The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
DIPS
INTO RIVER
FOR A CLUE
Continued from First pase.)

" OAAo@a IAN
of the New York police bloodhounds
down in the deep with him, nosing
around for clues or evidence against
the Pollution Commission
The diver was Charles P. Everett
and he was accompanied by Constable
Obadiah Joralemon and Policeman
Walsh and Campion, all of Harrison.
They did not risk their lives going down
below with him, BIT simply acted as
official masters Of ceremonies in a row.
boat. Everett submitted himself to the
tender mercies of the stream at the
docks of the Marine Engine and Ma
chine Company on the Harrison side,
below the Centre street bridge. He
worked slowly toward the Newark
shore. He found many things in the
mire at the bottom. Almost each one
had a mystery of it's own. But the
murderer of the dead woman was not
located. Neither were her Shoes.
While this performance was going on,
the police waited patiently for another
Identification" at the morgue. 1t
didn't take place. The case, therefore,
is practically as far from being solved
as it was when the murder came to
light just one week ago this morning.
when the woman's nude body was
found in the Harrison dumps by Irving
w. Crane, which discovery was fol-
lowed by the arrest on suspicion of
Thompson and Kirkman, the boatmen
of the Idle Hour.
Mrs. Hattie Hull, the New York girl
whose "identifications'' and lying stories
created a stir, apparently much to her
satisfaction, did not appear in Har-
rison today up to an early our this
afternoon, as it was expected she would
do. Her latest story was that the
body is hat of her half-sister, Miss
Minnie jeanette CASTOR. who went I'M
der the name of MRS. Young" A
Chattanooga, Tenn, dispatch says that
Miss CASTOR is the sister of Mrs. Hull,
Inc they are the daughters Of DR.. II.
". Womack, Of Servilla, Tenn. Miss
Castor left home about eight months
ago. A Charles Meyer, a piano tuner,
is also known in Servilla. He Is said
to have left at the same time.
1t will be remembered that Mrs.
Hull alleged that the woman she went
to Jersey City with on Christmas Day
met a Charles Meyer there and came
with him to this city. The Chattanooga
dispatch adds that a few months ago
at Servilla Mrs. Hull attempted suicide
by poisoning herself.
The theory that the victim might
have been Thompson's wife was ex-
ploded when it was learned hat Mrs.
Thompson was alive and well In Eng
land. She is living at Sheffield. She
is quoted as giving the following inter-
view.
ALBERT Thompson is my husband.
Let no call him murderer. or 1 will
mash them. He may nave left me CIR I
him, but what does that matter to
anybody? He is a good old soul, hut
does not like booze. 1 do. / am not a
bad sort, after all, even If l do like my
hour and half at a pub of nights. Who
would not have fun at the Greyhound
or 'Bali?' Those who don't miss half
the fun of life, Albert is good-tem-
pered, not easily vexed, but water
alone is too trying for my constitution
t1 wish we could have hit 1t. AS we
could not, what was the good of living
together to quarrel? Do not advertise
my address to make my lot worse. ]
wish him no harm, and do not believe
the father of my children could COM
NIT murder. Hasty? Yes. Brutal? No
EIe is too kin in disposition. 1 say 1t,
though / should never live with his
/ again. Jealous? Rather; you see I was
reckoned ~good-looking. Correspond with
him? No, thank you'll"
The Harrison authorities have adopted
a new plan as a last hope of getting
some one to come forward and identify
the dead woman. In speaking to an
EVENING STAR man on this part OF
the affair. Judge Joseph M. Branegan'
of Harrison, said:
IT think 1t was a grave mistake to
arrest Thompson and Kirkman. In my
mind they know nothing Of the affair,
Had they been allowed to remain in
their boat under surveillance. after hav-
ing told their stories, I him this would
have helped us some. But their arrest
and detention have served to keep
Others from coming forward and tell
ing what they know.
81, for my part, am willing to sub
scribe to a fund, which will go as q
reward 10 the Oie WIN "ShtiACo NN
dead woman And more than that, ]
now state, and the EVENING STAR
has my permission to publish the same
under my signature. that any n COM
ing forward and identifying the dead
woman will be immune from arrest
on the contrary. as I have already said
they will be rewarded.
81 also intend to have brought be-
fore me Mrs. Carl Reinhardt, of the
boat Orlando, which is locked near the
Black Lamp creek. She certainly
knows as much about the finding OF
the body as Thompson or Kirkman.
will also examine her husband. Youne
Crane, who found the body, has not
been examined by me. I will send FOL
him ard for Harry Miller, who found
the dead woman's STOLE"
Inquiries are pouring in from all part'
Of the country to Chief of Police CorDitt
of this city, asking him if the body OF the
victim answers to descriptions they en-
close or resembling photographs sent. MOS
of the correspondents think that the Dooy
is that of a missing relative Of theirs
William Smith, of Seely Greek. Chemune
County, N. Y, writes to find out II tn'
body is that of his daughter, whom ne
has not heard from in several weeks. Tit
report that a note was found addressed tt
someone named Cory" Is what called MS
attention to the case, especially as ne