Smyrna times., 1908-01-08
SLAIN WUNAN
KNOWN AT LAST
Swamp Victim Was Helena S.
WhitmOre, of Brooklyn.
KER HUSBAND UNDER ARREST

Newark, N. j., Jan. 6.-Following a
searching examination. during which
many incidents of his life were laid
bare, Theodore s. WhitmOre, the hus-
band, was held by the New Jersey po-
lice as a suspect in the death OF
Helena Salter WhitmOre, who was
beaten insensible, stripped of her
clothing and drowned in pond on the |
Hackensack meadows in Harrison on |
the morning of Dec. 26.
With Whitmore himself admitting |
that the nude body found in the foul !
pool is that of his wife; with the re-
cOvery of her missing jewelry, and |
which he admits he left with saloon |
keeper in Brooklyn; with an expert
declaring that Whitmore wrote the
letters received by his wife's relatives
after her body had been found, and
with other damning facts confront
ing him, the imprisoned man is a
nervous wreck, protesting that he
knows nothing of the murder, but
that one Harry" with whom his wife
disappeared must know all about it.
This Harry" has been found in the
person of Harry Hendrickson, who is
shown to have been at his home on
the night of the foul crime. More than
that. Whitmore is shown to have
bad record. having been arrested
more than once for beating his wife
to whom he was married to escape
Jail in 1898. Indeed the police seem
to regard the case as about closed,
and Whitmore will be held to
await the action of the coroner, then
formally committed to await the action
of the grand jury.
Joseph Harry Hendrickson the al
legged friend of Mrs. Whitnore, was
arraigned and, in default of $1,000 bail.
remanded to Jail.
The intricate web began to unravel
with the identification of the corpse
All the rest came as matter of detail
In a safe in the saloon of Fred E.
Radin, in Brooklyn, the police discov
cred what they declared to be the
most important evidence yet un
earthed in connection with the Harri
son murder mystery. They found there
the rings and other jewelry which
Whitmore declares his wife Lena was
wearing when he last saw her on
Christmas day.
According to the bartender of the sa-
loon this jewelry was taken there on
the night of Dee. 80 by Whitmore, who
requested him, he says, to lock it in
the safe The jewelry consists of one
diamond ring, one marquise ring, one
turquoise ring set with diamonds, one
garnet ring, one wedding ring, a but
terfly breastpin set with diamonds, an
other breastpin set with pearls and ;
lovers knot pin studded with dia
mOnds.
Mrs. Susan Schmitter, of New York
tainted after recognizing her sister,
body. When she had regained con
sciOusness she said:
Ever since poor Lena married he
life has been miserable. On Monda
of last week Lena left her home il
Brooklyn and came to my house. He
face was bruised and cut. That nigh
her husband appeared and begged he
to return home with him. She fnall
consented, but first she left with m
her watch, her ring and $12 in none!
A day or two later l got word frol
her that she would come up to tn
Bronx to see us on Christmas day an
then go up state to our old home
spend the holidays.
christmas evening l received
telegram from Brooklyn, reading
follows:
Don't expect me tonight. Lena.
1.-TWO days later came a letter pU
porting to be from Lena, in which 81
was made to say that she was goil
to Schenectady to visit our sister.
second telegram followed. Later l g
another letter similar to the first, al
on the same night an expressm
brought her trunk to my house.
contained a few articles of clothiI
some bottles and old papers and a
of stones to give it weight. The 81
ond telegram arrived about the sal
time the trunk did. It read as follow
"'Take care of trunk. Will Sc
Monday or Tuesday. Lena
"The second of the letters was d
ed Dec. 27. In it the writer made lie
say her husband was treating her b
ter. but that he stayed at home
watch her; that she was getting
things out of the house, and that
soon ss she got all of them togetl
she was going up the state. l was
quested to care for such things as
might send to me-"
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