Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-31
NJ CLEARY TELLS IN
DETAIL ABOUT THE
HENRY MURDER

/
She Appeared He sprane at Her
seized and Clicked Her to Death
On Her Bed.
Hagerstown. Aug 2s--Norman Bruce
McCleary, who is held on the charge
of numbering Mrs. Mamie h. Henry
made a voluntary confession last
night confirming in every detail the
states theory of the case and Nc
Cleary's connection with it.
The confession will DE offered as ev.
fdence at the preliminary hearing
Thursday. The confession is in the
possession of States Attorney Vol
| finger, is In writing. signed by Nc
Cleary and attested by six witnesses.
Although the states attorney agreed
to show the confession to the newspa.
per men it was only on condition
that he verbatim statement should be
kept from the public until Thursday
morning.
McCleary's admission, in brief, is
to the effect that he went to the little
slate colored house with the green
shutters at SO North Locust street ear
ly on the evening of August Is.
Refused Lupah's Address
Mrs. Henry refused to inform him
whether the letter from Washington
! giving the address of his sweetheart
Miss Lupah Henry. had arrived. She
told him instead that he had better
forget her daughter as soon as posi-
BILE, as she would never consent to
their marriage.
| McCleary lett the house, according
to his confession, mad with rage
About midnight he climbed over the
back yard fence of the Henry home
and opening the kitchen window let
himself into the house. He tiptoed
upstairs to Mrs. Henry's bedroom, but
she had heard the creaking of the
stairs and opened the door to find him
standing directly out side.
There were harsh words on both
sides and MeClery, thinking that Mrs
Henry had the letter concealed within
the folds of her dress, sprang at her
throwing her on the bed on her back
In the struggle that ensued Nc
Cleary first choked and then strangled
the woman to death.
After making sure that life was ex
tinct he made vain search of the
room for the. letter. He was about to
leave when he decided to look around
for any valuables he might carry away
! Found the Money
! Mrs. Henry's skirt was pulled up a
little and revealed bulge in one OF
her stockings. McCleary searched the
clothes of the dead woman, and. find
ing forty dollars in cash, decided to
pocket it, He then left the house.
The following day he returned short
ly after midnight and again searched
for the letter On Friday night he
went again to the house and found the
letter in the hallway. where it had
been left by the mail carrier.
He was about to leave the house
when an irresistible impulse drove
him to steal up stairs and take a
last look at the corpse of the muir
dered woman.
He remained in town until Sunday
making purchases of clothes and 9th
err necessities. On Sunday he left for
Baltimore where after remaining a
few hours, he went to Washington.
SERVING the Warrant
The formal charge of murder was
made against Norman Bruce McCleary
at AIS O'Clock yesterday afternoon
when Chief of Police Fridinger swore
out warrant before Justice Doub
The warrant, which was served upon
young McCleary in the Jail charges
that he did. with force and arms, fel
inciously kill and murder Mamie b
Henry in her home, at &c North Lo
Gust street" When the charge was
read TO him by Deputy Sheriff Long
McCleary exhibited a calm indiffer-
ence. and il he felt any emotion he did
not at any time betray signs of it. The
state has agreed to the demands OF
the counsel for the defense that the
preliminary hearing OF McCleary on
the murder charge be held not later
than tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
Developments have followed one an
other with great ranidity within the
past "a hours. and the state claims
to have its case practically completed
There is strong likelihood that the
prosecution has torn pieces of the
letter which Miss Henry mailed to
her mother from Washington and
which was found to be missing from
the Henry home when the body OF
1 Mrs, Henry was found. Nearly a
whole day was spent by States Attor-
ney Wolfinger in visiting the lodgings
Of young McCleary at 35 South Locust
street and the Henry home. which is
several blocks north on the same
street.
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