New-York tribune., 1910-11-15
NEGRO QUEZED IN Vain
Alleged Slayer of Marie Smith
Protests Innocence.
VIEWS HER BODY IN JAIL
testimony Of Several Witnesses
Prevents His Attempt to
Prove Alibi.
EWS HER BODY IN JAIL
By Telegraph to The Tribune !

iDs Telegraph tn The Tribune
Park. N J.. Nov 14-Thomas
"iiaIns' the negro suspected OF killing
Marie Smith. the ten-year-old schoolgirl.
NaS put through q grueIi!ng examination
LoI several hours to-day by the Asbury
t'ark police and Detective Arinugh. repre-
sehuhs the County Prosecutors office
Williams attempted TO prove an a1ibi. but
witnesses testified that he was lettering
near the spot where the girl was last seen
awe on wednesday OF last week
""lialns is confined in q cell in the city
lookup Late this afternoon he was sud
NeA45 confronted with the body Of the child.
ne sTe"some exhibit was brought TO Po-
ice headquarters by an undertake. acting
on orders from Coroner Purdy Williams
showed no emotion when directed 10 look
upon the body and stoutly protested his in
nocence OF the murder
lime ana again during the dav he was
quizzed by the officers, but each time he
oenied any knowledge of the crime. Will
1a1ns Insists that he was intoxicated on
wednesday and that he had been sleeping
on the effects Of his debauch and nursing
had case of lumbago at a friends house
until arrested last night
Nora Jackson a schooIc4rI dacIa-ee +bg+
she saw Williams near the Smith home at
contra
dieting the story told by the prisoner. An
other witness. Molly Williams Is positive
tflat the negro was at the home OF Mrs
Della Jackson, the murdered chiIds aunt
at l r. m on the same day.
A search Of the room which Williams oc-
cupied when arrested brought to light a
PAIR OF overaus. a shirt and sweater
stains resembling blood were found on the
shlrt and sweater Williams admitted that
he was the owner of the shirt and overalls
Since early morning Police Headquarters
has been surrounded by 4 crowd more
menactns in its low muttered threats than
IN noisy demonstration. This evening five
hundred persons stood in the rain and de-
nounoed the alleged perpetrator OF the
crime Several young men 1t IS claimed,
carried concealed pous and coils Of
rope.
stalwart policeman drove the crowd
from the immediate neighborhood of the
lookup. while officers in plain clothes min
gled with the throng. fearing q repetition
OF the Eatontown lynching, IN 1884, when
''Mingo Jack" a negro jockey, was taken
from the Jail and hanged by an infuriated
mob for assaulting Angelina Herbert,
white girl
Late tonight an angry mob numbering
several HunCTeu maze q NOISY ueiiLoHsLfeA-
ton before the fail in which Williams is
confined. Several of the leaders displayed
axes. hatchets, cTowbars and coils Of rope.
Chief Smith with a dozen officers charged
the excited throng and conhscated their
weapons.
Special officers were sworn in and the
streets in the vicinity of the Jail were
closed TO pedestrians. and the entrance 10
the jail guarded by six officers. Chief
Smith. addressing the crowd. said that he
had no direct evidence against Williams.
and counseIled the crowd TO dispevse and
go home.
The Common Council at to-nig igft's session.
offered q reward OF $50 for the arrest Of
the girls murderer.