Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-10
MANNING NOT
TO Be CHARGED
WITH MURDER
Chief Long Declares Police In.
yestigatiOn Is Now at
an End.
SLAIN W0MAN'S HUSBAND
GIVEN LIBERTY ON BAIL
Child of Garage-owner and
Hazel Herdman Found in
West Orange.

Chief Of Police Long today said
Charles !. Manning win not be chars-
ed with murder in connection with the
Staying Of his wife by Hazel Herd
man in her home last Friday.
.'The police investigation is ended.
said the chief, land not other charge
win be brought against Manning or
his sister, Mrs. Garrabrant."
II was learned from a relIabis
source that the police had failed
utterly in their endeavor to wiring
from Manning a confession that he
had knowledge the Herdman girl in
tended to murder his wife. It was
to establish this fact. It is said. that
the police gave Manning such a thor
ough grilling in police headquarters
yesterday Manning, however, it ss
said, met the attempts of the police
to fasten any guilt Of the murder
on him with unimpeachable alibis.
although. it is SAID, Manning ad-
mitted knowing the Herdman gir1
killed his wife after the crime was
committed.
Manning was released from the
Second Precinct in $1,000 bail this
afternoon. The bond was furnished
by Casper J. Dries. a hoteI-keeper
Of Cedar Grove. When Manning and
his sister, Mrs. Sadie E. Garrabrsuf,
Of Verona, were held yesterday
Dries offered to furnish bail for Mrs.
Garrabrant. AS the property he Of
fered, which is valued at 500, 900.
then was owned jointly by Dries and
his wife, the bond was refused. To-
Gay, however. Mrs. Dries transferred
her share of her property to her hus-
band.
Bail was furnished for Mrs. Garra@
brant last night by William F. Noble
of Verona, and George A. Roehm, Of
this city.
The thirteen-montns-old baby boy
of Manning and Miss Herdman was
found last night in the home of
Charles I. '''ls, rs Harrison avenue.
West Orange. Mrs Mills admitted
the child was Manning's and Miss
Herdman's but declined TO say when
the parents had visited it last.
Neighbors, however. said an automo-
bile which they believed belonged to
Manning took him and Miss Herdman
TO the Mills home last Saturday
morning.
That Hazel Herdman. when she re-
turned from Newark after killing
Mrs. Manning. had confessed the
crime TO her was the Substance OF
statement given a reporter for tbs
Evening Star by Mrs. Garrabrant to-
day
About two O'Clock Friday. said
Mrs. Garrabrant. 'it was raining and
asked Hazel, who was sitting al
a window, to go to the theatre with
me. She said she didn't want to go.
that she had some ironing TO do.
I'll stay here while you're away, she
told me
Il went out and returned after 5
O'Clock. Hazel was not ut home She
came in about o'clock. greatly ex-
cited:
Tells of killing.
1--WE shot and killed Mrs. Man
ming she said.
It told her I didn't believe her, and
she went to her room. I did not see
her again until the night, when she
was taken TO Newark by the police
Hazel was emotional and tenn
peramental and loved my brother
madly She could not bear TO think
of any one else bearing any affection
for him, and was even jealous of me
and my other sisters. She often spok6
of marrying him and expressed her
hate of Mrs. Manning, who stood in
her way.
II remember when Florence
Schenck, who ran away with a mar
ried man named Wilson. who was a
trainer of Alfred G.. Vanderbilt :
horses. died, Hazel seemed greatly
affected.
II wonder if I'll come to ali end
like that, she said to me- and the
death of the girl seemed TO prty on
her mind.
II knew. of course, of the relations
! of Hazel and my brother and that
they had a baby, but did just what
any other sister would do-triel ia
shield them and gave them the pro-
lection of my home"
Mrs. Garrabrant told Of finding the
Herdman girl had clipped her hair
short before going TO Newark to XIII
Mrs. Manning.
Her hair was cut when she told
me of the murder" she said, "and
| found strands of her hair three feet
/ long in her bedroom the next day"
Mrs. Garrabrant is staying in Cas-
per ]. Dries's hotel, in Cedar Grove
Cries yesterday offered to give bail
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