Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-01-31
HOLD HUSBAND
Of DEAD WOMAN
While No Charges Have Been
Made, VIM. FitzSimmons is
Being Questioned by Police
HEAD ALMOST CUT 0FE
Found in Cold Blood in Home
While Children Were Near
by - Too Young to Talk


BY spec Correspondent.
WOOL BRIDGE, Jan. 31:-Work~
ing on the theory that nineteen-year-
old May Fitzsimmons. wife of Will
liam Fitzsimmons, thirty-two years
old. was murdered Saturday morn-
ing at their home. No. 2 Thompson
street, Woodbridge and county po-
lice officials are today endeavorinE
to secure from the husband, whn-
is being held. Information which /
might help in solving the mystery
The husband was arrested yesterday
and held in the Woodbridge Jail to
await examination. no charge being
preferred against him at the time
The murder was one of the most
cold -blooded ever brought to the at
tention of the Woodbridge and
county officials, the young wife's
throat being slashed from ear to
ear so that the head was almost
severed. 1t is believed that long.
sharp knife or a razor was used but
the weapon has not been found as
yet.
All ideas OF suicide were expelled
when the police and county detec-
tives visited the house and carried
on minute investigation The
young woman was found fully dress
ed, lying upon the floor of a bedroom
in the rear on the second floor OF
the house, in a pool OF blood No
signs of a struggle were apparent.
as her clothing was not disarranged
and there was no blood spattered
about the room except in the one
spot in which the body was found
The husband of the Inurdere4
woman-laas denied that he E--2
trouble with her before le n FOR
" ork saturday morning {ciaims
to Know nothing Of the or he. He
told ne Woodbridge police and
county detectives lie had been
awakened by his wife at the usual
hour Saturday morning. that he had
the house at 7.3O O'Clock after
breakfasting and punched the time
clock at Camp Raritan. where he is
employed as an assembler. at 7:5s-
He said he walked from his home
to Fords and then took a trolley 10
Camp Raritan.
The first he knew of the murder.
the husband said. was when he was
told shortly before noon. He was
taken to the house and failed -
show any emotion, the authorities
say. Fltzsimmons wore such Y,ss
culiar look-which the officers took
for a grin-he was asked why +
was laughing at such time. Ee
failed to answer their question. and
instead asked; Have you any
clues?"
BY the time Fitzsimmons was
brought to the house in which the
murder had been committed the
body of his wife had been removed
to another room and covered with
a sheet. When asked if he cared TO
look at it. the husband is said to
have answered that he was not anx-
ious 10 do so. He is said 10 have
even forgotten the presence of his
two children. Helen. years old. and
Anna. l year old. He asked. how
ever. if the COW had been MIXED.
and when told that il had not pro-
ceeded to do so one of the officers
said.
Blood stains were found upon the
shoes of Fitzsimmons, but he ex-
planned their presence by saying
that he had killed two chickens
Friday night. which he had planned
To take 10 his parents in New York
city on Sunday. Two dead chickens
were found in the cellar of the
house. but the blood on the hus-
bands shoes will be analyzed. prob
ably at the Smith Laboratories in
New Brunswick, to determine
whether il was human blood or
that from the chickens.
When questioned yesterday in
the Woodbridge police station by
Assistant Prosecutor John e. Toolar
of Perth Amboy, County Detectives
Ferd A David and William Fitzpaf-
dick and Chief of Police Patrick
W. Murphy. Fitzsimmons is. said 20
have made several contradictory
statements. Chief MuEphy after
carefully searching the house for
any knife or razor which the mur-
derer might have used. and also for
any discarded clothing which might
have been stained with blood. con-
Quoted a search Of the 81 rounding
woods for fully an hour in order to
come upon any clues which might
help in solving the murder.
The murder was discovered about
II o'clock Saturday morning by
eleven year old Lizzie Zambo. girl
living in the neighborhood of this
Fitzsimmons house, who was in the
habit of going on errands for Mrs.
Fitzsimmons. The girl told the po-
lice she went 70 the house about 3
O'Clock Saturday morning to get
some money for groceries and a pa
per she was going to buy in town
for the young wife, Entering the
kitchen she found the baby in
baby carriage and the two year old
daughter sitting in the high chair.
She called 10 Mrs. Fitzsimmons but
received no answer
The girl then proceeded to TIE
other room on the first floor and
not finding the wife there went ur-
stairs. She looked into the bed
room occupied generally by Mrs.
Fitzsimmons and her two Children
but saw no one. The door 10 Fitz-
simmons bedroom was shut. The
girl tried 10 open it but It did not
readily open and she did not per-
sist She said she thought nh8
heard someone walking lightly il
the other room and called but ro>
ceived no answer.
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