Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1937, Page 37

-~ MURDER CHARGED IN CRATER CASE Probe to Be Revived as Wife Says Political Enemies - Slew Missing Judge. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. July 22.—Revival of | the almost legendary mystery—the fisappearance seven years ago of Su- preme Court Justice Joseph Force| Crater—brought from District Attor- ney Willam C. Dodge today an an- pouncement he would be “glad to| make a thorough investigation” of charges that the justice was slain by | political enemies Dodge said he was willing to go over the entire case with the missing Jurist’s wife, Mrs. Stella M. Crater, quoted yesterday in a newspaper inter- view as charging her husband pos- sibly was murdered in connection with his political career and that police were lax in their original investiga- tion. Dodge said the inquiry into Justice Crater's disappearance was handled by Abraham Unger, an assistant dis- | trict attorney now away on vacation. “The case was well handled, since | Mr. Unger was in charge,” Dodge said. | Disappeared in 1930, He added he was sure, in view of the close co-operation of the homi- | elde squad and the district attorney's | office that the case had been com- Ppletely and competently investigated. him. “There are plenty of places to dispose of the body within 10 miles of New York,” he said. Thus the theories ran. Unless something tangible is produced be- forehand, Attorney Fay next month said he will ask Crater be declared legally dead, the required seven years having elapsed after the disappear- ance, and apply for $20,000 life insur- ance the judge carried for his wife. Was Going to Fight. Mrs. Crater said that when her hus- band left their Summer home at Bel- grade Lakes on August 3, 1930, he was angry and determined to fight Tam- many politicians who were opposing his renomination as a candidate to succeed himself on the bench, the ‘World-Telegram quoted her in a sec- ond copyrighted interview today. He had come to Maine on Saturday, August 2, she said, to spend the rest of the month with her, but after sev- eral telephone conversations Saturday night and Sunday morning decided to “I understand that Mrs. Crater, Bl‘“ the time of the disappearance, testified | before the grand jury that she did not | know of any political enemies of her | busband,” Dodge said. | The police department already has | re-opened its own investigation into ‘what happened to Justice Crater after he got into a taxicab in Times Square on the night of August 6, 1930 The inquiry was launched on or-| ders {rom Acting Police Commissioner | Harold Fowler after the World-Tele- | gram published an interview with the missing jurist’s wife, Mrs. Stella M Crater, quoting her charging her | husband was “murdered” in connec- tion with “his political career” and that New York police were “ineffi- cient” in their original investigation. Denies Murder Mentioned. | Mrs. Crater, located at her Summer | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THU AY, JULY 22, 1937. return to the city. He told her it was political business taking him away, but she didn't question him about detalls, Mrs. Crater said. After her husband's disappearance, she said, she learned that Tammany leaders had decided not to give him the nomination. Has a Political Angle. “When he came down to the city that week end I wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't insisted on that nomina- tion,” the paper quoted her. ‘“He would have been frightfully hurt had it been refused. And when he was hurt he would have fought. but the circumstances lead to fear- | some theories. They make me think | that some sinister influence connected | with politics caused him to disap- | pear. “He may have been killed because | some one thought he know too much land would tell what he knew if the For a quick pick-up feeling “on top of the world.” “All of this may not have hadi anything to do with his ‘going away,’ nomination was refused him. He may have been killed for some other reason. I don't know. I am as puz- zled as the police and his Tammany friends say they are. “The way Joe's political friends acted after his disappearance made me suspect a political angle immedi- ately, but I have waited seven years before talking about it.” R.E. A. HELP SEEN FOR 100,000 HOMES Rural Electrification Project Sped by Government—$62,- 000,000 Loaned. By the Associatec Press. 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One Dollar. @ CHl Y Experienced AdvertisersPrefer The Star Extra Money for your leisure hours | | too sweet nor too dry. home, near Belgrade Lakes, Me., de-| i nied last night she had “mentioned murder” and that she had eriticized the police, but the new investigation | was on. | Mrs. Crater said she believed her | busband is dead. “He must be dead” she said. “I eannot think anything else. If he were alive I would have heard from him sometime in the last seven years.” | Declaring the strange disappearance IT SOOTHES AND Was “just as much of a mystery now as it ever was," Mrs. Crater added ' 4 :F R!F,RESHES INWARDLY “I don't think he would have com- 4 4 P mitted suicide. What reason would : he have had for doing s0?" Her attorney, Ralph O. L. Fay. in New York said his theory was that the justice had taken his own life, probably after a mental breakdown Leo Lowenthal, chief deputy United States marshal, who was a police headquarters detective at the time of | Judge Crater's disappearance, said he | believed the jurist had been slain the night he dropped from sight | Scoffs at Political Murder. Stating there “is nothing in the ease that points to a political connecs tion with the murder,” Lowenthal, | who was active in the investigation | seven years ago, said: { “There are half & dozen reasons for Judge Crater's murder, and as many theories, but none of them has pro- duced anything concrete. The girl theory is out—Judge Crater had nothing to do with any girl. 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