Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-02-04
WOOD SURRENDERED
Suspect Slayer Of Williams
Held In New York.
HE IS SUFFERING FROM APHASIA.
Mystery Clearing In New Jersey MuE-
der Case-No Apparent Motive For
Crime-Prisoner's Mind Cloud
ed. Memory Lost.

ID. Memory Lost.
NEW YORK, Feb. TELLING a dis
jointed story and with his mustache
removed. George Fl. Wood, who is
wanted in connection with the murder
Of George Williams, Il grocer, at Watch
ung, y. j., was locked up in police
headquarters here last night. Wool
seemed 10 be mentally d%is0rdered, and
DR., George NJ. Bali after an examina-
ton said he was o under the iuhu-
ence of drugs, but was apparently suf-
foring from aphasia.
Accompanied by his Wife and a
brothcrin-laW. Frederick Bischof,
Wood walked into the West Twentieth
street police station at half past 9
o'clock last nighI. chief Of Police Kie-
~ Of Plainiicld, y. j., when called up
read OFF a description Of the alleged
murderer Of Williams. Ii tailed with
the description Of Wood in many par
tlculaIs. The murderer was described
rs having Il mnstache. Wood was clean
shavcn, but he said he removed his
mustache on Monday.
At police headquarters Wood said
that last Monday he met a man named
Mae" an iron worker. who asked him
to go 10 ScarSdalc, Pa, where 81 ,0U0
could he obtained for business pur-
poses. Wood -aid he started for Sears
dale. but dos not remember reaching
that place, but felt positive lie was in
Trenton. Wood said he could remem-
Der nothing else except that he had lost
his suit case and his soft hat.
Wood until recently was a member
Of the firm of Wood d Stevenson, iron
settlers and 'erectors,' a firm that has
an Office i'll Woods house at 576 West
One Hundred and Thirty-first street,
this city.
Wood, the police have learned. regis
tered in his w name al the Farmers
h0.cl in Plainfeld OH Monday, the day
Da which he and his family left Har-
lem. and his movements have been
traced up 10 the time he left here to
hire a conveyance 10 drive to Mrs. Pol
locks farm. During the Intervening
lays he is said TO have driven out daily
to the farm from Plainfield. He was
last seen boarding a train for Plainfeid
1T Millington station, on the Lackawan-
na railroad, soon after the murder is
supposed 10 have been committed.
On entering Woods room ut the
hotel ut Plainficld the police found
"a box of j. caliber cartridges and
thrce empty shells. The description of
Wood tallies exactly with that of the
stranger who appeared in Watching
and engaged Williams to drive him TO
he Pollock farm at Mount Horcb.
An autopsy on the body Of Williams
shows that lie had been shot from be
hind through the heart and bad been
Instantly killed. \ bullet extracted
from the body proved to be of the same
.aiibcr as those found in Woods room
in the hotel.
The apparent entire absence Of all
motive is one of the most mysterious
and battling features of the case. No
ittempt ut robbery was made. the body
# the murdered man being found with
lis clothing tightly buttoned where he
XII IIl!ttl III lHt DOtlOll VI TIE SIClpn
Immediately after being shot.
Williams was persuaded by q well
lressed, suavc hammered man about
t%hirty-live or forty Years old to drive
him 10 Warrenvillc. He was Il stran.
ger in the neighborhood and said he
Hantcd Ia make all possible haste To
tie farmhouse of Mrs. pOllack. a wild
I 1V. living on the border of Warren
vile. The grocer was persuaded by
lie mans opportunities TO hitch up his
sleigh. The two got into it and sped
lvcr the snow through the narrow
streets of the village and out into the
broad highway.
Two hours later the sleigh was found
: litchcd to Il post by Eugene Pope. a
farmer and intimate friend OF VIII
! ,iams. Tho crocer's body was hud-
He'd in the sleigh. in his heart Il bullet
that had penetrated through the back
Of his neck. There was no sign Of q
struggle, no suggested motive for the
crime and only Il trail of lightly in
irntcd footsteps on the snow TO point
where the companion of the grocer had
zone.