The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-15
SAYS HE DIDN'T CONFESS.
Ell SHAW DENIES 4 REMARKABLE
NEWSPAPER STORY.

Amdavits OF Two Reporters to the Effect
That To Owned Up to Killing His Mother
and His Grandm other Contradi cted-sov-
eral Civil and Grimm nj Suits rsatened.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. II. Tho Times OF this
city this morning published a story giving an
alleged confession by Eli Shaw that on the
morning Of Oct. L.. 1897. he killed his mother.
Mrs Sarah II. Shaw. and his grandmother.
Mrs. Emma Zane. The confession was repre-
scented as being made to william H. Hay
and Howard X. Sloan. reporters for the
Times. Shaw was tried for these murders
and acquitted moro than year ago. The
Times also represented Shaw as saying that
Eugene Ddrnell was in the house at the time
OF the murders and that he had concealed his
knowledge OF tho crimes. On the strength OF
aSfdavits made by Hay and Sloan. Darnell was
arrested in Camden.
Shaw to-day made afidavit that he had met
and talked with Hay and Sloan. the reporters
but that he never said anything that would
have led them even to infer that he COM
mltted tho murders He said that
he would institute suits for criminal
libel and sue the Times for damages and would
| also charge the reporters with perjury. OAR
| nell declares thatthe statements made in the
Times are untrue. and that he can prove an
alibi. He says he will also bring suits against
! the paper and the men who wrote the story
! shaw's afldavt follows:
| State OF New Jersey. County Of Camden. IS.
ELI Shaw. being duly sworn. on his oath says
that he never made the statements imputed to
| him by W. H. Hay and Howard X. Sloan. APP
pearing in the Philadelphia Times this morn
| ing. The deponent further says that he
never had such conversation as related by w.
| H. Hay and Howard X. Sloan. Deponent
| ,rtk hat he Havv INF od into
view with me on Federal street. Irepled that
| I would not talk unless was in tho office OF
| Messrs Scovel Il Boyle and they were present.
Hay then asked me II l knew Eugene OAR
nell. / replied: Yes; he 10 good friend OF
mine He then asked IL we were good
friends. replied yes. He then asked me II I
knew what the talk was. 1 replied no. He
| said that II was reported that Gene and went
home together intoxicated pm the morning OF
| Oct. IL. 1897. at 80. l went upstairs: OAR
nell heard shot and he ran out in the bushes.
| / replied that this was lie. for l have proof
the time won't home and who went home
| with.
He also told me OF man who lived on Pine
street. but who has since moved away. and
whose name l do not know. who said that he
| saw q man run out in the bushes and after
ward talked with Darnell and recognized him
| as the man who was in the bushes Hay then
said: Suppose Darnell would swear to being
the man in tho bushes2' I told him II
was lie and he could not swear tc
such statement because l had proof Of who
went home with and the time went homo.
"Deponent further says that he In no way said
anything to either Mr.. Hay or Mr.. Sloan from
which 1t might be inferred that he had killed
either his m other or grandm other. And furthel
says that said Hay never referred to hi.
mother or grandmother In said conversation
ELI SHAW.
Sworn and subscribed before me. this four.
teenth day Of September 1899.
JOHN d. CouRTIER. Notary Public.
witnesses: Frank S. Albright. h. F. Nc.
DouGall. Claiming A. Leidy James A
Lawrence"
Tho Times story was to tho effect that Shaw
had confessed that on the night Of the double
murder he and Darnell had been out carous
ing and returned to shaw's home apou
] 80 in tho morning Shaw went up stairs
| Soon there was shot fired and Shaw
came down and told Darnell that he had killed
his mother. Darnell then ran out OF the hous,
and hid in some bushes in the yard. A mar
whose name Is not mentioned is sale
to have seen Darnell In the bushes
The murder OF the grandmother. Mrs. Zane. il
said to have been accidental. Shaw havini
flourished the revolver in her face to intim
idats her and force her to yield to his deman,
for money. when the weapon exploded
sending the ball through her brain. Hi
mother. who was in another room
asleep. aroused by tho shot. came into tn
room. saw what had occurred and went to &c
some bandaGes to stop the flow OF blood
During her absence Shaw. seeing that hi
gran dmother was Dead determined to kill hi
mother to protect himself and so when she wa
kneeling beside her mother he fired tn
| murderous shot.