The evening world. Newspaper, November 28, 1907, Page 3

_THE ¢ street just off Broadw ‘The heap was an élderly man, d * John Whitley, Retired Merchant Slays| Man Who Killed His “Woman as She Sleeps, and Dives From Window of His Suite ‘in the Belleclaire. . In the light of a gas lamp, a sleepy nighthawk cabman, Preston by mame, discovered a sprawled, dark heap on the asphalt in Seventy-seventh this morning at. 3.30 o'clock. crushed flat, and with dimbs tvisted amd broken. The body avas. clothed : K “d only, in it te pajamas If was fifteen or twenty 7 minal business nian. It was before the d o hours and fifteen tileciaire, came upon the answer toa tragic nde, 4 5 ss John While I $ ninutes before the Coroner, searching the upper stories of the Hotel | This man, John Whitley, bedeviled by mental and physical ills, had sotthis handsome wife; Jem Logan Whitley, as she siept;and then, when |— is trembling fingers refused to guide the muzzle of the revolver to his vad or his heart, he had dived headfirst from his bedroom window on e tenth floor of: the Belleclaire to the roadway below. Whittey's faznil a panity that om 4 jirteous old ma este : tomind jet anclal shin way that it Maren id grown-u0 st ae imband bore the brunt of the domestic iffeting The qu a nian t rel an from the house of his son. Woman Dies instantly. From the mu en and the Coroner's neovle eced together by daylight the story the double killing as it n ‘i ippened, — Whitley’ arose 7 ira tin mit fb omat iyom volver he iad yen he fea tine mou se oe she went to kill j wel on tie Hyde Ww catch tle blood ‘{ propped up a hand mirror so that ould see where to alm. His nerve vhis nerves failed him. He covered fe) wifex diafsured body with eg baturobe. A tried to write = note—a blood: pe with a few. scrawled i that part of the tale— he gave it up, And titen he. climbeyl fot the window, and, lsaplug away othe coping with all his might, @a outward through the air, clear- the broad pavement altogether and | MAing in the path of the first ve-| @, that might chance to draw up D. Opred ienve! telson It t B he curb. { Bank Balance Gone. Khe of the significant things that the glocities fonnd in the room with the {woman's body was a bank book i _ Mahe Franklin Trust Company ‘ Joklyn showing Whitley had drawn Jast cent he had on~deposit there ‘ay his hotel bill, He was the owner @ “Bteam-heating, engineering and} jating establishment. at No. ' on street, Brovkivn, His business % ireats were supposed to be mainly in kiyn, fice the financial flurry Mr. Whitley * ous and} ireaxed. Whether this condition waa @ {0 money Josses or to general Ill- 1th mo one can tell. For the nast bk he hax been apparently on the ‘trot crerromt cot appeared unusually —n Haeme—Yes Deed Planned, Police Say. gat Whitley planned his own deat probably of hin wife yesterday. on} % day velora Is (ns thoory of tne} went ‘the xun store of H. H. Kiffe, No, ; Broadway, on Tuesday and there irchased a .32-callbre revolver and a 6 ice, They have learned that ix of cartridsos. Mr. pnd Mra fe Hotel Bet! rest, gear Broadway, where hanged from lis ol Toeme “high from the ‘there! would be no: noin p fee the erimo he had: in mind, hen’ turn’ to: the no! was | 100k 8 | room, of the Kindly, | west a murderer and a children of hin first the old story helped to drive the a murderous frenzy wan not ided by the tragedy, Taere are to 1 to funerais—~one for the weman froin | © home of her poople and one for the |}, Roos. evidences the police: | The Coroner insisted on Keene, and when the mana, bed and came downstairs jarburger told him he must let him a the body w! wan careful Whit -woman-asleep: of her ‘jewels, them off lant night— with large diaiondr, teining nineteen clear wall was remarked dy the hotel clerks ghewras ii} at caso—aod baraened,— Whitley moved “into 3 aire op Noy. 2 from ‘i je Motel. Martinique, Thirty-third they bye been living for neveral months, tn the late afternoon of yesterday i fr: Whitley went to Albert R. Kéene, i fl he inotel. and wgked to be (anager of the ine! idnnultevotaeoaars Gh tho mixtht Moor to the extreme! west erly sulte on the top or tenth. floor, He Uxplained then that he wanted street, where {he change fwasmade, and now the hotel people cknow why it wax made. Whitley anted x comparatively secluded place dead fal wet lo this new suite one has to ghroven ia. long hallway, runnsog fb The A. recep ich. over- The. PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS is too little appreciate the ~ NEWLYWEDS | Butt she likes them. . See her letter in. Nast SUNDAV’S WORLD things is clear enough, But tho reason that. kept him from: writ! farewell emeasage, kept bin from yet, his mother says, to ” nty-meventh street. ‘he bed- id bath have windows to the Discovers the Body. je — Ct p-ieped titer —tre—pa jam clad corpse Jn a fashion that told of many fractures, Preston quesned the dead man had from an upper window of the He ran into, the lobby aud | ater werent wre jen he ine@ed it beck into} c Hroadway looking for « voliceman, A block away he four Savanaugh ou trol fon the “Weal @xty-elehin Street Station. Never Saw Him, Hotel Men Say. Kavanaugh called an ambulance from it Hospital, the in who came, sald the man had ud tn hin opinion he had fallen to hix death, When otligr policemen had arrived [from the station house, Night Manager Blackburn and one ofthe night clerks Of the hotel were wakéd to identity the body. Both sald at firat that they had [never seen the man before. Neither be- |Meved he could have been a guest in thelr hotel 3 exburn sald that he would not DOGS wae tasen Ie ine” station tae police FS the stieet. in- his ing wer got out of upper ffoors. vad Late With one of the hotel engineers Mr. Keene and the Coroner went to the top suite in the weat end of the bul ‘This waa at 6:45 o'clock, and when ther was no-answer’ to repeated knockin they forced open the outer door. They ITY sed through the reception room and Into. the bedroom. Mra. Whitley, a xood lookiag woman of 38, waa yin on her back on, the aide of wy beth She had been shbt twice, once through the eye and once In the mouth. ‘The covering over the lower part of covered with a dathrobe, which the murderer had thrown over the face 10 hide’the bleeding wounds. ‘The discovery of Mrs, Whitley's body so horrified Mr. Keene that he hurrit from the hotel to the there Yor the first: t!mi man was positively Identified ax Whit- y's Clues Uncovered. Up to this time the police had been working in the dark. With the ex- ception of the diue pajamas. on which the inital "GC" was embroidered, and a well-worn Ting on the man’n band in which wan engraved ‘J. Ko W..” the police had had nothing on which ta 9380 a clue. ‘They knew. now who the dead pair were, and in « fashion’ they Knew how (hey lad died. Back: to the hotel went the precinct detectives Wo ohelp the Coroner and the hotel people nearch the Whitley muito, Except for the wounds in her head Mrs. ey "might have been taken for & On-x-drosee! seer werewome ahe had taken ‘ol: iow beside her wax ‘depressed, where her husband's head” had rested for the] first few hours after thi bed. oder hue pin owe Seee Ne wee Tragedy as Police Sed It, Here is the’ way the police build up the tale of the .traxed: he tale Kedy: hitley, arose swome time between 2 and 3 o'clock. From/a bureau drawer he took the ‘platol. Aw the wife slept he put tne muzzle almost brow, just, above the left eve, and mhot her. Then, as her jaw dropped, he slipped the end of the gun barre between the parted lips and. sent’ a. sccond shot upward through the roof ‘of the mouth to the. brain, nothing to show that Wurm ater the fret. shot. Whitleyputed hia _bathrobs over the of the wife, and (n doing 1t+ he Kot, blood on hia hands. He went to the writing;table in a oorner.and looked for writing thaterial. i Yelope ‘bearing the name and crest of the hotel. As le flattened It out in front of him his Gnwers left three. red smears on the back Map. With’ penell he got this much dowp in jerky, un- certain character wainst her re is moved an ‘He found an en- I can't write. JOHN.” Preparing-for His Own Death. -“The scrawl ended there. He went to the bathroom, apread a. thi ihe tiling. and placed at one end. of It a The pul lok towel on. and mirror, ae of those Ing out hisiown brains. He re-entered the-edroom- He! got the pistol tnd shook out oc itithe two empty. Ares plackened shells, leaving three slugced ‘tridges ‘in the cylinder, SOlstol he teflon the centre table, empty tults on top of with, fst. He climbed out of ihe broad window, polued on the stone ledge, and then let Ko. No one in the hotel heard the shots, which may hava been muffled under the bath ‘robe, ‘and nobody) saw the body cleaving the air. B was still warm when the wigithaw cabman came along, and thix fact helps fo AX the time: of the conmisrion of Ae crimes, approximatel: naw coms were Ii x and oy y ut Whitley aU leant, d man was ideutified | S WIFE, T 10TH FLOOR OF . EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28 EN LEAPS ‘HOTE ny cireumstanc-s ga,to any of! roome of the tenantx at thet hour, | ined Coroner | not disturbed. The head + the body of the | mar am: ass PHOTO DIAGRAM OC Lassa HOW DIAN AT HOTEL BHULECLATREF SHOT WIFE AND THEN GUMPED TO THE STRETT ngs Bank, with wal of jhe dag ce nen wiongside # teller sign and Gated from > nit datp nia: Lost In Mining Stocxe ry Cheatant atrent Whe lex af thie lelier showed ral tavely \Whidey oad Deen inv inining etocks, and thet he had ‘one venture $2,500, and possibly’ Bryant was offering other stocks to make good the $2,500 loss. a Mrs. Whitloy's pocketbook was a ca with this written on Ht: “In case of accident notity Mra. 5. Logan, No. 1 Eighteenth street, Brooklyn." By means of this card a1 other writings in the room the Coroner ‘and the police got into touch ever the telephone with the relatives of the dead couple. At the request of James Whit- fey. brother of the dead man, Coroner Harburger about @ o'clock permitted the removal of the bodlen to an undertakers place at No, #4 Eighth avenue, wiiere la they were separal: claimed. Still Wealthy, Lawyer Says. Although ft tx certain that Whitley (had suffered losses in the recent mump, Frederick Seaman, hia lawyer snd in= timate friend, -who reached the Hotel Belleslaire before any of the kinkpeople id he was still wealthy. Sea- even now Whitley war worth at Jenst $250,000. ‘The murderer-sulcide wan born on Long: Island and) reared in Brooklyn. He was the ploneer of the steam ven~ Ulating process. patel newer concerns had ent heavily Into hisebusiness, and he branched out into the marketing of | varloun: devices, including tne patents of the Rellance” Ball Bearing Door Hanger Company, of which he was vice president: patil his death. Five years and a half ago. hin first arried Mins 1.0- Elizabeth Logun, eenth atreet, Brooklyn. The bride regal-looking woman with prematurely @ray hair, of hand- vome carriage and gracious manners. Ther jn = a Fomance- the two met. While suffering from 4 Kidney trouble, Mr. Whitney want to St. Hosoltat se a y operation, There he was cared for--by Miss Logan, who ‘was a trained nurse. Buoriy-after ne recovered hia wife died the Inpae of a decent. Inter- d_nfler. match Trade tie handsome nurse his) nd ‘orkie. ” Friction in the Family, The couple were devoted to each other, but the friction that 1s almost inevitable tinder, euch! clrcumatances led to open differences between the young wife and Mr, Whitley’a two children—sred Whit+ loy and Mas Minnle Whitley. Fora while after thelr marriage the Wiltieys had handsome apartments in the Chatelaine,gat No. 111 Dean atreat. It was) while they llved there that the husband's healt “beran to tail, He deve! nervous prostration. ‘October, of: last year: they closed their rooms and went to the mountains in’ the hope that travel and change would bring the Inyalld back to health. They also. stayed awhile in Atlantic Gliys He got no better. From a Keon. dignified busines, man he wax becom= ing « wreck, although even the torture Of his nerves did? not make him: loso the courrtiiness. (Nat was a part of Dim, Think He Was Insane. To be near the osteopath in whom he put faith. he moved with his wife to-| the Martinique. From there noc jong) ‘ago he went uptown to the Bolleclain because Dr. Walter, anotier: of oh an tool form within She past forty {1 have no doubt Fred: Whitley, [two bodies this atternoon-at-the-under— taker's,” Jamen Kogan had already told the reporters ‘(hat Fred: Whitley was jn=oBrovktyn=<tor-en ;constat Te cond other as 3 Southern | Rallw: Thanksgiving ‘Day, eight hours, Mrs, Whitley abent the carly part of Jast evening at her mother's Lome. Her husband “had gone to his #on's and by appointment the pair met at the bridge ‘at 9 o'clock and “returned Manhattan together. While at the fan lome Mra. Whitley told her mother that whe was wreatly distressed by Mr. Whitley's Increaxine weakness and nervousness. Before leaving the house she agreed to take Thanksalving dinner at the Logans’s. adding that her husband had been Invited to Fred Whit- Jey'n house for the day bot that she had not been Included in the invitation and-of.course would not ao. Much In Love With His Wife. Mr. and Mrs, Whitley reached the Relleclaire about 10 o'clock and went direct to thelr room. ‘The last person who saw thom allve waa. an clevator bay; to whom the wife gave @ generous tip, saving It was a Thanksgiving re- membrance. One of “Mr, Whitley's brothers Is James Whitley, a stoye maniifacturer, of Brooklyn and a man’ of larmy means, ‘The brother was notitled of the murder and auicide by the police and hurried to Manhattan, ‘Mrs. James Whitley sal ‘John Whitley was the best of men. “1 do not know that, my ‘brot Jaes Logan , and t the son, met over the “Wat the red-an ideal life together,’’ sald young Logan. twos men. barely noticed each a alongatde the hin father's body ¥ A would be taken to his ome, while Lo- Kan’ was equally prompt in the atate- ment that Mrs. Whitley'x body would be carried to his mother'x house, Afier the funeral services tho bodies will be Interred together Jn the same plot at Greenwood, The Waitleya are socially prominent In Brooklyn. THREE MANGLED BY TRAIN WHICH KILLED SPENCER. (Special to The Bening, World.) | RICHMOND, Va., Noy, 2.—At Hur's, on the Southern Railway, Lynohbburg, to-day, a paasanger, tra'n {atruck and killed) three kro were walking on the Jaa®. 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