The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

fessed he is at present a fugitive from
justice, being wanted on an assault charge
in Brooklyn. He is well known in certain
parts OF Brooklyn and along the Dowefy
as Gold Tooth Billy,
Where were you Christmas nlght?' he
was asked.
seI had made an engagement with two
brothers. named Doran, to meet me at the
Bridge" he said, land 1 met them there
Christmas night. / owed one of them a
dollar and paid 1t. This was at s O'Clock
We all stayed together drinking along the
Bowery until / o'clock in the morning.
Then they took the Catharine street ferry
home to Brooklyn. ] stayed that night at
F1ynn's lodging house. Pell street and the
Bowery. I registered under my W name,
William Bartlett"
No such persons as the Doran brothers
could be found in the Brooklyn neighbour
hood he named. His name does not appear
on the register of Flynn's or any other
Bowery lodging house for Christmas night.
Bartlett was made to write several hun
dreds Of words at the dietation OF the ex-
amining officials, so that his handwriting
may be compared with those OF the letters
received by Mrs. Schmitters after Lena
Whitmore's death and written to create the
belief that SHE was still alive.
Danic, O'Nelll, who livevs in the house in
Adams street, Brooklyn, which was the
scene of so many quarrels between the
Whitmores, and who was the motoTmans
confidential friend, has made n statement
telling everything he knew of Whitmore's
actions before and after the murder.
O'Neill made II certain that the messages
and packages sent to Mrs. Schmittera, Mrs.
Whitmore's sister, and purporting to come
from the victim, at a time when she was
dead, were sent directly by Whitmore'
| and were carried by O'Neill and Elliot.
Likewise, O'Neill told of the entertainment
of the mysterious George Dickenson, a
New York woman, whom Whitmore took
to his home with another girl after his
wife had been killed. O'Neills statement
was as follows:
IT am the man who on Saturday follow
ing the murder Of Mrs. Whitmore APP
peared at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Schmitters, on East 10th street, and de-
livered to her several packages and a
letter. ] was an innocent messengef, moi
having been given an opportunity to read
the contents of the letter, or I would
never have allowed myself to be used as a
tool
THE letter. which I-hnve since learned
purported to have been written by the
dead Mrs. Whitmore, was in reality writ
ten by Fred Elliot and dictated to him by
Whitmore at 238 Adams street, Brooklyn.
This man Elliot is the heavy-set. dark
haired man in tho case. 1t was Elliot
VINO, on the Gay H1Ier the murucT, 1HulS-
day, delivered a large package containing
a photograph at Mrs. Schmitters's home.
Elliot is also the darS-hairol man aeen
by Mrs, Schmitters at the Adams street
house on Friday. On Saturday he dis
appeared mysterlously from the house. He
was at one time employed on the Boston
and Albany road, lived either in Boston or
Springfield, and, according to his own
story, he was married and had run away
from his wife.
"On the Saturday morning preceding the
crime, ] met Whitnore in the hall and he
said:
Lena is gone, and I think she is with
that Harry Hendrickson. She has a room
somewhere near here, and I'm going to
find her. I won't give her a stitch of her
clothes unless she comes to me in the right
way and asks for Them
"On Christmas my wife prepared the
dinner, and ut / o'clock we went to the
kitchen. About 4 o'clock I brought down
some Christmas dinner for the Whltmores.
Whitmore put it on the table and called
his wife. A few moments later l brought
down some wine. and they were sitting at
the table. apparently the best of friends.
What did you do. kiss and make up?'
1 asked
Mrs. Whitmore smiled, and Whitmore
told me to stop twitting him.
This was the last 1 saw of the Whit |
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saw Mrs. whitmore alive.
II next saw Whitmore about 10 O'Clock
Thursday morning. the day after Christ
mas He said to me:
What do you think Of Lena. She van
ished again last night. / went out to get
"a package of tobacco and when l came
back she was gone
Il asked II they had had a fight, and he
said they had not. He said that If she
was anywhere she was with Harry Hen
Erickson. He said he thought Lena was
going to stick to Harry.
II was called upstairs. Shortly after the
bell rang and / answered the door. A
man was standing there, and he asked for
Mr.. Whitmore. I asked his name. and he
said:
Tell him Fred Elliot. who used to
work on the elevated road with him, wants
to see him.
Elliot went downstairs with Whitmore,
l