The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-04-25
MURDERER Of MISS FULLER
C. B. HADLEY OF SAN FRANCISCO
He WINS Accountant for Examiner
for II Ycars-Has Been Missing
Since Her Denth-LiVed Under an
Assumed Name-His Mistress Tells
the story.

San Francisco, April 21.-Chief of
Police Whitman has officially an
nounced that the murderer of Nora |
Fuller was c. B. Hadley. for IA years |
accountant in the business office of |
the Examiner
On January 16, the day of the dis
of Nora Fuller, c. Z. Had |
ley also disappeared and has not been
seen since.
Theodore Kytka, the handwriting
expert, declares the man who wrote
the name c. B. Hawkins in the adver-
tisement Turing Nora Fuller 70 her
death was c. b. Hadley. He has com
pared the handwritings and declares
they are identical.
So hurriedly had Hadley left his
lodgings and fed that he did not even
go to the bank to draw the balance
which he had on deposit.
Nora Fuller, a 16 year old girl left
her home January 16 to answer an
advertisement for a nurse girl. No
trace of her could be found until a
month later, when her nude body was
found in a vacant house on Suffer
street. The girl had been murdered
Miss Clara Dixon has made a state
ment to the police which apparently
proves conclusively that Hadley killed
Nora Fuller Hadley and Miss Dixon
lived together, and in her statement
she says that she saw Hadley for the
last time on the morning of January
1G, her birthday. The couple had in.
tended to dine down town in honor of
the day. The couple had etaoinnun
the day, but toward evening Hadley
telephoned that he would come home
to dinner, but he did not put in an
appearance Miss Dixon explained
that after Hadley's disappearance she
burned some of Hadley's clothes and
gave other articles to her brother in
law. She explained her peculiar &C
tions by saying that the Nora Fuller
stories had frightened her, and she
admitted to the police that she sus-
pected Hadley.
Miss Dixon said that the handker-
chief found in the room where Nora
Fuller's body was found was similar
to some owned by Hadley She posi-
lively identified certain writings of the
man Hawkins as being T.adley's hand
writing. Hawkins was the name signed
by the man who rented the Suttel
street house from Umsden & Co.. the
real estate firm Miss Dixon states
that Hadley was the possessor of some
false moustaches and boards and that
although she had seen him wearing
them in the house, she had never seer
him on the streets in this disguise.
Continuing her statement, Miss Dix
on said:
81 think Hadley's right name is
Start. His father is dead, but hi.
mother is living in Chicago. l saw {
piece that Hadley had clipped from ;
Chicago paper about his fathers death
His name was John Start. After Had
ley disappeared | telegraphed to Mrs
John Start, or Hadley, and l got wore
from the telegraph company that Mrs
Start had received the telegram
also wrote her and received a repl,
that she knew no more about Hadley
whereabouts than I did. The last Chi
cago address of Mrs. Start was 655
Wentworth avenue. That is the las
one I know of. The letter wrote he
was just addressed to Chicago. TIL,
reply that she sent was postmarke,
East Park station.
ION the morning that Hadley disap
peared he got up very early and wen
down and got the paper. He carrie,
the paper to the bathroom, where
afterward found it. 1t was not his Gus
tom to get up early and get the paper
He never did it before.
"Hadley advertised for a servan
girl for me. One advertisement sal
the girl was to call at the house, an
he advertised again for a girl for m
and the answer was to be sent to
box at the Examiner Office"
The police admit that the nam
,, Clara Dixon is an assumed one.
At the Examiner office, where Hat
ley was formerly employed, as sui
scription clerk, the statement is mad
: that Hadley had handled considerabl
sums of money Examination of hi
. accounts after he left showed a shor
age. He was aware that an investigi
ton had disclosed irregularities an
neglect of duty that would insure hi
dismissal even were his account
square.
These facts might be considered SUI
p ficient to account for Hadley's disa
pearance.
r Clara Dixon, the woman whose stoI
. furnished the basis of the polio
P theory, claims to know where Hadle