The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-27
FOR THE KAISER MURDER.
JAMES r. CLEMMER ARRESTED BIZ
NEWARK DBTEOTITEs.

Just q year and a half ago Charles o. Kaiser
rode into Nor-istown. Pa, with the body OF his
young wife proppod up beside him in q buggy.
He told a thrilling story Of an adventure with
highwaymen-how they had sprung from Q
thicket with levelled revolvers and demanded
your money or your life"; how he had out
them across the face with his whip and had
made n bravo resistance; how there and then
they had shot his wife dead, and while he
was still holding her had shot him and
he had fallen to the road. still fighting despe-
rately, They pounccd upon him and overpow-
cred him, he said. They took his money and
jowelry. and robbed tho body Of his wife. He
had a wound in his arm to prove that what he
said was true. and there was the dead body OF
his wife-a young woman of beauty and refine
mont, whom he had but recently married, and
whom he swore he had loved better than his life.
Twice when he looked on her dead body he
tainted with grief. His story thrilled his hear
ors. Could he describe the highwaymani Yes.
One was about 8 feet tall and weighed
moro than 200 pounds. He had a light mus
tache, and he wore q light overcoat and a black
derby hat. The other was 8 feet z inches tall. He
weighed about $50 pounds, and he wore no over
coat. Both men were physically powerful.
They had escaped to the woods after committing
the murder and the robbery. and they had left
poor Kaiser lying on the ground for dead.
To-day Charles o. Kaiser Is awaiting the exc
cution of a death sentence in a penitentiary in
Pennsylvania for the murder of his wife. Eliza
beth X. De Kalb is being tried as an accomplice,
and yesterday the police of Newark, n. j.,
picked up a little man In Broad street. in that
city, who insisted strenuously that he was
Henry H.. Young, but who, when the screws
were put on him at Police Headquarters and he
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in his pocket, said: "Ah. the game is up. I'm
I'm ready to 20 back and face the music, and
will go without extradition. I'm %Clemmer."
with his arrest it is believed that all the mys.
terry in the murder of Mrs. Charles o. Kaiser of
Norristown is cleared up, and the last person
Charles o. Kaiser. was a hero in Norristovn for
just two days. Those two days were spent by
the city ana county officials and by more than a
hundred OF the citizens in securing the country
for the. two desperadoes who had murdered
Mrs; Kaiser; Then came a series OF dis,
Norristown. His company, had issued
a $4,000 policy on Mrs. kaiser's life. The hus-
Kaiser had returned to the city with lis ,wife's
body propped, up beside him was identified by q
ligsr th STABLE 1ass es'P %So b hs ' SiSed ff e. I kf hss b sss
hired by 4 woman who was dressed ali in black,
and who wore a black veil. She had hired an.
along the road on which the holdup had taken
place remembered perfectly having seen Mr.. and
a arrS' he Ns'rsn e%raG'ne i0 that a nf fsw minutes ss fIS later
he had seen another rig trailing along after the
first; In it, driving, sat a woman dressed all in
a dark man with black eyes and black hair, who
looked like a foreigner. The farmer had seen
Then on top Of ali this Kaiser, who was sup:
posed to have been seriously hurt, got well sud
s ssiPI{ that tn the p MDuaS In S Ea0 m nas n sdasnSef ba him a
about the case discovered that the wound was
place that 1t could not have been made as Kaiser
After this came the report
said that the wound that had killed her was in
bullet had come had been held close to her head.
Kaiser was arrested. accused of killing his wife.
He tainted again. He recovered, protesting his
love for the woman. Yes, he admitted her life
times rather have her alive than the
money. The inconsistency of his story of the
s Mo%nas w wleh po Int facts oas. a as di sS5 % s0y ybt the
had happened Just as he had described it, in
cerned why neither he nor his wife had wanted
very, badly to have their, lives insured. They
ha The eee ant thonfta Go eb a e ~ py oven yeme Els a. s G,emmef.
They sent for Clemmer. He was gone. They
remembered that he was a little man with dark
or an Italian. When they looked further they
discovered that on the very next train after the
woman dressed ali in black and wearing a black
veil; Who the woman in black was they did
not know. They searched for weeks: Then they
discovered that Elizabeth X. De Kalb was miss
ing, and that for some time before she went away
she had dressed all in black. Further. that
Charles 9. Kaiser had been very friendly with
her and that she and Kaiser had frequently met
James +. Clemmer before the highway robbery
and killing. The three had. In fact, been very
Kaiser. The liveryman identified a picture OF
Elizabeth K. Pc Kslb as that Of the woman in
titled a picture OF James Il. Clemmer as tho man
By the woman in black and following tie rig Of
i%ynching Charles Q. Kaiser. But the Jail held
him., Kaiser was tried and convicted of the
dence that he. with. Elizabeth K. De Kaib and
James E; Clemmer had plotted, to insure the life
Of a. Mrs rsur Kaiser and then BY killing her . cheat
a lonely spot in the road had drawn his revol.
Miss De Kalb had followed, It was alleged, TO
be ready 70 finish, the Job in case he lost his
s sSotf had killed. thfs nt II the these se were o't the facts ase tR Rss
had not themselves had the nerve to stay and
bluff out their innocence, as they might have
directly.
The search for these two was never abandoned.
At last a tip came from Trenton, N. j.. that a
under the name OF Mary Kaufman answered the
description OF Elizabeth De kalb. The deteG;;
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acquainted with Mary Kaufman. They induced
him to betray her into their hands. They offered
to pay him 5000 II he would got her to come to
Philadelphia to meet him. He knew they
wanted her for some crime. but that II was as
an accomplish in a murder case he never had
any idea, He consented. They captured her in
tho Broad street station, and before the young
man had had n chance to be sorry for his bar
gain they whisked her away to Norristown.
Her trial was under way when the officials
heard that a man answering the descrip-
ton of James L. Clemmer was working IN
Newark, N. j.. as q canyassor, and that he had
let fall some remarks that indicated that he
town. They sent word to the Newark police,
and Chief OF Detectives Stainsby and Detective
CosRrove started a search. They ran
across their man on one of the main streets OF
tho city. He nswere the description of Glenn
mer exactly. They took him to Police Head
quarters, where he stoutly maintained that he
had done nothing to be arrested for.
I'VE know you" said the Chief of Detectives.
"You are James E. Clemmer, and you are
wanted in Norristown, Pa. for murder. We
have q warrant here for your arrest"
This was "a guess, for at that time the man
had not been searched. He had been taken on
description only When he heard the accusa-
tion his face turned white as q sheet. He was
searched then. In one of the two pockotbooRs
he carried were n package OF newspaper clip
pings about the murder of Mrs. Charles o. Kali
ser and the trial and conviction of her husband.
There were also clippings about tho arrest OF