The sun., 1903-11-26
TOWER MURDERER Is KNOWN.
nrTrCTIJES SAY 4 JEALOUS
HIsB.tND DID THE DEED.
.,,est In the Case Expected soon-Wife
q, the suspected Man IL Suing for
pl,orcc-t lfndennen, the Murdered
Nau Had Expected 70 Marry Her.

IllyOrcc-S FnltIlntu, lue MuTueTtu
Man, Had Expected TO Marry Her.
Wul,Aus FORT, Pa, Nov. 25.-The mys-
tery 4 'hr murder of William lendennen
,bo Icy,iy operate or in the tower at Brown 8
m ,hr <ow York Central l,ailroad near
here has been solved, according to the de-
,enri,rs The murderer is known, and he
yu h. arrested il they can find him.
They arc in possession of 4 complete de-
scrinrGu of the man He has lived at
WING llo near the town, all his life and
is known hv all the Inhabitants of the neigh
borhood
The motive for the crime as not robbery
rs wa, at first supposed The dead oper-
.tor and the man who the detectives say
. killed him had known each other for years.
The suspect charged Clendennen with
alternating the affections Of his wife, who
b COW visiting friends in New Jersey,
while an action for divorce is pending In
Lock Haven, her home for several years
The mot her Of the dead man. who il respon-
sihle 'or the publicity Of the facts in the
caso say. thai she understood from her
s,,, o.lv rcw days before he was killed
that ho would marry the wife OF the man
Icr nom ltt' tIt'lttll'tS dlt
as soon At the divorce was procured.
Mr. Cirnuolncu says INT man accused
has been following Clendennen about for
YEAR, as his work called him from place
TO place. He prosecuted him and COM
" lied lin 10 give him sums of money
q ,a-Ious times. The murder occurred
when Clcndennen fatty refused to have
,rvrh,as more to do with the man, and
refused to give him money.
This Afternoon in her little home at Young
dale the no'her Of he dead man told her
sory. The detectives in the employ of
,ha Npw York Central Railroad, while
a1Darently working on other clues, have in
rea ljtv been in the possession Of these facts
since The time Of the murder. but they have
been concealed from the public because the
murderer has felt himself safe. and the
officer. wished him to continue to do SO
until there is an opportunity to capture
him.
Tie mystery OF the last faltering word
Of the death message has been explained.
ard It. with the message itself was part OF
the plan adopted by the murderer to throw
the detectives oA his track. The alleged
murderer of Clendennen was telegraph
OPERATOR. II was while working in the
same office with him that Clendennen came
10 know the wife. The husband drank
heavily, and finally lost his place,
From that titne on the husband held
no steady employment. knowing of the
intimacy between Clendennen and his
wife, he used it as club to compel the
former to give him money. The husband
Became d tramp operator gong about from
place to place. Clendennen twice changed
lis work in an effort to get rid OF him, but
h.. was followed each time. Finally tho
Young operat or returned to his home. He
tod his mother the story of the tramp
OPERATOR and said that the man had fire.
uuntiy threatened his life. He announced
that he wo Id never again give him money
Tat he wolla have 20 take care of himself.
The mother believes that the message
flashed into the headquarters at Jersey
shore ~I lave been shot. and am dying
M.t-r-e- vas sent by the murderer, and
with the knowledge that he was an opera
tor TIN story becolnes plausible. She be-
lovr- that the message. and especially
the fatcring. half completed last word was
"a part of a scheme to throw the detectives
of ~. trai. and to lead to tile theory OF
murder iu1 money, Si' tillllhS tilhs %isch
money was refused him the murderer
tried 70 enforce his demands with re-
volvci Icudsnneu sprang up, and the
armed man fired. disabling his left arm
the ono nearest him.
Then u struggle took place in tbs little
tower room Two more shots were aired
and both entered Clendennen' s body The
operator. TAU, powerful and of Inagnifi-
r.nt physique. was at first victorious, for
the blood spots on the floor show that the
ASA liant was showed across tho room and
against the railing near the door. But
the failing strength caused by the wounds
tod on the operator. and he was finally
compelled to succumb Then it was that
the murderer struck him a blow In the
head with the maui. ending his life
The murder done, the man who COM
matted the deed wanted to hide it. He
robbed the pockets, took the watch and
rings, to give the appearance that the
motive had been robbery William Mitchell
tr"e, whom the murderer knew. and whose
arrest at the time of the funeral caused a
surprise, was half mile from the tower
a. the time of the murder, In an effort to
throw the suspicious Of the officers on some
one else he sent the message, supposed
to have come from the dying man, and at
its conclusion he put the letters "M-t-r-e,' V
which we're taken to mean an effort to spell
the rame of the murderer Then he es-
caped before the relief engine had started
from the Oak Grove yards.