The sun., 1916-09-09
MRS.. DILWORTH TO
HELP SOLVE MURDER
Lawyers Widow Coming to
New York After Burial in
Fort Scott. Kan.
MISS McNIFF BELIEVED
Young Woman's story Of Stay
ing Mystery Convinces
Authorities.

MIS-. Grace Carpenter Dilworth is COM
ing to New York to help In the invests
cation Of the murder Of her husba nd.
Dwight =. D!lworth. who was sho. in
Van Cortlandt Park on Sunday night.
After the funeral In Fort Scott. Kan.
yesterday she said she would leave i'm
mediately for this city to settle Dill
worth's business affairs and to stay all
winter II necessary while assisting the
authorities In solving the puzzle OF the
Golf Links ROAD.
Both Coroner Flynn md District At
torney Martin OF Bronx county retain
their impression that Miss McN!n's story
OF the murder is the true one. Nothing
that was said by alleged witnesses in a
ave hour examination At the Kingshrijse
police station Thursday night II yes
'srday morning has ,eemed TO ;hem IN
compatible with the narrative to VIII n
Miss McNin has chung through many
periods OF trying !nquisftion.
They are not stubborn In their belief.
however. and are willing 10 weigh airy
infor nation tnat the fifteen detectives
workinE under acting Capt. Andrew J.
Wines OF The Bronx bureau may turn w..
What caused all the excitement In the
Kingsbridge station night before last was
his
On Thursday the District Attorney re-
reived n note from a woman who said
that another woman, a friend of hers.
had told her that she was on the Golf
Links road on SUNDAY nigh and knew
all about the Dilworth murder. Detoc-
tives. after considerable ~man'puvriHg,
got from the note writer tho namc Of the
reputed woman witness. She proved to
b. the wife II a chauffeur with whom
she was not on COOL terms.
WOmNn's strange story.
A. Arst denying that she was any
whore near Van rort!andt Park on sun
day. she said later~ihat she was there
with n man and that she ard her escort
were members of An automobile party
which toured coli Links road AZ no
time did she assert. 50 Tue y was
informed yesterday. that she was So near
when Dilworth was shot that she could
see who did Il, bu, she did insift that
she heard the shots n saw a woman
wearing a large hat running away"
In ,hs presence NJ Capt. Wines. Ccro-
ner Flynn. District Attorney Martin md
NSslSNdHi IsN'tiNt A'i'' fFN NIiklVN Nv
woman witness was set face 20 face IN
the Kingsbrldee station with Miss Nc
Nin who had b"cn hurried to The Bronx
from her home az l02 West seventy
nth street. The witness was uname 20
cay that she had ever seen Miss Nc
SiW before
Tho man who was supposed to have
heet with the witness said he wasn't
with her. He tried TO establish an alb
by declaring that he WAS at home a,
. 40 O'Clock on Sunday night. but h..
wife con'radlct.d This. Tn. man finally
: :dmtted that ne was in the park a;
tNc tine mentioned. but 10 the last he
declared that ne saw and heard nothing
az the murder. All the others in the
ALLEGED automobile party. with the ex-
ccpt!on of the one woman who saw
! a woman running away" swore thai
t1ey were not even in the park.
. A despatch from Fort Scott says tina,
Mrs Dilwor,h tainted when she saw her
husbands body upon It's arrival from,
} Monfclair. The piiworth family gath.
cred at the home OF RepresentatIv, 4. NJ
Eeerc. but there was no service excep: A
prayer a. tho grave. Six boyhood friend.
~ D!lwor'h were pal.bearers. The widow
and Dlworth's mother wen, 20 Kansas
city last night and they will bc to-
B gether in New York this winter.