Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-31

Twelve pages iOns- Snt mas salu HHuSH
more since.
inspect Two Cartridges.
Three investigators. among them
Mr.. Mason. spent an hour yesterday
trying to see whether there was any
! connection between two cartridges
found on Sunday. six and half
weeks after the crime, and the muir
der. The cartridges were special 80
cslibre. long, not intended for a
Colts automatic such as the murde err
or used. They were found in place
that has been trampled over by
hundreds since the crime. Whether
they dropped from the pocket of
some man stroliing in the neighbor-
hood at night, or were deliberately
planted to be so found. 1t was estab-
lished that they were not used in
the slayer's gun.
1t seems a pity that a story so
full OF unusual characters has TO
subordinate a gravedigger, but Sig
gerty Smith. also known as Lut
Smith, whose real name is Sigourney
Smith, has been subordinated.
Smith lives in the Fraley house,
across DE Russey's lane from the
Philadelphia farm. and he is grave
digger in the Elmwood Cemetery, far
away across town. He Is another of
those unprepossessing characters
that have figured in this case. He
has a huge nose and bad teeth and
a temper he Is not loathe to display.
When an attempt was made 10 In
tervlew him yesterday he said with
a snari:
II want money. that's what I
want; money. Understand thatf"
Then he said. with an oath or two
or three. that the State troopers hac
told him not 10 talk.
According to the story that has
been in circulation for several
weeks. Smith said to a man he met
on q trolley car on Friday, Septen-
Der is, the day after the murder:
There was a murder, out my way
last night"
The bodies were not discovered by
Raymond Schneider and Pearl Bah
mer until on Saturday, so II Smith
had really said that Il would indicate
he had known about the killing long
before anyone else except the wo-
man who says she saw It.
Mason and the State troopers
questioned Smith yesterday and he
told them he had never made the re-
mark They know of no way OF
proving that he did and so they
have had TO let this drop, too. at
least for n while. But it is hardly be- /
ievable that no one in the Fraley ,
rouse heard the shots or the screams {
70 close is the house to the crab i
apple tree that was, until the souve- !
iir hunters got II. q
The explanation OF the Fraleys i
Ind Smith is that there is a piano
md a photograph in the house and G
hat a young man in the family v
,lays the phonograph all the time, a
whether some one Is playing the e
,iano or not. Smith said II was {
that on the night of the r
murder both instruments we're in Y
Use at once and no one could hear {
| thing. Mrs Fraley told interview Q
RS weeks ago that every one in the
house was asleep early and that II
hey heard the shots they would !
have paid no attention. so frequent
ire the shootings in the foreign set
dement's near by. Smith said:
"sleepl Who the ---- could sleep
With that - photograph going oil
he timer"
Smiths chief acquaintance are
wo other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
benton, of 900 Livingston avenue.
which is as aerie and awe inspiring
lonely shack as can be found in Il
r near New Brunswick. and Myron a
'ollard. tall. gaunt Individual with
faculty for forgetting, who would \
rake an ideal gravedigger in play. :,
10th these men were reported as a
aving heard Smith make this re-
lark on the Friday, but both de- -
led that he had said a word TO 4
lem about the murder until IL was @
NO weeks old. Yet IL occurred al 81
lost in Smiths front yard. o.
The finding OF a gold cum link on W
le Phillips farm a week after the OF
Iurder became known yesterday. m
he link was engraved with the
Tree letters wv. l.. S" and on the 81
all end of the link was inscribed m
1909" This link has been turn al
/ in to the authorities and they W
ave refused 70 say anything about IL
The link was discovered by r. r. it
nlenberg, of 10 Suydam street, al
no, with friend. was inspecting st
lie scene. As he walked up the n,
ont steps OF the old Phillips farm "a
ouse his eye was attracted by the a,
int OF gold. and he stopped and Is
cked up the link, which, from its =,
,pearance, had been there for some
me. He said nothing at the time, ;,
At took the link TO a local jeweler -
I'd asked him 10 make out the :.
ltials Of the scrool monogram. ~
hen he told one or two of his ~
lends, and word got 10 the local re
ithorities, who asked him to turn WI
'er the link. ~
A second appeal from Charlotte hs
ills, daughter OF the dead woman, w
Gov. Edwards, was made public
At night. with an appeal which the
ri is supposed to have written to la
.e citizens OF New Jersey pleading civ
n action on the case. The mes nj
.ge 70 the Governor was a tele- Ia
am and the appeal TO the citizens IN
as made through New Jersey tn
swspaper. The appeal to the clti- rl
ms read: Ia
More than six weeks ago the body I'm
my mother was found. do not ~
now nor am interested In the ~,
rents that led TO this crime which W
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