The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-02-02
LIGHT THROWN
ON STRANGE CASE

Chief OF Police Werner t:lis morn
ing received a letter from New Ha-
ven. Conn. which threw some light
on the strange case OF Emo whyte-
hall, the man who died on Grove
Avenue last "Wednesday morning. but
which also added considerably to the
mystery unth the police do not know
what the mans name was and admit
tnat they know very little else about
him.
The letter was from Mrs. @. M
BENJAMIN. who gave her address as
&41 Brown Street. She said that she
had seen an account OF WhytehalI's
death in a New York paper. and
would appreciate any information the
police could give her
Whytehall had stopped at her
house, she said. and had been known
IN New Haven under that name. He
went to New Haven from New York
but gave Washington as his homo
town. Three weeks ago he left the
mouse OF Mrs Benjamin, saying he
was going South for his health. He
appeared to have had q very bad
cough. Mrs Benjamin said. She fear
ed that he was suffering with tuber-
culosis-
When he left New Haven the man
mad q new overcoat-the one which
ne had on when he died-and wore
a diamond pin and black enamel cum
buttons OF antique design. None of
this 1ewelry has been found by the
Richmond police.
Mrs. Benjamin says IN her letter
that Whytehall had q number of pc
cnnar clippings in his suitcase
Among them she remembers one par
tieularly Of man who gave a check
for $40. 900 for a pair of socks
She says that Whytehall showed
her his will-the strange document
found by the Richmond police in the
Benjamin that II was his will. and
that he had written it himself. whyte-
hall and Mrs. Benjamin laughed to-
gether. so the letter says, at the clause
disiBheriting the mans wife and leav-
Ing the two children one dollar each
in return for their unkind treatment
to their father.
Letters were also received by the
chief from Miss Jane Wilkes. of
Washington. d. C; Miss z. T. Curtis.
OF Boston, and the Howard Watch
Company, of Boston. answering his
inquiries Neither Miss Wilkes nor
Miss Curtis knew anything OF the man
though their names and addresses
mad been found among his papers. The
watch concern. TO which Major Wer-
ner had sent the number OF Whyte-
halls timepiece-6446B-s that its
records showed that the watch In
question had been shipped from the
factory TO the New York agency in
asked to ascertain, II possible. the
name OF the man who bought It,
With the hope OF getting additional
Information Major Werner this morn
ing wrote to the Chief of Police OF
Jersey City and to the authorities In
Brooklyn. Major Werner Is now
working on the theory that the mys-
terious stranger had mistreated a
number of little girls. and as several
OF the clippings in the valise relate
New .yarpQV
lyn. the major thinks that the officials
In those places may be able to throw
some light on the mystery.
UP to the present time not less
than half dozen plausible theories
have presented themselves. while
there are reasonable grounds for be-
heVing that the dead man had any
one OF three names. or possibly all Of
them.
From the patent office certificate
the initials in his hat, several let
ters and his own statements, the man
was Emo Whytehall. supposed to be
very wealthy Scotchman Interested
IN the street railways OF Hamburg.
Germany.
From clippings found in the vaIIse
the police say It is possible that the
man at one time represented himself
as Norwood, though Major Werner
does not believe that Norwood was
his real name. These clippings are
relative to the arrest or a Norwood
IN Philadelphia The baggage and
papers of Norwood" appear to have
been peculiarly similar to those of
Whytehall." A number of the ar
ticles are described in the clippings
among them a rubber tube with
brass end or nozzle
The photograph of Norwood ''
however, still more completely com
plicates matters. as II does not In the
judgment OF the police, resemble the
DEAD man In any wsy Axcept shat IL
shows middls-age man with a gray
moUstache.
Again there is the theory that the
mans name was Thomas Walton. Ger
tain railway certificates point to this
theory, but the police now believe
that the certificates were forgeries of
fake" certificates. so they are as
much in the dark as ever.
1t is admitted. however, that If the
picture supposed to be that Of Nor
wood is OF someone else, then Whyte-
hau may be the man arrested in Phil-
adelphia, unless the man procured the
clippings, and being mentally unbal-
anced or with some deep design de-
liberately manufactured evidence
which would in the case of his death
lead the police to believe that his
name was Whytehall or Norwood or
Walton. and thus be satisfied without
making closer search to ascertain
his real name and occupation.