The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-02
TRAGEDY IN PHILADELPHIA
ABU1LER KILLS WEALIHY WOMAN
 AND HER UGHTER.
Also Probably MortaiIy Wounded Another Feared Arrest for Theft and Thought He Could Escape by Murder At Largo for Four Hours-COnfessed to the Crime After His Capture.

At Largo for Four HOurs-Confesse'
 to the Crime fter His Capture.
 Philadelphia, April 1.-Fearing tha
 he would be arrested for theft, William
 H. Lane, colored butler, shot ant
 killed his employer, Mrs. Ella J. Fur
 bush, her twelve-year-old daughter
 Madeline and probably mortall1
 wounded another daughter Eloise aget
 seven years, at their home on Nortt
 Fifteenth street, shortly before noor
 to-day. Lane, who is twenty-fve years
 of age, escaped from the house and four
 hours later was captured by Philadel-
 phia detectives while waiting in Cam
 ton, N. J, He was immediately brought
 to this city, was identified by Eloise
 Furbush and confessed his crime.
 The murder was cold blooded. Mrs
 Furbush lived with her two daughters,
 and was wealthy. Lane had been her
 butler since Christmas, and besides him
 she had another colored servant, wo- man named Agnes. Recently Mrs. Fur bush had been missing small amounts of money, and finally she informed the police, who began an investigation which was still in progress when to- days tragedy was enacted. Suspicion fell on Lane and warrant was sworn out for his arrest. According to Lanes confession, he saw Mrs. Furbush on Monday night counting large roll of bills Knowing where she kept the money, he awaited his opportunity and stole $70. This morning Mrs. Furbush missed the money and questioned the colored man, but he denied all knoWl- edge of having seen it.
 Expecting that the theft would be placed on him and that Mrs. Furbush would have him arrested, Lane planned to murder the mother and her children, rob the house and disappear
 At Il o'clock he went to the third floor and found Mrs. Furbush in one of the middle rooms. He instantly shot her twice, once in the breast and then through the head. She died instantly. Eloise, who was in another room and hearing the noise, ran in to see what was the matter. As she entered, Lane shot her in the abdomen. She fell and he thought he had killed her.
 Without even attracting the attention of the other servant, who was ironing in the kitchen, Lane went to the front door and called in Madeline, who was skating on roller skates on the side walk. He told her that her mother wanted her on the third floor, and without the slightest suspicion the child climbed the stairs without removing her skates. She went into room ad- poning that in which her mother lay dead. Lane followed her and, S she cheerily called her mother, the negro shot her through the heart killing her instantly.
 Lane in his confession says he then proceeded to rob the house. He quick ly found $130, two watches and a pock etbook and, while he was searching for jewelry he was interrupted by the ar rival of two special policemen who had a warrant for his arrest on the charge of larceny. They asked to see Mrs. Furbush Lane showed them to the sitting room on the second floor and said he would call his mistress
 Recognizing one of the men as an off, ticer, Lane escaped by the rear of the  the policemen, hearing moan, started l an investigation. On the third floor | hallway they found little Eloise. To | the policemen she said;
 William shot my mother and my | sister, and tried to kill me"
 The wounded child was immediately | sent to hospital.
 Lane was traced to the Pennsylvania railroad station at Camden, where he was recognized and arrested by one of | the policemen he had admitted to the house. The prisoner was at once brought to Philadelphia.
 Before going to Camden, Lane pur- chased suit of clothes, a light over coat, a valse and box of cigars He wore the new clothes and had his old suit of clothes sent to his sisters home, in Burlington, N. J. At the Camden station he telegraphed another sister at Bridgeton that he was coming to see her.
 At the police station Lane said he was sorry for what he had done. He was surprised to hear that Elose was alive, and said he always liked her and hesitated to kill her but "it was neces- sary to do so."
 Now that I have been caught" he added, "I hope she will recover I am also sorry for Mrs. Furbush and Made line, but poverty tempted me to do it, and 1 must now suffer-"
 Later Lane was taken to the hospital where Eloise identified him, saying He is William Lane, the man who killed my mother and sister and tried to kill ne. You know you did, William"
 Lane said; "Everything the child las said is true" Lane is the son of a , preacher who lives in Bridgeton. He las served term in the Mount Holly, Z S J., jail for larceny and has been f confined in the Huntington, Pa, re- f ormatory. I There seems to be a mystery regard f ng the domestic life of Mrs Furbush. f n the neighborhood where she lived she S vas variously known as Mrs. Furbush r nd Mrs. Fisher. The woman who was f orty-two years of age, was well sup 'lied with money, owned the fine house he lived in, had her own horses and arriages, and lived a life of ease. As | result of an investigation Coroner II )ugan is endeavoring to secure the at a at the inquest of Charles A. c