Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-14
DENIES KILLING
/ YOUTHFUL SUITOR
Edgar Murphy Says Finding of
Footprints and Empty Shells
Are Condolences.
HOPES TO PROVE AN ALlBI
BY PEAR LEAF IN TRIGGER
Police Say Fisher Is Victim of a
Rivals Desire for
Revenge.

Speciai 20 the Evening Star
MT. HOLLY, July 14.-Edgar Muir
ply the farmland who was arrested
! yesterday on suspicion of having fired
the shot that killed seventeen-y year
old Herman Fisher at Riverside last
Saturday night, was given the third
degree" here today in an effort to
make him tell all he knows about the
events that lead up to his discovery
of the body
Murphy insisted Nhat there was no
relation between the shells found in
size picked up near the body He
says also that il his shoes fit the foot
prints near where the body was found
1t is merely coincidence.
Prosecutor Atkinson stated today
that no further arrests will be made,
as he is confident the man in GUS
tody is responsible for the exploded
shells found at the scene of the muir
der and which are identical with
those found In Murphy's home. Fol-
lowing the coroner's inquest tomor-
row Murphy will be formally ar
raigned on charge of murder.
Fisher, a farmers son. was shot
and killed Saturday night by some
home of Ida Wilhelm, his tiancee, for
His home in New Albany. Murphy
\ found the body.
Murphy, who is married, but who
has been separated from his wife a
year, was arrested in. Riverside.
where he had gone with Anna and
Elsie Fisher, sisters of the murdered
boy, to buy mourning.
Revenge May Be Motive.
Possible motives of hatred and re-
venge because of Fisher having dis
closed to Ida Wilhelm that Murphy
:. was a married man and living apart
from his wife, according to Detective
Parker, led the authorities to suspect
Murphy. This was followed by a
search of Murphy's house during his
absence, and the finding of shotgun,
two exploded shells and pair Of
tshocs belonging 10 Murphy,
The gun correspondent with the size
of the two exploded shells and one
defective shell found near the spot
where Fisher was murdered. The
.shoes, 1t was also said, tailed ex-
actly with the measurements Of foot
prints taken by the county authori-
ties at the spot where the assassin
is believed to have fired at young
Fisher.
When Parker. county detective,
went up to Murphy yesterday in Riy-
-erside and quietly told him he was
under arrest the young man gave
no sign of emotion. The girls who
were' with him did not know what
,he was wanted for.
1t was through Mrs. Murphy gentle
old mother of the suspected man, that
news of his arrest got out. She told
of the visit of Parker to her home
-unti of his questioning: z@f''s
Pear Leaf In Trigger!
Caught in the trigger of the gun in
sMurphy,s room was pear leaf. The
father points to this as proof of his
sons Innocence Il took the gun
through the pear orchard the other
day, hunting for hawks" he said,
land 1 am sure the leaf caught on
the trigger then" Edgar's mother
passionately declared her belief in his
Innocence. as did sister, Mrs. Jacob
Freick, jr.
Edgar Murphy is the father of a
little boy, Ave years old. The boy is
! with his mother.
The other suspect, who is not under
arrest, Is half-witted farm hand,