Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-11
WH|TELOW ARRESTED
FOR KILLING OF
MISS SAPP
He Declared That She Com
mitted Suicide Because He
Would Not Elope
With Hell.
DOCTORS DECLARE
SHE WAS MURDERED
She Was Found In Dying COndi
ton In Rear of Her Home With
Throat Cut--Alleged AS
Sdildnt Has
Family.

lola, Kan, oct. 11.-Samuel F.
Whitlow was formally placed under
arrest here today on warrant
charging him with the murder of
Miss May Sapp, whose dead body
was found in Moran, on the night of
September I. The coroner's jury
found that Miss Sapp's death was
due to wounds in the neck inflicted
by a person other than Miss Sapp."
Whitlow says that the girl commit
tea suicide because he refused to
elope with her.
Whitlow made a confession that
the girl committed suicide because of
love for him, two days after her body
was found. He is a resident of Mo-
ran and lives some distance from her
home. He also has a wife and fam
lily and is much older than the pretty
young dead woman.
Could Not Have Suicided.
Physicians, who examined the
wounds in Miss Sapp's throat. which
were inflicted with a razor, said that
she could not have killed herself. A
bright razor, which had not been
bloody, was found near her body, but
her father testified that 1t was not
the property of his daughter and did
not belong in their house. other
wounds on her body were bloodless,
leading the physicians to state that
they were inflicted a moment after
severed jagular vein.
neighbor. who bough milk from
the Sapp family, who conducted a
private dairy, testified that she was
at Miss Sapps home talking to her
not five minutes before the body was
found. She had passed out the rear
way to her own home across the al
ley and had scarcely entered when
she heard a scream and a few mo-
ments later, a mans voice called for
help and a doctor.
Miss Sapp's mother, who also
heard the scream, rushed from the
front of their residence to the rear
and found her daughter lying against
fence, dead. She called a passerby
who in turn called for a doctor, but
the girl was dead within a few sec
onds after she was hurt. Other wit
footsteps running through the alley
behind the Sapp home just after they
heard the first scream, which was
evidently uttered by Miss Sapp when
she was attacked.
May Have Been Whitlow.
one witness told of having seen a
man running away from the place by
way of the alley, whose general figure
corresponds with that of Whitlow.
The witness was not acquainted with
Whitlow and had not seen him when
he described the man in question.
Whitlow appeared very much eX-
cited when he visited the scene of
the murder and asked fearfully
whether a murder was suspected.
Told His Story.
Later he voluntarily came forward
with a story of the girls having
killed herself because of love for
HIM, but the detectives who have
worked on the case scout any such
theory. They believe that Whitlow
was enamored of her and killed her
because she refused his attentions.
He also stated that she frequently
met him and quarreled with him be-
cause he refused to return her af-
feCtions. Her parents state that to
their knowledge she never talked
with him for more than mo-
ment or two at any time and despite
the fact that he frequently spoke to
her. she had nothing TO do with him
She seldom left her home unless ac-
companied by her mother being of a
very retiring disposition
The officials here believe that
Whitlow is guilty and they hope to
secure confession from him later
as he l. much wrought up over his
arrest.