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ARREST NEIGHb0R
OF SLAIN LAD
Edgar Murphy Who First Gave
Alarm Taken in Custody.
VISITED BOYS SWEETHEART
1t Is Said He Threatened Fisher with
Death If He Told Girls He was
Married.

Mount Holly, N. j., July 14-Edgar
Murphy; twentyseven years old, OF
Taylor's Station, N. j., was arr 9sted
as a suspect in the murder OF seven
teenyear-old Herman Fisher, whose
fathers farm adjoins that of Murphy's
parents.
Murphy, who is married, but who
has been separated from his wife for
a year, was arrested in Riverside,
wheer he had gone with Anna and Eli
sic Fisher, sisters of the murdered
boy, to buy mourning.
Herman was shot while he was
walking home from the residence OF
Us sweetheart, Ida Wilhelm. Murphy
Abeen frequent visitor at the
In home of late It is said that
he had threatened Herman Fisher
with death if the boy told the girls
at the Wilhelm house that he was
married man.
Murphy, who, with George Fisher,
sixteen years old, brother of Herman,
was the first to give the alarm OF the
shooting of the boy, is one Of two sus-
poets in the murder. Murphy is now
in the Mount Holly Jail and repeated
efforts to make him talk have failed.
In the clothespress in Edgar Muir
phys room Detective Parker found
ten-gauge gun. 1t was with a weapon
of this gauge that Herman was shot.
The allegation on which the author1-
ties are proceeding is that Edgar first
went quietly into his home and got
his shotgun without being heard, and
that later, leaving the gun outside, he
returned, awoke his mother and asked
for the revolver, as a blind.
There was also found in Murphy's
room a pair of muddy shoes. TWO
bloodhounds which were used in an
effort to run down the slayer, were
given a smell of these and then were
taken to the scene of the murder,
where foot prints had been found in
the mud The dogs circled about aim
lessly, their efforts coming to nothing.
The other suspect, who is not under
arrest, is half-witted farm hand, en-
ployed on place near the home OF
Charles Wilhelm, father of Ida Will
helm. He was attentive to younger
sister of Ida's for some time, but she
finally turned him down." and he
tried to become friendly with Ida.
After going to a moving picture
show with him one night, Ida, so say
the detectives working or the case,
refused to have anything more to do
with the man. This was last Febru-
airy. A week or so later Ida began to
receive the attentions of young Fisher,
and the farm hand is said to have be-
come very angry and to have made
threats of getting square"
On his way to his own home from
the Wilhelms, Herman took short
cut through some woods, about a
quarter of a mile from the Wilhelm
place. The murderer, hidden behind a
uncovered fence, rested the shotgun
on a lower rail and fired as young
Fisher came opposite to him.
"My God, is there nobody to help
me?" the boy cried as he fell. The
murderer then fired the other barrel,
but the shell did not explode. Eject
ing both shells, he reloaded and,
jumping the fence, walked up to young
Fisher, it is believed, placed the muz-
zle of the gun against hss abdomen,
and fired again. The lad was disem-
boweled by this second load of heavy
buckshot.
Mr.. Wilhelm, who had heard the
shots, came up soon after Murphy and
George gave the alarm, as did other
neighbors A doctor was brought to
the scene in a motor car, but no spark
of life remained Three shotgun shells,
two empty and one loaded, lay near
the body.