Innocent Man 10 Months In Jail On Murder Charge
Item
- Title
- Innocent Man 10 Months In Jail On Murder Charge
- Source
- Evening World
- Date
- 19-Jan-20
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- Image 1 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), January 19, 1920, (Final Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- Jail, innocent, confession
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged murderers
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Jailer
- Stage of the Legal System
- Jail
- Length of story
- 195 words
- Description
- When a Raymond Street Jail turnkey stepped up to the door of Bill Hyde's cell today and said, " We got to be turning you loose, Hyde; they got the three fellows who done that job," young Hyde, indicted 10 months ago for the hold up of a confectionary store and the murder of its proprietor, did not waste a minute saying: "I've been telling you so." "He just looked out of the window," said the turnkey, " at the snow blowing all over Brooklyn, and said: "This is about the prettiest day I have ever seen." Following the arrests and alleged confessions of three sailors of the United States Navy, Joseph F. Orth, JEsse Walker, and guy Nichols, Districr Attorney Lewis announced that a motion will be made without delay for the dismissal of the indictment against Hyde, who, the District Attorney is convinced, had nothing to do with the killing of Sam Wolchock of No. 208 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn, on March 11, 1919. The sailors, two of them deserters, are said to have confessed that they entered the candy shop in the hope of getting at least $200. Their haul, they say, was $191 less.
