New-York tribune., 1918-08-23

puckleu on gun, and fashlght in
nahd NJ, took up stand in the middle of
ooq Road, at the intersection of Ed
gar Road. He heard the back fire Of
the automobile before it came in SIGHT
ana When 1T finally appeared signalled
the driver to stop. Instead of obeyinc
the man at the wheel stepped on the
accelerator and drove straight for the
policeman, who jumped for ditch and
safety. Afterward the policeman said
he had not been told definitely that a
crime had been committed or he might
have stopped the automobile by shots
from his revolver.
Girls Body Found
A few hours later another police
man few miles further on in Linden
reported the finding of an abandoned
seven-passenger motor car in a road
side ditch, and at daylight a woman
IN the centre of Linden reported tha,
a girls tody was lying in the road in
front of her home
That, briefly, is all the authorities
know of the killing of Arthur Kupfer,
superintendent of the Perth Ambov
cigar factory, and of Miss Edith Jan
ney, the nineteeny year-old cashier in
the Hotel Madison, OF Perth Ambov. No
arrests had been made last night, and.
on the word of Chief David Ramsey, of
Railway, and Chief Burke, of Perth AM
boy, none was contemplated.
The Railway police identified Kupfcr
by his draft registration card and then
the Perth Amboy police, still unaware
of the murder of Miss Janney, called
at the unpretensious fiat of her
mother, over a doctors Office in Smith
Street, in Perth Amboy. They had
learned that kupfcr had been seen
motoring with the girl the night be-
fore.
Mrs. Janney, at the command of the
detectives, went to Edith's room, only
to find that her bed had not been slept
in. The mother aroused the girls two
sisters, Calma and Emma, and sent for
her brother, Edgar Just as they were
inaugurating a search for her, and the
Perth Amboy detectives had decided
the girl could name the murderer of
kupfer, there came a telephone mes
sage tnat her body had been found
Mrs. Janney suffered an attack Of
mysteries and has been under the care
Of a physician since.
Party on Auto Trip
Then the police learned that the
night before Kupfer and Miss .Ianncy
Soldiers Beach, on Raritan Bay, four
miles away, in company with Isaac
SAKE, proprietor of a woman's wear
store in Perth Amboy, and Mrs. Gene
We've Hendrickson. saleswoman en-
ployed by SAKE. Both were located i'm
mediately. SAKE in bed at his hotel and
Mrs. Hendrickson in her room in the
Westminster House, a family hotel
that once was the home of Ben iamln
Franklin's son.
Sake and Mrs Hendrickson both CON
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Perth Amboy before ten thirty and had
gone to bed
Mrs. Hendrickson is the wife of a
soldier. but has been separated from
her husband for more than two years.
She said:
81 went to Seidler Beach with Miss
Janney for a shore dinner. She told
me that Mr. Kupfer, whom did not
know, might drive over in his car and
bring US back. When he did arrive
Mr.. SAKE, my employer, was with him.
We started back to Perth Amboy after
we had eaten a few sandwiches. Miss
Mr.. SAKE and Mr.. Kupfcr in the front
seat. They brought me straight home
and when | entered the hall it was just
l0:30. | looked so that | could set my
little clock BY the hall clock. | saw
Miss Janney get out of the tonneau
and get in the front seat between the
two men, That is the last | saw any
of them"
SAKE told a story that agreed with
Mrs. Hendrickson's. He said Kupfer
and Miss Janney drove him to his
him good night Kupfer, according to
SAKE, said he was going to take Miss
Janney right home. Sake said he had
been up late the night before with Kup-
fer, Miss Janney and several other
young women, and so went to bed to
get much needed sleep. The police
checked his story and Chief Burke an
nounced that they had found several
people who saw him 90 to his room.
The police have dismissed Mrs. Hen
erickson and Mr.. SAKE from their
minds in their efforts to find a motive
or the solution Of the crime.
Diamond Ring Missing
Kupfer was the proud owner Of a
two-carat diamond ring worth about
$500. That was missing when the body
was examined. Miss Janney. according
to her brother, wore an inexpensive
ring, worth not more than $15. 1t had
a setting containing a small sapphire,
missing, according to the police. The
police say kupfer had $l7S when he
left Perth Amboy in the evening, and
that also is missing.
The Rev. Dr.. Moore told the police
he heard one of the men in the ma
chine say:
"We've got to get rid of the girl"
Then another mans voice said: "No.
Drive like the devil"
An examination of the bodies showed
that kupfer had shot through the
heart. The bullet took downward
course, and it is more than likely that
the murderer was standing in the tom
ncau and leaned over his victim to
shoot him. The girl was killed by n
bullet fired into her head from the
left side at the top, behind the ears.
The autopsy is to be performed to-
day by County Physician Weston, of
Railway.
An examination of the automobile
showed that the rods controlling the
gasoline supply had become discon-
ncctcd, SO that the only way TO stop
the car was to shut off the battery
switch. In the machine were two
womcn's hats. Both of these belonged
to Miss Janncy. She had left one IN
the car the night before and when she
was shot was wearing a cap belonging
to Kupfer This was found beside her,
a powder burned hole in the top.