New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-02
Buffalo Police Ques-
tion John {. Teiper
Five Hours.
PAVING GIRLS
WORDS COPIED
Police Find Discharged
Revolver Near Bend and
Seek AcCOmpliCe.

So c---.,r.--fs-t 20 Ths Tihuncl
s,4alo. Feb 4. John Edward Teiper
,..,s ~ irouisitorial firing SQUAD for
.-s long hours this afternoon. Ques-
.,-, frankly designed 20 tear 20 pieces
i. strange story Of Sunday nights
~s-iers @, .he lonely Orchard Park
ssrslo highway. were shot at him
..s.elessly as he sat, with his back 10
o.. wall. in Insrcctor Girvin's Office IN
no Detective Bureau Through the
r,,c ordeal Teiper came virtually un-
,s,hei
The ouic. solution Of the mystery
ard .he attendant arrest which had
t,e- predicted by the police were not
fr.Acomirg. and he was permitted to
-,.urr 20 his home and 20 his wife and
ri. three children az Orchard Park.
Detectives went with him. for his Off
eisl status ~ a detained" witness had
no. changed. Other policemen, in
..-rcted 20 search his house for pos
.s,e c'evs. accompanied the party.
Before he left the Headquarters
building Teipcr was permitted 70 confer
r-h Edward r. ONalley. ex-Attorney
General Of New York State, who had
been retained In his behalf by ex-Judge
George A. Lewis, for twenty years the
Tc'per family lawyer.
Nr O'Nancy had repeatedly tried 70
.orce MS way into .he room in which
his client was being questioned. Only
when he appealed 20 Justice Wheeler,
Of TIE Supreme Court. for a writ Of
haIes, corpus was his demand 10 con-
,s't his client granted. and then by a
comDronise that gave the authorities
another half hour Of free questioning.
Unconscious Girl Holds Key.
WIKI the close Of the unfrutful
sweating l. appeared that the only
available key 20 the mystery Is IN the
possession OF Miss Grace Teiper. whose
skull Was fractured by blows from the
same weapon with which her mother,
Ars Agnes VI. Ie.per. and her brother,
Frederick. were beaten TO death.
But something Of ner brothers IRON
'aatunlty Isl 300 the dying woman
veins. That she is dying surgeons at
ine Sisters Hospital agree.
ia intervals Cl consciousness she
has let drop scraps which, together
w'h hcr actions. have convinced
Watching detectives that she knows
whose hand welded the death hammer.
40 nrst hey routine reply was: NO
oody did it.' Now she only ,urns her
'esd away and tIghtens her lips when
ne all-importaut question rs asked.
Stenographer Takes rawlings.
There are times when she has no
,or'ro. OF herself Her vaguest MUIR
A3rng iu deirum are noted by d
loNce sienoetap1cr who sits behind a
'efeen near her bed. Pieced together,
ne! NAY az last tell the story.
me one llc element IN murder IN
'estgatons, that of plausible motive,
'as not come 90 the fore as yet in this
Aisige roadside crime. That there
,VAa have been dissent within the
emily due 90 money matters seems
ghF Improbable. IN the light Of dis
~9slres maoe by Judge Lewis.
naaen Casper Teiper. founder of the
emlly fortune. died ten years ago he
ps controlling interest in the big
'glsio structural iron works and other
ea.ags valued az Sl26,000 To his
l0" ne beQueathed a life trustee
Up IN The property. His Will provided
"a, on her death the estate should be
'oed equally among his daughter
''d three sons.
}. /. reiper Is Wealthy.
-V the three sons. John Edward
.tpeI Is by far the most comfortably
a'uated, So far as finances 90. He is
T-Nrntendcnt of the Jewettville Brick
aus and part owner IN them by
1'9e OF an Investment Of $4,000 sup
s'd 70 hin by his mother and in an
-r similar enterprise. His house is
OF the finest in the exclusive sub
"o oi Orchard Fark.
Oloiy enough, 10 now develops. re-
sI'ef Oh one of the Buffalo news
ssP.ts spent Sunday night the night
a. "e murders in the Ioiper resi-
If .l '"' news paper man spent ihO0t
NJ; he evening in the billiard room
va ,.n Ieiper and his brother, while the
linen chatted above. He stayed be
fsL. s ~hen Mrs. Teiper, Grace and Fred,
ing John Edward along to be
.,'opped beside MS own stalled road
~ started toward their own { "
rse al l95 Richmond Place. The
rpV.'er. plunged suddenly into the
ioss OF such a murder story as ;he
~ had never seen, sent the news
Cs..'he 'he telephone 20 the third brother,
NJ ares ,teS Henry Teiper, now secretary
er.i iine s IRON works. After trying sew
psr ' New York hotels, he reached Tel
P'i az the Biltmore.
.,nh Edward Teiper was permitted TO
~ al nome, albeit guarded By Sher-
uepuues until a little before noon
toy In the meantime District At
,n.aey rey Dudley, Sheriff Stengel and In
ssts "iryn. with an army Of assist
were busy rounding up evidence
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