New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-29
v. H. JACKSON'S SLAYER
IS QUICKLY INDICTED
Paul GiedeI Formally Charged
with Murder-HiS Companion
Is Also Held.
NOW REALIZES HIS PLIGHT
Says He Killed Banker to Get
Money for Mother and Sister,
Who Live in Connecticut
Trial To Be fastened.

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dicted by the grand jury yesterday at l
o'clock for the murder Of William II.
Jackson in his rooms on the tenth floor
Of the Hotel Iroquois. at No. 40 West
44th street. According TO the detailed
confession made by Giedel TO the police.
the murder was committed between 9
ard 10 o'clock on Wednesday night
This is said TO be new record for ex-
pedition in case Of this sort.
According to the police. they have dis
covered that Patrick j. McGrano. whom
they are holding on a charge Of being
an accessory after the fact. has Grim
inal record in Connecticut. He was
Identified by William L. Rose, a state
detective. as man he arrested in Hart
ford in 1907 on a charge Of robbing Mrs
Elinor Halligan. Of No "a Ann street
that city. He pleaded guilty, according
to Rose, and served two years in prison
al Weathersied. Conn.
When confronted by Rose McGrane
denied that it was he that was arrested
saving il was his brother, who was
bartender at the Hartford Club. Rose
insisted that he was not mistaken. He
said he knew both Patrick McGrane and
his brother McGranes finger prints
were taken. and will be used TO deter
mine to a certainty whether he is telling
the truth. Meanwhile the Hartford po-
lice have been asked TO send on all the
information they have about him.
McGrane is still held on the charge
first placed against him. If it can be
proved. the police said. that he had
guilty knowledge of the murder after II
was committed and assisted Giedel 10
conceal evidences or 10 escape, he would
then become a principal in the murder
In his confession Giedel said that after
he murdered Mr.. Jackson he returned 10
his room and took off his bloody shirt
and told McGrane that he was afraid ne
had killed man. When McGrane'
statement was taken by District At
torney Whitman he was questioned
closely on this point
"Think ! Killed the Old Man
What did Giedel say to you when he
came in?" he was asked.
81 think l killed the old man. he
said" was McGrane's answer. He
fought back desperate. and 1 had an
awful struggle with him.
Did he tell YOU the name Of the man
he killed." he was asked.
Yes. he SAID his name was Jackson,
and he thought he had killed him. he
replied.
DID YOU sec the shirt with blood on
it?" he was asked.
Yes. I watched him change it, Nc
Crane answered
Ii was said at the office Of the Dis
trict Attorney that if sufficient corrobo-
rative evidence could be obtained by the
polica an Indictment Of murder in the
first degree would probably De presented
against McGranc some time next week.
During Gieders examination by Dep
utv Commissioner Dougherty and Dis
rrict Attorney Whitman at Headquar-
ters yesterday morning he was asked by
Mr. Whitman. whose rooms in the hotel
are next TO those occupied by Mr.. jack
son.
.'Whv did YOU not attack me-
well. had a key TO Jackson's room,
Giedel replied. "and It was easy for me
TO get in
He also said that while he Was in Mr..
Jackson's room he heard footsteps in the
hallway. and was afraid some one would
hear him. He fixed this time at shortly
after 9 o'clock.
1T must have been my step that ne
heard" Mr.. Whitman said Yesterday. "as
f.. was inst AT that time l went out TO
Keen an engagement at the Bar Associa-
ton"
Climbed 70 Bathroom Window
Giedel described how he made his en-
~. into MIR. Jackson's room. Although
he had key. he found that the door
was locked on the inside. He then
climbed out through "A small window
over the stairs which wind around the
elevator shaft From this window ne
swung himself over to the bathroom
window OF Mr.. Jackson's apartment
which was about two feet distant from
the window over the stairs.
II is expected that he Will be arraigned
I'm General Sessions on Monday before
Judge Grain. and in case no one has
Tr5Ir b ie cd
that counsel viii be assigned 10 defend
him bv the court His father is dead
and his mother Mrs. Anna Giedel. Is said
to support herself and n thirteen-year-
old daughter. She is said 20 be ill in
hospital iu Hartford at present
when asked why he robbed Mr. Jack
son. Gtcdel replied that II was TO get
money for his mother
is that the way YOU send money 20
,our mother" Commissioner Doughcrty
said. pointing 20 a hashy new suit Giedel
had bought with the money he borrowed
or Mr Jackson's watch when he pawucd
IT, Giedal made no answer
Gieders father the police have learned.
vas an East Side ssloonkeeper The
prisoner. before he came TO New York
about three months ago was employed
az beuboy at the Heublein Hotel. in
Hartford. but was discharged for being
unrulv and unreliable. He met McGrane
m Mrs. Kane's, at no. 247 West 50thi
street. wnere they both boarded.
At the Iroduois il was said that Gle
d4rs discharge about two weeks ago was
on account OF his being late repeatedly.
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