New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-20
Counsel Says Evidence Is
SO FIimsy He Won't Even
Move to Dismiss.
COULD NOT HAVE
SHOT ZIMMERMAN
Time Clock of Employer Shows
He Was in This City Too Late
TO Have Done so.
lBy Telegraph to The Tribune. J


SomerviIIe. y. =. jan. l9.-Paul Carl.
charged with shooting Monroe +. Els
of BernardsvlIlc, who has been kept $50
lated I'm the Somerset County jail and
derived OF counsel, has no longer rea-
son TO complain on this score. Baptoh
Moore lawyer Of New York CITY ap-
reared unexpectedly at the county jail
tonight and announced that he had been
retained by friends OF Carl
Moore held a long conference WIN
Carl. after which he went 20 the once
Of Prosecutor Frederick y. Pope ana got
"A clear understanding Of the charges anu
the status OF the casr
LIoore said that as result or his con-
ference with Cart ne was convinced OF
his clients innocence. The evidence was
so himsy that he would not even move
for his discharge, Moore said put u the
authorities did not acknowledge tnelr
mistake By discharging him in a day or
two he would take strenuous acton 10
obtain his release.
carl informed him, Moore said, that
the whole affair was n frame-up on the
par Of private detectives. and that ne
had never knowingly made the comes
sion attributed To him. lie had been
doped ami put through the third de
grce until he was irrational and ire
sponsible. lie said ne was taken from
the courthouse i'm a state Of collapse
after nerve racling ordeal. For more
than eight hours he was grilled By two
private and county detectives and Pros
ecutor Pope
carr declares he never shot Ellis nor
did his aunt, Mrs. Grace NJ Holly ever
hire MIN to do so or have anything 10
do with the case. lie had "a hazy recol-
lection that the detectives told him TO
mention MIS-. Hollys name. he said.
Moore then told Of the strange influence
exercised over Carl by private de-
tective named We'll who made CARTS ac-
quaintance at Stroudsburs and followed
him. Carl is vain Moore said, ana IN
clined 10 boast. and it was the practice OF
the detective TO work on this weak point
in the youths nature by inveigling MIN
into making exaggerated statements OF
the feats he had performed with gun and
automobile.
In a boastfu mood, Moore said, Carl
was led to say trat he had shot oucA'
and then that he lad shot man als0'
and this was the basis OF the confession
which the detectives held against MN
The lawyer reiterated the statement maze
bv Carls mother, Mrs. Sarah carl 10 the
effect that the gun now in their posses
sion. which the authorities allege 10 De
the weapon with which Carl shot ElllS'
had been locked mp in the bottom OF
trunk at her home IN Stroudsourg lOF
three years.
Moore WAS accompanied here by Ihomas
uohlon who is employed in his law office.
Mahlon knew Carl in Stroudsburg, ana
said he was positive that Carl was IN
capabla of the crime of which he was
charged.
When Totten returned from New NoTh
CIV he said: The case against Carl is
oil off" He went on to say he mad visit
ed the Dahlstrom Metallic Door COM
panv where Carl had been employed as
\ driver on November 20, 1911, the time
Mr.. Ellis was shot. The RECORDS ana a
I time card OF the company showed that
| carl had worked until o'clock IN the
evening that day.
The only train that Carl couid nave
taken after that hour for Bernardsvllie
left at 5:5l p. m. and arrived in Demands
Vile at 1888 p. m. AS Ellis was shot at
$3.50 o'clock. this. according TO the de-
tective. proved complete alibi for CARL
! A business firm in this city gave yes
terday what is apparently a perfect ahoi
for Carl. Carl was employed in 1911 oy
the Dahlstrom Metallic Door Company
OF No. 293 Broadway. The assault 0"
Mr.. Ellis was made at $50 o'clock on the
night Of November 90, 1911. The com
pany's time clock shows that Carl worked
until TOO late that day to catch any train
that would have taken him to Bsskins
Ridge by $50 o'clock
| Detective Totten. of Prosecutor Pope
staff. went yesterday TO the offices OF the
Dahlstrom company where he saw the
| records Of the clock. The detective
agency would make no statement on TINS
1 matter.