Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-05-23
SEYLER JURY
SELECTED IN
RECORD TIME
Accused Of Killing Girl at
Million Dollar Pier at
Atlantic City.
SPECIAL TRAIN CARRIED
THE SPECTATORS

Special BY United Press WIRE.
Mays Landing, May Est re-
CURED only one hour and fifteen
minutes to select the jury which will
try William Seyler, charged with
the murder of Jane Adams at the
million dollar pier in Atlantic City
February last Seyler was placed
on trial before Justice Trenchard to-
day. The jury is as follows: Fore
man, William Mcclure; Alvin Bates,
wallace Conventry, John w. Wood,
James Parrish, Simon Lewis, Charles
Warner, Carl F. Schirmer, William
Lewis, Abel w. Smith, James Rogers
and Gustav A. Kessler.
Never before has a murder trial
in this county attracted such gem
eral attention or caused so much
discussion. Prosecutor Goldenberg
is attorney for the state, while Ed
mund z. Gaskill, Jr., young GRIM
1nal lawyer, is counsel for the ac-
cused. Special trains run from At
lanttc City to the court house this
morning brought hundreds of inter-
ested and morbidly curious specta-
tors.
The chief witness for the prosecu-
ton will be Orvis Seyler brother Of
the accused man, and Alice Adams,
sister of the dead girl, both Of whom
were on the pier with Seyler and Jane
Adams. The Adams girl says that she
saw William Seyler grab her sister
when the latter wished to leave the
pier and the police have a statement
from Orvis Seyler, made after he had
left the city with William and been
brought back.
Seyler's lawyer will attempt to pre-
vent the introduction of Orvis Seylers
statement or the alleged confession
which the police say they secured from
William Seyler ON the ground that
third degree methods were used on
the two men.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Adams, par
ents of the dead girl, and Mrs. VIII
liam Seyler, wife of the accused, will
be witnesses.
According to Alice Adams version
of what occurred on the night of the
tragedy, the four went to the pier,
listened to the music, watched the
dancing and some moving pictures and
then Journeyed to the far end Of the
pier, which was dimly lighted.
When Alice and Orvis started back
she called to her sister, and Jane start
ed to follow her. Then, she afterward
said, William grabbed Jane by the
arm and pulled her back. Jane shout
ed, HE won't let me go!' Alice
thought they were having good ma
tured struggle and went on home with
Orvis. That was the last she saw of
her sister alive.
The next day the Seyler brothers dis
appeared and warrant was issued
charging William with abduction. No
one dreamed then that the girls body
was in the surf.
When the girls body was found. still
clad in the finery she donned for her
evening on the pier, there were marks
on the face and a deep wound above
the left eye. At the autopsy the the
ory was advanced that she lost her
life while defending her honor
The search for the Seylers was then
turned into a man hunt They were
found on Feb. 16 in a boarding house
in Petersburg, Va, taken back to At
lantic City and rushed through an ex-
cited crowd to the city prison. Orvis
was held as witness.
William Seyler stoutly denied that
he had been with Jane Adams on the
night of Feb. 4, but ten days after he
was arrested he admitted he had been
with her that night. He said he had
some words with the girl and that she
backed up against the rail Of the pier
and fell backward into the water.
Seyler said that after the girl tum-
bled into the water he scrambled down
the ladder leading to the water ex-
pecting to seize her, but that she did
not rise to the surface. He went
home and when Mrs. Adams accused
him of knowing where her daughter
was he became frightened, he said,
and fed.