The sun., 1903-12-08
A, 4. GREEN KILLED IN MISTAKE
4 REAL "MR. ANDREW" THAT
WILLIAMS SOUGHT no KILL
IS SIM Providing for the NeErcss Hannah
Elias The Negro District Knows
HIM. hut Not His Right Name-De,ii
Worship Figures In the Murder.

II IS wltnn tne RnOWleuRe OIL tle Dls-
uic, Attorney" said lawyer yesterday
who has had direct interest in the Andrew
n Green murder case. "that Cornelius Will
liaru-. the man who shot Mr. Green. was
,rnpellnd by absolute m'sinformation.
When Mr.. Jerome went to Hannah
EIas's home in Central Park West he went
with the feeling that the case was one in
which it was important that he should know
the whole truth back of Williams's state
men;s about Mr. Green. Mr.. Jerome, as his
campaign audiences know, is very strong
in the qualities of what the negroes would
call a pow full exhorter' He brought his
arguments home to Mrs. Elias. who was at
that imc sick in bed, with so much effect
that she told him as nearly the truth about
her past and present life As she was capable
of telling anybody She told him the name
Of the man who had provided her with her
present comfortable home and who had
token her away from her rather low sur
roundings in West Fiftythird street eight
ar ten years ago Mr.. Jerome happened
10 have information derived at another
time which completely verified many OF
her statements about the man she named.
"Nevert heless it came TO Mr.. Jerome's
knowledge that among the negroes. both
men and women with whom Hannah Elias
was formerly associated before she turned
her back on her own race and became
what they call a white mans niger,
there we're persistent assertions that
great part of Williams's assertions were
true, within the knowledge of several OF
them Mr.. Jerome had several negro
women come 10 his Office. By their own
stories he easily worked out the basis for
the deiusion under which they were resting.
He learned first that an old man, greatly
resembling the port rats Of Mr.. Green
which have appeared in the public prints.
had frequcnted resorts where Hannah Elias
and others had been some ten years ago.
This man had substantially the same inter-
e.ts in life that Mr.. Green had, though in
much smaller way. His one topic of con-
yersaton was real estate valuations Mr..
Green was very fond of talking about New
York real estate The visitor to the negro
resorts was known to the inmates at first
as Mr. Andrew.
ON the other hand, this old man had
traits that Mr. Green never Rad, He drank
heavily. lie was spendthrtt. He was
utterly irregular in his habits Mr.. Green
rad a personal time cable for even his most
AZ ever a railroad followed its time tables
In this very matter of the discussions OF
real estate, Mr.. Andrew was interested
80 the reports of his conversations ran
in parts of the city where Mr.. Green's inter
esls were least. and never referred spe-
officially to the parts of the city of which
-, Green never tired of talking; as. for
instance. the neighborhood in which the
Nrdpn estate, of which Mr. Green was the
manager, had large holdings about High
Bridge
Within a week Mr.. jerome has secured
satisfactory proof that the man who was
known as Mr.. Andrew was the man who
is to-day the patron of Hannah Elias. 1t
has not come to Mr.. Jerome's knowledge
that this misunderstanding regarding the
identity of Mr.. Andrew was encouraged
bv Mr.. Andrew himself. 1t il easily
understood that il Mr. Andrew knew he
was believed by his low, associates to be
Andrew II. Green he would not have taker
energetic means to correct the mist taker
impression. A man of Mr.. Andrews
HABITS, having a wife and a grown family
would not be troubled by any embarrassir {
nj, ties as to his duty to Mr. Green.
Therefore I have reason 10 believe
''ldl Mt. UtIcHlf II Nbil' IL''t 'I'd| Wv
man whom Cornelius williams int ended
to kill ia still alive and is going arounC
this city, knowing that a negro quarter
r,imor, grown definite in ten years of gos
sip. is responsible for the death of thu
foremost citizen of New York as resul
of anothers wicked life.
Mr.. Jerome apparently thinks tina
Williams, by letting his jealousy and re
r.. A,,.l,
in lis none too we'll equipped mind fol
eight years, and then by deliberately shoot
bg down Mr.. Green-whom he never say
riure-demonstrated insanity.
This conviction is heightened by tn
statcments made by Williams since hi
arrest. which show that he is of fanatica
type of mind well known among observer
of Southern negroes. Nothing is NOR
common in Southern negro communitie
than the assertion of negroes that they hav
had direct and personal communication
with God and various persons OF the Bible
Including Satan. Williams tells how, Will
nursing his desire to revenge himself O
Mrs Elias, for ISLANDERS which he believe
she had circulated about him, he praye
10 God for vengeance and found no answe
Ia his prayers. He then had character
lstic ignorant negro's conversation with tn
devil, in which he exchanged the futur
rights over his soul for an opportunity
kill Mr.. Green and two other well know
New Workers, who still survive.
There are few Southern families whic
Lave not had the experience OF findin
that an old and trusted servant has becom
possessed of some conviction Of witchcrai
q other undue influence exercised by
r"rnhcr Of the household, The deluso
smost never reaches to homicidal mad
no,-. but it is one that has caused muc
cl-romfort in more than one home tha
have known Williams is an acute eA
ample. To my mind he is as crazy as
June bug and nothing proves it more tina
tho calm satisfaction with which he view
TIE horrible result Of his blind belief j
the Fifty-third street traditions about IN
zeal name of MIR. Andrew"