New-York tribune., 1908-05-07
f. II. MARTIN ARRESTED.
Former Lieutenant Charged lcith
Murder in Oregon.
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Portland Ore May 6-Edward Hugh Martin, son
of Hugh Martin. former wardn1an, OF New 1oTk.
a graduate OF West Point. and formerly hrst leu-
tenant in the regular army. arrested yester-
day on q charge of numbering Nathan Wolr, a
pswnbroker in this city last Friday He denies
the crime but the police beineve he Is waver1ng.
He is addicted to the OF morphine and the
drug is being withheld from him in an effort to
make him confess.
Wolff was murdered in his store on last Friday
night shortly after O'Clock. The body was dis
covered three hours later by a policeman, who
found the light out and the door unlocked "oln
had been shot through the neck and then beaten TO
death with an axe. The handle was broken by
the force OF the blows The interior OF the store
was blood despatched, bearing evidence Of fierce
struggle The place had been robbed OF money and
I.1elry aggregating 81, SOC
Suspicion was directed to Martin by the finding
oF = bloody shirt, ownership of which was traced
to him He had already been accused with the
crime by his wife whom he married IN Syracuse,
n. Y. and had left home in consequence There ls
a wound on his hand and another on his forehead.
besides scratches his neck and he can give no
satisfactory explanation of how he got them
Syracuse May S-Edward Hugh Martin married
Miss Theresa A. erifin In this city, on October 49,
1so4 They at once TO Portland Ore. Vhere
Martin vas TO take course in surgery at hospi-
tai His parents supplied the couple with money
which he deposited in a hank which failed and he
abandoned the surgery course His wttes rela-
tves in this city say that in the SpanishArerfcan
War Martin received wounds in the head which
have In the last year affected his mind.
Edward H Martin. after his graduation nom
West Point in 1888, became second lieutenant IN
the Tst Infantry, served in the Spanlsn-Aner1-
can War and won a medal for saving TWO hVes'
After his return from Cuba he was stationed al
Fort Hancock Sandy Hook. with the oth Artillery.
Tn 1893 he saved the life of private OF the Bat
terv and a year later ne rescued Miss simpson
from drowning at Sandy Hook. But he got into
disgrace at the post by irregularities IN post eN
change accounts. At his trial by court martial "
was shown that he addicted TO the morphine
habit He admitted that he was secretly married
To f;ussie May Mckee Dodd, the "Poolroom Queen
who ran a pooroom for women in Eighth avenue.
WHARF II was shown In court that she had hum
dred patrons q day. She was arrested. but was
acquitted on the charge Of keeping gambling
house and she obtained divorce from Martin In
1901 on the ground OF bigamy. She died in poverty
In 1903 Martin had been dismissed from the army
before that time and served year in the peniten
tiary for forgery and passing bogus checks In 1903
Martin was before Magistrate Whitman on &. charge
of burglary, and declared that morphine had duled
his sense of right and wrong. As the evidence was
insufficient ne acquitted Martin later figured
In the police courts a vagrant and in connection
with burglaries at Bath Beach before he went West