Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-09-27
Lamb|e Is First On Trial
As kupfer fanny Case
Opens At Elizabeth
indictments Against Two Men
Charged With Murder of
Local Couple Severed.
BY SPECIAL Correspondent.


ELIZABETH. Sept. 27-Harold
v. Lamble, alias George Brandon,
one of the men charged with the
double murder of Edith fanny and
Arthur L. Kupfer at Railway on
August %, 1918. is on trial before
Judge Bergen in the Union county
criminal court, Elizabeth, this morn
Ing. The indictments against
Charles Perchand. the other man,
and Lamble, were severed before the
start of the trial. The arrest of the
men was due to. the work of Pros
ecutor Walter l.. Hetfield, Jr., and
Chief of County Detective John A.
Galation from Union county.
1t took one hour and twenty
minutes to pick the jury, thirty chal-
lenges being made, the majority of
which were made by the counsel for
the defendant, Frank McDermitt, of
Newark, Prosecutor Hetfield repre-
senting the state at this trial.
The jury serving is as follows:
Eugene D. Miller. Roselle; Will
liam II. Whiting, Elizabeth; Everett
Alley, Union township; Nathan
Block, Elizabeth; William F. Ran
dolph, Elizabeth; John F. Ruhl,
Hillside: Arthur E. Lloyd, Elizabeth;
John E. Seton, Elizabeth; John J.
Ewing, Elizabeth; James A. Hanley,
Elizabeth: James Carter, Fanwood,
and Max K. Kepple, Elizabeth.
In outlining the case Prosecutor
Hetfield opened by saying that on
August FL. 1918. Edith fanny, about
thirty years ola went automobile
along the shore road to Soldiers.
They returned to Perth Amboy about
IL o'clock. There two of the party
left the automobile and she contin-
iling with Arthur L. Kupfer. Miss
Jsnny and Kupfer then rode about
the country until 1880 o'clock on
the morning of August 22. About
that time Kupfer and Miss fanny
were stopped at Perth Amboy by
man who asked If they would give
him lift to Railway.
Lamble according to Prosecutor
Hetfeid's charge. requested the lift
into Railway in order to make the
2:10 o'clock train into New York.
After, asking Kupfer for ride and
finding it was alright, he beckoned
Charles Perchand. his companion
who was about $50 feet away, to
come to the car. Kupfer consented
to taking the two men into Railway.
The two men talked to Kupfer,
after which the latter asked If
either of the men could drive, and
Perchand stated that he could on
account of owning a car of his own.
leave Perchand drive the car. and
the fanny girl moved over to the
extreme right of the front seat in
order to leave three in the front
part of the car. Brandon then got
into the rear of the automobile and
the trip for Railway started.
Prosecutor Hetfield at this point
stated that I'VE will show how they
drove out st. Georges avenue and
turned into Milton avenue" Just as
they approached the home of DR..
Moore, superintendent of the Rah-
way reformatory. Kupfer made the
near there. The depot is only about
a block and a half away" A few
seconds, or possibly a minute, the
prosecutor stated, elapsed before
two shots were fired. The car was
then right in front of DR.. Moore's
home. :
Immediately Perchand said my
God, what have you done" and stop
ped the car. Brandon alighted from
the car and said to Perchand get
the girl" and then Brandon grab
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him in the road, getting back into the
car and ordered the driver to go on,
asking what he was waiting for. The
girl sitting in the front seat was ap-
parently dead. The car then con-
tinued about a mile and half, and
then Brandon ordered stop the car
and throw out the girl" but this or
der was not obeyed and Brandon had
to do, it himself. He took the girl
and put her in a clump of bushes
alongside the road.
After leaving the girl along the
road the car continued for half
mile when Brandon ordered the car
to stop. jumped out, saying Il have
enough money to take me to New
York" He left. saying he would
meet Perchand in the morning. Per-
chand continued with the car for
another half mile when he too
abandoned it and also made his way
to New York. The next morning
the two men met and Brandon ask
ed what was done with the car, and
when he was told that II was left In
Jersey he became anxious.
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