Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-05-18

Prisoner Is Today Denied by the
Monmouth County Authorities
Bloodhounds and Posses Search Vi~
cinity of Wickatunk for Traces Of
Man Who Slew the Sheppardds
A suspect In the Wickatunk MUIR
der case was arrested here at 3.4B
o'clock Saturday afternoon by Patrols
man Gutowski He was George Dav-
let, of "a Catherine street. He gave
his age as thirty-four years and ans
wered closely to the description OF
the missing farmland.
People living in the Vicinity OK
| Catherine street accounted for Dav-
let's movements on that night and
vouched for his good character. He
was released by Chief Burke.
Special By United Press Wire:
Freehold, May 18:-The alleged
confession of Frank zasetra to the
triple murder Of the Sheppard faI1A
lily Saturday, after eighteen hours OF
Sweating, is regarded by some as the
effect of the ordeal on a weak mind,
The confession does not hold good
as far as concealment OF money, said
to be stolen, goes. The cash cannot
be found where he said 1t had been
lput. Zasetra is hysterical today.
While armed posses galloped ana
tramped every road and wood patch in
Monmouth county looking for another
foreigner suspected of the crime the
police for eighteen straight hours put
| b. Ill L. kX
dread third degree" only TO be baffied
by his iron nerve and plausible storiek
At the end of their resources Prose-
cutor Stokes and his assistants forced
him as final test to don the blood
stained, shot torn vest taken from
Shepherds body. They made him place
his hand upon that part Of 1t above the
heart.
"Now swear that you are innocentrs
they commanded.
Admits Killing All Three. M
The boy broke down and sobbed;
! II did It'll / did It'll killed all threel
Now let me alone, and I'll tell allp'
: 1t was partly a weak mind, partly
fear, that impelled him to take the
three lives, he explained. Encounters
ing Mrs. Shepherd coming downstairs
scantly clad for milk for her baby, h9
addressed her In a manner she resent
ed. She screamed to her husband foT
J help. Panic seized Zastera as he heard
| the stalwart farmer, who was a rough
rider In the Spanish-American war
coming to the rescue. A Winchester re-
peating shotgun containing seven or
eight cartridges was standing handily
in a corner.
3 Grabbing the weapon, the boy chased
the frightened woman until he wab
. close enough to strike her with the bar
? rel Then he fred three shots into her
Shepherd must have seen the fash Of
the last shot. He was halfway down
the stairs, at the bottom of which his
: wife lay when Zastera elevated the
: gun and fred two shots into him.
a Afraid Servant Would Tell.
The pretty Bendy girl had also re-
sented Zastera's advances the night bes
fore. For this reason and likewise be-
cause he knew she would tell on him
the young farmland then turned the
weapon on her, Telling her as she was
running through a door to get away,
II don't know why did It," Zasters
told the officials who put him through
his inquisition. II just felt like 1t all Of
a sudden. My mind is weak. I've had
: a doctor caring for me. 1t just came to
me to do il, and l couldn't stop with
{ one.
II couldn't sleep the night before
somehow. Mr.. and Mrs Shepherd and
Jennie and myself were up pretty late,
playing the photograph in the dining
q room. When l got to bed couldn't
: any more than doze. got awake q
/, little after O'clock and looked out tha
9 window. I went back to sleep again
: and awoke at 4:30.
: "At that time / thought / heard q
: noise in the yard | got up and put on
! all my clothes except an outside shirt.
> On my way to the yard looked and
saw that the repeating gun was In ting
corner where Shepherd told me
would find 1t in case Of trouble.
didn't find anybody In the yard 80
went back to bed again for about half
an hour, then came down and milked
g the COWS.
II went back to the house and began
to examine the gun. | picked 1t u
and aimed It at different things. Thef
heard step, and hid In the pdrIoi
near the door Mrs. Shepherd had Il
e pass 1t as she came downstairs she
= was IN her nightgown, getting milk
! for the baby.
Husband Saw Wife Slain
r, II waited till she came back from
g the kitchen; then spoke to her. When
she screamed fred, just as she got to
y the first step. She went down, but !
: sent two more shots into her. Mr.
Shepherd kind of leaned over the rail-
i ings and looked down. ! fired at him
It and hit him. He sort Of slid down the
: stairs. Before he reached the bottom
; gave him another shot, and he fell
across his wife
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