The evening world., 1904-04-20
Charge Is that He Killed En-
ployee in Connecticut, Buried
Him Under a Pile Of Stones
and Fled to New York.
MEIGHB0R TRACKED
him TO THIS CITY.
I'D Joseph Marx Denies the
Crime and Explained that
Resident Of Town Offered to
Get Ridof the Victim.

ri - httie Olu HEEL WIN WIZ hiho A0As'
4 noble forehead, tender eyes and a
weak chin sat In the back room Of
Police Headquarters to-day n skilfully
parried questions meant to associate
him with murder and safe-blowing. He
was Joseph Marx, who is accused OF
killing his hired man. John Pavil. on n
farm near Colchester, Conn. on the
night of April s, and was tracked to
this city through tho detective work of
one OF his ~neighbors.
When Marx had a farm in Connect
cut he wore a patriarchal white beard.
This he shaved OF after he became a
fugitive from Justice. Although seventy
years old he u strong and wiry. The
Connecticut authorities Va that not
only did he kill the farm hand. n big
man.. but that he mutilated the body.
dragged 1t half way across tho farm
10 an clubhouse and severed II with
stones. Had It mol been that a passer-
by saw Marx throwing stones into tho
hole where he had placed the body It IS
not likely that the crime would ever
have been discovered.
The Aged Prisoners story.
When the detectives started In to
question Marx to-day he said that he
eouh neither speak nor understand
English, but the attention he paid to
The questions put and the few words OF
English that escaped him In spite OF
himself showed this to be untrue. Com
nected, his story runs as follows:
81 wa born near Warsaw, In Poland,
about seventy years ago. and came 10
~-la, 7 ANA ahRlt tNaniy
years old. For years 1 lived IN
this city and In other cities In the East.
I was in business then.
About six years & I got tired OF
the city and went up to Connecticut.
where / bought a farm. I lived around
on different farms in tho n~eighborhood
Of Colchester. but / Old not prosper. l
have q wife. Dinah, who Is thirty-two
years old and has four children
"John Pavil started to work for me
On my farm about six months ago. l
could not pay him his wages in full
and got to owe him $50. He was always
asking for that money and nearly drove
me wild.
duplicates q Neighbor.
ION the Sth day OF April I went to a
reighbor and asked him TO let me have
$50 go that I could pay Pavtl and get
rid of him. MY %neighbor asked me
why / should pay him.
"'Giye me $50 my neighbor said,
and I will get rid Of him 90 you VIII
never see him again
II went home and got $50. all the
money / had. This j ave to my neigh
- rH-. 1T. \ .tnrt AZ lAroA with
my wife and family and the next day
John Pavil had disappeared. There
was no trace OF him.
II got scared and left home. The first
n!cht / slept at the house OF my neigh
bor to whom ! had given the SO. He
returned me $40. SO that ! could traVel.
Then 1 went to Hartford. where
stayed one day, and from there came
TO Now York"
why did YOU run away" he wal
asked.
~ refuse to answer that question he
replied.
Not Jealous, He Said.
He insisted that he had no reason to
be jealous OF Pavil. The Connecticut
detectives sought to trap him, knowing
nil about his movements after he left
/. his farm. but he lodged every question
Then Michael Levien, a storekeeper
of Colchester, the man who trailed
Marx to- this city and caused his arrest.
was brought into the room. II became
apparent HI Levien had another mo-
siss-beyond hope of the reward when
no left his business IN Connecticut to
hunt down his old neighbor.
1.-TWO years ago." said Levien, my
store was broken into and my safe was
blown open and robbed oil, 500. / have
never could accuse him. ! accuse hin
now You stole my $780," he shouted
at Marx.
like a sensible man I thinS I can tell
YOU where II is
Leyten took this to mean that MARI
would pay him for keeping his mouth
shut about the crime, but he told ali
he knew.
Turned Amateur Detective.
He said that after Marx disappeared
y from Colchester and the body OF tbs
Farm hand was discovered the State de.
teotiyes asked him II he could helr
= He remembered that Marx had told
han that he was once in business II
Paterson, n. j.. with a man named
on his own responsibility Levien wen
To- Paterson and hunted UP Weiss, VIII,
told him that Marx had visited him an,
was living at No. 190. Broome street
Invien came TO this city and watchet
No. 100 Broome street until last night
when he saw Marx enter the house IN,
go into a fiat on the second floor.
He called a policeman, who called tw,
others when he heard that q mprdere
was to be captured. They found Mar,
hiding in a closet in the bome or Mrs
Jaffay, n daughter OF Weiss. He ha,
told her that be was on his way I,
EUROPE because he had a troubl
A with his wife, and he would have sale,
next a ne not been caught
y newspapers, and as Marx was known ii
< the neighborbood as 0oldstein, no on
5Nswho knew Of the Connecticut murde
~neeooiated him with II.
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