Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
SUSPECT ACCUSED
OF SHOWING SLAIN
WOMAN TO FRIENDS
Body of Mrs. Phoebe Stader
Reported Taken From New
Jersey by Auto.
SAY CORPSE INTRODUCED
BY MAN AS GIRL FRIEND
Murder Victim Disappeared From
Railway on February Illus
band Makes Identification.

With positive identification Of the
mutilated body of the woman found
near boswell, Va, Sunday as that OF
Mrs. Phoebe Stader of Railway, N. J..
a CHASTITY story was unfolding today OF
n murderer who proppad his victim
beside him in an automobile, had a
friend shake hands with the corpse,
and later drove with the body, unds-
tected, through several States TO Viz
ginia.
AS the almost unbelievable circum-
stances Of the mystery were being pieced
together in Virginia and New jersey
police of Raleigh, N. c., announced the
arrest of William NJ. Frazer who drove
away from Railway February 18 with
an object in his car which he de-
clared was the dead body of Mrs
Stader
Louis stader, husband of the slain
woman, viewed the body in the morgue
at Bowling Green, Va, this morning
and stated there was no doubt but that
it was the body of his wife. The ldentl-
fication came after authorities mao
found that residents of Tappahannock
va, were mistaken in their Identified
ton of the woman as Mrs. Vance Smith
alias Mary Cleo Freeman.
Arrested at Mail Window.
According to Associated Press dis
patches, Frazer was arrested when he
called at the general delivery window
in Raleigh for letter addressed to H
G. Devlin Detectives reported he ad-
mitted his identity, but denied the
killing. :
prosecutor Abe ]. David of Railway
said he would go to Raleigh tonight To
question Frazer.
AfTable and well liked about town
and a man of some prominence in civic
affairs, Frazer, who operated a restau-
rant in Pennsylvania Station, Manhat-
tan, quit work two years ago after IN
heriting S25, 900, according to- the As
ISOLATED Press.
Mrs Stader, a former hair dresser
recently felt the pinch of hard times sc
severely that she had to give up hel
comfortable apartment and move to
cheap boarding house. Her husband
lost his Job, was out of work and out
Of money.
Believed Story Hoax.
The tale of the killing, as it first
came to police, had Frazer riding around
town in the early morning and calling
friends out of bed, to shake hands with
his girl friend in the front seat OF his
car.
Il reached into the car" Ira Jensen
reported. "and found myself shaking
hands with q corpse in the seat beside
the driver"
Police thought it hoax. But never
theless they sent out general alarm
Jensen had told police that Frazer put
the woman'S body in the back seat Of
the car and made Jensen ride with him
to the village of Colonia, where he an
nounced he was about to commit SUI
eide. There he put Jensen out OF the
car, told him to return when he heard
the sound of pistol shot and drove or
for a little ways, Jensen said.
Instead Of pistol shot Jensen heard
TIE horn Of the automobile. He went
back, he told police, and learned thai
Frazer had lost his nerve.
Left Note for Money.
Frazer. Jensen declared later. forced
his wife to get out Of bed and hear tht
story of the killing.
1--WE killed a woman and don
know what to do" Jensen quoted him
Several hours later, according to tn
information given police by Jensen
Frazer disappeared. leaving a note ask
ing to get money from Mrs. Frazer ant
take 1t to Raleigh He complied will
the request, detectives said. deliverini
$3.50 in Raleigh Sunday night. He re
ported asking Frazer what he had dom
with the body and receiving his reply
Never mind about the body; you know
too much already"
Railway police, when they first heart
Jensens story, declared he was clumstl,
attempting TO cover up the elopemen
of Frazer and Mrs. Stader. When the.
asked Mrs. Frazer about her husband
supposed confession TO her that he hat
killed a woman. she said she didn'
believe him, as he was always tellinI
stories"
An Associated Press dispatch from
Raleigh said that j. W. Bryant, chic
of police, told Frazer this afternoon
that the Bowling Green body had beer
identified as Mrs. Staders.
"He turned pale, but wouldn't Sa!
anything" Bryant said.
Frazer told police that since his ar
rival In Raleigh he had been living al
a boarding house. He was alone wher
arrested and had not had a companion
at the boarding house, police said.
The detectives, J. Z. Lowe and H. L
PEBBLES, vino arrested Frazer, said h
readily admitted he was Frazer but de
MED he had killed Mrs. Stader or an
one else.
In his pocket was found clipping Q
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column H.