Evening journal., 1908-11-19
WANT WOMAN
IN READ CRIME
Detectives Believe That Boys
Who Confessed Murder Did
Not Get MiSer'S Money
VICTIM WAS IN LOVE
WITH BRIDGET O'CONNER
By United Press Leased special wire.

By United Press Leased Special Wire.
vINELAND. N. j.. Nov t9-Some-
where in New York. city a young wO-
man. travelling under the name of
Bridget O'Cnnnor. is wanted here as
the missing link to complete the story
of the murder of William Read. whu
was foullv shot down at the home OF
his daughter hero last Friday night.
With the three youths-Walter Zeller.
Herbert Griggs and Cline Wheelor--who
confess the crime. i'm custody, the de-
toctivos are now turning their attention
to the remaining feature of the sem
sational story-thc finding of tho slain
misers money Bridget O'Connor is
tho woman who holds the key TO the
solution. and il is for hcr that search
has been beena.
The detectives are satisfied that mono
OF the Youths secured possession or
their victims wealth. That he had
at least thousand dollars in cash
within week prior to his death has
been conciusively established: also that
$4,000 worth Of bonds were in the old
mans keeping less than a month ago.
LaVished Money on Her.
Bridget O'Connor is the romantic per
I son who came into the life Of Read
some wears ago when he. as contractor
was engaged in building the sub-postal
/ station i'm New York Failing in hi
attempted to win the woman over to
matrmonv, Read is said TO have lavish
ed muclAmoney on her.
Up until the time that. inhrmltv and
sickness laid hold Of him he visited ner
regularly. That this woman knows
something about the bonds and tho
cash Of Read is the theory now Of the
4 detectives.
Young Zellers. according 20 Detective
Spencer admits that he not only knows
Of the O'Connor woman, but met hci
personally at time when he accon
panied his grandfather 20 New York
He further states that Read. up 10 tw,
weeks ago. had I'm his possession o
photograph of the woman, which in q
moment Of anger. he tore to pieces
!, II. c. Cooper the stepson with whom
, Read lived. will sav but little abou
, the mysterious woman. other than shl
exists. Cooper to-day also cleared M
matter that has perpleXed the DC
. tectives when he declared that ltenl
! had ATTORNEYS somewhere in Philadcl
phia With the fact established thn
Read had a legal guardian. IL is III
hone OF the authorities that the none
matter viii be eventually solved wit
= the aid of these attorneys
New DEVELOPMENTS in the murder case
as far as the three bows are concerned
are the established facts that Read ha
two Docketbooks. that there were the
, revolvers IN use on the night of In
murder and the denial by Ieller Of tha
= part of his confess on in which he sal
c that he was not in the house when IN
. murder was committed. The pocket
d book found last night in the orcharI
3 at the Cooper home was purse whicl
= might have contained the gold coin
- witch Read was said TO have carried
! Tho seven blood-stained one-dollar bill
found nearby was the portion Of III
, fifteen dollars booty allowed 10 Ielle
, when tho division was made tn
s other nockethook WAS a long wallet
No trace nf the latter has been found
Three Boys Implicated.
Detective Spencer last night searche
/, tho home of young Cline Wheeler an
:, found "A 80 calibre revolver which ha
been used recently. The finding of tn
revolver was made possible by youn
Wheeler himself telling where th
weapon might be found. This. n
getbor with the revolver found o
Griggs Yesterday IN Philadelphia an
the revolver belonging TO Read. whic
was found on his bed the night Of IA
murder are in the possession Of the dc
o tecfives. That all three boys had
hand in the murder and that each ha
aitempted confession 90 clear himse
of having participated i'm the killinl
e as shown by second statement mad
5 bv Zeller. In hs first confession h
claimed he was not in the house at III
; time Of the murder. but remained on
side until Criggs and Wheeler can
s. and told him Of the murder Del''
=" now admits that he was in the hou'
" al the time Of the murder.