Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
WEB T|GHTENS
AROUND NEGRO
As GIRLS SLAYER
Asbury Park Police Secure ADJ
ditional Evidence and Possible
Identification in Case.
[special to the Newark STAN

AS6OR1 PAHH, o - Tom
Williams, the negro, otherwise known
as Black Diamond the suspected
slayer of 10-year-old Marie Smith, safe
ly lodged behind the bars of the Mon
mouth county Jail at Freehold, local
officers are nov busy running down
further clues III the case. They have
located two men who say they are
almost positive they saw Williams near
the scene Of the killing at noon last
Wednesday. Marie Smith last was
seen alive at that time, having left
school to go home for the midday
meal.
Clues, however, were followed that
may involve others as suspects. Will
Jams maintains his innocence and says
he was not ear the ~neishborhood of
Deal Lake when the girl disappeared.
County Detective Minough and Cor
oner Purdy deserve credit for the de-
tective work. on this case. They, too.
outwitted the mol Police Chief Smith
and his force had temporarily checked
from storming BLACK Diamonds cell
Now they have discovered that John
SOh4QtCl dHQ Vt4llAphii laylOl, ilFllIS DC-
tween Asbury and Whitesville, say they
saw Williams on Third avenue, near
Prospect, at noon on Wednesday,. To-
day these men will be taken to Free
hold to make the Identification posi-
tive.
Stransling Killed Girl.
The coroner insisted that the two
physicians who examined the little
girls body when it was first found view
1t a second time. Their report was the
same, that the child was brutaIly NAL
treated. Death, they said, was the
first crime, and was due to strangula-
ton, the hair ribbon of the child being
frightened about her neck until she was
suffocated.
Particular reference was made yes
terday to burns on the child's face.
Reports have been that the burns came
through IN effort to fire the woods
where the body was found. Many say
a dumping place for leaves and trash
was 500 feet from where the child was
found, and much nearer her great
aunt's home, which was lighted up on
Thursday. 1t was suggested that this
fire unquestionably was started to par
TALLY ia way with the body. The
smoke was seen, however, by the look
out of a volunteer hose company about
a half mile away n the ringing OF
the bell that called the firemen to man
the apparatus caused the slayer to drag
the child to ONE other spot. This
would account for the hundreds of
scratches on her face, hands and arms
podv na~ovca Ayain
On Saturday night the slayer again
removed her, taking her to the path
where on Sunday she was found.
A boy named Willie Bartlett insists
he stood on Saturday Oh the very spot
where the body was found and that it
wasn't there then. Miss Emery, the
teacher of the victims class, also in
sists that her pupils, numbering forty,
hand to hand, traversed every inch of
this section of the brambles. Deal Lake
is nearby, and this is taken as the
slayer's destination. He possibly was
frightened by something before throw
ing the body in and dropped his burden.
Black Diamonds sweater, with blood
marks upon it, and which was not yet
dry after the washing. was found be-
hind a trunk in the Atkins avenue
ROOM, where the prisoner was arrested.
Negro Acted Queerly.
William Wynn, at whose house the
negro stayed Wednesday and Thurs
day. says the man acted queerly and
seemed i'll at ease. The police have
secured a statement from Mrs. Della
jackson, aunt of the murdered chiid's
mother, which is believed to be very
important. The statement will not be
disclosed until the inquest.
When arrested Williams told Police
man Lippincott that he had washed
his underclothing in Deal Lake, above
Grifin's, Wednesday afternoon. Later.
evidently seeing that such q statement
might prove to be fatal to him, he de-
clared he a been mistaken in the
time and that he had lone the wash
ing Monday. In his statement to the
chief he denied washing his under
clothes at all.
No funeral services over the body
of Marie Smith will be held here. The
body was taken to the home of the
parents in Monroe avenue, Whitesville.
yesterday. This morning it was taken
to New York. Services were held in st.
Patrick's Cathedral, Brooklyn. at 10
o'clock. I%nterrnent was in Flatbush
Cemetery.