The Florence daily tribune., 1903-01-12
NOTED NOTED! Il MURDER
.TR|AL BEGINS +!
Disbrow of New York Fights
i For Life.
Charged With killing Young Man
and Young Woman Last June
Bodies Found in Water
Off Long Island.

Clarence Foster and "Dimple" Law
renee, was put ON trial flor his life in
the supreme court at Riverhead l.. l
today Disbrow is to be tried first
for the murder of Foster. Justice
Samuel T. Maddox of Brooklyn oc-
cupied the bench. District
Livingston Smith appeared for the
prosecution and the defense was repre-
sented by Attorney Roland Miles.
Little difficulty is anticipated in oh.
tanning a jury and the trial is expect
The case has attracted widespread at
tentiou and the result of the trial is
awaited with keen interest.
Clarence Foster and Sarah Lawrence,
whose friends called her "Dimple, "
met violent deaths on the night of June
last, or early next morning, in
Tiana bay, near Good Ground, l.. 1.
Their bodies were found five days
later floating in the shallow waters
of the bay. They were both young,
srtong and expert swimmers The
theory of accidental drowning seemed
untenable. Louis A. Disbrow, who
was known to have spent the evening
of June 8 with Foster and Miss Law.
renee, was mysteriously missing He
remained missing for twenty days,
while detectives searched for him
Sarah Lawrence was seventeen years
old, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John T. Lawrence of Hampstead, L.
|. She was "A fair haired, blue.eyed
girl, with an exquisitely clear pink
and white complexion. Her comeli-
ness attracted great deal of atten-
tion. She was spending the summer
with her mother at Tianan Bay. She
was fond of having good time but
every one who knew her spoke well of
her
Foster was stalwart fellow,
| twenty-five years old "A sort of rustic
Adonis. He was married, but he
was noted among the young men
about Good Ground for his popularity
among women. Disbrow came of
good family. but was estranged from
| them on account of marriage he con-
tracted five years ago. He was known
as rather wild young fellow, but
was popular with his set.
Dishrow had been attentive to
"Dimple" Lawrence for more than a
year. She seemed to lose interest in
him somewhat after she met Foster
last summer. Nevertheless Disbrow
continued to go out with her as often
as she would let him. On the night
OF the tragedy Disbrow, Foster and
''Dimple' Lawrence drove to the
Hampton Pines Club and had supper.
They were all merry and seemingly
on excellent terms. Then they drove
to Tunnell's Hotel. where Disbrow
stayed, which is one mile across Tiana
Bay from the Ocean View House,
where the Lawrences were staying.
The theory of the defense is that Fos-
ter undertook to row the girl home,
that they had some sort of disagree
ment or accident in the boat and 70
fell overheard and were drowned.
Against this are the facts that both
were excellent swimmers and that the
water of the bay is nowhere more than
three or four feet deep.
Disbrow next morning left Good
Ground early and went to Eastport.
There he met friend to whom he
made mention of having had fight
with Foster the night before. Then
Disbrow disappeared and was not ap.
pretended for nearly three weeks.
subsequently, it was learned that he
tried to get passage on schooner to
Hayti also that on the day after the
tragedy he called on his wife, whom
he had not seen for several years, bad
away for a long time.
The grand jury indicted Disbrow
on September 20 for the murder of Eos.
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