New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
WOMAN TRAPPED CARTER
Saw Butler Drop Cartridges IN
Sewer. and Told Police.
PRISONERS AL!BI UPSET
Bullets Recovered Fit Gun with
Which Two Were Killed IN
DIR. Cannon's Home.

ro,Yr months Of persistent detecIlNe
work directed by Captain Kuilne. OF me
Harlem branch detective bureau resulted
YESTERDAY in the arraignment before Sofo-
ner H-irferhottnnn IF William c carter
negro. On the suspicion Of being cohcer''e"
IN the double murder last NAV at the nome
IF r,r Mott n Cannon. of No. l"i west
1920 street
Carter Is about thirty-hve years olo.
r5e denies al knowledge Of the mnroer oi
Nrs Margaret Neehan and Chafies w
pensn. the housekeeper and butler Tor Ut
Cannon. who we're found shot and hoFr'P,>
heate,, in the basement Of the doctor
home on Nav . last.
In srife of the work Of Captain hp'i"e
-he case against Carter Uould nave Pe'''
.1,-oa, z-olndless but for the voluntary
testimony Of Mrs. Anna stewart. ot NO
- ~. --re+ street who informed the
L..o-+i,-es that on the afternoon Of the
,,,,7rder she had called at nr- cannon :
had ree,, unable 10 get in. and whlie s'dll'
t-- m an adjacent corner had SEEN al
..r nm rusdIv ont Of the house and down
- ce,-enth avenue. where she watched MIN
5ror something into sewer iiho"s" q
7-77nhoIe which he lifted NJ.
Kurre's first suspicious when he starr
.5 on the double murder case we're "'-
-cr+ed against Carter. hut DR. cannon 'o-
gerher with Dr. Reuben Cronson. VINO
lives - No 122 West 1920 street, and VINO
err7ploved Carter after he left ID can
mons enplo,-. united in giving their ser
want ? good reputation. Other servants III
-he Cronson household. where Carter was
working At the time of the murder. Sup
s4zn-isted his alibi. hut Captain huilie
Tor four months they Swallowed HIM SO
r1oselv that when. on July Il last. Carter
vas married 10 p negro woman Nho hao
reer 2 servant across the street from br-
-.nno-,-s one Of Kuhnes men was VII
ness 10 the ceremony
Nf-I7er, he was brought before Assistant
r1ie-rj-f Attorney Ellison in the honncioe
r77reall Yesterday they were ahle 10 it'
him I'D on many points Carter mas IN
sisted night along that he never left the
Cronson house on the DAY Of the muroer'
hut with the assistance of Mrs. stewart
and two other witnesses they were aole
70 establish that he had been out Of the
to1se at least three times without the
other servants knowing of it
The search Of the manhote indicated by
Mrs Stewart disclosed four revolver oul-
LET'S Of the same calibre as those used IN
Dr Carnon's gun. with Whlch the "lu
couple were killed
Mrs Stewart. At first loath 10 become
connected in any way with the Tragedy
WIS driven 10 il by fear that Carter hne"
she had seen him and planned to do aWa'
NTH her hut Carter in spite OF the 1acl
thai she had been q regular caller once
week as patient Al Dr Cannon nome
cf7Ce for three months when he was door
man there. denied absolutely that he knew
her
Carter persisted in denying that he had
teen out Of the Cronson house on the az
ternoon Of the murder. but Coroner Win
terbortom held him without bail To the
grand Jury His case viii be presented
10 that body next week.
The detectives presented diagrams at
the Couoner-s hearing Yesterday showing
how easily a man could gain entrance 70
the cannon home through window ad-
5oininE hack window Of the Cronson
house. and offered the testimony of the
other Cronson servants to show that the
hack windows Of the Cannon house had
been onen on the afternoon Of May 9.