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Uncovering the Slayer of Professor White
Philadelphia detectives led by Capt James I Donaghy solve the May 1900 murder of Prof Roy Wilson White, M I T lecturer at Penn. A dragnet of 135 colored suspects narrowed to three men Amos Stirling William Perry and Henry Ivory after Hartman and Leary identified a killer. They confessed after police lined them up and evidence connected them to the crime. all three were hanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Chapman
James I. Donaghy
Detective Bureau
Philadelphia
Kmowsa
Quaker City
United States
Roy Wilson White
Law School
University of Pennsylvania
Learning
White
Germantown
Powelton Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Thirty-second Street
Prof. White
University Hospital
Hoy Wilson White
Quirk
Miller
James A. Donaghy
Ello
Jim
Donaghy
Bure
Staten
Robert J. McKenty
Ralph Hartman
Hartman
McKenty
Huttle
Ivory
Buddy” Brown
Rown
William Perry
Georgia
Perry
John Leary
City Water Works
Girard Avenue
Mercer County
New Jersey
Leary
Trenton
William Fields
Amos Stirling
Stirling
Dolly Gray
Harrisburg
Miss Gray
Dolly
Mary Boyle
Thirty-second
Market Streets
Lutz
Prof
Buffalo