The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-23

hart and p. p. Carter, of Capouse ave-
nue.. were often in each others en-
pany and evidently close friends, and
he concluded to disclose the affair to
Mr.. Carter, which he did.
Mr.. Carter at once appraised DR..
Everhart and warned him that Lewis
feared young Everhart would commit
the deed himself when he saw that he,
Lewis, had failed.
DR.. Everhart placed the case in the
hands of Detective Herman Barring,
at the advice of his attorneys, w. w.
Baylor and Joseph O'Brien. Mr.. Barr
ing when he heard the story first was
fairly dumbfounded and said that fa-
mlliar as he was with crime and GRIM
inals and the extremes to which des-
perate men would go to get money
he could not credit this story without
the most convincing corroboration.
HE would be a fool to have another
man to do the deed; 1t must be a plot
against the boy" the detective de-
clared then. Now he says there is not
the slightest doubt Of Lewis story be-
ing true in every particular
THE SECOND ATTEMPT.
Under Barring's instructions Lewis
told young Everhart that he was at
the house and could not rouse the
doctor but would try again. Everhart
insisted that he should make the sec
ond attempt that night (Monday).
Lewis agreed Each day Lewis would
| put 1t off saying he would try again
the next night.
Wednesday night they did not meet,
| although an appointments for meet
| ing was made and the next day Ever
| hart wrote a note to Lewis telling him
| to be sure to meet him that night at
| the Delaware and Hudson station.
Lewis was there and met Everhart.
| They had long conversation and one
| of Earrings men heard parts Of It,
Everhart went to rejoin Mrs. Rims
| land in Green Ridge, while Lewis set
| off to do the murder-as Everhart
supposed. Yesterday morning, when
| Detective Barring went to Everhart's
room to place him under arrest Ever
hart came to the door half dressed.
! Without disclosing his identity the
| detective said, Your father has been
murdered" Without a tremor or the
slightest start Everhart remarked,
"Is that So" in a tone Of the greatest
unconcern. "Yes, and they caught the
fellow who did it and he says you
hired him to do it, He gives the whole
| thing away" continued the detective.
Everhart was visibly affected but
made some remarks as If to make light
of the charge He became pretty much
excited when ordered to dress and
"come along" but calmed down pres
emily and acted anything but what
would be expected of a man on his way
to answer to the charge of killing his
father, Everhart, of course, not know
| ing but what his father had been mur-
| dered.
He was detained in the detectives
office till his hearing could be arranged
for and and at o'clock taken before
Alderman Kasson.
MOTIVE FOR CRIME.
The motive for the crime was, as in
dicated above, the immediate possess
sion of his fathers wealth. he being
| the sole heir.
Recently the story that his father
was to marry again reached his ears.
He understood that his father had no
existing will and that If he died now
the only heir would come in for all the
estate, which is variously estimated
from $150,000 to a quarter of a million.
Last week a New York detective
named Cunningham came here to eff
| feet a settlement for two forged notes
of S400 and 5000 which young EVerhart
pasesd on New York parties recently.
DIR. Everhart refused to make them
good. He said he had been paying one
debt after another and advancing his
hnt 1p af l.II
deavor to save the family name from
disgrace and give his son o start in
some line or other that might be con-
genial to him. but the more the son
got the more reckless and dissipated
he became and now since the Rinsland
affair he had decided to let him drift
for himself.
The detective walked around for sew
eral days and finally left without ar
resting young Everhart. 1t is said a
compromise was effected. One of the
notes, the larger, was forged on his
uncle and passed on his cousin. The
other for 5000 was forged on his father
and passed on a hotel proprietor with
whom he had had previous extensive
dealings and who had frequently
cashed checks for Everhart before.
These three things. the necessity of
having money to maintain the woman
he stole, the apprehension that his
father was about to remarry, and the
feeling that he could never succeed in
effecting a reconciliation with his faith
er, are assigned as the cause of his
desperation.
MONEY THE SON RECEIVED.
When James M. Everhart died five
years ago his brother, DR.. Everhart,
came in for one-fifth of the estate,
which was valued at $4,000. DIT.
Everhart gave to his son $4,000 Of this,
including $4,000 in stocks. expecting