CRIME OF JEALOUSY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 283, 3 December 1935, Page 12

CRIME OF JEALOUSY

“CAIN AND ABEL” CASE “T killed him because I was jealous. I wanted the attention he was getting from my mother.” This is the strange confession attributed to Alfred Albright, aged 33, a poor farmer, of Congers, New York State, who is accused of the murder of his brother in what has become known as the “Cain and Abel” case. Clarence Albright, aged 32, died from gunshot wounds in the back on November 6, 1932. He had been shot from behind as he sat on the saddle of a tractor.

His mother, Martha Albright, a widow, collected insurance of £20,000, on which her younger son had paid the first premium only a few days before his death. For a 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 three years. At last they,, decided to cross-examine Alfred Albright again, and they traced him to a roadhouse. After long questioning they asked him bluntly whether he had killed his brother.

“Yes, I killed him,” he is alleged to have said. When taxed with doing it for the 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 things for breakfast.” Alfred Albright, according to the police, stuck to his story, and took District Attorney George V. Dorsey to

the farm, and showed him just how the 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 in her suit of “too muoh mother-in-law.’