The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
CLUES IN DOUBLE
MURDER CASEFAIL
New Jersey Authorities Admit
Their Work Has Been
Fruitless.

Yesterday saw just one development
In Railways four-day-old automobile
murder mystery. Edith fanny, whose
moonlight motor trip with Arthur L.
kupfer Wednesday night ended in death
for both. was buried at Perth Amboy.
As Kupfer's had been, the girls
funeral was one in which practically the
whole town participated. Again Chief
Burke OF the Perth Amboy police. who
knows his Lombroso. was vigilant
mourner. but II the murderers were
drawn back for last look at their han
diwork they escaped the Chiefs eye.
Authorities Of Union and Middiesex
counties, who are collaborating on the
investigation. admitted after the funeral
that their work to date has been with
out result. Every clue they have fol-
lowed has dissolved at the end of the
trail, and they will start afresh to-day
with nothing more tangible than an as
sortment % theories and guesses as
broad as all New Jersey.
Except for the fact that we know
Kupfer and Miss fanny were at the
Highland Park Inn until after l o'clock
Thursday morning. We are no further
along than we were when the bodies were
found" said John A. Callahan, chief OF
the Union county detectives.
I'VE know that Kupfer's car covered
the twenty-five miles between Highland
Park and Railway in ffty-two minutes
or thereabouts. and that there was no
time for more than a brief stop. Not a
single person has been found who saw
the machine between these two points.
80 there is no way of telling what roads
were taken.
AT the same time there Is no doubt
that whoever shot Miss fanny and Kup-
fer was in the car with them II the
murderer was known to Kupfer the
chances are that the car passed through
Perth Amboy and that the passenger or
passengers were picked up there.
On the other hand 1t Is Just as prob
able that kupfer was stopped along the
road by strangers who forced him to
give them a lift. However. We are
checking up on all Kupfers acquaint
ances in Perth Amboy. II we fnd one
OF them who might have had reason to
go over to Railway early Thursday
morning and catch a train on the
Pennsylvania main line We may be
able to line up a motive"
Thus far the motive for the murders
Is as much a mystery as the manner of
the shooting. Blood at the rear end of
the left fender leads Callahan to believe
that Miss fanny and Kupfer. who was
superintendent OF the big Robert Burns
Cigar Factory at Perth Amboy. were in
the rear seat when they were shot
While it Is agreed by Dr. Frank
Moore and Constable Skolsky OF Linden
that the men they saw in the murder
car were civilians. the police have not
abandoned the theory that Kupfer might
have picked up couple OF soldiers on
the road. They are still checking up on
soldiers who might have been on leave
a the time NJ the Oedv
II those who did the shooting were
strangers to Kupfer and Miss fanny,
the crime would appear so wanton as
to have been inspired by drugs Be-
lieving that men in the base hospital
detachment at Colonia, near Railway,
might have access TO narcotic supplies.
Prosecutor Waiter L. Hetneld of Union
county visited Colonia last night TO con-
fer with the commanding officer there.