The New York herald., 1921-10-10
SEARCH FOR SLAYER
OF GIRL, IL, WIDENS
Two Mysterious Suspects
Sought in Towns Near
Scene of Murder.
MANIAC, ONE THEORY
Knot Used in Tying Victim
Is Peculiar to Green
house Work.
EXPECT TO CLEAR BOY
Police Seem Convinced That
Grown Man of Degenerate
Type Committed Crime.
EXPECT TO CLEAR BOY

more than 4VV Ieet from her home.
One Of these men, seen by Mrs. F. L..
Van Etten on the day after the mur-
der, was reported late last night to
be under arrest as a suspect either at
Edgewater or Leonia, but the police Of
both those towns said that they knew
nothing of the case. Despite this fact,
however, County Detective Edward
Brennan and Sheriff Ethelbert Byram
Of Morris county went to Edgewater
in an automobile. but were told by the
Edgewater police that no one had been
arrested in that town in connection
with the murder.
The man that the police Of Madison
believed to have been arrested, ac-
cording to a story told by Mrs. Van
Etten, appeared to be about 45 years
old and was roughly dressed. He
seemed to be a foreigner. Mrs. Van
Etten said that late Friday afternoon
when she returned home she heard
some one in her cellar and she opened
the door. AS she did so, she said, the
lowered so that she could not see his
features.
Bolts Past Woman.
Get out of the way!'' ne shouted II
want to get out OF here!"
Mrs. Van Ettcn was both surprised
and afraid. She stepped to one side and
the man ran past her and into the street
without touching her or saying any
more. He was greatly excited. The po-
lice have not been able to find out what
he was doing In the Van Etten cellar
Nothing in any part OF the house had
been taken or disturbed.
After they learned that no one was
under arrest in Leouia or in Edgewater,
the Madison detectives went to Hacken-
sack and spent two hours questioning a
man who had been arrested and locked
up in the Hackensack Jail as a dis
orderly person. The jail officials thought
that the man might have some knowl-
edge Of the murder. as he pcrsistently
refused to tell where he was when the
girl was killed Detective Brennan said
after questioning the man that the
authorities were satisfied with his
answers and that he had nothing to do
with tn. murder of the Lawrence girl.
Another story which the police and
county authorities are investigating is
that Of man seen In the South Noun
tain Reservation. a park some twelve by
five miles and running from the out
skirts of Newark to the town of Mil
burn. Near Milburn on Saturday the
man was seen, wearing jumpers and
overalls which were stained. Several
persons saw him. but he seemed to be
nervous and frightened and ran when
sny one came near him. He was first
secn about o'clock in the afternoon.
and two hours later a man answering
his description was seen In East Orange
by George p. Thomas. Thomas told the
rolice that when he looked directly at
the stains on his clothing the man ran
A report covering the stories about this
man has been made to the Morris county
authorities BY Chief Gilhooley Of the
Essex Park Commission police force.
Mystery About Girls Meal.
1t became known last night In Msdi-
son that the autopsy performed upon
the body of the girl showed that she had
eaten meat and potatoes only a short
time before her death. The police and
the county authorities have not been
food, as so far as they can find out the
girl ate nothing before leaving the home
OF Mrs James A. G. Sandt to 20 homo.
They arc trying to find whether she went
into another house In the neighborhood,
or whether she met someone who gave
her food.
The presence Of the food in the girls
stomach has been one of the most puz-
zling features of the case. Any food
that she might have eaten before leav-
ing her own home to go to that OF Mrs.
Sandt would have been digested by the
time she left later in the afternoon.
The only explanation the police can
offer is that she might have eaten at
the Sandt home before Mrs. Sandt ar
rived, that she might have gone into
another house. or that food might have
been given to her by her murderer.
County Detective boyd Hedley was
sent to Dover. n. j.. last night TO ques-
ton John Earl, a fourteen-year-oId boy
who lives near the woods In wnich the
girls body was found On the after
noon of the murder, the boy is supposed
70 have said. he saw a man hiding be-
hind tree in the woods. In few min
utes the man ran into the woods This
was about fifteen minutes after the girl
had left the home of Mrs. Jam ls A. II.
Sandt to go home. The earl boy went
10 Dover yesterday to attend a rally
OF the Holy Name Society. but Sheriff
Byram attaches such Importance TO
the clue that he sent Detective Hedley
to Dover to question the boy.
Greenhouse Worker suspected.
The county authorities let II be known
last night that they are not working
on the theory that the girl was killed
by Francis Kluxen. Jr.. the fourteen
year-old boy who was arrested by the
Madison police and who has been re-
leased on $4,000 bail. The Sheriff and
the county detectives believe that the
crime was committed by a mantac and
"a degenerate OF the worst type, and
they believe still that he was or is an
employee OF ono OF the greenhouses be-
cause he used hemp rope and tied II
with knot which is used particularly
In tying rosebrshes for shipment A
duck pond In Itluxen Woods will be
dragged to-day In the search for clues.
The Kluxen boy remained in his house
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