The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-31
sUcCUMBs TO THE sWEATBox.
Negro Throws Light on the Murder
of instructor White.

of Instructor White.
PHILADELPHIA. May 30.-Again the
sweatbox has done its work and there is
every probability of three men paying the
penalty for the murder OF Roy Wilson
White. Charles Perry. it is said. has con-
fessed that he participated in the crime
with Ivory and Stirling. and the police are
heaving signs OF relief because the trouble
some clouds Of mystery have fioated away.
The programme to the close of the case
is all mapped out. There will! be coroner's
inquest on Friday. when detectives will
! mount the witness stand and repeat the
confessions which are alleged to have been
made by Ivory and Perry in the sweathnx;
the jury probably will find that White
came to his death at the hands of Amos
Stirling, Henry Ivory. and Charles Perry.
whom the coroner will commit TO await
the grand jury's action. Before that body
the detectives will repeat the confessions
and true bills most likely will be found.
Then the trio will be called to plead in
court. Even if they should enter denials
of connection with the crime, the detec-
tives will be there to repeat the confess
sions and the result is inevitable, at least
SO the police think
Perry's confession oozed out of him last
night when a hot fire Of questioning was
turned on him by Captain OF Detectives
Miller, Superintendent Quirk. and Detect
ives Dcnaghy and Mckenty. With four
men jerking out interrogations and max
ing remarks calculated to confuse the wits
of even an expert accountant, the colored
man is said to have broken down and
admitted that he helped to waylay Prof.
White
The statement corroborates Ivory's lat
est and amended confession. On the night
OF the murder the trio met at the grounds
OF the Buffalo Bill show. Then they went
to Engleside. and along the railroad tracks
Stirling is said to have picked up an iron
bolt, with the remark: This will come
handy later on" They continued their
journey along the railroad until short
time after 10 o'clock they reached the
vicinity of Thirty-second Street and Pow
elton Avenue.
AS Instructor White came into view
along Thirty-second Street. Perry and
Ivory say Stirling remarked: Here comes
guy who has got money" With that he
is alleged 10 have pulled the fatal bolt
from his pocket and dealt the victim a
terrific blow or the back Of the head. The
instructor fell forward and Stirling is de-
clared to have rained blow after blow on
his head. Ivory and Perry say they stood
by and took no active part, while Stirling
rifed the fallen mans pockets and tore
away the watch and ring.
Stirling is alleged TO have given the
watch TO Ivory. who turned it over to Per-
ry Soon afterward Perry left his COM
panions and went to his boarding house,
66S Holly Street. where he arrived short
time after IL O'Clock.
Ivory and Stirling. by circuitous route,
gained the railroad tracks and returned
by the same way by which they came. to
the show grounds at Twenty ninth Street
and Columbia Avenue. On the Girard
Avenue bridge they met John Leary. the
fireman, who subsequently identified Ivory
and Stirling as the men to whom he had
given match The two men kept to-
gether at the show grounds until a dis
pute arose over the division of the money
and a ring taken from the murdered man,
when Stirling after declaring that his
companion should receive no part of the
plumber disappeared. Ivory says he did
not see Stirling after that until he was
brought TO the City Hall from Trenton
on Monday.
Stirling has not yet surrendered to the
winning ways of the sweatbox. He main
tains he is innocent and the police find it
impossible TO pierce his armor OF denial
Charles Smith. who was arrested while
trying to pawn the watch in West Phila-
delphia, has proven complete alibi He
admits that he stole the timepiece from
Perry's bureau drawer and. not knowing
it was the proceeds of murder. tried TO
pawn it to raise cash.