Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-16
FOLLOWING Clues
in TRUNK MURDER
Philadelphia Police Anxious
to Find Connery, Former
dupont Worker
LEFT CARNEY'S POINT
JOB ON NOV. 80

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. To-
Find Edward W. Keller, man about
IS years cid, feet inches, dark
hair and complexion. may have dark
moustachc or be clean shayen, and
may be in leather business"
Such are the instructions flashed
to every police station in this city. rs
well as to the police of other cities,
by Captain of Detectives Robert ID.
Cameron.
The captain has assumed personal
charge Of the investigation Of the
mysterious circumstances surround
ing the finding Of the body of an un-
identified man in steamer trunk
packed in quicklime under two feet
OF cellar floor yesterday in the partly
RACED building at 4O60-64 Frankfort
avenue.
Captain Cameron is convinced that
the man Keller is the key to the mys-
terry which is still puzzling him and
his men. He spent all Of last night
himself in running out clues which he
hoped would enable him TO take up
Keller's trail, but this morning the
much-wanted man was still among
the missing
Keller and Edward ]. Connery. once
ran a laundry in the frankfort ave-
nue. building, Keller was living at the
time at 1873 East Wensley street,
KensingtOn. Neighbors have informed
the detectives that Keller, suddenly
dissOlving his partnership with Con-
merry, moved away from the Wensley
street house so hurriedly one morn
ing that he left q good deal of furni-
ture behind him.
1t has been established that Keller
moved from the Wensley street house
into that at 2071 East Stella street,
but that he only remained three
weeks in his new abode, vanishing
from it on September 10, 1914.
Since he disappeared from the
Stella street house Keller's move
ments are unknown to Captain
Cameron or his men. He enter
ed the employ of the duPonts at Car
ney's Point on April 4. At that time
he gave his address as No. 154 n.
Twenty-second street, Philadelphia.
Murder Done Elsewhere.
The police are convinced that the
man whose decomposed body was
found in the trunk was not murdered
in the Kensington avenue building. but
was shipped there. being first thrust
into the steamer trunk in which it was
found doubled up. The trunk was
then showed into a packing case and
boxed up. Every care was taken to
bury the packing case and its grue-
some contents so that IL would not
be discovered and to insure this the
body was covered with sufficient quick
lime to make Identification difficult
Only the chance crash Of a workman S
pick through frozen clod of earth yes
terday revealed the boX's hiding place
Had II not been decided to raze the
building, and had not wOrkmen been
engaged in tearing up the cellar floor
the box might have remained there I'M
til il and its contents had rotted away.
So far as has been established. the
Red Star Wet Wash Laundry. OF which
Keller & Connery we're the proprie-
tors, occupied the building for about
three months. Their venture was not
a successful one. and the partnership
was first dissolved, after which Con-
merry continued il alone, but only for
a very short time.
After that Robert J. Raglan. a real
estate operator. now at 4510 Frank
ford avenue. tenanted the place for
the purpose Of his business. and it was
at about this period also that the sec
ond floor was occupied as an apart
ment by the family OF Charles Carr
who moved there from Camden. n. j.
The Cars now live at the southwest
corner of Emerald and Pacific streets
That Edward J. Connery. of no. -
North Twenty street. Philadcl
phia. may have been the victim OF tn
"trunk murder mystery uncovered a
No. 1862 kensington avenue. philadel
phia. yesterday. was suspected fo