Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-31
BROTHER, SURVIVING
AUTO MURDER, PUZZLES
POLICE WITH HIS TALE
Buffalo Man With Mother
Slain, Sister Fatally Injured.
Dead Man Not Robbed, Sur
vivor Says He Was
GIRL WHISPERS NOBODY"

BUFFALO, y. Y, Jap. &l.-An auto
mobile murder mystery, with many puZ-
2linG angles. confronted the police today
in the assassination early today of two
persons and the mortal wOunding of Il
third on the lonely Orchard Park road,
two miles from Buffalo
Mrs. Charles Teipcr, e., widow of a
wealthy manufacturer, wG7 shot through
the back of the head and killed instantly.
Her son Frederick, 36, was struck on the
head by an iron bar and his skull crushed.
Grace Teiper, 81. daughter, was
wounded, probably with the same weapon,
and lies near death at the Sisters Hos
pital.
John Edward Teipcr, 80, another son.
told the police that the crime was COM
mitted by a negro, who suddenly attacked
the party while he stood beside his
stranded automobile. He is suffering
from slight decorations of the scalp, re-
ceved, he said, in struggle with the
negro.
SURVIVORS, STORY.
Teiper told the police that his mother,
sister and brother visited him last night,
remaining for supper. When it was time
for them to leave, at his suggestion they
walked down the road to the spot where
his automobile had stranded earlier in
the day.
The younger brother was repairing the
machine he said. when he was struck IA
severe blow on the head. AS he lay in
the road, he said, he saw the negro strug-
Cling with his brother Fred, and later
heard four shots in rapid succession.
Teiper said he was robbed of Sl3 and
a gold watch. indicating that the murder
was committed by d hold-up man. The
search for a possible motive, however,
was made more battling this afternoon
when it was disclosed that s}2 in the
pockets of Fred Teiper, the other son,
who was murdered, was not touched.
Neither was his watch.
MYSTERY IN ATTACK.
A further touch of mystery was added
by Deputy Medical Examiner Cook, who
performed an autopsy on the body of
Mrs Teiper Cook reported that there
were powder marks on her cheek, indicat-
ing that the revolver was fired AT close
range. There were also wounds on her
head. The police were interested in this
feature, because the top of the car was
up when Mrs. Teiper was killed. making it
extremely difficult for the murderer TO
use much force in striking the woman
on the top of the head.
Sheriff Zenger returned from the scene
of the murder this afternoon with a pair
of mans gloves, covered with blood. He
found them in the automobile he said
but there was no blood in the machine and
only a slight splOtch on the right rear
fender The Sheriff has taken charge Of
the car.
The police are keeping constant watch at
the bedside of Grace Teper hoping she
will recover consciousness and tell her
story of the tragedy. She had a brief
lucid interval at noon and the police bent
eagerly over her,
who did it?" asked Inspector Girvin.
Nobody" she whispered and lapsed
again into Inconsistencies.
Sheriff Zenger hinted this afternoon
that there might be important develop
ments in the case within few hours
He would not discuss the probable ma
ture of the predicted developments