The sun., 1918-08-25
ARMY MEN SOUGHT
IN DOUBLE Staying
New Jersey Officials Turn for
Clues in Several Camps
Near Railway.
SILK ROBBERS SUSPECTED
Chief Burke Says Fugitive
Murderers May Have Had
Hand in Second Killings.

skein of circumstances stili surround
ing the murder at Railway. N. j.. early
Thursday Of Arthur L. Kupfer and Miss
Edith fanny. his pretty nineteen-year-
old companion In an all night automobile
ride, the authorities last night COM
menced checking up all soldiers VINO
were absent on pass from the several
army camps in that vicinity. The theory
that the double staying was the work
Of o jealous lover. although not en-
tirely abandoned. has been forced into
the background. perhaps temporarily by
a lack Of any evidence upon which to
base II.
The inquiry has turned toward the
army camps as a result Of information
which came yesterday to Walter Hat
field, Prosecutor of Union county. In
which the actual killing was done. Ac-
cordng to reports received by him two
soldiers appeared at garage in Eliz-
abeth at A. NJ. Thursday-approxi-
mately f,ve hours after the young man
and woman had been shot to death In
the cigar factory superintendent au-
tomobile-and sought to hire q motor
car to take them perhaps as far as
North Carolina" Although the soldiers
appeared to have plenty OF money the
garage proprietor says he refused to per-
init one of his cars to go such distance
and they turned away.
There has been a suspicion all along,
20 the authorities say, that men from
army camps might have been responsible
for the crime. They point out that Kup-
fer might easily have been persuaded to
take men in uniform into his car II
he had met them along the road and
they had requested a lift, relying upon
their connection with the service as
guarantee of their good character.
Several Camps Near Murder Scene.
within easy distance OF Railway Is
the ordnance training camp at the Rari-
tan Arsenal in Metuchen. Camp MOI
gan, at the Gillespie shell loading WORKS,
Perth Amboy. and the base hispital at
Colonia, where there are from 90 10
100 men. The double shooting was done
with q .sS-caliber revolver. such as Is
used in the army. Chief Of Police Burke
OF Perth Amboy said last night.
Yesterday afternoon and early eve
Hatfield, John A. Callahan. chief OF the
Union county detectives. and Chief
Burke and two of his men In going
over the route supposed to have been
traversed by Kupfer and Miss fanny
on the night of the murder. Al the
end of the ride which developed little
or nothing. there appeared a marked
divergence Of opinion in the minds OF
members OF the party.
Detective Callahan accepted one fact
as fully established. he said. This was
that Isaac SAKE, the Perth Amooy mer-
chant who left the couple at 1850 T. M.
Wednesday night on their return from
Soldiers Beach, had been eliminated as
n possible factor in the crime. SAKE
Is greatly affected by the tragedy. AS
a result of conversation he had with his
brother in New York yesterday. the
brother last night called up the, pro-
prietor of the Palace Hotel in Perth Am
bow and asked that a physician be sent
upstairs to Isaacs room. The request
was complied with and SAKE was found
90 be in such a condition that the ad-
ministration of an opiate was necessary.
Callahan says his mind is entirely
sopen" regarding the motive for the
murder, which. in his opinion. may have
been jealousy, a desire for revenge, the
theft Of the automobile or sheer wanton
lust for killing. He declares that there
is no truth in a report that Miss fanny
recently received threatening letter.
Suspects SILK Van Murderers.
Chief Burke had no explanation to
OFFER last night as to why he had not
made the arrests he announced Friday
night he expected to make yesterday.
His attitude has changed entirely and
instead of continuing to work along the
theory that jealousy is the motive he
now asserts his belief that the muir
derers were the men who held up a mo-
tor van containing $4,000 worth OF
silk, killed the chauffeur and later aban-
doned the vehicle at Aldine Wednesday
afternoon.
The motor van murder took place
about P. NJ, between Somerville and
Bound Brook, only a few miles from
Railway. The van was left by the MUIR
derers on the edge of a large tract OF
wooded country in which there are but
few houses. Chief Burke has an idea
ne says. that the three men who killed
the driver of the silk truck secreted
themselves in the underbrush until
early Thursday morning. when they
appeared on the road just
as Kupfer and Miss fanny were
approaching in the formers automobile
IT is his idea that they either forced
Kupfer to take them into his tonneau al
the point of a revolver or that they per.
suaded him to stop and take them or
board and carry them to Newark.
Kupfer. Burke believes. decided to run
for the Railway police station and turr
over his passengers to the authorities
there. According to his present belief
the men sensed the situation when they
had reached the pSint on Milton avenue
in front OF DR.. Frank Moore's house
, killed Kupfer and Miss fanny and threw
the formers body out at once. Their
they sped away at top speed, depositins
the dead girl beside the road three mile,
further on and eventually abandoning
the car entirely when one of the from
tires went fat
Apparently the one point upon which
Chief Burke bases his theory is a state
ment by Policeman John Skolsky. whit
was nearly run down by the fleeing muir
derers when he attempted to stop then
IN Linden. the next town to Railway
Skolsky says that one of the fugitive.
wore a light suit and a straw hat.
didn't look to Skolsky like soldier
uniform. His description answers tina
given of two of the trio who held up tn
silk van four or five miles away tn
previous afternoon.
Or. Frank Moore said yesterday tina
after the shooting he saw a man re
out of kupfer's automobile and drag hi