The sun., 1916-08-22
STIELOW AFFIDAVIT
LINKS WITH KINGS
Condemned Man Swears He
Talked With O'COnnell on
Night Of Murder.
HIS WIFE CORROBORATES
Statement Sworn To Before
Prisoner Knew Of Horse
Traders Confession.

ALBION. y. Y. Aug. 2I.-Mrs. 1nez
Milholland Boisscvain, one of the group
OF New Workers working In behalf OF
Charles +. Stielow. condemned to death
for the murder OF Charles b. Phelps.
arrived In Albion to-day with Stielow's
affidavit that Clarence O'Connell. an
Auburn convict, in company with an
other man. was at or near the Phelps
home IN West Shelby. y. V. the night
of March 81. 1915. when the crime was
committed.
Mrs. Bolssevain said Stielow gave her
this information when she was talking
TO him more than a week 6 at Sins
Sins. She said It was before Stielow
had heard OF the confession of the horse
trader. Erwin King. who told the au-
thorities Of Cattaraugus county hat he
and O'Connell had lone the murder and
that Stielow knew nothing about 1t.
Mrs. Laura St!e.ow. wife OF the ON
demned man, was questioned to-day as
soon as the nature OF Stielow's afidavit
became known. She later made an am
davit corroboratins her husband.
"Stlelow told me that on the night
OF the murder. between Q and 10 o'clock.
two men In a light wagon drove up to
his house from the Phelps residence"
said Mrs. Bolssevain. "He said they
asked him who he was and then one
OF them. whom he recognized as O'Con-
nell by his voice. inquired. Does old
man Phelps sti'l live across the road" -
St!clow said he answered In the afirma-
tive and the two men drove on. He
did not recognize King In the dark
ness. although he knew both men,"
REGARDED a. Important.
Mrs. Stielow's affidavit. according to
Mrs Boissevain, was made without
knowledge OF h her husba nd had
sworn. Her statement conceded with
that 81 Stielow as to the two men drlv-
ing up on the nisht OF the murder. but
she said she was not able TO Identify
either of them.
Stlelow's lawyers regard the afidayits
as extremely important notwithstanding
the late date at which they were made
= and the self-serving character which
will te attributed TO them by John e.
knickerbocker. District Attorney OF
Orleans county. Knickerbocker prose-
NuN'u sNltlbW ana Will oIppSe u new
trial at the hearing before Supreme
ester On Wednesday.
Fresh acquisitions 10 Stielow's coun-
sci are arriving In Albion almost daily.
Mrs. Boissevain and Huntington W.
Merchant. Thomas Mott Osborne's per-
sonal attorney. came this morning.
M.sha .Appelbaum. head OF the Humani-
tarium cult. which is leading the fight
FOR Stielow. was with them. Appe.baum
waited only to get his bearings before
he directed a scorching letter To D!stric;
Attorney knick-rbocker. calling or him
to procure an indictment against King
for the murder. He charged that
kn.ckerbockcr had refused TO investigate
the truth OF Kings confession and had.
IN TACT. bent every effort to prove al
allhi for King.
James W. osborne and stuart, NJ.
kohu II New ok we're already on the
scene. MIR. Osborne had not tonight re-
ceived from GOV. Whitman a reply TO
his request for the emoval OF Knicker-
booker from the St.e!ow prosecution on
the ground OF bias. The request was
sent last midnight by special delivery
letter. Among his counsel Stielow also
has David A.. White ~ Medina. his at
,orncy Of record. and Mrs. Grace Hunt
ston Of New York. who obtained the
frs, ey idcnce against King and trailel
him until his capture at Pavilion. y. y.
Revolver Expert called.
d \. u. Lane - the Remington Arms
Company, a gun ard revolver expert. has
been called by St!e,ow's lawyers and
will arrive in Albion tomorrow. lie
VIII he asked Ia pass on evidence ad
dured at the trial ana also on impor-
tan, newly discovered evidence In whicl,
ngui es "A revolver said to have been used
in the murder OF Phelps and his house
keeper. Margaret Wolcott.
1, was learned to-day that Thomas
O't;rady. the detective employed by Site
LEWIS friends. had found the body Of a
dead horse which It is said Was killed
nv king and O'Conrell with a 90 ralibre
revolver. A 20 calihre revolver was
used in tho Phelps murder. O'tirady IS
Of IN. opi.ior the same weapon was used
fut loth Jobs.
tro.her expert, Albert Hamilton. tes'
titled AT S,!c,ow's trial that tho revolver
piulurcl Is the prosecution and sald tc
belong to St!clow was the one wish wh!'l
he murder Mas committed THIS test
mnnv Will be assai,ed at the helrinf
Wednesday Three Of the lawyers, bs'
borne. Write and kohn. went To the tai
To-day to- examine the bullets taken from
tie bodies Of Phelps and his house
sceper. Mr. Lane has received perm,s'
sion to examine them m!croscopically to-
morrow.
MIR White was In ..ockport yesterday
and obtained at'.dav:ts from two broth
. ers. who swore they saw O'conn"ll ths
day after the PhelYs murder with n .:
calihra 70 oliver, The brothers sal,
Oronnell killed the horse that day,
The hgh; to save stielow. which nee.
At,