The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-28
Elmer W. Tuttle, Arrested
in East Newark, Ad-
mitS to Police.
HE IMPLICATES RAYMOND
VAIL AS ACCOMPLICE
Sister.in-Law Says Family Has
RenOunced One of the
Suspects.

Elmer w. Tuttle, one of the two sus-
poets held in East Newark for send
ing in a false alarm of fire, when con-
fronted by his aged mother, confessed
this afternoon to Detectives Long and
Fallon that he and his partner, Ray
mond Vail, were the false alarm
| fiends" who had kept the departments
of three municipalities on edge for the
past three weeks.
After stoutly maintaining his inno-
cenee under the third degree for two
hours. Tuttle broke into tears when
his mother crossed the threshold of his
cell. When told that she had denied
story he told of his whereabouts Sun
fessed his guilt.
| He then told, mnutely and in great
detail, exactly how he and Vail oper-
ated in sending in false alarms. Vail,
separated from his partner, who was
1 taken to Harrison, declared In his cell
at East Newark that he was guiltless.
Renounced by Family.
With the arrest of Vail there ratified
the bones of family skeleton, at %
! Walieman avenue, where Vairs mother
lives, the address he gave last night
to Chief of Police Neville and Patrol
man MeKenna, of East Newark, i'm
medateiy after his arrest.
please say for us all, requested Mrs.
| Albert r. Vail, his sster-in-law, that
we have no further interest In Ray
mond. He does not live here. For
years we have stood the shame of his
escapades and have tolerated this black
sheep of the family, but now our pa
| tience is at an end and we have fin
| ished with him"
Wallis photograph. from the rogues'
! gallery at police headquarters, was
| taken TO East Newark by the Newark
| sleuths. He served time four years
ago in the Railway reformatory for
cutting a man in a fight He said he
could remember nothing of sending in
! false alarms, however, when quizzed by
the detectives, and by the fire chiefs of
| Newark, Harrison and East Newark
! Tuttle, at a conference earlier in the
day by the fire chiefs of the three
municipalities, said:
| I'm too wise for you: you can't get
me to talk. I'm on to your little game
|
Contradicted by Mother.
While his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
| Tuttle, who lives with him at rs Pea
body place, was talking with the desk
sergeant, Tuttle, in his cell, was telling
the detectives that he and Vail had
spent the entire day Sunday, September
| 20, in New York As he finished Mrs
! Tuttle was shown in. He then broke
down and wept
Where was your son Sunday week
/ ago." inquired one of the sleuths.
HE spent the day at home. In the
evening he stepped out for a few min
utes after supper, but came in early
and was In bed at a reasonable hour"
IT'S true! It's true, And I'm guilty
of 1t ALL" cried Tuttle. Now take me
and do what you want to with me-"
Tuttle then said that he and Vail
had sent in all the false alarms in this
city within the past few weeks. He
declared, however. that he acted as
scout while Vail pulled the boxes. The
recent false alarms in Harrison and
East Newark were sent in by the pair,
| he said.
Il would walk ahead about half
block" he said, land watch out for
cops. Vail would pull the box. Then
we would beat It, or duck into a door
way"
Pursued ny Crowd.
| Last night. after having called out
| the Harrison Fire Department twice,
| the pair, 1t is alleged sent in an alarm
| from box 22i. q block from the Clay
/ street bridge. A crowd of 100 persons
| chased them, but they went into
doorway and let their pursuers go
over the bridge
| Mark McKenna, brother to PCsfce-
man McKenna, saw them come out of
the doorway and pointed them out.
! identifying Vail as the man who sent
! in the alarm.
Regarding Vail. Mrs Albert T. vaH
| his sster-in- law, continued her state
ment already given by saying:
I'VE don't want To see him again.
| He has made his mothers life almost
unbearable by drinking and by cpl
sodes of this sort. and now she and
his family are trying to forget him.
Raymond has been married about
Lyear, and with his wife lives at Ironia
on the I.ackawanna Railroad. He is a
paperhanger and a painter. We don't
know him here at all"