Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04
airs. Charles L. Turner and Her Baby.

airs. Charles l.. Turner and Her Baby.
very i'll last Saturday, and, in ac-
| cordance with a prearranged plan,
was taken to a private sanitarium
at Ossining. Leehan accompanied
him. Leehan failed to fall into the
! trap laid when his sick friend
grew garrulous about his Los An
geles trouble
All the dictagraph revealed of in
terest was Leehan's statement to
Jamison
you are always getting me in bad.
My wife doesn't want me TO stay away
from home over night, and now she
will lay me OUT
When, shortly after o'clock Sun
| day morning, Leehan awoke, he was
nervous, and as he had had several
drinks the night before he was uncer-
/ tain what he had told the doctors.
The first query made by Leehan, ac-
cording to the detectives. was:
"Doc, did I say anything out of the
way last night? Just what did l
say"
A few minutes later another doctor
entered the room as if making rounds.
He demanded to know the identity of
the "sicll" man and his companion.
THE boy comes from San Diego,
Cal, but live in White Plains" Lee
han said, as he gave his address. Il
am going home"
! The doctor impressed upon him the
necessity of staying, then he left the
room Leehan was heard to say to
| the detective:
George, I don't like the looks of
! that doc. He is too smart for me. |
want to get home to my Wife
Shortly after o'clock Leehan start
ed for his home in White Plains,
promising the hospital staff he would
return in the afternoon. Miss Schin-
dler and those concealed in the apart-
ment adjoining his home reported
| that when Leehan told his wife of his
friends illness and his stay at the
hospital overnight, she said:
Are you sure you were not drink
| ing last night? Did you tell anything
to the doctors? Are you sure you did
rot mention anything about your
! trouble? Now, you know how often
l warned you about being away over
night. / will find out about that hos
| pital affair"
The house occupied by the Leehans
at Lakewood was one of a row in
River avenue Pine Needle lane is
about $50 yards in the rear of the
place and the spot where Mrs. Tur-
ner was found murdered is about $50
yards away.
Leehans appearance, as described
by people who saw him after the muir
der. will be subject of investigation
by County Prosecutor Newman.
"Leehan had wound on his face
when saw him." said Detective
Bowers. THAT was the Monday
after the body had been found and
he told me that he had cut himself
with a safety razor on Sunday morn
ing"
A man who met Leehan on the
night of the murder told Detective
SCHNEIDER and others that he had no.
ticed a wound on Leehan's face on
the afternoon Mrs. Turner disap-
peared. He also called attention to
cut on the mans right hand. Lee
nan RADldlitu tiiio Shb Ny soy ihAc -
knife with which he was whiting a
piece of wood slipped.
Leehan, the detectives say, has
moved fifteen times since he left
Lakewood a few months after the
Turner murder. At one time he lived
at Hawk Farm, near Princeton, with
his aged parents.
A letter sent to his mother which
bore his address made it possible for
the detectives to find Leehan at
White Plains, Detective SCHNEIDER in
calling attention to the apparent fear
of Leehan's close relatives that de-
tctives might be on the trail read
the following letter signed Johnnie"
which he said come to the attention
of the detectives
"Dear Mother-Do you know Mich
aers whereabouts? Be careful. Post
father and Geve also. A stout, dark
man has been asking after him. He
proposes to be a friend. | am up
against it for fair"