Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-03
Marital Affection Over
taxed by Disclosure of
st. Clair's Relations
With Victim of His
Crime.
Coroner Knight Receives Let
ter, in Which Woman Says
She Has No Interest in Fu-
neral of Her Husband-Mrs.
Halls Body Claimed.

turder, suicide and inhdelity proved
too severe test of the marital affec.
tions OF Mrs Charles c. ST. Clair. who
asked Coroner Knight today to dispose
of the body of her husband who killed
himself on Monday after numbering Mrs,
Edna Potter Hall in the Hotel Windsor.
Coroner Mcknight received letter from
the wife of the dead man through an
official of the Coroner's office In New
York, stating In effect that she had no
interest In the funeral of the principal
in the sensational double crime.
Tho communication which was signed
by l.. Quesdo for Mrs. st. Clair, read as
follows;
'As Mrs. st. Clair has decided not to
remove her husbands body from the
Philadelphia Morgue, but to allow 1t to
be buried by the authorities, II will not
be necessary for her to go to Philadel-
phia. We phoned you about it the after
noon"
A short time after the letter was re-
ceived here "A. b. Stein, a half-brother
of the murdered woman, went to the
Morgue and identified the body of Mrs
Hall. He made arrangements with the
undertaking firm of j. Lewis Good &
Sons. 92l Spruce street, to have the
murdered wOman's body shipped to
Waterbury, where she will be buried from
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
f. H. Potter, of Glenn street, that city.
The final chapter In the tragedy will
take place tomorrow whom the Coroner
VIII hold an inquest for the formallty of
nxing the responsibility for the crime.
There will be little to introduce as evil
dence at the proceedings Only one cent
was found in the apartment where the
murder and suicide took place In the
two cheap travelling bags brought to the
hotel by the couple there was nothing be-
yond evidence of the deep infatuation of
the man and woman for each other.
One bag contained new bcIdoir cap,
new glrdle and several pairs OF silk
stockings. In the other were few of
st. Clair's belongings and the revolver
with which he killed himself and his
companion. The weapon Is of .32 calibre,
evidently purchased in this city. Three
bullets had been fred two of which st.
Clair sent into his own brain to make
certain of self-destruction, although there
is evidence that he lost his nerve after
numbering Mrs. Hall and delayed his own
end for at least an hour after his first
crime.
With the revolver was a new box con-
tanning 90 cartridges and a bottle of oil
with directions for using the revolver. A
small watch, still ticking when found
lay alongside the revolver, Under
soiled shirt the Coroner's aids also found
program for burlesque show now play
in this city, which the couple apparentIv
attended before the murder and suicide
was discovered.
Despite the fact that the authorities
showed the dead woman's relative Mrs.
Hairs last note, which was pieced to- |
gether and indicated her infatuatlon for
tne man who murdered her, Stein, who !
also llVes in Woodbury.. holds u the be-
HeI that the woman, who was "a years |
old, was lured to this city by St Clair.
Her parents are Frustrated, but anxious
10 see her buried" he said today Her
father is nearly so years old and Is
veteran of the Civil War"
Stein verified the details already OBJ
'ained previously by the Coroner's Off
,ials relative to Mrs. Halls career but
brought out the additional fact that his
lalf-sister exerted a powerful fascina-
ion for men whom she met
according to Stein, seven years ago
~hen his half-sster was IS years old. she
eft her home in Woodbury. to Join a Inu-
Ifcal comedy troupe as a chorus girl She !
vas the idol OF her parents. Shortly after
eaving home for the first time she mar
led A. l.. Nickerson, pianist of the thea ,
rical organization After the ceremony, !
larry Hall. childhood acquaintance and
chooI chum, continued to write to her p
'ickerson intercepted several of the com u,
lunications and divorce resulted :
Hail. whose ring was found on her body 7
ere, then, according to Stein, threatened
licide II she did not marry him, and the !
air were made man and wife In New =
ork. After this ceremony, st. Clair
no had before met Mrs. Hail. attempted
licide and subsequently influenced her 8,
accompany him TO this city for the g
irpose, according to the police. of kill 4
& her and himself a.
ST. Clairs body will probably be buried
Potter's Field, Beyond the identiica-
on of A w Page. of this city. no fur
er efrort has been made to identity the >.
ad man as kid" st. Clair, former mil ;,
eweight prize fighter, lunchroom pro X
ietor and chauffeur 2