Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-10-13
BOY, IA, DENIES
KILLING GIRL, Il
Madison, n, j, Lad Released
In $4,000 Ball.
PROSECUTOR HTS ARREST
Victim Was Attacked in New Jersey
Woods and Then Stabbed rs Times.
z $1,000 Reward For Slayer

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z $1,000 Reward For slayer.
) Madison, \. j. - Francis Klux-
en-, Jr., IA, who was arrested In
connection with the murder Of 12-year-
old Janey Lawrence was released In
$4,000 bail after a hearing before SUI
preme Court Justice Parker
He had been held in the Morristown
Jail for safekeeping. The evidence in
the case will be presented to the grand
jury
The boy denied he had stabbed the
girl twenty-five times with pocket
knife and hidden her outraged body
behind log In clump of trees, known
as Kluxen wood.
Authorities did not reveal the In
formation that led to his arrest. In
the warrant in which they charged him
with the murder there was no state
ment of evidence that might connect
the boy with the crime.
The Kluxens are one Of the wealth.
est families In Mddlesex county. They
live only a short distance from the
scene of the murder. 5sfs..
Suspicion first fell on him when he
took part In a search for the missing
girl before her body was discovered.
A policeman searching the woods said
he noticed the boy was trembling.
This was told to the chief Of police
and he ordered the boy held at home
after the body was discovered. The
warrant waa -evnrn ont tsraira honra
later.
John NJ. Mills, the county prosecutor,
condemned the arrest of Kluxen.
1.-The arrest was made without my
cognizance or direction" he said He
declared young Kluxen's attorney
would make speedy arrangements for
his release.
Mills declared many of the rumors
which had been circulated following
the arrest OF Kluxen had been proved
grOundless. He said he had heard
that Kluxen's trousers were torn and
stained with blood, but that on in
vestigation he had found that the boy
and his father had been pressing
grapes during the afternoon and the
stain was caused by Juice from the
grapes.
Mills blamed the town council Of
Madison for the arrest
'-Tbey were In New York when the
girls body was found, and when they
returned and found no one had been
arrested yet, they ordered young Klux-
en- taken into custody" Mills said
From a girl chum Of the murder
victim the police learned that while
JaDette was on her way to the home
of J. A. G. Sandt, In Fairview avenue,
about $50 O'Clock Thursday night, to
mind the Sandt children, she was met
by young Kluxen.
1t is said that this girl told Chief
johnson that Kluxen invited Janette
to accompany him into the wood and
that she refused.
The borough council at a meeting
attended by more than 800 persons,
voted a reward of $1,000 for evidence
leading to the identity of the slayer.
The hempen cord clue, through which
the police hoped to connc" It an EN-
ploye of some of the numerous green
houses in the vicinity with the rrime,
has thus far proved fruitless. The
cord with which the hands Of the girl
had been tied was Of the sort almost
universally used for tying shrubbery,
and the knot was what is known as a
"rose knot"
More than thirty men, known to be
employees of greenhouses, were ques-
ffnnad h11f In al, Of
alibi was established.