The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-01
SAYS NEGRO
FIRED SHOTS
Survivor of Highway Trag-
edy Near Buffalo Tells
Story to Police
GUARDS NOW AT
YOUNG MANS HOUSE

Officers Express Belief That Bullets
Which Killed Buffalo Steel Man and
His Wife Were Fired from Inside
the Automobile.
BUFFALO,, n. Y, Feb. l. - Resi-
dents of the Orchard Park road, about
two miles beyond the outskirts of the
city, were aroused early yesterday
morning by four revolver shots and the
shrel1s of women. Several men ran
into the road from their homes and
found John Edward Teiper of Orchard
| Park, youngest son OF Conrad Telper,
the late founder of the Buffalo Struc-
tural Steel company, staggering about
the road and clinging to his head, on
/ which there was such Il wound as would
/ be made by a club.
| Nearby stood two automobiles. In
one of them was found the body of
| Mrs. Agnes NJ. Teiper, young Telper S
mother She had been shot through
! the head and was dead. In the road,
also with bullet III his head and dead,
| Law Frederick c.. TeipeT, another son.
Miss Grace Teiper, daughter, lay
senseless nearby. Her skull had been
fractured by blows.
John Teiper said the party had been
attacked by a negro highwayman.
There might have been more than one,
he said, but he had seen only one man.
He said his mother and his brother and
sister had spent the evening IN his
home in Orchard Park. He had started
in toward the city in his runabOut to
meet them and escort them to his home.
On the way his ear had broken down,
and, not having the tools necessary to
repair it, had waited for his mother
and the others, had motOred home with
them, and when, after midnight, they
had started for home, he had accom-
panied them, carrying kit of tools,
with which he intended to repair his
own car
The party stopped at his car and
he dismounted and was bending over
the engine Of the runabout, he said
when he heard his brother cry:
Ed, look out! -
81 looked up in time to ward off a
big negro. - Teiper told the police in
his home, to which he had been carried
but l could not keep him altogether
from hitting me, and his blow landed
on my head, crushing me down. | was
nearly senseless, but | saw the Negro
grapple with Fred, and then | lost con
seriousness.
Teiper said he had recovered and was
. starting for help when men began tC
appear from nearby houses and he wa,
cared for by them. 1t was severa
hours after the attack before the police
learned of it, and then Inspector Cir
vim, Sheriff Stengel, and District At
torney Wesley G. Dudley hurried to tn,
hospital where Miss Teiper had beer
Z taken. Doctors said she probably
: would die, but she was resuscitated TO
few moments, in which the authori
= ties questioned her. Inspector Girvii
!. asked her again and again who ha,
committed the murder, and at last sh
T tmurmured:
; "Nobody.'
!. Miss Teiper relapsed instantly int
a unconsciousness and, satisfied the,
I. could learn no more from her, the in
), vestigators visited Teiper in his HON
= in Orchard Park. After hearing hi
Q version of the affair from him they de
parted leaving two deputy sheriffs a
a. the house,
o A search was started at once for tn
negro whom Teiper had described, bu
d. Inspector Girvin declared last night tn
:, affair had mystifed him considerably
IL He was satisfied, he said, that tn
- shooting was not done from the orounC
: but from the inside of the ear for tn
o direction of the bullets was show
8. clearly by their course through the W
k holstery in the back of the seat II
20 remarked, also, that Mrs. Teiper ha
a. been found seated in a natural pos
:. ton with her hands folded in her laI
There was no blood in the ear, a
}. though Mrs. Teiper head had bee
!; crushed by the bullet, and the shoe
: must have occasioned violent hemo
Il rhages. On the other hand there wa
& much blood in the road some distanc
p. away as though the murders had bee
= committed when the victims were O
: the ground, and afterWard the bullc-
e had been fired through the seat an
: Mrs. Teiper's body had been replace
=, a III the tOnneau.
It. Several articles found near the seer
II. of the murder were turned over to
I'D spector Girvin by Sheriff Steng,
&c These included a revolver, a hamm
~ and some personal effects of the Vi
"A Tins. Teiper told the police $l3 h;