Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-14

one. The statement Of william is as
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done. The statement OF William Is as
follows:
Q. who owns this pocket~handker-
chief? A. / do not know; but tninA
my brother Howard owns IT,
O. Who owns these cuffs? A. tniHA
answered before. Two years ago. A.
O. Who owns this pistolI A 90
not know who owns II.
Q. DO you understand all questions PVT
to you? A. ! do.
lanes Fitzgerald was questioned as foi-
lows:
.. Who owns this pocket-handker-
chief? Willie owns the handkerchief.
But I did not wear that.
@. What Willie? A. He wore II last
week.
O. william who? A. My brother.
o. Who owns these cuffs? A. My
brother and me. That is old GUNS
O. How old? A. More than wv
years.
o Who owns this pistol? A. Ny bro
Their owns the pistol. His friend gave IL
10 him. My brother. Howard
O Do YOU fully understand all tne
questions put TO you? A. Yes, sir; some
Of them. ao
O. what ones do you not understand
A. / do not understand.
O. Whom do these cuffs belong toF "a
Willie and me. -
William fitzgerald wrote out a state
ment for his counsel. in Wnicn ne saiu
that he left the institution alone az noon
an Monday. walked around the streets,
and then returned to the building. lie
said that on Saturday he went 20 Peinam
Manor To visit a friend. He took the re-
volver with him. IL had not been loaueu.
He said he brought It back with him, ana
on Monday morning 1t was In his pocket
when he hung his coat up in closet at
the institution
Howard Fitzgerald, who is not deaf
mute. said that the revolver belonged 10
him. Mr.. Froman here said tnat ne pc
lieved the murderer had been an inmate
OF the institution. and had purposeiy isI.
the blood-stained articles where tney
could be found, 30 as 10 throw suspiclo"
on William Fitzgerald.
He said that william had some enemy
IN the institution, for once his coat mad
been cut b. some unknown person.
Magistrate Kudlich announced that he
would send for an assistant district at
torney to conduct the examination to-day
and the two prisoners were led to their
cells.
The only evidence so far obtained
against the boys is in the articles found
in the coal-bin. Robbery was not the
motive for the crime
Only a few blocks away from the scene
Of the murder is the store in which VIII
liam Krauer was murdered q few months
ago. In that case robbery was at first
thought to have been the motive, but the
police. when they arrested the young
murderer, found another motive. In many
respects the Eglau crime Is similar to the
Krauer murder, and the police are not
botherlng themselves in attempting 10
establish robbery as the motive
Dwight L. E.mendorf. the head teacher
OF the institution, made a statement yes
terday, in which he said: AT O'Clock
on the morning OF the murder my class
convened. At II o'clock l dismissed the
class for luncheon. Five minutes later
/ went down stairs, and on my way met
Professor Eglau. We talked for few
minutes. and 1 made an appointment to
meet him In his studio after school hours.
went out to luncheon, and he went on
upstairs to his studio.
~ returned 10 the institute at 1lO
o'clock, and called the class to order.
At 2:30 o'clock superintendent Greene
rushed into the classroom and said that
Professor Eglau was lying in a pool of
blood upstairs. 1 Immediately told the
class that Professor Eglau was i'll, and
then went upstairs, where we found the
body as already described.
'Since that time have been investiga-
ting the murder. 1 have gone over the
entire fire-escape with a microscope. but
have failed TO find any blood-stains there.
found but one blood-spot outside OF the
room where the murder was committed.
That was on the wall just outside OF the
door to the clay-modelling room. That
leads re TO believe that the murderer
or murderers escaped by way OF the
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