Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-04-15
BurIeW, Bartender, Still Held
Without Bail for the Killing
of WaIIing.
EXCITEMENT IN KEYPORT
Good Name of the HosteIry is
at Stake, is the
Plea Made.
to the EVENING NEWS.


Keyport, April 15:-With George
burleW, bartender and erstwhile
chauffeur, being held without bail ON
charge of murder, and the license
of the borough's leading hotel at
stake, strong efforts are under way
here by politicians and officials to
dlscredit the murder theory. Wires
are being pulled and every available
means made to clear the name of
Burlew and the Mansion House. An
application for renewal of the
liquor license is due to be heard next
month. Some residents declared the
place received a black-eye before this
murder occurred, and when 1t was
perpetrated Monday night the climax
was capped. Much excitement has
been caused by the brutal killing
There is sympathy for both Wilbur
Walling, the victim, and Burlew, the
accused, not to speak of the great
anxiety for the protection of the
Mansion House.
The murder is concluded by some
to have been most brutal. Many
theories of how it occurred are being
rumored among the populace, while
officials stand by and refuse to di-
yulge what they have learned from
witnesses. Some claim that Walling
was brutally beaten with a wrench.
others that he was assaulted and
| beaten into a semi-conscious state
with a beer bottle.
Some of those interested in the
case declare it was impossible TO
have battered BurIew as he was with
hnT Ae,if
he could not have sustained fifty per
cent. Of the injuries he did receive
in falling on the paved sidewalk.
Some of the reports In circulation
are to the effect that Walling was
beaten most severely with a wrench
and a bottle within the place; that
Burlew hit him several times as he
WAS pushing the victim through the
barroom door of the hostelry and
that he finally concluded the attack
with a violent push which caused
Walling to fall in heap on the side
walk. He was later found in an un-
conscious state, taken away for
medical treatment and died enroute
to his home in South Keyport.
DR.. Neafie, the county physician,
is here making an investigation. AS
yet the special jY~y impaneled yes
terday to make preliminary inves-
tigation of the death, and Coroner
Fay have not made known the cause
of death Indications were today
that a coroner's inquest would be
held Friday. The victim sustained a
deep wound in the forehead over the
right eye. Some declare 1t was more
than an inch deep, and that is be-
lieved to have caused a hemorrhage
of the brain, which caused death.
The accused man, now in the
county Jail at Freehold, is twenty
four years old. He was known to be
an orderly person generally but Is
declared to have been quick-temper-
ed and brutal In his assaults, as re-
suit. He had originally been employ
ed as chauffeur by the late Mr.. Lake,
proprietor of the Mansion House. 1t
is declared he participated In mix
up and was then made bartender in
the Mansion House. He served as ex-
ira man in that position during the
past four weeks, while the hostelry
was under the management of Mr..
Lakes daughter and Thomas Nc
Ram. Burlew was not doing duty as
q bartender at the time of the mur-
der, it is declared, but was in front
Of the bar with three or four other
men.