New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-09
Newark Police to Arraign
Husband as AccOmplice
in Love Tragedy.
GIRLS CONFESSION
USED AGAINST HIM
Confronted by Slain Wife's
Kin During All Day Quiz
by Sleuths.
GIRLS FATHER RELENTS
Claims Body of Yelled Slayer
from Morgue-Both Victims
To Be Buried This Afternoon.

To Be Buried This AFTERNOON.
charge Of murder will be placed
this morning against Charles l. Man
ming. whose wife was murdered on FRI
day night by Hazel Herdman, who on
Saturday afternoon, after confessins,
committed suicide.
This development in the remarkable
Newark tragedy came at midnight last
night when Chief Of Detectives Tuits
made the announcement following
long conference with two women whose
identity he refused to reveal
Tuite said Manning would be sc-
cused Of being an accessory before and
after the fact.
Manning" said Tuite, knew when
we brought him to Newark Police
Headquarters on Friday night who the
murderer OF his wife was. We have
tripped him up in the course of exami-
nations to-day several times.
He has told us a number Of lies. or
that we are certain"
Note Used Against Him.
One of the alleged bits of evidence on
which the prosecutor and the police
Law their greatest hope is the letter OF
confession written by the girl and
handed TO Manning as she was being
carried into the Mountainside Hosptel
on Saturday.
This note. Tute said. which several .
newspapers purported 10 print correct
Iy- yesterday morning. has not been IT,
vealed to the public, and contains mucn
more than has even been guessed al.
Tuite said 1t would be used against
Manning as Miss Herdmans ante
mortem statement.
Tuite declared that another impcr-
tant factor Is the story told to him
and to Chief OF Police Long yesterday
by a chauffeur in Manning's employ.
The chauffeur is said to have contra
dicted Manning on several important
details.
To-day will see the funeral of Miss
Herdman and that OF her victim. Ar
thur ]. Herdman, the hotelkeeper OF
Pompton Turnpike, was more softened
toward his daughters memory yester-
day than on the day before. and ne
formally claimed her body. which Is al
Kunz's morgue, Cedar Grove. The
funeral service will be held there to-
day.
Manning. from his cell, made ar
rangements for the burial OF his wifes
body, now in Cunningham's undertaken
shop on Warren street short distance
from the home Of her mother, where
she was shot TO death. The Rev. Erwin
Starr. of the Trinity Methodist Church,
will be in charge of the services.
I'm his sermon yesterday the Rev.
John r. Pratt, pastor Of the First Con-
gregational Church Of Verona, the Sun
day school OF which Miss Herdman at
tended up 10 two years ago, referred TO
the tragedy. He did not mention the
girls name--it was unnecessary, or
course for nothing else was under dis
cusslon in that part Of New Jersey all
day.
Chief OF Police Collins, Of Bloom
field. said that Miss Herdman, when
Manning dropped her from the auto on
Saturday on the return from Newark.
v ont TO the home Of her aunt, Mrs.
George Hodge, at No. 81 Spruce street,
Bloomfield and wrote the note OF con-
fession before she purchased the poison.
If that is so it would support the
theory that the ride TO Newark-when
Manning halted his car in front Of the
nlorgue containing his wife's body and
asked the girl to go in with him and
look at it-so overwhelmed her with
realization of what she had done and
the probability of detection. that she
then decided TO take her own life