New-York tribune., 1910-11-14
MISSING GIRL KILLED
IN ASBURY PARK WOODS
Marie Smiths Body Found with
Skull Crushed and Ribbon and
Cap Tied About Neck,
POLICE ARREST A NEGRO
Woodchopper Strongly Guarded
in Lockup-Towel Stained with
Blood Found in His Room
Hiding Since Thursday.
fBy Telegraph 10 TIL. Tribune |

Asbury Park. N J., Nov. 13.-The
body of Marie Smith. the ten-year- old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Peter Smith,
of Whitesville, who disa ppeared while on
her way home from the Bradley School.
in Asbury Park, on Wednesday morning,
was found this afternoon in the woods
adjacent to Deal Lake. in this city, a
short distance from the school she at
tended.
An autopsy revealed that the child had
been murdered and assaulted. Her head
strument. and the face was badly bat
tered and the body bruised. Her blue
hair ribbon and her white skating cap
We're tied around her neck. The doctors
said the child tad been dead several
DAYS. She had fought hard for life. they
said.
The Asbury Park police Immediately
began searching for the murderer Sus-
picion pointed to a negro, Thomas Will
Jams, better known as BLACK Diamond =
who worked for the childs aunt, Mrs.
Della Jackson. of this city Williams
disappeared on Thursday night when he
left the Jackson house. and promised to
return the following day
Police Arrest Negro on Suspicion.
Williams was arrested this evening by
Detective Hankinson and Patrolman
Truax. He was found in a boarding
Frank Wynn, where three years ago an
Italian was murdered search of
Willams's room brought to light towel
stained with blood. He was brought to
Police Headquarters and questioned by
Chief Of Police Smith
He denied all knowledge Of the muir
der but admitted he had been in hiding
since THURSDAY He was locked uu Six
patrolnlen with drawn clubs guarded
Williams as he was escorted through a
crowd Of persons on his way to the
lookup Extra officers will guard the
place tonight
Chief of Police Smith has an axe with
which Williams cut frewood for Mrs.
Jackson The hicks in the blade Of the
tree in the woods near where the body
was found
searohers Missed the Body.
The bcdv of the child was discovered
by ". S Benson, a florist who was
walking through the woods. The under
brush where the body was found is not
thick. and had been searched over sew
eral times There is proba bility that
the murderer secreted the body for sew
eral days and placed il in the woods
early this morning
An attempt was made to burn this
same piece of woods on Thursday night,
but a fire company extinguished the
flames The fire burned to within
seventy-f1ve yards of the SPOT where the
body was found.
The water was drained from Deal
Lake yesterday. and to-day and at the
time Benson found the child's body in
the woods canoeists We're patroling the
stream on the lookout for the body
Mrs. Smith, Marie's mother, was told
this afternoon that the body had been
discovered. She rushed to the woods
and, with an agonizing look a the little
one. fell in faint. When she recovered
consciousness she was wild with grief.
and it is feared she will lose her reason.
Officials of Asbury Park and Neptune
Township offered rewards amounting to
$500 for the recovery of the body. The
rewards will go to Benson