The sun., 1918-08-23
2 SLAIN AND CAST
FROM AUTOMOBILE
Girl and Escort Mysteriously
Murdered in Railway At
ter Shore Dinner.
POLICE SCENT JEALOUSY
Stout Man With Rasping Voice
Sought as One Of the
Fugitives.

The queer. high pitched. rasping voice
Of a sturdily built man. probably OF
middle age, provided the single clue
Upon Which the police of Middlesex and
Union Counties. New Jersey, had to
work last night in their efforts to un-
ravel the mysterious motive for the STAY
ing in Railway yesterday morning OF
Miss Edith fanny, 10. and Arthur l..
Kupser. 90. superintendent OF the Perth
Amboy Cigar Factory. believed to have
been her nance.
Beyond that distinctive voice, which
, made such sharp impression upon at
least three persons who heard It that
they feel certain they would recognize 1t
again easily. the scores Of detectives
and policemen seeking the murderer
were at sea. Unless a love match be-
tween the murdered couple provided 1t
the detectives are unable to establish
motive for the crime.
The theory Of robbery has been dis
carded. Murder and suicide appear
improbable. Against the theory that
a Jealous sweetheart of the murdered
girl committed the crime the police last
night obtained the statement OF the dead
mans closest friend that only a few
days ago Kupser. devotedly attached TO
his aged mother. told him ne would not
think Of marrying while she was alive.
Joined Party at the Beach.
As mysterious almost as the motive
for the crime are the circumstances sur
rounding the actual staying Miss fanny
lived with her mother and three sisters
at 291 Smith street. Perth Amboy. She
was employed as cashier at the Madi-
son Hotel in that town and when she
left the hotel Wednesday night she met
Mrs. Genevieve Hendrickson. who lives
at the Westminster Hotel in Perth Am
boy and Is employed by Isaac SAKE.
proprietor of the SAKE Garment Com
pany. also OF Perth Amboy.
Together the young women went to
Soldiers Beach, about four miles from
Perth Amboy, and had a shore dinner
During the meal. Mrs Hendrickson said.
Miss fanny suggested that she telephone
to Kupser and ask him to come to the
beach with his automobile and take
them home. Mrs. Hendrickson said she
discouraged that idea and Miss fanny
| appeared for the time to have accepted
her suggestion that they return to Perth
Amboy by trolley.
Just after the meal was finished
about 7:ao o'clock-Mrs. Hendrickson
said. Miss fanny went to the telephone
and half an hour later Kupser arrived
! at the beach with the automobile. Mr..
SAKE. Mrs Hendrickson's employer ac-
| companied him. They stayed at the
beach about half an hour longer. Mrs.
Hendrickson said. and then started
| toward Perth Amboy. She said she and
Miss fanny occupied the rear seat Of the
automobile. a precaution that was taken
so that town gossips might have no COM
| ment to make upon the fact that Mrs.
Hendrickson had been riding in the same
automobile with her employer.
Physician Hears shots.
| Mrs. Hendrickson said she got out of
the automobile FIRST alighting outside
| the Westminster Hotel and going d.
rectly to her room. SAKE was next to
leave. He told the police he got out Of
the machine a block or two from the
Palace Hotel. where he lives. at exactly
| 10 so, and went to bed. He left Miss
fanny and Kupser in the automobile.
understanding that Kupser was to drive
her Immediately to her home.
From that moment until 2 :07 o'clock
yesterday morning the movements of
Miss fanny. kupser and the automobile
are complete mystery. At the latter
hour. Dr. Frank Moore was awakened in
his home at 1913 West Milton avenue.
Railway. by the sharp crack Of two re-
volver shots. He swas wide awake and
sitting up on the edge of his bed when
the second shot was fired, and as soon
as he heard II he hurried across the
parlor Of his home and glanced out of
| the window, which was half open.
In front Of the house stood an auto
mobile with the top up The drivers
wheel was visible but no one was sitting
at 1t. DR.. Moore squatted down to see
II he could squirt beneath the auto
mobile top. AS he did the high pitched,
| rasping voice OF a man came clearly to
him.
| We'll have to get the woman out of
the carr 1t said clearly. but in such
| distinctive tones that DR.. Moore is GER
tain he would recognize the voice again.
Saw Victim Hurled to Road.
Peering at the automobile at the
same moment through a pair OF opera
glasses was Joseph Lawson. whose home
also Is in West Milton avenue. He and
his wife had been awakened by the
| shots.
No. Go ahead" came the sharp
command. obviously spoken by another
man The words scarcely had been
uttered when Dr. Moore saw a sturdily
built person, the man with the rasping
voice. pick up mans body and fling
1t violently out OF the car.
The body was that of Kupser. At the
same moment the second man climbed
up behind the steering wheel and drove
off.
DR.. Moore telephoned to Railway
police headquarters. He dressed and
was just approaching the body in the
gutter when a policeman arrived on a
bicycle. Kupser was alive then. He
opened his eyes, stared blankly into the
faces OF Dr. Moore and the policeman
and died. There was a bullet wound in
his left breast.
i Word was telephoned to policemen all
over the city to watch for the fleeing
automobile Policeman John Skolsky
jumped into a road In an effort 10 stop
II. but It's driver put on more speed and
drove straight at him. He jumped to
avoid being killed.
Girls Body Thrown Oat in Flight
Policeman Edwin Paine com.
Wandered taxicab and pursued the
fugitives. but the taxi was no match for
the speedy touring car. The machine
almost drove over the embankment al
the approach to bridge. but the
fugitives kept on. crossing the bridge
and outdistancing it's pursuer.
It was not until two and half hours
after that-or about O'Clock yesterday
morning-that Miss Janny's body wa.
found Apparently the murderers
the scene of the shooting and tossed heI
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