New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-01
Mother and Son Slain
on Lonely Road
Near Buffalo.
GIRL, DYING,
WILL NOT TALK
Surviving Son Guarded by
Sheriff-SayS Negro
Fired Shots.
fBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune J


Buffalo. Jan. 81 Nobody did t."
whispered Grace Teiper this afternoon
70 Inspector Girvin at her bedside when
she was asked to tell the story Of the
murder of her mother. Mrs. Agnes NJ.
Teiper, and her brother Frederick on
a lonely road near the Orchard Park
line last night Then the girl who is
fatally injured. lapsed into uncon-
sciousness again. leaving the police
with one Of the most extraordinary Of
crime mysteries on their hands.
J. Edward Teiper. the youngest son.
who was with the party when the mur-
dcrs were committed and was slightly
injured. is too weak to go 20 the Office
Of District Attorney Wesley C. Dudley.
A deputy sheriff was placed on guard
NJ his home tonight on Dudley's or
ders.
In spite Of the young mans sworn
statement that the party Of four were
attacked by highwsyman, apparently
a negro. while he and his brother were
fixing his automobile, the police have
discarded that theory. They say that
Mrs. Teiper and Frederick we're struck
with some blunt instrument when they
were out of the automobile and were
then placed in the car. No blood stains
were found on the cushions, the police
allege, although there was a bullet
wound in Mrs. Teiper's head.
Although the murders occurred be-
fore midnight last night, the police
knew nothing Of it until morning. Ac-
cording 70 the early story of Edward
Teiper he had accompanied his mother,
sister and brother from his home In
Orchard Park toward this city. His
own automobile had been left alongside
the road earlier in the day because Of
being out Of order He intended 60 re-
pair it and return home. The party
had stopped near the stalled car when
the attack was made. lie says he was
knocked senseless after hearing four
shots fred. One Of them hit his mother
as she sat in the car, he said.
Inspector Girvin said the body Of
Mrs. Teiper WAS found sitting upright
in the rear seat of the motor car, her
hands crossed naturally in her lap. Al
though the nature of her wounds must
have caused violent hemorrhages, no
blood was visible in the car. Much or
it was found on the roadway only
short distance from the automobile.
Efforts of the police to obtain from
Grace Teiper some statement Of the
Staying of her mother and her brother
were rewarded when the girl recovered
consciousness for few minutes.
Inspector Girvin sat at her bedside
"Who did this, Gracef" he asked.
The girl gazed at him in silence.
"Grace, want 70 know who did
this" the inspector insisted.
The girls lips moved. Nobody did
it," she said, and closed her eyes.
Inspector Girvin told Mr.. Dudley that
there could be no doubt that the shots
which pierced the cover of the motor
car were fred from the front, not from
the rear, of the car.
Bullet holes were plainly made by
bullets which entered the cover from
the inner side Of the car above the
seats. 1t would be very difficult for
any one 70 fire the shots. the inspector
seid, il a person were sitting on seat.
This developed the theory that Mrs.
Teiper was neither struck with some
blunt instrument nor shot while she
was sitting in the car, but that she was
shot and struck while she was out OF
the car, and that che was then ltted
into the car and placed on the seat.
This theory seems substantlated by In
spector Girvin's statement that there is
no blood on the seats or cushions OF
the car, and the bullet holes In the
cover were made from the inside
After performing an autopsy on Mrs;
Teiper, Dr. Cook said that he believed
she had been shot after being hit over
the head with the hammer and killed.
The autopsy disclosed two long frac-
tures near the top OF the dead womans
head and a bullet wound starting un-
Ger her left eye, ending at the back OF
the head Later the bullet which
passed through Mr.. Teiper's head was
found on the back seat of the touring
car. 1t evidently dropped in back of
her. Although an autopsy has not been
performed on the body of Frederick
Teiper. 1t Is apparent that his death
was caused by blow from hammer.
At Police Headquarters Floyd Nabb,
an employe Of John Teiper, the surviv-
ing member of the automobile party,
identified a hammer and a tire iron
found near the scene of the murder
as being the property of his employer.
Nabb could not say that another ham
mor, which was covered with blood,
belonged 10 John Teiper. He said he
knew that there were generally two
hammers carried in the car
District Attorney Dudley said to-
night that II j. Edward Teiper was
abie 70 be moved he would be brought
TO Buffalo tomorrow for further ques-
tioning The Teiper family is promi-
nent in this city. Mrs. Teiper was the
widow OF Conrad Teiper. who made
fortune in the structural steel business.
One son. Harry, was in New York az
the time OF the murder