The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-06

PAL WANTED
BY POLICE

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mores. He repeated his statements
about the family quarrels n the at
lacks Whitmore ha made upon him
because of his attentions to Mrs. Whit
more. Concerning the crime, he said he
had no knowledge except what he had
read in the newspapers, and that he
last saw Mrs. Whitmore on the Mon
day preceding Christmas. He declared
he had no a%cquaintances or nne
tons OF any sort in Harrison or New
ark, and had not been in the State
since he passed through here last July
on his return from San Francisco,
where he was discharged from service
in the navy.
Bartlett, Whitmore's friend and pal,
whom the police of Harrison and Brook
Ign regard as an accomplice, ives his
arrest to a bottle of whiskey. The police
say they feel sure that he was sent to
Harrison last Friday night by Whitmore
to keep the latter posted as to what was
going on. At any rate Bartlett went to
Harrison from New York OF his own free
will and followed Mrs. Bessie Schmitters,
sister of the victim, from the morgue to
the Town Hall. There he came in con-
tact with a quart bottle of whiskey, which
the police had hidden in one of the rooms
used for witnesses. The whiskey was for
l PiiSOtlSiS WIN lniElL DG ldh6u III. lie
police say when they looked for it to give
Mrs. Schmitters some when she became
hysterical they found it empty. Bartlett's
condition explained where the contents had
gone to.
The liquor served to loosen Bartiett's
tongue, and he could not be restrained
from talking. He insisted that his name
was Foster and that he knew the dead
woman well. He said he knew Whitmore,
whom he claimed as a chum. All this
information he was giving gratuitously TO
1oungers in the corridors, and finally some
one told Acting Prosecutor Vickers. When
the latter found time to quizz Foster"
the latter continued his talking. Then he
began to stumble in his statements, and
when tho acting Prosecutor informed
Foster that he was lying the fellow at
tempted TO brace up. But it was too late
and he wa hustled to a cell.
All day yesterday Bartlett, whose real
uame was learned only after being cor
nered, sat in his cell bewailing his pre-
dicament Policeman Frank Campion. who
had charge of watching Whitmore, sat be-
tween the latter's cell and the one occu-
pied by Bartlett.
IF 1 hadn't found that bottle of
whiskey upstairs Friday night" moaned
the former Bowery denizen. Il would be
a free man. 1 wouldn't be here anyway
only for my trying to help a friend out"
lou QlQ0 [ nHNe 10 uTltlk tnt WilSh|Ss
said Policeman Cainrion. and yor didn't
have to come to Harrison, either. we
didn't send for you"
"Well, wouldn't you try to help a frieHl
out if he was in trouble?" asked Bartlett.
mot if the friend killed his wife and
was mixed up In such 4 dirty case as this
replied Campion.
Quick as a flash Bartlett saw where his
talk was leading him to, and he replied;
"Oh, say, you fellows are as bad as the
Brooklyn bulls You are trying to find
out something. Well, I don't know notd-
ing, see," and that closed the fellows
mouth while Campion had charge of him.
Last night Policeman Francis Kain re-
lieved Campion in his watch. The pris-
oners had nothing to say, and they were
given no opportunity to exchange any
conversation. Whitmore's cell is the same
one which Kirkman. the boatman, occu-
pied while a prisoner there. 1t Is in the
northern wing of the cell room, while
Bartlett is in the one occupied by Thomo-
son, the other boatman, on the west side
Of the cell room. The location of the cells
make 1t impossible for the two men to talS
to each other, without shouting their cor
versatien.
Frank Englert. the young Harrison man,
who identified the body of the dead woman
| last Thursday, and who boards at els War
rem street, Harrison, is also a prisoner.
He may prove a valuable witness against
Whitmore. When seen by an EVENING
STAR man. Englert showed plainly that
he has no love for Whitmore. He said:
Somebody says Whitmore is a travelling
man. Well, he is not. He is nothing. l
knew his wife, and she often told me
that Whltmore beat her. They never got
along together. She was arrested one
night in Brooklyn at II o'clock for street
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but he did not mind, and got her out of
that trouble. He even threatened to have
the man who arrested her broke but he
didn't"
Englert admitted having called on the
woman in Brooklyn.