The sun., 1908-07-26
WARRANT OUT FOR GENE CARR
I FROM WILKES
vi RARRE PROMPTLY EXPLODED.

a AaT6er OF Cameron Cool LaidtO the Car
~, teonist on the Strength Of His Pub
ltshed Portrait Confronts Ideutiner
Lt5 vino Says That He Is Not the Man.
4. ,Wu.KEsBARRE Pa. July 2s.-A warrant
yves Issued here to-day for Scene Carr. alias
sRSbert O. vsllee Of New York. on a charge
!. pf nurdering Cameron Cool. the wealthy
hcrsemah OF West Pittston. who was killed
{ il his stable on December 20. 1907. The
warrant was obtained by the law firm Of
Schnerr & Kurylowski. who put in the hands
Of the authorities an alleged confession Of
sRosalnd Williams, q maid In the employ Of
Mrs. Lydia j. Craig Of West Sixty-fourth
stfeet, who is now at her summer homo at
sBslmar N. j. The girl says Vallee. known
toher also as Leroy. killed Cool to obhge her.
- szAe lawyers who secured the warrant
not Ehief Of Police Long to telegraph to the
(, pdioe Of New York and Belmar N. j., ask
{ ing them TO arrest Carr. or Vallee, and hold
Z him until the warrant can be served. The
itesegram described him asa certoonist.
Cameron Cool, who was well known
7tAscugiaout this part Of the State. was a
man Of somewhat peculiar habits. living
In nicely fitted up quarters TN his stable.
On the night Of the murder Cool was struck
down by heavy bar while he was entering
the stable.
The chief witness In this murder case
turned out to be Rosalind Williams. the maid
nav in the employ Of Mrs. Craig. Her
homo is at Wyoming. near here. and she
was employed near the Cool place on the
night Of the murder She WIS found there
an hour after Cool was murdered and was
detained In the United Charities Building.
WiIkesbarre, as a witness.
The testimony given by the girl. who is
about l8, appeared to fasten the murder
on Tom Willis. q veteran negro Jockey
who had been working for Cool. Willis
had disappeared and turned up in Balti-
more, where he was arrested. He has been
convicted Of the murder.
While Rosalind Williams was being de-
tanned in the United Charities Building
/ for the trial she told the matron that her
/ previous testimony was false. She had
been shielding the real man, she said. The
: man who killed Cool was her friend. Charles
r. Leroy. several Of whose letters. some
with explanatory notes in French she
had In her possession. Leroy had been
calling on her for some time, she said
and she asked him to kill Cool because
s ssa a hs sso sg as .ss cSo
and then fed. Several men In Pittston
know him by sight.
Soon after this statement had reached
lawyers Sohnerr and Kurylowski. counsel
mar, baiied Rosalind Williams out and
took her to Belmar. About this time a
traits Of artists connected with the paper
ard s . COPY Of x,,,tass the paper fell into into
had Q picture Of Leroy. obtained
from Roealind Williams, and found that ne
resembled one Of the artists. They took
the picture Of the artist to Relmar and
sAEssd Ss e1 to asaisd shs ws%s L %as s. porra. Of
her niece, Mrs. Robert G. Z. Vallee,
. hair dresser at 10 East Twenty-
ago. When Mrs Vallee saw the artists
picture she said It was the picture Of her
missing husband. She also said that her
husband was Frenchman.
Armed with the identifications made by
the women at Belmar the lawyers returned
TO Wilkesbarre and put their evidence in
the hands Of the County Prosecutor. The
prosecutor said he was convinced that he
had the murderer in Tom Willis and he
lawyers then went to Alderman Frank
Brown to-day and on their own RESPONSE
bility got the warrant for Gene Carr.
alias Robert @. vallee.
Cane Carr, having heard OF the warrant,
reached the city at about midnight last
night from his home at Rcd Bank. In the
meantime Mrs. Craig had been found at
10 East Twenty-second street where her
niece, Mrs. Vallee, has q hairdressing place
Mrs. Craig volunteered to go to the World
offce.with Detective McKeon to see il she
could pick out the man she thought was
Vallee. She told the detective that DR..
T. j. Carney Of 2o5 West Fifty-fifth street.
who had attended Mrs. Vallee and her hus-
band. could also pick out Vallee, 80 DR..
Carney was asked to go along.
When Mrs. Craig and DR.. Carney went
to the World Office they went to a room
In which Gene Carr sat with dozen detec-
tivee. Both looked over the members Of
the group. and finally Mrs Craig asked
that they stand up, which they did. Finally
Mrs. Craig said she couldn't pick out the
man Gene Carr then confronted her and
asked her II he was the man. She said that
he wasn't.
Detective McKeon then said he would
notify the Wilkesbarre police that Mrs.
Craig was positive that Gene Carr was not
the man called for by the warrant.