Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-07
YOUTH WILL
 GO TO CHAIR
 FUR MURDER
Eighteen Year. Old Walter ZeI- Ter Will Be Electrocuted For Staying Grandfather Unless Reprieved

TRENTON, N. J., March .5.-UnIess stay of execution is secured, Wal ter Teller, an eighteen-year-old youth, will die in the electric chair in the state prison here durIng the coming week. He was convicted of compile ity in the murder Of his grandfather, William Read, near Vineland last No yember His boyh0od playmates and accomplices in crime, Herbert Grigg and Cline Wheeler, win spend thirty years at hard labor ih the state prison The murder of which the three youths were convicted entails a story that has never been equaiied in South Jerseys.- The aged victim, eskpexu throughout Cumberland county as a Hiiser. was. formerly a prominent con tractOr.s- He amassed considerable wealth. Some ten or twelve years ago he fell from the second floor Of a building he was erecting in Paterson. He was discharged from the hospital cripple.
 Gradually his physical inRrmity ex- tended to his brain and he was no longer capable of holding the reins over hundreds of mechanics. He re- tired and lived for some time in west Philadelphia.
 Then he became eccentric and a burden to his caretakers. About threH years ago he moved to Yineland to live with Mrs. William Cooper, a mar. ried daughter About the old mans af. fairs the daughter knew nothing. She and her husband knew that he was or at least had been rich. Ne often showed them much-thumbed roll of bantnotes and one day he held be fore their wondering eyes a package containing S50.0O0 in bonds
 Reads delight aside from talking about his money. seemed to be to watch the hair raising performance of his favorite grandson, Walter Teller, and his boon companions. Grigg and Wheeler, as they rehearsed in the Read orchard the deeds Of their pen ny dreadful heroes. Imaginary In dians were sealped and voc hetids the stage coach that might passJ
 One night last-f fall young Zelior said: Boys, we must have money. We must have it at once if we intend going west at all"
 But that would tfke more money than they had ever seen, except in the pslsied hand of William Read That money would aid them to real ize their ambition.
 Little by little the longing for the aged mans money grew, and finally 1t was decided that Walter should drug the old maps coffee at night, and, under the influence, obtain the money. The scheme failed The old man merely became i'll and could not sleep.
 Then it was planned to lure the old man out on the dark roadway near the house in the family's absence and overpOwer him.. But Read refusad ito leave the house after dark.
 Finally 1t was decided to take des- perate measures. William Read was to be oyerpowered while in bed. The first attempt of this kind was frustFat- ed. Some one entered the house by the back door. Read, alone in his little room, heard the door creak on it's hinges. He arose, and grasping his heavy cane and revolver shout ed: Who's there?" 4 wild stam- pede followed. The door slammed and the house was quiet again.
 The second attempt followed a few nights later. The aged miser awoke to find a hand fumbling with the pock- ct of his blue arm shirt He always slept in his clothes. He started to get up and was struck with his own cane. He felt for his revolver. It was gone. The figures fled, Read fol lowing them with blood streaming from a wound in his forehead. He overlook and recognized the robbers and was struck down.
 After the finding of the old mans body it was not long before suspicion turned toward the grandson and his pals. The young men had disappear ed from their usual haunrs. Within a few days. however, they had been located and arrested. Young Wheel CT made a detailed confession of the crime and said that Teller had fired the shot that killed his grandfather after the latter had recognized him Two shots were fired. The old man was dragged back and laid on the bed and his revolver placed in his hand to make il appear that he had shot himself The three youths then huT- ried across the fields and into town and divided their spoils before sepa- rating. Of the thousaBds of dollars that the aged missr was supposed to have concealed about his person the young murdeTers were able to find but s15- This they divided Grigg received g. Wheeler s and Teller got g. as his share of the proceeds of the robbery and murder for which !