Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-04-25
MURDERER Of MISS FULLER
c. B. HADLEY OF SAN FRANCISCO
He Was Accountant for Examiner
for II Yenrs-Has Been Missing
Since Her Death-Lived Under an
Assumed Name-His Mistress Tells
the Story.

romeo whitman has officially ar
nounced that the murderer of Nor
Fuller was G. B. Hadley, for IA year
accountant in the business Office O
the Examiner.
On January 16, the day of the dis
appearance of Nora Fuller, C. B. Had
ley also disappeared and has not beef
seen since.
Theodore Kytka, the handwritin,
expert, declares the man who wrot,
the name c. B. Hawkins in the adyer
tisement Turing Nora Fuller TO hel
death was G. B. Hadley. He has com
pared the handwritings and declares
they are identical.
so hurriedly had Hadley left his
lodgings and fled 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 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
hVed together, and in her statement
she says that she saw Hadley for the
last Time on the morning of January
40, her birthday. The couple had in
tended to dine down town in honor OF
tne day. The couple had etaoinnun
the day, but toward evening Hadley
teiephoned 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.
lions 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
70 some owned by Hadley. She posi- |
lively Identified certain writings of the |
man Hawkins as being Isadley's hand |
writing. Hawkins was the name signed |
py the man who rented the Suffer
street house from Umsden & Co., the
real estate firm. Miss Dixon states
that Hadley was the possessor of some
raise moustaches and boards and that
although she had seen him wearing
them In the house. she had never seen
him on the streets in this disguise.
continuing her statement, Miss Dix.
on said:
i think .Hadley's right name is
Start. His father is dead. but his
mother is living in Chicago. I saw a
piece that Hadley had clipped from a
Chlcago paper about his fathers death.
His name was John Start. After Had.
icy disappeared l telegraphed to Mrs.
John Start, or Hadley, and got word
rom the telegraph company that Mrs.
start had received the telegram. I
also wrote her and received a replv
that she knew no more about Hadley's
whereabouts than did. The last Chi.
cago address of Mrs. Start was 6557
wentworth avenue. That is the last
one know of. The letter / wrote her
was Just addressed to Chicago. The
reply that she sent was postmarked
East Park station.
On the morning that Hadley disap.
peared he got up very early and went
lown and got the paper He carried I
ne paper to the bathroom, where 7 | t
afterward found it. It was not his Gus. '
.om 10 get up early and get the paper. '
He never did it before. II
Hadley advertised for a servant
girl for me. One advertisement said l
ne girl was to call at the house, and G
he advertised again for a girl for me I
md the answer was to be sent to a d
,ox at the Examiner Office" a
The police admit that the name s
lara Dixon is an assumed one. u
AT the Examiner office. where Had. Il
ey was formerly employed, as sub. {
cription clerk, the statement is made
nat Hadley had handled considerable e
ums or money. Examination of his n
ecounts after he left showed a short n
ge. he was aware that an investiga. 9
Ion had disclosed Irregularities and k
eglect OF duty that would insure his b
ismlssal even were his accounts n
quare.
These facts might be considered suf b
cient to account for Hadleys disap- a
:,
Clara Dixon, the woman whose story
FINISHED the basis of the police h,
leory, claims to know where Hadley n
at present, but says she will not n
lsclose the place. o,
Later. m
San Francisco, April 21.-San Fran. e,
scans were without the usual facili. re
es for rapid transit Sunday and MANY 81
alked. The street railway strike has as
'come most effective. Only three tn
nes were in operation-Ca California. u
yde and Union streets. Business on of
cry line of the United railroads. or on
e Baltimore syndicate, which lately st
ok over the Market street systems. ur
rs suspended. The cables were run ex
ng, but they drew no cars. During on
e day few cars under police super NJ
sion were run over the different lines so
the system to comply with franchise
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