Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-09-19
FAIL To FIND
ANY TRACE Of
MISSING MAN
General Alarm Sent Out for
Z Harvey SeIhaver, Miss
ing Farmland Lover
MORE DETAILS LEARNED
Girls Death May Have Been
Caused by 80 CaIibre
Bullet

NEW BRUNSWICK. Sept. 19-The
-emains of fifteen year old Elizabeth
johnson. who was myteriously mur.
dered more than month ago neal
her home at Aqueduct, were buried
yesterday afternoon in Van LEV
cemetery on the outskirts of New
Brunswick-the same cemetery II
which Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills
who was slain with Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall. was buried Just two
years ago. The Hall-Mills murderer
was never found and indications are
that authorities will have a difficult
task in finding the slayer of this
school girl.
The police believe that Harvey
Eelhaver. formerly employed by the
girls father as a farm hand, is the
man who killed Elizabeth as the re-
suit of a suicide pact. failing, how
ever, to end his own life after he
/, had shot the girl. neighbor of the
yJohnson's has told the authorities of
selling Selhaver a .22 calibre revol-
yer. The hole found in the girls
lkull was at first said to have been
caused by .22 calibre bullet. bul
now Coroner Hubbard is not at all
certain about this detail. having de-
clareu lQat lQIlllCl Va
the no. showed it to be large enough
for a .32 calibre bullet to pass
through.
Ii death was caused by 80 call
bre revolver bullet and Selhaver had
only a .22 calibre revolver in his
possession, the possibilities of some
one other than Selhaver having COM
mitted the murder are seen.
Despite the difference of opinion
as to what size bullet caused the
girls death, the police have agreed
that the first thing to do is to locate
Selhaver and question him. 1t is
the general belief that the man Is
alive and in hiding some place. A
general alarm for his arrest has been
sent out and clues of all sorts are
being run down in an effort to trace
his movements after the girl dlsap-
appeared last August.
The report that a man had at
tempted suicide by jumping in front
of fast line car between Milltown
and Trenton has been investigated
by the authorities and it Is definitely
established that the man, who is now
In st. Francis Hospital, Trenton, Is
not Selhaver.
The burial service for the slain
girl was held in a tent, erected over
the grave in Van Lew Cemetery
yesterday afternoon. Only tht
mother. father and two sisters of the
girl were present to mourn the loss
OF the murdered girl. all going to
the cemetery in one automobile
There were no flowers. Rev. A
Raymond Eckles, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Plainsboro
at whcih place Elizabeth attended
Sunday school, conducted the funer-
al service. During the service the
mother broke down and the grief
stricken woman had to be helped
to the car by her husband who also
was moved to tears as the body was
lowered in the grave.
Earlier in the day Mrs. johnson
had been questioned further by the
authorities with reference to Sci
haver's actions about the farm
while he was employed there. Mrs
johnson identified the handwriting
in the suicide pact note, found tori
TO bits near the girls body as tha
oe Selhaver and said he possessed
|. an indelible pencil. The note hat
4 been written with such a pencil.
Asked to relate the incident.
which took place at the time Sell
haver left the farm after he hat
been given two days notice to 81
away by Elizabeths father, Mrs
Johnson said she was carrying a pal
of water to the house on August Il
when Selhaver started 20 leave tn,
house, suitcase in hand. Good bye
= Forgive me. J Will forgive you" h
said, according to Mrs. Johnson
statement. To which she said sh'
replied: Don't treat any others Al
you have treated me-. Mrs. johnson
explained the meaning of her re
mark to the police. pointing out tha
Selhaver was at least ten years olde
than Elizabeth and she did not wan
to see him intimidate and make low
to any other young girls of this age
Allen Smith, colored, of Carterei
p1eaded guilty to charge O