The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1905, Page 3

George H. Wood, Contractor, Formally Accused by Coroner’s Jury. | MOTIVE IS A MYSTERY. Authoritles Can Discover No ’ Reason for Shooting to Death ‘Man Without Enemies, sl victim WAS NOT ROBBED, iM Week's, Investigation Brings Out Many Strange Features in Assae- Gination of Grocer Williams. —— ‘y ‘The slaying of Grocer George Will- fams, one of the Kindliest men tn the Nttle New Jersey village of Watchung, has come out into relief as a orime “untque—a crime without a veatige of motive to suggest an impulse, With ) ‘the murdet one week old to-day, a Cor- | oner’s jury has sat in Inquest and de- / Uvered a verdict that George H, Wood, @ young contracting tronworker of this city, killed the grocer ag they were } sourneying together in a sleigh along the | Coontown road. Nineteen witnessca have been exam- i} ined, including the aged grandmother of the murderer. Their testimony Indl- cates that Wood fired the fatal ehot, but No word from their lips has offered the | Slightest suggestion of motive, No Animus Apparent, Nor does it seem to have been the [wanton crime of a disordered mind, | Link by link the chain of evidence that has fetterod the young contractor as the @laver seems to show that he ¢arefully ‘end deliberately planned to kill, It ts true that he had no animus against ‘Williams, as far as can be shown, But when he entered the sleigh with the grocer ‘he had a weapon In his pock+ et. He also had a little cap with which ‘to partially disguise himself when ex- igency arose. After firing the fatal shot he threw away his black fedora, put on| ) the little cap and fled across the snow | orusted flelds, He fled not as a man flees with a great fear in his heart, for ‘ every step he took was with the dellb- {| erate purpose of covering up hia tral, { The following day he appeared at the home of a relative in New York, declar- { ing that his mind had been @ blank for , Many days, Robbery Not the Motive. |, The life story of Wood, the history jot the little village, nestling among | Bills and wastes of land still in a prim- , itive state of wildness, and an account | Of the simple iife and tragic death of the storekeeper, when woven together, only make more complex this strange erime, It might be sald in the begin- ‘ ning that robbery was not the motive. _ Bhe murdered man had but $7 with him , When he started on his fatal ride, not one cent of which was taken by his ‘ murderer, George Wood was born and brought up in Warrenville, one of the cluster of villages nelghboring about Plainfield, , Aaa boy he went to the village school 4 @nd worked on one of the several farms his arandmother, Mrs, Sarah Pollock, owns at Warrenville, Just across a strip of land was the farm of George H. ‘Whitten, Viol Whitten was the young- est child of this farmer and she and George Wood were boy and girl lovers, ‘The friendship that ended in thelr mar- , fal union began in the village school, The boy remained at school until he was fifteen years old, when he quar- relled with his father, George H. Wood, now dead, a man who had the respect of every one in this rural community, Though not exactly wild, young Wood could not bear the monotony of a farm- er's life, and served his apprenticeship as {ron- worker, He prospered, too, for several years, and seven years ago returned tu Warrenville to resume his courtship, In @ few months he had married Viola Whitten and returned with her to New , York. Had Two Children, Two children were born of this union, and for a few years the jhome life of the little family was supremely happy. Wood had become a master at his craft, From journeyman work he had begun contracting, and the future loomed bright to him aud his young wife, But, though @ skilfui ironworker, the young man lacked executive ability, Where one of ‘his contracts would be success- Qul, two woyld fall, ‘Three years ago he became Involved financially and sought ald of his father- in-law, They quarrelled and be estranged, Later the quarrel was patohed up, but thelr cordial relations were never entirel resumed, Wood Jearned that his father-in-law had cut him and his wife out of his will, ‘The money Involved Was Ue anes » 0 tolly after tne murder ‘Mr. Whitten ad. mitted that he and his sInelaw feud quarreiied, Singularly, when examined at the inqueg! farmer de- nied any animus tow accused man, . However that may he, Wood's bust nees difficulties heaped upon him during the last two years, ‘Time and agajn he had trouble with the workmen empl him_on sub-contracis and on on 2 If You Paint the Town Red You generally find the radiant color turns to remorseful Blue. Money Saved Is Money Earned and the safest and most profit- able way to save it is lo find sone man who needs money badly and is therefore willing to sacrifice his real estate holdings. 539 Realty Bargains were advertised last week in the MORNING WORLD. y ova MR Belicoaia hay He wanted to learn a trade} | | | | casion when he failed them to pay from | checks he had received tor thas purp ve {they fell upon lim and beat him Into Unconsciousness. He was in the hos- pital many weeks as the result of this assault, Faced Ruin and Disgrace. So matters drifted until two weeks ago he faced ruln and disgrace, He had recelved a check from the Bagle Iron Works with which to pay off his men, Neglecting to do ‘this his employers be- Ban proceedings against him tending toward criminal prosecution, He had | been Ilving for some time In a little flat at No, 676 West One Hundred and Thirty- first strect, Money had been scarce for | Months and he owed all the tradesmen jin the neighborhood. He also owed neighbors and friends, He had a boarder named Egger: one night the boarder's sliver w and the gold watch Of Mrs, Wood were stolen. man had entered the flat and gol away by the fire-escape, Tenants in the house now recall haying seen a man who they would almost swear was Wood climbing up the fire-escape on the night of the robbery, The fact remains that he was not home at the time, and for a few days afterward there was plenty of money jn the house, So things stood until a week ago last Saturday, Creditors were clamoring for money. The Eagle Iron Works had Riven the contractor a check for $40, which he cashed at a nelghboting drug store. On the same day the Wood family vanished srom the flat. They Went to the home of Mrs, Frederick Bischoff, Mrs, Wood's sister, 448 West Twenty-seventh street. Went to Plainfield, On the foHowing Monday Wood went ek to his flat in Harlem and turned or the keys to u neighbor. He re- Kked that he was going to Pennsyl- Sania to Kee About a cortract, He did not go back to Twent venth street, but went to a stall store in Harlem and bought a dress suit case, two shirts and some socks He did not ko to Pennsylvanta, for wt 8 o'clock that ifternoon he arrived at Farmer's Hotel, Plalofleld, neatly clad and freshly Phore nothing {i his ap- nee to sanity. On the contrary he m ularly chipper to Jacob Blinn, proprietor of the hotel. at No, Engaging «a room by the week, he pald for {tt in advance and left his dveas suit cage there, He Nad regis- tered In his own name and made no attempt fo sechide himeelf, going out in search of a number of boyhood acquaintances, Me talked tn the hotel about bridge contracts d to get in the neighborhood ald that he Intended to visit the farm of his grandmother on the following day, He drove out there in a sleigh. on Tuesday morning. ‘The old lady had not seen him since last June, and she told at the Inquest yesterday with tears streaming down her cheeks that she had been very glad to see him, Naturally her story was more or less incoherent and at Varlance with the accounts, of With his revolver |. Ferdinand Linartz, a boy employed to “do chores" on the farm, Was ate tracted by the shooting and Investl Rated. He stated at the Inquest that Wood had told him he was firing in the alr to see If the explosions of the cart- ridges would frighten off the dogs, ‘The bov saw him extract the empty shells from the weapon and replace them with loaded cartridges, The Myterious “Mack,” | The grandmother had not heard of | this Incident, but recalled that her kins- man had spiken of w trip to Pennsyl- yanla, ‘the trip, she remembsred, had to do with stcel beams and the name xf "Mack" bore some relation to. the steel beams, “Mack Is the myaterlous person Word declares he had business with in Pennsylvania, for whieh he lett New York, when suddenly his mind collapsed, Wood did not spend the whole his grandmother's, but crossed the fl to the farm o ne], whit of the old village | j tended as a boy. artor before he vat © husband His Ut rm in Warveaville, Phe {ronwor spent Puosdiy night with Mr, Whitten. ‘They did not quarrel, the {farmer insisted at the inquest, though ithe day after the murder he told of rds between them | nen) co the p | wits the first tim rs that Wood had s Then it was drawn fr hool teacher that som wtive had Induced him to mit a considerable sum of money in a cartwright bust at Scotch Plains, The venture failed and he lost all of his investment, Rad blood sprang up ver this and Whitten admitied that he daecquently cut his daughter, M Wood, out of his will, Little by little it ‘was drawn from the sis rina iMac i ob dba b ether witnesses, She sald that "the | hoy" did not Wok right and that sie lasked him ff he hed heen drinking. |Me said no, but that his head felt (queer, His head was. clear enough, | heventheless, to allow him to go out back of th> barn and practice shots 8 Mr. | —— Wosal's visit to him last Tuesday had to do with his will and that his son- In-law had urged him to make some vision for his daughter and little grandohildren, Wrangled Over the WIIl. They wrangled over this for some ‘time, but at last Mr, Whitten consent- cd to make a new will and leave a share of his estate to Mrs, Wood, This ended a stormy Interview. After heariig this statement from the farmer the autivrities of Spnerset County were dumfounded) when he related at the inquest In Maul's Hotel In Watothung yesterday that the fron- worker was in the habit of visiting him every hunting season and. that Wood was in the most amicable frame of mind he had ever seen him In when he called at the farm last Tuesday. There had not been @ harsh word spoken it their interview, Whitten sald that his son-in-law gave him the idea “that |things were well with him and that he was pretty flush.” “When the boy left,"’ sald the farmer, “the tossed me a $2 bill, saying, ‘I don't need It; keep it yourself.’ He Impressed me as uncommonly good-natured, He did not act In any way pecullar and showed no n of insanity or disor- dered mind, ‘ Prosecutor Griggs managed to wring from the witness, however, that there had been bad blood between him and Wood, though the fathe-In-law added; “And It wasn't so very bad, elther, Of late years we have heen the best of friends.” This testimony staggered the prose- cutor, In ight of the former statement made to him by Whitten, He had not expected to prove any motive as a re- sult of the quarrel between the two rel- atives except In a remote way, on the theory that Grocer Willlams might have resented an attack on the older man's character by the son-in-law, which had enraged him to the pitch of homicidal frenzy. Seemed Entirely Rational. On Wednesday morning the young man went back to Plainfield, He was whout the hotel the greater part of the day, chatting and gossiping with old acquaintances, All who saw him say t he wus perfeotly sober and entirely al, He talxed about contracts for bridges wnd other businces matters in= volved In his trade, No one at the hotel recalls that he mentioned Pennsylvania or the mysterious "Mack," Beginning Thursday morning at 9 o'clock—a Week ago to-day—up to the | hour of the tragedy, a few minutes be- fora noon, every movement the Iron worker made this been traced and Nis actions carefully noted, After eating his breakfast, he inquired about get- Ung a rig to drive again to ‘his grand- mother's farm. There was none av able in Plainfield, and he was advised | to ride out on the trolley to Washing- | tonvitle, a short walk from Watehung, There, ho was informed, George Dom- ler, Whom be ought to Nave remem- | bered as a boy, rented out rizs, It ds Just here where the mystery of ‘the murder becomes impenetrable. Smiling, affable, and with a greeting for every One he’ met, the young man | boarded a Somerset street trodley-car | ang set out for Watchung. He carried Lin hig pocket a revolver loaded with jsix shells, His grandmother's ghore | boy had seen bin load the weapon and Jreplace {tin Ms hip pocket, after prac- Using bxck of the Pollack barn, | | Seemed to Be in a Hurry, | tts but a few minutes’ ride to Wash: ville, and when Wood left the | hotel In Watchung, He drank one glass ef beer and asked the bartender about the likollhood of getting a rig. He did | pot seem to care In the least about the | person he rented it from, but evinced a desire to make all possible haste to his | grandmother's farm, He was diavected to the hame of Will- liam Demler, and seemed glad to know | (hat Demler had several rigs the rented out saing on to the Demler cottage, Wwiteh almost adjoins the village store of the murdered man, he asked Mi Demler if her husband was about, Den ler was fn ther part of the villag and she did not know just: when he would return, Wood expressed regret, saving that he was in a hurry aut to V aville, He spoke with Mrs Domler several minutes, and she sug rested that he might Mr, Williams to drive him out. ‘Tho grocer, she said, would go out of his way to help any one in an emergency. Went to Grocer Willlams. Williama was In the front of his store when the ironworker entered, Charles I. rone, the clerk, was also In tha store Walling on cuss omers. Pron| 1 at the inquest that the fronworker yy pleasiut-manneron and ingratiating, His employer had some other duties onbaad and did not like the idea of taking ont Hhis horan and sleigh, Wood ploaded jovith him, haw ind he at last con- nted to make the drive, i Williams was ‘hitching up the Wood An easy, ca breaking Into the general conversation , j the farm of the sleigh drew up in front of the store Ae shouted, “Good!"’ and hurled out, The grocer climbed \n the right side of the sleigh and the ironworker mounted on the left side, helping to wrap the blankets about his companion, At that moment he was siniling and chatty, and if there was murder in his heant his countenance was a splendid cloak to tt, It is just four miles as the crow files} from ‘the Watchung store to thi Pol- lock farm in Warrenville. It was # most 10.80 o’elock in the morning when the sleigh appa out of the village and turned the bend of ‘the narrow street winds between and over a range of hills referred to in the Aggregate as ‘The Mountain,” There are few houses along the route, and in the bitter Weather of last Thursday few sleighs were out. Seen by None on Drive, The fronworker and his victim were seen by no one as they journeyed along | over the glistening path of snow. What Was spoken between them, whatever could have wrought murderous anger In the heart of the young tronworker only he can tell, and he swears that this period in his life is a blank. A few minutes after 11 o'clock George Cruse, a ten-year-old boy, employed on on Miller, just this side of the Pollock faim in’ Warrenville, heard ithe tinkle of sleigh bells on the road, He ran out around the house Just In time to see the shadow of the slelgh vanish behind a pend of the road, protected by a little knoll, For a few} minutes longer he could hear the fad- | ing tinkle of the ‘bells, when suddenly | the sound ceased and he heard the! sharp snap of a pistol shot, | At the Inquest the boy sald he had hurried in to Mr. Miller to inform him of what he heard, T thought they were killing bears,’ sald the little fellow in a frightened voice, “Mr, Miller told me that there were lots of bears in the woods.” The farmer had joked with the boy about the boars, never thinking that a murder had been done within a stone's throw of his home, He did not learn of dt until an hour later, when the whole countryside was alarmed by the erlme and scores of armed men’ began 4& mon hunt through the flelds, Grocer Willlams was shot {n the back near the neck, the bullet taking a down- ward course and entering the heart, He fell In a ‘huddled heap within the folds of blankets, His assailant climbed out of the slelgh backward, took a fe backward steps with his face still turned toward his victim, and then made oft across the flelds, Several sleigha passed the murdered man, but belleved the ve- Hicle was empty, the grocer belng half- concealed by thi bignkets, Kugene Pone, a farmer, driving Into Plainfield, recognized the horse and sleigh and stopped to Investigate, Posse Quickly Gathered, Whien he found that his friend of many years lay dead in the sleigh with a bullet hole In his back he lost no time In spreading the alarm. The news trav. elled quickly, every farmer who learned of the crime acting as messenger, Soon @ large posse gathered at the scene of the tragedy and began to track the mur- derer's footsteps, distinctly Indented jn the snow, The trail led over a fence And across fields to the Pollock farm, Now and then the footprints were lost in a frozen pathway, but the posse of men spread out and ‘picked it up again until tt brought them to an old red barn on one of the deserted farms be- longing to the widow, Wood had en- tered the barn and in coming out en-| deavored to double upon his tracks. | into the Coontown road, This highway |4 | drink, - | samp US: GIT Wood. illuminate his memory, he saya, and he recalls getting off the train at Blizabeth, blundering about that town and then proceeding on to Jersey City, It Js amazing that a man whose mind was Jn total eclipse should have been clever envugh to shave off ‘tis mus- tacho; that after the fatal shot had been fired he had the shrewdness to dispose of his black fedora hat and put on a cap, Hig own wife hardly knew iim when ho arrived at his brother-in- Juw's flat on West Twenty-seventh strect at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, hardly twenty-six hours after the mur- 2 By the time he reached his relative's flat a general alarm had been sent out for iim from Plainfield, Chief of Polloe Aiely had learned of his visit to his grandmother and to the home of Mr. Whitten. Patching ddentifications ta- eether he was led ito Farmer's Hotel, Where ‘he found Wood's name-on. the register in a flourishing scrawl. Search- ing the room the ironworker had en- gaged for the week the dress sult case war discovered, It contained a few articles of clothing and a box of 32 callbve cartridges, together with five empty shells, which had been usdd in target practice at the Pollock barn, The New York police did not awake to activity in a search for Wood until they read the complete history of the #arch in Watchung jn The Evening’ World. Then, late in ithe evening, they went to tho Bischoff flat, Wood had beon home many hours and had told to Teporters and his wife an incoherent story of his wanderings, He sald that "Mack," the mysterious friend and. fellow-lronworker, had In- yited him to go to “Mack's home in Scaradalo, Pa,, where he would induce his father to lend him $1,000 to carry on his business, He met Mack" Mon- day morning at the Contlandt street ferry of the Pennsylvania Railroad and took a train for Scarsdale, At some Junction here Wovod's memory began to fotter—they got off to change cars, While walting for a train they went to a saloon to get sonething to eat and "Mack" paid tor the food and drink from a blg wad of bills, Memory Became a Blank, After this modest luncheon the lron- worker's memory became a blank. Though, according to @ dozen persona, a few hours later he was chatting and gossiping with boyhood friends and ac. quaintanees in Farmer's Hotel, Plajn- fleld, he sald he remembered ‘nothing about It, He does not recall his visit to his grandmother's farm, the revolver practice behind the barn and the night With his fathersn-law, 4 memory might be @ blank as to tl# visit, as Mr, Whitten has given two diametrical- ly opposite vorsions of it. Dawn did not strike In upon his dark- ened mind again until ihe found himself standing on the little flag station at Lyon, He had struggled over miles of snow and dee-piled fields, climbed foncer doubled time and again In his track but neither the physical nor mental ex: ertion had awakened him from his con- dition of active syncope, en the It tle station suddenly faded from his memory and he found himself In Trent- on street. He felt in his nockets and had only $2 He had $2 in hig wallet when he left New York, Mrs. Wood became alarmed at her ‘huaband’s condition, espeotally after re- porters tokl her of the munter In War- renville, In her presence Wood was asked by his wife: Denled Knowing Williams, "Don't you who Watchung?” remember George kept the store Will. The show was too deep for this, how- ever, and It proved no difficult task to trace the fugutive criminal across the | Jones sus to get) Mked vbout the store In, toxeth 88 manner, now and then | him with snow-piled flelds to. the Millington | Woods, It is a good six miles over this | sross-country route and three miles | ad, From this the shrewd | J ‘that the fugitive knew the neighborhood well, Tt was” the haniest kind of walking and many'ot| the farmers were completely exhatisted | when they reached the Mililngton sta- | tion There they learned from a young | school teacher that a man had been , seen staggering along the road toward | the nillroall tracks, At the station he | had doubled on his tracks again, walk: | ing down to the little flag station at | Lyon, ‘This tight was not the wander: | ing of a daged man, In every step there | to baffle pu further by was a shrewd attempt suers, A thaw or another Inch of | Show. would have completely blotted | one nis tral sno tickat agent at the Lyon | an st have taken the i Now York, This ts ackawanna, Railroad, and. the, to New York ls Intorrupted by | many stops, | Has Flashes of Memory, | While e being pieced 8 settling upon | ainty, he says | {he was going about like A ‘man in a} of Light | witness that between Ivone und his customers, When dream, Here and there flashes ion Ste He looked her. straight. in and denied that he had ever heard of the grocer, ‘Then Mrs. Wood, thore Cughly frightened, led her dushand. to “pt an in West ‘Pwenty-elghth Street, Me doctor examined him and said he might be suffering from phusia, but that the salent symptoms of the disease were absent When the lronworker returned to the Bischoff flat the detectives were waiting the eye for bim and he was taken ty Poilee Headquarters he repeated the story he had told to his wife and re. porters, He was put on (he grill several hours, but no admission of any | kind was wrung from him As for “Mack,” he did not remember just where he Hyed or where he might be found, He admitted that he had. a Hyalive, which he had lost. He acknowledged that he had had a. 83 callove revolver and a box of cartridges, ince his arrest the contractor has boon identified with unflinching. pos! tiveness by all those who saw. Grow Williams ‘drive out to his dewth on week ago to-day, Qonsequently he was held to awake extradition and. Prose cutor James A. Griggs, of Somereet County, expects to receive the nece sary papers to-day and to take the prisoner. to New Jersey to-morrow None of the New Jersey authorities place any credence in Wood's atory of mental lapses, and declare they belleve he {s rhamming, As for motive they donfene that they are utterly at sea, in (oi eal is da Nit ana als dh Handsome Young Relict of 90- Year-Old Baker Successfully Demands for More than Ante- Nuptial Agreement Provides, CAME AS HOUSEKEEPER; QUICKLY MADE WIFE. Aged Paul S. Brown Falls in Love with Her at Sight and Proposes and Is Accepted in a Day. Old Paul 8. Brown made his bakery ot Third avenue and Ninth street famous and himself woalthy, #o that when he died he left besides the bulld- ing In which he conducted the bakery for more than a generation, several other nice slices of real estate in Man- hattan and four five-story houses In Brooklyn, Augusta Andre Brown claims a widow's dower In all this to-day between the children of the aged baker before Justice Dowling, In the Supreme Court, In oppeeition the sons, Alfred 8, and Paul W, 8. Brown and seven sisters, set up an ante-nuptlal agreement en- tered into between their father and Augusta Andre on July 11, 1901, con- fending that it stood dn the place of her dower rights, Brought by World ‘Ad.’ Paul Brown was ninety-one yoams old |when he advertised In The World's want columns for a housekeeper July \ 11, 101 Augusta Andre, a comely daughter of the land of King Oscar, on the sunny aide of thirty years, came In answer, She 4s tall, graceful and pleasant spoken, She is unlike her race in that ber halr fg as black as a raven's wing, She says the nonagenarian baker 1m-| mediately made dove to her, and before the day was done they had signed and sealed an ante-nuptial agreement, ‘This document provided that In case the lover, who had already entered the tenth decade of life, died within three years, Augusta was to recoive 8,000 Swedish crowns; if he lived more than three and less than five yeans she was to recelve 50) Swedish crowns from his estate, and in any event she was to recelve $0 a month from the day of his death until the estate was settled up. To Get Her Dower. Justice Dowling, with his rather start. ling promptness and boldness, decided the main contention off the bench, saying: “The construction of this document 1s plain enough; in the absence of any walving of her rights of dower, this agreement entitles her to these sums on the conditions named, in addition to her dower In her late husband's estateé,”\ A Swedish crown, {t was declared in evidence, is worth 27 cents, United Btates money. The old gentleman led his Swedish bride to the altar before Rev. Dr, White, of Bloomfield, N. J., Aug. %4, 1901, and the marriage certificate put in evidence by her attorneys is worth a lot of money, under Justice Dowllng's ruling, Just how much is to be deter: mined by the evidence on the rest of the partition sult, —Saa READ THIS TWICE! 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