Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
FRAZER CONFESSES;;
SPENT NIGHT HERE
IN CAR WITH BODY
Suspect Says Mrs. Stader
Died When Shotgun in Car
Was Discharged.
PRISONER WILL RETURN
TO NEW JERSEY TONIGHT
Admission Made to Counsel and
Prosecutor After Long Cues
tioning at Raleigh.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. c., February 26.-Wil
liam M. Frazer of Railway, N. j., VIII,
today confessed to killing Mrs. Phoeb
Stader, also of Railway, accidentally
will be taken back to New Jersey to-
night.
This agreement was reached thi
afternoon by Abe j. David, New Jerse!
prosecutor, and A. A. Aronson, Frazer
local attorney, following two hours o
questioning, during which Frazer re-
lated in detail the events leading up t;
the death of Mrs. Stader.
Frazer told his questioners he spen
one night in Washington on his trjl
South with the body. The prisoner sale
he parked his car, with the body in it
on the street and slept in it. He sale
he did not know the name of the street
Frazier told officials he loved Mrs
Stader and had mo reason in the worlc
to kill her"
Valves ExtraditiOn.
Frazer, who was arrested here yes
terday, waived extradition. His mother
Mrs. Edna Frazer of Railway, was COM
municated with and said she will ar
range for his defense if he is brought
to trial.
Early this afternoon, officials had moi
definitely established the spot where
Mrs. Stader was killed, but Prosecutor
David said he would take Frazer to the
East on charges of deSertion, pending
the location of the exact scene OF the
crime.
Frazer, in a dictated statement, said
Mrs. Stader, whose nude body was
found at Bowling Green, Va, was killed
somewhere below Seffrrin. N. j., by the
accidental discharge Of his shotgun.
An autopsy at Railway today, how
ever, attributed the death to .22-cali-
Der bullet in the back of Mrs. Stader S
head.
Disposed Of Body.
After describing in detail the events
leading up to the killing. Frazer told
how he carried the woman's body in his
automobile from New Jersey to point
a few miles from where the body was
found.
He said he stopped his machine,
stripped of the woman's clothes. burned
them by the roadside, then drove sew
eral miles into the woods, where the
body was abandoned.
Prosecutor David said Frazer made
the following statement:
II met Mrs. Stader on Monday, not
last Monday, but 10 days ago. took
her and her sister June up to Walden.
I took Phoebe (Mrs. Stader) out Mon
day night to a couple of road houses.
1 got some liquor 1 remember where
got it, all right. / drank good
share of it, but she did not drink as
much as I did.
Tuesday had a date to meet her
at o'clock We went to Newburg to
Chinese restaurant on the main drag
and had something to eat. We had a
quart Of liquor and we drank, then
went to a movie, then back to the
chop suey JOINT and had something to
eat and drink. Then we went to an
other picture show.
Claims Shot Accident.
I'VE made up our minds to go to
Florida. We started out, but some
where below Sefrrin, in Jersey, I got
nervous or something. I had a gun
under the back seat of the car. /
stopped the car and went back to get
the gun. While l was getting the gun,
1t went of accidentally, somehow.
Il did not know what to do I
thought 1 would go to Railway. I went
there and stopped and told my cousin
and went over and told my wife. She
asked me what I was going to do. I
said, i do not know
There were only two things to do
to tell the police and commit suicide.
Then I went TO the country to commit
suicide, but did not have the nerve to
do it. / went back to Railway, then
left Railway and came on South"
Mrs. Stader's clothes, he said, were
cut from her body with scissors. A ring
she wore was cut from her finger with
pair Of pliers. Frazer said the scissors
Just happened" to be in the automobile
An autopsy at Railway, today re-
vealed Mrs. Stader was killed by a 90
caliber bullet fired into the back of her
head.
M A. Hoey, assistant to the district
attorney of Orange County, N. Y, ar
rived here this morning to ascertain
If the killing took place in his county
Frazer and Mrs. Stader were reported
to have been seen together in Orange
County early on the night she is be-
lieved to have been killed.
Frazer, according to his attorney, Of
fered no explanation of the stories that
he carried the corpse around in his
machine.
Mrs. Frazer, wife of the accused man,
insists Mrs. Stader ruined her hus-
band.
Il forgave him time after time. !
don't know whether can stand by him
through this" she said
She described Frazer as loving, at
tentive and industrious husband until
he inherited $4,000 from his father
two years ago. He then quit work, she
said, moved into fine house and turned
play boy" Recently he went broke
and got job In factory.
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