CRIME OF JEALOUSY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12735, 16 December 1935, Page 5

CRIME OF JEALOUSY

( AIN AND ABEL” CASE

1 killed him because l was jealous, 1 wanted the attention lie was getting from my mother." This is the strange confession attributed to Alfred Albright, aged 33. a poor farmer of Congers. New Y erk State, who is accused of the murder of his brother in what lias become known as the “Cain and Abel’ case. Clarence Albright, aged 32. died frotii gunshot wounds in the- back on November lb 1232. He had been shot from behind as he sat on the saddle of a tractor. 11 is mother, Martha- Albright. a widow, collected insurance of £20,000 on which her younger son lrad paid the first premium only a few days before, bis death- ' Tor « time it seemed that the crime would be added to the list of unsolved mysteries, but three police officers persisted in their investigations for nearly tliice years. . At last they decided to crossexamine Alfred Albright again, and they traced him to a roadhouse. After long questioning they asked him bluntly whether lie bad killed his brother-

“Y’es, 1 killed him,'’ he is alleged to have said. When taxed with doing it for. tlie sake of the insurance money, Alfred, it is alleged, persisted, saying: “No, I did it because I couldn’t stand him first in mother’s love. ... She treated him better when he was sick. She gave him the best tilings for breakfast,” Alfred Albright, according to the police, stuck to his story, and took District Attorney George Y r . Dorsey to the farm and showed him just how thq crime had been committed, going through the grim pantomime. A clue to the crime had been provided when Alfred Albright’s wife divorced him recently, complaining ip lier suit -of “t&o much mother-in-law.”