The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-29
SUICIDE OF KIN
HELD KEY TO
GIRLS MURDER
Suitor Ends Life as Police
Track CIeWS in ThiCket
Staying.
INNOCENT SAYS NOTE
Called for Questioning on
Reported Meeting With
Victim.
By United Press

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HAMDEN, Conn. April CIVIL
liam Wetmore, a 25-year-old sutton
and kinSman by marriage-of the
slain Emily Kirk, committed suicide
with shotgun and poison today as
authorities planned again to ques-
ton him regarding the girls death.
After his body had been found
in the underbrush behind the farm
house in which he lived with his
parents, authorities said they be-
lieved his death solved the Staying
of the attractive girl. whose body
was found after village social at
the fire house Saturday night.
Emily, attractive daughter of a
well-to-do family which dates back
to the founding of the colonial COM
munity, was killed Saturday after
she hurried gayly from the hall,
where she had waited on table at
a fire house social, to change her
clothing for the later dancing.
Body Found in Thicket
Her body subsequently was
found in a thicket 1000 feet be-
hind the fire house. She had been
Slugged with a bottle, assaulted,
shot four times with a small bore
pistol and her head crushed with
a fifty-pound rock.
Wetmore, the cousin of Miss
Kinks brother-in- Clement,
was summoned early by authorities.
who claimed they had learned he
stood outside the fire house Sat-
urday night, whistled for Emily,
and then took her away. He was
released after questioning.
County detectives again visited
him Tuesday. They told him to
appear today for further question
ing.
81 will be there if can find the
way" he replied in a seemingly
jocular, mood.
Today just before the question:
ing was to begin his body was
found.
Wetmore left note, which DR..
George H. JoSlin, medical examiner,
turned over to Coroner James j.
Corrigan.
Met Girl at Social
Wetmore did not attend the So
cial Saturday, it was said. At about
9 p. m. county detectives claimed
he drove to the building in a sedan
automobile and met Emily.
He appeared at the Kirk home
later Saturday night, detectives said.
Where is Emily?" he was asked.
He said he had not seen her.
While Emily's brother Dwight led
a searching party of police and
townspeople through the rain-beat-
en- woods, Wetmore went home 70
bed
When he was first called for
questioning he told reporters:
II don't know anything about it;
I didn't kill her"
BrOOded All Night
He said he drove to downtown
New Haven at about o. M, and
later went to Savin Rock park, West
Haven.
He brooded all night last night,
according to his grief stricken par
ents.
Mrs. Wetmore told Coroner Cor
rigan her son told her last night
that he and Emily had an agree
ment to die together.
Everybody is accusing me Of
this thing and I'm going to Gle in
nocent," William was reported by
his mother to have said.
Emily and 1 had an agreement
that if anything happened to her
I'd kill myself"
When telephone call to the
New Haven county building mott
fled county detectives. of Wetmore's
suicide they jumped up, saying:
That's the end. That finishes it,
Police said, however, they would
continue their search for one or
more accessories.
A few hours before the suicide
George Di Marino Of West Haven
and Chris Paglucia of Morris Cove
were arrested on orders of the coro-
ner.