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Show DE WEESE DENIES PICTURE ss i s ss s SAYS WOMAN IS NOT WIFE M' RS. HOWARD DE WEESE, Harry W. Fisher, her for- ! mer husband, and Max Fisher, their son. ' j, ' I .)( s , " " 1 21 ' r - ' 1 -o ?I ' - y V t "v -s - , s 4 x h i S f " ' y w I Man Accused of Murder Becomes Wistful When He Sees Photograph. IN the solitude of his cell at the county jail yesterday, Howard De Weese, alleged to have slain his wife at :55'3 East Second South street, September Sep-tember 22, 1916, yesterday declared that the accompanying picture does not contain a photograph of the murdered woman. Tlie picture shows .what purports to be Harry W. Fisher, haberdasher of New York; his former-wife-, who is reported to have obtained a divorce from him at Keno and wiio then married De Weese, and their son, Max; The picture was taken about fourteen years ago, evidence pointing to this fact being found in that tlie son appears extremely ex-tremely young. He is now 18 or 19 years of age. Mystery attaches to the picture. If it is not the picture of Mrs. De Weese, whose is It? That is the question that police ofricials asked among themselves yesterday. Denies Identity. When De Weese surrendered to the police po-lice in Chicago and confesesd to robbery, which he said he committed at the lime of the murder, and that he could prove an alibi, he said that he married Mrs. Fannie P'isher, who obtained a divorce from Harry W. Fisher. Jt was Mr. Fisher Fish-er who sent the picture to the police here. De Weese said that the only feature in which the picture resembled Mrs. De Weese was around the eyes. Otherwise, Other-wise, he declared, the picture did not portray a likeness of her. Detective Bert H. Seager showed the picture to Miss Hattie Anderson of -J 59 East Second South street, who rented the rooms to De Weese and his wife in September, when they gave their names as "Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Robins." Miss Anderson said that it was a picture of the woman she knew us Mrs. Robins. The police have this question to solve: Can Miss Anderson recognize a woman by a picture taken fourteen years ago, , or is De Weese mistaken? Police Are Puzzled. Fisher . says that it is the picture of his former wife. De Weese admits elop-Ine: elop-Ine: with her and then marrying her. He also admits that it was his wife who he said he found murdered when he returned re-turned to the apartment on September Septem-ber 22. Miss Anderson, after renting the rooms, saw De Weese and his wife later. Mrs. Edward Paulson also saw them leaving the apartment on tlie morning of September Sep-tember 21. A man and woman, presumably presum-ably Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Robins, returned re-turned at night and there was quarreling. quarrel-ing. Was the quarreling between De Weese and his wife or did De Weese take another woman to the rooms is a question that perplexes the police. A ccording to the police, the definite solution will be obtained when word is received from a New York dentist. The teeth of the murdered woman were sent j to him. he having done denial work for Mrs. Fannie Fisher. Tiie teeth had a peculiar formation and will be easily distinguishable, dis-tinguishable, it is said. If the dentist identifies tlie teeth it will prove that the former Mrs. Fisher and the murdered woman are one and the same. |