The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-17
'SEYLAR BROTHERS
. ARE UNDERARREST
Alleged Murderers Of
Jane Adams Found in
Petersburg.
REFUSE TO TALK
OF GIRLS DEATH
Followed From New Jersey by
Detectives, Their Boarding
House Is Surrounded and
They Are Taken Into Gus
tody-Crime a Most
Brutal One.

Brutal One.
Petersburg, Va, February 1s.-wii-
liam Seylar, aged twenty-eisht years,
and his brother. Arvis Seylar were
placed under arrest here tonight on
the charge of murner. The crime is
alleged TO have been committed in
Atlantic City. n. j., February 4.
Seylar and his brother left Atlantic
City shortly after the crime. and they
were traced to this city. They were
found at a boarding house. 552 Com
merce Street, tonight about midnight
The house was surrounded by the po-
lice and the men were captured while
they were in bed.
The crime. was the murder OF Jane
Adams, young girl of Atlantic City
On the night of the murder the Seylar
sisters. visited one of the big steel
piers there The younger girl, with
Arvis Seylar. returned to her home.
but Jane Adams. the elder sister, did
not again reach her home.
The following morning Mrs. Adams,
mother of the missing girl. had war
rant sworn out against William Seyler
charging him with abduction, but be-
fore it could be served he, in company
with his brother. had disappeared.
Since that time a vigorous search has
been made in different sections OF the
country for the two brothers.
Sunday morning, following the night
of the girls disappearance. her body
was washed up on the beach about
two miles below the pier. There was
a big hole in her forehead. such as
would have been inflicted by a blunt
Two detectives, James NJ. Alseed and
Robert T. Miller. who have been work
ing on the case. finally traced the
men to Petersburg, and they reached
here Tonight. later causing the arrest.
Both of the men refused to be in
terviewed,r declining in any way to dis
cuss the case. It4will be decided in
the morning whether they will be
taken hack at once or reauisition
papers fres the Governor Of New
Jersey awaited
The Seylar brothers reached Peters
burg on the noglTt Of February g. two
days after the murder, and they wen,
to work the next morning at the eX-
ceislor mills in this city. where they
have been employed ever since.
| AIibi Fails.
! Atlantic City. February 16.-Effort.
| OF friends TO establish an alibi fol
| William Seylar. the young married
man sought as the slayer OF Jan.
| Adams. the Boardwalk shop girl, who's,
body was dragged from the seat a
| her disappearance, were frustrated
| when Alice Adams. the hfteen-year- OLE
sister of the victim. made a state
| ment under oath to detectives
| The little garl asserts that 1t wa
J after 10 o'clock at night when he
sister left her and Arvis Seylar, who Il
4 also missing, to stroll to the sea enc
i of the pier, where Captain of Detec
t tives Whalen believes she was beater
1 to death and her body then thrown
into the sea.
Members of the Seylar family insist
i ed that the supposed slayer was a
| home at S o'clock on the night Jans
Adams disappeared the time first as
Escrbed in statements credited to thu
Younger Adams girl for the meeting
1 between her sister and William Seylar
The Adams girls story is supported
by the statement of her father Charlie
Adams, that it was after 10 n'clocl
when tho younger sister reached hom
and reported she had left Jane in tn
company of William Seylar.
/ Albert Seylar, the youngest membe
I of the family. was summoned to polio,
4 headquarters yesterday in the hop,
4 that he might be induced to throw SOM
light upon the whereabouts of his tw,
brothers. But the boy defled every cf
\ fort of the detectives to make him talk
Z Charles Adams, father of the Adam
Il girls. said that Arvis Seylar was awar
of his brothers. designs respecting Jan
! Adams.
lie hurried away in the direction o
the pier after he had brought Alic
home that night" Adams said, land
4 believe he went back to join his bro
\ ther and was witness of hif brother
crime, if not participant in it,"
4 The funeral services of Jane Adam
4 We're held this afternoon at o'cloc
A at the morgue of j. p. Crowley. on Pa
4 cihc Avenue. No date has yet bee
linked for the inquest.
4 Informed of Arrest.
4 Atlantic City, n. j., February IL
4 The Police Department was noti ed a
/ 1880 this morning ofsthe arrest Of tn,
Seylar brothers at petersbul Va
The information was not uneA ,ected
4 as Detectives Robert AIilled and Jane
7 Malseed left here yesterday u ornins
Fat 10 o'clock for the Virgins town
AT the time Of their departure he po
.tlice authorities refused to Civ, thoi