she..slaud. for theipasypie
musta: aa

Tbe-cighteent ersten of the Free }

» yesterday, taking 1,139 per-

‘The meteorio display which was predicted

Agining goods io Darlington Ineusnip. uoter false.
ipretenses... Tbe. prisoner.” who ie a ranof some

“covery were er.tertaimed.. but yesterday motning it

A weak to oge: bis name. In: the écpost

asbot-cuu loaded with dack shot, waiie: thes were: é

yan oat from bebiad: the’ cuuntes -922: esaped: hy:

Lrought to the Suventientionl in charge of a oft
cera, identified as the wan who tried. to shoot.
bia «ieter and ki.led B-ite. The jary readered a
werdict in accordance with tbe facte.

Geerge: Herr, a resident of Etizabeth, at-
tempted to terminate bis rzistence: Wednewsy

aight by taking a dose of exatic acid. Medical at-
teudanee was premptiy summoned and bis aesizn
frustrated. This ia the third time in three: years
that. Herr han attempted enicide.

Detiy Walkley, the five-year-old daughter of
William Walaley. residituz on. Liberty street, Cam-

den. wae fataily barned Wednesdav. Her c'athing
eanght fire trom 4 faruace and ebe ran wildly into
the street. Woaen her moroer caught h-r she —
ternbly buruse about the lege, arme, and oody, and

het ree very 19 considered impuseible, —

Joseph Caveris,. Master Mechanic: of the
Montclair: Kailway, met with a fatal accident on

Wedne.day. He was saperintending the repairing
of a bridge pear tbe Broad Street 8 ation 10 Bioom-
field when he lost his valance and fell busdiong to
the gruacd. a distance of twenty fes:. He was’
killed tatantiy; The remaios were: tsken to bis
late resicence at Siouk’s Station. Mr. Caverly was:
forty seare old sn leaves @ family.

‘Col. Heary R:- Foote, manacer of: the Essex.
Furnace Cowyany in Jersey City, wae arrested yee-
terday and taken to Pennsyivania cb s requisition

trom Go . Hariranft. Foute. bas b-en ind.ete? by
the tirand Jury of Beaver C- unty, Penn. sur ob-

‘prominence,- was: sery indiguant. aad: declared it
was all a: mietake.- He adds. thet: the: proveetisg
takeu w bis case was a method hey: net ip Penn-.
eylvauia of c.iecting debts...

A mispiaced switch on: tae Central ‘Railrood.
bridge over: Newark Say caused a freizht ‘rain to
ron off tne track Wednesfay “a The locomo-
tive aod ope car par iaily brvke through toe
bridg-. Cuzclen Ward, the enginerr, and Joba
“Alhu, §: mao, were: throws. ee out
of tne and ses'ained. seriegs: mnjerics..
Beth men. crawled back through the win-
Gov.-ant ‘rt off the steam. The damage resale: .
fron the accident / wil amoent to about $10,000.
Traveli was deleyed tur scveral boura. ae
actifant.was caused by tre carclessnee. of Fiet-
erick Se ropp. the switchman, win eave that he
Seles to taru the’ switch wheo he went to light bis

: Otiiesr Stanley Brock, the Newark policeman
woo was shot by a burglar. last’ week. dled reater-

osy aftesnvon about 3 o’cleck.. On Wedsesday: he
was 00 mich impreved that.cume. hopes of his se-

was discovered that he ad grown: worse. and. the
attendiog phyntcian deciared that be’ could not live
through the day.” Betore dstug he affixed bus mark:

, MARINE - TNTELLE GES

“ee nes ————
re Adan ableton aes 0,
a ; ° at 3
CLEARED;
Mesuechipe Tease B-l, Lewrenes;: _ Korte
Pulpt. ans Trenmn
an Ratd

Deoatalea
Rtate of tndiena. (Br..) Sailer. ky
Ca; Giancus. Bearee, Boston, ar.

ra. Port lelaad, We
Fortass, (Port...) Meoqel
apa opr

*Te.. S2<08) Pwcet;: 3
Meibe, yore (iio
Nelle Ttark, — onD,
mirzi, Smaliw
e!-eve & Ca; Hate v. Romer

& t@;. —

sioop Uni

Conn.. Cas
: Barat posers

tv, Dewies,-
bt & Boyle. a
atone Pitaaoa; Semen

| ARRI RRIVED:

wiz cabee rast cs
GES. 2c
¢..0né alezandsia, 7 ah mide-andd
Rerme, Js.

abip Coeraarveg, '
ieee Apru 16, wise.
as < Kate Bowe; tof wee, 5 a

Eng., (3 de. ta ballast te
46 iz. ime. 4727, ene 0m mepeoee tasters
waclila,

to the depration made @. few. days: agr. too |, 465
pope becreings a oe

siated that it wae not tho prisoner: Kran. who shot
him, bat a smooth-facea man: adwut- the: same-sise
ano appearance as Oscuwald.- Ja bis opioion Oson-.
wald wa tae mun who fred the stot. The- prie-

ean

7) a co? & Oa:

ouers Ryan and Vechwald arestill held at. the Coaa- 2

ty Jail, ana the case: will come: berore:: tate: pest
rand Jarv.:. Anioquest will be held:

Between 11 and 12 o'clock: Wednesday: night

a: meg niy. crazed. with: rum, rosbed ints} <
Scnw: grocery store, on the covacr-of. Jefersen:

_stree: and Palieade avenne, Jereey City, and, seis+:
foc a large knife, at.ack-d the: clerk... The later:

Gesiag down wwe street... The madman shen turned.
B12 atientiva to Mr. Schwartg,. but *40:: latter: fel--
Auwed.tbe example of bis clerk, ap7, e-vetal perso
who were ‘the store alay-ran.07i: The man then:
‘pros nack “ad cut everything withia reach,
“and wap & aly opens -tn: demolisbing:
bg the an: Officer pnt arrived. aad. alter a.
gttnacie;: succeeded: iu: disarming. him: sad
< bim isto caatody=. “Abt | lock-ny the: pris-
ener. was recogsised.s0 Herman Epveuger, a despe:
-rate character... He el ea bonds:
the: peace (ob en» Feehk: Beater :

morning at: the: residence
Gates avenae,: Brooklyn.
past two mouths hae
Latteriv’ abo:

bas: bees: verg: much.

epirite::.. Her mother; thinking that chaoge ef ecene-1

ane society. would improve the health of ser daugh-:
- determined: to. take: Sor: th= the: ceaa ry-
Wiens ibaa: bias view;:: Mraz: Trecartm {-

everything: |

Roenéout.- :
3 Seat eenik: Provi*ocencton' :
: cia oh pe oe

morning to buv some

= re Cte te

ELLs fom Fad GO [name rn

A at abgat hina
‘His pulse'and noted fhe
‘asfdllows: | °. aed
Let, quarter... ote +18,

eee: a

sad Or - i
“ ae eevee i
‘as aes ae
| cach ecece i tral. |
oe “ 14]!
ps vosdesemeans 5 A

ae pec: Ee ent.
During the 4th boment the pulse was im
perceptible, but at thé 5th moment it rer

ips coe aebccecccesacedoce eposseooosee® 4
ws oo a were three faint
when r

when it .was cut down ahd i

there was nothing whatever ta’

bvan's father and brother called, said
gut 6 o'clack Oschwald's brothers :

ar, end down the
ther. Ryan fell back u
‘G my God,” and was 90

y coased eatirely, and

| wa PRONOUNCED DEAD. ee
y\ waa suffered | to onder get

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"Of thelr persistent assertions df fanocence:
@, the undersigned, mals the following d ing
ment to thé Public: that, we. are entirely
sot of the orime ‘we are f
Extreme ponalty of the law = no #1

:
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i

he &lehtirely mistaken in the morning,

fb has been kiown for some Gays taae yocun
| ary Ryan were preparing a statement tobe pu
Bed after tlie execution, ‘We now lay ft def

sh pudlic. It has id obo vate, and is only)

gas a literary

which

for

LuTYy pus men ~~ >

ng b Waverly place, Quitman asd other

until they were traced by the testimony of-
ered hy the State, to Reabon Roe's sal er
£ Howard street and Bpringfield avenue.

a young’ man whbd had been by. the

might be rec Slepvaway from home which ha du ong onthe nicht of Apeust Sd,.went firectly
wp | Ye ake miplone: Pahoa hg “hohe ard ‘waat to' bed and didnot rise ‘until 6
baw could not rye use after.ten o'c ‘ o*clock ‘on theNporning of the &. He cor,
Ont PY cod whoa he waa, cTostie roborated by ble Drothar Fred, who testified’ that
lowyd up pe wes one after ates pager het rpist, [ne was awakeped by Charies, who slept with him,
prtien the Mtde coisred boy who Swore || whe he came to bed, thet be found him |in bed
' Basge effect that Kock di6 we were in\B with hinj when he awoke before six 0 kK next
Ras a boy that don mot ied Aug i876 bowls it,| morning, that he, Frederick dressed aid swent
_ Ar patyy A that it was the Ird day of ug ; down stairs into the Kiichen, © x his brother fol-
be faw .us and Tet oe ge the wits Jowed Bim. peg ebm father and brother Joseph
Stagd what . month it was and the servant ‘Flnter tea . him
he ould not, tel thet i: Oyras in the hguse before six o'clock, the timéxaf which
EW carb kad pt eee a | fae nan ows lon precgin| oes
f ; s ing Roe's pg & dink wit Bree

fi : and told to im wp offin wba, 12, Me ne || Ryan ! tified that on the night prec t
swdae to -it, another witness who also swears } murder he was in his saloon with three men pamed
sawp at roe's saloen Is) John Winws bit f ' Crowley} and McGrath, and two mop from
‘ aap with } ne ae a ote New Yotk whoee names he did not know, ard that
didipot agree aud Brows, . the w party remained there until 5:15 "clock
ah as for Rubds ae ‘on thelnjorning of the third, and, thet he did not
pk om pt the vaneetee Cin or what D Jeave there until after that. Brady, Crowly and
hwasio say tt waa aa* thin oF wo were in McGratt also testified to spending the night In
plas for ho knows tn his own vale taat is wi Ryan's galoon with the New York men, playtug
is orniet cot August dace: aon rc cards, \bpt Were unable to give the name af the
tid bre do bot say thas thoy Dar pactured New orkers; |. The Btate produced rebutt 1 testi.
wives but 8 do may ler Ar K gy mony to:show-that Ouchwald's father had tha!
“plod some good reason he could not tell where Charles was on th ight
ie! a ete, nan bee walling to befofe the murdér, and Insleted thiat if fects
yah we cannot expials w .mony of;the Oschwald family, with ‘the | stlor
wy Tg nad. ie i ‘of that of Frederick, were true, Charles would bar:
Sotbin it for us and we feel tha’ ‘had thug to get hoine from Boe'’s saloon, and ala
‘do R but we cannot tefl when and wh insisted that the testimony of Frederick per
ony tos bt that.we were Fog tgp yee, jmred. Jt waa also insisted that ‘the mon:
ifs members of the Court say why they offered by Ryan was unworthy of belief and th
metily sey thas If was an actident which does! no Btate also produced the'tpstinony |of oMfipers &
ete ery day and which we-were not to blamq | show that during the time Ryan and his witnesse
swore they were in the saloon pla ing cats tb

lights were out andthe place Jocked up. The.
_ also corroborated the teatimony of Blauc v
the evidence of membersof his fami

to seeing Oschwald at their house 0 the

that Blanchard ‘swore he was there con
about the Milburn barglaries. The 8&t
produced a witness who testified to seding| Osc!
‘wali with Blanchard when the latter fwas storin
goods in. his barn which afterwards turned put |
be the hats stolen; front Oschwald, Suctmors

tin

raott | Co.'s hat factory In'‘Mllburn. The case was) give

to the jury at 3:15 o'clock on the aft Las sh f Ya
urday, Nov. 4th, and at 10:15 o'clook B day!

ing It came into Court with a verdict of
murder in the first degree. On Saturday,

intggbeir testimony for as the hter swore she
samy bwaki at bouse about 8 o'clock one
eveting by the lieht of the moon and it was proved
pay that the pon did not raise on that night
untiafter 11 o'clock, ‘
pti. to about thelr testimony for I
Chat Oech ree fe & Swoar that Asa
abuly as Tintend to stan before God my maker
thejphole of the family are wilifull
jurepe and to save their own son they all willfally
perfmred them for as Mts’ Blanchard he
Ato Mrs Brock mother of the deceased this
Y Le WH Bhe Sald which hire, Brock will to
Bist Brock is not {t very that the Death
of Son saved m)' boy jan that ‘hoy is now tn
the ffoumy Jail 08 two- of Burxatry self-
ong} rane sonore Wx Sentence now we
comp to paren rds ef who
another witness us who geknowied god
on witness stand she had perjured ‘herself
Nabe as for the witnesses for the defence 4 bre
alibt cate olaios thas tbe witnesses in toe yan’
alib@was not retiadle but think that they wore >
mory] re thaw any one of the Stata witnesses for
ee ee cele whe the State can say
f was produced ‘on t
and }f) they pothing ngt
1. Tt tne dw won trea confinad in the

“YUY/§9-7

¢ Oschwald and Ryan were sentenced by Ju
pue to be banged oa the Sth of Januhry.
| " eyroRre yor & XEW TRI
From the day when the verdict of tbe ju 7 x
pronounced almost to tbe hour of excuticu, a
cormsel of the doomed mien, were unremlttiog
thelr efforts to saye them. A. voluminous u

exceptions to the charge and rullogs of jJud

Lam tha telal af tha caan wad made 0 ry

wN v
| \ sane e the latver declared ba knew nocn eT Wm testa me
| ona deo r) row Weeder atin
\Seicetme ah reer Bee vere ubt |e sentestea tortie eas ine sts | {une mu te Caner erst arent Nk
| was very deUrious. He rolled about oo his -bod Por flow ia it about the Blanchard famuly could Mey sides, but tbe Chancellor refiisst to grapt th writ,
wailing raving, the very picture of abject | not fave sworn against'me C Oschwald ror the Falling in their efforts to caln a new 6 the
Perse drank some champagne and ‘lager pe ‘ ee ee wer oye os ope ee ad counsel jfor the doomed men visited Goyornor
Zeer fs the bao: perenne 00 is | tantly be fa the man that furnished the tools Bedle and bésought him for 9’ resplié, which was
his ravings be “yj wiah the gallows ware wh ( was used for Comming the hat robbery to” ranted on the %7th of December, the Goverppr re
ready now " and then + into & fit of weepidg which his brother in law § Blanchard: has |-tprieving:the men untal February’ 9th, = Mr. Magle
tei 5. | pieayed gull and what was the reason of Chist ding that Governor Bedle would not call a ¢pecial
‘At another time he rallied again and called outito | dila wearing thet It was a sciall who brought prey a : 6
Ocechwald, |" Brace jzpy Chariley,"” and then, . the Mpws of the- tragedy to “she when he on af the Court f Pardons to act on th
though the| effort had exhausted him, sank back | X5°% awe 2S ee oe ap utroduced into she Legislature and had
‘on his bed and fntd a fitful, uneasy deep, f “tne dise on the part of, Co, Beate he tried to prin Ul making writs of error In cases of thls
which jhe tly started and xlared y | in hf theory that, he naw the mad oa the pack. rit of right and allo ng the case to be
: and bing os tf hik naueied by fe0g} eget en yore rploh he Afiet 0 aust irectly to the Court f Errors, without
terrora of Wie awful doom, Vbuneliph re waa thery fro the ale saved to ° pte a The Governor nrespt
Duriny night. Ghertif Harrison and Mr. Mpr- |‘ the # to make an example of theee two young al Ryan until to-day, aod vetoed .t
row went isto Ouchjrald’s cell and hada lone |x — it will sg iar Sg fgg prod Legislature subsequently sustained the
or him. qu ae was drawn awe itireli{ | tnnocent of any part, of tals crime SKETOH OF THE MUBDERERS.
oor one was to come near ‘for 6 are to die and we fee
pon % 6 e ow Aor eCreMour tao nai Foay ® yg Ph owent Charleg Oschwald was between 24 and
{ogi after ntertiow was over wald agdin |: nellour lives were sworn away ul perjure f age, and was formerly a plumber. H a
‘| vebemen apse clempie outs a pp < thd the prejudice thie prose oy minaran resent ood reputation until be formed the ce
+ with w; 6 although It cov seen | ing Te we are vey cottusel for | br Ryan ina saloon in Market streét, poll p| tive
q by: the twifching of his face that he was making ap ¥ rigors in thelr power to mre rintlng previous to the murder. ¥rom his m gi with '
every effo keop up. his couraxce, and tet 120 eqjd thoy the Btate were bound+to hahg us |: Ryan Oschwald's downward career seoms ty
Ryas's fig. | Oost down hada terrible effect uppn pata — \ dong evidence was produced © Ow begun, and he appears to. have formed ‘
him, «. Abo 11 o’clopk he blew out the light fn bls Bs cetroe statermenk “ _* huaintasos of a Kang of criminals ike Ryan and
cell, laid ¢ wn jn bisbed and soon after fell aaledp. | ‘- Onanioa Oacawatp, . | fhe notorious Paddy’ Burns, who led him sbp by
‘about 82f5 o'clock last night the carpenters, y . Tnouss Yam, + ep Inte crime which only ended at the al
under the ¢ s nf Sheriff Harrison, began the "| HISTORY OF THE CASE, 3 , || Thomas Ryan was 3) years of agp, and
paps tion ot the ree ia bi¢h bag eget i pflerime of Oschwald and Evan was commit- pais city. From early boyhood, sae 6 son
whoops Kerritie engine, of death ted Gh the morning of the third of Aumust last. ¢ ‘respectable parenta, he has ibeen a cr#nlnal.

deen put up the soene In the jail was gloomy In the :

extreme! :singte taspp-qast its Hght upoa the rents out of town, snd im pur ola property and sent to jail for. on ‘year;
.: Oi eats 000 nts were ° of y . car,

nenews,”. hich stoed out: In* dim relict at the | inis dity. it was his custom to visit Soma ta the P

northern 4 of the ball, while bobr the other end lowet of the city. On the morhing of: the

Jay Byan oy o his bed tosang and moaning in hiss fatal -edy he left his home, No. 108 Bouth #1 t:

detirerm of terror.'| Near. the condemued men | 4. aH early hour, and proceeded.down town to 18 fot. assault ‘and battery, and

wore the appointed to watch them, and {in P detrakdln ‘man b
: Murry street, and when near Clinton avenue his . x ® n by xiving
the Warde ‘s office were atber officers toreliave |. Hie was attracted by a nolee in the collar of orthlees note, of which offence he was Con oted
the. gvard.|. An @ atilnces had settled j i for which: he was again sentto jail. Hp was:
. : : the biuse of Mr. Horace Bedell,’ om the northeast :
down ‘upon the y fila, brokda only by anc | ong of Murray street and.Clinton avenue, oa the committed\to jail at ; r time for 4] days

~casional fodttall or aj whispdred word of two AmOnK oppddte side of the street from that oe which

rico of tog onda ae Ths | an tng, Ke med ar

oe hen an user | and rund that the window the coal cellar had
: i ' moved. Jumplog in through the opening

S mrintty Ma. KE, Church.

De® i
ae ‘de eS dow :, | tothtellar below, he groped way through the:
' All night] long Ryda wuffgred-from what sooried | darkiipes to the: stair case leading'to the upper

; \ hts church is ‘on /the corner of Warréh and
to be prostration of (he nerfous system, or te four {and thence to the first story, tat finding no:| . peroets, and is’ satrounded by a densa popu
in view o€ Wis impending dopm. - Depaty Sheriff :A. one there he ascended to the secogd story and | lation, It was, Dullt about twenty-five’ yoa "
G. Baliwin noticed (owards daylight that his ¢x- | triedyfhe bath room door, which seemed to him to hashad quite an eventful history.

tremoties were ie Sy qpld, and commended be haf by some one person on the inside. By the.

his ** a *hrorondly to restore | use Bisome force he pushed the door open, and, re-

anigation.| Fora time tis process seemed {to | volveljin and, entered the room. As he did so he

brace hiby up, - when the, sun first saw tivo men, one of whoni.called out “‘stand,” and
th

ashington's birthday. One of fe early.
as Dr. Kidder, now of Drew inary, 7

cast its kb theieast windows of tho | shay iso fired o shot af him, Brook firing at the t on that cocaston, and will Sod/fmany
Yall. the pallid,” fepcursa {of the dying man ra ‘ me. ‘Lhe bullet from the burgiats pistol | ad friends still |t¢ welcome him, Aim her
wore's ghastly shade, w indicated approaph- | .tock fy ect in Brook's left alde, just below the arm- | priy workers were Rov. Messrs. Ballard, der

clntlon, Heampldined of burning palos | pit, Ad ike wounded officer, turning, from his as | . orrow, Colt, and Dr. Vincent. Nearly all
atthe pit pf the stomach,'a strong symptom: of. { salle(d staggered down stairs to the front door, ve promised tb be present at the ranion
: Le fellupon the crass Inthe yard: =. ng ‘other of the early pastdrs, was,
portsof the pistols were beard by Mr. w, who in charge—"' His body
mn , ' Il, who lives next door in Murray street, ric hag laid dow} and céased fq wort an
something more thah seaffold terrors was at work:| and Who rushed. to the window.of his bed-room, widow now lives in Morristown, and ls
im, Just|before\s 0° he asked!to | wh maovortonts Mr.Bedel’s yard, en saw two.men to be present td greet | her old frieads.

_rot Dp and.was assisted ou} of bed by Gotstable . combs out of the celiar of the latter house, Being in be sluging, ahort addresses from the 0;
¥, Bmith, who almoet carri him toachalr, Fle | unatf to follow them. and in order to draw. thete ra, and to covet allan old tashioned M
2d.tbr a cup of toa,i whieh wais brouglitito ee Ha phbuted, * what are you dotag here!” | pper, such as pone but those baring |

say \e2 : | . poe "y , ; x iy ; ; - |: a a \ a i an a oan wee mw ty mee! . +

ve . *
4 ; °. . e 2 nr

ant od Pe ed: ' ‘

cred that bp had taken any drug, the impression pre- wh

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7 %, ‘ ge ‘|. Pac — x . | ins

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CML xX, ST ovey

s down to
veiupe. Dr.
eo smount al-

remaining of

- LS Was

ot appropriated,

my { the eommitiee.
ining to be wided
‘goter 6 that the
vived abuut fifty-seven
Coufereacee coald re-

and. Svutiern Con-
ve withia thirty per
pproprésitonea, it was
eppropriavons io the
poling with the Colored
Alabama (Culured) Cun-

D €3,50u; thee year they
ured dollase wore tast
utference in Duiaware.
apuropilaticn of 61,000.
Fae ate pes Conference 1
W000; this year tue ap-

be Sapte The Leszinzgton
ivCd ap appropriation uf
wear. ‘The ciscussion «f
was, Very tho:ougd aud
nues 1g uf the coiored
bw. uf that peo-
aa, ‘ideas io gaia.

b. “nae effurta of the
pate that Deouple wae tbe
they were or cuuld be
Dicu Was €decated men
wlevate these pempic. 1t
the iguorant aeld nands
mung them, a8 preaouers,
8 themucives, who, fizu-
rally speaking, did nut
frum their left. Bishop
» Bishop Fos'er, and ex-
the greatest good was
@ natives, and iustanced
ample, aud Hishop Anwe
us V.C8100 that 31 every one
rvachers in the Svata had
ot grattuati-s from a first-
ted to at, be would nut
fluence among his peuple
ey would be af.ed ee far
ple that they would be
tletthes. ‘Ane Louisiaua
cat tectived a7,5uv. Poau-
Counfeseuce, the hour ot
h recess afrived, aud the
"jpich it wae decided to

daring
ng eo: eb ye
util 9:30. @ clock Monday

a are to preach to-day in
te. Bishop. Foeter will
Avenee Mo.hodist Charch,
Paat’s Metbecist Charch,
entyeccund street, is thy
2 preacues in the Lacitic
Brookiy p, in the murninuz,
wits avdress tne snuuai
seworlel Nunday-ecnui, i3
pecund avenuc, 011 iu ine

1 0 preaca in the Warren
ieu0y Harris wit] condact
Germau cbuuseh, io Filry-
st oud Secund avenues, at
ps 18% preach in
; ‘MMerrili and

:u, um account of

ES AT CREKDMOOK.-
THE RUNNING DEKR—
ON FOR RAPID MARKS-

4 teatof: dismuunding and

Reside nos) Ecceers, J. Scott. McCaunot, Kreteenket
end J. benny, sides; Dodge, VanDyze, Irving, McGul,
Laugbian, Cutts, Withingten, F. Denny, Hitchcocs,
btev on, Pyne, Potter, and sicoll, rashere.
Coldnd.4.—iMesars. Price, Captain; Brower and oh.
nell, goa:-keepers; Embree, Francke. Morgan nd
Packer. rides; fi. & Bogert, J. L. Bogert, Bach, aud
Pryor, in quarters; Lyaca and Lindley, forwards; Mily
dreth, Druwue, Brionerboff, Ward, Lawrence.ucd su:h-

_erford, rushers.

Umpire tm Princeton, G. Parm y, of Prinecton. Um-
pire sor Columuia. KE. W, Clements. of Columbia. Re-
ferce, J. A. Denton, of Stevens luatitate. chon

A FIFIX¥-MILE KIDING MA TCH: =.
THE FIRST ‘OF A. SERIES” OF RACES BE-

“(WEEN CAPT. MOWRY AND JOHN MUK-
«= PHY—TIE LAITEK VICTrORIOUS.
Tno first of the series of long-distance riding
matches between Capt. Mowry and John Morphy
came off vesterday ef.ernvon at Fieetwood lark,
aod wae witnessed by several buadred spectators.
‘Tae agreement between the contestants is that
threo races are tu be rap, of 50 miles, 100 miles,
and 150 wiles respectively, tho stakes, it is said,
being €2,000 cn each race. In the race yesterday,
each ricer was allowed tu use ten horses, changing
whenever he deemed it expedient. Tho horses

used by Capt. Mowry were brought from Calfor-
nia, and those used by Murphy were American
thoroughbreds. Capt. Mowry appeared op the
track attired in white tranis, loose Lice sbirt, with
bine sash, and a white aud red cap, Murphy
being dressed in white trunke, luose xreen
ebirt, with. green sash, and" a cap. of
green eitk. Mowry. started somewhat
the favorite ameng the sporting me:.
Both rilere presented a fine appearaace, aod during
the earlier pact cf the race rode with much spirit.
Mowry was the more expert iu changing boreer,
howover, and nearly always gained cround by this
advantage. When be was realy to change his
groum would seize bis bursa by the bridle ane hold
it while an assistant brvazet a fresh aLimal.

Mowry, catching a firm bold «f the caddle cf the
Letier, Would thes remove bie f-et from ihe etirrups
of the eaddie in which he sat and, sliding tu
the gruat:l, wou'd vault graccfully, and
quickly upun the back «f the f:eah boree, aud dasu
uff op bis journey alcw. zs :
S Sithuugu the-terses proved ref-actory io many
instances, the idere: generally, accompilshed th
remé@uatirg with mach
Once, huwever, tailing to
severe a firm seat Upol Cue «af the animais, Capt.
Mowry alid to tue ground, aba Was about tv Vault
again inty tue saddle When tue burse broke away
and caused cupsiuerabie drlay to the rider betuie
De Was again Grmiv-woeunted. In chapzing, Mur-
phy wou. arsp trom tbe saddle to the crows |, aval
then, ruunuivg tos ties buree. which was tieid is
watting for tam, Would vaait apun lis vac While it
eas stu! standing. He: rareiy, af ever, adupted
Mouwrs's mere aitticait methbed of vaailing upon the
‘porse While if Bas FUBMOg.

Durisg the fi.s. tweut, -tive a.iles the interest In
the cunke at Was cuhanCed ey the eve chance fur-
tunes: f ibesives. Very many toes Murpay
Gasied abead cf us cowpetitor, xud gamcd 4 lead

of ecverat uurdiccd yarcs. It was des ined
qf encrt °° Guraiiun, ~— however, tor
uimbiencss tn mounting,

Fecuced the d.siupce

upon Murpoy.

miog to be tu

ext and lite deiay.

gan tve. last

turned then,

Murphy had been i:upso

he bezan to cain up bis

thas. the: oudde! turve

As mile by wile

was beiad by Murphy,

Mowry made s gallant eflurt te

trieve the day, but the ‘effort proved vai, for
Marpby passed the strive vn the tinal mile tulty

a xk bundres yurda abead «f hia competitor, having

| madgo the eniire distance 1 23. snd 2otu.. & gam of

24s. upou Muwry's time—2h <6. 2s.

\HA-H

Th» next buok offered fur salo was
wonderfal gems of this extract
lection. This was & macnifi
ume containiog fifty-four autogra b
written by Gen. Washington to Gem
Pennsylvania. Tbe tntrineic

The bidding opened with au offer of §1.000 by Mr.
li. Reed, aud between that gentleman eud r.
Cooke, of Providcace, it Tan up rapidly to §2.200.
At this pant Mr. Reed gave way, and Mr. Couke,

bidding §2,.250, secured the prize. Anotber book, the
origiaul. wenuccript orderly book kept by Gen.

Wayne during the Revolutionary War. was very
keen!y bid fur, aod it ultmately was secured by
Mr. Sabin, Jr., tor aciizut, tor §109. :
“Tne Book of Offic-s,” 2 rare Wenkyb de Worde
of ives:imeble vuine 1534, $140, was bought by
Mr. Fieber for Mr. J. W. Drexel; Rogvr Wil-
liams' “ ‘he Bioudy ‘Tenant. London, 1644, 70;
Wootey’s (Charla) " Two Yeara’ Journey tu New

York," 1701, €290. bought by, Mr. Sabio, Jr. tor a

client. -

pat not cxtravagant prices. |

TIO MURDERERS SENTENCED. —
CHARLES OSCHWALD AND THOMAS RYAN TO
BE HANGED. ON /FRIDAY,. THE 61H OF

- JANUARY NEXT.

In the Essex County Court of Oyer and
Terminer, 1n Newark, N. J.. yesterday morning,
Judge Depue pronounced sentence upon Charles
QOachwald aod Thomas Ryan, who were convicted
some days agu of the murder of Officer Brock... Sen-
ator Magie, counsel for the prisouers, preseaoted the
affidavit of Barbara Linderboff, in which she swore
that she saw the men who left Mr. Bedeji’s house’ ~

justafter the wurder; that she had subsequently

scen Oschwa:d and Ryau in: court, and tbat ueither
of the men whom she saw on the fatal day was

Oschwald or Izyan. Upon this affidavit he asked
for a new tris). Attorney Geveral Vanatta reptied
briefly. The court, denied the application, and the
prisoners were ordered to stand up. Ia reply to
the usual question whether be bad anything to say
why sentence aboald not be pronounced upon him,
Ryav eaid: : ,

Your lonor, I suppose it is almost useless for
me to say any'bing. It is true that I have been
convicted of uther off-jnees ;. but of this offense, with

‘hich 1 etand charged, .whaiever myfsie may be,
4he Almighty God:kao! Q is
« Oscnwaid, bis comy:
word, ; é a = ;

Juige Depue then’ proceeded to ‘pronounce the
scutence, caving, amung otuer things: :

“OF the correctness of the vercict, the. coart,
after a careful revicw aud cons:dera:i -u of the evi-
denee, entertassed ne duubt. The testimony your
counes-l fas ptescuted fo the cuart as newly Ciscuv-
ered ig: f such a character tbat io another tria is
wouli but apd ought pat to have any weizat against
the clear provt, made a: the trial, of sour iden.ilica-
tion 23 the (wo perse.e woe lef. B:seli's buure, on
tho murotng cf Aug. 3, with the black bag cf stulen
guods. ‘That the convichon was properiv of murect
iu the fist dezrge is manifest. Luo deceased did
ny act of oft- against voll, except such as
be wight javfugy do iu the faithful discharge
cf tis Gety, ia Bhe performance ef wlich he he-
xically met ; hy deats: You wero engaged
in the cowu.issidn of a crime which in Jaw. ranka
oaly below that of wurder. Toavoid bring app-e-
hended fur that crite, ube of you, by the w.iltal,
de.iverate, and premeditated act of shuwuttng, yave
ibe deceaacd tue mortal wound; the other being
present, aiding god ubetting. For tbe crime ef
which vou wero conviczed, the iaw declares your
livesafafii. Let mo admonish you earnestly to
acek co make prepaia iou for that dread event which
plall close your canbly career.” :

coucluaion, Judge Mepve formally sentenced
them to be hanged sn the yard of the county jail,
on Friday, the fif.b day «f January next, between
the bours:f J0 A, b§.anu2 P. M. The prisoners
received their sentence wichuut emotion, Ryan's
aued father, whe sat by ibe side of bis doumed sun,
buret wut iu an agony of gricf. The prisoucre were
at once handcuffed and nent wack to jail. , :

another cf tne,

value of such 2 me-
mesto of Wasbingten cannot. be overestimated.

Tue rere and valuable engravings brought good

with the tii aud any, ¢hanges in that accoont
which may,fesuit from bia guarantee nader the
letter cf credit. :

Q —1 nen, did your dispatch ref-r to that letter
above? A.—It did not refer to it at all, unlese Mr.
Duncan construed that bis guarantee avder
bank credit was protested if he haa beep made ha
bie thereby, and very probably I intended to ovF
firm that faci. : i

Q—Dia ne have any

Mr. Duncan t myself ur my Mrm was his sccoun

ficancial interest fn you!
affareur the affairs of your tirm at the time tht
dispatch wae sent, other tbap that which sou ba
just stated} A.—He bad no otber iuterest. -
‘Lhe turiber bearing was then adjouzued.
a — enn ea)

DECISIONS.
SUPREME ‘ COURT—CHAMBERS. g
oe : By Jwiae Lawrence,
: Mushkowit= rs. Bloch.—Retusedy
faylor ve, [homas—-Orudert grauted. é
Suth ve. Warg.—Granted ; memorandum. --
Granted.—Biulk ve. ‘Je Securit Insurance Com
paov; Thorae va. Gessner; Dyckman vs. Ward
~]| Smith va, Wara; Overiiiser vs. Stark eb al.; The
‘4 Artic Fire Insurance Company vs- siely ; Do Frece
vs. O'Keefe ;-Sullivan ve. Ryan ; matter of Smith
Piatt ve. Pfeffer ; matter ot Schuyler; Jurdan v8
Crosby; Huuken ve. Rust; and tbe Ciuzens
Savings Bank ys. Schumale.-— sae ie

Jecle re. Feele.—Urder granted for a commission t

ue. i ; 3 Hoot kD :

Matter of Griswold.—Reterence to Wile Be
Winterton, Esg., to take prot and report.
- MeBiniey ve. Coley.— Tbe order is bot 1m atcord:
ance wito the decisi 3. ae

Montvoss vs. Brewster.—The Referee sagcested ix
this cass ie uoteliivie, See laws ot 1€76, page 209

The Kinth National Bank ce. ‘Freer.—Motion td
change place of trial to Schuyler County is dented

with costs. eg a é
House of industry. vs. At

The Five Points 700
The order recites that the pettion of appeal ha
been duly filed, &c. What evi touce is there im thi
application that 1t has been filed ? The proposed
order 1s not accompanied bv any affidavit showic
the tiliag of the petition of appeal. Rale 51 do
not dispense with such proof. Ic only deciares tts
when tho petition has beca filed, an order aekec
for may be granted ex parte. te etre ees pe

Walrer vs. Phillipe —Nos. 1, 2 and 3.—Rate
forbins the appointment of the Referee sugyested
unless a copees:t fcum the partice is obtained. .
will_ most cheertully apneiot a Keferee.

ban Bruschatcnts. Wright.—Heve any of the
fendante becn served? 1s sv, have they ap
‘Api if they have appeared, in the absence of agu
penta trom them sboald the order asked. for
masie without coats? ; pat zoe
Lhompsen te. Thompson. —Assuming that

us z

fag

} plaiuiali is euiitea tu 2 dec

T marriage. bow cau I direct thal frien e
mike # peringicsl allowance to the mit? Th
Onject of this action is to asuul.a marriage, not
ovtaia a divurce. Tue decree presented seems to &
uuwarratted, ang Lcannot signif... e
Gilbert ts. Gilbert.—Tne prvof of duc diligence
attemputny te serve or find the detendent io th
State ehouid ve wade oF che affidavit of some othe:
perevn than the wife. Laws of 1867. chap. 188. ve
2 pace22t In this case the wile alone swears
the c@-ctgervice in tLis State. Furtber affid
must be furnished. 2 : :

the Aanta National Bank cs. Freer.—If the Le .
tiffs theory of thi» case is @ trae one it cau readsl
be tried in an hour. If such theory 1s not true th
plaiwtff will pay the penalty of. being sent to th
tout of the calendar. Cuseset Cowan for first Frida.
of the December term. =~ as ee

SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT—PART IL: .
ae: By Judge Donohue... a
Cassadeer et al. vx. Kalbfcisch—Caseeettled..
MARINE COURT—CHAMBEBS. ee
; By Judge HeAdam.- - - mes
ans filed.—Olsen +s. Bang; Kramer:
emer. Sosy vi : ire ee
‘Losser ve. Couner—Security for onats reqaired.*
Motion Uiranted.—Vrazee ve. Dreuman ; Change
ys. Wood; Jex ve. Rocue; Schook va. Byrne.
Helermaun vs. Egglofstein.—MMotion granted .
Gitionally. ; : : ote
Wood vs. Callaghan.—Receiver appointed. Be
- Lawrence vs. Atlantic fire Annihilator C J
—Motios to amend denied. ~ ee
Rerriecke vs. Couner.— A mondment allowed. :
_ Charlies Uregy Manufacturing Company ve. Bf:

Pe a

ouldmt be heard? Heo munit have
nown that two doors the bathroom
»or and the door of Mrs. Kadesh’s
.edroom—~separated the noise from the
leepers. He could have known that
nly through a first-hand knowledge
{ the apartment

Then, too, he must have known that
‘rs. Kadesh was not in the habit of
ocking her door, otherwise it would
1ave been impossible to get into the
oom from the hallway. There were
10 keys in the bedroom doors and the
letectives reasoned that the doors
vere never locked. It scarcely seemed
kely that the killer had removed the
eys from the doors.

But the all-important question still
er unanswered: Who was the
iller?

The first thing the three detectives
id was check on the other people in
ve house.

All of them, they learned, were re-
pectable people. None had ever had
ny trouble with Mrs. Kadesh and,
10st important, none were the type
ho would fit into-the picture—espe-
ally this brutal kind of a murder.
The police were hampered by the
ict that Mrs. Kadesh and Bessie lived

A police investigator is shown at
the right with the iron pipe that
would have been enough for
murder—and the screw-driver

that was far too much

lone. Mr. Kadesh had become ill in
lovember, 1936, and had gone to Tuc-
on, Arizona. They did not even em-
loy a regular maid—just a girl who
ame in occasionally to tidy up. There
vere only two people who could fur-
ish a description of the killer and
ossibly a motive for the crime—one
vas dead and the other unconscious at
eath’s door.
Gray made a quick check-up on
tichard’s story. :
His wife soon cleared him, however.
“My husband is wrong. Mrs. Kadesh
lidn’t call him last night,” she told
iray. “She called Saturday night and
forgot all about it until Bill came in
ast night. I just said she had called
bout eleven, but I meant eleven Sat-
irday, not eleven last night.”

“~ RAY also checked on Richard’s
movements about the time of the
rime and found that he had been
‘isiting friends as he said.
The police decided, then, that rob-
very probably had been the motive.
“hey found an empty pocketbook
‘mong the things scattered about the
vedroom. Mrs. Kadesh usually carried
arge sums on her person. But they
lidn’t overlook the possibility of rob-
very having been committed to hide
he real motive.
Identification Expert Flynn mean-

vhile was meeting with discourage-.

nent. The screw-driver and iron pipe
vere absolutely devoid of finger-prints.
3ut the pipe must have been gripped
very tightly to have been used as it
vas; normally there would have been
come prints even if smudged. It
eemed, therefore, that the killer must
iave worn gloves.

The piece of pipe measured four feet
ind one inch in length. It was impos-
sible to tell where it came from. There
vere no identifying marks of any sort.
Pane: neither new nor particularly
rd. “

The detectives focussed their atten-
ion on the screw-driver. They de-
tided it was their best bet, for tracing
che killer. Nothing on the lower floor
of the apartment was out of order and
t seemed that the killer had not gone
there. He seemed to have confined
i1imself to the bathroom, part of the
nallway and the two bedrooms. It
iardly seemed likely that a screw-
driver would have been kept in any
of those places. Therefore he must
have brought it with him. Just why
he had found it necessary to use the

serew driver at all was hard to under
stand. ‘The pipe had been more than
enough to do the job.

Chief Flynn and the others decided
to investigate Mrs. Kadesh’s and
Bessie’s backgrounds for a_ possible
motive.

ESSIE KADESH, they learned, was

not known to have a steady boy
friend. She knew several nice young
men and interviews with them quickly
eliminated any of them as _ suspects.
Bessie had been wrapped up in her
studies and in helping her mother in
the store. She had done pre-medical
work at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, passing with high honors, and
then continued at Columbia until her
father’s breakdown necessitated her
help in the business.

But Mrs. Kadesh was something
else again. A driver of hard bargains,
she was disliked by as many as liked
her. When her husband’s health had
begun to fail she took over the reins
and ruled both home and store with
an iron hand. She was kind-hearted
but strict. Woe unto the clerk she
caught loafing or letting the grass
grow under his fect. She had an in-

faant feo
money pave She concentrated
amassing a fortune. Like Hetty Green,
she began to buy up real estate and
when any of her tenants were as much
as 24 hours behind there was hell to
pay.

The Kadesh store was one of the
most successful in northern New Jer-
sey. But Mrs. Kadesh nevertheless
kept crying about business. Her idea
was to discourage the help from ask-
ing for increases in pay.

Chief Flynn learned that Mrs. Ka-
desh had had a violent argument the
previous Saturday night with one of
the truck drivers, a middle-aged man
named Hansen. Hansen had been bold
enough to ask for a raise.

Mrs. Kadesh fixed him with an icy
stare and demanded what he meant
by that. Or did he forget he had a
wife and family? He had a good job.
Did he want to keep it, or would he
rather get the pink slip and go on
relief?

The argument had taken place be-
fore several clerks and Hansen was
very embarrassed and angry. He
didn’t reply, but the clerks said he
had left muttering to himself.

safiable power ane the power

Chief Flynn asked
“he diela’t

he?”

“Where ts
“Well,
show up today.’

Flynn whistled softly.

“Has anybody heard from him?”

The clerk shook his head.

Flynn got Hansen's address
at his house soon after.

Hansen wasn’t exactly a mild man.
Neither was he = quarrelsome. He
seemed surprised to learn of Mrs. Ka-
desh's murder.

“Yes,” he admitted. “I had quite a
run-in with her Saturday night. To
tell you the truth, I felt like hauling
off and letting her have one right in
the snout. She made me sore as hell,
bawling me out like that in front of
all the others. But you're wrong if
you think I had anything to do with
her murder.”

sted clerk,

was

tT HEN why didn’t you go in to work
today?”

“Me work there any more? Not on
your life!” Hansen said indignantly.
“I’ve got some pride, Chief.”

“Hmn—where were you Saturday
night?”

“Right here in my house—all night.

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Na 4

Mholopraph the parallel

and slanting lines demonstrate the
interior of a gun barrel, “G” referring
fo grooves, “E meaning lands. 23"

denotes base of bullet. The slant in-
dicates direction of twist, right-hand.
It is a 82 slug.

F A gun is found at a crime scene
the finger-print expert examines it
irst for prints. While he docs this
he ballisties expert searches the
cone for cartridge cases, fired bullets
hat have gone through the victim’s
»ody and lodged in walls, floor, ceil-
ngs or furniture, as well as unfired
rartridges. If slugs are found in furni-
ure or woodwork they should be cut
rut by cutting around them; the tools
ised for this operation should not come
nto contact with the slug as it’ would
‘cface it and perhaps ruin a valuable
haractoristic or otherwise invalidate
for legal reasons. Bullets also may
e found suspended in drapes and so
orth; these are “spent” bullets which
st their force so soon after leaving
‘e gun that they could not penetrate
ud objects.
As these clews are found they should
» jotted down in a note-book, giving
‘© location where they were found,
mnditions under which found, the
igle of entrance, depth of penetra-
on and so forth. You may put your
entifying mark on the bullet but be
we to do this on the base. Also
imber your specimens this way, the
inbers corresponding to a similar
imber in your note-book.
Search also for cartridge cases or
hells” unloaded from a revolver, or
npty cartridge cases ejected by the
eapon if it was an automatic. In-
dentally, ejected shells are mechani-
ly extracted when a shot is fired,
e shell being thrown to the right of
e gun. They may be found many
et away.
Since the gun may not be found it
important to learn as much as pos-
dle from the slugs and shells found at
e crime scene, as well as from the
let removed from the victim. When
spects are arrested any weapons in
eir possession must be fired by the

Dallishios expert inorder to obtam test
bullets, which are then matched with
the crime-scene bullets. ‘The suspect's
home might also be searched (under
warrant) for hidden weapons.

On the other hand if there is no sun
at the scene of a shooting this is not
proof that a murder has been done,
Tt could be suicide and the weapon
could have been carried off by other
persons for various reasons, among
those being the desire to collect instir-
anee. Criminals often place a weapon
in the victim’s hand to make it look
like suicide. In such cases if there are
no powder marks or burns on the hand
you will know that something is
wrong. The victim may have been
left-handed and the weapon placed in
the right hand and vice versa. Further,
weapons cannot be correctly placed in
the hands of dead persons. Another
clew would be the place in) which
the victim was shot; this might be in a
spot that the victim himself could not
possibly have hit had he fired the
weapon. Do not overlook the possibil-
ity of an accidental shooting.

In any case the skin as well as
clothing of the victim should be ex-
amined and noted in your book; also
the point of entrance of bullet (and of
exit, if it passed through body), depth
of wound, angle of entrance and of
exit, if any.

At the laboratory determine the cali-
ber of the bullets by measuring with a
caliper micrometer. Use any scale that
measures accurately in grains and find
the weight of bullet. Consult your
trade manuals and manufacturing
standards to aid in determining the
type of bullet, whether round or fiat
nose, hollow or soft point, metal case
or lead. Examine the bullet with its
base toward you; note direction of
twist. Count the number of lands and
grooves. Use a steel rule graduated in
millimeters as well as inches to mea-
sure width of lands and grooves, using
an average of several measurements.

The base-end of a bullet is the
breech-end.)

. If the pistol is found test bullets
are fired from it and compared with
crime-scene bullets. In this way it is

bosstble lo dispense with the moasure-
ments. The interior of the gun barre!
is examined with the helixometer, a
telescopic arrangement which is
aligned with the axis of the bore and
on a rotable bearing with an eye-piece
and an objective, mounted.

Collect all the manufacturers’ trade
catalogs, deseriptions and mantufactur=
ing standards that you can, as well as
specification lists. You mast use these
Your Comparisons, Some police de-
partments have a collection of various
bullets, with which they compare bul-
lets from the crime scene. Such collec-
tions cost anywhere from five to fifteen
hundred dollars.

If an automatic is used, we can tell
this even if we do not have the gun.
Examination of cartridge cases or
shells found will show extractor and

ejector marks. Picture No, 1 shows
the extractor mark (°B") and— the
ejector mark (“A"). Photo No, 2

shows a different type of ejector mark,
indicated by the two arrow:. The relu-
tive position of the extractor mark on

such a shell would be at the point
marked “IX.”
Many weapons of the center-fire

type are accurate, and the firing-pin
mark will be in the center. Note point
“C” in Photograph No. 1. But some-
times the mechanisms are faulty and
the firing-pin mark is off center.

HOTO No. 3 is a .45 automatic pistol
cartridge case and the two arrows
point to extractor marks

Other peculiarities of “shells” are
found in the seating of the primer. The
primer is a metal cap which contains
fulminating powder, which ignites the
gunpowder in the cartridge itself. The
primer is exploded when the firing-pin
hits it. Some of these primers are
seated correctly, others are seated high
while some are low. ‘

And now a last word: If you find
automatic pistol cartridge cases at the
scene and an automatic pistol slug in
the victim you would not be justified
in concluding with certainty that an
automatic pistol had been used. These
automatic pistol cartridges and bullets
may have been fired from a revolver,

several Huropoan and two Americon
revolvers can shoot automatic aoiuauai-
hon, Phe Coll ab and the Smith &
Wesson Medel 1917 revolvers can tire
automatic pistol ammunition by the
insertion of a blue-steel metal eres-
cent-shaped clip (sometimes called
adapter) over the revolver cylinder,
These clips hold three cartridges. Re-
member this trick and it may help to
outwil some criminal whe is tryin
fo be super-brilfiant ino an effort. to
mislead investigators.

The Science Applied

stories printed in Orrictan
Derective Srortmes have illustrated at-
pl ion of the science of forensic bal-
listies in criminal investigation. Moct
recent and outst
Masked Rapist-Killer,” in. the May 1,
PEST. jssie. and “Seeret of the lower
Bed." published in the issue of April 1,
“1937. Another important one occurred
in Philadelphia near the close of 1935.

Two days before Christmas Jacob
Kates, a grocery owner at No, 14°)
South Second Street, was shot by holct-
up men. He died on Christmas nieht
The following day detectives arre ted
three youths and charged them with
the murder and with attempted rob-
bery.

Although the detectives knew, from
underworld informers, that these
youths were guilty, they had no con-
crete evidence that might have con-
victed them—until ballistics experts
entered the scene. When the homes
of the youths were searched two guns,
a Harrington and Richardson and an
Army gun, both of .32 caliber, were
found.

Into a box of cotton waste Detective
Sergeant George Spangler, depart-
mental ballistics expert, fired several
test bullets from both guns. He com-
pared them with the two bullets re-
moved from Kates’ body. Long before
the discovery of the guns Spangler
knew that the bullets were thirty-
two’s. His tests, when the guns were
found, showed that the U. S. gun had
fired the fatal bullets. When the young
bandits were confronted with this evi-
dence, they pleaded guilty.

Many

New Jersey's "Hetty Green" Murder (Continued from Page 23)

y wife and I had some people in and
: sat around till about two. Then I
nt to bed.”
Hansen might have fitted into the
‘ture, all right. He had a motive
d even with his entertaining until
0 on Sunday morning he still could
ve slipped out, gone to the Kadesh
use, committed the murder, and
ped back to his party.
‘Ever been in Mrs. Kadesh’s apart-
nt?” Flynn asked.
‘A couple of times when I delivered
ngs from the store.”
Chat just about settled Hansen’s in-
ence. The answer had come so
ely and so naturally that it stamped
1, in Flynn’s mind, as guiltless. Not
t he was dismissing Hansen from
mind entirely, though.
‘his crime shocked Plainfield and
police were working at top speed.
was about 9:30 when they set to
*k on the case and it was only four
rs later when Chief Flynn had
talk with Hansen.
feanwhile doctors had been work-
over Bessie Kadesh in Muhlenberg
pital. They didn’t see how she
ld ever pull through. She had been
mined for a sex attack, but it was
ned now that nothing like that had
pened.

E police felt certain that they
were dealing with a very cunning
linal. The girl’s nightgown had
1 pulled up over her body to give
appearance of an attack having
1 made. And the killer had worn
‘es. Not a single foreign finger-
t was found anywhere in the Ka-
\ apartment. Had not the robbery,
, been simulated. also? .

lief Flynn returned to his -office

and sat down with Lieutenant Saffron
and Sergeant Gray.

“I’ve just given the place another
going over,” Gray told him. “I noticed
some plastering was done in the
kitchen recently. It looks new and
smells new, too.”

“And that means some plasterer had
rt a of the place recently,” Flynn
said.

“Exactly,” Gray said. “That places
at least one outsider—possibly more—
in the house. He probably had an as-
sistant, too—”

“That’s right,” Flynn said, nodding
vigorously. “That may be the angle.
Round up every plasterer in town
till you find the one who did the
Kadesh job.” .

Gray picked up a telephone direc-
tory and began thumbing through the
classified section.

“I’m satisfied,” Flynn went on “that
neither, Hansen nor any of the other
store employes had a hand in this. The
mason is definitely out, too. No one
knows the name of the Kadesh garden-
er. He hasn’t been around since last
Fall. We’re got to find out who he is.

“The girl’s life is an open book.
There doesn’t seem to be a motive
there—that is, someone trying to kill
her and then killing the mother to pre-
vent exposure. No, we’ve got to look to
the dead woman for the motive. We’ve
got to check her inside out and then
we may find the answer. Maybe
she tossed some tenant out in the
street. Maybe she got the best of some-
body in a business deal. Maybe some-
body she fired was sore. By the way,
have you got that report on the former
employes yet?”

“No,” Saffron said. “The bookkeeper,
Miss Jones, is trying to locate them,

but so far she hasn’t been able to
find them. Mrs. Kadesh had the list
somewhere, but nobody knows where
it is.”

“Well, try and get it as soon as pos-
sible. There’s going to be one awful
racket around this town if we don’t
get that killer pronto.” Flynn drummed
his fingers on the desk, looked out of
the window thoughtfully. “Yes, I’m
sure we'll find the trail through Mrs.
Kadesh’s background. Either someone
had a grudge against her—or all that
money she carried with her prompted
robbery and then murder. But two
things I know for certain—the killer
knew the layout of the apartment and
he’s as strong as an ox. He would have
to be to have done what he did.”

Gray meanwhile sat glued to the
telephone for more than an hour. He
called every plasterer in the directory,
asking only one question—Did you
do the plastering job in Mrs. Celia
Kadesh’s apartment a week or so
ago?”

One after another said—No.

Suddenly his face brightened and
Flynn and Saffron saw him excitedly
scribble something down on the pad.

“Anybody else?” Gray asked. “Okay,
eg And don’t say a word about
this!”

He turned to Flynn. “I’ve located
the plasterer,” he said. “We can check
on him later—if we need to. His as-
sistant on the Kadesh job was a big
darky named Doran Roach.”

“Hmm—,” said Flynn, thinking.
“There’s a colored boy by that name
out of Rahway Reformatory on parole.
Went up for burglary a couple of years
ago. Lives right here in Plainfield, I
think. Let’s look him up.”

They looked in the “R” file. Present-

ly Flynn drew out a photograph of a
particularly vicious - looking Negro,
with a great wide face, mean-looking
eyes and a shock of kinky hair. Doren
Roach, 27, had been out on parole oniy
a few months. He was over six feet
tall and weighed about two hundred
ounds,

“Tl bet this is our man,” Flynn
said. “He’s a specialist at breaking and
entering. He’s unquestionably as strong
as an ox, with that height and weight.
Let’s bring him in.”

“We've got to find where he lives
¥st.°

FLYNN called Patrolman Ralph S.

Norment, only Negro member of the
department.

“Ralph,” he said, “you keep tabs on
all the brown boys around town—do
you know where this fellow Doran
Roach lives? He was recently paroled
from Rahway.”

Norment consulted a notebook. “His
home’s at 317% Cottage Place,” he
said. “But you won't find him there.
That’s where his wife lives. They split
up. Roach has been hitting the booze.”
He consulted another page of his book.
“There’s a colored woman named Ida
Dorsey who runs a sort of a speak-
easy over in Scotch Plains. She was
raided a couple of weeks ago. I under-
stand Roach is sweet on her and hangs
out there a lot.”

“Nice work, Ralph,” Flynn nodded.
“You and Gray hop over there and
bring him in.”

A little while later Gray rapped
loudly on the door of the Dorsey wo-
man’s speakeasy. As he did so, he
noticed a big brown face behind a
curtain of one of the windows.

When Ida Dorsey finally answered

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joor Gray and Norment barged in

found themselves face to face with

frantic Negro.

‘hai’s Roach,” said Norment, and
Roach had a chance to talk,

had him handeulfed.

vhat yo’all wan’ me foh, mistah?”

h asked.

Je’ll tell you later, big boy,” Gray
His attention was drawn to the

hands—the fingernails in

. The debris under them was

ed.
see that
s.’ Gray said, nodding at them.

ssecutor Abe J. David, a veteran

blood goes through

ross-examining criminals, was
1oned from his office in Elizabeth
'] Roach.

id arrived at headquarters with
tants and, together with Chief
1 and the detectives, began to
ard Roach with questions.
ich refused to talk. He sat there
uy silent, said he knew nothing
the killing.

ntification Expert Flynn removed
lebris under Roach’s fingernails.
e’ll know in half an hour,” Prose-
David bluffed, “whether that’s
under your nails or not.” Per-
ion broke out on Roach’s fore-
now, began dripping down his

> grilling had lasted for perhaps
an_hour, getting nowhere at all,

Patrolman Norment came in
the news that one of Roach’s
ts had told him that Roach had
tly worked for a moving man
d Joseph Jackson.

I may suggest, sir,” Norment
“perhaps Jackson can identify
screw-driver.
cs use for big mirrors on furni-

That’s the kind’

Jackson was quickly brought to
headquarters. He told us Roach had
worked for him as a helper the pre-
vious Saturday, moving a family from
Plainfield) to Dunellen,

Then Jackson was shown the blood-
stained screw-driver.

“Sure,” he said, “that’s mine. I can
tell it by the nicks. Roach used it to
put some screws into a bureau mirror.
1 missed it later and asked him if he
had it. He said he’d lost it.

“Sure, that’s my screw-driver. I’d
like to get it back when you’re through
with it.”

The identification expert came in
with some of the debris from Roach’s
fingernails on a piece of paper. “It’s
blood, all right, Mr. David,” he said.

HEN Jackson confronted Roach with

his screw-driver story.

That was the end of Roach. He
couldn’t spill it fast enough. By his
own admission, here’s what happened:

He had started hitting the bottle

Saturday night and early Sunday |

morning. He started thinking how he
might pick up some easy money at the
Kadesh place. He first had that idea
when he had worked there with Will-
iams, the plasterer. He learned then
that Mrs. Kadesh usually carried large
sums of money with her. Also that she
and her daughter lived alone. While
doing the plastering, he slipped up-
stairs one day and looked over the
place. He noted how simple it was to
get on the porch from the back.
Early Sunday morning, quite drunk,
he passed the Kadesh house. It was
dark, shortly before dawn. Roach
slipped around the rear, tiptoed up
the back stairs, found himself on the
porch. He jimmied: the bathroom win-
dow with the screw-driver and en-

tered. He made his way to the hallway,
then into Mrs. Kadesh’s room.
She heard him, snapped on a bed-

side light--the one that was later
found burning and jumped out of
bed.

Mrs. Kadesh, not frightened, was

Energetic, tight-fisted, Mrs. Celia
Kadesh, shown with her husband,
drove a hard bargain with death

picking up a heavy ornament to heave

at hirn when Roach hit her with the
iron pipe which he had picked up in
a back yard. He rained blow upon
blow on her head, but she would not
go down, She didn't seream, but

grappled with him, sinking her nails
into his throat. Finally one blow sank
deep into her skull and she dropped
across the bed.

Roach was just opening her pocket-
book when he heard a voice, ‘Mother,
your light’s on. Anything wrong?”

He crept into the next room and
attacked Bessie Kadesh as he had her
mother. He reached for the screw-
driver-—just why, he didn't know—
and chipped off a piece of the girl’s
scalp. Tnen he hid it beneath her. He
disposed of the dripping pipe by hiding
it under the bedclothes.

Roach fumbled around in the dark,
felt the girl’s cool, naked body. He
pulled up her nightgown, thinking to
attack her. Then he heard a noise out-
side. He took about a hundred dollars
from Mrs. Kadesh’s purse and went
his way. He felt secure, he said, be-
cause he had worn cloth gloves.

HAT, then, was the answer to the

crime that shocked Plainfield. The
woman on whom the giant was so
sweet—Ida Dorsey—was arrested for
harboring him after the blood-soaked
gloves and clothing were found in her
house.

Bessie Kadesh died on Sunday,
March 28, from the horrible wounds
she had sustained. She lived seven
days after the vicious attack.

As this is written Roach awaits trial
on a murder charge. If he goes to the
chair he will owe his plight to the
avenging justice that caused him, for
no reason, to use a nicked screw-driver.

He Tortured for a Thrill (Continued from Page 36)

Mary Babcock’s body had the
“T” carved on its handle.
’s first name, of course, was
as—“T” again.
{ both crimes had been com-
1 in the same vicinity—in fact,
t at. the same spot, near the
ovia Creek—at about the same
of night.
these facts fitted in together
‘, balanced—almost too much so.
1 spite of this evidence—in spite
> fact that Downey knew such
s often are committed by men
t type—in spite of everything, he
‘as dubious. It still seemed wild-
probable, fantastic even, that a
ke Tommy Smith——
, the same, he said to himself, it
be a good idea to have a go at
xy again and see what was what.
had Smith brought to his office
morning.
llo, Tommy,” he said in a
ly tone. “How d’you sleep last

{ right,” Smith said. “Only I’d
softer pillow if I’m to stay here
longer.”

spite of himself Downey had to
at the ludicrousness of the re-
considering all the circum-

Ss.

ay, Tommy. We’ll give you a
one tonight,” he said. “By the
‘here are a coupla things I’d like
ck over about the stabbing just
-’em straight. D’you mind?”
re, go ahead,” Smith said agree-

vney repeated several of the
ons he had asked the night be-
He was careful, however, to keep
1a], easy tone so as not to frighten
oy and put him on his guard.

on, gradually, he swung the con-
tion over to the Babcock case
isked Smith if he had known the

said he hadn’t, but that he had
all about the case.
1, is that so?” said Downey in an
id way. Then he began asking
questions about the Babcock
g, but still in the same casual
\er. More and more, as he went
he boy revealed a thorough, al-
intimate knowledge of the case.

Finally Downey commented on this.

“Well,” Smith said, “I read about it
in the papers.”

“TI see,” Downey said. For a moment
he paused, thinking. “You don’t hap-
pen to remember the picture of the
knife, do you?”

gar out mean the one with the ‘T’ on
it?” j

Downey held his breath, nodded.

“What about it?” the boy asked.

NY/ELL, you don’t remember it in
detail, do you?”

“Sure, I do! I took a good look at
the picture in the paper.”

“Hmmm...” Downey murmured,
then gazed at the boy steadily. “I
wonder whether you really can re-
member it that well. It was almost
two months ago——”

“Yeah, I know. But I looked at it
pretty closely,” Smith insisted.

Downey pulled at his lip for a sec-
ond or two, seemed to be in deep
thought.

“You see, Tommy,” he confided, “if
you know what that knife looked like
—exactly—you may be able to help us
solve that murder.”

The boy’s eyes lighted excitedly.

“No kidding!” he exclaimed.

“No kidding,” Downey replied,
shoved a piece of paper and a pencil
across the desk toward Smith. “Lemme
big how well you can draw a picture
of it.”

Eagerly Smith seized the pencil, be-
gan drawing. Downey watched with
bated breath. He could: feel himself
trembling like a schoolboy.

Several minutes went by in silence.
Downey could hear his heavy breath-
ing, the soft scraping of the pencil
across the paper. Then the boy held up
the drawing.

“Doesn’t that look like it?” he said
triumphantly.

Downey stared at it dazedly. It
resembled the actual knife strikingly.
After a moment he said, “Well, let’s
see if it does.”

He opened a drawer of his desk,
pulled out the very penknife that had
killed Mary Babcock. ;

As he lifted it up the boy blurted
out, “That’s my knife!”

For a minute or two no. one

spoke. Smith, realizing what he had
said, squirmed nervously, his face the
color of moldy dough. Obviously his
childish sense of possessiveness had
overcome his caution.

In a_ slow, ominous voice Downey
said, “Thanks, Tommy. That’s all I
wanted to know.”

The grilling Smith had gone through
the night before was nothing compared
to the one he went through now. For
hours a battalion of detectives fired
question after question at him. But
he kept on insisting over and over
again that he had nothing to do with
the killing of Mary Babcock, that the
knife wasn’t his, that his having
claimed its ownership was just a mis-
take. It merely looked like his knife;
it really wasn’t.

By nightfall, however, he showed
signs of weakening. The strain of the
long inquisition was proving too much
for him. Finally, as midnight ap-
proached, he sobbed, “All right—all
right—I’ll tell you—all—all!

“I never had a date with any girl.
I never took one to a dance or a show.
I’ve never been drunk...

“Yes—I am the one—I am... the
murderer . ..”

Then he poured out his story, a com-
plete confession of the crime—it cov-
ered 22 pages—told how he had
attacked Mary Ellen Babcock and
killed her. In addition he confessed to
another attempted attack on an eight-
year-old girl, Marjorie Galvin, of No.
83 Edgewood Avenue. “I didn’t know
her,” he said. “She just walked by as
I was fixing my car and I asked her
to help me find a flashlight inside the
car. I pushed her, but she bit me and
ran.”

District Attorney Walter C. New-
comb immediately had Tommy Smith
charged with first-degree murder.

“Smith has signed a confession set-
ting forth the detailed manner in
which the Babcock murder was com-
mitted,”” Newcomb said. “This case, so
far as the police and this office is con-
cerned, is cleared up.”

The grand jury indicted Smith on
April 9.

Readers may wonder, as Lieutenant
Downey wondered, how a boy with the
family background and apparent char-

acter of Tommy Smith could do what
he did. To those of us, like myself,
familiar with abnormal psychology
and criminology there is nothing sur-
prising in this case. This type of crime
and this type of criminal are all too
familiar.

In considering any case of this type
it must be remembered that all of
these perverted passions, forced to be
hidden, are in effect “bottled up” and
when released burst forth with tre-
mendous pressure. Homosexual love,
for example, is generally far more in-
tense’ and ungovernable than the
normal relationship between opposite
sexes. In Tommy Smith’s case it is
easy to see how his twisted desires,
concealed from the world for years
perhaps, finally erupted with all the
fury of an enraged volcano.

Doctor Edward S. Jones, Professor
of Psychology at the University of
Buffalo, in trying to explain Smith’s
“uncontrollable impulse” said:

“In delving deply into his earlier
life you might find that he was a sul-
len youngster and probably addicted
to playing with knives, and obsessed
with bending sadistic tendencies on
small animals or insects.”

It is a pretty good bet, in my opin-
ion, that Tommy Smith showed defi-
nite traces of this trait early in life.
Of course, through lack of knowledge,
no one probably paid much attention
to it. It no doubt was dismissed sim-
ply as “mischievousness” or “mean-
ness.”

| DO not here propose to go into the
causes of this disease. What I am con-
cerned with is seeking a cure, or at
least a remedy for it—a cure not as
much for the individual as for So-
ciety which has long-suffered this type
of mental sickness.

The old prescription—“An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure”
—applies admirably here. Certainly
if Tommy Smith’s parents had recog-
nized early this latent tendency in
him they could have had him diag-
nosed by a competent psychoanalyst
or psychopathologist and so discov-
ered, before it was too late, the terri-
ble volcano that slumbered within

za)

figure in
but the
boy ran

it, Boggs
his own
ause_ his
ita Cruz
ider the
Officers
ested.

Knight,
Detroit
usy had
s on his

sts with
‘esire to
ve. If it
a new
as been
sand to
nt case,
ho con-

written

‘uch to
he self-
ank of

“t what
shoot-.
ear-old
id him.

In Wheeling, West Virginia,

Frank Pratz (above) was con-
Yicted of the murder of Louis
Thames. Pratz endeavored to es-

cape punishment b throwing

the blame on his victim’s wife

six
killed him in Seat-
Washington, during a quarrel

(Lett) Lawrence Ward, shown
in court at Hazlehurst, Geor-

‘gia, was sentenced to the

electric chair for killing his

fourteen-year-old step-daugh-

ter by stamping her under-

foot, because she had been
out with a boy

(Above) Melvin Vidrine of
Villa Platte, La., dejectedly

\He told police that he killed
his wife because she asked
him to. (Below) Louis Ebert,
ex-convict, who had been ter-
rorizing Chicago’s South Side
as a masked bandit, staged a
hold-up once too often. He
tuck up a decoy car, only to

‘ceive fatal bullets from

Police waiting inside

Doran Roach
handyman

confessed the brutal killing
of Mrs. Celia Kadesh and
her daughter
wanted money with which to
entertain. his girl friend

Trapped by his fin-
|Serprints after he
had been arrested in
Seattle on a minor
charge, Thomas
Martin (right) con-
fessed that he was
really Peter Mesty-

Jr., sought for

years for em-
bezzlement of $32,-
000 from a bank &

(above) negro
of Plainfield, N. J.,

SCHAUB PAYS THE -
~ PENALTY OF DEATH

(Continued from First Page.)

aunschis

soundly aa he dhl any night since -his
arrest. Awakening at 4:30 he told Con-
stubles Hayes and James that he never
slept better In his Hfe and was ready
for breakfast. He wrote out his own:
order and awa{ted the arrival of his last
breakfast, which conststed of porter-
house steak, three fried eggn, &@ Blicg’ of
rye bread and & bottle of beer.

Rev. Mr. Girtagner reached the jall be-
fore $8 o'clock and remained with Schaub
until the end. Again this morning, at
Behaub’s request, Horan sang several
songs. An hour before the execution
toak place Schaub sent for Warden Hfosp.
Grasping his hand he shook St affection.
ately, and then embraced the warden
while tears coursed down his cheeks. Ife
thanked the warden for his Kindness to
him, and asked that he be permitted to
wear a pink carnation, That request was
granted.

Yong before the hour set for the execu-
tion a Inrge crowd gathered outside the
jail. Order was maintained by Pollee
Captain Daly and a detail of twenty-five

policemen from. the’ Second Preeinet.
Schaubd’s mother and brother Gustave
called at the jail early last night, and
bade him furewell, At 9 ofelack this
morning Henry Reinhard ‘called nat tho
jail carrying & message from Schaub’'s
mother. The note Was written in Ger-
man, and implored the condemned man to

be brave and ask God to forgive him.

THE CRIME FOR WHICH
~ SCHAUB WAS HANGED

Murdered His Wife and Infant Child
Last June—Had Reen on

, ® Spree.
Henry Schaub’s crime for which the

mitted on the afternoon of June 11 last.
While in a drunken frenzy Schaub en-
tered his barber shop at 117 Warren street
| and killed his wife Mary and her four-
| week-old baby -by cutting thelr throats
with a razor. Then he cut his throat,
. severed an artery in his left wrist and
imade a weak attempt to stab himself in
‘the heart with a pair of scissors. His

pital an@ within a few days he recovered
sufficiently to be conveyed to the coun-
ty jail.

Schaub was tried before Chief Justice
Gummere and a jury tn the Court of Oyer
apd Terminer and convicted of murder
tn the first degree. The jurors reached
a verdict within an hour on the after-

y_9, the trial having con-

ndictment for killing his wife and the

death penalty way Intiteted, “was ~com<|

wdsUnds were dressed at the Germe n-Hose--

praeres three days. He was tried ipo. an

indictment alleging infanticide will now

ve nolle prosequiecd by the prosecutor.
Schaub’s defence Was that he was #0

did not know what had happened.
Discovery of the Tragedy.

the Schaub apartments was discovered
by Thomas G\ichrist and Michael Reilly,

broke into the room and took tho mur
derer into custody.

one side of the roym.

wipe up some of t

drunks at -the-time.of the crime. that he

That a tragedy had been enacted In.

and they notifed the police. Two officers =

He also tried to

Schaub had vo rope hia wife's body to
o stains on the floor

happened, und the barber replied 1
had been hurt at 4 idundry. schaud 1
treated everybody in the saloon’ and
bought a bottle of whiekey. Returning to
thg barber shop, Bchaub drank the whis-
key and soon thereafter the murder was
discovered. :
_ Bchaubd’s rélatives refused to give him
any financial asatstance, and the court
assigned former Prosecutor (rane to de-
fend him. Chief Junatice. Gummere, on
January 17, sentenced Schaub to be hang-
ed on Februaty %, dut. before that time
arrived, Mr...Crane secured a& reprieve
until March 23, and brought the case to
the attention of the Court of Pardons
That. court refused to Interfere, and the
date of. the execution was set for March
2. . That being.Good Friday, Governor
Murphy grantcd a second reprieve, post-
/poning the execution until to-day. a
a ll ae P . oS

HANGINGS IN_ESSEX COUNTY. _|
| Seventeen Murderers have Kxplated
+ Their Crimen on. the Gallows
as the Law Decrees.

To-day’s execution makes the fif

‘fteenth
hanging itn the history of Essex County,
and two of. that number were double hang-
ings; thus making the total number of

ecution took place 11] years gO, on “May
6, 1791, In the old burying ground, the
ilaw's. victim belng a young negto. wha
had murdered his brother. The ‘county |
reeords do-not give the negro’s name. The
Buniay preceding the execution the doom-
ed man was taken to the First Presby-
terlan Church, where he IMstened to the
preaching of his own funeral sermon, ;
y. The next hanging took place October. 8,
- 1805, in Lincoln Park, then known as the,
“eld common,” when -llarry.—Lawrence,
colored, paid the death penalty for killing

hin wife,
Thirty-seven years elapsed before there
wae anogher banging. Jumes Low wan the
culprit, and his executiun took place on
September. 14, 1s... Low’s victim. was,
Isanc Winans. Ten years subsequent, or
on, March $), 1482, John Kperstin was: put
to death for wife murder, Then for thirty
odd yeprs hangings Were quite frequent.
Jiumes MceMuhon was hanged January 12
1839, for killing hie sister-in-law, A yeaf
ufterward to the very day Patrick Maud
Was executed for killing hl sister, Bix
yeurs’ juter, to the exact day and ‘hour
‘Morrly Ellsworth, a. witesmurderer, \Wwas’,
= >

a ge unugry 3, ,
| Patrick Tormey.. George Botts, * who
killed Pee" Halsted, an influential poll-
Uclan, explated his crime January 2,
S72. The Botts thal was one of the most
“celebrated ever held jn the county
Charles Oschwald was executed February:
aeeae a for the kKiling of Polleemun Btan-
ley. Brock, Next’ came the first double’
hanging. Marguret Melerhoffer and
Frank Lemmons were put to death Jan-
unry 6, I88l; for causing the death of
John Melerhoffer, husband of the woman
John Chisholm, who shot to denth his
wife, Luttle, was executed November 23, °
1883. The second double hanging took
1 ace January 3, 18M, the culprits being
Robert Martin and James 1B. Grayes
The former ki¥ed his wife and child and
the -latter was the slayer of Edward
epi Binh In June, 18%, Andreas
Malina yeh 1ange

yoo ‘gle anged for MUDIAg Mra,

i a ae

SCHAUB, Henry, wh, hanged Newark, Nd, Apri

SCHAUB PAYS THE:
PENALTY OF DEAT

Murdefer Mounted the Gallows Cally.
‘gad Brotested His Inaecence with.)
His Last Breath.

THE DROP FELL AT 1011 O'CLOCK’

” a
;

; Peaye

Doomed Man's Head Was Nearly Seve}
ered from His Body and Life waa}
Snuffed Out Almost Instantaneous‘.

ly—Remning Claimed hy Relativess:
Story of the Atrocious {rime whiels|
Led to Hanglug—Past Executions,

~-——_“ Henry Soneus..

eter

Henry Schaub, who murdered nia wife:
and four-weeks-old baby on June‘Jl aati
wus hanged at the county Jall at 10;18%
o'clock this morning, proclaiming his: Yas:
nocvence to the lust. Death> was. instane:
taneous, Schaub’s head was almost: a¢y=..
ered from his body due .to the amall else”:

Por tte Tope ang me

From the time Schaub left his : (3
the lever was’ pulled aida emia lates 8
elapsed, and eleven minutes later the. +H
was cut down and prepared for burial. wat
man was marched to the allows by, {
George Virtue, who hey bette Ase
the Ueath ‘warrant. Schauty:s spiritual:
advisor, Rev. Carl Gertanner, was. clowe i)
by his side, Calmly and with an air gf apes
parent. indifference, the doomed MA:
ascended the fifteen steps leading ‘to they
platform of the gallows, Thrice he shifted i
his position In orier-+to stand ‘dirnotly’
under the centre of the crosgbeam. Ww
the Fees was suspended, Asked It he‘had
anything to say, Schaub t ’ ae
maya and said: — ‘ one ere
“In the name of God Almight Yanai?
innocent of that. crime. Bless gti:
friends and may God have mercy on them,'2

an I hope he. will hive on me, May God,
have mercy,on my soul.”*’. s x Gods

nowtad

Benedict Pulled the Lever. »*
Sheriff Virtue gave the orde read Under.
Sheriff Cyrus Benedict pulled” the levet
which caused the platform beneath . the
culprit to drop. Schaub shot down ard,.-:
and an examination showed that the head
wus nearly severed, ; 2
The body wax cut down by Constable_
Bamue! Birn, who had strapped tne con--
demned man's legs. and arms and, ha&
slipped the noose .oyer his hend. The
county physician then held a. post-morft-
tem examination, and the jury appointed
by Chief Justices Gummere signed the fol-
lowing report of the execution: 3

“Wwe, the undersigned jurors appointed
by the Court of Oyer and Terminer holden
at Newark In and for the county
Essex, to attend upon and witness the
execution of the judgment of death pro-
nounced by the said court against Henry’
Schaub, upon a conviction had against
him in said court Yor murder in the first
Agrees

“Do report fully and particularly a8 fol-
lows: ;

“That the satd Ifenry Schaub came to
his death instuntaneuusly at 10:11 o'clook
A. M: on the twenty-fifth day of April,
1992, at the county jail In the county of -
Bianex, State of New Jersey, by the break-
ing of the neck, hpmorrhage and shock.”
Signed, Willlam ©. Kuebler, George Le
Mohr, Pr. J. Henry Clark, Dr. Willfar
HW. Veks, Dr. Witter 8. Washington,
George P. Reuter, Ernest Temme, Louls
H. Patterson, Hierbert-K, Ellers, Dr. Sam-
vel EK Robertson, Willlum F. Mullin and

Willlam Swan,
Buried in Family Plot.

Within bulf an hour the body was turn-
ed pyer to an undertaker, Who wss en-
gaged by Schaub's mother and brother.
and the body WAs interred in Woodland
Cemetery, 10 the Schaub family pilot,
where the dead man's father, first wife
nna ehild are buried, That was in accord-—
anee with Schuub's Inst request to his
mother,
eBehaub’s last words prior to gcoing upon
the gallows were with Sherlf Virtue. To
that official the condemneg man wald:
“Sheriff, 1 thoroughly understand your
position, and would do the same to you If
} were In your pluce.”’

The sheriff was complimented for tho
rapldlty, und simpiietty with which the

execu took hace,
if

Schaub'sn Lant Night.

Scha@b's lint night on carth wys UN=
event fl Vint anidnixght he was enter
tatued by Witiiam dierag. the mde.
who da th prhsertee at the jail awatag
trtal for wominer offenee, During the
early part of the eventing Rev, Carl Girt-
anne, pastor of the Ptrst German. Ree
ah Cote), consoled the condemned

5 man} GD b ¥ Reta

5 ‘ems FES.

Te het

Relival wba freetoy | to §®) o'clock 4s

Tsai G A) € ar 8

> eK 7 y

SLAMORE, Robert, white, hanged Sussex County, Nd, onl2-21-1766

SFAMOR (or SIMONDS),' Robert

Robert Seamor (Simonds) hanged at Minisink, N, Je, in the
middle of April, 1766, for the mrder of an Oneida Indian
trader, .

Teeters' New Jersey List. His source: "Crime and Punish-
ment in Colonial New Jersey"by Weiss and Weiss,

",eelen years later one Robert Seymour was taken un for
killing an Oneida Indian who had come to trade at the
Minisink, He was rescued from the jail of Sussex County
but was Later recaptured and hanged, with a strong onard
of militia in attendance to prevent any further disorder,
The prisoner, after the jury brought him in puilty,

"seemed to expect a Rescue, bute... the Audience which
was very numerous, seem'd unanimously to approve the
‘Verdict,’ (ARCHIVES, XXV, 88, 92, 26), 271,)"

CHAPTERS IN A HISTORY OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN, NEW

JERSEY by Reéd, 1939, page 325
" Guages County Ned. On Dec,2i. 1766, Robert

seamor was executed here for the murder of
and dismenbersieem

Leste; Mast
Nawhlir, Bae Ae eS
m= ws a. . /_29-/JB7

=A SINVIFSWIOT= SEIN! 50S

‘<w

01-05-1767 (NEW JERSEY From New Jersey we are assured that about a fortnight
\

SAUE CASE AS
BELOW.

(

01-12-1767

Dares AR eof SVE YoR K Merc uRY¥

ago at a Special Court of Oyer & Terminer and General

Gaol Delivery held at Sussex County, one SIMMONS, that murdered an

Oneida Indian in that county the beginning of June last, was tried,

/ convicted and had sentence of DEATH pronounced against him, but we

have not learnt the particulars.

NEW JERSEY Extract of a letter from the County of Sussex in New

Jersey, dated the 22nd of December, 1766. "The ex-
pectatton I had of meeting with people I had business with made it
necessary for me to attend here from the 18th to the 21st instant
and gave me an opportunity of gratifying my curtostity in observing
the course of criminal proceedings in this new county. On the 18th
Mr. Justice Read came to the courthouse attended by the proper
officers and published His Majesty's Commission of Oyer & Terminer
for that county. The Grand Jury were qualified and charged and Mr.
Attorney General having prepared several bills of indictment, he
preferred them to the Grand Jury who came into court about four
o'clock in the afternoon and delivered two bills: one against one
ROBERT SEAMOR for the murder of an Indian man and another against
one David Ray for manslaughter. The prisoners were set to the bar
and arraigned and pleaded Not Guilty. The court inquired of them
tf they had any witnesses in their favour and offered them the aid
of the court to oblige them to attend the next day at which time
they were informed their trials would be brought on. A guard of two
constables and twelve men were ordered to secure the gaol and to be
relteved from time to time by the ltke number.

On the 19th about ten o'clock in the morning the court met and
the prisoners were set to the bar, when Ray retracted his plea and
was burnt in the hand. Then the court proceeded to the trial of
Seamor which lasted about three hours. The prisoner behaved with
great boldness and challenged several of the jury, who were set
astde. The evidence against the ‘prisoner was as follows: from hts

Ee ——

38 Master

six feet or more in height, who drove a car with a coughing
motor and noisy gears.

For the reason that Haddonfield is not part of the city
of Camden, the Camden police were not active in the inves-
tigation. But a certain crack detective of the force—one
Thomas P. Murphy—was vitally interested in developments.
Murphy is what might be called a “natural” detective, and
his father before him had been an astute sleuth. Quiet, un-

_assuming, never flustered, Thomas Murphy works like an

inexorable machine. In his favor is what is known in
police circles as a “camera eye.” A face never fails to
register with him, leaving an indelible impression.

Murphy soon recalled a routine incident prior to the shoot-
ing of Curt Dobbins—an incident which now appeared to
take on new significance. A few days before the attack,
a frail, pretty little blonde, named Mrs. Margaret Stephan
of 403 Friends Avenue, Camden, had come to the Detec-
tive Bureau to lodge a complaint against her husband.

“My husband is running around with a woman who is
known as Fritz,” she told Detective Murphy. “I want to
make a complaint against him for non-support. Not long
ago he beat me up and I had to call the police. When
the officers arrived, my husband talked us all out of arrest-
ing him for assault and battery on the promise of leaving
me alone. For my children’s sake, | must get support.
He’s not earning enough to support one woman, let alone
two.”

Detective Murphy referred Mrs. Stephan to the office of
the director of the Department of Welfare, which adjusts
such complaints. He did not know what had happened,
but just before the woman had left his office, he asked her
if she had a photograph of her husband. Mrs. Stephan
displayed a snapshot. Murphy glanced at it. He saw that
Stephan was dark. “Is he a big fellow?” he asked. The
woman nodded. “Yes, over six feet.”

MURPHY forgot about the incident—until now. Could it

be that this high-stepping wife-beater was the man
who had shot Curt Dobbins? Murphy thought it over for
a while, and decided that to suspect Stephan of the Dob-
bins crime was unreasonable.

On Thursday, August 13th, Prosecutor Orlando decided to
make a check on all ex-convicts. A Camden city ordinance
provides penalties for residents convicted of a crime with-
in the previous ten years who fail to register with the police.
County Detective Mulligan was assigned the task of check-
ing names of former convicts, especially those who had
come under the supervision of Parole Officer Dobbins. As
fate would have it, “Camera Eye’ Murphy was the city
sleuth designated to work with Mulligan in this under-
taking.

As Murphy and Mulligan went into the fifth hour of a
study of the files, Murphy suddenly stood upright and
stared blankly into space.

“What's the matter?” asked Mulligan.
a ghost?”

“Wait, Jim. Let me think a
minute.”

Murphy looked down and
studied in more detail the index
card that had caused him to pause
and reflect. The card bore a pic-
ture of a man whose likeness Mur-
phy had seen recently. Before
looking at the name on the card,
Murphy, just to keep himself in
practise, wanted to see if he could
recall whose picture this was. Sud-
denly it dawned on him. This was
the picture of William J. Stephan,
whose wife had shown him the
man’s photograph just a few days
before. It so happened that Mrs.
Stephan had not mentioned to the
detective that her husband was a
former convict.

In 1928 Stephan had been ar-
rested on charges of larceny, pos-
session of stolen goods and rob-
bery. He received suspended sen-
tences. The same year, he was

“Have you seen

Detective

(Right) Detective
Thomas Murphy, one
of Camden’s crack
sleuths, who helped to
solve the seemingly
clueless crime, regards
the dejected murderer
sitting with bowed head
after he had fallen into
the well-laid police trap

“You. shot Curt Dobbins that night!” (Rig
the young woman at left accused the ligar
suspect. Her evidence helped to con- vesti

vict the killer moti

roi

charged with stealing an automobile.
wheel of fortune had swung in his favor and, four

* days. before Christmas of 1928, he was let off with a
4 five-year sgl te sentence.
y Early in

ing a five-year sentence in

in March, 1934,

rat night!” (Right) County Detective James Mul-
ccused the f ligan. With Detective Murphy he in-
ved to con- } vestigated the strange and apparently

motiveless murder of Curtis Dobbins

929 he had broken into a post-office at
Grenloch, New Jersey, and was charged with stealing
post-office property and mail.
up with .him, and in March, 1929, he began serv-

Federal charge. After serving this five-year sen-
tence he was paroled in the custody of Parole Offi-
cer Dobbins! He had been discharged from parole

That night, Detective Murphy casually sauntered

Slain Adonis 39

up to the modest little Stephan home. Margaret Stent n
answered the door.

“Good evening,” said the sleuth. “I understand . m
the Welfare Department that your husband has promised
to behave. I was just passing and | thought I’d stop in
and see if everything’s all right.”

“Come in,” said Mrs. Stephan pleasantly.

“Is your reformed husband at home?” cages! Murphy.

“No,” sighed the woman. “He’s out—as usual.+ He pro-
mised to behave, but he’s still running around with that wo-
man called Fritz. He acts all right for a few days and then
he breaks out again.”

“Was he home last night?”

“No. He's been away all night.”

“Do you know who this Fritz woman is?”

“T don’t know her real name. She works with a can-
vassing crew over at a furniture company in Philadelphia,
where my husband works.”

“Was your husband home night before last?” asked
glk trying to be casual as he referred to the night of
the bins crime.

“He got in about four in the morning. He had been out
all that day and all that evening.”

{MURPHY divined two things as he talked with Mrs. Ste-
phan. First he felt that she was emotionally upset
about her husband’s affair with the woman known as Fritz.
Second, that she was holding back something she knew
about the man, perhaps because there was a_ lingering
vestige of love left. So he decided to appeal to the woman
scorned,
*“You are a most attractive woman, Mrs. Stephan,” he
said. “I can’t understand your husband leaving you for
someone else. Why, a man like that isn’t worth the powder
to blow him up. I'd certainly punish him to the full extent
of the law, if for no other reason than to take him away
from that other woman.”

Murphy. felt his way along carefully. Mrs. Stephan
darted a glance at him nempegeag then stared moodily at
the floor. She was beginning to feel very sorry for herself,
and her anger was mounting. When Murphy felt that he
had hef worked up to the proper pitch he stopped. Then
he asked, in a most casual tone: “By the way, Mrs. Stephan,
does your husband own a gun?”

The woman looked up sharply. She did not reply for a
moment. Then she arose. “Come into the kitchen with me,”
she said. Murphy followed. She stopped just inside the
kitchen door, raised a dainty arm and pointed to the stove.
“Tf it’s a gun you're after,” she said evenly, “why don’t you
look in there?’

The detective opened the top compartment of
the stove. It was empty. “Not there,” she said.

Bending on one knee, Murphy jerked open the door of
the lower compartment. In the rear he saw something cov-
ered by a piece of dirty toweling. Extracting the object and
drawing the ends of the cloth apart
he saw a .38 caliber nickel-plated re-
volver. Handling the weapon care-
fully, so as not to destroy finger-
prints, he saw that three of the
cartridges had been discharged.

Three shots had been fired by the
Dobbins criminal—three _ thirty-
eights!

Murphy pocketed the weapon and
began to ask questions. Without
once referring to the Dobbins shoot-
ing, the sleuth put his questions so
that Mrs. Stephan, without knowing
it, Was accounting for her husband’s
actions before and after the crime.
It soon became apparent to Murphy
that she did not suspect her husband
in connection with the shooting, nor
did she know just when he had
placed the gun there. She said that
she had noticed it for the first time
the day previous, but added that it
could have been in the oven for
some time without her knowing
about it. (Continued on page 54)

Throughout the short drive she held
herself rigidly alert. When the cab
stopped in front of Police Headquarters, .
she paid the driver quickly, opened the
door and glanced up and down the street;
then darted suddenly into the building.

Inside she soon found Lieutenant Du-
gan’s office. He sprang to his feet. when
he saw who his visitor was. The girl ad-
vanced to his desk, saying pleadingly:

“Please, Lieutenant Dugan, protect me.”

“Sit down and tell me what it’s all
about.”

“I'm afraid,” she aasper.

The Lieutenant called Donlin on. the
telephone.

“What are you afraid of?” he asked,
as he hung up the receiver.

“Of Jimmie Nannery.”

DONLIN came hurrying into the room,
caught sight of the girl and looked in-
quiringly at Dugan.

“Why are you suddenly afraid of Nan-
nery?” continued Dugan. “I thought you
were in love with him.”

She began to cry. Dugan tapped the
desk with his fingers, as he said sternly:

“Try to control yourseH, Miss Loraine.”

“Where's Nannery hiding?” Dontlin sud-
denly cut in impatiently.

The girl looked up, dabbing at her eyes.
Ignoring the detective’s question, she said:
“He knew you brought me here the other
night. He followed us. When I left he
kidnaped me and took me to an _apart-
ment where he was living in Jackson
Heights. He’s kept me a prisoner there.”

“Tf that’s true, how did you get away
tonight?” asked the Lieutenant.

“He goes out almost every evening,” ex-
plained the girl, “but he told me that if |
stirred outside he’d find it out and kill
me. There was no telephone in the apart-
ment, and I was afraid to disobey him. I’ve
seen the guns and knives he carries.”

“Where is this apartment?” demanded
Donlin crisply.

The girl gave the address; then went on
in a frightened whisper: “By coming here
I’m signing my own death warrant unless

you protect me.” She began to cry again. *

“1 wish I’d never seen him,” she said. “Of
course | knew he was mixed up in the
speakeasy business, and I shouldn’t have
had anything to do with him. If I ever
get out of this alive, l’ll never know peo-
ple like that again.” d

“Most girls who play around with gang-

Murphy raced back to Headquarters and
immediately a tail was put on the Stephan
home. The orders were not to pick Ste-
phan up, but to follow him until the gun
found in his home could be powdered for
finger-prints and tested by Captain Wil-
liam A. Jones, veteran ballistics expert of
the New York Police Department. *

Suspect Stephan did not put in an. ap-
pearance at his home all night. In the
morning, Orlando arranged for detectives
to go to his place of employment and tail
him from there. Detective Mulligan left
by the first train for New York, taking
with him the revolver and the three bul-
lets, to wait while tests were made by
Captain Jones, the ballistics expert. Tests
for finger-prints had proved failures.

At: Stephan’s place of employment in
Philadelphia, Jersey sleuths aided by De-
tective Samuel J. Crooks, of the Phila-
delphia Police, found-that Stephan was
not expected back until Monday morning.
He was the head of a crew of women.

It was learned that a woman’ named

Master . Detective

sters end up, with that same assertion,”
Dugan said emphatically. “They find that
wort up with criminals ‘doesn’t pay.
We'll help you because I:believe you really
didn’t know Jimmie was a criminal when
you first took up with him, but you'll
have to help us first.” :

Helen Loraine turned her frightened
face toward him as he asked:

“Where can we find Nannery?”

“I think he and Red McKenna are meet-
ing evenings at a speakeasy on 74th Street
called Wheelman’s Rest.” Then she ex-
claimed frantically: “You promised to help

me! I’ve no place to go! Where can |

hide from Jimmie?”

Dugan was on his feet, moving toward
the door, Donlin at his heels. He turned
to the girl. “Stay here. I'll ‘send the
matron to you. Don’t move from this
office till I get back!” '

Helen Loraine jumped to her feet.

“They'll shoot you down if you try to

capture them!” she cried. :

he officers had already disappeared.
Five minutes later they. were speeding up-
town to 74th Street, gr eee by De-
tective Devine. They parked the car a
block away from the speakeasy and held
a whispered conference. }

“Donlin, you think up. a pretext for
getting inside, then open the door for
us,” ordered: the Lieutenant. As the: big
officer moved off, he added: “They
mustn’t get away this time. Get the
drop on them before they spot you. Re-
member, they're killers.” ;

With his head thrust forward, Jim Don-
lin walked to the place, Dugan and De-
vine followed at a short distance so as not
to arouse suspicion from a possible look-
out. Putting his mouth to the small hole
in the basement door, the detective asked
to be admitted. .

An eye looked warily, through the hole
on the other side; a voice asked what he
wanted. Donlin bent his head so that
his hat hid most of his face. In a low
whisper he announced: :

“I’ve got a tip-off for the manager.
Hurry up. It’s important!”

The voice came muffled from behind
the door: “You'll have to wait a moment.”

“This can’t wait. In another minute
it'll be too late. You know what I mean,”
said Donlin. *

To his great relief he heard the bolt
slip. The door swung inward. Donlin
lunged his powerful body against it, and

(Continued from page 39)

Freda Rogers, known as Fritz, was a mem-
ber of Stephan’s crew. The store did not
have her address, and the Philadelphia city
and telephone directories failed to reveal
it. The establishment did have, however,
the addresses of other members of the
crew, and the detectives decided to seek
them out in an effort to ascertain where
the woman known as Fritz lived.

_I might state at this point that this en-
tire probe was unusual in that it was,
from the very beginning, considered as

a murder case when, as a matter of fact, »

the victim had not yet died. Curt Dob-
bins, although doomed just as certainly
as if he had been killed instantly, was
still alive, a source of wonderment to at-
tending physicians.

There came into Camden County that
afternoon two reports that leveled, more
directly than ever, the finger of suspicion
at ex-convict Stephan. ne was Mulli-

pes report of Captain Jones’ findings.
he Captain, who has yet to be proved
wrong in a ballistics finding, told Mulli-

pushed inside. Before the surprised door-
man could recover himself, the detective’s
gun pressed hard into the man’s abdomen.
“Keep quiet!” he warned. ;
Dugan and Devine followed quickly
and silently into the cubby-hole entrance.
Donlin turned the doorman over to Devine
as Dugan opened the inner door a_few

. inches. The sharp eyes of the two officers

scanned the smoke-filled dive.

At one side several men stood at a bar
while most of the customers sat at the
tables which filled the room. In an in-
stant they spotted, McKenna and Nan-
nery. The two bandits sat side by side at
a corner table, both facing the door.

ray his gun, Dugan stepped boldly
into the speakeasy, Jim Donlin beside
him. The Lieutenant’s voice boomed out:

“Don’t move, anyone!” Leveling his gun
at the bandits he ordered: “Reach for the
ceiling!”

The two detectives moved forward, Du-
gan’s weapon covering McKenna. Taken
completely off-guard, the tall bandit got
to his feet, slowly raising his hands.

Nannery’s hand had gone automatically
to his shoulder holster when the door
opened. He had Donlin covered from the
moment the detective stepped into the
room. Through half-closed eyes he watched
the officer come bearing down on him.

POoONntIN understood the gravity of the
situation he was now in, but con-
tinued to go forward. The crowd hardly
breathed as they stared at the drama un-
folding before them. When the detective
was within two feet of him the little Na-
poleon of Crime’s harsh voice broke the
tense stillness.
“You've asked for it, flatfoot!”

Gunplay hovers over this dramatic sit-
uation. Nannery has Detective Donlin
covered and helpless. Red McKenna is
near, covered by Dugan. It is diamond
cut diamond. Who will win? Will the
detectives outwit Red and Nannery? Or
are they again trumped by the guns of
gangdom?

Read the next smashing installment of
this fascinating story of the crimson career
of the dapper little Napoleon of Crime,
in which sensational coups are staged by
the mysterious gang, and the hands of the
mobsters are again steeped in scarlet. Ap-
pearing in the September issue of MASTER
DETECTIVE, at all news stands August 13th.

_ Slain Adonis—And the Woman. Who Talked

pan that the bullet taken from Curt Dob-
ins’ body and the two bullets taken from
.the door and the book-rack, had with-
out doubt been fired from the revolver
found in the kitchen stove of Stephan’s
home!

Records of the Department of Motor
Vehicles disclosed that Stephan was the
owner of a 1930 Chevrolet sedan. Here
was an automobile then, going into its
seventh year of use. Was it not more
than likely that a vehicle of that age
would resemble the criminal’s car?

Now, to the layman, it might appear
that with all this evidence against Ste-
phan, all that remained was the arrest of
the man, _ But as a judge who has seen
many a jury return a verdict of “not-
guilty” when a defendant was palpably
guilty, let me point out why more than
this was necessary.

This is the evidence we had: The re-
volver found in the stove was a very old
one. It was problematical that its own-
ership could be traced to Stephan through

August, 1937 Master Detective 55
loor- records.’ The gun'had probably found its
ives way in and out of pawnshops for, years, |
— and from the hand of criminal to criminal.
oe Although there are on record cases re-
pia garding the tracing of old weapons, such
pews cases are the exception rather than the
vias rule. How could it be proved that the
fi ew 7 gun found in the stove was the property
= of Stephan? ‘
b A smart defense attorney could point
; “va out that no finger-prints were found on
me the weapon. Mrs. Stephan was not pre-
heed pared to testify that she saw her husband
4 al lace it in the stove. True, the bullets
e at ired from the revolver were the ones that
oldl went —— the screen door of the Dob-
‘de bins home, but that would not prove that
ae: Stephan had pulled the trigger. Stephan
ie: might say he had lent ‘the gun to a
5 ese friend, whose exact name or whereabouts
ree he did not know, or claim that the gun
D had been planted in his, an ex-convict’s,
‘ in home. . eH
— How would Stephan be. placed at the
aay scene? True, the man was tall and he
‘wait had dark hair—but that, description could
ier fit millions of men. Certainly the fact
pred that Stephan was absent from his home at
‘ cae the hour of the crime’s commission would
| not necessarily mean that he had been
: - at the scéne. - ; :
— The -victim himself admitted that he
f th would not be able-to identify the assail-
7 ant. And the victim was the only person
ay who had seen the triminal about his
Mond heinous - business. :
Ne © evidence found at the crime scene or
> the anywhere else chained Stephan to the
ins pier There were i die iMate K
ootprints, tire- prints. No one, got :the
license number of -his-car. All agreed it entucky Burley tobacco
° elt: had a coughing motor and that the gears is America’s best liked tobacco for
onlin made a loud noisé—but: there are thou- i mn P -
ont sands of cars that would fit that descrip- smoking in a pipe. And Velvet is
oa tion. Then, too, sadly enough, there was ; es : vi Be sex:
baproad that invariable flaw in human observation. ‘ Burley at its best!
| = Witnesses disagreed as to the color of the. | - '
car. ° °
as of ] Such, then, were the problems that con- Velvet tobacco is sun-ripened and
nt of tre tae ears ht 15th aged in wooden hogsheads for
atts 4 Mulligan and Murphy drove up to a point i
rime, ye - near the home of "Seat Rogers in the hue soa: a - sats edt the
id by southwest section of Philadelphia. The flavor. A. dash of maple sugar
of the house in question was a small porch-front oe wu
Ap- dwelling of the row type. The address had adds the final touch —a better
ASTER * been obtained from a certain member of es A
13th. the canvassing crew. taste, a.more delicious aroma.
A 1930: blue Chevrolet, bearing the li- ;
cense number that had been issued to Niet
Stephan, stood in front ofthe Rogers
home. It was apparent that Stephan was
in the Rogers home now. The sleuths
had their instructions. They were to take
the mah by surprise, and: they were not
to reveal:that he was wanted for murder.
Dob- As luck would have it, Stephan camé
from out of the house within half an hour after
with- the detectives took up their vigil. Murphy
olver . and. Mulligan, their hands on guns in
yhan’s their pockets, were upon the man before
he reached his car.
Aotor “What's up?” the startled Stephan asked.
s_ the “What do you guys want?”
Here _. Murphy and Mulligan revealed their
o its identities. “You're wanted in Camden for
more non-support,” said Mulligan.
- age “Non-support?” repeated Stephan. The
sleuths noticed an expression of relief
ppear on the man’s countenance. “Okay,” he
Ste- said.
sst_of Stephan waived extradition and was
Seen soon being whisked across the river to
not- Camden. ey: 0 had telephoned to Or-
pably lando and the Prosecutor instructed that
than Stephan should not be taken to jail, but
that he be taken directly to his home.
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[Continued from page 29}

“IT know. He had a little trouble with
Uly Davis a while ago about poaching,
didn’t he?”

“You don’t want to take any stock in
that, Sergeant,” the storekeeper told him.
“Uly’d fight with most anyone at the drop
of a hat when he was drunk. He and Pete
got along pretty well most of the time.”

Avery and Eggleston were somewhat
puzzled. Both realized that the mountain
people were close-mouthed. They dis-
cussed their affairs freely among them-
selves, but were not inclined to include
outsiders in these discussions. They fos-
tered a peculiar brand of loyalty that
might even lead them to shelter a mur-
derer, particularly if the man were well
liked, and Avery had already discovered
that Harmon was one of the most popu-
lar trappers in the community.

Davis, too, had been well liked, but he
had not anade friends easily, according to
Duane, and although his ellow trappers
would no doubt like to see justice done
and the killer convicted, they might, also,
try to protect one of their own members.
Avery, however, was certain that if Har-
mon had actually been guilty of poaching,
the other trappers would be the first to
turn against him.

The troopers’ next step, they decided,
was to learn more about the fight between
Harmon and Davis.

From the storekeeper, Avery had
learned the fight originated in a nearby
tavern and it was here the sergéant turned
for further information.

Avery was acquainted with the tavern
keeper, and it was not difficult for him to
get him talking. “All we want right now
is some information from you,” he began.
“Were you around the night Davis and
Harmon had a scrap here?”

The tavern keeper admitted that he was,
but he was quick to add that the fight
had only started there. It had ended up
all over town, according to the inn keeper.

“How did it start?’ Avery asked,
anxious to get on with the investigation.

According to the inn keeper, Harmon
had been standing at the counter when
Davis came in. Davis had been accom-
panied by a girl, but as soon as he spotted
Harmon he left his companion and started
toward the other trapper, muttering
threats of what he would do to anyone

who robbed his traps. The two men had
gone at it hammer and tongs. One an-
gered by a fancied injustice; the other by
a hated implication. The inn keeper and
his patrons had looked on in silence, tak-
ing no sides. But when the scrap became
too rough, the proprietor had eased the
fighters out of the door into the street.

“Did it look like a fight for blood? Did
either of them pull a gun or a knife?” Eg-
gleston asked.

“No,” the informant replied. “Neither
of them tried any dirty tricks,”

“Davis came in with a girl, you say.
Did you know who she was?”

“Oh, sure, She works at the diner across
the street.”

The troopers thanked the exes keeper
and crossed the road to the diner.

The waitress proved to be an attractive
blonde who had already heard of Davis’
death and had anticipated the troopers’
call. She had been living in or around
Speculator for three years.

“I know you used to see Uly Davis once
in a while here in town.” Avery remarked.
“When were you last up at his cabin?”

“T’ve never been to his cabin,” the girl
answered. “I saw him when he came to
town and that’s all.”

“Did he spend much money on you?”

“When he had it.”

“Did he have it the last time you were
with him?”

The blonde turned angrily toward the
trooper. “What are you driving at?” she
asked. “TI didn’t have anything to do with
killing Uly and I can prove it! I’ve been
working day and night here in town for
the past month, T couldn’t have gone up
to Uly’s cabin to kill him, even if I knew
where it was.’

“I don’t think you killed Uly Davis,”
Avery said quickly, sorry to have alien-
ated the girl’s confidence. “But maybe you
can help us find out who did. You didn’t
answer my last question. Did Davis have
much money on him two weeks ago?”

She reflected for a moment. “Yes,” she
said finally, “maybe two hundred dollars.”
’ “Who else knew about it?”

“A lot of people.” This time she an-
swered without hesitation. “He waved his
wallet around and bragged about what a
good season he had had. That was after
he and Pete Harmon made up.”

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fell upon the sidewalk.

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numbdr of the residents of that locality,
severaliof whom hastened to the spot, aud the
wounded oficer wag Carried to the store of Mr.

detailed to look aftpr jvacant housea whbse
owners have gone into the country to spdnd
the Sunjmer, was slot and probably fatally

John Phasell, No. 10 Mutray street, where he waa woundofl this mording in the house of Mr.

attenddd by Drv. Bell agd Lew Db. Wart, after Horace Bedell, curner of Clinton avenue and

which Be was removed fo St. Barnabas Hoapital. Murray} streot, by ‘two burglars whom he

After xbootung theomedr the Durglars descended to attempted to arrest.

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wes cellar and made thelr way outinto the roar yard About twenty minutes after Avo o'clock
*rougp a trapdoor. They then climbel the fence ; ;

d . this motning, OMecer Brock, who was dreased
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serous fhe avenue to High street, and then up one fe cidizqi's clothing, wet Oflger arni —e
Ct the droga streeta, whére they were lout alicnt of Cintonf avenue, near the Walsh manaion,
Revoralol the neigbhorg saw the burvlars leave } and or aie a few words of conversation
the houme, but pone of them attetn Med te arrest | with bit. The two:ofllcers then separated,

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them even to follow thetn, Mr. Fussell, who | Brock ing down ligton avenud, remark-
hres n xtidoor to Mr, iHodell'« house fu Murray ing as left that he as going dawn John-
street, paw the hurglard leaving the h se, but ag son avehue to look after some houses there,

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“ays that one of them darrian! a larze black bay.
aud that they were co of a Jewish cast of
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went down that atreptifor abouta block after
& paperfof tobacco, :On his return, ashe was
passing/the house of Mr. Bedell, he heard a
noise ig the cellar like that made by & man
at on coal. To! officer, who wus on
the opresite side of tho strect, crossed over,
and, om examining tha house, found that the
grating of the window of the coul cellar, on |
, the Mufray street sidelof the house, had been 4
removdd, and that. he window sash waa

thoruughly, ope peng fery bureau drawer, trunk
and elgset and Soatteriyg their Cuntents about the
Aoors ip the greatest fontusion, They had also
taken down the lace Certalny from tne windows
aml patked them up In bundles Dreparatory ter re.
Noving them, Lt is thouscehe that they hal been in
the hoyse a long time Ve fore they were Wdisssvecest
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‘ Heaclatiartery and Chipf Milly and Che detectives
Sumer ehis command at once xtarted in serra of
| the fd a tout fanter{ toy tered aay tracey of Chern
ih Krock {sina very weak condition, and ty

/ ue great Ean | At examination of ths
wou shows that the ball beg entered the left:
Junge, gud there are Dug little hopes of tis res very |

immediately jumped into tho cellar through
the window. Groping his way carefully
through the dark, he ‘passed through the cel-
lar unt{! he came to the narrow stnircuse
leading to tlre floor above, which he ascend:

H ed. Hojfailed to find the burglars on the first
Hela guatle to give any description of the men, | floor, but heard them in the second story.
except to say that One Cen is a Oren Avo it hiy : On goisgg up the staircase he sawa man, who
vwn Sze, Hrock had been on the fossa novel! retreated into the bath room. The oMjcer
tents and has st er Of benea bray 4]

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Pertiog of their plunder, which was Parked up in | also taken out. Knowing that-the bouse was
the bag ove of them whs seen to Carry when they, | Soved énd that the family wore absent at
left the house after ehisoting the ofterr, | Atlanticville, near Ldng Branch, he was con-
Tnfefmation of the affair way couseyed ty Pulivw | vinced that burglars ture at work there, and
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Bit) won Comfortanle, Ith very Wea,
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Polfooman Brock Dyirg.

Last night Pobceman Brook's wound ansumad
a6 upfavorable aspeat, and this morning the
syroptoms are of such a charactor that the phyui-
clan in attendance ot Bt, Harnatiag Jloapital pro
nounces hin case hopeless, and adyathat It fs hard.
ly poasible ho will survive through the lay. It will
bo remembe that thin OMficer was abot on
Thursday mornigg lant by the burglars Ovohwald
ald Ryan, who abe now In oustody for tha monier.
Tho vallant oMper was wouhded under tho arin.
pit on the loft alde, and the ball, {¢ was thought by
hie physiclann panned obliquely through thy lefe
lung. When he was first rocelved tuto the hoapl-
ta) he suffered qryat palnwhich he boro with bervle
fortitude. The paio grew less {na short thne, and
Ina day of two hin symptoms began to be More
favorable, and hopes worn ontertalnedd that nie lift
inlght be naved. Dr. Archibald Mereor, the House
Physician, han been Mnreenitting in hie attention
to the wounded offleer, amthe and the.other sur.
Keone of the honpitnal staff have lets no (yoans un-
tried lo save hlin,

On Batucday afternoon Brock began to Krow
works, and by evening such an unfavotib'a
change had taken place tn bia condition that he
was thought to he dying, but in the my toy he
ralliod again only to alnk once more tn the altar.
hoop, In the evening he grew better again and
passed a quiet nlyht, and on Mouday was we much
better that his pbysiclans bad thelr hopes of his
recovery revived, but fis the afternoon he sank
again and passed a very restless night, which left
him in an exceedingly weak ald nervous xtnks
Jeathrday, Laat evening he grew much worse
and a here pneumonia eet in, and both lungs were
attacked before tho night was over, About mil.
night he beoame delirious, and he continudd In
thatetate until about xeven o'clock this mornhug,
when It wagevitont that he waa winking raypiily,
During the morning he became more quiet, nnd
before noon he suuk into a partially unconseman
condition, starting up occasioually and muttering
fucoherantly,

His ante-mortemn statoment, taken by Coroner
Joseph 1D. Oshorme, on Monday last, beford ho
manifested any symptoms of dolirium, was not.
omnly affirmed to by Brock, who at tho time WAs
under the tupreaxton that he would 8o0n be wan.
moned to his account, Hince delirluaa hag atiln
and his Conacluusness has prodably left tila for.
ever, It te rogaritl] aps extromoly fortunate for the
enda of justice that the statement was takon ata
timo when there wan still a hope of hid teaovary.
That part of the deposition which relates to the
shooting ls an follows:

I tried the door of what I supposed was the hath
room, and beard sume one woving within Teen
Ttrled the door agaln and pushed stopeu and wag
Met by avian, That inancallod out ** stand,” and
we both frat! together. The man then rushed
away fromime nod tifelt a uting in my ante atl
know J had been atrdck. Lthoo went own stalra

and opened the frdnt door and fell, The man
that ould “atamd’’ wan tha One who Ard, aid
fron what 1 saw of hin | knew tre was

asmooth-fagodinan. Ikouow Thomas Hyan. tla
was brouvht tomy bedside ha@lcuffed toa tigu
Whom Dattd not know, but whi name T faarnet
waa Gechwald, ‘There wan lynt enough when b
wan eleot for me to have kuown the inqa
who rhot ome af 2 had been familiar
with hin face. ‘The man who ahos tite
wae pot Thomaa Ryan, boam eure, but WAN &
ainooth faoed man, and from the alse ail OPjrnae-
whew OF the other tou, called Charles (hate all,

tle iy opinion Uiat he inthe man el shooting,
, le

Hrawixy X
tak

: Joa D. Onponne, Coroner,
Withong -Anciimato Meacan,
Beowk Wed Juat before thre ot lock.

Baca,

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aterm demand that swift, su
justice" enduld be moted ou

ley Brock yesterday afte
where with deep regret, e-

o'clock yesterday afternoon, bo

had always teen a loving and fe
Doinaa mw tlre Cire, aned hee grief ast

DO PMTs ware.

—-- - 3
Theo Damtde ave tr Brock, ;
Mh of Ooffeer Stan.
na reeeltes| ovary.
intotn Of morrow
‘sw COUrAge were
irderers, andon
ore dle ode miey
‘rucd nnd oe ow.

The annotneement of.

Chin lone nnd adimilsata .
ssengdeseh wathe Carmen Uta

cily murderers,
Brock dled, as wax ptote! oo before three
wen staking
ter wacoata las
Na, Waa welll
ath called

Witter |

pidly allalay. Jile widoweul i

forth the heartlelt: sympathy ©?
Wo She bore the deep anhet.. . “Shristinn
reelenation, and even fa the arte. MOCr’
sent a miesaace to hor son's axsuclat. thee poo.
Hee force, Gntreathog therm Go pnt sith in
Qo and Jead a life that should win | Vhe
hews. of Hrock's death was received ef by
the inemlers of the force, by all of Was
Pocleoverad antued verspacaten td,
The decease) oMbegr was ot years ol as | * ale
man, and had been on the force for seve “es,
Hee rendebesd ant Neo ders Soath nt reek, is |
widewed mother, whose only chabd dae» |
Dobos fibiandade vesttenns ten Drece de Spreokecty eof ita tie. "y

terum by all who krew dagen,

He wai ive

Chostian tpan. a brave ollleer and nw,

foithsrd Cdiened, quiet fy manne cand fear.

pce ae everyoluty, The gews of de.

Tras received at the jail ductoge the aftern «.-

Waiden Johbndon dad net tell Rvan and Oses

the men aceused of ple shootmye of Brack

but the intelligence Was Conmunicatedd tothe

thebe fellow prixoners, Neither of then wiia -

thing, Gut Qrehwakl manifested much enn:

and turned Weathty pate,

Deputy County Physicnan Beuaniley, asatite &

the steff of St. Marnabas Hospital, made aoe

Donen examinaven of Rrock's body today

found that the ball had entered Che left site.

Cae Arn pit, Paxned Qdorertnagda Uocod la Trot Deol three bie.

Jun in a deewrewared bireei done aed disade Lede Jats

mthe back bone, pear the wmdddla of the bac:

‘causing extensive pleurlay and dntlaupation,
Cersbiedauibeuhinuens haw been exseitet by oO:

fact that beth INckermon and rock stigne D thie

nntetoortein statements with Ciele neack tate y-

of writhy theif nawew, Justiee to tha memory «©

the munlerol cer deurninebs that it mleall be atat

ed that Brock Aah signa) his ante mortem state

thent in thia way beentuse he wiaatoo weak Co weil:

Dis name, He hived reowedveed a geod e fucatgom te

the publle schools of this-city, sod wada man of

tore than ordinary intelligence, dle was fornia ce

ly Iu the employ of Anrop Ward & Sun, waieh theo

Kive Bim ainoest excelent character, Dicheraes

alwotnade Dis anark Deasuae he was te weak te

wnte

Comptroller Baker reeenve ) Bo teetay, from oo;
peernntle poeeary col Cbads eat yr, welacn levees treed women Sean geacnnes |
hare waa, fer bhree mscitiet of podbean Mr och,

The polles, today, renylvod car beawe Cle expen ae
ef the Cuamersd Ate itvepinent will bee Deeded tls afien
Deve oa,

There will bea special meeting of they Newark
Vollee Mutual Awd Ansocintioi (his evening. ab 7
oelock shar, at Chir roan, corner of Macket
nil Hadeey atreets, Co mrake artanycecne ots for at
tending the fuperah Rrery ember is destined ty
Per present ter ig he

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5-/0-lF47¢

5 1-197

jtbental. dixurese, byt thére: was.np indica on
“aa ping ofithe nerves, A few mini
before tld Oak ;

‘and al

, thas of Sipe
impend @

> Placing
without
Cal. Days

| was being.done Qschwald made his last
terance on ‘earth, * dit well for:me,” :
', The .elerp rymeny ;

_ time Dechwald's face indicala

opk, wht ‘while not defiant,

repaired to meet

> dbeel,
properly ander the
asulstante, faring the specta
then ‘drew down the black

4 H.aboub hisnesok,’ and while

, 20d awaited the a

ing-phe trap from behind tt

nt, whieh ‘cams immediately, te:

he solidly. | Quite

‘
‘
De
8;
_%,

aged the now apparently
8 exercises, Oushwald a

< ieoranpe ty Jal! thls morning deceated

= to assemble at’ the fall: at. four o'clock this
Hort or until to-morrow ora later day,

fs ‘.
: rhe ‘death of Ryan: cansed an alteration a. the

Bxjlows, whieh had bean prepdred with double
ope .

‘Mile dancen: tho eecdn tics
$e 7
infoemedi of the death ef his porate
hwald did’ not reneged uch
med nerved up to ergo
eatgart
M mother called to bid him fare
brief Interview he had. with
d tears, ‘Don't. ory," sald
he}ped now.” Soon’ after Rey, Mr. Alien and
~ G, Weed, arrived and en ek the doomed.
* te sey sn a
t' man in re-
Up oa his bed and
erm and converdatioi,
i¢stions {n mono-

cane *

aie

his father :
during ©

his mother |.

lwald, oe can’t

néd intently to their
“ r abd then answering
os and paying no

a Ryan, 9
r ends
Coyomer Osborne’ will sammon a

Soetia to aio Runriemcrmre | f

od, and a gYemioal analysie’ will be thade In

course of téro or three days by a chemiet ér’.

York, toWwhoui the stomach will sent th~ |”

OW. oe

B bas been tant Bras rolgsive wore

minted Ao send m food dally, ahd If ‘thay had

od t wrest him from the scaffold by wach a
there'was nothing to prevent

is tars 05 Going.” °

pporoner Onborne hii mrmmoned a fury for the

oa ! the body af Thomas Ryan,

noon. when they wil!’ ¢iew the ay. and

ALTE THE GALIOWE,

and a weight of 000." A change was prompt- o
iad by Mr, Van Hise by removing one rope

® portion of the weight, and at 934 o'clock
rything wasda readiness for the exécution '

cae

Newortk yp?

noi Of the shooting:
od to thelr belief
rhom they had seen coming from’ the

ere ‘were Breck’s in

‘dnd &

a bering Me, ‘Bedell's house on the morn!

: =A the prisones's coming from the
t Mr. Bodell's house as‘she was going do High

trunk and bureau, oa both
ed,drawers were pried open with jjmmbs

‘the roouss indicated. that the b
there il nigh and woes eperty
at house whes ‘they heart! the officer om

it of them, whea - they retredted

s.ati dnce took monsures to disodver th

d evidence enough to warrant. them {n
Oschwald and Thomas Ryan,

ination was: subseqhently beld in
ote, befor Justice Joasup,; when, t]
were fully: identified by Mr, Fuses!
n bel saw: Jearing ‘Mr. Bedell's house -
Ottier wittionses”
thas theee were .
. Bodell's hoase &@ black, bag, and
to jail: ta ewalt the
ro k's injuries, :
ithe death.of Brock an nanest, wat
Oaborne, which resulted {a @ ve
accusing Oechwald and Ryanof the
they were then, fully : oom mitted
nof the Grand Jury. When t

‘pet tney ‘wore promptly Indictéd ‘for’ in

p first degree, ‘and on ‘beng arraigned in ‘the

0 of Oyer and Terminer on the 9th day of Bep-

ember they pleaded not guilty, ret ot
THE TRIAL AyD sarewce.: |’

actin dand Eyan were placed on trl lin the

rt of yer and Terminer, before Judges Depus'

vile October the 19h, The pie ras.

°D a, by, Progecutor ‘Abee! nad > pane

Miwald

vere Mr. John Fussell, who péeitiy identl-
theiprisoners as the. men whom he Nad san

1a: ey hg Ragas bleck bag with
ore, @ colored woman, who’!
loa

ot towards Clinton avexue on the mo Ing of

he mprder, |. and to seeing them a t y came.

Bedalls eave.

contents were strewn about the fipors of \
Mattresses were opened, aad every.

to.
ng |
oO the,
h room where the fatal. ehot ‘was: fired. |" “Chief

B per
ofa, and before nightfall that day they ne.

pro;
etary of @ saloon at No. 19 Springfield avenue,

wit |

| Accomplished Villain

oP RE. ce.) (Continued from Page 47) der this pressure and the macabre sight of his .- Jersey Treasury 200 years ago. But because
~ f wrote in a letter to The Pennsylvania Gazette friend. swinging from the scaffold, Cooper. _ the incident became tied to the counterfeiting
¥ of March 2, 1774, that Cooper replied solemnly... broke down. He “confessed” that both he and ' ©; gang, it saved three men from the hemp.
- to his inquisitors, “If | must die, | must pre Sam Ford had plotted and carried out the. The crowd at Morristown had to be cabiction! é
|< pare for it in the best manner | can; for | do Treasury raid. This apparently was the infor- with only one hanging that September day. It
i not know anything about (the robbery).” mation someone sorely wanted. — ~ did not lessen their disappointment to know
i <:2> The letter went on, “Everything was con- Cooper and his accomplices, Budd and. that the dead man was the least guilty of the :
c ducted as if he was to be executed. His irons Haynes, won a reprieve until Oct. 15. A further’ © fake money ring.
{ . were taken off, and his arms pinioned . . . the - reprieve was granted, and in December all ue oa Reynolds’ greatest sin was in being a for-
+ ameexecutioner returned and brought Cooper out : three won full gubernatorial pardons. Dr.Budd | eigner—particularly ‘a hated trisnman”—with-
H f the prison into the passage, from whence — lived down his. disgrace, going on to serve with out a friend at court. The final irony occurred
‘> he ‘could behold his companion - (Reynolds). — honor in the Revolutionary War. He died of 18 days after ‘the execution when The New
' « hanging.” ies VES ase : -°. fever on the batilefield. ‘pine ie York Gazette revealed that Reynolds was not
y -. Here Cooper was told, “You-have now but. __it is doubtfu: that anyone will ever. know ~ an trishman after all, but had been born and
; "10 minutes to jive, if you do not confess.” Un- © what really happened that night at the East © raised in Pennsylvania. ; oO

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Heit Green— Murder

If She Hadn't Had Her Kitchen Plastered Mrs. Celia

Kadesh's Murder Story Might Have Been Far

RS.. CELIA KADESH was far
from extravagant. She never
would leave a light burning in

her apartment during the day. Nor

was she the kind of person who would
be more than an hour late to open her.
store.

That was why Edward Busher and

Anna Stone decided to climb up to the

back porch of the Kadesh apartment ate

at No. 324 Franklin Street, Plainfield,
New Jersey. Mr. Busher and Miss
Stone were employes of Mrs. Kadesh;
they worked in her famous furniture
store. On the morning of March 22,
1937, they and the other employes
gathered around the front door of the
establishment waiting for- Mrs. Kadesh
to open. But when 9:30 came and
Mrs. Kadesh had not appeared they

decided to go over to her home to find ;

out if anything was wrong.

Mrs. Kadesh was known as the
Hetty Green of Plainsfield. Built on
an ample scale, two-fisted, shrewd, she
had amassed a sizeable fortune in the
furniture business and in real estate.
Local gossip had given her the Hetty
Green tab, after that famous American
character of forty years ago.

Busher and Miss Stone rang the bell
at the Kadesh building but no one
answered, None of the other residents
of the apartment building had seen
either Mrs. Kadesh or her daughter
since the previous Saturday night.

A large porch ran the full width of
the house at the rear of the second
floor. This was reached from the
ground by a flight of stairs. From her
earlier visits Miss Stone knew that the
bathroom window and the windows of
Mrs. Kadesh’s bedroom opened onto it.

Glancing up, Miss Stone was struck
by a very curious sight—the bathroom
window was open.

To anyone else this would have
meant nothing. But she knew that
during the previous Summer 26-year-
old Bessie Kadesh had been spied upon
by a Peeping Tom while she was tak-
ing a bath. The girl vividly recalled
the horror and loathing in Bessie’s
voice as she told of the man’s glittering
eyes studying her naked, well-rounded

ody. Ever since that time the bath-
room window remained closed.

Then Miss Stone noticed the light
in Mrs. Kadesh’s room. It was cer-
tainly a peculiar thing for the Hetty
Green of Plainfield to be wasting
money on electricity in broad daylight.

As they gazed up at the porch they
suddenly heard a stealthy footfall be-
iind them. They whirled about.

A middle-aged man in overalls and
a cap faced them. He held a mason’s
trowel.

“Are y’ lookin’ f’ Mrs. Kadesh?” he

Do you know where she is?”
Miss Stone asked.

“No, Miss, I don’t. But I’d sure like
t’find out m’self.”

“Why, what do you want her for?”
pd “demanded.

Different—

Sprawled over the bed was the
massive form of what once was Mrs.
Kadesh. Through the mass of blood-

matted hair they could see her skull

bashed in as if it had been made of
cardboard. Gore was spattered over

everything. The woman’s face was al-
most completely covered by a wine
red mask. The bed-clothes were dyed

“© with it. Walls, door, floor—everything

eo
Sem enenre!

By OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES’
Roving Reporter

“Well, y’see, I’m a mason, Name’s
William Richard. I’m s’posed t’do a
job o’ work f’ Mrs. Kadesh,” he ex-
plained. “She phoned m’ house late
last night ’n left word f’me t’be here
at eight ’clock.” He gazed at the girl
helplessly. “Here I am ’n it’s a’most
ten ’n no sign o’ Mrs. Kadesh or
nobody—’cept you two.”

There was a moment’s silence. Then
Miss Stone said, slowly, “I think we

cuaint to have a look upstairs—on the
porch.

Quickly they climbed the stairs.
Peering through the bathroom window
they saw a towel lying on the floor. It
was dyed a deep crimson.

They sucked in their breaths sharp-
ly and hurried to the bedroom win-
dows. The sight that greeted them
there made them shudder with horror
and disgust.

OFFICIAL DETECTIVE SMRIES

S/1E 1937

' was splashed with blood. Celia Ka-
desh, the Hetty Green of Plainfield,
was dead.

b iyrad minutes later Busher, pale and

trembling, rushed into police head-

quarters in Plainfield.

Detective Sergeant Daniel J. Gray

was sitting tilted against the wall,
reading a newspaper.

“What’s wrong, young fellow?” he

asked, looking up at Busher.

The young man babbled out an in-

coherent, frenzied tale. But Gray got
enough of it to give Patrolmen Tom
poem and Harry Platt a meaning-
‘ul n

A few minutes later the four of

them were dashing up to the Kadesh
porch.

The three policemen climbed through

the bedroom window. Gray took one
look at the bloody body on the bed

One’s soft, white body was de-

sired—the other’s money. Bessie

Kadesh, shown in cap and gown

at left, was the daughter of Mrs.

Celia Kadesh (below), successful
in furniture and real estate

“Accomplished Villain

gop. ete (Continued from Page. 42) |
«| anyone else. He did learn; however, that Capt.

once been associated with Ford in an earlier
fake money deal, had joined the jail breakers

* heading for the Mississippi. %.32

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“to New Orleans, but he returned empty
: @oarces. In a desperate effort, a Mohawk In-
5. B» dian, said to be one of the best runners in the

_— © entire Mohawk nation, was sent’ after the des-

a ; 2 peradoes, but he found no trace of them. The
"7. province of Pennsylvania offered a bounty of

ome

-:. went unclaimed. .- 2 Se ian! sys
* Joseph Richardson of Philadelphia, who had "gn the Morristown Green. But while the anxious

Briar County, Va., assuming his mother's ~
‘and that the. three, all heavily armed, were .

3 7 A special agent was dispatched by the New -
“1 Jersey authorities to follow the trail of the trio ©

= *: ay 2

$1,500 for either Richardson or Ford, mae

Some years later, Ford settled in Green

maiden name of Baldwin: With a partner he
engaged in silversmithing. When the partner
died, Ford married his widow, who had inher-
ited considerable property. Several. children
were born of this second illegal marriage. .

Near the end of his days, Ford was visited ..
in Virginia by his son William, who reported
that he found his father in a “most melancholy .-
frame of mind.” Once more, he denied his part °-..

~~ in the Perth Amboy holdup and blamed Cooper ~
.. for leading him on the road to counterfeiting.: = 5.»

é pe
- ere Fs :

He may have been right about Cooper, who.
was the second man scheduled to be hanged

2 crowd waited outside for the second sacrificial

victim, Morris County officials were giving
Cooper a last chante to escape the noose. lf
he would confess to the “truth” of.the Perth

.. Amboy robbery, he would be spared, they

promised.
Someone among the county officials was~

-:very anxious to pin this five-year-old crime on

Cooper, even though it was not the offense for
which he was sentenced. A witness to what
happened in that tense moment in the jail

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and placed his hand over her heart as
a matter of routine. He knew she
couldn’t possibly be alive.

Then: he turned to examine the
room. It wasa shambles. Drawers were
pulled opened, their contents scattered.
Gory splotches were splashed all over
—on the wallpaper, the door, even on
the ceiling! Those stains’ on the
ceiling told Gray that the woman had
waged a savage battle for her life. He
wondered how the other people living
in the building had failed to hear
the racket that must have accompanied
the struggle.

Gray entered the adjoining bedroom,
occupied by Bessie Kadesh. She was
sprawled across the bed also. Blood
covered her face and breasts, matted
her hair. She was dressed in a fancy
silk nightgown which was hiked up
around her abdomen, exposing her
lovely young body.

Gray pulled it down to cover her
nakedness and wondered if she had
been the victim of a sex crime.

Then he placed his hand over her
heart. For a moment he wasn’t cer-
tain whether he felt her heart beating
or his own pulse. He took a small
mirror from his pocket, held it against
her mouth. It was misted slightly.
The girl was still alive. That mist had
come from her breath.

Gray looked at Patrolman Platt,

“Harry,” he said, “get an ambulance
from Mulhenberg Hospital.”

Platt went to phone the hospital.
While he was gone Gray noted that the
furniture was overturned in the girl’s
room also. Bureau drawers and the
closet were open, their contents scat-
tered all over.

The ambulance arrived in ten min-
utes. So did County Physician Chris-
‘opher Brokaw.

Doctor Brokaw and the internes
‘rom the hospital lifted the girl’s still

. clotted
knew

form onto a stretcher. As they did so,
Gray gasped. Under her body was a
small screw-driver. It was an old one,
its black: handle nicked. The metal
shaft was bloodstained.

Gray was careful not to touch it
until Identification Expert Edward A.
Flynn would arrive to examine it for
finger-prints. ae

No sooner had he noticed the screw-
driver than he saw something else
sticking out from beneath the covers.
It was a piece of one-inch iron pipe
four feet in length. Half of it was
clean, the other half covered with

blood -and hairs. This Gray
must be the murder weapon.
The screw-driver had been used mere-
ly for the finishing touches.

Doctor Brokaw made a cursory ex-
amination of Mrs. Kadesh’s body prior
to its removal to the undertaker’s. She
had been bludgeoned about the head
and face but she had lived for several
hours after the fiend had finished his
work. This was revealed by the quan-
tities of blood that had flowed and
coagulated. It couldn’t have happened
had she died shortly after the attack.
Then, too, rigor mortis had not yet
set in.

BROKAW was definitely of the opin-
ion that she had been dead only a
few hours.

Hine “TH WT
vidi (en Hi

well prove fatal, understand, but the
gashes in her head are not as serious.”
Gray began to put things together.
The attack had Probably occurred Sat-
urday night or early Sunday morning.
That accounted for the Kadeshes not
being seen on Sunday. But what was
that Busher had: said about Mrs.
Kadesh phoning the mason on Sun-
day night?
Gray summoned Richard, the mason,
“Listen,” said Gray, to. whom the
shortest distance between ‘two facts is
a blunt question, “you claim Mrs.
Kadesh phoned you last night and the
doctor tells me she was probably un-
conscious or dead all day yesterday.
How do you account for that?”
Bewildered, the mason scratched his

head.
“I dunno,” he finally said. “All I
know she and said f’me t’be

here at eight ’clock.” :
“You talked to her yourself?”
“Oh, no! M’wife took th’ message. I
wasn’t home.”
“Where were you?”
“Visitin’ friends.”
“When’d you get home?”
“*Round midnight.”
“Who were you visiting? Where do
they live?”
Richard answered haltingly,
“And your wife gave you the més-
sage when you got home?”

“She was a super-woman,” he told He nodded.
Gray. “I knew her well. She had the “What’s your phone number?” Gray
strength of two men and it was that demanded.

that enabled her to live for
after this beating. Judging
from the quantity of blood, I’d say she
probably lived for at least 24 hours
after receiving these injuries.”

“And you think the daughter has
sige all that time, too, Doc?” Gray
as)

strength

so long

her wounds are not
mother’s. They may

“Yes, You see,
so terrible as her

Richard told him and he jotted it
down :

By this time, Gray had been joined
by Chief of Police Charles H. Flynn,

Detective Lieutenant Andrew J. Saf-
fron, and Identification Expert Flynn.
The Identification man
over everything in the house with black
and white powder in search of finger-
prints. He started with the screw-

began going

driver and the bloodstained

Meanwhile, Chief Flynn, Gray and
Saffron had discovered that the bath-
room window had been jimmied. They
decided that entrance had been effected
that way. But the bathroom didn’t con-
nect with the bedrooms. It led, in-
stead, to.a hallway that ran alongside
the two bedrooms and the sitting-
room. To reach the bathroom from
any of the other rooms it was neces-
sary to go into and through the hall-
way. :

THE position of the bathroom in Tela-
tion to the other rooms led them to
the conclusion that the killer was well
acquainted with the house. He or she
had undoubtedly known it was safe to
jimmy a window he couldn't. see
through. Otherwise, he probably would
have entered through a window lead-
ing into Mrs. Kadesh’s bedroom. The
condition of the bedclothes indicated
that she had already retired and that
she had gotten up to battle the mur-
derer, ~
The fact that Mrs. Kadesh had gone
to bed meant that one of the bedroom
windows must have. been open. Other
residents in the house told them that
Mrs. Kadesh had been a fresh air

fiend.

Why then, they asked, hadn’t the
killer entered through the bedroom
window?

There seemed to be but one answer:
Because he knew he might have at-
tracted attention that way and been
seen by the woman. The night had
been moonlit and bright. Mrs. Ka-
desh’s bed faced the window. Had she
opened her eyes or had she been
awake she could have seen a figure
coming through the window. The
bathroom offered the safest entrance.

But how did the killer know the
jimmying of the bathroom window

iron pipe. &

_ Supreme Court Roundup

States Able

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HHU.-S. Sup

Sawyer 's

RUS Supreme Court AelTed Texans —

execution of Kenner Granvief »,

6-3-F2 pending A AeCrtron ry Medina

to Assume Competenc

‘ByLINDAGREENHOUSE __|
: Special to The New York Times '

WASHINGTON, June 22 — The Su-'
preme Court ruled today that states’
may presume that criminal defendants:
are mentally competent to stand trial
and may require a‘*defendant to prove’
his incompetence.

_ By a 7-to-2 vote, the Court rejected a

,constitutional challenge to a California

law that has the effect of placing: the
burden of proof. on: the competency
question on the defendant.

A. convicted murderer. on Califor-
nia’s death row, who had failed to per-
suade a jury that he was too mentally
ill to stand trial, brought the challenge
and argued that the constitutional
guarantee of due process of law re-
quired the state to bear the burden of

‘proof on the question.

The California. Supreme Court re-
jected that argument in a 1990 ruling
that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s ma-
jority opinion upheld:today.

Lack of ‘Settled Tradition’ —

In addition to California, several oth-
er states, including Connecticut, as
well as Federal law, place the burden
of proof in competency proceedings on
the side seeking to show incompetence
— in nearly all cases, the defendant. In
New York and New Jersey, by con-
trast, the burden of proof is on the
prosecution. :

In his opinion today, Justice Kennedy
said that the lack of any “‘settled tradi-
tion’’ on the question showed that there
was no “fundamental” principle in-
volved. “‘Historical practice is proba-
tive of whether a procedural rule can
be characterized as fundamental,’’ he
said.

The constitutional guarantee of due
process should be interpreted narrowly:
in the context of criminal law and state
practices were entitled to “substantial
deference’’ from judges, Justice Ken-’
nedy said. He added: “The Bill of!
Rights speaks in explicit terms to!
many aspects of. criminal procedure,
and the expansion of those constitution-
al guarantees under the open-ended
rubric of the due process clause invites
undue interference with both consid-
ered legislative judgments and the
careful balance that the Constitution

‘| strikes between liberty and order.”’

Separate Opinion by 0’Connor

As has been the case in a number of-
decisions this term, the Court’s ap-
proach to this case disclosed a philo-
sophical split within the Court’s conser-
vative majority, not so much over out-
come but over approach.

Justice Kennedy’s opinion was
joined by four others: Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist and Justices By-

ron R. White, Antonin’Scalia and Clar-
ence Thomas. :

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor con-
curred in a separate opinion, which
Justice David H. Souter joined. They
disputed the majority’s heavy reliance
on history, and said the state’s defense
of its law should have been subject toa
more searching inquiry. |

“While I agree with the Court that
historical pedigree can give a pro-
cedural practice a presumption of con-
stitutionality, the presumption must
surely be rebuttable,” Justice O’Con-
nor said. She said the issue was wheth-
er placing the burden of proof on the
defendant was “fundamentally un-
fair,” a question that she said required
the Court to weigh the arguments care-
fully and not simply defer to the state.

Justice Harry A. Blackmun filed a
dissenting opinion, which Justice John
Paul Stevens joined. ‘“‘I do not believe a
Constitution that forbids the trial and
conviction of an incompetent person
tolerates the trial and conviction of a
person about whom the evidence of
competency is so equivocal and un-
clear,’’ Justice Blackmun said.

The defendant in this case, Teofilo
Medina, had a six-day competency
hearing at which some psychiatrists
testified that he was a schizophrenic
who was not competent to stand trial,
and others said he was malingering
and competent. After a jury found him
competent to stand trial, another jury
rejected his defense that he was insane
at the time of the crime, found him
guilty of three murders, and sentenced
him to death. The case was Medina v.
California, No. 90-8370. —
se

The four decisions the Court issued
today left it with 10 cases remaining to
be decided by the end of the term. The
Justices have scheduled Wednesday
and Friday for more decisions, and will
Carry the term into next week if the

Friday.
These were among the other devel-
opments today:

Habeas Corpus -

In its latest ruling on the ability of
state prisoners to challenge their con-
victions through petitions for writs of

| habeas corpus in Federal court, the

Court took a narrow view of the cir-
cumstances under which prisoners can
file more than one petition.

Previously, the Court had ruled that
the bar it has erected against multiple
petitions could be excused ‘on the
ground that there would otherwise be a
‘‘miscarriage of justice” in the case of

a prisoner who could demonstrate “‘ac-
tual innocence.” The question in the

THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY. IUNE 23, 1999

remaining cases are not decided by

C1Sien GOES GGAaIN y GresnvieL,

‘Case today, an appeal by a convicted
murderer on Louisiana’s death row,
was how that excuse should be applied
in death penalty cases in which the
prisoner asserts not that he is innocent;.
but that he was erroneously sentenced
to death. ~*

Lower Federal courts had adopted
‘different . interpretations. Under the
most generous standard, which the
Court rejected today,.a death row in¥
mate was permitted to argue in a sec
ond habeas corpus that the jury’s deci-
sion to impose a death sentence was
based on inaccurate information. .

The Court today, in a decision by:
Chief Justice Rehnquist, adopted an
approach used by other courts. The
Chief Justice said an.inmate should be
allowed to argue that he was “innocent?
of the death penalty” in the sense of:
having been. legally ineligible to re:
ceive a sentence of death. For example’:
an inmate might argue that there ‘was:
no “aggravating circumstance’ to the:
crime, making the crime one for which?
no death penalty was available under
State law.

The Court rejected the-Bush Admin-
istration’s argument, which no lower
court had accepted, under which no
inmate who could not demonstrate in-
nocence of the offense itself could be
permitted to file a second habeas cor-
Pus petition, ‘!

.The decision, Sawyer v. Whitle No
91-6382, upheld the approach used by:
the United States Court of Appeals for,
the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, in
turning down the inmate’s second hae.
beas corpus petition. Justices White,;
‘Scalia, Kennedy, Souter and Thomas:
joined the majority opinion. Justices,
Stevens, Blackmun and O’Connor vot-
ed for a broader interpretation of the.
“miscarriage of justice” excuse, but at:
the same time said that the inmate had

failed to meet that standard. — é
i

7
x

Alien Asylum

The Court agreed to hear the Bush

. Administration’s appeal from two low-
er court rulings under which some’
300,000 illegal aliens regained the right’
to apply for amnesty, leading to legal’
residency and eventual citizenship; un-
der the 1986 immigration law. The rul<>
ings by the United States Court of:
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San:
Francisco, were based on earlier find:,
ings that the I mmigration and Natural-,
ization Service had issued invalid regu-.
lations under the law, which had the’
effect of making hundreds of thousands,
of aliens who might have been eligible’
for amnesty to think they were ineligi- '
ble and so to miss the filing deadline. :-

The case is Barr v. Catholic Socialk> -
Services, No. 91-1826. a

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others were seriously
te. The two men had 100 sticks

. day night, was struck by a Mont-
| gomery bus operated by Harry John-
t gon, 56 Williams Av. Kiasky sustained
;@ possible fracture of the back and
| was taken to the City Hospital by Dr.
: Eagan of the hospital staff. He re-
| fused to make a complaint.
i Promehaghy dayy Shay Sage la
; Strange, o' ‘re! reau, was
fatalities WAS | sightiy injured on the left hip yester-
‘day when his motorcycle was struck.
at 46 West Side Av. by a Montgomery
bus 6 by Alfred Sica, & Fisk
w.. Was treated by Dr. Kagan.
be CMY Hospital, and remained on
ep PORRR 8° ;

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bration of many years, and yet re-
In Michigan, home of the sutomobile. | (Continued)

ie rtnrpak Mei | chutds, J. Fishet Anderson. E. Morgan |

; collectors Holland Tunnel:
Fire Chief Patrick Cooney,

died from fire-; John Prout, former County Clerk John! saw him. Rusnack simply hung hie!

brought

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ij that the

“POLICEMAN SLAIN

“ (Continued) |

Severa: men subdued the father and
to Folice Headquarters
along w the prisoner.

for more than six houre, with
ack holding to his original story
that he was not the man whom the po-’
MMe Was brought ti to tell ‘ot the
Rusneck had made,

and women were there to dec}
Scribe the fugitive: all were cham

that he was a man about’.5
inches tall\who wore a light suit and |
‘@ gray cap and weighed about }
| Pounds, Rusnack's description beyond | sought today to solve the slaying
/ a doubt, but still he stuck to his ste y.,@ man whoae oll-drenched body was |

that

Then began

Witness after wit:

fest, 6:
145 |

Breaks Down in Morgue

The police were about ready to let; ‘ es
pe bhsh to hls. hed tion, was identified by a scrap of pa

i re were enough witnesses
captain of tol] | against him to prove his gutit, when
Assistant it waa decided to take the prisoner to
James; the hospital to see Hanak and then
Radigan, county engineer; Dr. James) to the morgue, where Zendarski's — i

. Ha-
terhouse, nak Idetitified Rusnack as mee
Judge' who did the shooting as soon as he |

threes were. k by automo | J. McGovern, John Lewis, James Tu-; head byfa few minutes later, when;
bites, - drowned and 6 pea ; multy, foc ier eee chee - Peeper "he ag the body of the weer ate pa-:
. Ja Dat death, whil ut re_Chiefg John J. Sweeney ‘man he grew pale and, turning |
sone 200 Leth be net eT the Hand Siked ane ‘Murphy Pantity away sald he Wad rendy to tell
‘Palisades. Over 200 others suffered! Under Sheriff Joseph(B. Colford,Dr. the truth. He was brought back to
pine injuries from fireworks and) James Norton, Thomad Btanto! avid Police Headquarters, where he made a
automobile accidents. Peinbetg. president Fa ry Co; full confession of the shooting but
"te Newark Jennie Michalaky, 12, of ! and County Supervisor - O'Neil. maintain 1, and otill maintains, that
$6 Court Bt, was struck and killed: ERE the killing was @ceidental and that he
an automobile, and Marvin Major. | ° ibad merely tried to frighten Zendar-
-year-old Negro, was accidentally | Award ton , tei go that the latter would not hound
thot and killed by a pistol. Bome 50— fh him anymore.
ethers suffered minor: injuries from ! T 1] 4 ark asm’ Rusnack, in telling the circumstances
fireworks and automobile crashes. oO in KCTS that preceded the shooting, said that

Mise Lillian Jefferson, of 28 Valley
&t.. Montclair, was not expected to re-—
‘cover from a@ fractured skull. recetved

: A?)
5 ; bi Referee John C. Wegner of the Com-
when she fell but of an automobile.) | eneatiin Bureau, State Department

striking her head on the pavement. yf pabor, ordered awards as follows

\eaine eh aan aor rN at hear:ngs in his courtruom. 571 Jer-
ie]

OTe Get ah rae Na pe eaten ger ose

lided with a truck. Three others with peo oiiyn $2339 for injuries tu his lefts

bre injured. 7 shand- whe i the empley of Alian L.
, waliine along a narrow path Sic? Spooner and Son, Inc., Rept. 27. last.
the Palsades in Shadysi la and Pertine's hand was caught in @ eircu-
Bla 4, Se slipped lar saw and permanently disabied
plu p her dea _| Oscar West, 8 Arlington Boule-
& Ub arr, aged 4, of epee hie North Arlington, $1.050 for the
ville Aven, Freehold, was struc

“Jona of a left finger on Feb. 2 @her
if was cut off by a circular saw in.
‘the plant of Alexander Rose, builder, °
of Jersey City.

| atreenpréd
| There was only one

and killed: by an automobile as he
to croas the street.
fatality in At-

, out.”

he left his home at 9:30 p.m Satur-
day and went to the store of Henry
i Korin, 9? E. 22nd 8t., his usual “hang: | Milton Chapman. one of the.
\ White there, he was met by | huysen leaders in Hudao
‘John Tellman, 27, a sailor of the: cent

ot business. DOS was secre

aon ae Their reat was brief. They were, (83) Coun
New York Chapter of the Pre Chi | .

escorted to the roof of the hangar, , the auto}

Thet.. National Commerce Sorority. along with their brothers of the refuel- |» MrooMc
Mise Kukielski also attended St. | ing plane. The din on the field was survived
Lawrence University, where she Was | terrific; thousands of yells and mora! beth Dal
a member of the Kappa Delta Sorority, | thousands of automobile horns and) H@ was |
the Mummers Dramatic Society, an as- | frectackers. When hoarseness caused e fu
pociate co-editor of the “Hill Newe,”/a brief lapee, it. was announced the; home of
and & member of the Economics Club. | fliers would be taken to a. loop hotel! Monday
ae | for @ night of rest. De ung |
cas vous cts of, Slanked by motorcycle police, fol-, ken, anc
Seeeleh lowed by miles of cars, the fiers began | Name Ce

Co 4 thete march (of triumph. It .w SEER os
Peer; us ending. A motorcycle: p ye
: Slaying 4 ‘fell. off his mount: im excitemen Ai
© xv, ptt be waan't hur. te ry
. 2 SE“ Renheth had to borrow @ pair ol Pauline )

te ‘poy, trousers before he could remove bis was borr

Pel dunes cae Seain ne Pace ‘\ ol-spattered overalie; he had torn up’ this city
was one theory upon which police | § trouser leg for s wiping rag. Neither! was the
of had bathed since they left the earth at: She jg
. | 8:40 p. m. Wednesday afternoon, June | George |

, U—two unknown aviatora, who had j Funere
worked with brothers Albert and Wale! today. by
ter in @ coal mine to earn their first ing Fy
PANE ee 2k Cheeni
Kenneth showed the disappointment’! yew yo,
ef the forced ianding, but admitted ity : pean
would have been too perilous to stay ;.

found blazing in the Bronx. — . ot
The body, charred beyond recogni-

End poties yecords as thet of Men: ~
ry Brinkman, 88 years old, a taxicab
driver. He had been killed by a bul-

Jet through the head. The scrap. of | 5 ionger. ;
paper bore the name of a matron at @ } | Lo ted ie Come Dowel of A sates
moving picture theatre, yhere Brink- gee oe ~ | be celebt
man had toe his pasts” At the the-| "We had hoped to keep on until $0} for. Mes.
aire police learned fram the manager; morrow.’’ he said, "but when the ofl’ peiae)
Brinkman's name and addresa.. screen became clogged and the gauge? get’

His police record, which included@.| Quit. ‘the only thing to do was to) yyacn fp
aix arrests and one term in Elmita | come ttewn” oe Sa ary Ce
Pfhson, furnished the clue for .the | ‘The little old motor sure did mope yyi sy
Gradge. theery.. end. set. police. pthan we expected,” said Brother Jobn. | oy pene
for @ man fteleased from prison @ Ftc a fe Whe: Pope a ih WAS: aned sin
few days ago as the possible slayer, when’ we: went’ up: 3 pastas

It was the clogged fiter that sent [Ue |

the brothers low over the fields short- | |
ly before theig.descent, thinking they, ' Jerse
were short-ot oi} and urging an. im- ' the wife
mediate contact, The:"Big Ben’. went 0nd fe
aloft_at once, ai! was let down, poured | Levings.

the line, but ‘tt epurted on the: :
filers. ‘The motor waa near the burn’)
ing point and the plane did not. have: A’ hig!
Altitude enough to permit. tinkering. thi mort

Frelinghuyieh Workers
Honor Milton Chapman

Frelinghuysen Republicans now gut

, zak had left @ few minutes before and |
| Ruanack and Tellman, whom he had
; met for the first time, remained to
ithe place for severa)
‘midnight they etarted to go to @ place
: at 2nd St. and Avenue (, where th
‘thought they might find Mizak, bus
‘fore reaching there they stopped at |
_Qnother saloon, where Telitnan was. :
going to have a drink. “

hours. About

According to Rusnae®, both Zendar-

‘aki and Hanak weré in the aaloon at.

for Dwight W. Morrow last nigny fave
reling-

with the filter. ‘Catholic
n the re-

Fearing a crackup, the filers decided | Nacion
: to land. oe ot which
eparture on &| Both brothers were dead fur sleep, Name C
: to the North and | and showed it: reporters had to repeat: Mra}
kone for some time. | questions several times, but they City Ho
arranged the banquet. 1 aiked. ; F epallwen
irradi vatae: et “We didn't have @ chante’ to think, town. ee
about how we felt in the air,’ 1540. there us
said, ‘The radio was our only recte-) gre ji,
ation, Tomorrow at noon Vil be walk- | waiter
ing, but I have no other plans. until: guivan

| Waster.
Lit feels to have my feet on the ground | peother,

WOR Plea Is a } ‘ i But thetkosd night's sleep didn't de. |
Off to Fa igin early. Long after midnight-- ;

primary camp

i nd Forge.

| George, foray part of the itinerary of |

}
A and Mee Sherine ee i I get m good night's sleep and see how

as The te

antic City. Mise Esther Smith, 37. a: ; - e. eo. , Prospect Av. and 22nd St. and, upon} b bathed, barbered and dressed in com-
Herne in the Cooper Hospital, died Eiger re RA pearnens | Seeing Tellman ask for the drink, Zen- PO ee ; ae, i Again—the brothers were atlil up: patel
fof internal injuries sustained when finger on Dec. 21 last while he wae daraki shouted to. the sailor, "Get out, "lat B-banquet rushed on them by air- | he
‘the automobile in which she was rid- Garhi for the Ua Aduminunce ' you dirty bum.” Rusnaca and Tell-j - tApecial to The Jersey Journals --} port ant airline officials, sponsors of -Catholle
ing skidded and overturned. Witkin Wi i 436 Bramhall Ay. ; man left and continued on to Avenue! WASHINGTON, D. C.~-The applica- , the fight’ and friends...” oo eran hig
Edgar Doremus, 39. of 387 Courtlandt | ton rigs ss oe reer hand fever 1C to seek Mizak. Ruanack said that; tion of the Bamberger Broadcasting; jonny explained that in. the next! Survis
St, Clifton, was biinded and lost 7 “April Aa teat whilé he was in the ihe felt bady to think that Zendaraki; Service of Newark for permission to, qignt they make a tual oii acreen wi) | ¢rine |S
| three fingers tn the explosion of an old - a sa t reas Josesh Poctay Machine { would use such harsh language to a/ move-the transmitter of Station WOR? i ingtalied to. preven(-accidents like) Mra. M.
feannon which he was loading, and ig nd 3 The 4: He Wis caushtin & ;fhan who was wearing a U. BS. sailot’s|to a location in Morris County and to; ing: of yesterday. Ps oe Mra. Fr
“Welcome Williams who was helping | (00 18° ‘git wea caught in @ | Uniform and he just could not dismiss; increase the station's power from 5.- | - Ce Ce a OS al Scheer’
him, lost one exe and ore finger. ae ithe incident from his mind: As they | 000 to 50,000 waits was received by the: ee : Reet
| Homer Pennington. ®, of Philadel- ee " were walking back from Avenue C, | Federal Radio Commission today. hee SE ; Lik ees
iphia, drowned while swimming: in ; where they failed to find Mizak, Tell-, No action will be taken on the re-; ” ot Repvic
iCrystal Lake, Westmont, the only: Will id bat d ;man left him at 22nd St. and Avenue quest until the commussion retu:ns; ne Sue tagay ite | Thowne
‘drowning reported for the entire state. — iis ro e ! E, while he went to his own home. from ite Summer receas with the cpen-; emer ak an
Nee. Carrie G. Seip. 36. of East 15th- ; Broods Over “Insult'’ ne of eu At var sae tea wah: iis : os (Continued), tas ot Catholic
| n 7 wt ‘ he i @ appiication will eae anaes ee hee ‘ .
Hedaiee bk tha’ eet 4 Mine Haceel The will of Elizabeth Muir, who died’ He said that the Zendagski remark L pariuiy those -who oppose the request Fes . Huffamith. 40 miles, pata
}{ fracture of the ‘hip, an ‘tn Jersey City, Feb. 19, leat, names to Tellman kept recurring to him andie, o. 15 th ueet | yesterday over Huffamith. 40 miles tery. |
| Williams of New York received seriour ¥ ity, Fe 3 ‘ { \t6 voice thelr views to the commis- thweat: of { Houston< Lt, “Wee Ro] He“
; 4 five othere were tn. t*° sons, Taylor Muir and William J.) when he got into the house he got his | 9’. Jee nee T “ C. M. Bros ve their’) month's
‘iacerations, and if o ele Muir, 282 Pacific Av., executors. revolver from under hie pillow, stuck Turnbull and C. M.. Brown dg S 4 CPetist.
| Jured, none seriously, when two care © 1 catate t@ left equally’ to the ex- | itjnto his pocket and wext back to the. Bag 0 gmcoreninis in mr .* | position aa over Richards in @ direct pital,
collidod in Burlington. ‘ecutore and a daughter of testatrix, | commer of 22nd St. and Prospect Av.,, Mrs. orton Plans sp lttte from Houston to Datlas, 2 and
Four persons were shghtly injured i) wary A Bloomsburg, 284 Pa-. Where he had last seen the officers. « “4 MPhe 15 competitors seeking @ place | 30 year
fe) @ Crash between two cars in Hos- ; | As he reached about half way up the, “on the American team in the Bennett| is aurv

cifin
elle, driven by Fenton Keenan, 21, of | ‘ AV.

126 Weat 2nd Av. Roselle, and we rt en ee
)| Minnig Reid of 3) Dayton St,

Mrs :
Ehza- oe e
beh 11 Die in English
Most of the tueeth and citiea in the ;
state reporied™ minor intur.es due to
Greworks of automotiie, but none cf
them were serious.

Chernical Plant Blast

Republic Loses os
Propeller, Late

CASTLEFORD. Eng. U® -Police
~and workmen today searched the ruins
of the Hicksons and Parsons chemical
; Worka fur other bodies to add to those

of eleven personé taken from the
-debrig after an explosion yesterday.
More than 20 badly injured persona

i “were taken to the hoepital here. . = |
|| HAMBURG, Germany, U)—The sore than 500 persons as @ result of

United States Line steamship Republic, «the expicaion, ‘whose cause wes hol
due here tomorrow, will be a day late determined, were homeless. The blast
ng port owing to the loss of &. was felt in towns ten miles away.
pre-~"ler biade at sea. The Republic! Lense smoke, fumes and norious

\eding with one engine, accord-' pases filled the air about the jaa’,
__fetie aéviee from her master Sfter the explosiod and hindered.
oa eo eb wert 0 rescuers.

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charged: He then took it on the run/| resting and
and went atraight to his home and to/ campaign.

block between hia home and the cor- |
imer, he said, he saw the two officers;
_ecome out of the corner saloon and it |
looked to him as if they we.c going ta

; rush him. He took mo chances, he |!
said, and he thought he would try to, is back in her home in Jersey Cit
“bulldoze” Zendarski by flashing his! With the exception of @ short vaca-
‘revolver and fring on the ground.
|. He drew the gun and did not cease shore resorts, aw
firing until the six shetls were d:s-. pians to spend the Bummer at’ home

bed. He could not sleep, he said, as

the shooting was on his mind and! paign for re-election in the 12th Dis-
when the officers came to hia house he ; triet. where Dougiae D. 1. Story is. her
was wide awake even though he had! Republican opponent, Mrs. Norton will

been in bed an hour.
_ Cop-Gangeter Feud
The police, in ¢hecking up on his
story, find that Rusneck told the truth
about having met Tellman by accident

and of trying t

help the latter find
G6 mot tell of the
hiswosts

For 3 Campaigns ' Gordon international cup race, drifted ; Taylor,
ba ah og | away between 6:0¢ and 7.20 p.m. (eat, was a :

5 aay poy ; vos > bnightowith a veteran left behind. 96.) No. 42)
«+ Representative Mary © T. Norton... H:E. Honeywell, 30 years a come)... >
‘through. with her Washington duties, } petitor in balloon. races, withdrew |.
hafter one of his shipe was disabled | |:
by ‘an envelope tear, An army bai- |.

ernest eng

‘tion period at one of the New Jersey’ loon. offered him earlier was. with-( 7"
i the Congresawoman | drawn. Mrs. E. H. Brown of. Evans- on
{ville, Ind., was to have been his.aide.)
making plans for the Fall a & t | errr cad ana ye
Besides attending to ber own cam-' Obtains Mortgage = ('t".*
me Rae tat en se. so cs i i j alaters.
7 Quinn”

Emma Ruger. has. secured & first | phitade
mortgage of $5,000 on the brownstone.

prapezty located at 163 7th St.. Hobo-
ken. The property ts a one-family on
&@ plotage of 15 feet wide by a 100 feet

‘i foan was negotiated through the
mertgage Gepariment ef Mutter,

also plan for regional women's rallies
iin the Fall to aid U. 8. Senate Candi-
‘dates Alexander Simpson and Thelma
_ Parkinson, running for the long term
i and abort term respectively, |

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Doe esac ne : =. < Leraged by a gmall group drawn from
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Len altitude between 880 and 1,200 fest, | the regular Republican leadership, anc
and the wind’s velocity, L. F. Dain- | of Senator Reed, Republican, Penn- ;
J gerfiel4, Federa) meterologist, said the |Syivanis, and Robinson of Arkansas,

vanguard of- the “airmada” would the Democratic leader, both of whom
drift-ever the Dallas-Fort Worth area | Were delegates to the London confer-

early today. ence. :
One entrant, identified as 8. A. U. In advance of the struggie, the is-; first she will have to face a charge of

Resmuseen of the Genera! Electric of | sues are clearly defined and the voting
Cleveland, was sighted apparently in | alignment fairly definite. The one un-
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The .primary objective of the lat-

(Continued on Last Page, ‘This Section) | ter's strategy is to be delay.

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ASHINGTON. U)—A grim, des Ge I

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5 BALLOONS IN ee against the ratification of the London } ‘0-8 atop St Mth st
“hs Cana ge naval treaty will begin on Monday in}

JOB BA

At. the bidding of President Hoover,
the members of that branch of Con-

and. brought him

ee auf fornia tnd Moses of New Hampenire, |
“HOUSTON. (#)—Wafted by a light | vigorous debaters Both. ees reac <
breese, 15 giant hydrogen-filled bage| By @ strange twist of circumstance, |.
cgrrying entrants in the nationg!] the brunt of the battle for ratification
eiimination balleon race moved slowly | Will be borne by a Democrat, Swanson
northwest today from their take-off at | of Virginia, . the ranking . minority
Houston late yesterday. member of the foreign relations and

-A promise that her job> would be by
: waiting for her when she. recovers was’ by Fj
4 obtained by the husband of Mrs. Helen: The
Gillighan, 2%, of 240 Sip Av., from her: i
employar who, when he heard that the Leito
young wife had attempted suicide be- ' Police
cause she was dismissed, declared tt
wa all @ mistake and that she could:
have her old position back again. Bat*

attempting suicide.

Returning to his home Friday after- :
noon at 3, Daniel Gillighan, 36, found
fying at an altitude of 150/ tion of ratification can be brought to‘ his wife lying unconscious on the filoos.;

18 miles northwest of {| vote. : lof Mhe-kitchen while gas Sewed from .
Houston. The pilot shouted. to spec- Sponsors of the treaty predict the ae

He sumoned poiice, who in turn call-
ed Deputy Chief Patrick Daly and the book
Efficient work with a: char
puimotor soon revived her suffic
to permit her removal to

rescue squad

expectedly Into the Picture and Announces
= Hearing at Court House. :

Next Tuesday night in the Hudson , up to County Supervisor O'Neill and
County Court House there will be a | the Board of Freeholders.
public hearing on the Journa! Square Beard Netice
Bridge underground passageway prob- | The notice sent out by the North
lem.

: | Jersey Transit Commission reads:
da ase under ogg smaeminge oy ring S “Upon the in * County Su-
a; rvisor Jobn F. O'Neill of Hudson

: county, North

County Supervisor John F. O'Neil will | Commission wi} hold ealseh Rolie
rol eg and probably state his Be the Hi nboon aay oer howe
uesday evening. July 8, on the ques-
County and Pennsylvania Railroad (tion of additional exits and entrances

and the civil organizations that are / };
ri , ee et renee and Manhattan tubes. Jersey

North Jersey Transit Commission Crashes U ee

x {Special to The Jersey Journa:
WASHINGTON — Expenditure
$300,000 fel eenstruction of quarters for
officers an@ non-commissioned officers Tet)
at Fort Monmouth. 3. J.. has been 8 |
hich have : doc
passed. both SSiGuses of Con- hae
iia, which are now
President Hoover for fina! signet:
do not appropriate the money.
merely authorize

officials have been invited to attend |.) she Journ.! Rinaroalatinn ot che

its appropriation |
Congress will have to provide the etd
funds tn subsequent tegisiation. 1
As the bills passed the House they S:
carried only §245,000 for work at Fort Mi
Monmouth, but the Benate added $145.- | of
$00. to the Rem ‘tec olives queries, |

unéerground passageway will also be} «when tne Journal Square viaduct
oa bend to urge action. was built. pr~ © -- ~~: —-4e for sta-

Some surprise was expressed that | tion exits and entrance ir the bridge,
on both sides of the Hudson Boule

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reason why she should try to take her: whis
fife, but a neighbor told a reporter that terd
ashe had confided to her that she was colo.
despondent. because of the loss of a off
position as secretary to a Wail St., dam
The position paid her $65 a:
week, and she despaired of obtaining
! another job egually as good, :

A close watch was being kept on the ‘Co
young wife in the hospital because as’. _
i poon as she regained consciousness she |
lwowed she would try again at the first
Gillghan ts emploved as

a driver for a Jersey City bakery.

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Supreme Court turns down
appeal by death-row inmate

By BILL WALSH
and BRUCE ALPERT
Staff writers

Thirteen years after the grisly
murder of an Avondale woman,
the U.S. Supreme Court Monday
unanimously rejected the appeal
of death-row inmate Robert W.
Sawyer.

The court also sent a warning

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to federal judges to grant appeals
only sparingly to prisoners who
have made repeated appearances

in federal court to appeal their .

cases.

The decision appears to extend
the court’s growing string of
opinions making it more difficult

were convicted in the Sept. 29,
1979, murder of 23-year-old

Frances Arwood, who was baby-
sitting in Gretna for children be-
longing to Sawyer’s girlfriend. ,

. In a drunken rampage, the two.
men beat and kicked Arwood,
poured scalding water and coffee

for death row inmates to appeal

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repeatedly.

Sawyer, 41, and Charles Lane

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lived-in a coma for two
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. got the death penalty.

grounds on her body, doused her

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Death row appeal _
is rejected by court

Appeal —

with lighter fluid and

Lane was sentenced
to life in prison. Sawyer .

Sawyer’s attorneys claimed

that jurors never heard key evi- ‘

' Sawyer

“I’m pleased with the
Supreme Court deci-

_ sion,” Pendergast said.
_' “Every judge I have
ever been before on this
case has called it one of
the most heinous tor-
ture crimes that has
ever been before them.”

Should Sawyer be
given a new execution
date, his case will again

-.be reviewed by the state pardon

board. Sawyer’s attorney said he

dence about his brain injury and , hopes ‘to have better-luck per-
mental retardation. They told the. +’ suading Gov.’ Edwatds to com-

state pardon board last Novem:
ber that Sawyer had an IQ of 68°
— compared to a normal IQ of
100 — and suffered from a brain
deficiency that made it difficult
for him to control rage.

The board voted 3-2 to com-.
mute Sawyer’s sentence to life in
prison, but then-Gov. Buddy -

Roemer rejected that recommen- .

dation.

“It has been so hard on the:
family,” said Virginia Smith, 68, >
the victim’s mother. “I think the.
Supreme Court has done’ the
right thing. They (the courts)
have been so generous in letting

ended.”
She said death is the “right
penalty” for such a “heinous

_ crime.”

Dorothy A. Pendergast, assis-
tant Jefferson Parish district at-
torney, said Sawyer will have 25
days to apply for a rehearing, and
if it is, as expected, denied, the
district court could set a date for
his execution.

‘mute the death sentence than he

did with Roemer."|. «:, |

“When he was governor before,
. he took all death row cases very

seriously,” said Nicholas Trenti-

- costa of the Loyola. University
Death Penalty Resource Center.

’ Sawyer has been given execu-
-tion dates seven times, and was
‘to be the first Louisiana prisoner

executéd by lethal injection be-
_fore the Supreme Court stepped

‘ in Nov. 15, just hours before he
' ‘was scheduled to die.
this go on, and it’s‘time it

The issue raised by Sawyer’s

“case was the standard that fed-

eral judges should use in granting
. hearings to prisoners whose ini-

‘tial rounds of appeals in federal

court have failed.

Previous: court rulings said
that repeated appeals should be
rejected unless there is a “show-
ing of actual innocence.”

noved un-
hadows of
) fashion-
uburb of
at 10:45
of Tues-
ipproached
red brick
prominent
leader in
Glancing
tree-lined

d up on the

yuse at the
> twent\
ral official

who held an engineering post at the RCA-Victor Manufac-
turing Company in Camden. At the sound ’of the bell,
young Dobbins flung open the door and stood facing an
indistinct figure on the other side of the screen door, which
was latched.

“Yes?” he: inquired pleasantly.

“Stick ‘em up!" came thé rasping words. Without mov-
ing, Dobbins lowered his eyes and noticed a revolver in
the hand of the figure.

Dobbins thought fast, as he slowly raised his hands. Then
he began to back away. It was a fatal move. Three bul-
lets plowed through the mesh of the screen door in rapid
succession, and as Dobbins bent over and grasped his left
side he heard the sound of retreating footsteps.

The victim looked at the hand with which he had grasped
his side. It was stained crimson. Gritting his teeth, he
slowly made his way to the telephone in the living-room.

He dialed Police Headquarters and said: ‘This is Curt
Dobbins calling. Please hurry over to two forty-one Mount-
well Avenue. I have been shot.”

In a few minutes Patrolmen Harry A. Githens and Wil-
liam Meader forced open the screen door and walked into
the brightly illuminated Dobbins home. They found Curt,
as the shooting victim was popularly known, lying on a
divan in the living-room. Dark splotches were on the pale
green slip cover of the divan and on the rug. Dobbins’ face
was contorted in anguish, but he was still in full possession
of his faculties. He told the policemen: “Some dark-haired,
tall fellow came to the door and told me to put my hands
up. He shot me without warning and then ran off. | don't
know who he was or why he did it. You'd better get me
to the hospital.”

“An ambulance from the West Jersey Homeopathic will
be here any minute, Mr. Dobbins,” said Patrolman Githens

36 Master

While awaiting the arrival of the ambulance, Dobbins in-
formed the patrolman that, not long before the shooting, he
had arrived home alone after spending an evening playing
handball at the Camden Y. M. C. A. He had been staying
alone in the big. house during the week days of the summer
months, joining his father and mother tor week-ends at
their summer home in Ocean City.

H¢4t& an hour later Curt Dobbins, at death’s door from
an internal hemorrhage, lay on an operating table in the
hospital. A .38 caliber slug had caught him in the left side,
just above the thigh, taken a downward course and punc-
tured both the large and small intestines. Death, even if
delayed, was certain.

The shooting scene was soon alive with peace enforcement
officials. Chief William Start of the ‘'addonfield Police,
County Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando, Chief of County
Detectives Lawrence T. Doran and County Detective James
J. Mulligan, arrived. :

Three holes in the upper part of the screen door told
what had happened. Two of the shots had gone wild.
One had plowed into the inner door and another had em-
bedded itself in a book-rack near by. Retrieved, the bul-
lets proved to have come from a .38 caliber weapon.

None of the neighbors had seen the figure in the shadows.
Marvin A. Wolfe, who lived directly across the street from
the Dobbins residence, had rushed to his front door after
hearing the shots. For a moment he saw nothing in the
murky, tree-lined thoroughfare. Then suddenly an auto-
mobile darted out of the shadows near the Dobbins home
and, rapidly picking up speed, traveled away without lights.
The headlights of another car, coming in the opposite direc-
tion, enabled Wolfe to catch
a fleeting glimpse of the dis-
appearing vehicle.

“Did you get the license
number?” asked Prosecutor
Orlando.

“No,” said Wolfe. “But |
noticed that the car was
green.”

“What type of car was it
—sedan, touring or coupé?”

“It seemed to be a sedan.”

“Did it look like a new car
or an old one?”

“1 couldn’t say, judging
from the appearance, but
from the sound of the mo-
tor, I’d say it was an old
car. The motor sputtered
and coughed as the car sped
away and the gears made
quite a noise when they were
shifted.”

Other neighbors told stories
similar to Wolfe’s. None of
them had noticed the arrival
of the mystery car. Several
had seen the machine driving
away, lights out, but no one
had obtained the _ license
number. Some agreed with
Wolfe that it had been green.
Others insisted that it had
been black, or gray. On one
point, however, all the wit-
nesses agreed—a motor that sputtered and coughed, and
gears which, when meshed, caused a loud, grinding sound.

All through the night, while Curt Dobbins lay dying in
the hospital, the officers delved into his and his father’s past
to find some sign-post that might give an explanation of
the shooting.

The elder Dobbins had spent years in aiding the rehabili-
tation of criminals. Earnest and sincere in his work, he
was happiest in his unsung réle of benefactor of many un-
fortunates.

It was his duty, however, to be stern on occasion. At
times he had no alternative but to return to prison some
probationer who had violated the faith placed in him.

Prosecutor Orlando, haggard from being up all night, sat

Detective

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Death rang the doorbell of
this house in Haddonfield,
N. J. Arrow indicates the
steps up which crept the
skulking killer—bent on
murder! Three shots rang
out as the unsuspecting oc-
cupant answered the fatal
ring

(Left) Hon. Frank F. Neutze,
co-author of this thrilling
story, who pronounced the
death sentence upon the noc-
turnal slayer of the popular
young engineer

(Right) Captain William A.
Jones, New York ballistics ex-
pert, examines the death bul-
let, while Prosecutor Samuel
Orlando of Camden County,
N. J., who questioned the sus-
pected killer, looks on

in his office as dawn streaked the east, talking to Chief of
Detectives Doran.

“I’m wondering, Larry,” he said, “if some disgruntled ex-
convict, whom Dobbins was about to send back to prison,
might not have gone to the house, intending to shoot the
father, and shot the son by mistake.”

“It’s entirely possible, Sam,” answered the astute Doran.
“but I think it’s improbable. I know Edgar Dobbins. He's
below medium height, while his son is above medium
height—well above it. Not only that, the son is. slim,
while the father has taken on some weight with middle age.
Whoever stood at that screen door last night had a good
look at Curt Dobbins and couldn't possibly have mistaken
him for his father.”

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“But the

“| see your point, Larry,” answered Orlando.
thought occurs to me that the motive for the crime could
still be revenge on the elder Dobbins by getting the father

through the son, do you see?”

“Yes,” answered Doran. “That’s a possibility; but I
wonder if the strike at the RCA-Victor plant had anything
to do with itr”

The plant in question, one of Camden’s leading industries,
had a short time before the shooting, been torn with indus-
trial strife. Rival unions had been battling for supremacy
among the workers and a strike had been called.

The labor disturbance was now over and apparently
everything was peaceful on the surface. But Orlando and
Horan realized that such troubles engender hatreds. Had

Curt Dobbins taken one side or another in the strike, and
had he thereby incurred enmity that led to the shooting?

It was later in the day, after Doran’s men had really had
the opportunity to question those who knew Curt Dobbins
best that they got a real slant on the victim’s unusual char-
acter. And this only added more mystery than ever to
what might be behind the crime.

Curt Dobbins turned out to be one of the most popular
figures who had ever met doom at the hands of a murderer.
From all sides, the investigators were told by Curt’s closest
friends that the young engineer not only didn’t have an
enemy in the world, but that they knew of no one who was
held in higher esteem by men, women and children in all
walks of life.

The young man was a handsome figure, his tall, strong
body glowing with health. The girls thought of him as an
Adonis, though none of his friends could recall his ever hav-
ing a date with a girl.

It hardly seeme poy that Curt Dobbins’ private life
would yield the clue to the mystery solution.

Prosecutor Orlando and Chief of Detectives Doran mulled
over the possibility that robbery had been behind the
shooting. Had someone, who knew Dobbins was alone in
the house and who had planned a stick-up, suddenly become
panicky, fired the shots and then fled in terror?

County Detectives Joseph Bennie, James Wrenn and
Elmer Mathis, in fine-tooth-combing the neighborhood of
the crime, learned that early on the afternoon of the pre-
vious day a man generally described as tall, dark, about
twenty-five years old and wearing neither hat nor jacket,
had applied to owners of homes on Mountwwell Avenue for
odd-job work.

No one had hired the man,
and no one had ever seen him
before. The fact that he was
tall and dark—the two items of
description that Dobbins had
given about his assailant—im-
pressed Doran enough to have
the detectives return to the
neighborhood with rogues’ gal-
lery pictures to be perused by
those who had seen the
stranger.

TWENTY-FOUR hours after

the shooting, with Curt
Dobbins still clinging tenac-
iously to life, all theories of the
crime had ended because of
lack of evidence.

The victim’s father disclosed
that he had not, for consider-
able time, recommended re-im-
prisonment of any parole vio-
lator, so that a grudge motive
was improbable.

Dobbins, questioned at the

hospital, could add nothing to
what he had told the police-
men the night he was shot. The
stranger had not asked to be
let into the house; had said
nothing more than “Stick ’em
up!” and shot when Dobbins
backed away.
No finger-prints or footprints
were found at the crime scene. Probers searched in vain
for a telltale tire print of the criminal’s car. The vehicle
obviously being an old one, it was likely that the tires were
well worn.

Orlando and Doran returned to the Dobbins home and
took careful note of the height of the bullet holes in the
screen door. They had men of various sizes stand in front
of the door and hold guns in a position natural for firing.
They concluded that the criminal had, as Dobbins had de-
scribed him, been quite tall, possibly over six feet.

The usual check was made in garages in Camden Coun-
ty, in New Jersey points near by and in Philadelphia, which
lies just across the Delaware River from Camden. The
word was out that the police wanted a man with dark hair,

FRANK F. NEUTZE
Court of Common Pleas
Camden County, New Jersey
As told to ALBERT E. BRAGER

Patrolman Harry Githens of
Haddonfield, N. J., points to
bullet holes made in the screen
door of the murder house when
death flamed from the phan-
tom’s gun. “He shot me with-
out warning,” said Curtis *
Dobbins (right), the fatally
wounded victim, as he de-
scribed his mysterious assailant

SKULKING figure moved un-
evenly through the shadows of
Mountwel]l Avenue in fashion-
able Haddonfield, suburb of
Camden, New Jersey, at 10:45
o'clock on the sweltering night of Tues-
day, August I!th, 1936. It approached
Number 241—the handsome red_ brick
dwelling of Edgar Y. Dobbins, prominent
Federal parole officer and leader in
church, civic and social circles. Glancing
hastily up and down the quiet, tree-lined
thoroughfare, the figure tiptoed up on the
porch and rang the doorbell.
The lone occupant of the house at the
time was Curtis W. Dobbins, twenty-
eight-vear-old son of the Federal official

hy oe (Le Lec CYS :

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fired blindly at Curt Dobbins. As for
the time element at the tavern, a
number cf witnesses were found who
had seen Stephan and Della Starck
at the place; both were drinking. Some
said they had seen the couple leave
about 10 Pp. m., others insisted both
had remained there until midnight.

HEADQUARTERS

DETECTIVE

tell, then, just how long she had been
dead.

She was removed to Bozeman for
further examination. While willing
officers searched for the death
weapon, Westlake examined the
scene and talked with the sheep-
herder who had discovered the body.

“Buzzards led me to it,” Carlson
said. “I’m by here every day or so
but I didn’t see it before. No, there
hasn't been any cars through here.
That old road leads into a pasture.
There aren’t three cars on it in a
month. I’ve no idea how the body
got here, or when.” ‘

The weapon was not found, though
the search continued until darkness
forced them to abandon it. The po-
lice did find a splotch of blood on a
stone a few feet from where the body
had lain. Was it the instrument of
death? They took it to town on that
chance but Coroner Kippen shook
his head.

“She was killed with a hammer,”
he asserted. “The killer must have
struck a dozen times and any one of
the blows would have been fatal.
We've established now that death
occurred the night she disappeared.
She must have known the man who
did it. There’s no sign of any strug-
gle. No bloodstains in the car. Evi-
dently he persuaded her to get out
for some reason, killed her and
dumped her body by the river. Our
work is finished, Westlake.”

None of the ranchers gathered at
the scene had noticed a maroon
sedan in the neighborhood. There
were no discernible tire tracks. Driv-
ing to town through the late dusk
Westlake and Workman considered
their meager bits of information.

“T’ve got a description of the man
who called at the hotel to see Mrs.
Wake,” the deputy. said. . “He’s
around 40, medium size and height,
and was wearing rough clothes.”

“That lets the nephew out, though
I never really suspected him.” West-
lake was remembering the jewelry
Miller said the slain woman had al-
ways worn. A pair of small diamond
ear screws had remained in place but
the ring was gone from her finger.

“It was robbery,” he said grimly.
“There can’t be any other motive.
Someone knew she was free with her
money and usually carried plenty of
it with her. He worked on her sym-
pathy and killed her. The big ques-
tion now is, was he alone or did he
have two helpers?”

“It shouldn’t take three men to
kill one elderly woman,” Workman
objected.

_ “Three men were in it in some
way. Maybe they had a rendezvous
at some point within 12 miles of

Two days later Stephan confessed
shooting Curtis W. Dobbins. Then,
on October 5th, 1936, he went on trial
for murder before Judge Frank F.
Neutze in the Court of Common
Pleas. A defense that he was too
drunk to recall the events of the night
of the 11th, however, proved too

HEADQUARTERS DETECTIVE 59

wobbly for the jurymen and Stephan
was found guilty. Judge Neutze then
imposed the mandatory sentence of
death in the electric chair.

(Note: The name Della Starck is
fictitious in order to prevent embar-
rassing an innocent person.)

MONTANA’S FIENDISH INGRATE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19

Three Forks. Whether it was the
spot where she was found or some
other, I still believe we'll find our
lead inside that 12-mile circle. How’s
your search coming?”

“Not so good,’ Workman = said
gloomily. “I’m not through, though.
There are several more roads. I’ve

talked to every rancher and farmer
I could find as far as I’ve gone and
drawn a blank every time.”

“Keep looking,” his chief advised.

“T’ll go over to Butte again. I dropped
some leads there in the press of
other things. Maybe I can pick them
up.”
They paused before Workman’s
home. Westlake was preparing to
drive on when a paper containing a
name and telephone number was
handed him. Instead of calling the
number he went back to the Bresslan
filling station.

“I’m glad you came,” Harold Bress-
lan said. “I heard what happened
and got to wondering whether I told
you about the man who was with
Mrs. Wake the other night.”

The sheriff shook his head.

“I was afraid I hadn’t,” the night
attendant continued regretfully. “I
didn’t think about it at the time. She
often had somebody with her. Some-
one she was giving a lift or helping in
some way. I looked in the gas tank,
told her they had enough and they
went on. Around midnight the man
came back alone. I supposed he had
taken her home or maybe she was
sending him on an errand for he
bought a dollar’s worth of gas, as
though he only meant to use the car
for a little while. I didn’t talk to
him. Just gave him what he wanted
and he left.”

“Which direction did he come from?
Where did he go?” Westlake de-
manded.

“I didn’t notice him come in. He
went west from here, on Highway No.
10.”

“What was he like?
know him again?”

“I might. I didn’t get a good look
at him. His face was in the shadow.
It seems now that he kept it that way
purposely, though I didn’t think about
it at the time, of course. I’d say he
was around 35, or a little older. He
was thin-faced and not a very big
man. He had on a light shirt.”

Would you

or thereabouts. Or were they the

same man? Indefinite as the atten-
dant had been, Westlake left the sta-
tion with the feeling that he had
finally succeeded in picking up a lead-
ing thread. By seven o’clock the
following morning he was on the
road to Butte. He learned at the police

A\'or there medium sized man of 40

station that the Harris trail had been
picked up—and lost—again.

“We're pretty sure he’s your killer,”
Duggan said. ‘The description tallies.
Age. Size. Harris is around five feet,
eight inches tall. He was wearing a
light shirt and overall trousers. We
haven’t found the taxicab yet, but
we have found where he checked in
at a local hotel. That was Friday
morning, probably right after he put
the car in the shop. He left the hotel
that night about six. Checked out
and we’ve no further trace of him.
Our men are still working on it.”

“No report from Washington yet?”

“Not yet. The sheriff was asking for
you,” Duggan continued. “I told him
you'd probably be over today and he
said to tell you to come to his office.
It’s something about a suitcase. It
might be the one Harris took out of
the car.” ’

Hopefully, Westlake hurried to the
courthouse. The suitcase had been
abandoned in the back yard of a city
home. An examination of its contents
proved disappointing. There was
nothing in it to connect it with either
Mrs. Wake or the elusive Harris.

“It’s likely the one stolen out of
a tourist’s car here a few nights ago,”
Sheriff McLeod said. “I wasn’t too
hopeful but there was a chance that
it might help you. What do you do
now, Westlake? What can we do?”

“Nothing, at the moment, except
to keep an eye and ear to the ground
for C. A. Harris. I’ve an idea that
name is phony, but it’s something to
go on. I’m going back to South
Arizona Street to finish what I started
the other day.

Resuming his inquiries in the neigh-
borhood of the 500 block he found
within the hour what appeared to be
a definite lead. A night watchman
had seen three men enter a nearby
cafe at an early hour on Friday
morning. He sought the cafe and
again luck was with him. The clerk
remembered.

“Those fellows came in here about
3:30. I noticed them because the
place was empty at the time.”

“Was one of them dressed in work-
man’s clothing?”

“Yes. He’s the one that bought
the drinks. Then he gave the others
some money. I got the idea, from
what they said, that they had helped
him in some car trouble and he was
paying them off.”

Westlake was relieved. If this was
the case it meant that the murder was
a one-man job after all and the other
two were probably strangers whom
the killer had flagged on the high-
way. Spurred on by this informa-
tion, the sheriff spent the entire day
with Butte County and city officers,

NAN Elia, DONavenuula,

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| Secret of the

ELATIVES had decided to call in
R the police if Bonaventura Nardello,

the handsome young carpenter who
had been missing from his home for more
than 24 hours, did not turn up by sun-
down of the next day.

That decision was made by the missing
man’s beautiful young wife Lucia and a
relative to whom the girl had gone the
day before with the tale of her husband's
recent strange behavior.

“Ben's not been himself for days,” she
said, referring to her husband by his
nickname. “He acted strangely even be-
fore we brought the children here and
asked you to keep them until this thing
which is overshadowing our lives has
passed,” the woman had explained on
Friday when she called at the relative’s
home, a few blocks from her own home
in Paterson, N, J.

The man to whom the distraught
woman now. turned remembered the
strange air of tenseness, the abject fear
that had haunted the dark eyes of Ben
Nardello. when he and his wife had
brought the children to him the week be-
fore, But even under tactful questioning
Nardello had declined to reveal any hint
of what was troubling him.

And now Mrs. Nardello reported that
her husband had walked out of their
home early on the afternoon before and
had not returned, Sometime during the
following night there had been sounds
at the back of the house they occupied
on Mill street and she had arisen, in-
tending to see what was wrong. But
after throwing a robe about her shoulders
and making her silent way on slippered
fect to the room which Nardello occupied,
she had seen no light beneath the door,
heard no sound from within.

1 BONAVENTURA NARDELLO
came in during the night hours after
her own retirement, he had also managed
to slip away without his wife catching
an actual glimpse of him.

The next morning she had gone again
to her husband’s room only to find it
empty. The bed, however, appeared to

have been slept in recently, and the bureau -

drawers were pulled out and partly
emptied. On the floor near the bed Lucia
Nardello had discovered a long butcher
knife which she had never seen in or
about the house before.

By HAL WHITE

That was all—no note of farewell, no
indication of a scuffle or other clue to the
presence of the person or persons who
had occupied the room on the night
before.

So it was that on Friday afternoon
Mrs. Nardello went to visit her chil-
dren and the relative with whom they
were staying and after once more dis-
cussing the young carpenter’s strange
behavior of the past few weeks, it was
decided between them to call in the aus
thorities on the following night if Nar-
dello did not return and explain his
conduct.

It was agreed that the relative was to
call for Mrs. Nardello at the Mill street
house at 6 o'clock the following day. Then,
if there was still no news of the missing
man, the two of them would go together
to the police.

The unstirring August air lay hot and
oppressive over the tightly shuttered
house in Mill street as the puzzled rela-
tive, approached the ancient frame build-
ing that Saturday evening, Aug. 2, 1930.

“Phat’s funny,” the nan muttered his
thoughts aloud, “The house appears to he
locked.”

He was wondering if Lucia Nardello,
too, had been suddenly stricken with the
unnamed, haunting fear that had come
over her husband recently, Tt never oc-
curred to him then that she might have
forgotten their appointment and gone off
after securing the doors and windows.

But a few minutes later that assump-
tion appeared to be the only conclusion
to be drawn after repeated knocking
failed to arouse any response from within
the unpainted old dwelling.

Making a tour of the outside of the
house, the man discovered an unlocked
kitchen window. He sought out a neigh-
borhood youngster and boosted him
through the opening, instructing him to
unlatch the front door from within. Then
hee went to the homes of neighbors to
learn if anyone had seen the woman that
afternoon.

When he returned without having
gained any information, he was admitted
through the front door and along with the
youth made his way through the living
quarters calling for both Ben and Lucia.
There was no reply and a thorough search
of the house failed to reveal any trace
of either the woman or her husband.

As the man and boy left they were

SE./FEAR

approached by a neighbor who informed
them that neither Nardello nor his wife
had been seen around the place during the
daylight hours for nearly a week. Trades-
men had been seen to call at the house,
however, and were admitted, so the neigh-
bor had come to the conclusion that some-
one must have been occupying the ground
floor rooms. .

“Did they keep the place shuttered up
like this all week ?” asked the man.

Informed that such was the case, the
relative decided to return to his own home
on the chance that Lucia Nardello might
show up there after all. Obviously, she
too had been hiding from something, He
remembered that during her daily visits
to the children she had always appeared
at his own home after dark. Perhaps,
after all, there was some reasonable ex-
planation for her failure to meet them
this afternoon—it was still light outside.
Then, there was the chance she had re-
ceived word and gone to meet her missing
husband.

UT Saturday night passed with no

news from either Ben Nardello or
his wife. Once more the man returned
to the house on Mill street ; and once more
he rang the doorbell repeatedly without
receiving any response.

He determined to waste no more time.
At 10 0’clock he was communicating with
the police department over the telephone
of a neighbor, and less than half an hour
later Capt. John Murphy of the detec-
tive bureau arrived and questioned the
man at length.

With the missing carpenter’s relative
the detective captain made a cursory ex-
amination of the family’s living quarters
after learning that the man had found
things in the house just as they had been
on his visit of the previous day.

It was exactly 11:15 Sunday morning
when Capt. Murphy left for headquar-
ters to make a detailed report to the bu-
reau of missing persons.

At 11:48 the telephone in the detective
bureau rang and Sergt. Charles Pirolo
picked up the receiver to hear an excited
woman’s voice utter the following words:

“Go to the Nardello home—the bodies
are there !’

Before Sergt. Pirolo had an oppor-
tunity to reply he heard the click of a re-
placed receiver at the other end of the

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line. An immediate call was put through
to the operator, but all the detective could
learn was that a call had been made from
a public telephone in a downtown drug
store.

Five minutes later Detectives James
Brooks and John Herman, along with
Reserve Officers Arnold and Paul Kear-
ney, were on their way to the Mill street
house. Capt. Murphy, meanwhile, had
just completed filling out his report for
the missing persons bureau, and it was
not until nearly an hour later that he
learned of the telephone call regarding
the house he had left only a short time
before.

Detectives Brooks and Herman arrived
at the Mill street address to find the house
deserted, but it was a matter of but a few
moments to force an entrance. Meanwhile,
the two reserve officers were questioning
the neighbors, to learn that a police offi-
cer had been seen leaving the house earlier
that day. The Kearneys learned, also,
that the Nardello family had not been seen
about the place for a week or more, al-
though the missing man’s relatives had
been making enquiries about him in the
vicinity.

Starting on the ground floor of the
house, where the kitchen, bathroom and
bed chambers were situated, Detectives
Brooks and Herman made a thorough
search of the family’s living quarters but
found nothing to arouse their suspicions
or substantiate the strange message re-
ceived by Sergt. Rirolo. It was nearing
2 o'clock by the time they entered the
basement and both officers had about
reached the conclusion that the call was
the work of some crank when Detective
Brooks suddenly stepped back and uttered
a cry of alarm as he was about to enter a
small room in which coal and wood were
stored.

Before him on the grimy floor Brooks
saw a pool of reddish-black substance
which he recognized at once as blood
mixed with dirt and coal dust. Nearby
he saw a bloodstained haseball bat, an ax
and a coal shovel.

TEPPING carefully around these ob-

jects the officer edged his way toward
a stack of carelessly piled firewood at the
far end of the dimly lighted room. The
next moment the beam of his flashlight
picked out what appeared to be a pair of
human legs extending from the side of
the pile.

Closer examination proved that thev
were the legs of a woman who had heen
dead for some time. and without further
investigation the detective turned and
went back to where his partner was exam-
ining the blood-splattered objects in the
middle of the gloomy chamber,

“Get the captain here right away.
John,” he instructed the other rapidly.
“Better have him bring the medical officer
along, too.” :

A few minutes later Capt. Murphy, who
was later to become chief of police as a
result of his work in this case, arrived
with Sergt. Pirolo and a police physician.
Tt required but a few minutes to remove
the coal and broken firewood that cov-

ered the body, but when that task was fin-
ished the veteran police officers turned
away at the sight which confronted them
that afternoon in the semi-darkness of the
old cellar room under Mill street.

The body was hardly recognizable as
that of a human being. It was nearly two
hours before positive identification could
be made through fingerprint comparisons
and dental analysis.

Lucia Nardello, the police physician
determined, had met sudden and violent
death at least 24 hours before. The base-
ball bat, ax and shovel had all been em-
ployed by the person or persons who had
committed the deed.

An immediate autopsy was ordered to

determine as nearly as possible the exact
hour of death.

Police photographers and fingerprint
men covered every inch of the room and
the murder weapons were removed to the
technical laboratories, while Capt. Mur-
phy started an investigation to learn
everything possible of the slain woman’s
movements for the past weck. Meanwhile,
officers of the missing persons bureau
were urged to intensify their search for
the missing man in the belief that he, too,
might have been a victim of the maniacal
slayer,

That belief was strengthened after de-
tectives found traces of human blood in
the ground floor bathroom, and laboratory

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QUILLER, Sylvester, black, hanged

nae OINTIBW. SERSEY, 25 82 0004 sy
EXECUTION OF SYLVESTER QUILLER AT ELIZA-
nye, tos BETH—HIS C CN rat

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OSS oy. Socamia Biome oso: 3 ne ag
The exccution of Sylvoster Quiller (colored) for the mur+
der of Firmer (also colored}, took at Elizabeth, N. J.,.
laat week, not on the traditional Friday, but on a Thureday..”
The crime for which he wae hanged must be fémiliar'to
our readers, but: we may briefly outline it. en
_ Last pring, there lived at a place callod Westfield, eight:
miles from Elizabeth, Quiller and his wife. Addicted ta...
drink, he became roduccd in circumatances.: Formorly bo -
: resided in confortable quarters, but owing to his quarrel’.
| aonte disposition, he and hie wife had to ga live in @ barn, :,
with two roums, dccupied by a colored man, named George.’
: Firmor, and-his wife.. Ono room was given ap by Firmer-:-”.
’ to Quiller, and the two families lived together in com: i
tive peace from April to June, when s quarrel arose abous.*
the.occupancy of one roomie Bate ee da te
eins, Ve a SUES CRIME wr es ts eo
The quarrel continued at intervals for a. week, when, on’ ~
Saturday morning, the sth of June, at siz o'clock, tho quare'.:’
rel broke ont afrosh, and it came to blows.” Both mon were
. in‘ liquor at the time, and Firmer, though an older meee -
twentydive years,’ got the beat.of his nent. or”
then wont on bade sil apartments, and put some of hia
furniture into the barnyard, at the same time daring ‘Fir- |.
mcr to. com ont to fight Lim,” A brother-in-law of | SRY
| advised him tolot the matter end hore, sa bloodshed would *
| be the inevitable result. But he heeded not this advice,.
and went into the house of a Mr. Hatficld, who resided in.
| the ‘neighborbood, from. whom be: borrowed @ fowling-
picce for the avowed purpose of shooting a skunk, which |
infested his garden. Firmer wae also excited with drink. |:
Having been called on t» come out by Quiller, he stepped
into the yard,. No.eooner had be done so than er
raised the gun to his bead, and without a word of w eee
racy bis pppunent thangs the body. Death wes
Justantancons, the shot aring parac: ‘oug @ reste
taaring them into shreds and srutilating the heart. 74 :
September Quiller was tried and convicted, and sentenced... :
Since the Hhtence was pronounted, Quiller wae freoly vie~
ited by clergymen of his own race and the Rev. Mr, Ches-
ter, a white clorgyinan of the Presbyterian Church, + | ;
‘ i FRELIMINARILH, Bs ay
At half-past cight o'clock, Mary, tho wife of thé culprit, ©
called tu take Jeave of her basband, iller went to the
end of the corridor tu greet her, and the ceaple went to- :
gethor tothe stove, whero they eat down, and, for au hour »’
an;! a half, prayed and talked together... be
At'10 o'clock , Quillor knelt down, and, with her hus:
band, prayed for some aroes aud quite ¢oolly re-’
marked, ‘“Nvh, I better leave.” ‘You bad
better leave,” the hueband, ** before tha crowd comes. *
1am crossing the chilly waves of Jordan before now, and
Jouus is on the other aide waiting forme.” A kiss,a shake ,
of the handg, and the last interview between Quiller and his

zabeth, Nd, 11-14-1867.

niece o! con=

c her & laat good-bye. ‘ Tho niece, a
mulatto girl, was quito firm, and locked sith ecurione ches:
at the ate Bhe falked a fow minutes to het uncle, but,’

neither showed any signs of emotion.: :
~~ Srolock the ethan raat the eul-

prit Z “Weh 3
came, ¢ have come, Sylvester, to’ sce wheth :
codon ah ea nee setae
) sah, coat on the table i

hall, and ing into his cell, the pinioning sas_goss
through » be prisoner &F f

At 12 o'clock the procession reached the gallows; and.
aftcr. the culprit had been placod under the rope, the
Sheriff read the death warrant, and in rep! whethe rr he
lad enything to say, Quiller made the follow Dg.
ws < a athe behassre! 7 at alae
- My frionds t This is the fraite of strong drink, and yon.’
who stand by and indulgo in it, take heed ema is a
which I have caused myself. There are, no doubt many
among'you who expect to heafa confeasion from me. Ob.
nol they are inistaken, for I haye none to make. Imado | .
my conicesion to God. I am a sinner, but fam ready and |’
willing to. go to. my God and my Rodeemer, Jesus, who haa,
spilted his precious. bloud for me. He is now waiting for... .
He at the. pither side of the: stals waves of Jerdan.-Ob;——
Heavenly Father, give me atreng : irit
in willing the fice ea wea ‘i. ped though jibe a
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Paid the Awful P enalty of the Law

ROPE BROKE ANI

4 GROUND, BUTWIHE BEERCT (OF THE
SECUTION WAS.NO TF, |
HHS LAST HOURS ON

At four minutes before | 10
' o'clock | this | morning , Frank
Rasinger was swung ‘into eter
PAG! fil" AM ih he Ra
At five minutes past ten the
physicians’: pronounced him
dead. ‘Two minutes) later the
| lifeless body was cut down.
/) Eleven ‘minutes ftom! the
‘time the wife murderer ascend.
(ed the scaffold it was all over
and the final chapter of the
tragedy. was! begun; | but in
ithose. eleven’ ‘minutes some.
thing happened, ‘which ‘made
ithe execution even more grew-
, 80me than jit. would ordinarily
) have beén and caused strong
_{men to gasp and’ ejaculate ‘in
noertn Ri # HER AE Fila,
‘When the trap was sprung:
the body pitched’ downward
-;heavily and rebounded slight-
i ly, then the“rope! broke at the
‘upper crossbeam to which it
| Was attached and the body fell
with a thud ‘to the ground,
Stretched. out at full length. |
It all occurred in an instant.
It was a horrible spectacle.
“Grab the rope}?’ cried some
one, ie

ered

) BODY WAS PITCHED. TOO THE

NTEREERED WITH, ---

EARTH.

Several officers ‘ran to the
top of the scaffold and seized
the rope; others took hold of
the body ‘and it was raised
again into a hanging position.
There was a convulsive move.
ment by which the legs were
raised and slightly bowed but
that was all.

It looked awful: it Wald aw-
ful; but so fa

) » had no effect.
e result of
might ha

unable to
account for the breaking of the.
rope, which hed been’: tested
and was supposed to be fully

A pate need cant j

supposed to, have | become
weakened! .
through the cross | bar) |The
prisoner) wasi\a fairly heavy

man and the fall with its’ sud.

den and heavy termination was
a tremendous|strain upon it, |
| Officer Tumey, of. Vineland,
was the first one to seize the
rope after’ it broke; Officers
Nickerson and Ayars and oth.
ers promptly assisted.)
_ |The scenes of the Job Will.
lams execution were. largely
repeated this morning, with
\two exceptions in’ addition to
the unfortunate | ‘occurrence
above alluded|to. | Instead of
the’ dampness and. drizsle of
the former occasion ‘a light
snow was falling this morning
and it was bitter'cold for the’
‘spectators. | Again, Rasinger
attempted no Speech from the

gallows.) 0) &

where it passed,

‘he prisoner walked from
the jail to the galiows, over the
icy patches in the gallows en-
closure, with remarkably firm
tread. His face bore a reso-
lute, rather. pleasant expres-
sion. He had promised to go
bravely to his fate and he kept
his word. | His head was bare
and his black hair was neatly.
brushed. He wore a dark blue -
serge suit, in which even the.

‘trousers were creased, and ‘a.

pair of neatly-blacked -shoes.|

‘His appearance as he was es-
‘corted to the gallows, with his

hands ironed bahind him, was

decidedly favorable, and it is

safe to say thafY from every

heart in the t g went out a
wave of pity for \Whis young, ,
athletic-appearingand healthy

looking young ‘man, despite
the blackest of crimes charged

against him and for which he’
must forfeit, his life as the aw-

ful penalty.

Say what you will, be his’
record what it may—his most

bitter accuser could but feel!
sorrow and pity at such a’

time.

‘Constables Ayars and Simp-
kins, who have been his day
and night watchers and thus
saw much of him during his
last hours, ascended the scaf-
fold . with Sheriff Diament.
Rey. Dr. Stultz and Rev, J: H
Boswell, af this city, and Rev

S. B.: Wheeler, of Marlboro.

sean

: Counselor George, Councilman Bause-
}-wein was asked why he had select-

the Democratic majority to talk
sbout votiag on an economical pro-

“I thought Koenemund was the
most accessible because he wasn't
controlied by Mayor Hague and
Mayor Kane like the others.’ Bause-
wein answered. : sehr
“Asked if he could cite instances
where Mayor Hague had shown any
control of the Democratic“inembers
of the cit, Bausewem said he
onty that the Democrats had
settled their differences once in
Hague's office. :

Further testimony wil) be
3:30 next Monday.

Movement to Organize
Co-operative Farmers.

“WASHINGTON. (: — Chairmas .
Stone today reviewed the twu-yecr |
life of the Farm Koard and:foind ;
satisfaction in the growing dedirs of!
by organizing. ;
This, he felt. was the outstanding ;
achievement of the board © bria{ ‘us- |

Ws “atnred = ly marketing “ana
t clubs. greater returns for members 8% on *
__ gud . Councilman | operatives. 2 j
its, told that two; He said the board's chief objeciive {

in the next vear is to afford greater |
assistance in setting up these riu‘ta’

spread through expand:ng the fiaco- :
ing of coopermive printipies
Practical results. :

_Two ago today.
after ?

became law, authorizing a $o.00m,- |
000 revolving fund, eigh: board m-r.- !
bers, with Alexander Legge

a moth:

Jeans of miflions=

2d Koenemund as the member of.

taken at

FARM BOARD HEAD.
|RAPS ‘SHORT’ SALES

‘See ‘Plot to Embarrass |

_for whom he was caddy.ng.
;aseociations. The doctrine @ii] be.

agricultural marketing av *rorpantorn- Stictrae? fee

Bs , Catinny
chairmen, began their task. Ever j struck a ra:!road track. Ropert Peter.
since the board has been the cea_-r;60n, 72. Wharton. a brakeman, &
of a controversy revolving around para'yzed from the wast :
the competition of these coo;era- | C.
é for tmeir {was thrown

x 2

Two persons were dead in New
Jersey today and a church at. Stan-
ton, N. J., was destroyed by fire as
;the result. of yesterday's ‘electrical
;storm, .during which «they . were
struck by tightning. and other casu-

state as the wors! electrica! storm in

iycars swept the Eastern. States.

ten by Samuei K- Pesrson, U.S. €
i

'operatice Weather Observer. wai

i eontinued warm tojay and tomorrew, !
-with httle possibility of local storie. {
there is no sea breeze, Mr. ;

: Providing
' Pearson said, the temperature w.!i
gO above 90 degrees today and to

BOLT OF LIGHTNING
: - BIPS CORSET FROM
: BODY OF GIRL, 19
. POTTSTOWN, Pa. UP)—Miss
Florence Leiberman, 19. was re-
covermg today from 9 burns
ceived iast night When a. corsst
sith steel ribs was torn from her
body. by_aboit.of lgbtaing.
Miss Leibermann was knocked
about the felt side She was
struck as she jeaned out @ wir
dow at her home :

re-

>
4
morrow. which js above norma! for
this time of the vear, but does nut.

break any records. : :
Jersey City escaped much of the
etorm's Serocity vesterday, which.

secetiored hai stones throughuu:: Leo Seen ape fi
Westfield. Plainfield and other in:and‘ase:stant town clerk of West New ; honest and en
; ‘our government ‘officials,

sections of the state, and caused
conaiderabie damage by lightning .

Witham Lake, 27. Pine Brook, was
killed by a bolt of lghtning whi:e
(ub Links, East Hanover Township.
Teo men. Roy Schaefer, Catdwett, -
and Ferd:nand Dress. Morris Plains,
were
Sunned. i -

At Perth Amboy, A! Gilmore. 31°
frowned tn Staten Isiand Scund when.
he fei! in the water in hes hase to.
leave a rowdaal in which be and a;
. Careret. +
Traced to shore to beat the storm.

Three persons were injured at Pi-_
Arsena] when hghtnong |

Rowe, WS. Wharton Conductor. :

to tee” grousd and
a bee Dover.

alties ‘were seported throughout ie |

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ne
b.

ed to investigate the validity of

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| Associated Prese Photo
i William Ougan, 28, of Philadet-
:phia, was unconscious nine hours {
_and believed dead after he appar
‘ently had drowned ta Laurel Lake,
iN. J. Doctors, however, revived

phim. He said hie “nine-hour”. death

{

Hiservice department of the New Jer-:
Hisey Texpayers’ Association, | declare

'
}

‘yand Appeals...

z mental

E Members of North Hudson Kiwanis |
Club yesterday heard James G. Hos-
tutler, secretary of the organization jjcases. 2.
Mr. Seabury
that in the matter of taxation New
Jersey is nearing es situation not un-

paring the situation here with Ger-
imany's present crisis. :

place among the 48 states in its per:

eaid Vausc had
fsed ta produce cocuments. .
“Heip in the investigation of the
Board of Standards
like a@ bank run, the speaker com- ‘came from federal authorities, who
1 ‘ordered Dr, Witham F. Doyle, now
i out on bail on income tax charges,
He said that New Jersey is in fifth | to appear in Federal Court today. -
This allows Mr. Seabury to sub-

“

. Samuel. Seabury, the” pommittee’s
counsel, “announced © that. former
County Judge W.) Bernard - Vause,
> } pow sppealimg a conviction for mai!
*\ jtraud. had offered to testif7 what
"<. Phe knew. of the department of docks.
“<-> Wause,- aa attorney. for privates
shipping interests had been instru-
in’. obtaining pier leases.
Charles H. Tuttle when federal at-
torney charged Vause with splitting
as much as © $250,000 fees with po-
liticaliy important ‘men_in obtaining

a om-

and Appeals

capita cost of government and that © poena Doyle” for questioning about

ithere are 19 states which pay more
than the average Yor their respective
governments, but yet pay Jess than
this state ee

‘rulings.

e :

this condition, 2.700 industries em- ! hearings.

this practice before the board in ap-
! pealing building and fire department |
Dovie has
‘very if in Deal, N. J.. and unable

been reported

He explained that. as-a reault of | to attend te legisiat:ve investigation

ploying some 100,000 wage earners:

Industrial Conference. He said fur- {

i wae just oblivion, ey

PSS aed if once: Hite

‘SWANWICK TAKES —

NEWWN

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‘Resigns as Assistant Town -‘ectiy or indirect!y helps to pay the :

Clerk to Become Public
Safety Aide.

SBanwick's new position wil bring
him an increase in saiary of
a@ year. as the job pass & Gy He
will have the add:tionsi protection '
of tenure of office --~ | ae

The commigaten vesterday was in-
farmed by “Town Clerk Swensen that |
he ad reveived @ petition bearing:
“435 signatures of persons who pro- .
teat aga:nst the increase in salaries ;

‘

Swensen “as order- |
the |
Bhat _

to themseives.

a a rr

i “Waste More Tran draft’

‘troubled to vote either ves or no on

ther that many responsible employers :
here had told him that men they had:
brought here from Brooklyn had re-: -
turned there, saving they. could hve
fa. oa Dyt 80° per

In conclusion Mr. Hostutler said”
“Everybody out of jail either di-'

taxes.

“High taxes are the result of. TRENTON

: He
wis” feneren 7 several mninutes
eral. | nied hour Th

{ the same thoughtless aitifude
persists as was shown by New Jer-:
sey citizens Jast Fall when on!y one
out of e

Ecorse Ms Sore RUSNAK DIES FOR
“BAYONNE KILLING staveors

Seer emeye Execation--Deleyed-as ~He--
7 Bids Nine Death House --
Inmates Good-Bye. se

(e
waste rather than graft. Iam quite — nak, 24. Bayonne. died ino the eiec-
_ jwure that this federal government of (-.¢ chair last night for. the murder.
, ours could not have stood #0 firmly | of S:aniey Zendarski, Bayonne
for 130 yeafs if the majority of its jeman. July 4. 1900. ;

S_ Swanwick, who had deen ‘officials had not been honorable. | web executed at

-¢hurch he attended i his youth i
Rusnak shot Zendarsk: and Edwars
Hanak. another officer

very two voters who -stoad , emptied to capture

) -Joffeph J. Rus

pea

o clock. Q

York for more than 14 years, started | ( 1928. $SRO.00r- i973 g3e0.NNO-
today in the new position of chief ‘to 'ae. aambean nie heat while bid nine Inmates 1m | 1942. $430.00), 1943, $450 000.1944 $460,000.
cierk of the Department of Public | new firehouse, town hall, or schoo! | {D¢-Ar#in house Taresell He was s947, $510,000. 1948, $500.00 “1949, San Aun.
vend -wssistant +e Director fand then the rest of us pay for J:-* page o tbe pentane aman ES $610,000, 1953, $630.000 194 $65N.AN0--
Frank E. Effert. Swanwick sent bis , Questions that should always 4 aa tev $ ouis Gu ; 4. ee et. $720,000. 1958. STeN-ONMN- «1999. $778 O@-
resignation from the old post to the eq regarding that for which budget ;CUePiMe. and one guard He Bad ise) gesy nov 1962 SRA.) 1964 $910.09
meeting of the Town Commtssron ' allowance if Beng Bre. “Do we The ond carly evening with Fatheg, ~ S@id bonds.will bear interes: at. the rat
yesterday and it was accepted. He need? it~ ‘Is cost nght? and. eta e Hip es ; at er payable semi-agnual?y on the first dass of J
; Was immediate! reappoinied to his can we it. or should we get: 2¥ 1 an e : Lane mesial teats The priiohiel url weiereat (een wt
berth. talon Thout it for a time” »Adzgima. pastor of the Bavonne :

Hanak at-
Rusnax after

in the poll booth with pena tn nang++e Jatter hile Zendarski 5 fron}

me Ravonne saloon

Rusnak ac-

the $190 000.000 b@Md issue. then our (28ed the policeman of “nGunding

state debt will go on increasing unt) 7:7
we shal] have plenty of trouble

“One of our communities here is

the case
ency.

derstand there are 15 to 20 more
communities that are vrrtualiv so,

> The Court of Errors and Appeais'
upheld the death sentence, and tne

that the commusioner recent!y voted -now bankrupt,” he said, “and I un- ourt of Pardons which conaidered
: jast Tuesday. denied ciem-

Pree ee Sa. ae Seen

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:
ee

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“a
y in its tnp-
vestigation’ of: the Department ~ of 7
Dotks and the Board of Standards

and

1A. M., Eastern Stapdard Time, at the offic

a THURSDAY, JULY
pe-+ for

| jasue of 199), dated July 1, 1951. and maturin

ecution was Gelay- | $560 000:

;MECHANICS NATIONAL BANK, TRENTO

Viaducts,

“Church was her excuse and fea end ts
her purpose when Mrs. Florence | of mi
Miele, 829 37th St.. Woodcliff, formed | ened ¢
the habit of “going out” every Mon- oe Hs
day. evening, her: husband, Michael
Miele, 812 Bloomfield St, :
“He made an unsuccces‘e? attempt | Viti
to defeat her. alimony petition befere |
Vice. Chancellor James F, Fielder).
yeaterday. The court awarded the | child
wife $10 a week and directed Miele: “jazz
to pay her jawyer. John P. Nugent, @: ean st
preliminary counse] fee of $3. “) the om
Mrs. Miele is suing for separate: insist
maintenance, charging cruelty and: pe x
abandonment. She says he used vile | home.

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= Pere

Spl gene ige ap ne pars enn eee Ee
: Toy tendi
the contract. for the work at the Umon
meeting of the Board of Freeholders | ¢¥er

i at =
, wervi

Thursday and the State Highway
Commission has ratified it. :
Large cranes and steamshove!s got
into operation yesterday morning a1d
the work of ,rading began. :
West New York boundary line to th:
Efforts will be made to have the:
road ready for traffic Nov. 1 when -
, the new Fort Lee Bridge is expect-
ied to be ready -

The new road will be 40 feet wide |
“two miles long. I! will coat’

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EW JERSEY
3'2 PER CENT. HIGHW?

Sealed proposals will he received by ti

; Treasury. State Capitol, Trenton. N.-J.,

the purchase of $29 600.0%) Highway Img

383 to 1966. inclusive. as foiiows.

The above bonds are issued for the purpe
struction. improvement, recunstructicn "and
underpasses cvrrpasacs ant ap
way. and tn pev the pubic share of Lie cost
crossings, in the Improvement rt sere tres
share of the cost of eliminating MG
other than State nighwavs

These bonds are a direct chogacen
the faith and credit of the Stare is poedeed f
thereon as the same sha.i become Jue ard
at maturity i :

Bonds wil} be coupon cn form

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VOL. LXIV—NO. 54 JOURNAL SQUARE 6 3°) 2 SATURDAY EVENING, JULY, 1930.05 0 0

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“Aic/57 Drowned Listed in Ne-| ‘10th Amen

tion’s Annual Toll of Fourth; 5 oaick Fu. Pearse of M
of July Holiday- who served as secretary to Gc

Making. and until recently was couns/
Passaic Valley Sewerage Ba

ee ae 7 ‘| pro” SIX FATALITIES ARE. |i Dat kumroey.
— eect IN DEPARTMENT 3 im yo| RECORDED IN N. J.| "ners 8 Amendeene

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iOKED BY THICK SMOKE

2 Set Off Near Open Win-
dow of Negro Lodging House
|, Suspected as Cause.

Phree Negroes lost their lives and
2 Negro women were badly in-
od, just. before 10:30 last evening

hen. fire swept the hallway of a

lodging house at 41 Put-

m Avenue, Brooklyn, cutting off
pescspe oF those on. the upper
we) e building was tenanted

tclusively N : :
ho ving Ae 4 thelr lives were

bn. Curtis, 36 years old, occupant
: @ room on the top floor; James
Imnson,. 85, of 1,190 Fulton Street.
poklyn, and David McBride of 78
on Avenue, Brooklyn, who
visiting him. ‘They were over-
me by the thick smoke and. al-
jough the flames did not reach
om. efforts to revive them were

ers, landlady of

in her room

floor when

ped from

© window. to the re yard and
s taken to the Jewish: Hospital
sriously injured.
f 275 Bridge Street, who was visit-
he on the floor, was also badly
art by: jumping from. a window.
in mee ere to the. Kings County
"The fire apparently started in the
bwer hallway of the house and had
lained considerable headway before
-° was discovered by ‘Patrolman
harles Daly of the Classon Avenue
ation. When he broke in the door
he hall was filled with flames which
ad spread to the upper floors. -
‘Other residents of the house man-

) tie

rhadsa.
by.

he rear windows. When the
speratus arrived all were out of the
uilding except the trio who lost
heir, lives. ae DAG
Deputy Chief Garrett Langdon, who
rived with the first apparatus, sent
m @.second
ire was brought under control. -.
j ; Marshal Thomas. Brophy
had been setting off firecrackers
hear an open basement window in
he Eeuey just. before the fire was
Hiscovered. ae eis

"EIN AUTO DROWN

GOING TO AID OTHERS
sir Car Follows Another Over
ank of Quebec River—Five
| Swim to Safety. ss ie

MURRAY BAY, Que., July 4 )—

ening to the scene of an acci-
ent.{n which an automobile. plunged
Ay ane

embankment into the Murray
reslparerpa catia gen! mae

Sarah Holmes, 26, Cc

to. scramble to. safety parouel {,.
re

alarm. The building was |
|, however, before the |

from. neighbors’ that children |.

| struck:

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BA-UONEIUL DUAID

BAYONNE POLICEMAN
Wounds Another . After “They

Order Him to Move On—
Confesses After Arrest. .

SAILOR HELD AS WITNESS

Man Who Served in Sing Sing and
Elmira Ends Fancied Feud
After Making Threat.

Spectat to The New York Times. .
BAYONNE,.N. J., July 4.—An ex-
convict who fancied that he was
persecuted by the Bayonne. police
settled his imaginary feud early to-

en
by Joseph Rusnak, 24
ars old, who has served time in
ing Sing.and Elmira, according to
Bayonne. police officials. After the
shooting, which oceurred-at Twen
second and Prospect Streets,
ran to his. home at 207 Avenue F,
where he was arrested several hours
later. After questioning at Police
Headquarters he aianes a confession,
the police say, mit that. he
had killed Policeman Zen and
wounded his fellow-officer because
“he had it in for Zendarski.”
Rusnak was char, with murder
and will have a hearing Monda:
monn before Recorder William J.
n. ™ bs
John Tellman of 74 West Sixth
Street, a sailor, was arrested as a
material witness. Although Tellman
was not a witness to the actual
shooting, the police say he had been
with Rusnak: until a few minutes
before it occurred. he va
Police: officials said that Zendar-
ski’s trouble with Rusnak started
ten months ago when Rusnak reap-
peared in en tema after serving ©
term in Sing Sing for burglary r
a conviction in New York. Pre-
viously Rusnak had served a year
in Elmira for a hold-up in Jamaica,

say. He also charged that the
were ing to ‘‘frame him.””.
Shortly after 1. A.. Zendarski
and Hanak encountered Rusnak and
Tellman. The sailor, acco to
the police, had been drinking. Zen-
darski and Hanak ordéred the sailor
to go home. . When he refused, the
policemen seized him and started him
on his way. Rusnak, too, was: told
to move on. He separated from the
the sailor and walked away.
: ane policemen -were at the corner
seve minutes later when Rusnak.
returned. He carried
fired six shots without warning. Two
of the bullets struck Zendarski, one
entering his left side. He dropped
to the sidewalk. . Another bullet
Hanak in the right ankle. He
fell, but before he’ could draw
istol Rusnak fled. A p pansing motor
st placed the wounded policemen in
his car and drove to onne Hospi-
tal.’ Policeman Zendarski died with-
in twenty minutes. - remain
t.the hospital after treatment. -
« Detec found >. Rusnak’s:

a revolver and

unnoticed.

cng
ae sa

old: enemy, recently
prison, also was being i

Stolen Auto Linked to Crime,

A stolen automobile which may
have been used by. Brinkman’s mur-
derers, was found a few hours after
his body was discovered in 149th
Street near the East River. In it

Morris
ik sealant

= ne eighboring cugnt yard. of
mn the n
the New York Central Railroad make
so-much noise, fr
even a pistol shot might have gone

It was 5:40
Fae, a ee eer ogre an he. Was
on its. “pyre as he:
leaving the tenement house at- 906
East 141st Street on his way to work..

‘Forty-five. minutes earlier, ‘Mrs.|
Anna Frederick,

who lives om. the
und floor of the tenement house,
noticed the blaze-across the
street but had thought it was a bon-
fire of rubbish. Pea
Zinkler, however, notified the
police. Police. Commissioner Mul-
rooney, Assistant’ Chief . tor
John J. Sullivan and: Inspector Henry
Bruckman went to the scene. The
heat ‘of the flames had cracked the
curbstone.. The body of the 200-pound
man was charred, but the absence of

soot in. his lungs indicated rags he|.. —

had been murdered ‘ore ;
was ignited, according to Dr.. Louis

esidents said, that j

‘A. M. when Alexander | ;

She was acco: :
tania her father, Samu
th whom she had
usiness at 48
Street. Both :
in France for
that coun-

Gealers,. Miss Fri
tained more than $300,

said. International
are under mf
found by the
Friedman. baggage

" From Anta in Seath Orange—
Recognized Captor.

Lefkowitz, ‘who performed an au}

bbe first problem confr

6 neat nee lotinek:

; oF wad ence
rape chery 9

name
appeared BLE Be
PeThe: woman

matron in @

on thi

/ |the

Mrs. Kre

TO BAN GRADE B RAW MILK.

t |W tchester Board of Health Will

‘Stop Its Sale After Aug. 1. —

Special to The New York Times. |

.¥., July. 4,

ing

(HE

gore eS EES

se Pe

RF ac

‘and Appeals.

Waste, Rather Than Graft,. County Judge

| Vause,

mental in ob

Hudson ‘Kiwanis ‘torney charged
as much as

- pouses slong the | Counselor George, Councilman Bause- ; eae
Two persons were dead an’ New
ganization i leases.

Heip in the

the
¢ roe otag oe mical pro- ; storm, during which they were A sey Taxpayers’
made refently “{ thought Koenemund was the | struck by fights. and other caau-} i

patio ‘Seudder, a State most accessible because he wasn’ ‘gities were veparted throughout ure!

¢. Patrolman Humphrey controjied by Mayor Hague an ‘ gtate aa the worst eiectrica! storm in:

‘serles Kubn. ‘The four | Mayor Kane like the others,” Bause-. years swept the Eastern States. {|

Ma Perm Head. to which | wein answered. ae ; | Today's weather prediction as Ve" ]

Ee : Vv ; ° 14 cite Instances ‘en by Samuel K. Pearson, U. 5. Cet as

where Mayor Hague had shown any \operatice Weather Observer, was | :

control of the Democratic mbmbers | continued warm today and tomorrow. | :
~* ; with hittie possidiity of Focal ature pf. 5

Jersey is nearing & situatiog not un-
hke a bank run. the speaker com-

many s present crisia.

He said that New Jersey is in fifth

place among the 68 states in its per: :

capita cost of government and that poen& Doyle”
ohis practice

than the averég

or the ft Bausewein said :
“4 Providing (here ss no sea breeze. Mr. i

_pody by. a _boitef lebtaing._
ked

cine nine tw ve aren ani

only igew that the Democrats had | 5, ae co ‘ ‘i ; pee ee ere i
' : ' Pears id: ihe t wel; .
aj bean retice Sierrneet Ones go ster od eorex sete “and ta! : Associated Prese PRO‘ government ts Bub ye bee ee eg very ili in Deal, N. J and unable
“ : : 2 » ; i. Wittiam n. 2, of Phitade!- this state cee SCD. a , i. sativ Saige: Efforte will be made to have the car. .
Further testimony will be taken at aa <i ies necious nine hours He explained that. as°8 result of ; to atten tne legs ive: investigation | road ready for traffic Nov. 1 when, meide
7 3:30 next Monday. Cone Be pee se < LP a in oA ead after he ae this ‘condition, 2.700 industries .em- | heartnks. Pee 7 (the new Fort Lee Bridge is expect: using
— ee Be : ts | BOLT OF LIGHTNING ‘and believed des a appar | ojoying some 100,000 wage earners). ee ea erg ako Oa SO be ready. “ ) away
- Jearned that the cs - RIPS CORSET FROM ently nad drowned ta Laure! Lake, | nave moved from the state in the” "|The new road wiil be 40 feet wide with o
neo or =| FARM BOARD [MP “Soon orci, » | Nea a Pamir a el ‘rt eh See, RUSNAK DIES FOR sc 8 wt?
peices £ ee i}. POTTSTOWN, Ps. (#)— Miss: os he upon of the Ns ' SAS. - : mit otf
ee ost. vin ee aay ; 1 Florence Leiberman, 19. was = Rocca pore Le cee | Industrial Conference. He said fur- / : ' ae
pe swiped out, and covering today from burns rr 5 FE hae et ok -ither that many responsibie employers | AYONNE ( sta wae : ee
\@. concentrate. more on RAPS ‘SHORT SALES. ceiked: inst night when a copsst 4 > phere had told him that men they had)” e yt ' STATE OF NEW JERSEY .-
potion,” Kane said. . : 2S | with steel ribs was torn from her WANWICK T f “ Tprought here from Brooklyn had re-. re ~ Ve tes
Se eer! : me : ) tturned there,. saying they. could hve - Se eee i : a ee $20 000
a See patter in Rapokixa.oo Uyt..50. Per. ae 3 ae: peer See ’ ’
; : Hes 24. : :
: Execution Delayed- es -Fe“ 31, PER CENT. HIGHS

oe Movemen oO Orga nize ie about the felt side... She was
US need fe struck as she leaned out @ BIN].
Co-operative Farmers. dow at her bomen 2 cor T

Ba ae

pwmiled up the windows igya - - : : : é ee
a 3 “Tpit to Embarrass | 2 ite, Lae homes | NEW WN Ve: POST oe nae en orem Bids Ni fa
$2. te * Ss haste se : a = : eee ne aes Nine Pea House

“Mr. Hostutler said-(- rere
~~ Inmates Good-Bye. seated pro =
fe 3 Sealed proposals will we received by tn

body out of jail either di-

tly helps to pay the:

waste rather than graft. J am quite nak, 24, Bay

2 A as : : ae x ; : Z = 7: ao
‘to the| wasHINGTON. ) — Chairmas “morrow, which is above normal ‘tor:
Stone today reviewed the two-yecr ; thus ume of the year, but does nut
life of the Farm Board. and fo in| Ser apy records. as

es bereits Jersey City esca :
satisfaction in the growing desire Uff storm's ferocity yesterday. ere
tine Amertcrn farmer to heip bineett j scattered bast throughuut: Leo S:
by organizing. = sy - 1 Westfield, Pi dj assisian
“This, he felt. wa
achievement of the

‘for 150 yeare if the majority of ite | ticeman, July

is : our government

more than 14 ye: state or jocal, do

the new positi f to do. i
partment © new.

ef greater returns for members © : ‘i sick seat bis
an | operatives. * Swe
" He said the board's chief objective {Two men, srers resignation {rc id post to the |,
in the next year is to afford greater ; and. Ferdin D = is: 8 fe: 2 ommitssion a An : j
to his: we 8 Sie *

these rmutua! ifor whom

-aseeciations. -T) will be stunned. = :

spreed through expanding the teacn- } At. Per‘: Ambo ‘Gitwore. 30. aoe

ing . uf - cooperative printiples . and. drowned In Staten Is! k's new position: wilt
Berge Se the fell in the water t aerate ie :

assistance in setting uD

n his haste to

; practical results. * :
EO age today. leave -a. rowboat in hich be and ai).
t marketing at ;cCompamion. Mica thors ‘ : pas
raced to shore to beat the storm. | ore coan

| of law, authorizing a $90.000.-

@ told 000 revolving fund, eight board m«ni- Three. persons were injured at Pi :

bers, with Alexander Legge 84 catinny “Arsena} when lightning | ‘ormed Dy”

chairmen,’ in their task. Ever struck a rasiroad track. Ropert Peter. 2 : od a petition of {

since the board has been the cet7r son, 22. Wharton: a brakeman. 1 ty of trouble.

of a controversy revolving aroand {paralyzed from the waist :

the ~ competition of these coopera= | Cc. Rowe, Wharton —tonductor. a ;

“Wives, toans of millions~ for their {was thrown. ‘te. tbe*. ground ands to themselves. Swensen nu order-
~~ 2 2 ir ' Dover} ed to investiene the validity

1 tk we tee gana ase: pir

him."

upheld the

aS’ teat against the incre
| that the commisioner: recently, voted

. “and Toun- |

to 20. more ;

7 Fo “OHS PeRUIAT
iwhich Pres Edward C:
i ; chair, a directors

ate a a
, in the. PHILADELPHM. UP)—The “worst!
“has . been ‘electrical. storm ‘in! yeara, accom: ee om t
th ee Set and | panied by a Sv -mile-an-hour: gales faire and reap-
fee. plans <i te { spent te tury over Philadelphia: an soatne lent : :
jee plans Alle | SP yearly today alter na printndent of [of tee ne Sora

; unex ed sources ©

N ve
‘ { Rik
} legislative committee today 1n its ip- | x
; vestigation of the Department of
: | Docks and the Board of Standards her purpose when Mrs. Florence of mi
‘ Woodcl.ff, formed ened '

Samuel Seabury. the pommittee’s
counsel, announced

State now appea ng
; ifraud had offered to testify what

of the of docks. charges. -
ae attorney for private
shipping interests

| Charles H- Tuttle when federal at- yesterday. The court awarded the ena

$230.000 fees with
Club yesterday beard James G. Hos- { ricaly important PO J to pay her lawyer. Jonn P. Nugent, &.

“ peuacta, it was| wein was asked why he had select-/ 7 on ve ‘
ea Koenemund as the member of: ersey today and a © orch st Sie
Democratic majority to talk was N. as was deottovey uy fire a tutier, secretary of the o1
Hagia eens Ginter? ee ot ai service department of the New Jer-: rey genta a
Association, declare: to Pp uce Jocuments.
investigation of the abandonment. She says he used vile home
‘ t learne

that in the matter of taxation New”
> Board of Standards and Appeals Se

‘came from feder
i ordered Dr. Witham F. Doyle, now | the contract

tparing the situation here with Ger-
: - out on bail on income tax charges. | meeting of the
rin Federal Court today. Thureday and the State Highway’

before the board in SD- | into operation yesterday morning and
: Cate

there are 19 states which pay more, :
e for thelr respective | peaiing building aad fire department | the work of Fading began. :
‘rulings. Doyle has deen reported | West New York boundary line to th} : arrive

are. the “result. of; “TRENTON. | (#)-Jo®ep

sure that this federal government of | tric chair last igh beet =

oceeae oe : ght for the murder ; eee. ae '

ours could not have stood #0 firmly} of Stanley Zendarski, Bayonne po fo th purchase of $29,000.00 Highway Im
oo Nine of 1990, dated July 1. 1931, and maturin

He was executed at

h house farewel!. He Was | 1947, $510,000, 1948, $390,000.

spent the greater part of the after-| Sala bond t

early evening with Father’ SS z sae Pais
; , payable semi-agnually on the

pastor of -/ the . Bayonne: :
i MECHANICS NATIONAL BANK, TRENTO

church
Rusnak shot Zendarski and Edwara:)-

: "The Court of Errors and ‘Appeals! These bonds

salaries} “One of our communities here is:
“ ' Courf ef Pardons, which considered

Church was her excuse

Miele, 829 37th St.
that former | the habit of “going out” every Mon- |
W. Bernard Vause. | day evening. her: husband. Michael),
a conviction for mail ' ywiste, g12 Bioomfleid St

He made an unsucorse:c: aitemet vit
nad been instru- | to defeat her aimooy petition before | ein
taining pier lease® | vice Chancellor James ¥. Fielder: ,

x
ause with splitting | ir. gi9 a week and directed Miele jazz

es 3D. prlaiins | preliminary counsel fee of $8. :
Vause bad | are. Miele-is suing for separate ins
ead Vause bad prom: |. intenance. charging cruelty and He

al authorities, who :
foe the work at the.

Board of Freeholdsss | ie

Mr. Seabury to sub- | Commission ‘has ratified it.
for questiomng about | Large cranes and steamshovels xat

SS oo i. ML, Eastern Standard Time, at the offic

h t. Rus. | Treasury. Stage Capitol, Trenton; N. ‘J.
Te inthe ‘eee: bi 7 THURSDAY, JULY

4. 1990. :
@ clock. | 1983 to 1966. inclusive. Be Toliews: >

bid mine inmates in | 1942, $430,000. "oid, $450 000; | 1944, $460,000:

at pai chamber | 1962, $610,000; 1055. $60).00: 1964, $630,(000.;*
ais Guaeardt: PTIs0T } 1957" 720,000; 1968, ST#O.ONN: T909- 9770, 088:

sis lard. He bad | yo—s ga50.000; 1962. $880,007, 1964. $910.08.
est at the rate

first days of J

and interest thereon with

d the Rev. Andrew L. ;
iThe principal

ttended in his youth. 47 :
|. ‘The above bonds are tssGed for the
“ynprovement, reconatruction “and

er Hanak af ;
ure Rusnak: after i unde!

“Zendarski_ in ¢ tron pubic share
non. Rusnak ac-
“hounding

_ share “of the cost. of
‘other than State highways;
are a direct oblg ten of

the State i pledged +

death sentence, and the the faith and crecit of

i S ‘

thereon as the same shail Become dee an’

ithe case last Tuesday. denied clem-| at maturity: at sree Sates ao
eee Var yee Bonds will be coupon yn form of the deri
arden fee! osy be regut ed as to principaé and at the!
xi Gas |
uniess made oa printed biddings forms 1° be
bil

ge piss wilt be cona.dered uniess the anwant bi

* ra cents per bond. plus accrued interest fra.
Each bidder for less” than ali the ponte ofe
tire biocks of bonds of one oF more specitd
ee = ees ee: : MATURITY GRO

FF «

al)

“—riEe First to Fight,” is not an empty

Tet as this writer learned from
first-hand observation on the battlefields
of France. And twenty years later it was
again brought forcefully to his attention,
In the March issue in a case titled “The
Clue of the Tilted Mirror,” we used the
expression “g lowly enlisted man of the
United States Marines.” The author
meant lowly in the economic sense; how-
ever, the expression should have been
edited out. American Detective offers its
humblest apologies to the United’ States
Marines. So with our white flag flying,
we hope the barrage will be lifted,

PERSONAL to Sergeant James D. Hous-
ton: I remember Captain Thomas Quig-
ley. His office was in a shack on the
crest of a long low hill that climbs out of
Gondrecourt. I saw his battalion of the
Fifth Marines’ hike down that long slope
into—history,

ALso in the March issue under the title,
“A Strange Type of Murder,” we told you
of: the Slaying of George S, Buchanan, a
linotype executive, by Claude Hall. On
February 11th Hall committed suicide by
hanging in his cell,

He left a written confession of two
other killings,

On January 28TH, Mrs. Marie Porter
died in the electric chair at Menard Penj-
tentiary. She was the first woman to be
executed in Illinois in ninety-three years
and the second in the State’s history. She
was executed shortly after her hired killer
and sweetheart, Angelo Giancola, had been
Put to death. They paid with their lives
for the murder of William Kappen, Mrs.
Porter’s brother, who was slain on the
evening of his wedding day for three thou-
sand dollars worth of insurance. Amerr-
CAN DETECTIVE told you about it in the
October 1937 issue, “The Mystery of the
Missing Bridegroom.”

Unoer the title “Numbers,” in the April
1938 issue, we told you the story of Dixie
Davis. We had just gone to press with
this story when Dixie was ‘Caught in Phila-
delphia, He was in bed with a show girl
when the cops walked in on him, Isabel
Stephen who wrote this story two weeks
before he was captured, called it to a turn.
We quote: “A typical playboy in manner,
he is addicted to the company of orchidaci-
ous show girls and actresses. It is not
likely that he is holed up at any distance
from the bright lights of a large city, for
wine, women and music are as necessary
to him as oxygen.”

+ His bedfellow was Hope Dare, a glam-
Orous red-head who has appeared in many
Broadway shows. :

victed on February 15th of the
sentenced to life

CALL we 9 Wii» & K e SK

Lh PILE

THE two young women who wantonly
murdered a bus driver, ‘as related in “Neu-:
ter Gender” in our last issue,

were con-
charge and

imprisonment at ‘hard

labor in the New Jersey State Reformatory

for Women.

Wenvett F, Bowers,

Sex Mad Slayer,” pleaded guilty to the
murder of Mrs. Wilma V. Carpenter, which

story appeared in our March i

year, and received the death sentence. His
only comment was: “T can take it.”

effective “shake and shoot” method em
ployed by the mobsters to rub out they

competitors,
varying success, Three gunmen,

It is still being used with

known to their Prospective victims, entered

ae
ae
Q se}
ree

“Are you going to read Ameri-
can Detective all night?"

a Chicago Heights bakery owned by Joe
Di Giovanni and his brother Sam. They
asked for Sam Costello, who stepped for-
ward smiling, his hand extended. As the

leader Brasped Costello’s hand

all three

drew revolvers and began firing. More
than forty shots were fired before the

killers left in a black sedan.

They left

behind them Costello, dead, Nick Costello,
a brother, wounded in the groin and thigh,
Joe Di Giovanni and Malo Bagagli both

shot in the right leg.

The older Costello was reputed to be
the boss of the slot machine and gambling

syndicate in the southern section
County.

of Cook

In “Newsreel Confession” in the Novem-

ber 1935 issue we gave you the

story’ of

a gang of seven who killed Edwin Espo-
sito, a subway fare coHector in Brooklyn,

New York, in 1935. For this cr

ime two

went to the electric chair at Sing Sing and

four are serving life sentences,

The sev-

enth, Rosario Marchiano, was not caught

until February, 1937, when he was

in Detroit for Stealing a fifteen hundred
dollar accordion, His fingerprints were
responsible for his return to New York
where he was tried for the murder and

Biven a life sentence on January 26th of
this year,

those long
wanted Florida bank bandits Hugh Gant
and Alva Hunt who were rounded up by
the G-Men in Texas. “Trail’s End” was the

Serve twenty-five years each in a federal
Penitentiary, Uncle Sam works fast.

Wiram J. STEPHAN, thirty-one-year-
old Camden furniture salesman, was the
one hundred and twenty-first person to die.
in the chair in the

apparently Prison.. He was electrocuted on February

young executive of the Radio Corporation
of America on

one official said, “This Case stinks to the
high heavens,” Two other detective maga-

Lee Braviey-was ‘convicted: of ~bank-rob-
bery, then
tional dynamite slaying of Harold Baker
at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as told in
“Blast of Doom” in the April, 1937 issue.
The last week in January of this year he
was indicted by a federal. grand jury under
the Fugitive Felon Act. / ;
Bradley is sick and tired of courtrooms,
If he lived to be a thousand, he never
would get out of jail.

THE Police Department of the City of
New York offers $1,000.00 reward to any

7:45 P. M., on December 7th, 1937,

The firearm used by the unknown man
Special revolver or a
Spanish. imitation of a Colt .38 Special
revolver,

The ammunition used was a Western
Copper-coated .38 Smith and Wesson Spe-
cial cartridge,

he at
or row

~
i, AAA _0 yz.

arrested: See you on The Rock Pile,
r
ti” £2.

DT fle

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‘ORMTCK) heaneed Burlineton, N
MART. William (McCORMICK) hanged buriingvon,
ee 5 ’ ae Y

SMART, William |
Executed, B urlington, N, J., July l, 1772

Letter dated May 25, 1978, from Donald A, Sinclair, Cura-

tor of Svecial Collectopms, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, N, Je

"Perhaps the most atrocious burglary on record in colo-
nial New Jersey resulted in the death of ' a woman named
Elizabeth Knight, who has for some time past lived in a
small log house, on the road leading from Cooper's Ferry
to Mount Holly, and maintained herself by baking and

selling cakes, etc.' After having been robbed 3 times ir
’ the preceding four years, she was finally found dead in

h in May, 1772, 'with her Scull broken in t wo
inves ant Ger’ hight arm broken below the Elbow,' ‘her

— ——— ——e ‘
——house ransacked, and her drawers, etc, all broke open by
some villain or villains who got off undiscovered, and—
for apprehending of whom the Governor of New Jersey has
——offered-a-reward-of- Fifty Pounds,' The murderer, a man
named Smart, was taken, and after trying without. success.
to fasten the guilt upon another person, was convicted
—.—and_sent-enced-to-be-hanged,'""-- CHAPTERS IN A HISTORY OF ~~
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN NEW JERSEY WX by Reed, Page h05=
~—06." (His source: ARCHIVES, XXVII, 152-178 and XVIII,

MeCORMICK, William (eel oy Ey), AQT)

Was hanged some time in 1772 in New Jersey, Had murdered
Elizabeth Knight in Evesham Township, Burlington County,
some time in May, ‘she lived in a log house between
Cooper's Ferry and Mt , Holly,!

Teeters' New Jersey listing. His source was "Crime and
Punishment in Colonial New Jersey" by Weiss and Weiss

"We hear that a woman named Elizabeth Knight, who has for
some time past lived alone in a small house, on the road
leading from Cooper's Ferry to Mount Holly, and maintained
herself by pone and selling cakes, etc, was found mur-
dered in a most barbarous manner last Saturda morning,
her house ransacked, and her drawers, etc, all broke open,
by some villain or villains, who got off undiscovered, and
for apprehending of whom the Governor of New Jersey has

offered a reward of fifty pounds, This is said to be
the fourth time the above person has been robbed within

our years." VIRGINIA GAZETTE, Wjlliamsburg, Va,,6-18-
1772 (datelined Philadelphaa, May 28.) .

Fabel] Ja. Noo Jersey. duly 6. Onthe 27H of Lest mocth a eee

____ Court of Oyer & Terminer_was held at
Burlington fav the trial oF .— - Smart alios McCormick

—

} —__tshich the eourk proceeded and pronounced sentence of DEATH

‘tdainst Smart, who was accordingly We on Saturday last
_ tts plain to.see that he was'Smart’

named... -

(-\I-17 72. New Jersey. We hese thet 0. woman named Eliz.
pes eo. eee Krist who has fur sometime past lived
alone. ina. small log house.on the road leadi ny ftom Cooper's ones eee
24 _Feery to Mount Hol y-and mairikuined herself by beking and selling _ 2

__ cakes, ef. was found murdered tn a most barbarous Manner
last. Saturday morning -hec house ransacked, her drawers etc. all
= = broke open by some villain or villains who got off undiscovered. Ps
ce : _And yr apprehending of whom the Govemor of NewJersey has
_offered_a reward of Fifty po und. Thisis said to bethefowth = =.
time the above person has en robbed within these fauc years.

»dded

August, 1937

the arrested man, who was now in the
Haddonfield jail. Stephan would admit
nothing. Orlando, Doran, Mulligan, Mur-
pay fee other investigators went after

im in turn, pointing out that his gun had
{done the shooting; that by his own ad-
-mission he alone was in possession of that
‘gun at the time of the crime; that both

is sweetheart and Mrs, Headley had given
ithe lie to his “ti of his after-midnight
\departure from Haddonfield; that Mrs.
‘Rogers had placed him at the crime scene
‘at about the fatal hour; and that he, as
a paroled. convict under the jurisdiction
of the elder Dobbins, had known the Dob-
bins residence.

Orlando’s theory was that Stephan,
wishing to make an impression upon Mrs.
Rogers by buying her a fur coat, had gone
to the Parole Officer's home with the idea
of robbing it and getting some easy
money, and that when Curt Dobbins an-
swered the door, Stephan, befuddled by

liquor, slew the young engineer, then fled |_.

in. terror.

In the early hours of the morning of
Wednesday, August 19th, just as dawn was
breaking, reporters awaiting news heard
Orlando's voice in an upper room of the
Haddonfield jail mounting to a crescendo
of fervid accusation.

“Allright!” Stephan screamed in re-
ply. “I did it! I might as. well say I did,
or I’m going to the chair anyway!”

Half an‘ hour later the Prosecutor came
out and announced to the reporters:

“Stephan admits everything except the
actual firing of the gun. He says he was
too drunk to remember: in. detail what
was happening. But he wasn’t too drunk
to remember in detail everything that had
noo) yen just before he drove into Mount-
well Avenue, and everything that happened
after he drove away.” _

Stephan went on trial before me on
October 5th. The evidence referred to in
this narrative was introduced against him.
Stephan’s defense was an alibi. His law-
yer produced. witnesses who said they had
seen him in the Pine Tree Inn at the time
of the murder. The prosecution produced
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wife. Was a. stranger to the

murdered ‘man, nevertheless

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“Come Quick—
I've Just. Been Shot!”

By John Martin

Who Made a Special Investigation of This Case

A to life—must hear him speak before death sealed
The young fellow, stretched out on the his lips.

4 [° FEELS like the bullet went clear through felt desperately that he must hold this young man
me. ”
davenport, tried to smile as he looked up at the “Who did it, Curt?”

cops. The smile didn’t quite jell. “T don’t know.”
Police Chief William Start could see why. A “Did you get a look at him?”
dark stain was spreading slowly across Curtis W. “Yes.”
Dobbins’ chest—a stain that might blot out for- “Ever see him before?”
ever his memory of the shooting. “I—I don’t think so.”

The Chief tried to keep his voice calm. But he Dobbins’ voice was getting lower.

How Did the Murder of This Model Haddonfield,

New Jersey, Man Tie in with a Philander’s Boast?
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self-possessed. entered his home between
Murphy and Mulligan. He shot a quick,
nasty glance at his wife. “So you turned
me in?’ he rasped. : het

Doran took command of the situation.
“Listen, Stephan,” he said. “We want to
get things straightened out between you
and your wife. We want you to give up
that woman in Philadelphia and come
back here and act like a man. We're go-
Ing to give you a chance to do the decent
thing but we’ve got to have some assurance
that you’re not going to harm your wife.”
Doran paused and looked hard at the man.
“Stephan, do you own a gun?” °

“No, I don’t.”

Doran addressed Mulligan and Murphy.
“Boys,” he said, “I think this guy’s lying
to me. I think he does own a gun an
I don’t want him to use it on this little
woman here. Search the house.”

Stephan was taken from room to room
while the detectives conducted the “search”
for the gun, which had been replaced in
the stove. The kitchen was the last
room to be “probed.” As the detectives
approached the stove and opened the up-

er compartment, Doran noticed that
tephan began to perspire. When the
bottom compartment was opened and
Mulligan “found” the gun, the suspect
sank down in a chair.

DORAN took the pistol and held it close
to Stephan’s face. “So you don’t own a
gun, eh? It’s a good thing we found this
or you might have used it on your wife.
How long have you had this gun?”

“Oh, for about a year.”

“Why did you lie to us?”

“T’m-an ex-convict and I thought I’d get
in trouble if you knew I had a gun.”

“But this is your gun?”

“Yes, that’s mine.”

“Take a good look at it and make sure.”

“Yes, that’s my gun.” :

“And it’s been here in the kitchen stove
all the time?”

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“And you haven't lent it to anybody'and
there wouldn’t be any chance of anyone
stealing it and then returning it?”

“Absolutely not,” said Stephan, makin,
the admission that Orlando had hope
he would make. “This gun has been here
in the stove for months.”

“And you've seen it every day?”

“Absolutely.” : :

Here, then, was a major victory for
the law. Ex-convict Stephan had admit-
ted ownership of the murder weapon in
the presence of reliable witnesses.

Stephan, still not suspecting that he had
been arrested in connection with the Dob-
bins shooting, was taken to Prosecutor Or-
lando’s office. Orlando had inthe mean-
time been informed that Stephan’s car had
been tried in Philadelphia and found to
have a coughing motor and gears that were
loud when meshed. The Prosecutor had
also had Mrs. Rogers shadowed. The wo-
man had appeared at the front door after
Stephan’s arrest; looked furtively up and
down the street, then returned to the
house, seemingly aware that her friend had
been taken by the law. : :

Orlando logked Stephan in the eye,
“What have you been doing with yourself
lately?” he asked. “You’ve been missing
for several days.”

“Oh, I’ve been around; over in Philly
mostly.”

Orlando went back to a few days pre-
vious to the Dobbins shooting and, lead-
ing Stephan to believe that he was being
questioned merely in connection with the
non-support charge, had the man give an
account of his actions from day to day;

When Stephan reached the night of
Tuesday, August IIth, Orlando noticed
that the man dwelt in great detail on
what he had done, placing himself ten

Master Detective

William J. Stephan

miles from the crime scene at the fatal
hour of 10:45. He said that -at that time
he, and Mrs. Rogers, had been at a tavern
known as the Pine Tree Inn in. Berlin.
hig 4 had, Stephan said, been accompan-
ied by a_member of the canvassing crew
—Mrs. Emily Headley—of Berlin. The
trio had arrived at the Inn before ten
o'clock and were there until almost mid-
night, when they drove Mrs. Headley
home. :

After dropping their friend, the suspect
said, he and Freda Rogers stopped at a
lovers’ trysting place on a sandy road
near a brickyard not far from Camden.

“You are madly in love with this Rog-
ers woman, then?” asked Orlando.

“Well, we were having a lot of fun
together.”

tephan went on to explain to the Prose-
cutor that he and Mrs. Rogers had been
having an illicit affair for some time.

_Just after he had finished accounting for
his actions on the fateful Tuesday night,
Stephan looked hard at Orlando and
asked: “Say, what the hell’s all this ques-
tioning about, anyway? I tell you I didn’t
shoot Dobbins.”

That was the opening Orlando had been
waiting for. “Who accused you of shoot-
ing Dobbins?” the Prosecutor asked.

GTEPHAN squirmed in his chair. “Well,”
he said, “you didn’t exactly accuse me

but I figured you might have it in your

mind.” ;

“All right,” snapped Orlando, “I do
accuse you, Stephan! You fit the descrip-
tion of the man who fired the shots. That
was your car that drove away: from the
scene. And, by your own admission you
are the only person who could possibly
have been in possession of the gun when
Curt Dobbins was shot. Now, you better
tell us all about it—for your gun was the
weapon used, We got it from your
kitchen stove and tested it and placed it
back in the stove, just to get you to ad-
mit it was yours. We've got you,
Stephan.” ‘

But the suspect admitted nothing. He
stuck to his alibi.

Mrs, Headley—the woman whom Steph-
an said he and Mrs. Rogers had been
with when Dobbins had been shot—was
interviewed by a gy and Murphy.
She told them a simple story about the
Tuesday night in question. She said that
Stephan and Mrs. Rogers had driven her
home and come in with her for a few
minutes—but not near midnight. “It was
closer to ten o'clock, because after they
left I set the alarm clock and_ noticed
that it was exactly ten minutes after ten.”

Ten after ten! Thirty-five minutes be-
fore the shooting! That would have given
Stephan ample time to reach the Dob-
bins home.

“When Mr. Stephan and Mrs. Rogers
came in for a few minutes,” she added,
at daughter, who was sitting around
with us, happened to say that she would
like a fur jacket next winter. Mr. Stephan
turned to Mrs. Rogers and said, ‘Baby,
would you like a fur coat too? Well, if
you do, I can get one for you. All I have
to do is to use something | have in my
pocket here and put a couple of slugs in
a guy.

n Monday, August 17th, Curt Dob-
bins died and Stephan was charged with
murder. He asked that his sweetheart be
allowed to visit him.

Mrs. Rogers, who had not set foot out-
doors since Stephan’s arrest, came to
Camden in response to a note from him.
As soon as she crossed into New Jersey,
detectives nabbed her. She was taken to
Orlando’s office. The Prosecutor believed
that the woman knew something about
the crime. But he didn’t mention that:
instead he appealed to her pride. He
read to her Stephan’s statement as to
what had gone on at the trysting place the
night of the murder. The woman’s face
flushed and her eyes blazed in anger as
she heard the ribald phraseology of her
lover’s statement.

“HE said that, did he?” she snapped.
“Well, the dirty rat! And after all
I’ve done for him.” .

“Just what did you do for him?” asked
Orlando.

-Mrs. Rogers thereupon revealed that she
and Stephan had left Mrs, Headley’s home
shortly after ten o'clock and that she,
having consumed quite a bit of liquor,
had fallen asleep in the car. Some time
later she had been awakened fl what had
seemed to her to be the backfire of an
automobile. Then she had seen Stephan
running toward the car. He got in and
drove away in a hurry. Mrs. Rogers said
rier she soon realized she was in Haddon-
ield.

Stephan drove to Philadelphia, and on

‘the way asked her not to mention where

she had been or what she had done that
night as he had got into trouble. He
didn’t explain what the trouble was. He
made her promise that if anyone ques-
tioned her she would swear that they had
me re Mrs. Headley’s until about mid-
night.

rs. Rogers was taken to Stephan’s cell.
She glowered at him through the bars.
ti shot Curt Dobbins that night!” she
said.

Stephan swept her remarks aside. “You
were too canned up to know what was
happening,” he replied.

“Oh, yes?” There was a note in the
woman’s voice that indicated that she was
telling the truth, and that the lover whom
she now despised was lying. “I was
canned up, was I? Well, I wasn’t too
canned up to wake when I heard the
shots, and I’m not too canned up now to
pick out that street when I see it again.”

Mrs. Rogers turned to the Prosecutor.
“You take me to that street, Mr. Orlan-
do,” she suggested, “and I'll tell you if
that’s where | was when I heard those
shots.”

Twenty minutes later Mrs. Rogers sat
in a parked car twenty feet from the Dob-
bins residence. “Yes,” she said; “this is
the place, all right. That is just where
I was when those shots woke me up.”

As to a motive for the crime, Orlando
was in the dark. However, under the
New Jersey law it is unnecessary to prove
a motive for murder. The fact that mur-
der is done is enough.

For two days, the Prosecutor prodded

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“Can you describe him?” :

But the wounded man was weakening. His face
id grown pale, his lips were white, his voice
as almost a whisper as he said:

“You better get me to a doctor first, Chief. Then.

1 tell you what I can.”

Chief Start straightened and beckoned to two
ily oMicers. They lifted Dobbins’ limp body. He
rewed his face up from pain and bit his lip. But
: did not cry out as they carried him across the
ring-room,

The Chief watched them go. They looked oddly
it of place in the luxurious setting. The Dobbins
ere well-to-do. They lived in fashionable Had-
mfield, New Jersey. In their large home, the
rniture, the draperies, the silver, the paintings,
e air of quiet comfort all bespoke respectability
id refinement. .

‘HAT was why Chief Start’s face wore a puzzled
frown as he walked out into the darkness and
't into the car beside the wounded man. The
uief knew young Dobbins—knew him as the up-
id-coming son of one of the town’s best families.
2 was no wild youth, no black-sheep. There was
» reason why he should get into trouble.

Yet at 10:42 o’clock that Tuesday night he had
lephoned Headquarters and said:

“Come quick—lI’ve just been shot! Please come
two forty-one Mountwell Avenue.”

They had found him lying on the davenport in
e brightly lighted living-room, stretched out as
ough to rest after a hard day’s work. Until the
iief saw the bloody shirt, he almost had thought
a false alarm.

But now as he listened to the hoarse breathing of
od-looking young Curtis W. Dobbins in the squad

Curtis W. Dobbins: “You better
get me to a doctor first, Chief”

w speeding to West Jersey Hospital in ‘Camden,
hief Start realized he had better. do his question-
ig at ance. Soon it might be too late.

“Can you tell me what happened, Curt? Don’t
= yourself too much. Try to tell it in a few
‘ords.” ‘

In short jerky sentences spaced by gasps and
oologetic smiles, Curtis Dobbins told his story—
story that was to send investigators threading
1eir way through a maze of twisted emotions and
licit love on the trail of a bragging philanderer
irned. gunman. ;

William J. Stephan: He
suffered when his bene-
factor's son was shot

Mrs. William J. Stephan: "He's been
chasing around with some woman"

Dobbins said he had returned home about 10:30 '°

p.m., after spending the evening playing handball
at the Y. M. C. A. with a friend. He draped his
long body into an easy chair and settled down to
read for an hour or so before going to bed. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Y. Dobbins, were at
their Summer home in Ocean City. He was alone
in ‘the house and it was quiet.

But quiet only for a scant ten minutes. At 10:40
the doorbell rang. Dobbins wondered who would
be calling so late. He rose and walked to the front
door. He peered through the hooked screen.

A vague figure stood on the porch, silhouetted
darkly by lights from the house. Dobbins never
had seen him before. He said the fellow was short
and dark, without distinguishing characteristics so
far as he could see.

But before Dobbins could speak, the stranger
growled, “Stick ’em up.”

Astonished, Dobbins stared an instant, saw the
intruder slowly move a gun chest-high. Dobbins
sprang to get out of point-blank range. He
whirled sideways, twisted to leap backward.

But at that instant three shots crackled. Two
went wild. One caught Dobbins in the chest and
flung him backward. He clutched at the wall for
support, his eyes screwed tight shut.

When he opened them the porch was deserted.
Seconds later Dobbins heard the clash of grinding
gears, the wheeze and cough of a motor, the dimin-
ishing clatter of a car fading into silent distance.

The gunman had vanished into the night. Where
had he gone? Why had he come? To rob? Or
only to kill?

As the police car sped on through the dark Sum-
mer night to the hospital, Chief Start skipped rap-
idly over the motive possibilities.

Robbery? That was possible because of the man’s
command to “stick ’em up.” Yet the intruder had
taken nothing—indeed, had made no effort to steal.

And Chief Start leaped back ‘to the important
fact which first had flashed into his mind: Dob-

bins’ father was a Federal parole officer for New

Jersey.
Beneath that bare fact lay a thousand possible
motives for murder, the Chief knew. For he was
familiar with the long-nursed grievances of ex-
convicts—the bitter grudges which fester like
cancerous sores for months and years and decades,
the petty hatreds, never-forgotten, always: just be-
low the boiling point, which suddenly may erupt
into madness and send a man on an insane killing
spree against an officer and his family.
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man’s behavior,” he suggested now.’

“Then, following through in cooperation
with the missing persons bureau, trying to
clarify everything which happened up to
the actual slaying.”

That this plan was not only feasible, but
the only one open to the investigators,
was proved correct when fingerprint men
reported on the following morning that
the weapons found near the body in_the
coal bin had apparently been wiped off by
some person intent upon destroying pos-
sible prints. Nor were any prints other
than those of the woman herself to be
found in the basement.

On the missing man’s shoes, however,
were two indistinct thumb marks, one on
the outer side of each. Although these
were not clear enough for classification,
it was apparent that the top, or end of the
two thumbs, had pointed upward.

“Not,” it was explained by the finger-
print expert, “such as a person would

* leave in pushing his shoes off while stand-

ing or seated. Someone left those prints
while pulling the shoes off another person

- —or possibly carrying them about after

removal.”

Meanwhile, the coroner’s autopsy re-
port came through and indicated that
death had been caused by a series of skull
fractures, inflicted before the other bodily
injuries had been sustained.

The coroner judged that death had oc-
curred.some time between midnight Fri-
day and daylight Saturday. The contents
of the stomach indicated Lucia Nardello
had not eaten for at least five hours be-
fore death.

The fact that the fingernails were un-
broken and bore no traces of skin or blood
led to the belief that she had been unable
to put up any resistance. Blood on the
ripped clothing found near the body was
smeared in such a manner as to indicate
that the garments had been used to wipe
up traces of the crime.

Since the discovery of the body Capt.
Murphy had ordered that all bus depots,
railway stations and arterial highways
leading from the city be watched on the
off chance that Nardello—or his body—
might be located. But now, 24 hours after
the crime had come to light, he ordered
his men back to headquarters and resolved
that the only way in which the mystery
might be solved was through a study of
what had happened before 2 é’clock Sun-
day afternoon.

Murphy stood confronted with a case in
which there were no physical clues of ap-
parent value—in which there was no pos-
sible motive apparent—and he knew that
to get to the bottom of it he must first
learn the cause of Bonaventura’s sudden
“bedevilment.” He must learn the rela-
tionship between the man’s subsequent
acts and that apparent fear complex, and
attempt to more rationally explain the
woman’s part in the scheme of things that
occurred at the house in Mill street prior
to the hour when Lucia Nardello was last
seen entering her home.

Obviously, the fact that Nardello him-
self may have been his wife’s murderer,
was not being overlooked by the veteran
police officer. And yet, how account for
the “man in light clothes” whom the
neighbor had seen. on the night of the
slaying? How account for the two types
of blood found in the house—in different
parts of the house? And, ab ve all, how
account for Nardello vanishing from sight
without a stitch of his own clothing being
taken from the house?

But Murphy was determined to find the
answer. He started with the so-called fear
complex from which Nardello suffered.

Was it not possible, Capt. Murphy rea-
soned, that that “fear” was- founded in
something other than apprehension for his
own safety and that of his family? Why
could not it have been fear that he was
going to lose his wife? Things had been
going badly with them lately. Even his
friends had commented on the fact that
she was never seen without him. Could
not that mean jealousy as well as love?
‘The man was an ardent movie fan. It
seemed possible that in his worried state
something he had seen in the movies
had brought about an emotional fixation
with resultant doubts as to the beautiful
young wife’s faithfulness?

Also, if it was simply that he feared for
her safety, why then had not he left her
with the children in the first place?

Then the neighbor’s story of seeing a
“man in light clothes” leave the house on
the night of the murder. Well, Nardello
had certainly left his own garments at the
house. If he had been planning the crime
for some time, it seemed entirely reason-
able to suppose he had prepared before-
hand with clothing just the opposite of
the drab work clothes in which he was
usually seen by his neighbors? The neigh-
bor herself had admitted that she had not
caught a clear view of the man’s face,

te there was the fact that two dif-
ferent types of blood had been found
in the house. Well, the person who had so
brutally murdered. the woman—employ-
ing at least three different weapons—had
certainly been in such a state that he could
easily have injured himself during the
commission of the crime.

That seemed to fit in with the story
told by Lucia Nardello of finding the
butcher knife in her husband’s room. The
man, Murphy realized, might well have
been preparing his crime for some time,
then altered weapons only at the last
minute,

And the bloody shoes, the blood in the
bathroom and on the towels. If Bonaven-
tura Nardello had murdered his wife in the
middle of the night it was reasonable to
believe he would not have been wearing
heavy work shoes at the time. And he
would never have worn the new shoes he
had planned to use in his escape.

Continuing to reconstruct the crime on
this basis, Capt. Murphy pictured Nar-
dello striking the woman down on the
ground floor of the house, probably in the
bathroom. He had then crept down the
ctllar steps with her over his shoulder
and completed his crime.

After that the man would have crept up
the stairs, put on his shoes and gone to
the bathroom to wash the blood from his
hands and body. Then to the woman’s
bedroom: where he discovered her cloth-
ing and used it to wipe away his bloody
footprints on the stairway. Back to his
own chamber where he had discarded the
shoes, leaving those inverted fingerprints
on the sides. Then he had dressed quickly
in the clothing bought especially for this
occasion—and escaped through the moon-
less night.

Escaped—but where? It was well
known that Nardello had little or no read-
ily available funds. And yet there are few
men who cannot find some place in which
to hide in emergencies ofthis kind—places
where it costs them little or nothing for
expenses. ;

Thinking over the matter Capt. Murphy
came to the conclusion that it is in the
homes of relatives that such places are
usually found, Relatives who live in out-
lying places, where daily newspapers and
their accounts of crime and violence rarcly
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STARTLING

She had gone to a window and looked out in time
to see a man dressed in gray trousers and white
shirt run from the home of her neighbors,

beset by devils.” At times, especially
when the other man had attempted to
uncover some clue to that which lay be-
hind these fears, Nardello had mumbled
incoherently, hinting at some horrible
fate that lay in wait for himself and his
little family.

“You believe,” persisted the detective
captain, “that it was this fear which led
them to place the children in your care 2”

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she and Ben were thankful for the pro-
tection we were giving their babies. Even
at that time her use of the word ‘pro-
tection’ struck me as odd, but before I
could ask what she meant she changed the
subject, saying over ad over again that
she feared for her own sanity because
of this awful thing which was casting a
shadow over their lives.”

HE couple had been married 15 years,

but both appeared much younger
than their actual ages. Lucia Nardello
had been a neighborhood beauty at the
time of her marriage and managed to re-
tain her good looks through the subse-
quent years. The husband, likewise, had
been considered one of the handsomest
men of the neighborhood.

Both had spent much of their time at

motion picture theaters and were rarely
seen outside cach other’s company during
the evenings. For some months Nardello,
the police learned from the neighbors, had
been having a difficult time because of lack
of steady employment, but insofar as their
friends knew the man had never at-
tempted to improve his economic station
by engaging in work outside his regular
trade as a carpenter.

Capt. Murphy, thinking again of the
inysterious telephone call which had been
received at the detective bureau shortly
after noon, determined to question the

Capt. Murphy turned to the missing neighbors more thoroughly. But none of
man’s relative who had been called into them had made the call and Murphy was
aid in the identification of the body. “You forced to drop this line of questioning,
told me this morning that Nardello had although he was convinced that the per-
been acting strangely lately,” he reminded son who phoned had no actual knowl-
Shortly before the man. “Now, I want you to try to ex- edge of the ete I erhaps, ie erie oe
midnight Friday she had been awakened plain just what it was that brought you it =e ies noe ° Shape dapmontag
suddenly by shouting in the Nardello’s. to that conclusion. Try to remember any- ree : ity abe - ‘ en we
home. She had gone to a window and _ thing which he said, or hinted at, which apis aaa ‘ He PA aes ihe
looked out in time to see aman dressed in might point toa motive for what has hap- all, t captain ¥ ~ r = Pigs aiid
gray trousers and white shirt run hur- — pened here at this house. ry, too, to re- tran ee mmight bhi oie upon the
riedly from the home of her neighbors, call anything which Lucia Nardello might der a y ay 1 wens ser Tai >

She said that there was little moonlight — have said to indicate that she, too, stood in ig atin ol none a a re bil:
that night and she had just awakened mortal fear of her life. ; ; Re rab ny kek: hor mi ‘is hate pred
from a sound sleep, So she could not be But the man could be of little definite He ae eo aay ebleton i
sure, but she did not think she had ever assistance. All he knew positively was es nae ; ~ er Se eae, bn
seen the man before. that Ben Nardello had acted like a man ooking through the celle :

49
DETECTIVE

a different count
than that of the slain woman.

At this point in the investigation a
woman in the house next door, came for-
ward with information which helped place

experts pronounced it of

the hour of the crime.

even with the aid of flashlights the officer was un-
able to penetrate the semi-darkness of the dust cov
cred chamber, Vhe voice that delivered the message
had been that of a woman but no woman other than
Lucia Nardello had been seen entering or leaving
the house for several days, Consequently, the phone
call which preceded the finding of the body remained
a mystery while the officials continued their search
into the couple’s past life.

Mrs. Nardello, described as a quiet, inoffensive
type of woman by her neighbors, was last seen alive
on Friday evening when she had returned from the
home of the relative. Her husband had not been seen
since the afternoon before, although police were in-
clined to believe that it was he whom Lucia Nar-
dello had heard in the house that night.

Children of the couple told the officers that the
family had never possessed a long butcher knife
such as that which Lucia Nardello had reported
finding in her husband’s room the morning follow-
ing the disturbance there. Nor could the police dis-
cover any such weapon in their search of the house
later,

A further search of the man’s room, however,
revealed that every article of the clothing he had
been known to possess when last seen was still in
the room. The brown trousers, brown work shoes
and blue work shirt which he habitually wore were
all found tossed carelessly down behind his bed.

Tt was while closely examining these shoes that
Capt. Murphy came across something which still
further deepened the mystery,

Inside each shoe was one of Nardello’s rough
work socks. Upon taking out the socks the officer
observed traces of a dark russet substance on the
inner soles, and instantly recognized it as dried
blood. And yet, there was no sign of blood on the
socks themselves.

“That's odd,” Capt. Murphy commented after ex-
amining the articles. “If the man’s feet were bleed-
ing, it’s evident that his socks were off at the time.
And why were the clothes dropped down behind the
bed here where we’d be sure to find them ?”

For some time Capt. Murphy had been working
on the theory that Bonaventura Nardello—the man
who had heen suffering from some obvious fear
complex—had met a similar fate to that of his at-

[Continued on page 88]

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tractive young wife. In line with this
theory, he believed the man’s body had
been moved from the scene of the violence
in order to lead the police to suspect him
as. the actual slayer. But this theory, he
now realized, could hardly stand up
against the fact that the slayer had failed
to take away the husband’s clothing.

In a clothes hamper at the rear of the
house the detectives discovered several
blood-smeared towels. The blood from
these towels was of a similar count to that
which had earlier been discovered in the
bathroom, and this in turn led to the
theory that the couple might have been
attacked on the ground floor of the house
—the man’s body spirited away from the
scene immediately. This true, the slayer
or slayers would have returned for the
wife’s body, only to be frightened away by
the arrival of the relative on Saturday
evening.

None of the furniture in the house was
upset and there was absolutely nothing
to indicate that the place had been
searched either before or after the actual
commission of the crime. About two dol-
lars in silver was found in Mrs. Nardello’s
purse, which lay opened on her bed. Noth-
ing of value, however, was found in the
man’s clothing and the relative expressed
the theory that the person responsible for
his disappearance had intended to return
and carry off the clothes at the same time

he did away with Mrs. Nardello’s body.

Murder for profit, however, was defi-
nitely ruled out, as it was clear neither
Nardello nor his wife had possessed any-
thing of great value and there were no
known insurance policies in existence.

“And so along with jealousy, revenge
and murder-for-convenience, we’re forced
to eliminate greed as a possible motive,”
Capt. Murphy announced dispiritedly to
his aides late Sunday night after every
possible theory regarding motive had been
investigated. “Here we have two healthy
young married people, who were never
known to have had an enemy, who always
adhered to the rules of marriage, and who
have never before been involved in a po-
lice investigation.

“Suddenly some mysterious fear seems
to have taken complete possession of the
man. There are strange doings at the
house late at night and both ostensibly
keep out of sight for about a week after
packing off their children to the home of
a relative. Then the man vanishes and
even as his wife is preparing to ask the
help of the police she herself is brutally
murdered.”

Sergt. Detective Pirolo, who from the
beginning had been working on the theory
that there was some definite clue which
they had overlooked, interrupted his su-
perior officer:

“Looks as though instead of attempting
to work backward we'd be better off to
start at the time those first symptoms of

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Newark Sunday News Magazine 14 December 1869.

IN COLONIAL DAYS

| COUNTERFEITING CONSPI

By TOM MACKIN

Nework News Sloff Writer
HE day was Sept. 17, 1773. The huge
throng on The Green at Morristown was
restless. They had traveled from as far away
as Newark and Elizabeth to witness the public
executions and now there, mound to be

some delay. :

The picnic hampers bad been emptied. the

-Jast piece of gossip exchanged. The wait was .

. intolerable. Children, as restless as their par-
ents, ran and played on the grass in the shadow
- of the gibbet. A holiday spirit was in the air.
Hangings were occasions of great excite-
.> ment and merriment in Colonial America, as
“. thev were back in the Mother Country. . This

’.-,crowd was no different from most. They had —
“= come to enjoy themselves inthe guise-ef seeing.

a _justic & done, as. nen had done from Roman

The Morristown sataning had more reason
than most to anticipate the macabre event.. For
among the four condemned men were. two
scions of the most prominent families in the

»- Budd, was the best-known physician in. the

- area and a founder of the New Jersey Medical ~

Society. His father was the respected Judge
John Budd. .His family was the pre-eminent
one in West Jersey and. would remain so for
the next 200 years. Another, Benjamin Cooper,

was a son of Daniel Cooper, one of the first-

judges of Morris County and a member of the
court that had sentenced him to death.

Their execution would prove that no man |

was above the law. And so the crowd, esti-
mated at more than 15,000, swelled until it
filled the square at Morristown, the county
seat. They had come by wagon and on horse-
back, farmers most of them, riding long hours
in the quest of excitement that would alleviate
the drabness of their existence. FEB pede

Suddenly a hush fell over the congregation. ‘

One of the condemned men was being brought
to the scaffold, his hands tied behind his back.
Children were hoisted to shoulders so they
would not miss this ritual of justice. -

Those at the rear of The Green pressed
forward to see.who would be the first to die.
“I’s the Irishman,” someone shouted. “It’s
David Reynolds.” its ;

The Irish national, a tall, handsome man
of about 30, walked erect in the autumn air,
~ his dark hair-falling in ringlets on a forehead
‘damp from fear, his usually rosy- complexion
- sallow from his stay in prison. He mounted the
steps to the rope firm of stride, his head held
high.. He surprised the onlookers by unac-
countably bursting into song, a sad ballad

about Irish kings. Then he lowered his head ~

and prayed earnestly. Many in the crowd knelt

We Sats saa a. NEWARK SUNDAY NEWS :

na nme bn e ey.

“tous end?

and prayed with -him. The men removed

their hats.

In a short, impassioned speech, Reynolds
warned the people to avoid the vices that had
brought about his doom, and he asked them

not to think harshly of “my innocent wife and_
Many in the throng were .

helpless infants.”
crying and some turned away.

But the busine
of seeking help fro
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The executioner affixed the knotted rope a

to Reynolds’ neck and hastily sprang the trap.
A great roar went up, whether of triumph or
horror, no one could say. But now the crowd
could hardly contain itself. It had tasted blood
and wanted more. Who would be next? - Would
it be Dr. Budd, who only weeks before. had

Would it be Cooper, whose father had. sen-

_wresting a meager

ness even to consi

:most skilled desig

_.to be found in Eugs

And so Ford be

‘serve his apprentid
* seyan became a

- gone among them ministering to. their ills? ~~

- tenced more than one man to death before? .. .:

What had brousit these men to this. inglori- ;

It was , their association with -one.
man: the notorious Sam Ford, whom the Mor-

NEE “act oituanaan acnsioemaarecrenaat EERE SNES,

"The most accomplished villoin

“this coun ary: ever nll carl poe

most accomplished villain that this country
ever produced.” Ford had eluded his. captors
and at the very moment of the execution was

being chased by posses through several states.-

.Ford was unquestionably one of the fore-

‘ most rascals of the Colonial period. A jail-

breaker and two-time bigamist, he was accused

of helping to raid the East Jersey Treasury at

Perth Amboy. in a daring escapade. But he
won his reputation for infamy in quite a differ-
ent field. He was perhaps the finest counter-
feiter in the young country’s history... __

It is not clear why Ford chose.a life of
crime. He came from one of the rnost prom-

inent: families -in New-~-Jersey; members of ->

which live on the original Ford property to this

day. His grandfather,’ John. Ford,. founded the ‘

first industry in northwest Jersey, one that
opened the region to colonization. - His father
was a wealthy landowner, and his first cousin,
Col. Jacob. Ford Jr.,
Morristown which George Washington would

use as his headquarters’ in-the winter = of

1779-80. The Ford mansion is today the cen-
ter of the Morysistown National. Historical Park.

Young Sam started out well.. A handsome,

dimpled fellow, he married Grace Kitchell, sis-:

ter of United States Sen. Aaron Kitchell. He
went into the iron industry with Ben: Cooper,
of a well-known legal family, and. Lora Stirling,

who later,.as Gen. Stirling, would serve with -

distinction at Trenton, Sree and pesid
mouth in the ‘ad nedeerrice : War, . :

built the mansion in —

‘ris County Court in 1773 described as..“‘the 25

_ province of Jersey. One of them, Dr. Bernadus- ~ -

eon!

‘in-a matter
~~ more than the fin
.He met and wooed

cf m

“and. persuaded he
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Incredibly, For

Jersey, where she

‘and nearly .went
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* of two bigamous nj
“ people forgave a

Shortly after F

~ enue agents seizd
_ feit Jersey Bills

creted aboard as
Ireland. These

, was arrested in
~, was released in
‘ prosecution.

‘

Ford beguile

union, and the fa

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: from Morristown

was using the f
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making affair.”=
“out every day \

‘telling his gullib!
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county officials,

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‘(Continued from Page 40)

for the death penalty. While Sheriff Kinney, a
close pal of Ford’s, looked the other way, the
counterfeiter broke out of the old lockup with
John King, a former under-sheriff, who also
liked to dabble in phoney money. The two fled '
.to a deserted hut near the colliery Ford had
once operated. They stayed there for at least
a month while Sheriff Kinney and his deputies
made futile, half-hearted attempts to find them.

According to a published report, Sheriff
Kinney attempted to deputize one Abraham
Kitchell to join in the hunt. Said Kitchell,
“Come on, | know where Ford is and I'll take
you to the spot. But you know you dare not
arrest him.” Pursuing what one historian calls
“a leisurely pace,” Kinney. and his posse
reached the cabin, but Ford, who had been
alerted, was gone.

“There,” said Kitchell ts the- sheriff,
where Sam Ford has been hiding, and ay
would rather give your horse, saddle and bridle
than to find him here now.”

While the sheriff was playing his catand- 5:
*. mouse game with an escapee he had no inten-

~~ tion cf apprehending, Ford’s co-conspirators

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Recorders, Cassettes, Radios, HbFidetity C

pleaded guilty to the indictments lodged
against them ‘und in an attempt to lighten their

: eng shop in the swamp.

The searchers assigned by the court found
ony the press and a leather cover that held
the bills as they were struck. On the leather
was, the impression of a Pennsyivania three-
pound note of 1769. A month later, a more-
thorough search uncovered a set of plates for
printing the currencies of Maryland, New Jer-
sey, New York and Pennsylvania plus a quan-
tity of type faces and tools.

. - To satisfy Ford’s debts and fines, the court
ordered his modest home sold at auction. Sher-
iff Kinney presided at the auction, at which
every scrap of his belongings was sold, even a
tin cup for the baby’s milk. During the sale,
Ford’s son, William, said aloud to Kinney, “y
have seen you in my father’s shop in the.
Hammock.” ;

By this time, the sheriff's relations with
. Ford were an.open scandal, but Kinney also
had friends in high places, it seems. The Privy
Council (legislature) indicted him for “negli-
gence in his office, respecting the escape of -
Ford.” The Council advised Gov. William °
Franklin (son of Benjamin) to “prosecute the-
said indictment at the next court,” but there
is no record that this was done..

As for Ford, he -was being pursued by
scores of peace officers, bounty hunters and
some Indians who had helped the counterfeiter
flee New Jersey and were paid off in bogus
money. The story of the escape was big news

up and down the Atlantic Seaboard. News- .--

papers in the large cities printed reports on
the fugitives, almost always adding that their
capture was imminent.

One of Ford’s most dogged pursuers was'2*

a Mr. Scott, who hoped that his capture would
aid the-men under sentence of death in Mor-

ristown. Scott got no closer to his quarry than - =.

(Continued on Page 47)

Newark Sunday

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and prayed with -him. The men removed

their hats.

In a short, impassioned speech, Reynolds
warned the people to avoid the vices that had
brought about his doom, and he asked them
not to think harshly of “my innocent wife and
helpless infants.” Many in the throng were
crying and some turned away.

The executioner affixed the knotted rope
to Reynolds’ neck and hastily sprang the trap.
A great roar went up, whether of triumph or
horror, no one could say. But now the crowd
‘could hardly contain itself. It had tasted blood
and wanted more. Who would be next? Would
it-be Dr. Budd, who only weeks before had

SOROS RIANA Cra ROOD NI SARI LEGER TN

"The ‘mos? accomplished

fage
this country ever

SL OY BERD O Te

produced.”

+ ee SEE pons nee OPER RRS Rs IO AS

' most accomplished villain that this country
ever produced.” Ford had eluded his captors
and at the very moment of the execution was
being chased by posses through several states -

_ Ford was unquestionably one of the fore-

‘ Thost rascals of the Colonial period. A jail-

breaker and two-time bigamist, he was accused
of helping to raid the East Jersey Treasury at
Perth Amboy in a daring escapade. But he
won his reputation for infamy in quite a differ-
ent field. He was perhaps the finest counter-

” feiter in the young country’s history.

It is not clear why Ford chose a life of
‘ crime. He came from one of the most prom-
-jnent families in New Jersey, members of

»_ which live on the original Ford property to this
“day. His grandfather, Jonn. Ford; founded the

first industry in northwest Jersey, one that
opened the region to colonization. - His father
was a wealthy landowner, and-his first cousin,
Col. Jacob Ford Jr., built. the mansion in
Morristown which George Washington would
use as his headquarters’ in - the winter of
1779-80. The Ford mansion is today the cen-
ter of the Morristown National Historical Park.
Young Sam started out well.. A handsome,
dimpled fellow, he married Grace Kitchell, sis-

> ter of United States Sen. Aaron Kitchell. He
Went into. the iron industry with Ben Cooper,

~ of a well-known legal family, and Lord Stirling,
who later, as Gen. Stirling, would serve with
distinction: at Trenton, Brandywine and Mon-
mouth in the Revolutionary War.

pep

News Magazine 14 December 1569.

SPIRACY

But the business failed, and Fore, instead
of seeking help from his family, decided he was
cut out for more artistic work than iron mining..
A skillful artist as a youth, he conceived a plan
for putting his pen to profitable if illegal use. ©
Counterfeiting was fairly unknown in the
colonies in the 18th century. The colonists
were rough, generally illiterate men too busy
wresting a meager living from the harsh wilder-
ness even to consider such an arcane art. The
most skilled designers of fictitious money were
to be found in Europe, particularly in Ireland.
And so Ford booked passage for Ireland to
serve his apprenticeship. An apt pupil, the Jer-
_ seyan became a skilled engraver and printer
in a matter of months. But he had an eye for =
_ more than the fine line of the etcher’s block. —
He met and wooed an Irish girl of some wealth
» and persuaded her to marry him, neglecting =:
to mention he already had a wife and three “ess
‘ ‘children back home. = °° fee" .¢ 4B Ss. Fore
incredibly, Ford brought his bride back to ~.=
- | Jersey, where she learned of his first marriage
- land nearly went mad. Ford, livedt uehermed

sa) life; he was never charged with this, the first Bt

és of two bigamous marriages. A charming rascal,
people forgave and forgot his crimes.

Shortly after Ford returned to America, rev-
' enue agents seized a large bundie of counter-
feit Jersey Bills of Credit that had been se-
creted aboard a ship arriving in New York from
ireland. These were traced to Ford, and he
was arrested in New York in 1767. Again, he
-was released in bail and somehow avoided
_ prosecution. , :

cas Ford beguiled his wife Grace into a re-
‘union, and the family settled in a small house ~ .
- that sat on the edge of a swamp a few miles - -
_.-from Morristown. It soon developed that Ford
was using the family cottage as a front for
his counterfeiting schemes.

.. © Some distance behind the house in an area ~~
called The Hammock (now the site of Morris- -~ =? -
-town Airport) Ford built a small shop for what ©: <i
he facetiously told friends would be “a money- 3
making affair.” To cover his activities, he set-<!% "i

out every day with a gun over his shoulder, -V. ~
telling his gullible wife that he was going hunt-* 2: 3

ting. To get to the shop, later- investigation ~ i :
proved, he had to crawl through dense under- 55 j

brush on his hands and. knees-. Peek

’ Many of Ford’s friends, including several ~ —
county officials, suddenly became’ interested
in hunting in The Hammock, an area not known — -
for its plentiful. game. The fact that few of =~
these sportsmen bagged anything more than
- . an occasional rabbit, did not cool their enthu- -
‘ siasm. Obviously, they were either helping Ford 3
with his printing press or protecting him.
Then on the evening of July 21, 1768, Ford = .°

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is said to have done an unusual thing. He in-
terrupted his counterfeiting to take part in a
daring robbery of the Treasury of East Jersey
in Perth Amboy. His accomplices were Ben
‘Cooper, his former partner in the iron mine,
and three soldiers stationed in the Treasury.
Five years later, Cooper confessed his part
in the theft, saying his share of the loot had
been $1,500.

, The confession appeared in The New York
Gazette and The Weekly Mercury of Sept. 27,
1773. According to Cooper’s account, the plan
was to break into the Treasury Building and
carry off an iron chest’ known to hold more
than $32,000 in cash. If this was not possible
they then would get the key to the chest from
Stephen Skinner, the treasurer, killing him if

" -: necessary. ae o>
The chest had proved too heavy to lift, said
_Cooper, so he and Ford searched for other
In a locked desk in a room next

2-="to Skinner’s bedroom,. the confession contin-

“psa ued, they found an old, rusted key which ~
<t.2:* proved to’ be the one for the chest. ‘They

“* scooped up the bills and coins and fled into
_ the night, leaving Treasurer Skinner unharmed
“and presumably still sleeping soundly. -

To the day. he gied, far from.the reach of-

“the law, Ford denied participating in the Perth
*"Benboy caper, and he probably told the truth.
A brilliant engraver and dye maker, he had
. no need to risk his neck stealing money that

“~::he could duplicate with uncanny faithfulness
‘*"on fis press in the The Hammock swamp. A

“treasury heist was decidedly not his type of

operation.

Furthermore, Cooper himself had con- ,

sistently denied that either he or Ford were-

involved in the Perth Amboy robbery. His “con-

fession,” as we shall see, was wrung from: him
under: particularly grisly circumstances.

Meanwhile, Ford in 1773 was flooding the

- New Jersey, province with his spurious. cur-

rency. His imitation bills of New York, New

“Jersey and Pennsylvania were so true that they _

defied detection by the closest scrutiny and

even stood the test of several treasury exam-

- jnations... His friends joking called him “The
treasurer for the three provinces.” ;

But; the balloon burst on Friday, July 165,

1773, when without warning Ford was ar-

_rested*at his home. At the same time,-five -
of his*confederates were-taken into custody -

and all six of them were carted off to the

‘= County.Jail in Morristown. ~.:
_ Ford’*was_ charged with counterfeiting.
Cooper, Samuel Haynes, Dr. Budd and Justice
of the Peace Ayres were accused of passing
the bills. David Reynolds’ crime was supplying
Ford with type for his presses. Tie arrests
caused a sensation. Ford, Budd and Cooper

- were members of Colonial aristocracy. Ayres,
a deacon in his church, was turned over to
- authorities - in - Sussex County, his legal
residence.

‘.- friends. to stay tong in jail, especially since
-- counterfeiting was a capital offense that called

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TRIAL

APPEALS

FRANK NEWTON OFFICE SUPPLY=DOTHAN

severe for a woman who had acted in
defense of her life and honor. And,
on the other hand, suppose that I failed
to secure a new trial before the Court
of Errors and Appeals! Then the Par-
don Board would have exhausted its
jurisdiction in the offer it had just
Tolla’s reprieve would be
rty days. Might she not
to die at the end of that
r all Should I gamble—
If I
be executed. Had I
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ra short recess. Believe
it to think things over.
vas granted.

Wher returned to the corridor,

John Tolla, who was waiting there
anxiously, misinterpreted my grave

attitude to mean that I had received a
fur worse answer. He began weeping,
i with me to ask that he

assuring him that al! was
I walked down the corridor
e of Robert McArthur, At-

‘al, hoping that he would
outh and offer me some
years of his long ex-
as cordial and sympa-

thetic, b

red me that my problem
Was an dual responsibility, and
that he not feel free to interfere.
Finally, returned to the Pardon
Board accepted the thirty-day

oping that I had done the

Mrs: Tolla that her agony of suspense

‘vas not yet over.
must have been especially dis-
‘Ing to hear, for the day before,

Ros

a fellow immigrant, had
{ in the jail yard before

The intimacy of the
ensack jail had provided

these two Anna Valentina, another
prisoner, with consoling opportunities

to reminisce about their homes and
families in Italy. Father Lambert
usualls t his evenings at the jail

and sat in on these conversations, for
he was filled with pity for these lost
children of a sunny land who had
ventured so far away only to share
this common doom.

Rosa’s execution had been particu-
larly horrifying. A few hours before
the scheduled time, the panic-stricken
man had somehow eluded his guard,
and barricaded himself in a closet. No
threat or inducement could get him
out, and it had finally been necessary
to break through the wall and play a
hose on him until he was exhausted
before his half-conscious form could
be retrieved. His terror had subsided,
however, when the time arrived, and
he marched calmly to his death on the
gallows less than a hundred feet from
Antoinette’s cell window.

Weeks fled by and the end of Mrs.
Tolla’s reprieve was in sigkt, but still
no decision had been handed down by
the Supreme Court. When only three
days were left, I grew so uneasy that
! could not refrain from calling on
each of the Judges separately to re-
mind them that the reprieve had al-
most run out, and beseeching them to
render a prompt decision.

On the next to the last day of the
reprieve, the Court ruled that sufficient
new evidence had been presented to
warrant a new trial. But in the same
breath, it declared that it had no juris-
diction to re-open the case at this late
date!

ALMOST wept with disappointment,

but I could not give up fighting now.
Inquiries revealed that, fortunately,
the March term of the Court of Par-
dons was to begin its sessions the fol-
lowing day. I determined that I must
get a hearing before it somehow, for
that would be the final day of Mrs.
Tolla’s reprieve.

In the event of failure to reach the
Pardon Board on time, I proceeded to
get out a Writ of Error for the United
States Supreme Court, as a final ges-
ture to stay the hanging, if that should
become necessary. This paper re-
quired Mrs. Tolla’s signature, and I
made the trip once more to the Hack-
ensack jail.

A snowstorm was raging as I board-
ed a late train at the Hackensack sta-
tion that night to return to the capital.
I had just been seated when I noticed

that Governor Stokes was sitting across
the aisle, reading an evening newspa-
per. I didn’t think he had seen me, but
when we left the train, he came toward
me smiling in a way that implied ad-
miration of my stubbornness, and said,
“Are you still working to save Mrs.
Tolla?” I replied that I would not give
up as long as there was hope.

The following afternoon, March 11,
1906, I was allowed a ten-minute hear-
ing before the Governor and his board.

“Her (Mrs. Tolla’s) state of mind
on that occasion was one evincing de-
liberation and premeditation; but had
the excluded testimony (as to ante-
cedent sexual assaults and indignities)
been admitted, the verdict upon this
vital point might have been different.
A prolonged and persistent course of
efforts to debauch a woman have a
different effect on her mind than a
single solicitation. A strong element
of premeditation was shown in the
purchase of the pistol. I cannot agree,
however, that if the pistol was not
used in self-defense, it may not have
been purchased with that object, and
if it was, the strong element of pre-
meditation drops out of the case or,
at least, is rendered doubtful.”

I concluded my plea with the con-
tention that, since the courts of law
declared themselves powerless to right
the wrong done this woman, it was the
duty of the Court of Pardons to pass
on the evidence as a trial court and
jury, and consider a full pardon. My
ten minutes were up, and I retired
from the chamber.

When I was recalled, it was to hear
the joyful announcement that I had
been successful—but to a far greater
degree than I had dared hope for! The
governor, after a vote of six to two
by the board, had commuted Mrs.
Tolla’s death sentence to only seven
and a half years’ imprisonment! It was
the only time in the history of the
State of New Jersey when the Court

of Pardons had ever commuted a death
sentence to anything but life impris-
onment. Allowing for the time An-
toinette had already spent in jail, and
good behavior, her actual term would
be about five years.

Antoinette Tolla was the last wo-
man New Jersey ever sentenced to the
gallows, the electric chair having been
substituted since. Immediately after
the commutation, she was removed to
the State Prison at Trenton, where she
served out her sentence. During that
time, she learned English so well that
she conversed fluently with me when
I went to accompany her from the
prison on the happy day of her release.

At the time of the commutation, the
Cincinnati Post, which was widely cir-
culated among Italians in this country,
had offered me a bonus of $2,000 for
my services to Mrs. Tolla. I had taken
her case without any expectation of a
fee, however, so I instructed the Post
to place the money in trust for her,-in-
stead. A representative arrived to
make the formal donation to Mrs.
Tolla when she left prison.

As I look back over thirty years to
the naive world in which Antoinette
Tolla’s tragedy was enacted, I fird the
circumstances almost incredible. Here
was a poor immigrant woman who had
been treated with as little considera-
tion, almost, as a slave before some
medieval tribunal. Evidence in her
case had been so badly bungled that
a gun, and even the autopsy surgeon’s
report, had failed to be properly in-
cluded in the record. The woman’s
testimony in court had been translated
perfunctorily by an incompetent in-
terpreter, and finally I, a young and
inexperienced attorney, had rushed in
at the eleventh hour and managed to
right the injustice only by a kind of
desperate persistence.

Antoinette Tolla lives today. After
thirty years, in unfailing gratitude and
friendship, she still comes to see me
occasionally and never forgets to bring
some small, hand-made gift. She is a
grandmother, for her two daughters
have. long since married. Obscure
though she may be, she is a useful and
admirable citizen. I never think of her
but with a feeling of gratitude, myself,
that it was given me to save this life
that would otherwise have been so in-
differently lost.

Protecting Women from Crime (Continued from Page 37)

) is to affx the vent-lock by
2 the small slit under the head
. Ilustration No. 2 is a
g vent-lock in position.

ice. costing more but
price, is the “Cleverly
‘This is a highly
ialarm. It is made
‘ucted metal and comes

The main part, which
weer, shown in Illustration
securely affixed to the sides
nt or window-frame. The
shown in Ilustration

Pthe ec
smalle:

No, 4d, consists of a small metal bar
mountec on insulated base. This is
affixed to the side of the window
proper in such manner that when the
window is in position, the contact-
tongue of the main part touches the
contact plate on the side of the

window.

N ELECTRIC wire leads to the main

body of this alarm, the source be-
ing the house current. If the window
should be raised only an inch or two,
the contact is broken and the alarm is
given. One of the “leads” or electric
wires is. of course, attached to a bell:
this bell can be as small or as large,
ov as loud, as personal preference sug-
gests. Somewhat similar devices can
be used for doors, the price being the
same. There is nothing complicated

about devices and they can be
installed in a short time by one handy
with tools and a little knowledge of
‘ementary electricity,

Nor do the windows have to be kept

vlosed in order to allow this alarm to
operate. If you use a ventilator, the
arm parts can be affixed at such

points as to ring if the window be

raised above the height of the venti-
lator. Even with the Vent-Lock, men-
tioned before, the height of installation
can be arranged so as to allow for
the use of a ventilator. Moreover, with
the Vent-Lock, the single nail used
to hold it in place does not have to
be removed in order to raise or lower
window for cleaning. The nail] is
driven so far into the frame that the
window easily passes it when the
Vent-Lock itself is removed for this
purpose. Such removal takes only a
second. us does the replacement.

The Vent-Locks cost approximately
ten cents apiece, the Cleverly window
alarm costs approximately a dollar, as
does the Cleverly door alarm. A
reader not long ago wrote me and
asked if the devices I recommend
are merely “ideas” that have to be
worked up by an inventor, or whether
these devices are on the market. Not
one of these alarms cited in any of
my writings is an “idea.” Every one
is on the market, with the exception
of the wind-up door alarm-bell shown
some time ago. That alarm is no
longer on the market; all the others
are quite easily procured.

Every one of these devices and
alarms is practical, effective. But there
are sO many conditions under which
they might be used, and such a wide
variety of tastes have to be considered,
that instead of recommending only one
protective lock or alarm, different ones
are written about in each article. An-
other reason is that in many cases some
of these locks and alarms are easily
obtainable in one section of the coun-
try, while others are not, but all are
procurable. (See note at end of this
article.)

Our primary object is to keep be-
fore the public, and women particu-
larly, the always-present danger of
attack or invasion, the necessity for
keeping these marauders out, and the
means by which this can be achieved.
Which method is to be adopted, how-
ever, is up to the reader himself—or
herself. Certainly enough different
types of lock or alarm are demon-
strated to permit of easy selection,
since the variety is almost unlimited.
The important thing is to adopt some
kind of protection for windows and
doors,

Even if doors or windows were un-
protected and a sex fiend or burglar
got in, if you could only know he was
there you might be able to get a
weapon, or scream in time. But the
records show that rarely does such a
chance come. In most cases, you do
not know the invader is there at all.
He sulks about your house and your
very bedroom, and you know nothing
of it. That’s the hideous part of it.

AKE the case of Rose Scalea in

Philadelphia last May. Shortly after
4 a.m. Rose awakened at her home,
No. 5327 Wakefield Street, in the Ger-
mantown section. She looked squarely
into the face of a husky prowler who
was bending over her bed. Just pic-
ture this to yourself. A few there may
be who can know that they would
have “done something,” but the ma-
jority of women would faint and be at
the mercy of the intruder. And if the
woman has a weak heart she might
even die of fright. In the Scalea case,
the fifteen-year-old girl screamed and
grabbed a butcher knife. Such knives
are not, of course, standard boudoir

equipment, but Rose explained later
that she took the knife to her room
the night before to open packages. In
any event Rose was lucky that she was
able to scream and that she had the
knife. But suppose she had failed to
scream! Suppose the intruder had
wrested the knife from her and killed
her to stifle any cries. The intruder
fled, jumping through the kitchen’win-
dow. It was through the kitchen win-
dow that he had entered the house.
A ten-cent device would have pre-
vented that entry.

It is certain that the ability to
scream can not be relied on; you may,
under ordinary circumstances, be a
good screamer, but you can’t know
what you’d do under the acid test.
Your abilities might fail at the crucial
moment.

The record is clear; thousands of
women need not have died had they
protected doors and windows. Many
women today, potential victims of all
types of prowlers, need not die, but
they must take the initiative. They
must make their doors and windows
as secure against invasion as though
they had definite knowledge that they
were next on the list of some criminal
bird of prey. If they do this these
crimes must necessarily decrease in
number.

Note: The author does not sell the
devices described in his articles, nor
act as agent for dealers. But if fur-
ther information on these devices is
desired, this can be obtained by writ-
ing the author in care of AcTUuAL Dr-
TECTIVE STORIES OF WOMEN IN CRIME,
and inclosing stamped addressed en-
velope for reply.

NOS VA 3 ve ry 9

But the State Said She

WOMAN'S hysterical screams
A shattered the mid-afternoon

quiet of Kingsland, New Jer-
sey’s, tiny main street. Folks who had
been basking in front of the town’s
general store in the first warm sun of
Spring turned startled eyes in the di-
rection of the persistent cries. Their
mouths dropped open in amazement
as they saw a young woman running
toward them down the middle of the
street. She was making frantic ges-
tures in the air and shrieking in an
abandonment of hysteria.

“I shot him! I shot him!” she kept
repeating in her native Italian as the
men started toward her. It was then
that they noticed for the first time that
she held a pistol in her right hand.

The young woman, Antoinette Tolla,
was well known to those who gathered
about her, for she was a friend, a
neighbor, a part of their small intimate
community life. About 26 years of age
and unusually pretty in a dark, vigor-
ous way, she had come to Kingsland
with her husband, John Tolla, about a
year before. Tolla was a day-laborer
and the young couple were among the
poorest in the community. Their home
consisted of two shabby rooms and a
few sticks of furniture above a store
in the main part of town, where they
lived with their two small daughters.
It was down the rickety stairs from
this ‘abode that Antoinette had run
screaming into the street, a pistol still
clutched in her hand.

But whom had she shot? That was
the question -the men asked as they
sought to quiet the hysterical woman.
Was it her husband, the amiable John
Tolla? They wondered. It didn’t seem
likely, for the young couple had got
on well enough. Antoinette, stronger
than her husband, had worked hard
and was always doing something to
augment his meager income.

She was a good mother to her little
girls, and no breath of scandal had
ever attached to her. In fact, she was
religious and almost aggressively re-
spectable, as are so many women of
her peasant immigrant class. What,
then, was the meaning of her startling
declaration?

Unable to quiet the weeping woman
sufficiently to get a clear statement,
the men hurried toward the Tolla
home and climbed the stairs to the two
modest rooms. Breathlessly, a pair of
the men burst through the partly open
door—and then stepped back aghast.

Slumped in a rocking-chair beside
the living-room window sat a man.
His legs were crossed, a briar pipe was
held carelessly in his right hand, and
his chin rested on his chest. One might
have thought that he was asleep—
except for a steady stream of crimson
that trickled from his forehead and
fell in an ever-widening stain upon
his shirtfront!

The men had no difficulty in recog-
nizing him, for he was Joseph Sonta,
one of the first inhabitants of the
Italian colony, and probably the best-
kknown man in the town. A messenger
was sent at once to summon a doctor,
and subsequent examination revealed
that two bullets had sped through
Sonta’s brain, completely transversing
the skull. Death had been almost in-
stantaneous.

The day upon which this dramatic
scene took place was one long to be
remembered in American history, for
it was March 4, 1905, the inaugural
day of President Theodore Roosevelt.
In Washington, a fine Spring sun

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By Grace Humiston

Famous Criminal Lawyer, as Told to

Gertrude Klein

shown down on glistening parades of
men in tall silk hats, women in gleam-
ing regalia, and blaring, military bands,
all paying homage to the Nation’s man
ol ya hour, popular Theodore Roose-
velt.

In Kingsland, however, it is doubtful
if more than a handful of people were
even conscious of what was taking
place in Washington that afternoon, or
could have called the President by
name, for that matter. For Kingsland
was one of those many little colonies
of newer Americans—this one an
Italian community, living a life by
itself, oblivious to anything beyond its
boundaries, but destined on this very
day to be the scene of a drama of
its own.

Few among this little town’s people
could even speak the language of their
adopted country. Without radios, mov-
ies, or the picture newspapers of our
present day, it was difficult for them
to learn a new tongue or new ways.
They lived practically in isolation
according to their Old World traditions
and habits, and in comparative ignor-
ance of the customs, or even the laws
of the new land.

Whatever disputes arose among them
were settled in their own way and they
seldom had recourse to American
courts, for they dreaded being faced
there with the handicap of an un-
known tongue. :

Once in a while, of course, the diffi-
culties of this sort of self-government
led to a serious crime among them.
Then it did become a matter for the
regular Courts, and they were dragged

’ like terror-stricken children before the

strange tribunals.

HE dead man had been the richest

Italian in Kingsland. Among the first
immigrants to settle there, he had lit-
erally built up the town, for contract-
ing and building was his trade. Pros-
pering, perhaps beyond his wildest
dreams, he had eventually owned so
much property in Kingsland that he
had come to be regarded as a sort of
unofficial mayor or town boss to his
fellow immigrants.

A little over fifty years of age, he
was married and the father of a family
of nine children. Sonta’s household
rarely saw anything of him except at
mealtime, however, for he preferred
spending his time at some favorite
town meeting-place, usually the back
room of a store, where he played cards
with his cronies for whole afternoons

‘or evenings at a stretch, and large

quantities of wine were consumed, He
was an expansive fellow who laughed
loud and ate heartily, but he was
feared as much as liked by his asso-
ciates, for he could display a violent
temper when his slightest wish was
crossed.

The Tollas and Sontas had lived only
a few blocks apart, and had been ap-
parently good friends. Sonta had
known Antoinette and her father when
she had been a little girl growing up
in the Old Country. He had come to
America around that time, and An-
toinette had later married John Tolla
in Italy. Two children had been born
to them within three years, and the
young couple, finding it difficult to
make a living there, had decided that
they, too, would try their fortunes in
America. ‘

Antoinette’s father had accordingly
written his friend, Sonta, in America
and the prosperous builder had offered
Tolla employment in Kingsland as-a

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with just a few hours to
live, looks wistfully out
of the barred window of
his cell in Chicago, possi-
bly realizing that “Crime
Does Not Pay.”’ He faces
the electric chair for the
slaying of an officer
he

In Camden, New Jersey, William J.
Stephan tries to avoid camera. He
has been convicted of the murder of
Curtis W. Dobbins and sentenced to
die. (Right) Roland Munroe, fifteen-
year-old schoolboy, charged with the
hammer murder of an elderly crippled
widow, answers his attorney's ques-
tions during trial in a Chicago court

Fourteen Brooklyn, N. Y., hoodlums,
charged with beating, stripping and at-
tacking a sixteen-year-old girl, endeavor
to dodge cameras as they enter the po-
lice wagon. (Right) Mrs. Ruth Moran
(without hat) in court at Kenosha,
Wisconsin, with Sergeant Beulah McNeil,
pleads guilty to killing her lover

Luther Jones, Montana
ex-convict, confesses kill-
ing four men in a remote
cabin, while attempting to
stage a lone hold-up

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ECTIVE

STORIES

Vol. Il.

October 15, 1936 — Now Published Twice a Month

No. 11

Above, the man who

Acre Crowd as

“blond alibi”

Mountwell Avenue!”

Those words, crackling
laboriously over the telephone of Chief
of Police William Start, of fashionable
Haddonfield, New Jersey, at 10:42
o’clock on the night of Tuesday, Au-
gust 11, 1936, raised the curtain on a
heinous crime which, at the very mo-
ment you are reading this, has Camden
County, New Jersey, at fever pitch. The
prominence of the victim—Curtis W.
Dobbins, brilliant young engineer of
the RCA Victor Corporation—the mo-
tive for the crime, and the manner in
Which the case was cracked, set this
mystery distinctly apart from run-of-
the-mill homicides. The writer has
been on the scene since the night of
the shooting, has followed every de-

6 Ps ‘VE JUST been shot! Please
come to two - forty - one

is
known in the Hell’s Half
“Ace-in-
the-Hole” and, right, his

By
OFFICIAL
DETECTIVE

STORIES’
Roving
Reporter

~
velopment step by step, and is thus in
a position to present exclusively to
readers of OrriciaL DETECTIVE STORIES
the real facts by which Samuel P. Or-
lando, prosecutor of Camden County,
hopes to send the man accused of the
crime to the electric chair when he
goes on trial for his life at the Septem-
ber term of court...

“We'll be right there!” barked Chief
of Police Start in answer to the
agonized telephone plea.

Violent crimes are unsual in Had-
donfield, Camden’s most exclusive sub-
urb, a quiet, tree-lined community

where many Philadelphians and South
Jerseyites find surcease in luxurious
homes after the labors of the day.
Prior to this fateful night of August 11,
only one murder had been committed
in Haddonfield since the founding of
the borough by Elizabeth Haddon in
1713.

Chief Start and several officers ar-
rived at the smart residence at No. 241
Mountwell Avenue in a few minutes.
A group of excited neighbors milled
over the sidewalk. The home was
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Y. Dob-
bins, the former a Federal parole of-

mm fin Pal
3 pearing OF THE cont

of the
CAMDEN

DOBBINS

The
were at their Summer home in Oc

ficer for New Jersey.

parents

City, and their son Curtis, 28, was
cupying the residence alone, it r
his habit to spend week-ends only at
the Summer home.

Chief Start found Dobbins lying or
a sofa in the living-room. It w:
stifling, humid night. The windows
were all up and the doors open

“Hello, Chief!” Dobbins smiled war
ly as he spoke. Start noticed that the
young man was gripping his left side

“Hello, Curt,” said the police chief

Fin eel ame eres cat
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et “tion Ct Nn me,

The Dobbins house in Haddonfield, showing clearly the screen door through
which three shots were fired at Curtis Dobbins and, right, a recent photo-
graph of the young engineer who became a wanton killer’s victim

I didn’t recognize the address at first.
What happened?”

‘Tl tel tater,’ said Dobbins.
“Please get me a doctor right away.”

It was when he assisted Dobbins to
his feet that the chief saw the first
evidence of what was wrong—a red
splotch on the left side of the en-
gineer’s white shirt.

“Are you bad off, Curt?”

“I think it went right through me.
It feels that way, anyway.”

yeu

N ROUTE to West Jersey Hospital in
Camden, Dobbins, who was growing
rapidly weaker, told Chief Start what
had happened. He had been playing
handball at Camden Y. M. C. A. with
a friend—Clinton A. Hill—earlier in
the evening. Hill had dropped Dob-
bins off at the latter’s home about
half past ten. Five minutes later the
young engineer was slouched in an
easy chair in the comfortable living-
room, reading a book.
The door-bell rang. Dobbins looked

at the clock. It was 10:40. He*’won-
dered who could be calling at that
hour. He went to the front door. The

door itself was open, and he looked
through the unlocked screen door to
see, dimly illuminated by the house
lights. the features of a man he never
before had laid eyes on. The man he
described as short and dark, with no
distinguishing characteristics.

“Stick ’em up!” said the visitor on
the other side of the screen door.

With that the stranger brought a
gun into sight. Dobbins, who had
captained the basketball team at Drex-
el Institute in Philadelphia, was agile,
a perfect specimen of physical rugged-
ness. Quickly he turned sideways,

thinking to prevent a bullet through
the heart. He was. about to dash out
of the range of possible fire when three

shots barked in quick succession.
Two went wild. One caught him in
the side.

He stood at the door a moment,
clutching his side in agony, his head
swimming. He heard the patter of
departing footsteps, and the sound of
an automobile being put into gear.
Clutching furniture as he went, he
managed to get back into the living-
room and telephone the police. Then
he lay on the sofa until Chief Start
and his men arrived.

“Any idea who might have done this,
Curt?” asked the chief.

“None whatever, Chief — unless
somebody was after father and mis-
took me for him.”

At West Jersey Memorial Hospital
in Camden, an ether mask was placed
over Curt Dobbins’ handsome counte-
nance and he was lifted onto an oper-
ating table. Doctor J. Stannard Davis
probed the wound. A bullet had en-
tered the engineer’s left side, torn
through his intestines, and lodged just
below the skin on his right side. Doc-
tor Davis’ scalpel cut away the skin,
and there was the bullet.

The physician looked up grimly.
“This man,” he said, “needs a trans-
fusion.”

ORD of the shooting of Dobbins,

one of the most popular members
of the exclusive community, spread on
the wings of the wind, and within half
an hour of his arrival at the hospital
the corridors were thick with his
friends. The blood of Karl Tule, as-
sistant postmaster at Haddonfield, was

On August 11, 1936, There Broke the Bizarre Case
of the Killing of a Sir Galahad—the Braggart
Who Made Good with Murder, Weakened and
Then Fled Before He Had Completed His Crime—
the Woman Scorned—the Blond Alibi—All Told

Here for the

Pod

while

and
Dobbins began a losing fight with the
Grim Reaper, the machinery of the
law was going into high gear.

The bullet extracted from the shoot-

used in the transfusion,

ing victim was of .38 caliber. Chief
Start and his men, examining the
screen door on the Dobbins home,
noticed three holes in the mesh, all
close together. This seemed to bear
out the victim’s statement that he had
been fired at three times.

Following the supposed course of
the bullets, the Chief and his men
found two jagged holes in furniture in
the living-room. Probing the holes,
they extracted two more .38 caliber
bullets.

Inasmuch as the man with the gun
had not actually entered the Dobbins
home, finger-prints were out of the
question. He had taken the gun with
him. Footprints, too, were out because

First

Time in Full Detail

he had be¢n obliged to tread on no
loose earth that would hold a good
footprint in his flight from the porch
to the curb. Apparently he had made
his escape in an automobile.

An examination of the jagged holes
in the screen door led Chief Start to
the conclusion that the man who had
fired the shots was tall, probably a
six-footer—contrary to Dobbins’ flash
impression. The chief deduced this
from the height of the bullet holes
above the floor, and their course. Ex-
amination of the bent-in screen
around the holes disclosed that the
pellets had taken a downward path.
This was corroborated by the course
which the bullet had taken through
Dobbins’ body, which had also been
downward, from left to right.

There are large trees on Mountwell
Avenue, in the shooting vicinity, and
the thoroughfare there is rather dark

— 7 i

UCKSHOT terminated what police

described as a five-day trail of terror
at Clinton, Mass., when a garage owner
blazed away at two bandits who at-
tempted to rob him. One of them, iden-
tied as W. E. Burnett, was instantly
killed. His partner, Roy E. Johnson was
later captured by the police.

Justice issued a one-way ticket to ob-
livion to William J. Stephan, 31, in Tren-
ton, N. J.,a few weeks ago. He was elec-
trocuted for the murder of Curtis W.
Dobbins during a frustrated holdup in
Haddonfield, N. J.

Police broke a gang of mid-We8te
bank robbers in a barrage of gunplay
reminiscent of the old wild and woolly
West. The gang leader, known only as
“Mac,” and one of his aides, Vincent
Glavis, were killed in the 20-minute battle

( that took place in a rooming house at
Columbus, Ohiog Several other members
of the gangster Nob were captured.

worker, Was s
car and his body dumped into the street.
Kilcullen was a paroled ex-convict with
a police record a mile long. Police believe

- the murder was the result of a quarrel
over division of $24,000 taken recently in
a steamship company payroll robbery.

bad

Chicago’s gang wars are gradually
purging that city. Sam Costello, leader
of the last ragged remnants of the Capone
gang, was “bumped off” by rival gang-
sters, along with three friends, one of
them his brother, Nick. Police blamed
the rich slot-machine racket.

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“He didn’t treat you very well, did
9”

“No, he didn’t. He never has. He’s
always getting in and out of trouble.”
And she raged on, growing angrier by
the moment until—

“Look here!” she cried, rising to her
feet, her body rigid, her face white
and blotchy scarlet. ‘“If you want to
know something, I’ll tell you. I’ll show
him!”

She strode from the living-room and
the two wondering detectives followed
through a door into the kitchen. Mrs.
Stephan walked straight across the
room to the stove, jerked open the
oven door and pulled out—a gun.

She handed it to the amazed Mul-
ligan. He took it, looked first at her,
then down at the gun. It was a .38—
the same caliber as the slug which had
wounded Curt Dobbins!

Three chambers were empty.

MULLIGAN looked at the livid-faced
woman,

“Where did you get this, Mrs.
Stephan?”

“It belongs to him—to my husband.
I was going to tell the police anyway.
pretty soon. I’m fed up.”

“Does he always keep it here?”

“He does not.” Her eyes narrowed
in venomous triumph, She said, her
voice charged with emotion, “He put
it there Tuesday night—the night
young Mr. Dobbins was shot.”

Then she told what she knew. It
was little. But it was enough. Ste-
phan usually kept his gun in the bu-
reau in the bedroom. But Tuesday he

—— Pill One

his head. “I’m afraid of the stuff and
never keep it around.”

“Was your wife unhappy or ill? Do
you think she might have taken her
own life?” Gruber’s voice was quiet,
even-toned.

“That’s ridiculous!” the farmer ex-
claimed. “Elta was sensible and a real
religious woman. If she’d been sick,
she’d have gone to a doctor, or I’d have
sent her. She knew it would be sin-
ful to commit suicide. It’s true that she
had a little cold, but so did I. Neither
one of us was seriously sick—”

“How were you treating those
colds?” Ryan cut in.

“We didn’t do anything at first,”
Horton replied. “Then when Elta’s got
worse, Mrs. Johnston—that’s Elta’s best
friend—sent over some quinine cap-
sules with me. Elta may have taken
those before she went to bed. I was
going to take one myself, but they
were gone. And there was nothing
wrong with that medicine. Mrs. John-
ston told me that she herself always
takes quinine when she has a cold.”

The officers exchanged glances when
the capsules were mentioned and Gru-
ber’s forehead puckered when he
thought he had heard some queer in-
flection in Horton’s voice at the men-
tion of Mrs. Johnston. For the mo-
ment, however, the officers let the cap-
sule matter drop. :

Sheriff Lacy smiled at the man sym-
pathetically,

“Describe your wife’s symptoms on
that last night again. Coroner Shum
has told us what you described, but it
will be better if you go over it again
yourself.” ‘

“It’s just as I told the Doctor,” Hor-
ton said in his drawling voice. “All of
\ sudden she woke me up and said that
ier legs were numb and that her heart
vas pounding so much that she was
‘rightened. I felt her chest and her
1eart was going like all get-out. I was
scared for her. She complained of a
yain in her chest—”

had taken it with him. Wednesday
morning it wasn’t back in the bureau
and his wife had asked where it was.
Stephan, nervous and afraid, had re-
fused to tell her,

But she had found it in the oven.
And the rest of that week, Stephan
had watched her like a hawk every
moment she was in the kitchen. The
silent strain had grown until both were
about to crack. Mrs. Stephan had de-
cided to go to the police on the very
day they had come to her.

“I’m glad it’s over now,” she said.

But was it? The car—the gun—
everything pointed to Stephan, all right
—everything except a logical motive,
But not until ballistics tests were in
could the officers be sure.

The two detectives hurried to Head-
quarters, reported to Doran. The De-
tective Chief sent the gun to the lab-
oratory for tests and told his men,
“Keep watch at Frieda’s house and
Stephan’s house and at his office. [’ll
get his wife to swear out a non-sup-
port warrant. If we find him in Phila-
delphia, we’ll use that on him to bring
him back here so we won’t have to go
through extradition.”

So the watch began—the long, lonely
vigil by relentless officers, the watch
supplemented by police teletype and
radio and circulars and the eyes of
hundreds of alert officers looking for
an old, newly painted sedan carrying
an_ex-convict wanted for assault.

They got him. Murphy and Mulli-
gan picked him up in front of Frieda’s
house as he stopped his car,

Heavy hands clapped on his shoul-

ders, and Mulligan said, “You’re under
arrest, Stephan.”

He jumped, tensed, demanded,
“What for?”

“Your wife wants you in Camden
for non-support.”

Stephan almost smiled. His taut
body relaxed, he sighed deeply.

“Oh,” he said. “Okay. Let’s go.”

“We're taking Mrs. Rogers, too.”

They kept Frieda Rogers and Bill
Stephan apart and took them both to
Camden. But there they dropped all
pretense of wanting Stephan for non-
support and slammed at him with the
charge of shooting Dobbins—a charge
that became murder when Dobbins
died early August 17. ’

Stephan, of course, denied every-
thing. He raged at being tricked, de-
manded his release, screamed his in-
nocence. Coldly, with assurance, the
officers confronted him with the evi-
dence they had accumulated—the
newly camouflaged auto, the story of
the fur coat, the broken alibi, the bal-
listics tests which proved beyond ques-
ne that his gun had killed Curt Dob-

ins.

But he hung tough, denying his
guilt, reaffirming his alibi.

‘So they led him away and had the
blonde alibi brought in.

They didn’t ask her if she had been
near the Dobbins home at the time of
the shooting. They asked her: “Just
exactly what did you and Stephan do
when you drove up to the Dobbins
home?”

Her fear-crazed eyes leaped from
cop to cop. She jerked convulsively

at ner handkerchief, crumpled it and
uncrumpled it, finally burst out:

“We didn’t drive up in front.” She
caught her breath, bit her lip, then
plunged on.

“We parked across the street. I had
fallen asleep. I was awakened by
what I thought was backfire from an
automobile. I looked around and didn’t
know where I was. He wasn’t in the
car. Then I saw him come running
over. He jumped in and we started
off fast. When we had gone a block or
so I recognized where we were—in
Haddonfield.”

“Did Stephan tell you what he had
done?”

She appeared anxious to tell them
everything,

“No. Just that he had gotten into a
Jam, Next day I saw in the papers
where this chap Dobbins had been
shot. I put-it up to Ace. He just
laughed and said to keep my mouth
shut. He told me we’d been at Mrs.
Headley’s until one o’clock.”

That was all. Stephan was tried and
convicted and electrocuted at the New
Jersey State Prison at Trenton. ;

His motive? Having worked at the
Dobbins home, he knew of a fur coat
there. He felt he had to make good
his bragging to Frieda. He had gone
to the Dobbins house intending only
to rob. Instead, when Dobbins had
tried to leap out of range of the men-
acing gun, Ace Stephan had killed.
Then, frightened, he had fled without
stealing the coat he came for.

A good man had died because of a
philanderer’s boast.

of His Women Was Poisoned (Continued from Page 21)

“Didn’t she have any abdominal
pains?” asked the Coroner. “Didn’t she
double up and scream? Weren’t there
any convulsions?”

“No,” replied Horton, slowly shak-
ing his head, “nothing like that. Just
her chest and her heart.”

“What had you eaten for supper?”
Gruber asked.

“Nothing fancy, just a plain, every-
day meal. The things we always eat, I
remember we had fried salt pork,
gravy and potatoes, bread and butter
and applesauce and milk—almost ev-
erything raised right there on the farm.
I bought the butter in town myself,
because Elta didn’t churn this past
week.”

“Has your wife been to town re-
cently? Do you do all the shopping
yourself?”

“T’ve been doing most of it the past
two weeks. Elta hasn’t left the farm
for almost two weeks. I know what
you fellows think, but you’re wrong.
Elta didn’t buy no poison in town—
anyhow for the past two weeks—be-
cause she hasn’t left home. She
wouldn’t do it, anyhow; she knows that
I don’t like it around the place.”

“It’s strange to me,” said Coroner
Shum, “that a woman who had swal-
lowed such a large amount of strych-
nine wouldn’t scream in agony. I can’t
believe it.”

HORTON considered the Coroner’s

statement for a time as he contem-
plated his calloused hands which lay
folded in his lap. The room was quiet
when he lifted his blue eyes and looked
at the officers.

“Elta,” he said in his quiet voice,
“was never one to complain. She could
stand suffering right well. I remember
once when she burned herself real bad
and she didn’t even let out a peep.”

Gruber indicated that the question-
ing was over for the time being and
suggested that the officers go out to
the Horton farm. Sheriff Lacy agreed

that would appear to be logical, but
said that he would go out and round
up the other witnesses—Mrs. Johnston,
Miss Slagle and Frank Cubbage.

Prosecutor Warin, Coroner Shum
and Gruber took one sleigh and Hor-
ton drove his own team. At the farm,
Horton built up the fire and the in-
vestigators looked around the place.
Coroner Shum searched the pantry
shelves and examined every dish, glass
and article of silverware in the house.
He even scraped the shelves for dust.
Gruber looked around the farm-build-
ings, but found nothing that looked like
a receptacle for poison. A later analy-
sis of the dust and dishes collected by
Coroner Shum was negative. There
was no poison on the Horton farm.

During the time of this search, Hor-
ton sat quietly by the fire and carried
on a desultory conversation with
Prosecutor Warin. Horton was an en-
thusiastic farmer and Warin encour-
aged the man to speak on the subject
close to his heart. Warin hoped by so
doing that he could find hints of any
possible enmity neighbors might have
borne either Horton or his wife. But
there was nothing. Horton mentioned
the fact that he’d like to be on a bigger
place and that he kept some of his
horses at Mrs. Johnston’s farm.

“Isn’t that rather far away?” Warin
asked. “Why don’t you keep them with
Miss Kemery?”

“Her barns aren’t large enough to
handle ’em and besides that she’s a
little short of feed.”

About that time Gruber came in and
asked Horton if he had a picture of
his dead wife.

“IT sure have,” the farmer said. “She
had some snapshots taken last Fall and
they turned out real nice. Wait a min-
ute and I’ll get ’em for you.”

Horton rummaged around in an old
secretary against the living-room wall
and finally produced a worn, black
purse, obviously a woman’s, He opened
the purse, took out lip-stick, a com-

pact, a woman’s handkerchief, some
hairpins and other odds and_ ends.
There were no pictures, but Gruber
watched closely as the man curiously
fingered the coin purse. The special
agent noted the surprised expression
that came over Horton’s face when the
farmer unsnapped the catch and looked
inside. Quickly, before Horton re-
alized what he was doing, Gruber
reached over and snatched the purse
from Horton’s hands.

H ORTON gasped and went a shade

more pale when Gruber unwrapped
the tiny newspaper-wrapped scrap of
paper and shook its contents out into
the palm of his hand. Every person in
the room was silent as all concentrated
on the tiny, transparent object that
seemed somehow to have assumed
sinister importance,

It was a capsule! But it was empty!

Horton’s face recovered its color and
deepened to a darker shade of crimson.

“By all that’s holy!” he cried.
“Someone's trying to frame me! Some-
one’s trying to put the blame on me
for Elta’s death!”

To the officers, Horton’s suspicions
seemed to be a false conclusion. To
them it appeared more probable that
Elta Horton had purchased the medical
capsules herself, filled a few of them
with strychnine and taken them to end
her life. But why was Horton so cer-
tain that his wife had not committed
suicide?

“It’s that devil—” Horton blurted
out. Then quickly recovering, he said
—‘but that’s foolish.” Horton’s voice
trailed off and, for a time, he remained
completely silent, despite the officers’
urging to say more about the suspicion
he had hinted.

Discovery of the capsule raised sev-
eral startling questions. How did the
empty container get into Elta Horton’s
purse? Why was it placed there? Why
was it empty? Had the dead woman

purchased it, or was someone trying

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STEPHAN, William J., white, elec. NJSP (Camden)

e LOWLY, careful not to cause un-
pe due noise, the man at the wheel
; of the automobile applied his
is brakes. The car slithered to a
3 halt in the leafy gloom of a giant
elm. The headlights were snap-
ped off, but in the instant before the
dashboard light went out, the driver
looked down at the inert heap of a
woman slumped on the séat beside
him.

He narrowed his eyes at the sight
of the blonde locks tumbled over the
pert face, then turned away. He
squeezed the door handle gingerly,
opening it without making a sound.
Then with a careful glance up and
down the dark street, he moved

, around to the sidewalk.

The-man darted across the pave-
ment to the close cropped lawn of a
residence some feet back of the side-
walk. He centinued on his way, edg-
ing closer and closer to the wide
veranda running across the front of
the house, .

Suddenly he darted up the stone
steps, guided now by a light from an
inside room which shone faintly
through a window on the porch. His
hand crept into a side pocket, and
he twined his fingers about the cold
butt of a revolver.

Then he reached over and rang
the bell. ...

T was nearly 11 p. m., the swelter-
ing night of August 11, 1936, when
the telephone in the Haddonfield,

N. J., police station rang. The officer
on duty picked the receiver from the
cradle and applied the instrument to
his ear.

Haddonfield, the somewhat exclu-
sive suburb of the industrial city of
Camden, had little to offer its constab-
ulary in the way of excitement. This
community: was set apart from the
city not only because of its prepond-
erance of fine residences, citizens with
substantial incomes and positions in
life, but because of its, consistently
peaceful tenor of life in contrast to
the more cosmopolitan pace set by
the large factory and ship building
center adjacent.

The officer was startled when he
heard a man’s voice on the wire gasp:
“Hurry—please hurry—lI’ve been
sh-shot .. .”

“Who is this?” the
manded quickly.

There was a brief pause and he
could hear a sharp, sickening intake
of breath before the caller responded.

“Dobbins—” the man said huskily,
“C-Curt Dobbins—”’ There was a
crashing sound as if the caller had
dropped the telephone. Then there
was silence.

The officer on duty yelled into the
mouthpiece, but there was no answer
to his call. He listened tensely, faint-
ly heard the sound of labored breath-
ing: Then he sprang into action.

Patrolmen Harry A. Githens and
William Meader were soon speeding
toward the Dobbins’ residence at 241
Mountwell Avenue. Both officers re-

policeman de-

HEADQUARTERS EAREU

- MURDER RANG A FEARF

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alized the need for haste and within
‘a few minutes after the alarming tele-
phone call had come in, they were
pulling their car to a tire-screeching
stop in front of a spacious brick
house.

Set well back on a velvety lawn,
the comfortable home of Edgar Y.
Dobbins was a monument to his years
of patient and fine work as a parole
officer in the service of the U. S.
Government. It seemed to repre-

HIS STORY———

to police sounded pretty good—_
at the time he told it—but the

memory of a detective upset it

FINE HOME——
in Haddonfield, N. J. where the
cowardly killer fired the fatal

shot at young Curtis W. Dobbins.

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sent and reflect Mr. Dobbins’ solidity
in the community as one of its leading
citizens. ;

This scorching night, however, some
sinister aura seemed to emanate from
thetranquil structure. The hall light
was shining brightly, illuminating
the pore and the cement pathway to
the house. The living room was also
ablaze with light, causing the entire
front of the house to stand out
sharply against the street’s blackness.

os the
‘shooting. Although it was difficult .

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Officer Githens reached the front”
door first. He peered into the hall
way. “The inside door’s open,” he
said to Meader, “but the screen door.’
is still locked.” He waggled the knob ©
experimentally. “Hello, in there,” he”
called. There gwas no semblance of
response.

“We'll have to force
Githens said grimly.
few moments’ work to crash the.
flimsy screen door. Soon Githeng
and Meader were striding into the
house, both alert and prepared for

it open,”
It was but a

trouble.
“Listen,” Githens said, stopping .
suddenly. A low groan echoed hol-

lowly through the passageway. “It’s
from the living room,” the policeman
said. ‘Come on.”
They dashed into the well furnished ‘:
living room and a moment later were
standing over the body of a handsome ~
young man sprawled half on and ‘half °
off the couch. The telephone lay on |
the floor near-by where _nerveless —
fingers had dropped it. There was ‘|
a distinct trail of bloodstains from ‘
the hall to the sofa.
The man on the couch stirred, his. %
eyes fluttered open. 4
“What happened, Curt? Who shot ”
you?” one of the patrolmen asked ©
quickly. ‘
“Don’t know—don’t know,” young:-
Dobbins muttered thickly. One hand —
moved downward, clutched at his *
stomach frantically. His lips moved
slowly. “Bell rang,” he gasped. “Went
to—to open door—a man stood there
—then he shot me—” ;
Gently, the policemen sought to
question Dobbins while he was still
conscious. An ambulance had been
summoned immediately after Dob--
bins’ call to the station house, and
they sought to obtain information.
from the victim before its. arrival. -
If they could learn enough they might
be able to get on the trail of the
young man’s assailant before the
gunman could get a good start.

Y the time the ambulance from the
West Jersey Homeopathic Hos-
pital had arrived, the officers had

drawn from Curt Dobbins some ad-
ditional details

for him to talk, Dobbins told Githens -
and Meader that as he stood behind”
the screen door looking out to the
dark porch, his lead slinging ca
had snarled: “Get your hands up
Then, before the startled young m
could comply, a fusillade of bulle
had burst straight through the copp
mesh.
Dobbins had crumpled to the fioos
flames of pain searing at his stomach
He had then dragged himself to
telephone in the living room. aa
there managed to utter his franw
plea for help. He finally collapse
on the couch. ae
The identity of the

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dark.”

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HANDSOME——
Curt Dobbins lay sprawled half on and
half off the couch. The telephone lay

on the floor where it had been dropped.

EANWHILE, other officials of the
law had made their way to the
scene. Haddonfield Police Chief
William Start, Chief of County Detec-
tives Lawrence T. Doran, County De-
tective James J. Mulligan, and Camden
County Prosecutor Samuel P. Or-
lando were now clustered in the
living room. Officers Githens and
Meader quickly related to the four
men what facts they had learned so
far while the ambulance doctor min-
istered to the stricken Dobbins.
“He’s badly wounded,” the intern
interrupted the assemblage gravely.
“There’s a bullet wound through the
stomach. We’ll have to get him to
the hospital at once.
After the shooting victim had been
laced in the ambulance, the officials
an a thorough inspection of the
hall where the attack had taken place.
Painstakingly, they went over the
entire length of the hall, the vestibule
just inside the door. A small pool of
lood in the hall marked the place
where Dobbins had been standing
when the shots were fired.
Standing on the porch outside,
Chief Doran scrutinized the bullet
holes in the screen door. There were
three round enings in the screen,
each of them above an average man’s
waist. é
“He must have been a big man,”
the detective chief observed to Prose-
cutor Orlando. “Look,” he stood in
front of the door and held his gun

as though he were going to fire
it. “If I shot my gun the line of
fire would be some distance be-
low the holes in the screen.”

The other officers took turns stand-
ing in front df the door with their
guns in the normal firing position.
As with Chief Doran, when the flight
of the bullets was calculated it ap-
peared that the attacker had indeed
been tall. Orlando and Doran finally
agreed he must have been at least
six feet tall or-over.

Fingerprint men were summoned
to the bbins home, and Orlando
telephoned the hospital to find out
Curt Dobbins’ condition. ©

“Dobbins was shot once,” the phy-
sician there told Orlando. “The bul-
let struck him rather high on the left
side and ranged downward through
both the small and large intestines.”
Death, he told the official, was but a
matter of time.

“Only one bullet in him,” Doran
said when Orlando relayed the in-
formation to him, “so that means two
other slugs are still around here
somewhere. There were three holes
in the screen.” ;

The search for the remaining two
pellets was now pressed vigorously.
At the same time, officers were sent
outside to question neighbors. They
might have observed something.

After almost a half hour’s scrutiny
of the hall, Doran gave an exclama-
tion of triumph. ‘“Here’s one,” he
called to Prosecutor Orlando. He
pointed to a bookcase against a wall.
The chief quickly began to probe for
the bullet. Soon he was holding it
in his hand.

“Looks like a .38,” he said, exhibit-
ing it to Orlando. He put the bullet

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A few minutes later

the second bullet was

discovered. It was

lodged in the inner door in the hall.
This, too, was placed in the envelope
beside the mate in Doran’s pocket.

Midnight had passed when the offi-
cers scouring the neighborhood re-
turned.

“We spoke to everyone living on
the block,” one of them said as he re-
ported back to Doran and Orlando.
“Some people heard the. shots, but
they didn’t know what they were.
Others said they heard a car pulling
away. It made something of a racket,
they said, what with the gears grind-
ing pretty hard.”

‘Did you find anyone who saw the
car?” Orlando asked.

Only one man had seen the car as it
flashed by a street lamp, the detective
informed the prosecutor. “But he
couldn’t figure out what make or
color it was. It just looked like a
sedan of some kind.”

“That helps a little,’ Doran ac-
knowledged. “From the grinding
of the gears it must have been a
fairly old car. What about the fam-
ily? Where are they?”

“Well, Curt Dobbins was staying

here alone, they said, while his father.
and mother are down at their summer =:

place at Ocean City. They told me

Curt would run down there for week- f

ends.’’*

The fingerprint men reported to
Doran they had obtained several
prints from the screen door and som
inside the house. These latter, Doran
surmised from the _ story
Dobbins, were probably those of th
investigators, Dobbins himself,

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PIE KIO AY trehryr ce Lr. WIA Lie

January 24, 1977

@er Mr. Espy;

I have just returned from the Court House and have only a little
to report. The old newspapers ended with the year 1919, but I went
through that whole year to try to find some account of the murder that
waS committed by Frederick Pierson. There was nothing, so I rooted
around until I found the Minutes Book of the Oyer and Terminer Court
of Warren County, which gave me the following information. It is re-
corded in Volume Four, Page 370.

On April?.26, 1921, the Grand Jury met and returned an indictment
against Frederick William Pierson and Elva McConnell, for the murder
of Ervin McConnell at Blairstown Township on March 1, 1921. They
entered pleas of not guilty.

On June 13, 1921, trial started - the State versus Frederick Pierson.
There was a jury and twelve witnesses were called. Among them was Elva
McConnell, who refused to be sworn in and testify.

On June 14, 1921, the trial was completed and the jury brought in
a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, with no recommendation
for life imprisonment. He was sentenced to suffer death at a time, in
a place and in the manner provided by law during the week of July 25, 1921.

On June 15, 1921, trial started ~ the State versus Elva McConnell.
There was a jury and fourteen witnesses were called. Among them was
@rederick Pierson, who also refused to be sworn in and testify. The jury
brought in a verdict of not guilty and she was discharged from custody.

The records of the actual trials, testimony, etc. are not down in
the basement vault, so I could find nothing else. But Blairstown has
had its own newSpaper since 1874, so I will call there and ask if I can
come see their 1921 issues. I'm sure they have kept copies all through
the years and, since the murder happened there, it will be pretty well
written up.

It will be a week or two until I get up that way and I will write
again as soon as ;I have something more to report.

Sincerely,

hag

Ltt,
_/ Betty“Jo King
UV

PIERSON — McCONNELL CASE

March 9, 1921, continued - Letter intercepted at jail written by Pierson to
Mrs. MeConnell. He declared. his love for her and asked her to visit him.
Pierson ithved in vicinity several years, working at odd jobsSe Served in

army December, 1917 to Juney,1919, then lived in house on Hope road owned
by mother. Mother now lived 39 Davison Place, Newark, Ned.

March 16, 1921'- (Paper had pictures of Mrse McConnell and Fred Pierson,
who did not look black). Small article stated nothing new developed in case.

Mrse McC. still in jail and Pierson now absolved her from guilty knowledge.

March 23, 1921 - Mrs. McC. in jail since March 4, was released but held in ”
-$1000 bail for appearance at April term at court. as material witness for statee
_ One hundred people in court, most from Hopee Five or Sbhx witnesses testified.

“April 27, 1921 — Jury indicted Pierson. Pleaded not guilty, although he had

confessed. Monday, May 16, set for triale Mrse McC. indicted a&saccessorye
Bleaded not guilty. Her trial also May 16. ,

June 225° L921 - Pierson convicted. Verdict, guilty of murder. No recommend-

ation for mercy. Sentenced to die during week of July 25 and taken to State...
Prison at Trenton. Said Mrse McC. asked him to take her away and he had had
six or seven drinks of hard cidere Mrse McC. found not guilty and releasede
Went to live at brother Russel Swayze's home in Bridgeville.

July 20, 1921 — Pierson may be granted new trial as result of fight in his
pehaaf by counsel, Blair Reiley,off Newark, and affadavits made by Constable

Robert Crusen and Eugene Bennet who were present at interview by William

Stryker, Prosecuting Attorneye Swore that Stryker did not warn prisoner not

to make statements that might be used against him and urged him to confess.
July 27, 1921 — Justice Trenchard denied motion for new trial and Court of
Pardons refused to change sentencee Pierson electrocuted in death chamber

of State Prison, Trentone First confession to Stryker was inadmissablee §; 7
Second confession made at jail to Sheriff Hayes and said he planned murder 97
and later to go west with Mrse McC. Justice Trenchard stated substitution of |
life sentence for death penalty rested solely on discretion of jury and was:
not dependent upon testimonye There was abundant evidence, without confession,
of deliberation and premeditation on part of Piersone His counsel applied to
Governor for stay of execution for thirty daySe Refused and execution

was set for 8:30 P.M. Tuesdaye Pierson made peace with God and held his

composuree There were seven inmated in the death house at this time.

August 3, 1921 — Pierson put to death at State Prison in Trenton on Tuesday
night. Walked to Chair without uttering a worde Accompanied by Reve Charles

He Elder, Prison Chaplain and Reve HeCe Van Pelt, Newark, Colored Chaplain of. 3
Institution. Strapped into chair at 8:28 PeMe, three contacts of current Bas
given and pronounced dead eleven minutes latere Witnessed by group — most.

residents of Warren countye Five inmates in death house at this timee eS
Pierson was first former service man to be executed in the state. Military
records show he enlisted at Newark December 7, 1917, was assigned to Company

C3 313th. Service Brigade under Captain Johnsone Promoted to Corporale

Served overseas March 28, 1918 to June 25, 1919.

Discharged June 30, 1919 ties
at Camp Dix, New Jerseye iy Tae

1907 New Jersey began executing its condemned felons by electrocution.
July, 1921, Frederick William Pierson became the first and only one from
Warren County to be electrocuted.

8 Tie Ae ae

PIEKSON, Frederick, black, 0, elec. NJ SP (Vvarven(County) 7-26-1921.

- lived

PIERSON =- McCONNELL CASE

Information from Blairstown Press, Blairstown, Warren County, New Jersey

March 2, 1921 — Fred Pierson, colored, living in old Wildrick house on Hope
road, arrested yesterday by Constable Robert Crusen of Hope, charged with
having shot and killed Ervin McConnell, tenant on farm of Arthur Van Horn
near Me He Crismin's, the previous nighte Mrse McConnell reported shooting
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. Believed to have occurred during quarrel

between Pierson and McConnell over attentions of the colored man to Mrse

McConnell, Pierson having been working there off and on for some time.
Victim was 25 years old, a son of George McConnell of Marksboroe Leaves a
wife and two childrene Pierson held in Belvidere jail. Magi as oh

‘March 9, 1921 ~ Mrse Irvin McConnell also arrested. Shooting to death of
Irvin McConnell on Van Horn farm at Shipmantown, three miles south of

Blairstown last Tuesday morning, turns out to have been done in cold blood
and one of most brutal in upper Warren County in many years. Evident’ that

killing arranged by negro, Fred Pierson, and Mrs. McConnell. Evident that
“+ colored man was infatuated with Mrs. McConnell and she did not vigorously

reject his attention. Coroner's inquest at Hope a few hours after murder

conducted by Squire Charles Baker of Belvidere for County Physician Cummins.

Jury — P. S. Hartung, Foreman; Fred Ulrich; Eugene Bennet; Albert Read;

-Alvah S. Howell; Lewis Hildebrant. Verdict that McConnell died from revolver
‘shot fired by Fred Pierson. Two witnesses testified — Mrse McConnell and

neighbor, Clinton Lanterman who was at McConnell home on evening before.

murdere j ;
Mrse McConnell testified - she, husband and Pierson were seated at kitchen

~ table in McConnell homee. ‘Negro passed her piecetof paper with message

scribbled on ite Words written in invisible ink and could not read it so
husband held note to lamp and read "I love you better than anyone in the
world".. Quarrel followede Mre McConnell started to leave room, negro .
thoughtihe was going for gun and fired his 38 calibre revolver and McConnell
fell deade Pierson ordered her to go upstairs to bed and he stayed down=
stairs til morning when he came up, pounded on her door and said time to get |
up and go to work. They had breakfast and both milked cows. He told her to
tell folks at Hope her husband had gone away and he would take care of the ..

‘body and no one would ever knowe On wayytoé Hope creamery with milk, Mrs.

McConnell stopped at Lanterman home and told them her husband had been shot.
Also stopped at John Wildrick's and Russell Swayze's and told them the same.
Took milk to creamery and on way home met Constable Crusen who with Albert
Read and Eugene Bennet, had colored man in custodye He said he shot because
he thought Mr. McConnell was going to get a gun after argument. He shoved

body in closet under stairway. He put up no resistance when arrested and
rode to Hope in wagone Transferred to automobile and taken to Washington
+. for interview with Prosecutor Strykere Mre McConnell had good reputation and

was hard working farmer, tenant on old Abram Swisher farm at Shipmantown, now

“owned by Arthur Van Horn of Paterson. Mrse McConnell's reputation not so good.
Some years ago lived at Oxford and known for her wide vocabulary of cuss words.

and her ability to chew tobacco like a mane She was then Elvah Swayze.
Much sympathy expressed for two children — George, age 7 and Lillie, age 5.

‘Irvin McConnell survived by father, George of Marksboro and brother, Clarence.
‘Funeral on Friday at Old Union Cemetertye Authorities concluded Thursday that

wife was implicated and she was arrested after funeral. Pierson confessed,
implicating Mrs. McConnell and said murder was planned at house where he . «+.
near C. M. Crisman's on Blairstown road owned by his mothere <2.)

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has Gesti de bri ied from the ealadron’
niral Sampson and-sa led
to Hamptou Roads. “rhe

Rear Admiral Henry I. Hlowizon, who
has focen assigned to command. the
Bouth Atlantic station in South Amert-
The station was abandoned at the
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Rear Admiral Henry of the Picking
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Chicago was ag flagship of the
white squadron.

‘FURTHER TIME 18 GRANTED

To the Bribery Committee and Sensa-
tional Developments: Expected.

- Hatrisburg, Pa., “March 10,—The
House today granted an extension of

i ptime to the special committee which
- + <"$e investigating the charges of bribery

ia connection with the McFarrell jury
bill. The committee bad been ordered
to report on March 13. It has held}:
three sessions and will sit again next
Tuesday. Developments of an even
tore sensational nature than has yet
been. brought whcle is promised pext
week. > ;

DISABLED PAVONIA ARRIVES. ‘

She Is Sighted Of Holyhead in Tow

‘ of. Tugs. ~
“TAverpoct. March. 10-—The ‘Ounard

Line steamer Pavonia trom Ponta Del’
Galda February 27,. where, she) was!

He and a Pai Killed An Old F
for His Money.

New York, March 10,—DLouls
was executed by hanging today: a oh
Union county jail at Elizaheth;
for the murder of James. C.: ou im
Summit

‘Fitts was. muniered In his b
Summit on the night of ‘Beplember ey
1897. Roesel, who was only 22 years
old, is said to have planned the} mur-
der and to have been the one who ac-
tually struck the” fatal .dlow, His
partner in the: crime wag. Gorge p
shanda. The object was ‘robt

Roesel. worked for. Pitts, -who

reputed to be wealthy. He lefe the

farm and went to New York +jsome}.

months before the crime. Thete he

met: Manshada, and the crime {| "was

planned in a Bowery lodging boune, .
Pitts lived alone,/ except for Mary

Davis, a colored woman, ‘who kept}.

house for him. The-plan wae td beat]:
out the brains of both and ransadk the
house. at leisure. 3 The plang .fatled
through a misdi biow, but) Pitts
wae killed. MSE osteo) bankee
As to the circumstances of the| mur-
Ger, Manshanda has told one -ftory,
Roesel told anotber and Mary Davis
told a part of one, Manshanda said
Rosesel struck Pitté on the head with
a mapdril.. Roesel claimed that { was}
ole ybert ity who struck the blow eet.
» Mary Davis waldi@he was psig
a lounge tn the: ep house: ki bea
When she fell asleep Pitts wap sit-
Wing a paperd Abe
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towed ip February 18 disabled’ while 2h

the voyage from Liverpool via

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be same peridd not less | coaple of weeks or

than’ 150 trees. Bays vines producing In-| business will perm

+} dja rubber, | Btate offigials in}

re Rand those who hold
concessions) mre charged with the exe-
cution of thts provision, > #

A ‘Bureau of Contro} ts chaiged with

the preservetion of the forest® and the
strict enfor¢ement of the royal decree.
Violators of the de¢ree are liable to a
10,000. Tranés of iniprison-
ment not ¢ ing six months or both.
The decree, ‘provides that“aB rubber
shal) be: gathered by incisiogs in’ che
bark of the trees or vineg, au other

thods arf prohibived
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Hheldon, on: trial bere for tbe 4
time for thé; murder of bis wife, Evs
M. roping ies te Baicide ig, the
jail todays jh.
<oukR DUTY BILL. bisa

Calcutta,Mareb 10.—-In the ecu.
tive’ Council today: Sir, James ‘Went-
land, the Financial iotro-
duced a bill modeled upon
States act of July, 1897, sth the
Government power.to impose counter:
veiling duties on bounty-fed sugar Sm,
ported into Endia. ft is proposed to
pass the mei ‘
session. . *

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which, as before feported,. put back

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To Fill the Cabinet and -Suborals

some features of the governojent of
Cubs, It.t¢ probable that the military
(e0vernment will) 4o a’ eertain extent,

Bx:

imilitary, but the change In
Gein tations is to have civil officers
place-of the military men in the
Dinet: and subordinate positions. It
is believed that experts in the finan-
ecjal and revenue lines and Jn the man-
agement of the business of the land
end the different municipalities wiil
‘get along more smootbly than the
army officers.

It ie said that the officers, being
brought up under strict military dis
, cipline, hold not only the statutes, but

the army rules and regulations as the
» guide In all things, while tbe civil off-
cers would hold only the statutes as
. tie supreme guide, and endeavor to
Wet along under them in the best: man-
per possible and with more diplomacy
than is possessed by the army mau.
itis not known. whether the coutem-
plated ‘change has reached a_ point
“further than discussion fn the War De-
‘ partment and with the President, but
“ {te advantages have been pointed out
and the intention of the government to
establish “the conteinplated change
“seems probable.”

- NEW COALING STATIONS.

Washington. March 10.—Under the
naval appropriation bill the Bureau of

, Equipment. is authorized to. expend
6400000 for coallng stations at (liffer-
a points where they may be desired.

@ location of these stations is wholly

(no the discretion of the Secretary.of

» Navy, but it will no doubt be de-

ed by the recommendation of Rear
tlral Bradford, chief of the Bureau

Eonipment.

VAdmiral bas not yet made auy

Yendations, butit is koown that

“
44

COMERS.

Ei a Nl

F*.

a tary” Head to ‘1. But the Murdered i

4 “Remain, Was Oooh fs

- WN BATCH OP WASHINGTON NEWS. |BUSY DAY FOR THR HANGMAN.

b be pagent ee 3 : if ae |

‘a Washington, March 10.—The admin-| St. Cholastique, Que. March Mire.
Sstration is contemplating a change In| Cordelia Polrier and Samuel Parsiow

“be replaced with so ie government. The};
~ad of the government must, of course}.

ves there should be some good
depots. “At “Manila: and. San

Juan, Porto Rice also-at Guan, Be: |
prare

ee
1aTSSS

WOMAN HUNG

For Butchering Her Hus-
band as He Slept ;

SHE Ty AN scene .

And He Also. Went i Rope

were hanged here today.
fell at 805. eae

L to her
nd’ col-

er, who said (aren
relatives jast night, was firm
lected throughout. ‘She took in the
mass aaid at 5 o'clock this morning
and on. the scaffold shook haoiis with
the hangman without a tremor fear,
The crowd inside the jail jee her,
even then her composure did nom desert
ber, and at the suggestion of tha execu-
tioner. she turned and faced the jeerers
and stood erect and prayed to

Parslow exhibited much lesa
and was more dead than ally when
the drop fell. P

The condemned were taken to sale
acaffold separately and were pr ented
from seeing each other by aj screen
placed between them. Six. hund men
who bad remained up all night -wit-
ressed the SEES BUM: Outside the jail
there were 2,000 more with beam
trying to batter down the gates ofthe
jail yard, and could only be eto
desist by the provincial poll firing
their revolvers in the air. The be
havior of the crowd inside was such
that one of the priests,» Rey, Father
Méjoche, had to reprove them from the
scaffold:

The crime for which Mrs. Potriet
and ber comanion paid the des pen:

alty was the murder of her re F

in the fall of 1807. The murd¢r was
cold-blooded and {labolical in Bll its
features. The Sanday afternoon when
the crime occurred Parsiow wad visif-
ing the Poirier bouse and they rank
considerable whisky. -The hu d be
came groggy. and when he was asivep
his wife gots butcher knife abr put-
ting it into. Parslow’s bands! sald:
“Now ip the time to kill him." i

~ Parslow hesitated and Mrs. Yoirter,

| Conquh- believes for Ambritai
5 i |

ealing him a: cowards, poet the: knife

the wall and dug out « chunk of plas:

ter, broke the force of the blow
sufficiently to save the woman's life.
‘Atter. Mrs Daris escaped, the two

men fied.) They were arrrested.a few.
Keak s ater’ Each confessed, but the
State accepted Manshanda's as State's
evidence and convicted Roesel, Man-

shands was ope to Brute prison for ;

Soe BUSIN ESS.

Americans May Get Into Malta Trade.
Oli Wheat Is 1 Popular, ;

“Washington, “‘Mareh 10.—From te-

ports made by. Consu} Grout at Malta,

it appears that the’ ‘prospect for an in-
crease - of! trad¢:'on the; ‘part of this

NEW. OBENING

| country 1g: very good.” Malta, it would
seem, bab at last secured direct coni-|

mupicatica with the United States as
the-Consul was last.month Informed

that a company had. decided to have}

some of its ships Jeave New. York for
Malta . direct, and thence run to.
‘Trieste. It {s\injended to.run the
boats regularly, provided there is suf.]
ficient entodbragement.-

It 1s: believed - that mavy. lines: ot
American ‘goods can be introduced: tn
Malta and our. present trade there in-
creased. ‘There Is a good ens

| boa

Te will: he she futiire: ey of off.
¢lalg:to encourage the importation of
wheat owtpg to the fact that Malta
is a military and naval station,-and
it Is not desired that there shali be
such a shortage of breadstuffs as was
experienced last summer.

Russian wheat, known as “Taran:
rag,” has ‘monopolized the market: for
a long time, except when high prices
led to the Introduction of wheat from
Indla. For various reasons the ay.
-thorities are in favor of using Ameri.
can wheat for the army.

_ To: gain-a footing in Malta, wheat
must be in large grain, and above all
well cleaned. “About 150° tons per
mooth are nsed for the army and nary,
Af wheat from the United States can
be landed at $1.21 per quarter cheaper.
‘than from. London, it is. belleved we
can command a good market, and

der such conditions It-would be ei 4
ble: to place 1,000 quarters per month

with army and navy and 2,000
ters witb the civil Population. are

MOST PATHETIC.

Semteeneemeenene ed

Are Kipling’s Oalls for Josephine,
~ Doss Not Know of Her
vo Deathe 25s

| New ork: March 10.—The Tribune
Bays: “Kor two days Mr. Kipling bas{:
made repeated inquiries for his “chil-
dren. He aske the nurse abd Dr. Dun-
bam when he may ace them, and ts par-
ticularly anxious to see Josephine, the
little one who died. His ourse finds it
very dificult to invent some new ex.
use to. galn time: The father scems to
havé nome Ankling. that: wumething 4s

not be allenated: to any forei

oe Collegian. Cay

duis aes >?)

: fig | i a A
Ag cement: Betweeng
“ land’and Russig

AS 10 CHINESE, CON
A Direot Exohange of Vie
_buits in Permanent Unde s
ing Regarding Relatip :
Ab the East.” E
USNS PROTEST. Bi

Pekin, March 10.~-The Chi
elgn Office hae received a
from St. Petersburg saylug
result of mee chia tingnss bety
a and Great Britainec the Be
Minister. will withdraw” his
against the Hong Kong cont

The Hong Kong contract Is
with the Niu Chwang contra
. ASSURANCES SATISBFAC

paper of London, made the
announcement this moming:
Chwang loan contract crisis
alicably agttied by a direct
of views between the Hritiat
Ruadan” governments. The
asxeureoces are couuipletely sat
The whole dimculty Le ende
two govérnments are &
scheme by which their relatiq
far East may be permaner
lated.”

The London Times, in’ its
atticle on February 1, annoo
a Chinese 5 per cent ralirc
$11,000,000 . had been” arr
China. with a British synd
loan being ‘specially secur
Chinese Northern. raliroad.
was sdded, had. given Gres
a pledge that these rallroa

It is apparently against thi
its ‘terms that Russia pro
transaction since becoming
the Niu-Chwang or Hong Ko

‘Mu-Chwang is the Chin
the bead of:the Gulf of Liao
port of Mukden, capftal of 3f

BRITISH. SHIP ASHC
Nassau, N. P., March 10.—

from New Orleans on Mascli
erpool, ts ashore on the Rid
An underwriters agent {s lea
to amist the distressed ves

_ COMING sou

ee what

Heloise Martin (right) is
happy to be back in New York
for another stage career. Helo-
ise is the Drake University
co-ed who startled college
authorities when she was pho-
tographed in a showerbath for
a magazine.’ Miss Martin, who
deserted Broadway for an edu-
cation, has given up the edu-
cation to return to Broadway.

Bessie Kadesh (left) ‘ ye Ls
was fatally beaten by jes ts : ‘ee Ba ¢ |
a fiend who invaded Ph : ;

her Plainfield, N.J.,

home and attacked

her and her mother

_ with an iron pipe.:

| i LS 2
le L Decks — Kus 7

the porch, including a hefty sandwich and
a cup of milk!

Green and Loomis decided to keep a
group of officers on duty at the farm every
night.

“Whoever she intended that meal for
probably will show up one of these nights,”
Loomis said. “Then we'll grab him. Per-
haps he’ll be the murderer.”

Ludlow was released from the jail and
permitted to go home. -

Officers paid him a surprise visit a short
time later and while searching his house
they discovered a shirt and a pair of overalls
which appeared to have been stained by
blood. .

Ludlow admitted owning the overalls but
declared the shirt belonged: to Marsh. He
was unable to tell the officers how Marsh’s
shirt happened to be in his house unless it
had been left there while he was at the jail.

It seemed certain now that solution of
the mystery depended entirely upon finding
Marsh. Was he guilty of the dastardly crime
or was he thé victim of suspicious circum-
stances ?

Friday night 20 officers again crept over
the hot fields toward the Selton house. They
waited patiently in the darkness, listening
to the chirping of crickets and the far off
bark of dogs.

The officers thought of the murdered man
who had been buried that afternoon in
Union City at ceremonies attended by most
of the countryside. Marsh had not attended
the service. Officers, mingling in the crowd,
had watched vainly for him to appear.

The midnight hour approached. Deputy
Ernest Legge, prone in the litter beneath
the eaves of the Selton barn, listened in-
tently. He thought he heard a soft noise.
A moment later -he was certain that he
heard a scraping noise again, closer.

He tried to stare through the inky black-
ness. Slowly he made out what he thought
was a dark hulk about 50 feet away. He
saw it move. Legge gripped his flashlight
in one hand and his-revolver in the other.

The form was moving slowly toward
him, an inch at a time. Now it was only
six feet away. Tensing his muscles, Legge
leaped to his feet.

His flashlight speared the darkness, blind-
ing the creeping man, who leaped to his
feet and started to run.

“Stick ‘em up!” Legge cried, fingering
the trigger of his .45. The man stopped
and slowly raised his hands. It was: Stanley
Marsh, the missing farm hand, his face
white as chalk, his lips twitching.

Officers came running from all directions.
One snapped: handcuffs on the man’s wrists.
Mr. and Mrs. Selton and Ludlow were sum-
moned to the jail for a show-down.

Mrs. Selton Explains
[ooMIs took charge of the questioning.

+ Mrs. Selton readily admitted that she -

had placed food on the back porch, but
denied that it was by arrangement with
Marsh. She declared she couldn't bear the
thought of the farm hand starving in the
woods. She believed him to be blameless
in the murder and had acted on humani-
tarian motives only. Her husband knew
nothing of the food episode.

Ludlow denied all knowledge of the slay-
ing. He and the Seltons were released with
instructions to appear later if needed.

Marsh, plainly frightened by his sudden
capture, declared he was hungry and had
crept out of the woods to find food. He
said he had left his dirty shirt at Ludlow’s
the week previous and that it was stained
with grease from a farm implement, not
blood.

“Why did you run away?” Loomis asked.

“T was afraid the sheriff would think I

ADVENTURES

_ merciless double attack, Bessie Kadesh, above, was found

near death in her Plainfield, N.J., home. Nearby lay the body of her mother, who also

was the victim of a modern “Jack the Ripper.” Miss Kadesh was rushed to a hospital,

but died several days later. Keen, swift police work quickly jailed a suspect who con-
f . fessed. ‘Miss Kadesh was an honor student at two universities.

‘ f
day) 8

Pn NE Se RE ce AN WOM reat. ues keg

Details

Note '

for IP. Ayres.

fecording fo focal tradition, these two negroes
were male and belorged to a Mr. Obadiah Ayres.
Dne of them ws 1o yeats old and the otner older.
The elder negro /nvergled eb ge one to Shoot
tem mistress tarauh a windtw with fatal resusts

: They Wthe Condemned by a trte-
holdurs Court (Reecrds lost) and burned together
th a natural ground aepression Which was everatter
called ‘Winger bully’ Every single negro ti the
vicinity ~ without decaption « WW required fo watch.

This fs Curdently the Sliye Durce Which Téefeps
use. There 1s next a mention of a pew being
hanged (not burned |) fy thet? ‘at a la petiod
Hower This 15 mach too vague to bé credible and
search of available records jas unsuccessful May
also bé a misoragnasead lynching,

Two slaves burned at Perth A mboy, Nd June 21, FITS
WO S1aVES

der of Mrs, Obadiah Ayerse Am

but this is evidently the Same case, This information
“rom HANG BY THE NECK by Teeters, pp 103-10),

| 1740
Names: Two unidentified negra men
Offence: murder
Court? — treeholders Court
Aocation: Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co.
Outcome: Bath burned at Stake, COBO 3-50

rurce * The Wow York Gazette Revived in the Wechly Pst ‘Boy
(Ssué of 7-A-50. Also | th century Aistorica{

miscellany pertaining tr Perth Ambo On tile with
the Historica! Collections of Rutgerd University,

-
in

~e-

behavior to the Indian before their gotng from the house together;
Seamor's being possessed of the Indian's gun and goods; proof of
his breaking the back and legs of the dead body and burying of him
were presumptions very violent and some witnesses were also produced
that Seamor had confessed to them the murder and declared he would
destroy any Indian that came in his way. The evidence was produced
by the Attorney General very judicially and the court took much
pains to explain to the jury, with great clearness, the nature of
this kind of evidence and to show the absolute certainty arising
from the facts which were proved by undentable evidence. And the
prisoner acknowledged at the bar that he had the plunder but satd
that he had bought them off a satlor who went to Philadelphta.
The jury agreed on their verdict and brought Semour in guilty.
The courthouse was exceedingly crowded and the prisoner remanded
to prison, who behaved with great insolence and dented the fact.
This night twenty-five militia took post at the gaol.
On Saturday morning the court met and passed sentence on the
prisoner and ordered his execution before three and four o'clock
in the afternoon. The judge, in his address to the prisoner, seemed
to calculate his discourse pretty much to the audience by painting
the heinousness of the crime, the terrible effect tt might have on
the frontiers if the Indians had been possessed by the same spirit
of revenge with the prisoner, the ingratitude of it as tt was well
known that the Oneida Nation, to which the murdered Indian belonged,
had during the whole course of the last war cooperated with Hts
Majesty's troops. bee
The prisoner persisted in denying the fact and seemed to expect
a rescue. But I did not observe a murmur among the people and the
most sensible were fully convinced of the justice of hits sentence.

An Indian, of note I suppose, as he was of a good aspect and wore
a plume of feathers on his head, attended the trtal and executton,

and the court appeared solicititious for his protection from insult
nor did anything of the kind happen. I understood great pains had
been taken to procure him to attend.

At the time appointed, the sherrtf brought the prisoner out and
then for the first time he seemed dismayed. For he was encircled by
a strong detachment from the adjacent companies of militia. At the
gallows he made a short prayer, declared that he had lived a dissol-
ute and wicked life and was guilty of the fact for which he was to
suffer and then he was executed. The people behaved very orderly."

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“APS

Mrs. Freida Rogers: “You're a bad egg and
I don't want you to bother me any more”

he knew, would be the first line of investigation.
It was the most obvious, the easiest to bite into be-
cause parole records are complete.

But the dossiers of hundreds of criminals would
have to be checked. That alone was a tremendous
job. And it would be only a starter. There were
— angles to be investigated—so many other
angles. .

Impatient to get.to work, Chief Start spoke
rapidly to surgeons at the hospital, arranged to
get the bullet from Dobbins’ body, planted an of-
ficer at his bedside, and hurried back to the scene
of the crime. .

Climbing the front steps of the Dobbins home,
the Chief saw three holes which punctured the
screen door. All were close together and, more
surprising, all were nearly five feet from the floor.

Yet Dobbins had said the gunman was short and
had held the gun chest-high. ‘

“He must’ve been mistaken,” Start murmured.
a may man would’ve had to hold the gun in front
o ace,” :

H's men agreed. The officers entered the house
and searched for stray bullets. They found them
imbedded in woodwork. By careful measurements
of their height from the floor as compared with the
height of the holes in the screen, Chief Start con-
vinced himself that the man who fired them had
been nearly six feet tall.

He went outside and, aided by several officers
carrying flashlights, searched the soft ground at
the ‘shrubbery near the porch for footprints. They
found none. Apparently the mysterious assailant
had shot Dobbins and fled directly from the-porch
to his car waiting at the curb. In that flight he
had been forced to cross no soft earth.

So far, the officers had only one tangible clew:
The stray bullets. How could they hope to trace
a an with that slender bit of evidence? With-
out finger-prints, eye-witness descriptions, or any
other information, how could they track down the
murderous stranger? —

On the chance that some neighbor had seen the

n flee, Chief Start put men to canvassing
the crowd which had collected in front of the Dob-
bins house.

The men went to work and, after a half-hour’s
questioning, reported only partial success. A half-
dozen neighbors, attracted by the sound of the
shooting, had run outdoors and had seen a car
driven away through the darkness from the direc-
tion of the Dobbins home. But that was no guar-—
antee it was the gunman’s car. Moreover, their
descriptions of it were vague. Some thought it
green, others said it was gray. Most -believed it
was a cheap sedan. None could tell its make or
year. All agreed its motor coughed and sputtered
and its gears clashed noisily as it got under way.

fe eed like a car ready for the junk heap,” a
detective remarked. “Gears haven’t clashed
with a loud metallic sound for years.”

The Chief nodded. He told his men to go on
questioning neighbors but, by the time they were
ready to call it a night, they had learned that none
of the neighbors had seen the gunman himself flee.
Nor did anyone know whether he had been alone in
the ancient wreck of a car. ;

Chief Start put out the usual routine notification
to Philadelphia and other near-by cities with the
vague description of the car. But he had little
hopé of results. And when he left the Dobbins
home in charge of plain-clothes men, he felt weary
and dejected.

The bullets—that was all the officers had. Of
what use were they until they found the gun? And
there wasn’t much chance of finding that till they
found the gunman. It appeared hopeless.

Camden County Prosecutor Samuel P, Orlando
and County Detective Chief Lawrence A. Doran
felt the same way early the next morning when
they arrived at Haddonfield and listened to Chief

Start’s report on the crime.

William J. Stephan: He had a vital in-
terest in the outcome of the shooting of
young Curtis W. Dobbins in this fine house

it just about eliminated him from con-
sideration.

Nevertheless, lacking other leads,
the detectives thought they might as
well dig further into Stephan’s affairs.
They asked Mrs. Headley to tell them
all she could. She said that Frieda
Rogers, Stephan’s chum, roomed at No.
2550 Robinson Street, Philadelphia.
She had been separated from her hus-
band about two years.

Mrs. Headley said thoughtfully:

“But I did notice something funny
the next day after my party.”

“What?” The eager detectives asked
it together.

Mrs. Headley said that, while she
and the other crew members were
canvassing, she had noticed Frieda
and Stephan arguing. It was custom-
ary for them to sit in a saloon and
drink beer while the others worked.
But on that morning, they were having
a fight.

Stephan tried to kiss Frieda but she
repulsed him. He insisted and she
told him to “Leave me alone.”

Mrs. Headley said she also over-
heard Frieda tell her good friend,
“You’re a bad egg and I don’t want
you to bother me any more.”

That was all there was to it, and
it didn’t sound much like a clew to
murderous assault on a man unknown
to any of them. By no stretch of the
imagination could a lovers’ quarrel be
fitted into that totally unrelated shoot-
ing.

Yet, what else did the detectives
have to work on?

They went to interview Frieda. Per-
haps, somehow, young respectable Curt
Dobbins could have been involved
with her. It seemed far-fetched. But—

Even though they hoped for little,
their habitual caution forced them to
use guile in questioning Frieda. They
a they were detectives but they told

er:

“Mrs. William Stephan has sworn
out a non-support complaint and has
named you. That’s why we’re here.”

F FRIEDA felt relieved, she didn’t
show it. Instead, her eyes narrowed
and she asked suspiciously:

“What’s Bill Stephan’s refusal to
support his wife got to do with me?”

They took it easy with her and
finally she said:

“All right. I’m in love with Bill and
he’s in love with me. So what?”

She had them there. This was the
same as a million miles from the
shooting of young Dobbins.

But they were persistent. There
was no other angle to work on. Care-
ful to conceal their hand, they led the
conversation around to the night of
the shooting. Murphy led up to the
party at Mrs. Headley’s by telling her
Mrs. Stephan had trailed them there.

“She saw you when you left at ten
o’clock,” the detective said.

Mrs.. Rogers stared at them hard.

“Who says she did? We didn’t leave
till one o’clock in the morning.”

The detectives jumped at it. An
alibi! Somebody was lying. And, up
till now, there had been no reason to
lie. For the first time, they became
convinced they were on the trail of
something hot after all.

But they knew they had no evidence
yet. And they also were convinced
they would get nowhere by blind ques-
tioning of Mrs. Rogers. They spent a
little longer talking about her rela-
tions with Stephan.

And something in her manner—
something veiled in her cautious eyes
and her careful words—told them that
the friendship of Ace Stephan and
Frieda Rogers was not running
smoothly. Why? They could not tell.
But they resolved to find out. They
left her convinced she had failed to de-
a their real purpose in talking to

er:

They themselves scarcely knew it.
They still could not fit Curt Dobbins
into the picture.

Hoping to learn more about the
strange relationship of the couple, they
returned to Mrs. Headley. She could
tell them little more.

Mulligan asked:

“This quarrel you mentioned—have
you any idea what it was about? I

ID—8

mean the argument they had the day
after your party.”

She thought a long time. Finally
she said, “It might have been about
the fur coat.”

“What fur coat?”

She said that, during the party, she
had mentioned she intended buying a
coat in the Fall and Frieda had said
she wished she had one.

“Now Mr. Stephan is my boss,” Mrs.
Headley went on, “and I don’t like to
say anything against him, because he’s
always been nice enough to me. But I
must say he’s considerable of a brag-
gart. When Frieda mentioned want-
ing a. coat, Stephan said, ‘Oh, if you
only want a fur coat, that’s easy. Ill
get you one. All I’ll have to do is a
little job and I’ll have one, just like
that.’ ”

Both women had been a little fright-
ened at his manner, more frightened
when he refused to elaborate on the
remark,

“Stephan always liked to talk that
way because he liked to think he was
a tough guy.”

What did this mean? How did this
bring young Curt Dobbins into the
picture? Suddenly the officers won-
dered if, instead of being involved in
a love triangle, Dobbins had been
killed for another reason, But what?

Mulligan asked, “Does Stephan have
a car?”

"Yes."

“What kind?”

“T think it’s a 1929 Chevrolet.”

“What color?”

“T think it’s black. Or gray. I’m not

sure. As a matter of fact, I don’t think
he’s using it now. I think it’s in the
garage.”

The detectives’ hopes fell. But Mur-
phy asked, “Do you know what ga-
rage?”

“Yes, I think it’s an agency on High
Street in Burlington.”

The officers looked at each other.
That sounded strange. What work
could Stephan need done on his car
that could not be done in his home
town?

Curious and thorough, they went to
Burlington. They didn’t find Stephan’s
car there. But they did learn some-
thing which made their blood pound.

From Miss Helen Morrissey, a clerk
in the agency of Frederick W. Peter,
came word that Stephan had had his
car transferred to Mrs. Rogers’ owner-
ship the previous day.

But, more important, he had had the
car painted black within the last few
days. Originally it had been gray.
And, at the Peter agency, he continu-
ally had called Miss Morrissey’s at-
tention to the fact that the auto was
black.

Was this significant? It appeared to
be. But it wasn’t concrete evidence—
it was only information which height-
ened suspicion against the shadowy
Ace Stephan. He just might have been
the killer. But why?

In an effort to obtain some incrim-
inating evidence, the detectives turned
next to the logical source, Bill Ste-
phan’s wife.

“A woman scorned—”

If they could fan the flames of her
jealousy, she might tell them things
in anger which she never would dis-
close on sober consideration.

Mrs. Stephan turned out-to be an
attractive woman just beginning to
show her years. She appeared several
years older than blond Frieda. Thin
and careworn, she impressed the
officers as a quiet woman but one who,
aroused, never would stand by idly
while someone wronged her.

“We’re looking for your
Mulligan told her.

She sounded tired.

“What’s he done this time?”

“You sound like he’s always getting
mixed up in something.”

“He is.” Her eyes clouded with
anger and resentment. ‘For one thing,
he’s chasing around with some woman
over in Philadelphia.”

. The officers knew they had been
right. “A woman scorned—”

Mulligan said, ‘We understand he’s
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sroved of the French girl, were obliged
mder oath to testify that their friend
vas imadly infatuated with Marlyse,
vhom he believed to be much younger
han her 34 years.

However, the prosecution had other
vitnesses. Witnesses painstakingly
lug up by Winterhalter and Smith,
who testified to her explosive temper,
o her indomitable, ruthless character
—to vague threats she had uttered to
he effect that she “knew how to
\andle somebody if Andy left her”; of
he secne she had made that fatal Sat-
irday because Andy had gone to the
Friday night party with a pretty young
girl his family favored.

Marlyse was a turbulent witness in
her own defense; even her own attor-
ney, Michael De Lagi, tried to caution
her, but to no avail. She jerked for-

ward in the invalid chair she used in

court, screaming, “Good Heavens,
they’re trying to murder me...
They’re crucifying me .. - There is

no justice!”

ATRON MARY DALY sat near by
to guard Marlyse against collapse.
Marlyse elaborated on the details of
the story she had told Winterhalter
about the mysterious intruder. And
in foreseeing the drift of this testimony
the judge warned—then ordered—all
women to leave the courtroom. Had
she been more stable, had she con-
trolled herself, she might have gotten
away with that story. It was so
plausible—so utterly frank—that it
was difficult to believe a woman would
bare such details in court unless those
facts would save her life.
However, in spite of a brilliant de-

fense by her attorneys, the jury was
not convinced.

Manslaughter in the first degree was
the verdict, indicating that they be-
HNeved the crime was committed in
a transport of rage and jealousy. She
was sentenced to from five to ten
years in Auburn. :

The world forgot tempestuous Mar-
lyse Maye. Then, some time later, a
letter was published, written by Mar-
lyse to the New York Police. It came
from her home in Vichy, France. Only
then did the public learn that a very
subdued Marlyse had been released
from Auburn, after she had paid her
debt to Society, to nurse her dying
husband. When he died, his widow
was permitted to leave the United
States for good.

“TI have,” she wrote the authorities,
“returned to the home of my father,

a much chastened and sorrowful wo-
man, Although America gave me my
beloved husband, the horrible experi-
ences of the last few years there make
me glad to be home in my native
country. '

“Before I settle down to my self-
imposed cloister-like life, I shall pay
one visit to the small Flanders village
where my brother met the one true
man in my life, my husband.”

Detectives Smith and Winterhalter
have now many commendations from
various police commissioners to testify
to their excellent record. But they
never will forget their first and most
turbulent case—nor the French girl
who put the first strands of gray into
their glossy black hair.

For another picture with this story
turn to Page 44

‘*Come Quick—I’ve Just Been Shot!’’ (Continued from Page 34)

Immediately Doran sent detectives
hurrying out to investigate this newest
theory.

They questioned everyone they
could find who had come into contact
with the wounded man—fellow em-
ployes, social friends, school acquaint-
ances, tradesmen.

And they came up with nothing.

Nobody could say a thing against
Curt Dobbins’ reputation. His private
life appeared to be as spotless as his
professional career. No hint of ab-
normality, no whisper of philandering
came to the investigators.

“And,” one of them told Chief Doran
wearily, “if there was any fire behind
all this smoke, we’d have found it.
Because we talked to everybody—and
I mean everybody.”

All at once Doran felt tired. Every
theory he’d constructed had blown up.
Robbery, strike vengeance, an ex-con~
vict’s vendetta, a sex motive—all of
them had fizzled. What remained?

He talked it over with Prosecutor
Orlando and they decided on two ruses.
The only bits of concrete evidence
they had were the bullets and the
description of the ancient, rattling get-
away car. The_ bullets might nail
down the criminal after he was caught;
the getaway car might be traced.

UT—there was an airhole in each

of those hopes. be

Criminals, ballistics-wise, usually
get rid of a gun as soon as possible.
And they usually camouflage or discard
their getaway cars. ,

In this case, the cops realized their
best chance lay in grabbing the man
with the battered car before he had
taken either of these steps and proving
him the killer by ballistics tests. So
their immediate necessity was to con-
vince him he was in no danger.

To that end, they issued a statement
to the newspapers which brought forth
the following story on Friday:

“Discovery of a revolver with three
cartridges discharged sent detectives
scurrying to Trenton and then to New
York today on a secret mission con-
nected with the mysterious shooting
of Curtis W. Dobbins at his home in
Haddonfield.

“County investigators refused to dis-
cuss the reported new clew, but it was
learned the weapon was found in or
near Trenton. Who found it or where
or any other circumstances surround-
ing the
crecy. They attached enough signi-
ficance to the gun, however, to send
detectives to New York.”

Reading the paper, Chief Doran
grinned. ‘ ,

“T guess that takes care of that,” he
said. “The guy’ll hang on to his gun
for a while, at least.”

Prosecutor Orlando nodded.

“But what about the car?”

“Maybe we can fix that, too.”

Doran recalled that the car was de-
scribed unanimously by witnesses as
old and a sedan. But some called it

discovery were cloaked in se-.

green, some gray. Green autos are
much more common than gray.

So the astute Doran figured that,
having seen a gray car, nine persons
out of ten would think they had seen
a green one. He deduced that the get-
away car Was gray.

Accordingly, he announced publicly
that police were seeking a man ina
green car. Thus he hoped to lull the
gunman into a false sense of security
and induce him not to repaint or
abandon his auto.

But after that, Doran didn’t know
where to turn. The case had gone
dead except for the routine check on
parolees which Mulligan and Murphy
were making.

So far they had drawn only blanks.
Time after time they had investigated
the present whereabouts and activities
of ex-convicts with whom the elder
Dobbins had come in contact. . Many
of the men had left town a long time
before. Others offered satisfactory
alibis for’ the crime period. Others
were obviously out of the picture.

Chief Doran sifted the reports. He
had been so busy on other angles of
the case that he had not been able to
study the report on each parollee as
it came to him. Now, from the sheaf
of papers, he jerked a half-dozen for

further study. One in particular
caught his eye because of a single
notation: ;

“Neighbors say this man hasn’t been

getting along with his wife recently.
No reason given.”

It was the report on William J
Stephan, No. 403 Friends Avenue,
Camden.

“Not getting along with his wife,”
Doran mused.

He wondered if that fit in with his
old theory about an unrevealed chap-
ter in Dobbins’ life.

But how could the reputable son of
a parole officer be involved in the
marital difficulties of an ex-convict?
It sounded fantastic.
set out hoping to find an ex-convict
who hated the Dobbins family because
the elder Dobbins was an officer. Hav-
ing failed to uncover that motive,
should he suspect an ex-convict for

‘any other reason?

Doran called in Murphy and Mul-
ligan, asked them, “What do you know
about this fellow Stephan?”

Mulligan said:

“He’s called Ace in the Hole. He’s
a punk hoodlum—hangs around with
the East Camden Hell’s Half Acre
gang. Never been mixed up in any-
thing big.”

“Did he know Dobbins?”

“The old man, yes. The kid, no, Not
so far as we know now, anyway.”

“How well did he know the old
man?”

“Reported to him regularly, as his
parole conditions called for. r
Dobbins said Stephan once did a little
work for him around the house.”

“Dobbins ‘say he ever had any
trouble with Stephan?” .

And yet—he had >

“] asked him and he said he didn’t.
We checked on Stephan, though, be-

cause we know he’s still hanging
around with the Hell’s Half Acre
crowd.”

“Why should that connect him with
this shooting?”

“No reason at all.
checking.”

“Has Stephan got a job now?”

“yeah. He works for a department
store-in Philadelphia. I don’t know

We were just

just what he does.”

“you haven’t talked to him yet,
have you?”

“No. We just talked to some of the

guys he runs around with and* to his
neighbors. The neighbors gave us the
dope about Stephan and his wife.
Might not be anything to it—it might
be just gossip.” :

Doran nodded, thought a while. It
didn’t sound promising at all—but he
was clutching at straws now.

“you about cleaned up?” he asked.

“Yeah. We've only got a couple
more ex-cons left. Neither of them look
like they’ll be much good.”

“Then you better get to work on
Stephan. And on these others if he
peters out.”

Doran handed them the half-dozen
reports he had pulled out of the stack.
Mulligan put them into his pocket and
left with Murphy. '

They didn’t want to investigate Ace
Stephan directly. You don’t pull in a
tough guy like him without evidence;
if you do, you only warn him and
give him a chance to cover. Instead,
you work all around him.

Mulligan and Murphy didn’t even
want to be seen in Stephan’s neigh-
borhood any more. Instead they went
to the department store in Philadel-
phia where he was employed.

A eee official told them Stephan
managed a crew of saleswomen
who did house-to-house canvassing.

He ever pulled any shady stuff? No,
the official never had noticed any.
Stephan worked hard and never got
into trouble. Nor had he appeared
jittery of late. No one at the store
could say anything against him. So
far as his boss knew, Ace Stephan had
gone straight.

The only thing which ‘stuck in the
detectives’ minds was the remark that
Stephan appeared to be worried dur-
ing recent weeks. No one at the store
could say why—he wasn’t jittery but
just seemed to have something on his
mind.

Mulligan and Murphy wondered if
it was his marital difficulties that had
been bothering the Ace.

But how could strait-laced young
Curt Dobbins fit into that picture?
There was not a single reason to sus-
pect that he did.

Mulligan and Murphy paused a mo-
ment to consider the idea of question-
ing Mrs. Stephan directly, of asking
her if she had known the son of her
husband’s benefactor. But they dis-

carded that course of action; it was
too direct, might serve only to warn
Stephan if he were the gunman they
sought.

So the two detectives obtained a list
of the women who worked in Stephan’s
crew and set out to locate them. They
would be as likely as anyone to know
of his marital troubles.

After several false starts, they found
Mrs. Emily Headley. She lived in Ber-
lin, New Jersey, and she said she knew
Bill Stephan well.

“He was at a_party at my house just
the other night,” she said.

Mulligan and Murphy didn’t want to
hurry her. They intended to talk to
her casually, gradually leading the
conversation around to Stephan’s pri-
vate life.

is AN offhand manner, Mulligan
said:

aid:
“We didn’t know you knew him

that well, Mrs. Headley. When was
this party?” ‘
“Tt was—let me see. I think—yes,

I’m sure—it was the night of August
11. I remember because—”

But the officers weren’t listening.
-The bottom was dropping out of their
case. For the night of Tuesday, Au-
gust 11, was the night: when the gun-
man had shot down Curt Dobbins.

And, first time at bat, Mulligan and
Murphy had found an alibi for their
Suspect No. One.

Discouraged, they nevertheless con-
tinued their questioning. About the
party, Mrs. Headley said it had been
a small, quiet affair and that Stephan
had left about 10 p.m. She was fairly
sure of the time—that it hadn’t been
later than 10:15.
realized that would have_ given
Stephan time to get to the Dobbins
home in Haddonfield by 10:40 if he
had hurried. But it scarcely seemed
logical he would walk out of a gay
party and cold-bloodedly shoot a
man down a few minutes later.

Mulligan asked:

“Did Stephan come to the party
alone?”

And the answer further weakened
their case.

“No,” Mrs, Headley
brought his girl friend.”

She said it was common knowledge
that Stephan had been going around
for months with another member of
the canvassing-crew—a good-looking
blonde named Mrs. Frieda Rogers.
They were together constantly. They—

But the disheartened officers didn’t
care a lot. All along, they’d pictured
Stephan as the jealous, outraged hus-
band, seeking vengeance on the man
who had wrecked his home.

But now, with Stephan himself in
the role of philanderer, that possibility
had blown sky high. Why would a
man in the midst of an extra-marital
love affair shoot down someone ap-
parently totally unconnected with his
love life? It didn’t make sense.

Added to Ace

said. “He

Stephan’s semi-alibi,

1ID--8

The two detectives .

ounty Detective James Mulligan: “We've
ily got a couple more ex-cons left. None
t them look like they'll be much good™

When the Chief had finished, Prosecutor Orlando
100k his head, asked:

“Where do you figure to start?”

Doran said, “The only place we can—by hunting
motive. Just who is this Curtis Dobbins?”

“His reputation is excellent. He’s a hard worker
od never’s been mixed up in any scandal.”

“Where does he work?”

“He’s an engineer for the RCA Victor Corpora-
on.”

Doran leaned forward.

“That might show motive.
‘here’s a strike on at RCA and he
right be mixed up in-it. We'll
neck right away at Dobbins’ of-

Start nodded... _-

“That’s not all. There’s plenty
f other possible motives.” -

He told the officers about the
lder Dobbins being a parole offi-
ial.

“That may not be as hot as it
ounds,” Doran said. “I’ll go talk
> Dobbins’ father, of course—
aaybe he can think of some ex-
on he’s had trouble with. But I
on’t know.”

“What do you mean?”

D areriga explained... Apparently
the gunman had planned his
york carefully. It was almost
aconceivable he could have mis-
aken young Dobbins for his
ather—they were completely dis-
imilar in stature and appearance.

Prosecutor Orlando pointed out,
‘Just the same, an ex-con with a grudge can think
£ funny ways to get even. He might conceive a
‘ampaign to wipe out the whole Dobbins family.”

Doran asked, “How’s Dobbins this morning?”

“Not so good. I doubt if he’ll make it.” The
vullet had entered the victim’s left side, ripped
hrough the intestines and lodged just beneath the
kin on the right side. “We got the bullet. It was
\ thirty-eight.” ;

“Is Dobbins able to talk?”

“A little. Not much. He had a transfusion last
light but he’s weaker today.”

“I better go see him.” Doran thought a while.
‘Funny he couldn’t describe the man better than
hat. He was even off on the height.”

Start nodded vigorously. .

“That’s what I thought. If a man shot me, I’d
ave a pretty good idea of what he looked like.”

“You don’t suppose,” Doran said slowly, “that
Dobbins knows who shot him and won’t tell.”

“Why would he do that?”

Doran shrugged. “Search me. I only asked.”

He dropped the subject. But it stuck in his mind.
Was there something hidden in brilliant young
Yurt Dobbins’ life which not even imminent death

. ports were County Detective James Mu

could induce him to reveal? Was it the key to the
mystery? :

Doran interviewed young Dobbins. But the
wounded man, pale and weak, could add nothing
to what he already had told Chief Start. Yet the

detective came away from the hospital with the.

queer feeling that something was wrong. Was
Dobbins concealing anything? If so, why? Did
he actually know the gunman’s identity? It seemed
doubtful. And yet—

Doran interviewed the wounded man’s father.
Quiet, elderly Edgar Y. Dobbins, as Federal parole
officer for New Jersey, had helped hundreds of
ex-convicts to get new starts in life. He was
known as a man with a passionate interest in re-
habilitating criminals. ,

He shook his head sadly, told Doran, “It’s in-
conceivable to me that any one of my boys would
do a thing like this—to get even with me or for
any other reason.”

t1I\VOU’VE had enough experience in your field to
be able to spot the trouble-makers, Mr. Dob-
bins. Can’t you recall some of the bad ones you’ve
taken care of?”
Dobbins frowned, thought a long while.
“No, I can’t. Oh, there’ve been one or two that
I didn’t care for much. But no really bad ones,
Why, a lot of. those boys even worked for me. I
gave a lot of them jobs—you know, gardening
work around the house, that sort of thing—right
after they got out of prison until they could get
- their feet again. I always got along fine with
em.” }
“Well,” Doran said, “I still want to check your
parole records. It'll be a big job.. But I intend
to have every man you ever handled investigated.
It. can’t do any harm. And it might do a lot of
good. I’ll send detectives to go over your records
with you. You can eliminate a lot of the men right
off the bat, of course. Then my men can work out
on the others.”
Assigned to search the mountain of pg re-
igan and
Detective Thomas Murphy of the Camden City
Police Department.
Then Doran considered a different possibility.
It was based partly on his vague feeling that
Curt Dobbins was holding out, partly on his habit-
ual suspicion of a man whose reputation was spot-

less.

“They just don’t come that good,” he said to him-
self stubbornly. “No scandal, hard worker, quiet,
minds his own business. He’s too good to be true.
Somewhere, sometime— Well, people just don’t
get bumped unless there’s a good reason.”

‘‘No Scandal, Hard Worker, Ouitet,
Minds His Own Business. He’s Too
Good to Be ‘True. Somewhere, Some-
time— Well, People Just Don’t Get
Bumped Unless There’s a Reason”’

To aid in the investigation, Chief Doran called in
a squad of detectives and outlined his new theory.
Dobbins was tall, good-looking, a bachelor, dis-
tinctly eligible. It was entirely possible that he
had been the victim of some girl’s outraged hus-
band, jealous suitor, indignant brother or father.
a a complete report on Dobbins’ pri-
vate life.

detectives questioned all of the wounded’

i man’s closest friends. And at the end of the first
day’s work, their report to Doran was pretty dis-
‘couraging.

For they had been told, on every hand, that Curt
Dobbins’ life was exemplary.

Studious, brilliant, retiring, he was interested
only in his profession. He worked long hours and
spent little time i om 5 Unlike so many other
young men of Camden’s upper social strata, he
virtually never was seen in the hot spots across the
river at Philadelphia. Time after time he turned
down invitations to go out night-clubbing in the
evenings. He attended .even private parties but
rarely.

Women?

He thought

Detective Thomas Murphy:
he'd learn something important by telling
a blonde about her boy friend's wife

“He never had one,” the detectives reported.
“He showed absolutely no interest in girls.”

Definitely, first reports indicated that Curt Dob-
bins was no rich-man’s playboy. Indeed, he ap-
peared to have been more interested in his duties
as treasurer of the Sunday School of the Centen-
nary-Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church than
in relations with the opposite sex.

Doran told his men to find out whether Dobbins
had dated any of the girls employed at RCA.

While he was waiting for that information, Doran
received word that Dobbins’ du-
ties at RCA had not brought him
into contact with - stri em-~
ployes. Thus, for the time being,
one motive was discarded.

Nor were Detectives Murphy
and Mulligan getting far with
their investigation of parolees.
They had checked scores of ex-
convicts without result, Doran
told them to keep plugging away.

Then, when detectives brought
a young man into Headquarters
and the Prosecutor and Doran
heard his story, they forgot about
the check on parolees. For the
story was a strange one.

HE man said he and another

youth had been with Dobbins at
the beach less than two weeks be-
fore the shooting when three
pretty girls walked past. The
girls, wearing scanty swimming-
suits, had given the three youn
men the eye. The girls had walk
on up the beach, hips swinging,
legs and arms flashing brown in the hot Summer

. Sun,

The three youths had noticed the girls and one
had suggested following them. Dobbins had refused
flatly. The other young fellow made a suggestive
remark about the girls. Dobbins rose, drew him-
self up indignantly, and, outraged, told his friends
what he thought of men who spoke slightingly of
tna Then without another word he had gone

ome.

“We thought it was funny at the time,” the yoy
man told the officers. “After all, we hadn’t sai
anything that any young fellow wouldn’t say ‘under
the circumstances. But Curt was plenty sore. He
acted, like we’d insulted him, personally.”

Doran nodded thoughtfully, thanked the youth
and dismissed him. Alone once more with the
Prosecutor, the Detective Chief said:

“This might fit in with the idea I’ve had all
along.” ;

“How?”

Doran explained. Dobbins not only wasn’t in-
terested in girls—he appeared to be allergic to sex.
Was there something bordering on the unnatural
in his make-up? (Continued on Page 38)

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