Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-12-09
MARTINsBURG. w. va. SATURDAY. DECEMBER
MURDER CONFESSED
Al YOUNG MAN ADMITS THAT HE
is GUILTY.

Ntllin9 OF tnc roStHlaetSf 81 S~otS
dale, NJ. Y.--Quick Apprehension OF
the Murderer, Who Is Cigarette
Fiend.
Edgar Burnz. 10 years old, the son
of Claiming Burnz, who lives in New
Rochelle, N. ", and is the principal OF
typewriting and shorthand school.
has, according to Capt. McClusky, OF
the New York Detective Bureau, con-
fessed to the murder on Tuesday
night last of Herbert b. Fellows, the
station agent and postmaster at Sears
dale, Westchester county.
Burnz was arrested in Madison
Square Garden New York. by Detec-
tive Sergeant Sullivan. of the Central
Office. who, in company with Sheriff
MoI,oy. of Westchester county, had
gone to the Garden to look for the
young man.
Suspicion had pointed to him as
knowing something about the murder,
and there were reasons for believing
that he could be found at the bicycle
race He appeared In due time ac-
con1ranied by young woman whom
he had met an hour before. When
QuGSttbACu ny DuttfNalt oath ANaosibS ~
SAID that he had come to New York
Tuesday night on the 1i:07 o'clock
train from Tuckahoe He said that he
had brought about $75 with him, and
on refusing to tell where he got 1t he
was locked up.
Wednesday morning at $3.50 o'clock
Capt. McClusky announced that Burnz
had confessed the murder.
Gnsnn Tina hptwapp and % O'clock
by at least one person, two shots were
heard fired on the road Fellows had
taken To go home. Fellows did not re-
turn at the time his wife and mother
expected him, and after waiting q
while they summoned a neighbor by
the name of GRAF, who made search
and found Fellowss body lying in a
gully near the railroad track. He was
unconscious and there was bullet
hole in the back of his head near the
base of his brain He died. His
satchei was missing when the wound
man was found. The pockets OF his
clothing had been rified.
Detectives OF the New York Central
Railroad went to work on the case.
The Dederers told them all they knew,
and as result OF the information thus
obtained they went to Claiming
Burrs hsgse. They found then that
Edgar Burnz, 10 years old an inces-
SAINT cigarette smoker. had had a quar-
rel with his parents and had not been
home for several days. A Mrs. Her
ten told the detectives that young
Burnz had come to her house on Tues
day morning and had left about Z
O'Clock in the evening, saying that he
was going to New York City on the
S.07 train. When he left, she said. he
wore long yellow macintosh and
was smoking cigarette. He always
carried revolver. she said. From a
trainman by the name of j. Wilson
the detectives learned that Burnz had
boarded a New York train from Tuck
ahoe. The trainman Wilson said that
Burnz showed him a roll of bills con
tanning at least $50, and invited him
to go to the bicycle race at Madison
Square Garden.
A Mrs. Corrigan. who lives on the
road between Scarsdale and Tuckahoe
stations, found fellows satchcl in her
garden. The bag contained Fellowss
revolver, which had not been dis
charged all the Scarsdale registered
mail. postal money orders and express
orders, but the money and stamps had
been stolen. As Burnz had talked of
,oing to the bicycle race, and was
known all over Westchester county as
a bicycle fend, the Garden was the
obvious place TO look for him, and
there Sheriff Mall,y and the Central
Office man, who had met the deputy
sheriff and railroad detectives, found
the man for whom they were looking.