New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-03
SON IN
AUTO MURDER
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not pressed Teiper 20 put forward any
theory as TO how the weapon got out
Of tho seat box fully loaded and into
the field with chambers emntied. Yet,
with all the wealth Of circumstantiai
detail. there is still gap as concerns
a possible motive. Not angle pers n
has been found 70 say that Ieiper's
murdered mother. or Fred. his muir
dcred brother. or Grace. his dying sic
ter. had an enemy M the world INSIDE
the family or out.
Although It has been limited that
competition had turned John Toward
Tcipcr's brickyards into losing vent
ure. there IFS no testimony that he mas
been in financial straits Had he been
ne might have turned 10 nis father-in-
law. Alton H. Newton. who 81 ~ the
lumber business IN Buffalo. we'll Oh
and great admirer OF his son-ln law.
II young Topper has past "hich
might AID in explaining the mysterio us
murders If he secretly spccuiated or
gambled -Bufalo's best detectives nave
failed to find j., out. Since the night
OF the murders his steps almost from
bovhood have been retraced, his years
es a student in the New York State
School of Ceramics. as an overalled
student bricklayer and as young man
ufacturcr have been r;ked over.
Mrs. John Edward Teiper has taith
in her husbands innocence which Is
unwaverinE.
"My daughter and myself feel the
same way" said Mr Newton Tonight
1--WE are Just as sure that Id never
murdered any one As we are tnat We
never have. Laura has cried bit. oi
course. but there has been nothing
like an attack OF Mysteries or nervous
breakdown. She knows as we'll as
know. and Ed knows, that II VIII al
be Strengthened out before long. We
have no complaint 10 make Of what the
authorities are doing. II IL their ousi-
ness 10 get the murderer. and II clrcutn
stantial evidence seems TO point 10 I'd
it is only right that they should ques-
ton him
How the question Of money can be
suggested as motive for the crime Z
DO not understand. I'd has been IN no
difficulties and, II he had been, he
knew ne could have come 70 me and
got any amount
Grace Teiper still Delirious.
Grace Tciper fingers between me
and death. between consciousness and
delirium. in Sisters Hospital. neI
brother pleads in vain 20 be permitted
TO see her.
Without an ante-mortem statement
from Grace Teiper, whose chances o.
recoverv are so slight as TO be negli-
qible. the case may never be sol we'd.
II looks now as if finger prints are
10 play no great part IN solving the
crime. Prints found in the crimson
stains on the handle OF the hammer
have been worked over by local expert-
for three days and John Edward Ielp-
er's finger prints have been recorded
for purposes OF comparison.
When Teiper awoke this morning he
was comparatively free. He had spent
the night with his family, hampered in
his movements only by the presence o.
q deputv sheriff and a detective, whose
orders were not 70 let him out Of their
sight
Immediately after breakfast Teipei..
sombrely clad, got INTO motor WIN
his wife and her father and sped TO the
shadowed residence at 100 Richmond
place. where lay the bodies OF his
mother and brother. ready for burial
The funeral was the big event OF me
day. The quiet street was overrun DF
a curious ueck-craning crowd or more
than ! 900 Wncn iNe ltIpti ih"NH'"'
came 20 a halt before the door, on
which all eyes were eagerly turned.
With his hat brim drawn down and
bis overcoat collar up. combining 10
battle photographers. Teiper made ms
way into the house, his wife on his
arm. ,,Lol anna
be followed the cortege TO the Chapel of
the Blessed Sacrament. in Delaware
Avenue. In another car, the front
wheels of which we're not az any time
more than twenty feet behind the rear
wheels Of Teiper's. followed Sherin
StengeI and Jailer LanneL
As he left the chapel walking be
tween files of policemen detailed 10
handle the crowd which beset the door
all Teipers starchiness seemed 20
have deserted him. After the end OF
another automobile trip. having seen
tbe bodies Of the hammer victims
lowered into graves IN Holy cross
Cemetery at Limestone Hill. Topper re
tnrned 10 the home Of his father-ln-
law for luncheon. Eearly in the aaiteI
noon he was taken 20 police hehd-
nYorters. cross-examined once more,
and pu. i'm cell The cell assigned
"a him proved so cold that he stuiied
his oyercoat into its unslazed window