The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-04
MYSTERY OF NEW
JERSEY SWAMP
NOW SOLVED
Murdered Woman is at Last
identified
BROOKLYN M0TORMAN'S WIFE
Woman's Husband. T. S. Whtmore'
A Former Convict, Held by
Harrison Police.

Martin SmitherS OF 1876 East one Hun
dred and SEVENTEEN street. New York,
positively identified the body of the
murdered woman found in the Five
Points road pond, near here, as that of
her sister, Mrs. Helena Whitmore,
wife of Theodore S. Whitmore, mo-
t0rman, who lives at 236 Adams street.
Brooklyn.
Mrs. Smithers was accompanied to
the Harrison morgue by her husband
and several friends. She stood silently
beside the body for more than min
ute scrutinizing the features carefully
and then cried out Historically:
"That's my sister. That's Lena"
Overcome by her emotions, Mrs.
Smithers swooned and fell to the floor
She was carried to another room and
soon revived. She said then that she
was absolutely positive the body was
that Of her sister, and her husband
and others in the party who know Mrs.
Whitmore were of the same opinion.
Whitmore, who has been detained as
q witness at Brooklyn police head
quarters, admitted under third de-
gree" examination that he believes the
body is that of his wife. He had been
to the Harrison morgue and viewed
the body.
Captain Kuhne a..1 a,s detectives
Questioned Wnitmore CLOSELY but he
vas not communicative unit he was
saken 10 an upstairs room to ne meas
rred by the Bertillon systSm. Then he
confessed, according . ,,.e ponce that
be was convicted Of assault about ten
,uars ago. sentenced to Dannemora
prison for two years and ten months,
but pardoned - ~
Magistrate Branegan has issued a
warrant for the arrest of Frank En-
glehardt of Harrison, an ironworker,
after Englehardt had visited the
morgue and stated that he recognized
the woman as Mrs Lena Whitmore.
He declared a scar on the body made
him certain of his identification, and
he said he was well acquainted with
the woman. Englehardt has not been
taken into custody, but every effort is
being made to locate him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel O'Neil, who live
In the same house with Whitmore.
identified the red jacket and skirt
found near the body as garments
which belonged to Mrs. Whitmore.
The police asked Whitmore his rea
son for inserting in Brooklyn paper
an unsigned advertisement offering bis
house for sale The "ad," placed on
Thursday, was to run three days. 1t
reads:
For Sale.-Must sell at once. Call
after II a. IN. 236 Adams street"
Whitmore said he was tired Of keep
ing a large house for wife who left
him so many times and that he no
lenger cared for appearances. He said
that he had no intention Of giving up
his position of motorman on the
shuttle car which runs between Chat
ham square and the city hall, but that
he needed ready money and that he
wanted to dispose of all his effects.
Mrs. Schmitter has furnished tho
police with what Is believed to be most
important information. She told of a
series Of letters and kilograms received
by herself and the sister in Science
tady purporting to come from Mrs.
Whitmore, but some Of which must
have bppn written after her death
trunk belonging to Mrs. WhitmOre had
also been sent mysterlously to her
home.
Mrs. Whitmore left her home on
Christmas day with the intention, &C.
cording to her husband, Of making Il
visit to her sister, Mrs. Bessie Hughes,
whose home is In Schenectady. AT
o'clock the next morning she was seen
In the company Of a man on the Hack
snsack meadows. That afternoon her
nude body was found nearly sub
merged in pool Of water near where
she had been seen. The next day Mrs.
Whitmore's trunk was delivered at her
sisters home in New York.
Whitmore Is Brooklyn Elevated
motorman, who ordinarily works
nights. He did not go to work Christ
mas night He explained that he was
taken Ill with the grip after his wife
left their home and that he had not
been able to work since. He had fire.
quently quarreled with his wife, he
said. and was not surprised when she