Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-07-29
Paul CeideI Murderer of
Broker VIM, Jackson.
Empty ChIoroiorm Bottle Gives
New York Police Needed Glue.
Lille GrilIIng Results In nlctatlcn
OF Account Of Crime.

New York. July 2s.--Paul Geidel. a
l7-year-old bell boy, was brought be-
fore the coroner's jury today for the
killing of William Henry Jackson, the
aged broker whose dead body was
found in his apartments with a rag
saturated with chloroform stuffed in
his mouth and his face wet with blood.
He was held on a charge of homicide
to await the action of the grand jury.
Within Is hours of the crime Geidel
was caught and had confessed his act
Love of clothes and finery caused
lGeidel to attempt the robbery which
Tended in the killing of the broker.
jackson had been a very liberal Upper
and the bell boy believed he had money
lin every pocket.
Il don't care what happens to me-"
said Geidel. but what of my poor
mother and sisters in Pennington,
Conn. ?'
| Patrick McGrane who pawned the
watch which Geidel stole. was also held
by the coroner's jury. which recon-
mended that he be indicted as an ac-
cessory after the fact McGrane lived
at Hartford
day that he would bring the case to the
grand jury next Monday and there
would be speedy indictment and trial.
Geidel left Pennington three months
ago.
Geidel was indicted this afternoon by
the grand jury for murder in the first
degree. McGrane's case will be taken
4 hxy ho
New York. July 28.-Paul Geidel. a
17-year-old boy. slight of stature, slick
OF attire, sharp featured and with
smooth, sallow complexion of the
youthful cigarette smoker was arrest
ed here early today as the murderer
of William Henry jackson, the aged
Wall Street broker. who was found
brutally killed in his hotel apartments
on 44th street yesterday.
An hour after the arrest Police Conn
missioner Dougherty and District At
torney whitman brought out from the
room where they had been closeted
with Giedel a long typewriter confess
sion which they said the lad had die
tated and signed, giving a full account
OF the crime. Robbery was the mo-
tive, according to the lads statement.
but tile murder netted him only Sc in
cash and gold watch which he pawn
ed for SIS more
Geidel was a bell-boy at Mr. Jack
sons hotel. the Iroquois, until last Fri
day, when he was discharged He
was without money. On going to his
rooming place he noticed a bottle of
chloroform which his landlady pur-
chased few days before in order to
XIII painlessly an ailing pet dog. 1t
occurred to Geidel, the confession SAYS.
that he might obtain money by chlor-
oforming and robbing the aged broker.
who was reputed to carry large sums
about with him.
The confession as given out by the
police continues substantially as fol-
lows:
Late Wednesday night | entered the
basement of the hotel and walked un-
observed by the rear stairways to the
10th floor. l climbed into the bath
room of Mr.. Jackson's apartment
through transom on the corridor He
awoke as was preparing to drop the
lchloroform- soaked rag over his face,
and instead of going unconscious at
once with the drug he began a des
perate fight. / hit him hard in the
face and he sank down helpless, Then
the chloroform did the rest
Il went through the room and his
clothes, took the little money he had
and his watch and hurried out as
had come. MY clothing was badly
stained and l took it to a tailor to be
cleaned Ny soiled shirt I threw in
TO a garbage pail on a side street
Ihen | went home. ] am glad now
that it's all over. The suspense has
been terrible"
The finding of the empty chloroform
| bottle in Mr.. Jackson's apartment af
forded the clue that led to GeidePs
arrest. The label on the bottle, half
Iobliterated. showed that it had been
purcha sed of druggist in Newark, N.
j., whose record of the sale led to
Mrs. Kane of West 50th street. New
York
The detectives went to her house.
Mrs. Kane admitted that she had pur-
chased the chloroform and said that
the bottle was in her bathroom, but
when she looked there it was miss
| ing
| Why, Paul Geidel. one of my room
ers. must have taken it, she said
fs'He was asking me about it the 9th
er deS" rN as
| Geidel. who was in his room. was
Immediately arrested and after little
griliing BY the detectives admitted, the
police say that he had committed the
crime 4 .,iAIa