Evening journal., 1908-01-04
ANOTHER WOMAN
IN MURDER CASE
~ Tng IouRNAL.s speelal wlre.

BY THE JOURNALS Special Wire.
NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-The third side
to the old triangle OF tragedy. two
women and man, was revealed to-
day with the Introduction into the
Harrison, n. j., murder mystery Of a
second woman. known as Georgia"
who is said to have appeared at the
Brooklyn home OF Theodore Whitmore.
the Il" motorman. soon after the body
of the latter's murdered wife was
found In the Lamp Black Swamp along
the Passaic river the daN. following
Christmas With the Introduction OF
the latest character I'm the tragedy the
net Of clrcumstanual evidence appears
TO be tightening around Whitmore.
who hourly threatens to break down
under the ordeal Of third degree ex-
ANIMATION by the New Jersey officers.
Mrs Sadie williams. who resides in
the same house in Brooklyn with the
Whitmores, made the following state
ment to-day:
When I returned home from Phila-
delphia the day after Christmas / met
Whitmore In the hallway and inquired
where his wife was. He replied. Lena
has gone for good. She Will never come
back here again. / was not greatly
surprised at his statement as / knew
they had trouble and simply supposed
they had separated.
Georgia Appeared in House.
"rhe next day woman whom I knew
only as Georgia appeared in the house
and from sounds i heard 7 thought that
she and Whitmore were drinking heavily
and having high time She stayed there
until Saturday afternoon. / never knew
a great deal about Georgia" other than
she lived on Thirty-fourth street in Man
haitian and was the suhjest OF many quar-
rels between Whitmore and his wife and
one time I heard Mrs Whitmore In a
NJ OF anger tell her husband that II he
was so crazy about Georgia" he should
so and live with her. About threee weeks
ago Mrs. Whitmore ran across her hus-
band and Georgia IN a Brooklyn bowl
ing alley and / understand there was
grand row.
Mrs. Williams testimony was corrob-
Grated by Walter Mcdonald and James
Lawler, walters at an al-night Park Row
restaurant. who also roomed in the same
house with the Whitmore's. when /
went out Friday evening" said AicDon.
aid, II saw a young woman IN the par.
Tor with Whitmore. She was calling him
Teddy" and they both appeared halt
intoxicated" LAWYERS story agreed in
every detail with that told by Mcdonald
The evidence Of the occupants OF the
house in which the Whiimore's live.
strikes az the root OF the prisoners alibi
Whitemore's Statement.
Whitemore told the police that on
Christmas night he had gone to work an,
told the dispatcher that he had to lay
on on account Of a cold and after this
that he stopped al the Park Row res
taurant In which Mcdonald and Lawlc
were employed about ] O'Clock IN tn,
morning. Both Lawler and Mcdonald sa,
that they did not see whitmore IN tn.
restaurant and that had he been there
they must certainly have noticed him.
The two men further disagree with Whit
more's statement that his wife left homo
az 40 in the afternoon on Christina
while he was out. They say that as the
loft the house at o'clock Christina
eevning they heard the voices OF Whit
more and his wife. Mrs. O'Nen. tenan
on the first floor who disappeared sine,
the tragedy met the men as they wer
leaving. and remarked TO them that Whit
more and his wife had made up and wer
going 70 have dinner together with N
o'NeilPs