New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-27
SLAYS OLD FRIEND
AND PHONES POLICE
81 Killed Charley Haight
and Buried His Body"
Says, White.
Tsv rei.grap1 10 lie TuDlr'

jamestown. =. y, July % 81 killed
Charley Haight and buried his body in
the hundred-acrc woods yesterday
afternoon said man who called up
Chief OF Police Frank A. Johnson AT
his home at o'clock this morning.
The information proved 10 be cor
rect The Chief soon learned that the
man who was talking was Emerson R.
White. VINO lives at . l4th st, and the
man who was killed was Charles
Haifht.
Following the telephone message
white went to Chief Johnson's house
and told him the details of the shoot o.
ing. which. he declared. was in self
defence. The two men and their faml-
lies had been close friends for years.
Yesterday being half-holiday, Haight
and White went hunting, the former
carving a shotgun and a revolver and
tho latter rife.
White made formal statement late
Tonight before Assistant District At
torncy Rexford. in which he said:
at vas Haight who suggested that
we 20 hunting. The two guns We took
with Us belonged to him and the re-
vol.er with which he shot at me be-
longed to me.
After we had been in the woods
so.oe tine Haioht asked me for the re-
volver, saying that Nc wanted TO shoot
at a mark for practice. We then went
on some distance further and | sat
down on a log. Haight stopping some
twenty feet behind me. He then ac-
cused me OF intimacy with his wife ard
| denied il. and then he swore at me
and SAID that ] lied. Then he fred a.
me with ne revolver. the FIRST bullet
going through my hat.
This vas followed by four others in
quick succession. and just as | turned
around toward him he was reaching
back for his shotgun. which stood
against a bush back Of him. fired the
rife then. lust as he got his hand on
the shotgun and when his back was
toward me. He sanh 20 the ground
and / ran to him and picked HIM up,
but he died within three minutes.
81 did not examine him 10 see Where
he was shot. but kicked some leaves
over the body and ;hen hid the guns
and went home.
Told Haight's Wife.
al did not know what TO do. but
went directly to Haight's house 20
toll his wife. She was not at home,
and went on 10 my house. and told
my wife. Then We went 10 Haight's )
house about O'Clock Saturday after
noon. She was there. and told her
the whole story, and asked her not to
saw ANYTHING about It until had told
the police
"Thcn nv wife and went home and
spent the afternoon and night there.
and at 10 o'clock this morning ] went
70 Police Headquarters and told them
tho story and took the officers 10 The
placc. The body was not buried. eX-
ccpt by the leaves that threw over it.
This is the entire truth and gives
all the detail of the shooting
This statement - little different
from that NJ first reported by the
pollco. and conforms more nearly 20
The facts revealed in the autopsy and
the evidence found where the shooting
took place. White was calm and told
;hc story without any particular emo
tion when he appeared before the Dis-
tr,ct Attorney. His statement "as
made without consulting an attorney.
" Hifc Salh nc puiu ~ NtNu INV
Chief and ind the body. and with John
qon and pol .ccman and Coroner Ills
ton. he went 10 IN overturned tree in a
strip Of woods just north Of the city
where they found the body. White
then took the officers TO the place where
he had buried the weapons.
The revolver contained five shells
that had been fred, while the shotgun
was loaded and the rifle empty.
When news of the tragedy had been
circulated about the city, a grea; many
ncreons visited the scene o. the shoot
inc and the temporary grave.
White, who is twenty-five years old,
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