The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-30
SAW HER HUSBAND Do MURDER
FEAR or HER OWN LIFE CAUSED
HER TO REVEAL THE CRIME.
Crippled Victim Stricken In Ills CHAIR
The Murderer. Franklin Williams.
Said to Have Bcen Actuated ny JeN-
ous~y -iTsnncd TO Dispose az the Dody.

Said 10 Have Bcen Actuated ny Jes1-
usy-iTsnncd 10 Dispose az the body
TRENTON. N. j., Nov. 29.-Franklin
Williams. who murdered his employer,
John Kraus, with a club yesterday In the
latter's shop at IL Lincoln avenue, has not
been captured and the police do not even
pretend 10 say In what direction he has
gone. He had but 50 when he made hi,
escape. The murderer's bride, who saw
the killing and for five hours worked with
her husband 10 conceal the crime before
she confessed, Is still held as a witness
at Police Headquarters. She has eaten
nothing since sho was arrested twenty
four hours ago. and for the greater part
Of that time has been hysterical. She
was so nervous IA taken into court
this morning that Judge jackson remanded
her without examination. Later in the
day she talked to Chief Hiner and Detec-
tive Pilger and gave them the details OF
the murder. She stuck TO her first story,
that her husband and Kraus had quarrelled
about s25. She IA 80 emphatic about
that point that the police came TO the con-
clusion that she was trying to conceal
another motive for the crime.
Kraus. the murdered cigarmaker, did not
have the best Of regulations 80 far as women
we're concerned. The Williams woman
was left alone with him frequently in the
Lincoln avenue shop. The theory developed
to-day tina he had attempted TO be familiar;
that she had old her husband, and that
the murder which followed had Jealousy
for it's motive rather than disappointment
In not collecting back wages. In support
of the jealousy theory is the fact that the
Young wife was afraid last night that Will
lams would kill her, too. and, partly at
least, for that reason, would not take the
ride across country with him TO hide the
body. .
The murderer studied for the priesthood
several years ago, his wife Gays. but was
never ordained. Photographs OF him in
clerical garb were found yesterday in his
room.
Mrs. williams does not doubt for a minute
that he was once destined for the Church.
although he has sin ce been a cook, a waiter,
a cigarmaker and an interpreter. He can
speak several languages well. In the police
cell to-day Mrs Williams referred TO him
repeatedly as "a godly man -,
sOh, Frank" she exclaimed. when LED
hack from the court room, why did
YOU kill him. You. n priest, a murderer
my husbandf'' ~,
The police do not feel so sure about Will
liams having studied for the priesthood
Detective Pilger, who has charge OF the case
said: civilians has lived 10y. his wits,
doing real work only when driven "a. it,
We think that he has posed as a priest
some time or other as a part OF some money
getting dodge
little cigarmaker's shop and in which he
was killed is a one-and-a-half story frame
structure opposite the Clinton Avenue
Baptist Church. The cigars were made
and sold in the front part of the shop. and
the rear, which was screened on by a pair
of cheap portieres, was occupied by kraus
as a sleeping room. II was also kitchen
and dining room, where Ms. Williams
cooked for the two men and where all three
had their meals. The one room upstairs
used by Williams and his wife as a
They all moved into the place three
weeks ago to-day. Before that kraus
had a shop in Tucker street and Williams
and his wife boarded at ~ South Broad
street. They had been there since they
came 20 Trenton, six weeks ago, from
Wilmington, where the wife belonged. and
where they recently were married. They
went out together every morning 10 search
for work in restaurants and in cigar fac
tories. They went into kraus's place Oh
Tucker street one morning a month ago
and Williams asked for work making cigars
kraus, who was So year, old and "A crlpple,
said tina he thought he would go out OF
business and spend the winter IN the aim
house. He had applied the day before TO
the auth Drities for admission To the aim
house. lie told Williams that every man
he had hired TO help him In the bushes
had cheated him and robbed him VII
liaus agreed 10 break the old mans spell
of hard luck and TO make money for hIm
The Young wife chimed m with ia" oneI
10 b. housekccper Tor both. kraur de-
cided 10 try again, cancelled his applica-
ton 70 20 to the p~OOrhou.e, hired the new
shop on Lincoln avenue and struggi"/
along until he was murdered Nlimr/
mad the cigar hrauz sold them from d
wagon Ina the suburbs
Kfaus was allied between noon ard
O'Clock yesterday He wac knocked On
TIE had with Al OAK billet from the cigar
pres while sitting Ia a CHAIR william r'e'h
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