The evening world., 1921-02-11
MAN FOUND SLAIN,
FMYSTERY;
z 2IDENTIFICATIONS
First Believed to Be Husband
of Child Bride He Had
Forced to Wed by Threat.
BUT HE TURNS UP O. K.
Then Believed to Be Husband
Of Rich Woman, and There
Is Hint of Bigamy.

CAMDEN, N. j., Feb. 1.-THE
police OF this city and of Wilmington,
Del, have on their hands a mystery
involving the murder or suicide of a
man, the positive identification Of
him as two different persons, a pos
sible case of bigamy and an alleged
marriage which took place under
threat Of murder, and they hope to
get some sort of solution of the
tangle through the arrest here Of
William +. Walker.
He was taken prisoner this morn
ing upon his return TO the home of
his sixteen-year-o bride, formerly
Dorothy McCabe, at No. 243 Kaighn
Avenue The police report that let
ters belonging to the dead man in
the case have been found in Walkers
possession.
The mystery begins with the state
ment Of Mrs McCabe tho girls
mother, and the girl herself, that at
a dinner in restaurant on Jan. 25
Walker threatened 10 shoot them
both unless the girl agreed to marry
him. She was a worker In a mission
conducted by the Kaighn Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, and ne
had attended services there. They
consented and Walker took them to
the Rev. William G.. Rum, pastor OF
the church, and they were married
that day. Mr.. Rum noticed that the
girl had been crying, but set II down
TO nervousness.
Walker disappeared two days later
and on Jan. 20 there was found In
Brandywine Spring Park, Wilmington,
the body of u man, (which lay on
carefully placed newspapers. He had
been shot through the mouth, and
beside the body, by which was "a re-
volver, was note addressed TO Doro-
thy McCabe purporting 10 be signed
by Walker.
The young bride hastened to Will
mington expecting to find her hus-
band dead, especially as a brother in
Baltimore was said 10 have Identified
William f. Walker. But she found,
instead, that the body was that OF a
man aged ffty. whereas Walker Is
only thirty-s,N, and a few days later
it was identified as that of Charles
Smith, living at the Cedars VIII
mington. Smiths marriage 10 Mrs.
Smith, who Is reported 20 be rich, o.
CURED q week before his death. He
disappeared from home four days
after the wedding. When the body
was found his watch was missing.
The Identification OF Smith seemed
correct in view Of the fact that few
! days later the girl bride received a
note. unsigned, but In what Is said
to be Walkers handwriting, written
In Reading, pa. After that the police
maintained watch al the McCabe
home and the arrest this morning
| followed
The next complication In the case
came through the otiice OF Attorncy
General f.. y. Townsend OF Delaware.
Re reported that the smith body had
been Identified as that Of her hus-
Daul by Mrs. George RgIcy OF Phila-
| |delphia. This was supported by the
statement that the initials -. r."
we're found in Smiths" hat Now
/ the police are wondering whothc-
they have not come upon q case OF
! bigamy.
Attorney General Townsend has
notified the Camden authorities laat
/ IN spite OF the verdict Of the coroner s.
! iur, that smith" had committed
| suicide, be was positive be had been
murdered and that full invest ga
! ton would be made, Meanwhile
| Walker is being held al Police Head
quarters here 10 await the action OF
the Wilmington authorities and pos
siDie action against him here.