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N Y MURD SUSPECT CONFESSES PART PARTIN IN THEFT Sought for Y Year car by GO Gotham Police Walter Norman Found in Peni Penitentiary l D ADMITS HIS IDENTITY Alleged Slayer Accused of Being Party to Sensational Fifth A Avenue venue Cr Crime Ine high and nd low for a year ear b by bythe bythe II HUNTED HUSTED the police of Gotham Walter alter Norman Nor or ormall or- or man mall alias Axel Sampson char charged ed with being an accessory SOr to the murder of oC a wealthy New York widow who was h nor her New ew York strangled to h death In r mall mattion lon October 8 S. 1915 was discovered hero heio yesterday He lie Is isa Isa a convict in the Utah state penitentiary and ant when b local police officials admitted so seen n by his Identity and confessed tn say the tho police po olice o- o the tho robbery robben lice to being a party part to plot which resulted In worth of or diamond b being stolen from rom the vie vie- ii tim ni Norman orman who Is booked at tho tin penitentiary penitentiary peni peni- under under tho thu name of Hill Hit was van arrested In Salt Lake Lako on June 16 16 b by Detective Herbert Leichter for the lie robber robbery robbery rob- rob ber bery Detect e of or an Austrian In Commercial street Ho lie was sentenced to an Inde Indeterminate Ince- Ince terminate term The Tho crime of which Norman orm orman n stands accused w was s one ono of oC tho the most sensational sensa sensa- murders In tho the 1915 annals of oC the New York police ew w 1 to dea death tH h hin Mr Mrs Ir Nichols was strangled In the library of he hoc homo home b by t two 0 armed men and then jobbed of or worth of diamonds A key to a strong strongbox strongbox strongbox box In which she I H is said aid to have o ho kept worth more moro than a n half million dollars of oC jewels was carried d on n. n ribbon about her hEr neck In nn an effort to get Set SetI pos of oC the ke key one of or the I thieves choked her to to death as she sho sat at reading In a ft chair Circular Url S Secret r t. t A circular bearing picture and description de do- of Norman was received bythe bythe by bytho the tho police yesterday Leichter reco recognized reco tho the photo photograph as M that of ot a man arrested b by him In Salt Sal Lake Pictures o of Norman orman taken at police headquarters following his arrest hero here showed a de- de dod similarity With Joseph C. C Sharp chief of de detectives lc- lc Lichter visited Norman in hi his eli cell cl at the penitentiary Norman at ot first disclaimed an any kno knowledge of oC tho gruesome gruesome grue grue- some crime but when shown th thA pictures plo pie tures he weak weakened ned and confessed d his implication In the robbery robben plot pot sa say the police poUce The prisoner however denied belt being in the Nichols homo when the murder was ns committed Hill Recounts Recount Crime Although he was a arrested the day following the murder and grilled gried for three days b by tho the New York police and released on account of ot insufficient evidence evidence evidence evi evi- dence Norman Normn yesterday recounted to Leichter and Clet Chief Sharp his part In one of or the most daring crimes In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York police annas annals Slowly as If IC weighing his hid every or C word and nervously nervous nervous- l ly beating his hll fingers on the coIl coll col wall Norman orman told how the plot for Cor tho the rob- rob liery her was hatched He lie said ald he was waa Wl with wih Iddie Iddle Arthur altonen and another another an an- oth other r man in Lehto's room on Matson avenue a car early on tho the night of at tho thu murder murder mur mur- der As Af tho the hour approached for them to enter the Nichols hOt home Norman de- de dares clare cared ho he- got ot cold coll feet and refused to accompany them H He lie la says he left the trio and wont Olt to his room on Third avenue a near One Hundred and Twenty Twenty- fourth street treet where he claims claim ho he was 11 sleeping when tho the murder was com cons in I On hearing hearing- the next morning of at the murder and the theft of or worth of or diamonds lamon Norman says sas he started for Lehto's room whore hero thc they had bad planned to divide the spoils Rd Released n I 1 hr by r X N. 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Police While on hi his way there thero he says ho ha iwas was arrested but after three days das oCI of oC I grilling during which he refused reused to squeal on his pals he wa was released In Jn the meantime his pals dl divided the loot and left New Ne York for the west wet In Jn a moment of or anger ager at the prison yesterday Norm in declared ho lie was Wl cheated of ot his haro of the tho murder spoils and ant was anxious to get Lehto and aHonen Ho lie aya aH he came camo west westin In search of or them and was as arrested while making a touch for something to cat eat A faint smile crept over Normans Norman's face faco when Leichter told him that alonen was arrested last month at Ironwood I Mich and that worth orth of ot diamonds diamonds dia dla I monds montIs stolen tolen from Crom the Nichols' Nichols home homeI were ere recovered in his room I was vas working as a barber and had tho the Jewels owel cached In lii his room He lie will vill be bo taken hack back to New e. e York to stand 1 trial rial for murder It I Is under understood that requisition will wi be math made to Governor Go Spry pry r for tho the release of or Norman to tho the New ew cw York authorities on the capital charge chargo o oA oy Conr Confesses QC A New Xe York dispatch says saya that Onni Talus a Russian Finn house bo boy em- em plo cd b by Mrs Mra Nichols confessed to laving having hatched tho the plot with wih alonen Lehto Lento and me Norman orman for a a share In the spoils It I was waa Tallas that furnished tho the police with Ith descriptions of or photographs of alonen and Lehto Walton en had been employed as a. a at butler buter In the Nichols homo home but was discharged die dis ch charged two months before lefore the murder murder mur mur- der The confession of or Tallas and statements ma made e b by Hill Hi yesterday In In- dicato that Walton ri was waR the ator gator of or the robbery robber alIas Tallas was In the mansion and ia was responsible for his colleagues being admitted to the house Tallas alas Is IB believed ed to be le tho the man whose name Hill Hil could coule not re rem re- re m member e r. r Mrs Irs Nichols was on Ott the second floor of her home when tho the door bell rang bel The Tho butler buter was vas out for the evening Her maid a young oung French girl went to the door A man Was as there saying he had a 3 package for Mrs Nichols which demanded her personal receipt for It I. I V Once Inside the man attacked the ma mold maid d and held her captive during o capt the tho time her hor mistress was murdered and tho the house looted l for valuables The maid was bound and gagged but freed herself after the three men had es escaped escaped es- es through a a. R window by sliding down a rope Other Othur servants In the big mansion notified wore were awakened an and the police Caused d Death Fondness for or display was as the reeL cause CRUse of the tho wealthy widow meeting meet meet- ing her death It I was WS her het fancy to adorn her herself with tho the most valuable of her collection of jewels and pose be before he- he fore a a mirror In her har room to admire th the flash fah of the white gems Sho She pos pos- some of th the tho finest gems worn In New York Mrs Nichols was wag the widow of oC Joseph Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph E E. Nichols millionaire wholesale grocer She was IS the tho sole Role heir to hi his fortune of or more th than n The Th Nichols home homo adjoins that of oC William Wilam F. F Stafford multimillionaire Ink manufacturer manu manu- just lust off Fifth avenue In th in-th the fashionable residence district of th the metropolis Many times before Herbert Herber Lechter h has 8 distinguished himself himsel b by ly making Important arrests HI Hie work and record a as IS an officer has commanded 1 attention from tram great American sleuths It I Is probable he lie will wil share In a large reward for tor the apprehension of or Hill Hi |