New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
duplicates Woman Who
Worked Where Dunn
Girl Was Employed,
Says Prosecutor Lewis
Traced to Newark
By Phone Message
Pawnbrokers Who Took
Valuables Assist; May
Solve Another Murder

Frank Kelly, a negro, of 614 Herki-
mer Street, Brooklyn, confessed yester-
day to the Staying of Catharine Dunn
in Brooklyn last Saturday.
Kelly was arrested in Newark yester-
day morning In his confession to Dis
trict Attorney Lewis, of Brooklyn, at
the Newark police headquarters, he i'm
pllcated negro woman, Emma Robin
son. The Robinson woman had been
employed at various times in the
household of Clarence S. Clark, at 1146
Kenmore Place, Brooklyn, where the
Dunn girl was maid. She at first de-
MED all knowledge of the crime, but
when confronted with the story Of
Kelly she broke down and admitted her
part in it.
District Attorney Lewis announced
that Kelly had criminal record and
that the pair had been involved in
other robberies in Brooklyn.
Questioned concerning the murder of
Mrs. Emma Mcdonald, a B. R. T. ticket
agent, whose body was found in a
sand pit in Brooklyn last October.
Kelly insisted he knew nothing of the
crime
Says He Planned Robbery
According TO Kelly's confession. he
had frequently called on the Robin
son woman at the Clark house and
had been told Of the Jewels which Mrs.
Clark possessed. They planned the
robbery for some time. On Thanks
giving night, Kelly said. Mrs. Clark
was entertaining some guests and he
was admitted to the house through the
kitchen by the Robinson woman to get
a look at the jewels which Mrs. Clark
was wearing.
H9 accompanied the Robinson woman
home that night and the robbery was
Planned for Christmas morning. Later
the Robinson woman heard Mrs. Clark
was going out Christmas and it was
feared she would wear her Jewels and
so an earlier date was decided upon.
lie had been told he said, that the
Clarks drove to business at regular
hour every morning. The night be-
fore the murder, he said, the Robinson
woman gave him a dollar to buy a pair
d.
lie said he hid in the bushes behind
the Clark home the next morning until
the Clarks drove away. He then
raped at the back door and told Miss
Dunn that Emma had left key there
and he had been sent to get it, AS the
maid turned her back he said, he hit
her over the head with the rasp and
then beat her into unconsciousness
with a peroolater lie said he remem-
bered striking her five times
Pawned Jewelry uickly
When the girl fell, he said, he threw
rug over her, went to the sink and
washed his hands and then put on
the rubber gloves. He Hthen went up
stars, where the Robinson woman had
told him Mrs. Clark kept her jewclry
" ithln an hour after the murder Kelly
said he had pawned part Of the Sc 900
worth of jewelry stolen.
He salad he first went to the pawn
shop of David Pansky, 4S6 Lenox Ave
nue., where he got S35 for a wrist watch
and bracelet. He next went to the
place of Irving We'll, So West 135th
Street, and pawned princes diamond
ring, said to be worth $500, for S66. As
this stotre he saaid he bought a watch
for SIP and a knife for So
Kellys arrest was brought about
through the report of Pansky of the
pawning of wrist watch similar to the
one stolen from the Clark home. He
identified a picture of Kelly in the
Rogues' Gallery as the man who had
pawned the watch. Mrs. Clark also
negro who had visited the Robinson
woman at her home on Thanksgiving
night The Robinson woman at first
said that the man who visited her was
Watson. She identified the picture in
the Rogues' Gallery and finally admitted
it was Kelly.
Arrest Follows Tip
Detectives watching the Kelly home
Friday night saw his wife, Mrs. Emma
Kelly, go to telephone booth in q
booth they heard Mrs Kelley make an
10 o'clock yesterday morning at the
Market Street Station of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. in Newark
Detectives Dowd and Reardon fol-
lowed Mrs. Kelly to Newark, but Act
ing Captain Sullivan and Detective
Brosnan got to Newark before her and
had arrested Kelly at the station At
Kelly was identified by
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark and the two pawn
brokers with whom he pledged the
jewelry stolen at the Clark home. Up
to the time of the appearance of the
Kelly had protested his
innocence. When he saw Pansky he
exclaimed "That's the man | pawned
the stuff with, III tell it all"
AS Kelly was being led back to his
cell after the confession he stopped
and kissed the Robinson woman. and
turning to the District Attorney, said:
Go light on her. Mr.. Lewis. Put all
the blame on me-"
Kelly is about six feet tall and about
forty years old He is light com
plexioned and dresses neatly He was
in the army from 1904 to 1912, serving
time in Fort Leavenworth prison and
correctional institutions in the Philip
pines. He was employed for time as
A porter at the elevated station at Troy
Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn,
where had also been employed the Nc
Donald woman as ticket agent.
1t was recalled by the police yester-
day that the Mcdonald woman had
last been seen leaving her home with
A tall, dark-skinned person, who was
thought by neighbors to have been a
Spaniard or Italian.
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