Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-02-14
KNIFE WOUND ON
FOREHEAD OF GIRLS
BODY WASHED ASHORE
AutopsytO be Held
to Learn Cause
of Death.
MEN MISSING
speelal 1y Unlted - wlre.

Special By Cnited Press Wire
Atlantic City, Feb. 14:-An au-
topsy viii be held today to deter
mine the exact cause of the death
of Jane Adams, the eighteen-year-old
girl whose body washed ashore yes
terday. Doctors now say the wound
In the forehead might have been in
fiicted with a knife, but not with a
bullet, as at first believed William
Seyler. who was the last person seen
with the girl, is still missing The
police are searching carefully for
him
A general alarm was sent out this
afternoon by the police here for tia
arrest of the seyIel o.JLners, who
are wanted to answer questions con-
cerning the murder of Jane Adams.
The medical examiner tris afternoon
refused to give results of examina-
tion. The Clothing Vi Lne girl was
torn and the police theory is that
she was killed while resisting as
sault
Sti1 clad in the fnery which she
donned for ball held at the pier, the
girls corpse was identified by the
grief stricken mother and father, sn6
the police have started country wide
search for William Siler, young mar
ried man of this city, who was the
last person seen In her company and
who disappeared on the day following
the girls disappearance. Search is
also being made for Arvis Siler, Q
younger brother Of William Siler, whs
is also missing.
Surgeons who examined the body
found a deep hole over her left eye,
which, they declare, was made before
death.
Mother Got Warrant For Companion.
Before the finding of the girls body
had assured the police of her death
search had been started for both her
and Siler on a warrant sworn out be-
fore Magistrate Joseph D0nnelly by
the girls mother, who believed that
her daughter had eloped with tho
young married. man
The tragedy is one Of - - fnys-
terious ever known TO the local police.
The Adams girl started cut with Alice,
her sixteen-year-old sister, for visit
TO the pier after permission had been
secured from their parents. The moth
er of the girls knew that the younger
child was to be accompanied by Aryis
Siler. and the police learned today
that after the girls left home with
Arvis. who is just of age and unmar-
ried, they were met by William Siler,
who lived with his wife few blocks
away from the Adams house
Watched the Dancers.
According to the younger girl, who
is wildly hysterical over the death Of
her sister, the quartet went to the
pier, where they watched the dancers
for a time and then strolled out to the
end Of the big structure. When the
younger girl and her escort started
back toward the board walk she called
the older girl, and the police have
learned that William Siler held his
girl companion while he persuaded her
to stay with him.
Arvis Siler returned home with Sskz(
younger daughter. The mother,
Hdu beNNlut SUSPICIOUS VI AbAAtSl NAY
tentions paid to her daughter by WiNs
liam Siler, met young Siler and Alice
at the door and demanded the where
abouts of her elder daughter. After
she had wrung reluctant statements
from the two that they had left Jane
with the elder Siler, Mrs Adams rush
ed to the Siler home, where she found
both William and Aryis.
Il was frightened nearly to death,
and told VIII Siler that he had done
something to my Jane" declared Mrs.
Adams.
She Told Him He Lied.
His face was white. and l told him
he lied when he said thar Jane had
left him and started home alone"
No suspicion that the missing gisl
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