New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06
KILLED SCHWAB'S NAN.
CONFESSES, POLICE SAY.
Brother Of W'hite's Wife Tells
H1herc 10 Get fire He Used.

That Charles H. schwabs negro messenger.
Edward h. white who died Monday from
fractured skull was killed with or axe by
William floss. coiored. the brother OF Whites
wife. Mrs. -lssie" White. Was announced last
niEht by Captain Hayes. - the West Forty
srveuth-si. station who says Ross made fun
confe@son % him.
Captain Hayes declares that Ross told him
tho axe with which the murder was committed
could he found under some coal IN the cellar
- the whites house. A detective sent
there and found the axe "a had been washed.
buf deere stains near where the handle
sniess fhe steel appareiitly caused by blood
captain Hayes Says Ross told him ~ had
liIisd white because b. abused his wife. TIE
captain be- disposed 20 doubt this. Ross con-
fc.s-d thui b. came % NeW-York with money
furrished hs Mrs. white though he tried 20
casi an hinrue rrom her
Earuer in abe day the police had arrested
liosr and Nrr. 'lssle~ White. both 81 40. "a
West Pity third-s,.. charging them with homi-
ride. in being connected With the death %
White Anuir Hnlscs 81 the same address. was
held 81 % witness
AZ Anonymous communication started vester-
daya Investigation. o. said that murder had
been done ord fhaf Mrs. Stephenson could
teil something about a. Isteotiyes Lynch. Eng
iaul. CErier and sheshaa ssre puf on me case
ani ai lasf found q culored man. william Bird.
eho said that Mrs. Annie Hnlsey Anew an about
80 assault committed on white
AocorlinE to nird. Mrs. Halsey bad overheard
= plan connected between Ross and Mr. white
pnrrchS ths former xas o. isy Dr. wat Tor
White vnen Do returned home in tho evening
,-.Ii.iir yesterday. Mrs. Hsi-ey. Captain Hayes
asys. mace statrrne,f
lr tale eta cement she said ina. she overheard
Ross arc Mrs. white talking over n plot 90
Co. White 81 Monday. tl1nt Ross Rot an axe
riirh hs PLACED just inside the basement door.
Hne fhai ut about I b. n. White. who had Jeff
iiio ofnoes ~ the United States steel Corporation
si ~. arrived a. his home and rang tho base
uruf bell Annie Halsey SAYS the ring vas
answered by Ross She says she heard the
fuund 81 fcuniinr IN tho hallway and said 10
Mrs white.
"whuts that Noise" and tried 10 ~ % in-
sestienie. Mrs. while. she says restrained her.
huf. heariaE tho sound AZ 81 n body falling she
PUSHED by Mrs White and Eot into the hallway
natrne. she Says. TO see Ross dragging White
out OF "a, door info the front areav-ay by his
feet
"nhsrs his? what have you aoue7" she
aaid % Ross she declared.
Hush" Ross replied. Don't make noise
Tho woman said that White was covered with
hlood. and that there blood on the halway
Moor. She pointed this out 10 Ross and he told
her 10 get a towel and wipe Il up. She asserts
that she refused and then Ross and Mrs. White
wiped up the blood themselves
Az 10 the cause for the affair only one theory
has been advanced-that White was Jealous OF
his wife Tor receiving attentions from other men,
an particular some white man. and that she had
heoome tired Of the restraining influence OF her
husband White bore q good reputation. He
pRH married IN 1900
ny a former husband. Mrs. White has a daugh-
Ter Nho is married 20 John ]. Bell who pre-
ceoeo Caleb Sinms leader Of the Colored
Iefaocracy- Smms was murdered a few months
ago. and q rival has been trial twice for his
staying. the jury disagreeing each tine. Bell
called ~ the police station last evening. and
APPEARED much exercised at the trouble % his
lncther-in-law. lie said ne would stick by her
White was for many years employed on Pull /
nan cars rs a porter on the Pennsylvania Rail- 4
roao. He attracted the attention Of Mr.
Schwao, who, on President Cassatt's recon-
nendaton. 4 is said. took him into his employ
az confidential messenger