Show MURDERED WOMAN NOW She Was Helen Whitmore Who Conducted a Furnished Room House in Brooklyn POLICE HOLD HOL HER HUSBAND HUSBAN On hI First J II In HH Not Tully lully Recognize the thu lOt Rut But nil Dill on Oil ll lint Second No N J Jar Jan 31 a n searching examination during which Input nany onta of hits hili hl life lito were laid bare Theodore 3 s Whitmore the hus husband husband band was held heM ly by h the tho New Jersey po pa police palice the death lice tonight as 1111 ft a u suspect In ht of Lena Ienn Whitmore who v was as beaten beulon insensible stripped ot of her clothinG and drowned In a It pond frond on the tho meadows In fu Harrison on tho the mooning of or Dec 26 20 G who hind had been detained In iii Now New York was triton taken to Harrison tonight and having definitely Identified his body was rigor rigorously rigorously questioned by the authorities Tho nature of o his hll testimony determined thin tho th police to keep him within the thc Jurisdiction tion of tho the local courts courtn The murdered woman w was waa lichen Helen who with her hel husband Theodoro rheo oro S Whitmore conducted n a II furnished moon loom hou house e at lit Adams Adamston street Tho The f den tit 1 tat ton was waR made by br the womans sister Mrs Susan of ho hr Bronx Mrs Mis It furnished to the po police par lice Ilce Ice what In III believed to be lie tho the most important Information She told of a 1 series aeries sort es of oP letters and telegrams t ere grat i received by br herself and her slater sister In ht Lady tady purporting to como come from Mrs rs but bul some senile of which must been beell written after her ler dentin death A trunk runic belonging ng to Mrs lolls had 1101 also ilso been bon sent Rent to her herI I hone home ionic Mis said Mrs Whitmore left her hor home homo on Christmas day da with the Intention ac aCcording according cording ding to her husband ot of o making a a IL visit to her sister alstor Mrs Urs Bessie Hughes whose home homo Is he In Schenectady At Al 2 the next nest morning she lh wan seen In tine the company of o u a uteri mIll on on tho the Hack nacle Hackensack meadows That afternoon her nude body bod WOOS was found partly lalI sub submerged merged mOI ed In a pool of water near neur where she had hall been een seen The next day da Mrs trunk was delivered at nt her sisters home In the tile Bronx Whitmore Is a 11 Brooklyn elevated motorman who ordinarily works nights He lIe did not nol go eo to tu work Christ Christmas mas night Ho lint explained today that he was Willi taken ill III with the tho grip alter after his wife left their home hom and that he te hind bad not net been able to work since He had frequently frequent quarreled with wIlh his iris wife he said earth and anti was not d when she failed to return home They The had quarreled he ho said because she sho had accepted attentions from two other men Today ollay Whitmore placed an advertisement In a Brooklyn paper pa er offering his hili furnished room business for sale ante Last night Whitmore visited th the morgue at nt nall and though he admitted n a familiar appearance ho lie would not say n that the tho body bolly was that of ol his wife Today Whitmore was ex ox at lit police headquarters in n Brooklyn and amid finally expressed tho the opinion that the Harrison Identification was n correct He was was certain that ho he had received two messages message e front from his 1 ls wife after sho she left le l him Ho JIo was detained on an suspicion and to tonight tonight night was tens again taken to Harrison when ho he made his hla Identification post positive tIe tive told thin tho police pollee of or his struggle struggle gle 10 to live Ilvo down an In unpleasant past part and how a n faithless wife who had fiad held over his Ills head a threat ot or exposure to make known to 10 new acquaintances here wh what t he lie now now admits that he was serving n a sentence In prison when whon pardoned by h Gov GO Black nitter Ritter refs reW and ns liS many mark marked ed cd their married life lito of ot 15 IB years Ills he sold Hald had become Infatuated with n a sailor known to him only aa ns asHarry Harry hut hilt when she returned horn homo at et Christmas following a n live IIvo days nb ab nonce lonCO ho greeted her with a it I merry Christmas She Rhe failed to respond and they limey quarreled on ou the tho street Ho no thought that she sho had a I bottle of oC acid and ho he attempted to take It from her herIn herIn herin In the tho struggle they both bout fell tell Later trey they tile effected a I true truce and had hud dinner together Then ho Im went out on au an er errand e errand rand nail when whon ho he returned to 10 tho the house she ethic had left never to return Whitmore Held ald that on tho day hits his wife disappeared ho he had giver given her 15 Ho lie knew absolutely nothing loth lug hu le said suld of how she camo came to 10 bo ho In 11 Now Jersey or 01 of the IIII manner of her death Mrs Margaret ONeill 1 a neighbor of the tho went to Harrison to tonight night might north and Identified the tho body Mrs ONVil ONeil 0 NI said Raid that tire the were wel at nt hr IVr homo home Christmas Christinas day dllY anti and left lert together at It after havinG had a n grant In her presence Mrs fainted taInted after titter recognizing her stators Bisters body hody today lodl When she aho had regained rc her senses sine sho said Hald Ever since poor Lena Ionn married her Ier life linn has been miserable On Monday of o last week Lena Lama 10 11 It left lell her iner home In Brook lyn In and nd carne to my nl house Her n was wall bruised and Ind cut That night liar her husband appeared and begged her to return reton homo with him ids She Rhe Dually con coat consented seated but bul first she he left with me 1110 her hor watch loon her ring and 12 In mono money |