Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-24
Jury HOLDS SEY[ER
Caused Jane Adams Death or
Knows How 1t Happened.
BROTHER ALSO INVOLVED
Both in Jail to Await Action of
Grand Jury.
HURT BEFORE FALL INTO SEA
Coroner's Physician Sure That
Fatal Injury Was Inflicted Be-
fore Girl Went Overheard.
HURT BEFORE FALL INTO SEA

ATLANTIC CITY. n. j.. February "a
| William Seyler was committed to Jail
without bail last night by Coroner Sont-
heimer. charged with killing Jane Adams
His brother Orvis. who fed with him
after the tragedy on the outer end of
Youngs million-dollar pier the night
Of February 4. vas placed under 5000
bail. Unable to get security, he. too
was taken back to the cell which he had
| hoped to leave last evening
| William Seyler. standing in the dis
trict court ROOM where the inquest had
been held, tall. bony. haggard and worn
| in appearance, shifted his eyes from one
point to another while the jurys indict-
ment was read to him. He made no re-
ply. Edmund c. Gaskill. as counsel for
the accused, entered a plea of not guilty.
Verdict of Jury.
| 1t was one Of the briefest induests on
record. Thrty-nve minutes suficed to
hurry witnesses through their testimony.
| Thirty minutes more were spent in
framing the verdict. The Jury found
that Jane Adams came to her death at
! the hands of or with the knowledge OF
william Seyler. between the hours Of
| s pm. February 4. when she was last
\ seen
| cused. and the hour of 7:15 am. Feb
ruary ID, the time when the trolley car
crew found the frozen body in seaweed
on Ventnors beach.
Seyler. while represented by counsel.
was not in the courtroom during the
taking of evidence. Prosecutor Golden
berg did not disclose what direct evil
! dence he has to fasten the murder
! the accused. He brought forward. how
ever, a connected line OF testimony to
prove that Seyler was present when the
girl died. as charged in the verdict.
Crowd Packs Courtroom.
Five hundred persons filed the court
room. while twice as many blocked the
sidev alks in front of the city hall.
There was chewing gum found in the
girls mouth during the post-mortem,'
said DR. Lewis Souder. county physi-
clan, who was one of the chief wit
nesses 1--WE concluded from this fact
and the absence of water in the body
| that she was dead before the body
reached the sea.
| "A blow over the left eye produces
death, due to shock that caused a hemor
rhaee i'm the brain. nail could have
made the wound and fall could have
caused the bruises and the blood clot.'
DIR. Souder told Of finding her under
clothing disarranged. He was not closely
questioned after he had stated his belief
that the girl had died as result Of a
| blow over the left eye, delivered before
death.
Victims Mother Present
Keenly interested in the evidence was
Mrs. Armada Adams. mother of the dead
girl. who first accused the man with
doing away with her daughter and
started the police to search for seyler."
She was accompanied by her husband
4 -
| sat the brothers OF the accused man.
but they were not called.
! Mrs. Adams was vigorous In action and
| speech when she reached the witness
| chair
William Seyler declared to me he had
not seen Jane the night she failed to re
turn home and / called at his house to
| ask where she was" testified Mrs. Adams
Il hunted the Boardwalk for two hours
| after he told me so, and when l could not
find my daughter l went to his home
again and was refused admittance."
| Alice, the sister, corroborated the
| mother. as she accompanied her to the
Seyler home. and added that "Orvis Sey-
| Ter was there also and hung his head,
making no reply when my mother de-
manded to know where my sister was"
seyler Held Girl
Questioned as to what occurred just as
she left William Seyler and her sister
Jane the night of the tragedy, Alice re-
piled:
| They were near the fish-net. half way
out and William Seyler had hold Of Jane
and would not let her come in with us.
went to the moving picture show and re-
turned home at 10 O'Clock and went with
my mother at 1880 to William SEWERS
home.
The father of the dead girl, who sat
quietly through the inquest. was not all
lowed to give testimony other than that
he had identified the body of Iris da lighter
in the morgue.