Evening star., 1925-09-09
STATE PREPARES CASE.
Hospital Head Silent on Elder Noel's
Charges.

MONTCLAIR, N. j., September 9
| CP.-Police denied today that they
were looking for an accomplice Of
Harrison Noel, kidnaper and slayer.
Meanwhile Acting Prosecutor D'Aloia
proceeded to compile the case for
presentation to the outgoing grand
| jury.
A report that Noel was with an
other person who aided him in the
| kidnapping of Mary Daily was said to
| have originated with witnesses to the
! escapade. Police said it had been
suggested to them that an accomplice
may have had a part in taking the
| life of the Daily child or of Raymond
| Pierce, negro chauffeur. but credence
| was not given to this belief, they said.
Mrs. William j. Began, wife of the
police chief of Cedar Grove, said that
| when she saw Noel's automobile drive
| by her home man was Slumped in
| the rear seat.
The County Board of Freeholders
may meet today again to consider the
| incident of Noers "elopment" from
Essex County Hospital at Overlook,
| said Mr.. D'Aloia. DR.. Guy Payne,
superintendent of the hospital. would
make no statement today concerning
the charges of Noels father in New
York last night.
Silent on Charges.
THE hospital record will speak for
itself" said DIR. Payne. II will leave
everything up to the board of free
holders. 1t is their responsibility to
determine the facts of the case and
they have the record to aid them"
Authorities in two counties are pre-
pairing to prosecute Noel on four
ma jor charges on the assumption that
ne is sane until otherwise proven by
defense counsel.
Indictments in Essex County for
the murder of Pierce and for the kid
naping of the girl may be sought
| today
| A formal charge of numbering Mary
was made against Noel yesterday by
Passaic County authorities at Newark.
| A charge of atrociouS assault on John
Sandin, whom Noel is alleged to have
shot in the head when Sandin sought
| to save Mary DAILY, was being with
| held pending action by Essex County
officials. In Recorders Court Noel
pleaded not guilty to the murder of
Pierce. whom he had told the police
he killed so as to get an automobile
for the abduction.
In charging Noel with the child's
murder, Passaic County Prosecutor
Deyoe said:
II do not expect to place Noel on
County authorities have prior claim
to him and it is likely that by the
time the Pierce murder charge is
disposed of 1t will be unnecessary to
bring him to trial here
The Passaic County grand jury list
was drawn yesterday. On the list of
35 names. % which % will be chosen
to convene on September %, when the
| Mary Daily murder charge is to be pre-
sented, are 13 women and one clergy
| man.
An official autopsy on the body of
Mary revealed that in addition to the
| two bullet wounds in the head and
| neck, the little girls skull had been
crushed and her back broken.
Victim Is Buried.
Mary was buried yesterday in Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City. The
funeral service was conducted at the
child's home here by the Rev. j. A.
McGeary, pastor of ST. Casion's Ro-
man Catholic Church, and Rev
| Thomas Curry, curate of the Church
of the Immaculate Conception, both of
Montclair. Relatives aHl family
friends attended. A crowd of more
than 500 persons watched outside the
house as the little white coffin, cover
ed with forget-me e-nots and ferns, was
placed in the hearse.
Apparently distracted by grief. an
uncle of the slain child attacked a
newspaper photographer and smashed
his camera. He was restrained by po
lice and placed I'm an automobile with
other mourners.
At the Montainside Hospital, Sandin
is reported to be improving.
The Essex County Board of Free
holders yesterday began a joint in
vestigation with J. A. Earl chairman
of the State Board of Control, in Noel's
escape and subsequent release from
the Overbrook Asylum several months
ago.