Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-09
MAN HELD FOR
ATTACK TRIES
To PROVE AL|B|
Says He Did Not Come to SOL
diers Home Until Week
Alleged AssaiIant
MRS. CLARK TO BE CALLED
To Prosecutors Office in an
Effort to Identify Her
Alleged ASsailant

SPOTSWOOD, March 9.-Mrs,
Theodore. Clark of Somerville road,
who on Saturday, February "a, was
brutally attacked at her home by
an unknown men, rendering her un-
conscious and set her clothes af1re,
is expected to be called to the prose-
cutor's Office in an effort to try to
identify Hugh Murray, alias Henry
j. Murray, disabled soldier who is
being held in the county jail at New
Brunswick awaiting further investi-
cation by county detectives as to
his Whereabouts on the day the
crime was committed.
Murray's aIibi is that he visited
the Veterans Bureau In New York
on Friday, March 2, and at their
recommendation was sent to the sol.
diers' home in Outcalt, thus attempts
ing to prove that he did not come to
this district until a week after the
attack on Mrs. Clark.
According to information received
from the Jamesburg police yesterday
Chief Fillhower, who arrested MUIR
ray on Tuesday night after he ap-
piled for police protection in fear OF
being shot by Nathan Roller, of this
borough, took Murray to Mrs. Clark
who is alleged to have identified
Murray saying:
That's him, that's him." and
fainting after uttering the words
The county authorities, however,
declared that Mrs. Clark could not
definitely identify Murray, but said
that he looks much like him."
Murray, according to tn story hs
told to the county authorities came
to Outcalt last Friday. The next
day he went to Spotswood, he said,
to see If Miss Myrtle Roller With
whom he eloped a year ago, waa
still there. Murray and Miss Roller
could not get a marriage license due
to the mans physical disability and
later they separated. The girl has
married since.
The sight of Murray is said to have
angered Nathan Roller, brother of
the girl he eloped with, and accorG
ing to the story, Roller was after
him with a shotgun. The authorities
have not established the truth OF
Murray's statement. ,15.
Has Real Alibf
NEW BRUNSWICK. March 9.-r
The county authorities in tracing
down the statements of Henry l.,
Murray, held here on suspicion Of
attacking Mrs. Clarke in Spotswood,
found that Murray had real alibi
| in connection with the case. Charles
Collins. county detective, returned
Today from New York and confirmed
that Murray worked from February
! 2 to % as janitor for Edward Nc
GIynn, 1927 Madison avenue, New
York, spending most of the time in
side the house. McGlynn discharged
him on account of his demented con-
dition. McGlynn also confirmed the
fact that Murray sustained a cut on
his finger while working at the
furnace.
However, Murray's story about the
visit to the veterans bureau in New
York on March was denied by the
officials of that organization. 1t was
said there that in 1920 Murray ap-
piled for relief and was advised to
go to Massachusetts,, his original
home.
Chief of County Detectives Ferd
A. David, upon the alibi. will release
Murray from custody this afternoon.
Other suspects in the case are ex-
pected to be. called for examination,
in order to dispose of charges
against them.