Evening star., 1925-09-08
NOEL WILL FACE
MURDER CHARGE
Prosecution to Go on Premise
He Is Sane-lndiCtment
Expected Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

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MONTCLAIR. n. j.. September s.
Indictments against Harrison Noel,
alleged slayer of 6-year-old Mary DAILY,
and of Raymond Pierce. negro taxicab
driver, may be asked tomorrow of
the outgoing Essex County grand
jury. Acting Prosecutor d'Aloia an
nounced today. The case would be
expedited IL the old jury can be
brought to act, Mr.. d'Aloia said, avoid
ing the necessity of waiting upon
the meeting OF the Fall jury, which
will be sworn September Is
The prosecutor said today that
Noel's case would proceed with the
assumption that he is sane. Mean
while the Essex County board of free
holders prepared for a meeting today
at Overlook Hospital for the Insane
to investigate Soel's record there. The
investigation Swill determine, it was
announced. Whether any one is to be
held responsible for the release of
Noel, wig was committed to Over
brook eafly this year and Is said to
have walked out June 20.
WiIl Face Murder Charge.
= Noel is listed at the hospital as an
ieloped patient" 1t was said he went
and sent to Bellevue Hospital. He
was released from the latter institu-
ton. officials there said. on the prom
Use of his father to be responsible for
him.
In Passaic County Noel will face
charges of murder of the Daily child
and of assault and battery with intent
TO kill growing out of the alleged
shooting of John Sandin, chauffeur,
who gave chase to Mary's kidnaper
in an automobile. Charges pending
in Essex County include the murder
of Pierce, kidnapping of the child and
theft of the car which Noel used.
Noel pleaded guilty vest erday to
the kidnapping charge He denied he
shot and killed the girl or Raymond
Pierce, negro taxicab driver, to get
an automobile for the abduction. He
awaits arrangement on charges of
numbering the girl and wounding
John Sandin, chauffeur, who gave
chase after the kidnapping. Sunday he
confessed with boaStfulness and grin
to all of the crimes.
Call Him Insane.
Capt. James A. Mason, head of
Essex County detectives. says Noel is
''hopelessly insane" A committee of
alienists Is 10 be sought by John A.
Bigelow, prosecutor of Essex County.
to examine the youth. If found in
State hospital at Trenton. II he Is
found sane his plea of guilty to the
kidnapping charge exposes him to
sentence of life imprisonment. There
is no lesser sentence for that crime
in New Jersey.
Three persons have narrowly es.
capped death at Noel's hands, records
at the county insane asylum at over
brook show Noel escaped from the
asylum two months ago after five
months confinement at the request
of his parents. Recaptured, he was
released on his parents promise to
keep him home.
Attacked His Father.
Noel attacked his father. asleep in
a tent on a camping trip, with Boy
Scout hatchet in 1929 Confined in
the Craig Sanitarium at Beacon, N. Y.
he beat an attendant insensible with
the arm of a chair. Last year, as a
seaman on a transatlantic liner, he
tried to kill cook.
An investigation of the handling of
Noel's case at the Overlook Asylum
is under way by J. A. Earl, chairman
of the state board of control, at the
request of Gov. Silzer.
Mr.. Earl criticized Noel's parents.
The youths father is Dix W. Noel. a
well-to-do New York lawyer. His
mother, Anne Noel, is a magazine
writer.
Authorities said they found that
Noel's penchant for money had been
noticeable for years. The idea for a
| KIDNAPPING plot and $4,000 ransom,
they said, had been in his mind for a
long time. His last few years were
crammed with eccentricities.
Tried to Leave Harvard.
He funked his junior year at Mont
clair High School. made up the work
with a tutor, entered Harvard in 1922
and was asked to leave before the
midyear examinations. Letters to his
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