The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-06-09
THREE SLAIN ON
JERSEY FARM;
HOME BURNED
Murderer Used Axe to Kill
Rich Granger. Wife
and Daughter.
HIRED MAN HUNTED
Fugitive Was Befricnded by
Family-Militia Aids
in Search.


ELRMISGToN, n. j., June S.-William
h Queen. rich farmer of Mount Pleas
ant. his wife and their daughter. Flea
nor. were fc1nd murdered, their bodies
lying SO close to their burning home that
their clothing was afiame. The barns
also were ablaze, and II was the red
glare on the sky which brought neigh
bors to the place and thus revealed the
crime.
Ailitiamen, aided by several Sheriff s
posses. are beating the district IN search
OF farmland who disappeared last
night the night OF the triple mur-
der. He Is Caro- Mayworen. a Lithu-
anian. arrested in Jersey City a month
ago on q charge of carrying a concealed
weapon and released on suspended SEN
tence when the Queens promised to give
him work.
Apparently each victim was struck but
one blow with the blade of an axe and
both Mr.. and Mrs. Queen were hit in
the mouth. The girl was struck on the
top OF thehead.
Victims Were wealthy.
SuctH was reared IN tnlf section.
and after making a fortune elsewhere
he returned and bought the finest farm
IN this part OF the State. The house
was fine old Colonial dwelling. The
farm Is in the highest state of cultiva-
ton. The dead Mr.. Queen was a brother
Of former Judge Paul A. Queen of Hun
terdon county and former Judge John
Wall Queen of Jersey City. DIR. Lewis
Queen of 201 West Seventy ninth street
New York alsp is brofhar
Mayworen is described as Ave feet five
inches in height stockily built, swarthy,
long black hair and piercing black eyes.
He possessed almost superhuman
strength. a fact upon which Mrs. Queen
commented on the day of the murder.
For that day she took the very axe the
murder was committed with TO a nearby
blacksmith to have new handle ad-
justed. saying that her new hired man
Was so strong he broke the old handle
the first time he drove II into log
When Mayworen was arraigned be-
fore Judge Tennant In Jersey City re-
Gently for sentence OH the concealed
weapons charge. the court remarked that
he deeply regretted having to commit a
farm hand 10 prison at a time wnc..
farm help was SO badly needed. Judge
John Wall Queen was in court a, the
time. That day he had received a let
ter from his brother William asking him
to try to procure farm hand for him
once q law partner OF Judge Tenant
Judge Queen approached the bench and
said IL the prisoner was paroled In his
custody he would be responsible for him
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Dr.. Leroy Kreveling of Auburn. n
Y, who has a summer home about 22o
yards from the Queen farm, saw the
TAT 1t was barn OF the Queen place
iors He then hurried 10 the IA rr,
he found the barn burning ferceIy ant
the flames from the house. which eyl.
GENTLY was fired last, licking about IN,
bodies o. the three victims living on IN,
lawn about twelve feet from the from
porch
BY this time sherman Thvartz an
other neighbor, arrived and together IN,
two men dragged the bodies 10 the road
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