The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-07-14
Murdered near Riverside.

= Charles Fisher, IL years old, was she
, and killed Saturday night by an enem
, who is thought to have Swallowed hin
for two weeks. The shooting occurre,
between Riverside and New Albany
, few moments after Fisher had parteC
from Miss Ida Wilhelm, whom he ha(
met at motion picture show at River
side.
The murderer had evidently followed
him to the Wilhelm home and then re
traced his steps to lonely point along
the trolley line just outside of New AL
bany. He waited there for the boy and
fired two shots into his body.
The body of young Fisher was found
by his brother George and companion,
Edgar Murphy, an hour later. Two
empty gun shells were found within
few yards of it, George Fisher ran to
the Wilhelm home and aroused the
family. Miss Wilhelm told him that
when she and his brother had alighted
from the trolley car near their home she
fancied she had seen man lurking be.
hind them.
James Wilhelm, father of the girl,
carried news of the murder to Riverside,
and Immediately organized a posse to
search for the man. Although almost
frantic with grief, the father of Fisher
Joined in the search; in fact was in the
lead in sweeping tour of the country. [,
| According to George Fisher, his BROTH
er at various times in the last two weeks
remarked that he feared some one was
following him. He had no known
enemies, and therefore was at loss to
account for the actions of man who,
he said, was continually DIGGING his
steps.
Saturday night, with Frank Cole,
Harry Frank, and his brother, Fisher at
tended motion picture show. After the
performance he met Miss Wilhelm and
volunteered to accompany her home.
When he and the young woman boarded
a trolley car for New Albany, his brother
and the two young men also took seats
in the car. When Charles Fisher and
Miss Wilhelm left the car in front of the
Wilhelm home, the other young men
remained aboard and returned to River
side
About an hour later George Fisher, re-
membering the fear his brother had ofan
unknown enemy, told his companions
that he was going back to New Albany
to look for Charles. Murphy offered to
accompany him. They started to walk
back and found the body in cornfield
abouta mile from his home and about
half mile from the girls home. This is
near a road that leads from Taylor's lane
to the girls home.
Companions of Fisher and members
of Wilhelm's family verified the story of
George Fisher that some one had
Swallowed his brother. Less than a week
ago, while Fisher was at the home of
Miss Wilhelm, the shadow of a man
was noticed at the side of the house. A
watch dog gave an alarm and the man
disappeared in the woods.
Yesterday Edgar Murphy the man
who aided in finding Fishers body, was
arrested and is now in Jail charged with
the murder.
Murphy is married man but is separ-
ated from his wife. He has been friend
ly with the Wilhelm girls for some time.
not paying any particular attention to
any one, though, perhaps, showing more
partiality for Anna, a sixteen-year-old
sister of Ida's. He had kept secret from
them the fact that he was married, the
detectives say. A month ago young
Fisher found this fact out, and the man
is declared to have told the lad that if
Fisher gave him away he would kill
him.
In Murphy's house there was found
ten-gauge shot gun, the same size as
that used to kill Fisher. A leaf from
pear tree was caught in the hammer.
Murphy was supposed to have been in
the pear orchard that night. He stated
that he had used the gun short time
ago to shoot crows and possibly had got
the leaf then.
DIR. A. HI. Small, who made a post
mortem examination of the body, said
the shots were fired at close range, pos
sibly three feet.