The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-26
WARNER DENIES ONE KILLING
DIDN'T SHOOT MISS NORLTNG, HE
SAYS-DHD SHOOT WILSON.

Hess. VINO Was Out Of Town. shot the
siirt Tells why lie Fired at wilson.
Frank II. Warner. who killed Miss Esther
{. Norling and John G. Wilson. the hat
manufacturer. was examined In Bellevue
Hospital yesterday morning by Assistant
District Attorney Robert y. Marley and
Coroner Acritelli. II was the first time
Warner had been able to talk since big
Jake Rose, the truckmsn. knocked him
senseless with a bale hook.
Warner made a rambling statement,
half confession and half denial. To most
OF MIR. Manley's questions he made evasive
nswer He denied fatty that he shot
Miss Norling. He said that a man named
Hess killed her In Whites haberdashery on
Tuesday morning and that he tried to kill
Hess. The manager Of Whites store at
8 West Forty-second street Is Albert Hess.
who has been out Of town on vacation for
more than a week and who is well known
TO Warner. Albert r. Spicer. the assistant
manager. also known TO Warner. was in
the store that morning and tried to capture
the murderer.
Warner admitted shooting Wilson and
explained in detail what happened when
he went to Wilson's Office after killing Miss
Norling. He said that Wilson had driven
him to the wall. and that he fired the shots
nj Wilson after the hat manufacturer re-
fused to lend him $40. Warner said that he
couldn't remember a thing that happened
after he left Whites store. He didn't 90
TO the Spslding building. he said, was sure
he never escaped the back way. couldn't
recall that he shot at policemen. and re-
membered only that he travelled down town
in a trolley car to Wilson's office.
why did you shoot Miss Norling?- was
the first question put to Warner.
Il didn't shoot her at all. " he said quickly.
A man named Hess shot her and then
tried to shoot him.
They asked him what his relations had
been with Miss Norling. and IL she had
ever agreed TO marry him.
AS to that" he answered, 1T il bet ween
God and myself. Whatever friendship
existed between us is now my own affair
and l wont answer questions about H."
Why did you try to shoot this man you
call Hess?" Mr.. Marley asked.
If ! did that | don't remember it," he
happened up there. All remember is that
/ got on a trolley car and went downtown
because I needed money and | thought
Wilson was the man who ought to give it to
me. Why shouldn't hep" Warner continued
excitedly. He hadn't been told that Mr..
Wilson was dead.
Il have known hat man twenty-five
years and was an intimate friend of his for
two years. and yet when ! got into trouble
Wilson pressed me hard and drove me into
bankruptcy. ] didn't intend to kill him
when went to his Office on Tuesday morn
ing. walked in and we had quite a pleas
ant talk about a lot OF things-I don't re-
that as he was responsible for my being
down and out he ought to give me money.
that | wanted to borrow $40.
Then he said, Why. Frank. have you
got down 40 low as that| When he sat
there and didn't make a move to get me the
money ! shot him. That's all there was
TO it
Warner lied outright there. because Mr.. !
Wilson was getting money out of the safe.
bending over with his back turned. when
Warner fired the shots.
Mr.. Marley and the Coroner contented
themselves with getting a very general
statement from Warner and left OF ex-
aiming him when he appeared to be in
They will question him more at length to-
day. Warner will probably recover His
skull wasn't fractured. but Roses blow
caused conclusion Of the brain.
Inspector Richard Walsh, who was or
dered by Commissioner Bingham to make
a preliminary examination as to the charges
of c~owardice against Policemen Walsh and
Roosa OF the East Fifty-first street station,
noon in his Office in the West Sixty-eighth
street station. with a dozen other traffic
squad men and two or three patrolmen
from the East Fifty-first street station.
Charles Keller, the boy who tried to cap
Warner in East Forty-second street,
testified that Walsh and koosa made no
effort to 60 into the Spalding Building to
get the murderer and that they had plenty
OF time to get him IL they had been cour-
ageous enough. Emil Munich, a tailor's
and several other witnesses said
that Walsh and Rosa were on the spot
from the first, but that they seemed scared
and did not go into the building when they
we're told by dozens Of persons in the street
that Warner had just run in.
II was said at Commissioner Bingham's
ofice yesterday afternoon that the two
would be tried for cowardice
on Monday or Tuesday next, and hat two
or three more might be tried also when
Inspector Walsh makes his report. The
only common the Commissioner had TO
was that he would have no towards
In the department il he could spot them.
Il believe that these men were grossly
after he had shot and killed the girl and
before he had time TO commit another
murder" he said.
The funeral of Mr.. Wilson will be held to-
morrow or Sunday from his home at 2485
The services will he in charge
Of the Masonic lodge OF which MIR. Wilson
a member He will be buried at South
.orwalk. Conn, his old home. Miss Nor
from the home Of John l.. Stern in Ridge
field Park. n. J.
IL developed yesterday that Warner
mad been living for several months at 1854
West Thirty-fifth street in a furnished room
he rented from Henry Proudman. Proud
nan said that he thought Warner was in
zane from too much drink and from brood
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