Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-15
GIRL, KILLED ON
PIER BATTLED
WITH ASSASSIN
Police Hunt for Alleged Slayer OF
Boardwalk Victim Proves
Futile.

ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 15.-There
was5 conclusive evidence today that
pretty iS-year-old Jane Adams, whose
BODY was washed up on the beach here.
was held "A captive and slain on the
end of the milllon-dcllar pier while
defending herself from attack, and
then hnrled into the sea by the as
sassin.
Tile autopsy performed by County
Physician Lewis Souder establishes
that the girl was brutally beaten ana
struck on the head with some sharp
pointed weapon which penetrated her
. skull, causing death.
Ndw that suicide and accidental
drowning theories are disposed OF,
CHIEF OF Detective Richard Whalen has
sentfanl alarm to every city in the Uni
ted States requesting the police to ar
rest William Seyler for murder and his
brother, Orvis.
The latter's disappearance mystihes
Detective Whalen. 1t has been salts
factorily established that he could not
hayd been concerned in the struggle
that preceded the girls death. 1t Is
believed that his older brother per-
suaded him to go with him when he
fed
circulars sent out asking for the
arrest of william Seyler are headed;
"Wanted for murder"
struggled I'm Dark.
Alice Seyler, the 16-year-old sister of
she slain girl, in her account of the
events of the evening of February 4,
.avs that when she and orvis Seyler
started to go home, she called to Jane,
ufboI was with William Seyler far out
nm me pier, to come along. William,
she declared, held her sister by the
arm! and there appeared to be a good
natrfred struggle between the two, Jane
calling out: "He won't let me-"
This and the autopsy have convinced
N)etectiye Whalen that as soon as Orvis
fSeyier and Alice Adams disappeared
I'm the darkness the struggle became
'earnest.a
.II am convinced" said Whalen to-
day, that the girl fought and was
mercilessly beaten and then hurled into
khe sea from the end of the pier. The
evidence shows ~conclusively thai Jane
UAda}ns was the victim of a premedi-
ANateh crime"
While the police are striving to find
che two men who were with Jane
/ Adams and her sister on the million
dollhr pier on the eve of February 4, the
mother of the dead girl is almost fran
| tic with, grief, and has haunted police
headquarters urging the police to clear
, up Che mystery of her daughters death.
4 Shes still sticks to the belief that her
! chilli was murdered while protecting
herself
n fell confident that my Janey met
with foul play" she said today. "She
was one Of the best girls that ever lived,
ands was not accustomed to going out
with married men. If she had been 60
ing about with Will. he must have in
fuehced her against her beliefs. She
was always opposed to married men
calltngEupon other girls.
s-Mother Accused Man.
II did not know anything of the trip
to the pier until my daughter Alice
CAME home and told me that she had
been with Orvis Seyler. and that Jane
hads Con with his brother William. |
at bnce became greatly worried. and
hurried around to various neishbors'
houses. r. No one had seen her, and.
when 11so'clock came, I decided to go to
tho Seyier home. | did not make up
my lmind to this. however, until Alica
tolH me that when she left the pier she
SAW William Seyler holding Jane by
the farm, and that he refused to allow
her TO go home with her sister and
Orvis.
1T was then that I went to see Mrs
Seyler. She told me that her husband
had been home around 8 o'clock. hut
had, gone out again. ! forced my way
intd tho house and accused Will OF
knowing where Jane was. He denied it
bntlwhfn l told him that l felt that al
was not well he grew extremely pale
and insisted that | was mistaken.
80 confident was that he knew al
abopt what had happened to my daugh-
ter THAT l insisted upon my husband
swearing out a warrant for the arrest
of $eyler the next morning, charging
him with the abduction of my daugh-
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