Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-08-30
NO ARREST YET
IN MURDER CASE
Man Suspected Proved to Sat-
iSfaction of Authorities He
Knew Nothing of Crime
NEW YORK STATE CASE
Murder Committed Near Ro-
chester by Former Inmate of
Railway Reformatory Has
Coincidence.

No arrest was made yesterday In
the Kupfer-Janny murder case by
the police, the Investigate which
was expected to result in one man
being taken into custody proving to
the satisfaction of the authorities
that the suspect was In no way con-
cerned with the crime.
The man, whose arrest was to have
been made If his actions were not
proven to the satisfaction of the
police, was fooming in Elizabeth,
having reached that city last Thurs
day morning-the same day OF the
murder. He secured employment in
the Deusenberg automobile factory
and his actions have been those OF q
man having something serious on his
mind. He was anxiously waiting Tor
all mails and when not working
walked the streets In a suspicious
manner. The investigation showed
that the mans coming to Elizabeth
on Thursday was merely a coinci-
dence and that his nervousness and
anxiety were caused by the fact. that
his daughter had been taken with ap-
pendicitis and had to undergo an
operation and he was anxious to
learn whether or not 1t was success
full.
Chief Burke, Union County Prose-
cutor Hetfield and the Union County
Chief of Detectives ]. A. Galatian
met again yesterday afternoon and
another incident was discussed by
them which might have something to
do with the discovery of the murder
err 1t has been learned that family
by the name of Miller, living at e6s
Fulton street. Elizabeth. was coming
through Railway on their way to
Perth Amboy on the night of the
murder. While going along Railway
avenue a man jumped out from the
side of the road upon the running
board of. the car. The women in the
car screamed and the man jumped
off.
The arrest of a man and woman
charged with the murder of a farmer
living near Binghamton, N. Y, fur
nishes a peculiar coincidence with
the Railway double murder In that
the man and woman are both said to
have been residents in Railway and
that the rife used by them was a
thirty eight calibre. The murder Of
the farmer, Horace N. Woodward,
occurred on Sunday, August Is. and
the man and woman were arrested
last Sunday.
The police do not connect the two
crimes, however. as the man and
woman are thought TO have been in
is still the general belief of the au-
thorities that the murder was COM
mitted by one man acting alone.
Tne man and woman, JamQs Conk-
lin and Lucy Lewis, aAias Courtright,
have confessed TO the murder of the
farmer. The man was in the state
reformatory at Railway on three oc-
casions, having escaped once and 1t is
believed that when his home was an
Da hA roforFad ~
the reformatory. He was on parole
when arrested charged with the MUIR
der.
Both Conklin and the Lewis woman
are said to come from the Schooley
Mountain section OF New Jersey and
are desperate characters. They had
been living in barns and the woods
near Norwich, N. Y, for some time
prior to the murder and had become
known as the DOGGY man and wom-
an" of Chenango and Broome coun-
ties, New York. The couple were ar
rested charged with the theft OF an
automobile at Penn Yam, Yates coun-
ty, by the sheriff of that county
charged with larceny. The confession
was made at Norwich Tuesday night.
AS the couple continued to work
westward through New York state
following the murder II looks doubt
ful that they should have returned
TO Railway. The case, however,
proves that there are men and women
at large who would stop at nothing TO
get a little money or escape the au-
thorities. The murderers only got 81
as the result of their killing farmer
Woodward and then stole several aus
tomobiles in order TO get out Of the
vicinity
The New York authorities have
been investigating the case to see II
there might be any connection with
the Rahwsy murder. Neither Conk-
lin nor the Lewis woman IL known in
Railway although Conklin is known
at the reformatory.