Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
MANNING AND
SISTER ARE HELD


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remained on guard at the door whil'
Tuite was in the Mushroom. Donnel
ly also held the reporters off as Tuit'
was walking back to the chiefs office
At noon today. a brother of Man
ming went to police headquarters
with two we'll dressed women. AL
three were led into Chief Longs Of
flee. The brother came out in a few
moments and went to the street. He
said he was going to drive the auto
mobile to a garage and would be
back. He returned in about ten min
utes and was taken again to the
chiefs office.
Mrs. Manning was buried this after
noon. The murdered woman's funeral
was held from Cunningham morgue
in Warren street, to Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church. Rev. Irving c.
Starr conducted the services.
The parents of Hazel Herdman this
afternoon filed with Health Officer
Chester H. Wells. of the Montclair
Board of Health, the death certificate
The certificate stated that the flu
neral services would be held on to-
day OF tomorrow and that burial
would be made in the Rosedale
Cemetery, Orange.
adround Cunninghams funeral es-
adjustment when Mrs. Manning
body was borne out. Mrs. Cobb, the
murdered womans aged mother, and
her sisters, Mrs. Mary Riley, Mrs
Charles Cunningham and Mrs. Addit
Pierson seemed on the verge of {
collapse, and had to be assisted into
the coaches which carried them t.
the church.
At the church six policemen were
required to check the efforts of the
crowd to obtain entrance. About zoe
persons, who taxed the church to ca
pacity, managed to get in, and a
crowd of at least 200 more, many OF
them women, tried to fight its way
through the police lines before the
cortege arrived. The police forced
the crowd to give way to permit the
coffin to be carried in.
Arthur J. Herdman, of Verona
father of the slayer of Mrs. Manning
tried to throw cloak of mystery
about the funeral of his daughter to,
day. All that could be learned i:
that the funeral win take place from
KunZ's morgue in Orange
From a witness of the confession o
Miss Herdman in the Mountainsid'
Hospital. Saturday, it was learned
today the girl had made no reques
that her eleven-month-o baby, o
which Manning is the father. b.
taken care of or that the story o
the mothers crime be withheld from
the child. This report was curren
yesterday.
Except for giving the details o
the murder" the witness to the con
fession said, Miss Herdman mad
only one statement. I can die happy
she said, as long as the Manning
woman is dead.
It was said at police headduarter
that Manning's questioners were en-
deavoping to wiring from him an ad
mission that he had carried Haze
Herdman to this city in his automo
bile Friday when the girl came t.
shoot Mrs Manning. The police ar
said to base their suspicion that Man
ming knew of the girls intention t.
murder his wife on the testimony o
Morris WEIGH, conductor on the Or
ange trolley line.
Conductors Story.
! AT ABS p. m. Friday, Miss Herd
man entered his car at the Marke
street depot, and inquired her wa,
to Mrs. Manning's home. WEIGH pu
| her off the car at Wilsey street
| the girl paid her fare with a nicke
and did not tender him a transfer
This fact, the police are said to be
| lieve, tends to show the girl did nc
| come to this city on a Bloomfield cal
| from which she might have obtaine
a transfer to the Orange line, bu
in some other way.
The police also, it is said, are en-
| deavoring to show that Manning,
| he did not know Miss Herdman wa
planning to kill his wife, was toll
of the shooting on Friday night afte
he and the girl had been question:
in police headquarters.
I 1t was alleged the police are attach
ing particular importance to the stor
told them by sandy-haired, well
built young man, between twenty an
thirty years old, who was question:
in police headquarters last night TIL
police decline to divulge the identit
of this witness, but it is said he is
chauffeur in Manning's employ an
that he is the owner of the revolve
with which Mrs. Manning was killed
From employees of the garage i
Verona it was learned today the rt
volver was missed one day last wee
after the Herdman girl had paid
visit to the garage.
/ III Is uIQeTSlOOd Int DOllCe expect
learn much of importance from Mr.
Sadie F.. Garrabrandt, Manning's ST.
ter, who was taken to police head
quarters early today from her hon
in Bloomfield avenue, Verona, by d,
tective Conlon and Lieutenant M
Mahon.
Mrs. Garrabrant in Custody.
After a short examination Mr.
Garrabrant was taken to the Fir
precinct at 2:35 a. M, and placed
cell. She is being held as m;
terial witness
Mrs. Garrabrant, it is said. can te
more of the relations of her BROTH
and Miss Herdman than any 9TH
persons with the exception of Mai
ming himself. 1t is alleged that MAJ
ming and the Herdman girl lived t.
gether in Mrs. Garrabrait's home a
/ most up to the time of the murde
One of the officers who has been Il
! vestigating the case said today
was only in the last month that Mi