Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-23
HERE,
CAUGHT; HELD AS
W0MANS SLAYER
Joseph Hanel, Arrested in Bal
timore for Murder in Brook
lyn, Faces Long List
of Charges
ADMITS $4,000 T HE F r

Joseph Il. Hancl. Philadelphia excon.
vict, long sought for the murder of Mrs
Julia Hellner, OF Brooklyn. on April 90.
1915, is locked up in Baltimore today
lie has confessed to, executing the S12..
900 jewelry robbery which accompanied
the murder. but attributed the killing to
a confederate, whose name the police
withheld His dramatic arrest ended one
or the most pitiless man hunts ever made
by the police, which included n search
OF this city's tenderloin after part of the
stolen jewelry was pawned here the aft.
ernoon of the murder.
Hanel's footsteps were logged for hours
by Fritz Schmidt, an acquaintance for
merly of New York, before his arrest at
Holiday and Lexington streets. Baltimore
last night. .tH...r.
See that mani" Schmidt asked Police
men Garner and Davis. pointing to the
figure of Hanel Sinking away furtively
He is murderer l have been following
him since this afternoon"
For an hour Hanel denied he was the
man wanted, but finally confessed His
confession, as given by the police, reads:
Il was employed as Il butler in the home
of Mrs. Julia Hellner, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Before accepting that position ] had been
living in lodging house in New York
known as the Seamens Mission. There |
met-(the police will not make public the
name of Hanel's accomplice)- who told
me he had obtained position as n butler
In the home of Mrs. Helner. but was not
going to accept It. Here are my clothes,
you take the job he told me. did so.
and afterward we planned the robbery of
the house.
"on April 20. 1915. the maid took a
day on and left about o'clock in the
morning. When she had gone, telephoned
my pal, and he hurried to the house
opened the door and let him In. Then |
told him to hide I'm the pantry while |
went upstairs. on the pretense Of making
the beds, but really to rob the house
While was upstairs making the beds, he
called to me- Joe it's all right this be-
ing the sign that everything was o. X.
hurriedly placed all the jewelry in a
box and came down stairs
I'VE separated on the pavement in front
or the house and met again at the corner
saloon. There my pal told me that Mrs.
Heilner had come down stairs and that he
had killed her When he told me this we
decided to leave town at once. He did
not tell me the details of the murder, but
the next day l read them in the papers.
We went to New York and from there to
The following day we
pawned the jewelry In that city but /
'annot remember the name | used at the
ldWHsnOp. aumlt that l planned the
robbery and really did it, but l had alb
iolutely nothing to do with the murder
II the woman. In fact, the first knew
II 1t was when my pal told me-"
The afternoon of the murder a pair of
diamond and pearl earrings, later identi-
led by Miss Helen Bush. the dead
companion, as part of the miss
ng loot were pawned at a shop at 1877
North 9th street, this city. The Tender |
oin where Hanel was we'll known, was |
earched thoroughly, and 10000 circulars
describing the man were sent out broad /
'ast. Since the murder Hanel said he |
lad been in Maryland.
Hanel was sent to Moyamensing Prison.
his city, for two years on April 90, 1918.
or carrying concealed weapons. He was
eleased in advance of the expiration of
lis term, the murder following shortly
.fterward
Mrs. Heilner, who was the wife Of S, /.
ieilner vice president of the Princess
'orset Company. was killed in her apart
lents at at Albemarle road, BROOKLYN
n brutal fashion Her head was crushed
nth bottle she was choked with a
ght cord and smothered by a tablecloth,
he body was removed TO the cellar,
here 1t was found