The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-04

Wood went 10 D'mler and asked him to
drive TO WaTenville would seem TO indi-
cate beyond any doubt that Wood, II he il
tho murderer, did not set out with any
idea Of killing Williams. He did not know
williams, so far as any one can find out, untl
Demler, who didn't want the job of driving
him over the mountains. directed him
to Williams house and told him that prob
ably the latter would give him the desired
lift
Williams had lived in Watching for two
years. keeping a little grocery store there
No man bore a better reputation. There
wasn't man who had a word 70 say against
him. say the farmers. -and the man doesn't
live who was his enemy In the two years
he had lived there he had become the head
of the village social club, and his place was
the rendezvous for the farmers and country
folk That he gave the man who was
stranger to him lift In his sleigh that chilly
day Is no surprise to any one in Watching.
He would do 1t for any one the villagers said
/ yesterday.
! According to Mrs. Williams, the murdered
mans wife, Wood agreed to pay $3.50 in
/ advance for tho ride and Williams left his
/ little store, hitched up his horse to the cutter
and started out That was about 10 o'clock
/ Thursday morning.
PLEASANT START ON THE RIDE.
It Is four miles as the crow flies from
/ there 10 the Pollack house. When the two
men started out, Williams was driving and
/ Wood sat on his right. They went away
! exchanging CHEEKY comments on the chilli
ness of the weather.
! Nobody was found yesterday who passed
/ them together on the road. but lot of
| people were who passed the sleigh after
/ Williams had been shot, but who never
stopped to investi gate the peculiar cir
cumstance of a sleigh standing in the road
with its driver all in heap at the bottom.
A boy working for farme named John
Miller. who lives just beyond the Pollack
farm. heard a shot just lefore II o'clock.
He ran and told Miller, but Miller didn't
go to see what it was.
TRAIL FROM TIL BODY.
It was not until Eugene Pope. farmer.
driving into Plainfield. came along that the
fact that there had been tragedy on the
roadside was discovered. Pope got out.
and when he found that the sleigh held
dead man he spread the alarm.
The farmers who responded to this found
that the horse had got tangled up in the
reins, which probably prevented him from
running away. They also found foot
prints, showing that man had got out
Of the sleigh backward, had run around
behind it and then climbed over the fence
leading into one Of the Pollack farms.
The footprints on the clean, white, I'M
trodden snow were easy TO follow at first.
They led 10 an old red barn on the deserted
70 Than thay tho frDZen
field, toward the Milliugton woods. 1t is
a good six miles to Millington; TO go there
by the road the distance is much greater
1t was patent to the farmers that some
one who knew the country well had been
in the sleigh.
FIRST SUSPICION or WOOD.
For the first time there came the sus-
picon that it might have been Mrs. Pol
lack $ grandson. The farmers followed the
footprints as fast as they could. They
led through drifts six feet high through
which the murderer had fought his way.
Even the farmers, accustomed to hard
tramps. do not know how the murderer or
they themselves ever made the six miles
to Wilmington. Some OF them were so ex-
hausted when they got there that they had
TO give up the chase.
They picked up the murderer's trail at
Millington. because the teacher at the vii
lege school remembered having seen the
man staggering along toward the station
about o'clock. Rudolph Gades farmer,
also met him and. struck by the mans
exhaustion, offered 10 give him ride.
The man refused Near the Millington
station Gades saw him again. That was
nearly two hours before the train for New
York was due.
CHOSE PI.Ao STATION TO GO HOME PROM.
Millington station has ticket agent.
The murderer decided not to wait there.
In spite Of his exhausted state il was found
that he had doubled on his tracks and gone
west along ths line of the railroad two
miles more TO a little flag station called
Lyon. There Is no ticket agent there and
it is only used for milk. Undoubtedly that
was why the murderer selected IL. There,
the police believe, the man was picked
UP by the s1l o clock train for New York
When the chase after the murderer had
ended the farmers went back to the Pollock
house. There was nobody at homo there,
as the place Is unoccupied. Late Thurs
day night they found Mrs Pollock and from
her got the fact that her grandson had been
around two days before. Working on
this clue yesterday. Chief Kelly made a
search OF the Plainfield hotels. and finally
located Woods room at the Farmers Hotel.
LEFr HIS NAME BEHIND.
Besides the cartridges in Woods bag
he found a new white shirt, some socks
and other articles of clothing and a bundle
Of cards and letterheads. The cards bore
Woods name and gave his address rs
$40 West l3lst street. The letterheads
we're those Of the firm Of Wood d Stevenson,
structural ironworkers and erectors, at the
game address. Wood recently formed
this firm, after working for his uncle On
seeing this the PlAinheld police wired to
New York for Woods arrest.
WOOD RETUBNED LOOKING I'LL
Woods wife says he returned 10 his
brother in laws fiat on Thursday afternoon,
the day OF the murder. 1t was about 5
o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived
at the house, in West Twenty street.
She says she noticed that he looked
"queerly.' His eyes, she said, had strange
expression, and he seemed to be palo and