The sun., 1893-10-05
,F. 10 TRAGEDIES RECALLED.
DIR. MARY TALKER's sTRASGE CHARGE
AGAINST FoRMkR FARM HASD.

| She Has Him Arrested for the Murder OF
| Christie Warden. Tor which Frank &.
| Air,y Wa. Hanged, and Says He II Mr.
Norero-., who Was Supposed TO Have
| Dropped the bomb In Rns4eii SnEe's Once.
SYRACUSE. Oct. 4.-Dr Mary f Walker set
things in commotion at Police Headduarters
In this city to- day by calling for the arrest oil
Arthur b. Snoad. a porter at the Windsor u Hotel
in this city, on the charge OF having killed
| Christie Warden at Hanover. n H.. on JulylI
| 1901 On the strength of the story DR.. Walker
| told Snoad was summoned to the station and
detained for further Investigation. The &C.
| centric woman has been at work on the case
| ever since the murder, Snoad. she says.
went to work for her at her farm at
| Bunker Hill. about four miles west OF Oswego.
| in May. 1891. He remained o short time and
then left her employ. but returned on July IL.
remained short time and again went away.
To-day she insists that he 10 H.. L. Norcross.
the man who it was said. dropped the dyna-
mite bomb in Russell SaRe's office In New
York and perished in tho explosion. The Doc
tor says that 1t was not Norcross. but COM
panon OF his who threw the bomb. and that
Snoad Is Norcross.
She says that on the evening following the
Christie Warden murder. the same evening
that he arrived at her house. Snoad. at her re-
quest. read aloud the account OF the murder.
He was 80 affected at parts Of II, especially tho
description OF the man who committed the
murder. that no stopped reading and had to be
urged to go on. After he had finished he took
light and went to his ROOM although 1t was
only O'Clock. whereas he had not been In the
habit OF retiring before 8 o'clock. She says
that while he lived at her house and while
reading something OF that murder he told her
that he worked in New Hampshire for fam
Sn oad said to-day that he came 10 Syracuse
about ten or eleven years ago from Kent: Eng
land he told rambipg s1S0r Sa} S hs hss t9S
.d sae hs 6esn GSeass and 1aa
nsSsr rS"s n RHs. sea S fhs ssSn'
He does not exactly know where he Tas when hen
III thfnks se had just rHs returned from paaada 0D'
fsSn % s na sas sns SoTn n %on
was not tSe murderer st ali but That DO was
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s hi: hs sTs Nsn
within year Of the time OF sentence Almy
that ne 6s sale noa S5 ps aa
Gays that the Wardens have motive in not
having the real murderer known. stepby stop
derer. that he is II. L. Norcross and that each
told her when he was at work on her farm.
ment. but says that the Doctor Il il GER Certainly in
Hampshire. where Norcross is known. and
SHOW that he is not Norcross.
sir was said to be- and his letters prove th IS.
saade him his ali tss snoad
nies, although he says that he received 2 good
broker in London. The Doctor says that he is
was broker % and she places great signiicanee m M,
his client. whom he knew to be innocent. That
his name appears in the directory Of 1es7-a.
b1o5o |s S,sresa ted mini that asa sao Rst had
sss ssss SsseEyips s F!r .n$ t%Sst % On %rs 5 hss
Confess sll and admit that i was he who com:
S w01a %ou be to It
changed that capital pun ishmept would be
abolished She said that she would personally
the remainder Of his days. and that his mind
would be more at ease than It had been since
Dr. Walker says that after killing Christie
River and stole a horse and rode it as lar as
haustsd Then he boarded the train and went
snoad tod her Sa on the evenne Of July sf IL
tho RineIand Hotel, oswego. but that she
uh Chief Nv Wright has sd detained snoad. and will
investigate the story. DR., Walker tried year
snoads arrest, but the authorities there would
not issue one.