The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-04
Evidence Piliny Up Against
Husband of Murdered
Woman.
he SENT HER TRUNK
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel O'Neill,
Who Lived in Same House
in Brooklyn, Are Also
Held :. Fake Letters
Sent to Sister.

! Every effort is being made today to
unravel the amazing story revealed
late yesterday by the Identification OF
| the Harrison murder victim as Mrs.
Lena Whitmore, wife of Theodore S.
| Whitmore, an Il" motorman, Of 23s
! Adams street. Brooklyn.
| The police net seems to be drawing
closer around Whtmore, who is held
a prisoner on suspicion in the HaI-
rison police station. He is in condi-
tion bordering on a breakdown con-
tinually moaning and crying. He re-
fuses to eat. A confession may be
soon forthcoming. the police say. for
they believe he can solve the mystery.
| Assistant Prosecutor Vickers arrived
in Harrison early this afternoon TO
question Whitmore. At noon the lat
! ter still refused to eat, but asked for O.
glass Of whiskey to brace himself up.
| Whitmore SAID that his wife had two
lovers, Harry Hendrickson and Harry
Anderson, both of Brooklyn The lat
ter is an electrician and lives in Fair
mount avenue, near Myrtle avenue.
/ Brooklyn. The former he mentioned
yesterday when detained in Broklyn-
He asked the officials why they didn't
arrest those two men. The police will
look UP Anderson. Hendrickson has
been accounted for.
/ Martin and William H. Salter, both Of
New York, brothers of the dead woman,
also identified the body this afternoon.
| Held with Whitmofe are Mr.. and Mrs
Daniel O'Neil, who lived in the san,
house with Hi.e, Vllitmorcsr and Harry
! Bartlett, alias John Foster. New
York Bowery character, who knew Mrs.
Whitmore when he worked in a cheap
all-night restaurant in Brooklyn. All
! these three persons identified the body
l1ast night, after the positive identlfica
4 tion had been made in the afternoon
by Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Schmitters. of
46S East 10th street, New York.. Mrs.
Schmitters being sister of the .rictini.
| Today Mrs. O'Neil said that Whit
more had sent Mrs. Whitmore's trunk
to Mrs. Schmitters on Friday, Decem-
ber 81, the day after the body was dis
covered in the swampy pond on the
Harrison dumps, near the Passaie
River. She saw the trunk being taken
out of the house and asked Whltmore
what was happening. He said, accordzse
! ing to the woman. that he was sendiEg
his wife's trunk TO her sister, Mrs.
SchInitters.
This trunk, when opened by Mrs.
Schmitters later, was found TO contain
bricks, stones, and old clothes.
This fact. coupled with the letters she
received. all supposedly from Mrs. Whit
more but written in mans handwriting,
aroused her suspicion. These things lead
the police to believe that Whitmore, OF
some one in league with him, tried 70
blind Mrs. VVhtmore's relatives. Whit
more had advertised his household goods
for sale. thus showing that he intended
to leave Brooklyn.
The trunk, when delivered, was ac-
companied by the following letter, sup
posedly written by Mrs. Whitmore, but in
mans handwriting;
Dear Sister Bessle-Please take care OF
these things for me, and l will send up
inoio things Monday. l expect to get all
my things next week. He is trying to be
awful good now, but I Will not trust him
any more. | will send my things by ex-
press. He has not been working for two
days. He is afraid that il he goes to
work that l will take the things out OF
the house. which ] will do the first chance
get. 1 hope everything will be all right
next week. Yours truly, LENA.
"P, S.-The bearer is a friend of my
helped me out in my trouble"
This was delivered by a man with the
trunk but, as Mrs. Schmitters was sick In
bed, she did not see the man.
This was followed by another letter on
December 2S. 1t was postmarked Station
L, New York Postoffice, $3.50 p. M. De-
oember r. 1t is as follows:
New York Dec. 27, 1907
Dear sister-Please take care Of any
thing that is sent to your home in your
name. 1t will be from me. Everything
SISTER LENA
"P. ST. Will try to be up soon. l ex-
pect to go up the State first
This letter was followed by telegram,
delivered to Mrs. Schmitters on December
~ The dispatch was sent from the branch
office of the Western Union telegraph
Company, at 313 Fulton street, Brooklyn.
ana received at the branch office, at s6lo
Third avenue, New York. whence It was
delivered. 1t was as follows:
Mrs Sehmitters, 4S6 East 10th street.
Bessie-Take care Of trunks. Send Mon
day or Tuesday. LENA
This letter and telegram were followed
by another letter. written on January
and signed by Whitmore, 1t follows:
Brooklyn, January ].
Dear Friends and Martin and Bessie,
Il am all broke up over the way
things are going and the way Lena IS
=. L
there is no use, so must make the best
of It. 1 now understand that she Is
going to bring her brother William
down from Schenectady and some one
else. Wen, | cannot nelp 1t. must
make the best Oat OF 1t. am sorry
She has gone up there and made al
that trouble.
''It was bad enough as it was with
out then Knowing It all. and what has
become Of all the stun taken 9ut q
the house l do not care Only II she
had kept away from that girl friend
of hers everything would have come
around all right. She did her lot ef
harm before. and Will do it again. Also
that fellow Harry.
Harry never works only about three
months year, out she will not keep