The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-14
THE MURDER OF DUNHAM.
.rsprCoy AGAIN FALLS UPoN GEORGE
". FULLER


W. FULLER
s.,.r,oteudeut Brown Tanks that Some
sh,r, should he Done. and Believes that
Fuller Had . STRONGER Motive Tor tns
s1rime Than Anybody Else He Knows or
Police Superintendent Brown OF Newark
roode so called arrest In the Durham MUIR
dor case yesterday at Little Falls. 3h milos
sbove Paterson. on tho Passaic River. The
living in Brooklyn. Fuller was up before the
Prosecutor ton days ago and was put through
thorough examination. At that time he re-
iievcd himself OF suspicion and was allowed to
donart The story which he told Mt the time
,ras verified by tho Prosecutors detectives.
and there was no reason left for holding the
man. When Prosecutor Crane turned tho
Dunbam case over to the Superintendent OF
tbo Newark police that official took oil the
clues. stories. and documents and began oil
over again, following tho exact limo OF the
Prosecutors investigation. with no better re-
cults than tho Essex county men had achieved.
While the Court House squad hndbeen work
Ing on tho case tho police had INDUCED In
covert sneers. mud Superintendent Brown
made no attempt to conceal his opinion that
the case was being mismanaged. He said as
much to Sun reporter Whom the Prosecutor
ploadod important business Mt court and
asked Superintendent Brown to take hold OF
the case. the latter did not intrust 1t to Dctec-
five Sergeant Stansby. but took one OF his
fayorites and went into the field himself Ho
has been working on tho case moro than
q week. and comparisons were beginning
10 be drawn between his achievements
and those OF tho Court House squad. so that it
really became necessary to arrest somebody
to stop the wagging tongues in and out OF tho
Police Department, for there were tongues
wagSlng In the department, and they were
those Of officials who were envious OF tho
/maunor In which the super" had taken tho
case entirely to himself without reposing cou-
nderce in his fellow officers, oil Of whom are
men with larger experience p police work..
Haid Investigation; but there Is some doubt
that he will ever DO brought to trial The
evidence connecting him with the case is
On the night Of the murder Durham sent q
note 70 Blanche SHrnn r. ALIAS UpaiG ALIAS Ed
Kept BY Julia Williams on tho outskirts OF
Newark and WITHIN q Quarter Of, Q mile Of
saloon. another tough house on the road. when
he sent tho note, and Mrs. Keeses nephew.
who carried ths with the
Durham returned to his hotel. got into tho
quarrel with HE hostler. and lew minutes
had been taken into another room. he was as
shot in the back Of the head through window
cl9soto WHICH he was sitting.
Nth the ease was through the fact that he was
an old lover Of the woman Blanche. It is said
sad ts son rs
blanche in her place. but 4 hardly probabiss
sms Y Fuer Alter bsnehs lot fS said sk
to hnve gonS to live In fassaic. which is eight
knew very well; An effort will be made to
tne uiE Called s2ms al the e sdo
Eurder, Snd asked Buchanan i he could see
ban was waiting for an answer from Blanche
ct Reeses; Mrs Durham was called. and tic
stood II the dark While he asked her for
that he wore a bushy beard and wore q
stresks, on lis face Two girls Who
were returning from u choir rehearsal saw the
same man standing near Dunham'I and rc-
n9lghbor OF Dunhnm's saw man and woman
talking earnestly near Dunham's Just before
buggy Witch was dven lapd sas Ptsr
Fulers alibi before Prosecutor Crane is said
ne vas In Brooklyn at tho time. and in tracing
up hs movements the Newark detectives arc
Saia TO have found several persons whom Full
ler has begged not to say that they saw him In
have told thS dstsctlyss thst Hfs uier
and wagon. and that he took S away b %Isy
Which belonged to him. At that time Mueller.
w sL man with whom he lived ut Pnssaic. was
t y1i1 on the Greenwood Lake road. near Julia
william Miilian1s !; place. Fuller did not attend his
luneIal 1t Is said.
Fuller was found shaLipn d;co in tho b,r
room Of Wilkes Hotel. between Little Falls
a nM, CARRIED. and surrounded by u nalf dozen
la99rers., Superintendent brown took INN
ssde and told him he wanted to see him in
neWarki Fuller made no objection. and ac-
ff.nmpahied tho Superintendent and Cosgrove.
y he iiai objected the Newarkers were ready
totako him dead or alive but as a matter Of
as Sso% %Ss siy su nSt az
t apoW. he is merely detained because the au-
rs a"r,tieS may want him. His name is not
may understand that there is not n strong strong
t ts v fEnnst roh him He ,w was placed il
t night after underson 9 four hoars o hsri
Scatechlsing IN tho CAPTAINS room at tho
S SSGona precinct station in the presence o:
S one or two others. it is not usual to lock muir
Sostti, the witness from this dis
"s,in Of nc ease it may bo inferred that the
ne ny refused to say much about the matter last
ioow,ninwa t desgred that IN doing 80 no was
dld say however that when lie took un the
ne m sme Prosecutor t2ld him that II he, found
BsncSSss e ,nd It S,liI be lIynr of the girl
f'Rnt That Fuller's motive to murder
snv was stronger than that Of
sShst otnGr man yet heard Of. He said
MA, nntt rulers story last night did
Hc Az, t.ay with ,ns one he told before tho Pros
t Scutor when first brought to hook. and that
{nete We're some vital differences which must
eS On nySGT y. before Fuller could DO dis
these %o Gr sent to lail He will bo kept until
dr ruseG5 Is q wcll-built man Of SO. roughly
srUsr and having the vernacular OF West
~ p,lRahche Gurran refused to talk about Fuller
AM sn y, murder yesterday. ard would not SEQ
Williams house "''''' A"'A -''' '"""
Rrmarirs.. Dunhan sent word to Superintendent
ths eT Sny Yesterday that Patrick Phelan had loft
Win wv bhU owe without his pay He is the hostler
m muir %hom r. Durham fought Just before, the
SHys ago that be was going away AM and y wanted
Euperintssn sho sent word to tho police. and