Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-04

ne said to Detec4Ave .Janison LEND
1pssa dollar"
Two men left the saloon and
W.T. half a bloeki down the street
NEn Sheriff Tilt5n came up and
n 4eehan, youaarep under arrest for
uon't know an ything about that
y sieE#Ah murder & ried Leehan 81
Na1s TO go home to my wife and
poy. I'm not a mt rderer."
f54folte he could { ak more he was
plaesd " a touring car and brought
(, ~ fAis city. On th way the pris-
orc broke down nd sobbed.
- tell sspu / don't know anything
9l9t that Italian murder Please
let IRE so home ne pleaded.
When they reached Newark Sheriff
Triton went into conference with
Prosecutor Newman aipd il was de-
cIdeal to take Leehan to Lakewood
Without further delay
the mans NERVE wits completely
gbhe. He almost collapsed when told
he Mas arrested on suspicion of hav-
i3eEkilled Mrs Turner. He became
as S4nstrung that for a time it looked
al Though he would tell everything
- smay have known concerning the
-4ualer He was advised by the
cfsecutor to make no sta tement un-
81 he wanted to. as anything he
iin might be used against him.
csnarded by the sheriff and detec-
Il Nes. Leehan arrived in Lakewood
,fIy today.
Immediately after'it became known
iaf the woman had been murdered
iIlionaire coeta gers at Lakewood en-
aged detectives to run down The
turderer A negro Henry Graham,
as arrested, but he proved his IN
peence.
eGharles L. Turner. husband OF the
murdered woman, is employed in
responsible position on the estate of
George ]. Gould Mrs. Turner's broth
or scharles ]. Parmentier, is treas
1is.eF of the Lakewood Trust Company
the family were among the pioneers
Il who settled Lakewood under th'
name of Bricksburg
story of the Crime.
Mrs. Turner earned pin money
"a by making fine garments for Lake
wood cottagers. On April 70, 1911, sne
III had finished two shirt-waists for the
q wife of the proprietor of the Home
"A lands Sanitarila'n. which is on ti'e
" upper bank of lake CarasalJo.
At 8 O'Clock TINT afternoon she LEFT
her home carrying the completed
shirtwaists in cardboard box. Si"
told her sister ain law, Mrs. Eliza
beth Turner, that she intended to
walk to the san.itarium, about two
miles away ThaA was the last time
Mrs. Turner was seen alive by reia
TVS few mingites later William
1ieece and his wife, neighbors of the
q, y5rsners saw her enter Pine Needle
lang e.
a Two horsemen. William c. Shatto
and Arnold Turner, the latter
nenhew of Mrs. Turner, who with
stores of Lakewood citizens had been
q feafinq down the brush after Mrs.
y Turner's family became uneasy over
HER absence from home, came upon
theebody near footpath about thirty
ffet from Pine Needle lane. She was
Iyfffg face downward. Her jaws and
Rose had been driven into the ground
/ Wifh a six-foot pine pole which lay
alongside the body. Death was either
caused by strangulation or fracture
Of the, skull
rFhe box and shirtwaists were no
where TO be found; a poci0etbook con-
q, ming 1851 lay by the body. There
we're marks on the body which IN
aidated that Mrs. Turner, though
mail woman, had fought her assail-
| stnfs until she became insensible. The
Il detectives decided that the slayer
had abandoned the purpose which led
MIN to aftap1t Mrs. Turner.
81 a process of elimination Detee-
five RAYMOND C. SCHNEIDER centred
the work on one man. Leehan, who
ha8d disappeared from Lakewood at
about the time of the murder
n After he had been found last Au-
d,tst by Schindler's detectives in the
Eazzpx county jail, this city, he eluded
ts,a operatives and disappeared. The
III detectives several months later found
lIit3 employed in the law office of j.
I. Ackerman, in White Plains
10 Dictagraph Is Used.
Schindler. believing the suspect, II
kaw guilty, should bring about
His own conviction, had detectives oc-
o,,55v rooms adjoining those used by
faahan, his wife and their 14-year-
6lae son, Bradley Then he installed
4 ..iiictagraph and carefully noted
tNna.y word that passed between man
dnd wife.
: The conversation reported by the
detectives showed that Leehan had
lsena in trouble in Lakewood about
i,,vd years ago and did not intend to
Jdsback there At the same time the
shdspeet was extremely careful not to
lsdsdrawn out by chance acquaint-
aices On one occasion. the detec
\ t3kes say, they heard Mrs. Leehan
\ Warn her husband against bar room
acauaintances.
HRemember that Heidman met
detective in a saloon in Asbury
"A Park, Mrs. Leehan said to Leehan
ON one occasion. Frank Heidman
L was electrocuted about two years ago
ri forsthe murder of Marie Smith in AS
bury Park. He was trapped in a
manner which SCHNEIDER hoped to en-
ploy In the Turner investigation.
A few days after detectives in
stalled the dictagraph the Leehans
moved to another part of White
Plains. Detectives We're about to in
stall distagraph in the new home
when the family again moved, this
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