New-York tribune., 1908-01-06
NEW WHITMORE ARREST.
Nan Who Talked IN Saloons about
.JerseY Scamp Murder.

, Theoaoye & Wbitmore who is in fail at Harr-
son. N j. accused of knowing something about
the murder of his wife whose body was found IN
a swamp near there the day after Christmas. re-
covered his composure yesterday, and the order for
solitary confinement was modified to permit him
10 request an undertaken to bury the body
Whether the relatives of the murdered woman
who are bitter against Whtmore and blame him
for her death. will consent to his caring for the
body is uncertain. Mrs. Schmtters. sister who
lives in The Bronx, said she would attend 10 the
burial.
In con1pany with Captain KChne of the Brooklyn
Detective Bureau Prosecutor Vickers made a
search of Whtmore's home at No 2S6 Adams
street Brooklyn. last night, and found two un-
loaded revoivers. a polceman's blackjack and
section of rubber hose about a foot and haif
long 1t IS thought that tie hose might have been
filled with sand and might have been responsible
for the dscolored marks the dead woman's
body The articles taken to Harrison.
The wind which whstled across the Passaic
River and through the refuse filed swamp where
the body was found did not keep hundreds from
visiting the-spot and standing expectantly around
the water. Hundreds went to the morgue to view
the body but this not allowed, the body having
been identified
1t was expected the inquest would be begun on
Tuesday evening, it has been practically de-
cided 10 wait until Thursday evening Tuesday
evening is the regular meeting night of the Harrl-
son Common Council and it is not desired TO IN
terfere with that body.
Caleb Evans. of No. 1920 10th street South Brook
lyn. arrested yesterday, and held as a sus-
pic;0us person. Evans says that he is train
operator of the BROOKLYN Rapid Transit, but the
police say that he is train clerk of the 3d avenue
elevated line. where Theodore s. Whitmore was
employed a motorman. Evans went about the
saloons Saturday it is said boasting that he knew
all about the swamp murder
J. II. Hendrckson, the mysterious friend Harry
of Mrs. Whitmore. who was arrested early yes
terday morning. was arraigned before Magistrate
Tighe in the Adams street police court Brooklyn,
yesterday or the technical charge of vagrancy.
The magistrate remanded him to Raymond street
Jail as he unable TO furnish bond of $1,000.
He is electrician and lives at No. SO Clermont
avenue
Inspector James McCahertv chief of the detec-
tive bureau in Manhattan who recently returned
from vacation in the South! has his best men at
work the swamp murder The inspector was
active in the Aolineux and was then consd-
cred something of expert in handwriting He
said last night that after comparing letter writ
ten four years ago by WhitmOre. which was fur
nished by the dead woman's brother, with the
letter they recently received supposedly from Mrs
Whitmore he satisfied that the same person
wrote them both. Nhitmore has habit, he says,
of Joining his small words in a sentence. This
pedrs in both letters Speaking of the question
raised at Albany to whether the Brooklyn police
had the right to take Whitmore to New Jersey he
said:
''They had a perfect right to accompany him to
New Jersey, for Whltmore was not under arrest
ascertained that fact fIom Acting Captain
Kuhne of Brooklyn Headquarters before he start
ed with Whitmore fer New Jersey. His men
simply escorted him to Harrison. The New Jersey
authorities had perfect right 20 make the arrest
when they found that the circumstances warranted
such action, but I don't think it necessary
for them to detain the witnesses sent them over
there"