The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-27
W q IMAM
MAY SAW:
WHIT MORE
Saw Billy Bartlett In
Newark Three Hours
After Killing.
HAD MUDDY SHOES
AND SCRATCHED FACE
Ex-Convict Was Nervous and
Had Much Money, She
Will Testify.
DEFENDANT AND THUG
WERE PALS IN PRISON
Lawyer Simpson Springs Big
Sensation in Second Trial
for Murder.
DEFENDANT AND THUG
WERE PALS In PRISON
rrrom a star Correspondent. ]

IErom a stan Correspondents
JERSEY CITY, Oct 27.--A big scn-
sation was sprung In the second trial OF
Theodore ;. Whitmorc for the murder
OF his wife, when his lawyer. Alcxnn-
der simpson, declared that nc would
reproduce new woman witness mt
the hearing tomorrow who would
clear his client and fassen the guilt
Of the LampbIacl Swamp wife-misr-
der mystery ON "GoId Tooth BLY,
Bartlett, ex-conyict and friend of the
Whitmorcs.
81 will produce this woman toner
row, and she will tell n story that will
free my client and fasten the guilt on
Bartlett was the declaration that the
counsel for The defense hurled at the
State.
He declared that he had kept up an
unceasing search for a mysterious
woman and has finally located her.
She will tell how she met Billy Bart
lett on Market street, Newark, near the
| Pennsylvania depot at l a. m. the day
after Christmas, or about three hours
after Lena Whitmore was killed. ac-
cording to the testimony of the doctors.
She will tell how he had plenty Of
! money. that his face was scratched, his
clothing and shoes muddy and his man
ner extremly nervous.
First Met In Prison.
| Bartlett and Whitmore first met in
prison, when both were serving terms,
and they had been pals since then and
until the murder of Mrs. Whitmore.
Since then Bartlett has been an ener-.
/
| II believe / can fasten the crime on
Bartlett" said Attorney Simpson to
THE EVENING STAR just before
court commenced today. Bartlett has
been convicted of crime and served
time for several offenses. He knows
more about this awful crime than he
is willing to tell"
Almost the first question put to Bart
lett by Simpson indicated the arraign-
ment TO follow.
"You have mustaehe now, Billy
"Yes."
did you have one when you went
to Harrison and identified the body?"
NO"
You shaved 1t off, didn't your"
"Yes"
Didn't you shave it off because the
witness who saw her going to her death
said her companion was short man
with dark mustache who had gold in
his teeth"
mo" shouted Bartlett. shifting un-
easily in his chair
Promised Clothes.
"The prosecutors office has promised
you clothes if you testify as they want
you to-"
YES"
"But you never got them?"
No"
"You are wearing Jimmy Clark's fas-
sstant to the prosecutor) clothes now
aren't you?"
Yes"
Didn't you testify at the former trial
that for $25 you would go into court
of law and swear to anything?"
"Yes, but l did so without meaning
lit"
Have you been promised money
after this case?'
/ mo promise. ! have been told that
my friends would do what they could"
Simpson tried TO push the subject
further, but under repeated objections
of the attorney general and adverse rlll-
ings by the court he desisted. He I'M
timated, however, that Bartlett might
be recalled, as witness for the de-
fense.
The next witness was Mrs. Susan
Salter, mother of the dead woman, who
testified that Mrs. Whincre visited her
in the Bronx Christmas eve.
"She was afraid of 'Whitmore." said
/ Mrs. Salter "She said he had beat her
and she was afraid to go home"
Mrs. Sater was followed by Police
Judge Joseph M. Branegan, Of Harri
son.
\ Harry Hendrickson, who testified yes
| terday afternoon that Whitmore had
threatened to kill his wife while he
| 1Iendrickson) looked on, was recalled
today and underwent a gruelling cross
examination at the hands of Mr. Simp-
SON Hendriekson testified that 0c-
tober, 1907, he rented a room IN Brooks
llyn where he ard Mrs. Whitmore lived
for four or five days.
"One night as | was returning with
can of beer" said Hendriclzson. II
stopped in the hallway at the sound Of
mans voice in the room 1t was
Whitmore and / beat 1t home, leaving
lher there"
/ Harry Heidel, who livsd at 1856 Law
renee street. Brooklyn testified that