The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-24
GIRL AND MAN
FACE ARREST IN
DOUBLE MURDER
Jealous Acquaintance Who
Rode in Kupfer Car May
Be Taken To-day.
DEAD PAIR VISITED INN
Unidentified Admirer Berated
Miss fanny Because She
event Out"
DEAD PAIR VISITED INN

Chief OF Police Patrick ]. Burke at
Perth Amboy last night announced that
he expected to make two arrests to-day
for the murder of Arthur L. Kupfcr. the
twenty-nine- year-old superintendent OF
the Perth Amboy Cigar Factory, and
Miss Edith fanny, 10. who were shot
and killed in Kupfer's automobile In
front Of DR.. Frank Moore's residence at
Railway, N. J. 1t is reported that man
and a woman will be arrested. ..
It was expected at Perth Amboy all
the evening the arrests would be made
last night. Chief Burke telephoned over
from Railway and made an appointment
to meet Recorder PeckersgilI. ANNOUNCE
ing that he had decided to move" at
once. The Recorder waited in the police
station from II to II 80 o'clock. when
Chief Burke appeared with an automo-
bile full of Union county detectives and
constables. without explaining his rea-
sons, he said he had changed his mind
about making the arrests last night, but
that he intended to act to-day.
The man and woman who 1t is be-
lieved will be taken into custody are
supposed to have been picked up by
Kupfer and Miss fanny when they
passed through Perth Amboy on their
way from Highland Park Inn. where
they spent almost an hour and q half.
to some unknown destination. They
never reached 1t, for as they were pass
ing through the residential section Of
Railway the shots that ended both their
lives were fired. The police are GER
At tAoN la Nhsa
motive. But whether they think the
murderer was man or woman they
refused last night to say.
The days Developments. the police
said, has satisfied them that robbery
was not the motive for the double
shooting. Chief of Police Burke Of Perth
Amboy discovered that Kupfer had sold
the $500 diamond ring he had been wear
ing this summer to a forewoman in the
cigar factory a week ago. There was
S6.35 in his pocket when his body was
searched, and Miss fanny had on one
Of the two rings she was wearing. The
other one-a cheap affair-was missing.
1t is the police theory that the MUIR
derer was some one known to both
Kupfer and Miss Janny-some one they
picked up between :15 A. NJ. Thursday
morning. when they left the Highland
Park Inn, and 2:07 A. NJ. when the
shooting occurred In front Of DR.. Frank
Moore's home. And they believe a man
and woman were taken into the auto
mobile.
As a result of the autopsy performed
yesterday by DR.. Wescott, Coroners
physician in Union county. It appears
that the shots which killed the young
couple were fired from behind them
from some one in the tonneau Of Kupfer's
automobile 1t would appear. One bullet
entered the back of Miss Janny's head
and lodged above her ear. Kupfer was
shot through the left lung and lived but
a few moments after he was tossed from
the motor car. Miss fanny probably
died instantly DR.. Wescott thought
Picture Is Identified.
1t was established yesterday that the
photograph in the back of Miss Janny's
watch was that OF her brother. now
serving with Gen. Pershing in France
A theory that perhaps a Jealous suitor-
q young soldier to whom II was once re-
ported that the dead girl was engaged
might have been responsible was shat
tered when 1t was learned that he too
was overseas
The first definite knowledge OF the
couples whereabouts after they left
Isaac SAKE and Mrs. Genevieve Hend-
rickson. who returned with them from
Soldiers Beach In Perth Amboy at 10 80
O'Clock Wednesday night, came from
Chief Bedford Of the Highland Park
police yesterday. He called Chief Burke
of Perth Amboy on the phone and said
he was certain he had seen Miss fanny
about midnight sitting on the veranda
OF the Highland Park Inn. roadhouse
run by Rudolph Oscarwald and his wife
Pedford didn't knnu Nioo Toppu ha
said. but was sure OF her Identity after
seeing a picture Of the murdered girl in
a newspaper.
Oscarwald afterward confirmed Chief
Bedford's suspicious. He said Kupfer
and Miss fanny were occasional visitors
to the inn and that they arrived there
in Kupfer's automobile little after II
O'Clock Wednesday night. They had sew
eral soft drinks and left together about
ISIS Thursday morning. He fixes the
time by Miss Janny's anxiety over the
lateness Of the hour. She expressed re-
luctance to return home as late and sug-
gested to Mrs Oscarwald, according to
what the couple told the police that she
remain all night in the bungalow near
the inn which the proprietor and his
wife occupy. Mrs. Oscarwald discour-
aged the idea. She couldn't afford to
risk the reputation OF the inn, she told
Miss fanny.
Mystery in Last Ride.
And SO Kupfer and the girl started on
their last ride together. They must
have sped along the Lincoln Highway as
far as Metuchen, six OF seven miles from
Highland Park. which is two miles this
side OF New Brunswick This side Of
-Netuchen the Lincoln Highway Ia being
repaired and to reach the spot in Rah-
way where the double murder took place
they must have made a detour and
passed through Perth Amboy again. As
far as the police have learned no one
saw the automobile when 1t passed
through the town then. But It is here
that Chief Burke thinks the murderer
In all probability was picked UP.
Perth Amboy Is six miles from Me-
tuchen and It Is nine miles more from
there to Railway, SO that Kupfer and
Miss fanny must have travelled twenty
two miles after leaving the Highland
Park Inn before reaching the point on
Milton avenue in front Of DR.. Moore
house where the final tragedy over
took them They took about fifty-two
minutes to cover the distance appar-
emily.
1t is the theory of Isaac SAKE that
the murderer-and he isn't sure
whether there was one or two-was
some one known to Kupfer, who hailed
him In Perth Amboy and who perhaps
wished to catch late train from Rah-
way to New York. SAKE says Kupfer
was not the man to take a stranger
into his automobile. Besides, he says,
Kupfer always required an introduction
before unbending to a stranger in the
slightest degree.
Dr. Moore was a bit uncertain re-