The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-24

hurled to the pavement from its seat
behind the steering wheel OF the tour
Ing car. Later. when reporters piled
him with questions. he thought II
might have been thrown from the ton
neau. In the end he wasn't quite GER
tain which It was
The two shots were fred while the
automobile was In motion. DR.. Moore is
quite positive. II slowed down rapidly
and he then heard a mans voice say I:
Oct that girl out Of there" Kupfer was
dragged from the spot In the roadway
where he fell to the gutter. where he
died, DIR. Moore says. Then another
voice said 60 ahead Go aheadv' and
the motor car gathered Roadway and
raced away. It was DR.. Moore's FIRST
impression that there was n woman in
the tonneau. Afterward he wasn't sure.
Finally he thought there was not.
shooting Occurred Suddenly.
The police yesterday discovered q
small hole In one of the folding seats In
the tonneau which may or may not have
been made by bullet. The two women's
hats in the car both belonged to Miss
fanny. Ono OF them was Tam O.
Shanter. tucked into a side pocket. She
kept II there continually. as she went
out so often with Kupfer. That the
shooting came suddenly 10 proven to the
police by the fact that Kupfer had the
stub Of cigar still clutched In his fin-
gers when he died.
Joseph p. Rudy. a Railway taxi
driver, was taking a late fare homo
when he was narrowly missed by a
touring car racing away from the
an ~ L. r..
night policeman. came running UP.
and asked Rudy to turn around.
As the taxicab's lights swept the road
way in making the turn they disclosed
Kupfers body beside the curb. He was
gasping. for breath and died as the
two men. Dr. Moore and William Law
son. who lives across the street, reached
him.
: NJ. A. Mccoy, a structural ironworker
who spends much time at the Madison
Hotel In Perth Amboy. where Miss
fanny was employed as cashier. told
the police yesterday that he heard a
man berating the young woman about
a week ago. The burden of his complaint.
according to Mccoy. was that she had
turned from him for "a man with more
money" Kupfer earned 800 week
and also had an interest in the cigar
factory where 1000 girls were employed.
SAKE said last night that he and Kup-
fer and Miss fanny were in party
made up of six couples which visited
Keensburg Tuesday night. 1t was /
o'clock Thursday morning when they
got home. he told Chief Burke. For that
reason he declared that he was anxious
to leave Kupfer and Miss fanny Thurs
day night when they returned from Seid-
ler's Beach. He felt he wouldn't be of
much account at his store the next day
unless he made up his lost sleep.
Kupfer's relations with women were
exemplary. according to SAKE. He says
the young superintendent frequently sent
fruit to young women in his employ
who were Ill and that they all held him
an high regard.
Murdered Man Buried.
The murdered mans funeral yester-
day afternoon was attended by the Perth
Amboy Elks and a delegation from the
Manhattan lodge Of Masons, to which he
also belonged. He was buried in the
little cemetery outside Perth Amboy.
where he had spent the last few years
of his life. and a long procession of
taxicabs followed the body to the grave.
The services were held at the home Of
Joseph Hart. 412 Neville street. where
Kupfer had boarded.
Two men arrested by the Newark po-
lice early yesterday in an automobile
stolen from Elisabeth were at FIRST sus-
pected OF the Railway crime because
they had .3S calibre revolver in their
possession. They gave the names Of Jo-
seph Lawrence Of Hartford. Conn. and
Frederick Watson 6f Atlantic City. AZ
ter questioning them the police an
nounced their belief that they knew
nothing OF the double killing.
In anticipation of the time when their
inquiry shall have progressed enough to
warrant arrests the police last night
were carefully guarding finger prints on
the wheel of the murder car" There
is also clearly defined footprint on thA
rubber mat on the dash.
Whether or not Kupfer was seated at
the steering wheel at the time he was
shot 10 one Of the points which the police
admit is pushing them. DR.. Moore Ia
not positive on the subject. But IL he
was, they ask how 1t happened that the
car slowed down after the shots were
fred and then came to a stop as Kupfer's
body was thrown into the street Is it
reasonable to suppose that he would
shut or the power and check the speed
himself when he had a bullet through
his lung?
hut II he were not In the front seat.
the police ask, how could he have been
shot from behind. as the autopsy indi-
Gates that he was?