The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-18
MURDER SUSPECT
RETURNS To JERSEY
Younger Brother Corroborates
Story Told BY Sister of
Murdered Girl.
KEPT GIRL on PIER LATE
William Seyler Returned Home
Mentally Depressed on
Night of Al!eged
Murder.

Especial TO The Richmond Virginian.)
PETERSBURG FEB. is
ManaeleG& TO Detectives Miller and
Malseede. who captured the two fugi-
tives wanted In connection with the
death Of Jane Adams the seventeen
year-oia girl whossS pcdss was cast up
By the sea at AIianue, city last sum
day. William Seyier and his brother,
Aryis, left the city hail Jail shortly
before Ii @ clock to-day and lew
minutes later boarded a northbound
Atlantic Coast Line train. Although
several thousand people had gathered
in front of the Jail the crowd was
orderly and the police had no diff
Guilty in making way for the officers
and their prisoners.
A sensational scene occurred just
before the Seylers We're taken aboard
the train when woman, whose iden-
tisy the police have not yet disclosed.
called on Chief OF Police Raglaud and
declared that she is William Seyler' 3
wife. The woman. who would press
charge of bigamy. declared that
Seyler deserted her IN 1902 Just at
the time when he came North.
When Seyler was told of the wo-
mans assertion he said weariedly:
Let her prove that | ever married
her. l admit that know her. She
can't show a marriage certificate.
Chief of Police Ragiand was in
clined to accept Seyler's statement.
Nevertheless the story of the woman
viii be thoroughly investigated BY the
local authorities.
Suiien and Defiant.
Sullen and defiant. William Seyler,
the principal In the case, had up
az ri 30
reply to single question put 10 him
by the detectives.
I'm glad to get out of this hole,
he declared. as he left his CELL and
when get hefne- you will find that
you haven't got anything 10 hold me
for
story Confirmed
According to the detectives. Seylcr
has not yet been aPprised OF the
damaging statements made by his
brother. ArNis, who corroborated TO
the minutest detail the story told by
Alice Adams, sister of the dead girl,
Il don't know whether Bill killed
the Adams girl or not" the younger
Seyler is declared to have told the
detectives, ''hut | do know that there
was something weighing on his mind
when he came home the night we
all went to the pier. II he says he
wasn't on the pier with Jane Adams
on the night of February 4. he lies. :"
viii Be Sweated.
Because the laws of this State pro-
hIbit suoJecting prisoner to what
is commonly known as the third
degree" no effort was made by the
sleuths or the police here to sweat"
the elder Seyler This ordeal. how
ever. awaits him on his arrival at
the Jersey resort, Every effort will
be made by the officers 10 land the
suspects in Jail there without the
knowledge of the mob which is sure
10 gather there For this reason 1t
was intimated the last stretch of the
tourney may be made by automobile.
Mcssrs. Miller and Malseed, the
detectives are warm in their praises
and concentrations of the Peters
burg officers. but for whose prompt
and efficient action these prisoners
might have escaped. Chief of Police
r.. r. Ragland has stated that Will
liam Seyler, the elder of the alleged
criminals. served term OF sixty days
in Jail here in 1902 for robbing car
on the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
William Seyier WIS once resident
OF Petersburg and was employed at
the Petersburg iron Works.
These alleged criminals are, how
ever. In no way related to the family
OF SEWERS who are well known bust
mes men OF Petersburg.