The New York herald., 1921-10-08
boy UNDER ARREST
AS SLAYER OF GIRL
STABBED Is Times
NeighbOr of Janette Law
renee, IL Years Old, Held
at Madison, n. J.
TRAGEDY NEAR HOME
Body Bound With Rope Is
Found Within Few
Hours of Crime.
ACCUSED LARGE FOR AGE
Actions During Search Arouse
Cncnso;1rc 0o;I fn uoua
TRAGEDY NEAR HOME
ACCUSED LARGE FOR AGE
Actions During Search Arouse
Suspicions-Said to Have
Been Seen With Victim.


Francis Kluxen, IA, Of Madison,
N. j., was arrested late last night
and is being held at Police Headquar-
ters charged with the murder of
Janette Lawrence, IL years old, who
was attacked and then stabbed
twenty-five times with a penKnife
early Thursday night. The girls
body, with her feet and hands tied
with hemp rope, was found about
an hour after the murder lying be-
hind log in clump of woods owned
by young Kluxen's father. Frank
Kluxen.
Shortly after he was arrested the
boy was arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Schoneberger on a COM
plant charging him ION information
and belief" with the murder of the
girl. and the Justice ordered the
Madison police to hold him until the
County Prosecutor could reach Madi-
son and conduct an examination.
1t was said at Morristown early
this morning that the Prosecutor had
started for Madison as soon as he
received word of the arrest, and
would hold a hearing as soon as he
arrived there. On this hearing will
depend whether the boy will be held
for the Grand Jury. If he is he will
bs transferred to the county jail at
Morristown.
Movements watched Closely.
Young Kluxen was questioned yes
terday afternoon by county detectives
and by detectives who went to Madi-
son from Newark to help investigate
the crime, but was released and al
police continued to keep him under
surveillance and to investigate certain
occurrences which, they declared, es-
tablished to a certain extent his pos
sible connection with the crime.
Young Kluxen is large for his age,
and, accor ding to the police. recently
was dismissed from school because of
his conduct. The authorities said last
night that two or three hours before
the girls body was discovered he asked
her to go into the woods with him, but
that she refused. Late last night. at
ter the detectives had been working on
the case for more than twenty-four
hours. Lieut. william Ryan Of the
Madison police department went to
the Kiuxen home and took the boy to
police headquarters. There he was
locked up on complaint Of the chief OF
police, Fred H. johnson.
The authorities said soon after the
boys arrest that suspicion pointed to
him first during the search for the
girls. body in the Kluxen woods. He
was with his mother while a policeman
was talking to the elder Kluxen. and
the policeman noticed that young
KIuxen was very pale and trembling
violently. The boys father went away
with some other men. but all the Toy
would say In response TO questions BY
the officer was awful! awfuiv'
The policeman made a report to Chief
Johnson about the actions or the boy
and he was placed under surveillance
at once. The police also said they had
learned that the boy. armed with
small rifle, went into the woods to hunt
shortly before the girl Is believed TO
have started through on her way home.
Seighbors have told the police that
they heard several shots fired in the
woods during the late afternoon.
Used Rope on Victim.
The rope used by the murderer. ac-
cording to Sheriff Ethelbert Byram Of
Norris county. Us the sort that is used
I'm the greenhouses near Madison and
Floral Park. and the knot which the man
tied was a rose knot" the sort OF knot
that the greenhouse workers use In tying
bundles OF rose bushes for shipment
For these two reasons Sheriff Byram
and County Detective Brennan believed
the person who committed the crime Is.
or has been at one time. an employee of
one OF the firms In the rose growing In
dustry.
The Town Counc,. or madison. offered
a reward OF loo for the arrest Of the
murderer, and this brought out much
volunteer aid In the search. But tho
orIy person the Sheriff and the Madison
police had under suspicion last night
vas Francis Klaxen. Jr.. who Is said
n have asked the girl to go into the
woods with him during the early
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