The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-18

having already passed most of his ex-
amnations for entrance to Williams Col
lege next fall. The principal added that
the boy was quiet. very well behaved and
apparently of fine chraacter
Mr.. Clifford over the telephone scoffed
at the idea that his son could be mixed
up in such an affair.
why. he was only II years old at
that time" he said. He has always
borne an excellent character and has
never given me trouble. He had no need
or money. for always supplied him
plentifuly.
II consider his arrest an outrage. I
have hired lawyers and will go to AL
bany myself tomorrow. The District
Attorney has made a ridiculous blunder.
The evidence is OF the himsiest circum-
stantiality.f
Family Of High Rcpute.
Young Clifford has a brother and sister
in Hudson. The family has the highest
reputation there and Mrs. OXFORD is fore
most in the social life of the place. as
her husband is in business
The prisoner is rather slender for mis-
height. which Is 3 feet 10 inches. lie ~
Of light complexion and unusually good
looking. He has never been in trouble OF
any sort before, so far as is known. and
has lived a very studious life. being OF a
scholarly inclination.
local lawyer who is looking after
the boys case has advised him not to say
anything. When h. was arraigned in
court he refused 10 plead and II plea of
not guilty was entered for him.
IL was learned late tonight that the
authorities consider their most damaging
evidence to be IN the similarity of gloves
worn by Clifford when he was arrested
and In a pair covered with blood found
near Clute's body. Both pairs bore the
mark of New York firm. Chords
clothing was from the same place. An
other bit Of damaging evidence was the
finding OF the licenses and papers hidden
In the roof, they say.
say lie Dropped Gloves.
Detectives who were bringing him here
from Chatham in AN automobile say that
he rolled up the groves he was wearing
and dropped them to the floor of the
automobile when they were not looking.
When they We're found and he was asked
TO tell why he had done that he said
he had no further use for them.
Questioned by the District Attorney
while he was prisoner pending indict-
men, clifford declared he had not killed
Clute and didn't even know him.
Clute's body was found by the roadside
near Watervlet on the AlbanyTroy turn
pike on the morning of April 2, 1913 Sew
eral shots had been fired into the back of
the head AZ close range apparently from
the rear seat OF the automobile which was
standing in the roadway with the ma
chinery out of order
1t IL said that the testimony of the
schoolboys before the Grand Jury brought
out the fact that clifford refused to leave
the Boardman home the morning after
the murder until one of them had prom
Used to put into a suit case IA dark dray
oyercoat he wore and had lent him "A dark
hat.
He was said to have been the first
downstairs that morning and to have
bought copy of IA newspaper with an
account of the murder, making the re-
mark Isn't, 1t awful to he u murderer"
When the chauffeurs papers reached
the District Attorney he at once found
out who had visited the Boardmans at
the time OF the murder. Discovering that
clifford had been there with others he
questioned all. he could get hold OF,
Their stories to him resulted In his de-
cision to arrest clifford as soon as he
could be found
Richard j. Cute father of the murdered
chauffeur does not believe that the mo-
tive was robbery. lie said his son had
little money ana continually came to him
for supplies,
GREEN STRIPE scorer
NOW IN NON -REFII.IAH nOTTIEs