The Washington times., 1901-11-30
JERSEY POLICE
SEEK SLAYER.
Securing All Towns in the
Vicinity Of Trenton.
NO TRACE OF CRIPPLE'S MURDER BR.
VIE of Man Who Killed Ciga,-
maker Arrested Forced to Aid
in the Attempt to Dispose of the
Body-The Woman's Story.

TRENTON. n J., Nov. 29.-Detectives
are securing all the many towns and
villages within a radius Of twenty-five
miles Of Trenton in the hope Of captuT-
ing Frank f Williams. the cigarmaker,
who yesterday murdered his employer,
John Kraus.
Mrs. Williams. the child-wife of the
murderer. was arraigned in Police Court
this mcrning. and held temporarily.
Brutal Crime.
The murder was most deliberately
planned. and its execution was brutal in
the extreme. After crushing in the skull
of Kraus who was almost a helpless
paralytic, Williams spent an hour tying
the body into ball by deftly arranging
d rope about the neck and legs. and then
he wrapped il in rubber blanket.
He then compelled his seventeen-year-
cid wife to accompany him to Furman's
livery stable. where he hired a rig to
cart the body away.
Wife Becomes HystericaI.
While the murderer was waiting for
the carriage. the young wife. who had
hysterical and rushing frantically up and
down the street, she ran into the arms OF
a fireman. TO whom she denounced her
husband as a murderer, and appealed to
hiIn for protection.
The fireman thought the young woman
an escaped lunaLc and he questioned her
sharply, but consented finally to help her
and seeing the side door OF Jaeger's sa-
loon open he accompanied her into the
Germans kitchen Here Mrs. Williams
again told the story OF the murder and
once more she was mistaken for a crazy
person Jaeger advised that all present
agree with her. Then they told her they
had heard of the murder and would pro-
teot her
The Murderer Excited.
The murderer meanwhile had gotten his
rig from Liyeryman Furman, with whom
he was well acquainted. and on regainIng
the street from the stable yard and fail
ing to find his wife where he had left
lie, too, became frantic, and, jumping
from the carriage. he rushed up and down
the street. By this time the residents of
the entire block knew of the crime.
Williams stopped every person he met
and asked if they had seen his young wife,
Eventually he learned that she was in
Jaeger's kitchen. He ran into the hallway
leading to the kitchen, loudly calling his
wife by endearing names.
Hearing her husbands approach, Mrs.
Williams begged for an opportunity to
hide and on seeing him she rushed for
ward, crying: Il won't go, Frank; won't
go with you"
An AfFectlonate Meeting.
The murderer seized his wife in bis
arms. caressed her tenderiy for a full
minute, kissed her several times and, with
the remark that ne must go alone, he left
the place
No one attempted TO follow him. and he
walked through tke crowd toward a rail-
road station. He has not been seen since.
The young wife was arrested an hour
later. and told the full story of the crime.
Quarrel Over Money.
Frank 7. Williams killed John Kraus
in quarrel over s25. Williams entered
the shed where Kraus was working and
felled him with blows with the handle of
cigar press.
Kraus was about hfty-1ye years old,
aHd unmarried.
Williams came to this city about six
months ago from Buffalo, n. Y. He claim
ed to be the son Of the president OF an
asphalt company Of Buffalo. Mrs VIII
liams is the daughter of Kenard smith,
Of wilmington, Del, and was married TO
Williams six months ago. She rays her
husband is a weli-educsted man, and that
he speaks several languages.