Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-12-02
4 Nan accused Of Murder Fully TX
onerated.

4 Man accused Of Murder Fully TX
0nerated.
/ From The Dubuque Herald.
| It viii he remembered that the
Herald gave particulars of the dis
appearance of woman named
ThiIman' with her three children
from Fort Dodge i'm February last,
and of her husbands unsuccessful
search for her; and still later of Mr..
Thilman's arrest on suspicion and
his examination Oh charge of muir
der. Mr.. Thilman, it will be re-
membered, was acquitted, there being
no evidence against him. And no "
comes a very singular passage in tn g
history of this case.
A few days ago Mr.. w. G.. Stewart
had a package sent to his house,
wrapped up with a copy of the Chi
cago Times, and among the Associ-
Rted press dispatches was one that
struck his attention, because it con
! tanned the name of Thilman. This
name brought to his mind the re-
memberance of a former servant
girl in his family named Emily
Rogers, of Durango, in this county.
Her grand mother and uncles live
there now. This girl Emily after
wards married MI. Thilman and
| lived with him in Fort Dodge. The
history of her life while living with
Mr.. Thilman is, according to com-
mon report, one of reported cruelties
and abuses. So common WAS this
opinion in the community, that
when her mysterious disappearance
with the three children from Fort
Dodge, could not be explained on
any other hypothesis, the conviction
became strong that Thilman had
crowned his outrages with the dark
crime of murder. OF this, however "a s
has already been stated he was clear
ed before the law, and yet there re.
manned O suspicion in the minds OF
some more fully acquainted and in
terested in the fate of Mrs. Thilman,
whatever it might be, that he knew
more of her fate thaD was generally
known. But here comes the intelli-
Cence by the merest cccident to the
right party, which fully unweaves
this knotty thread, and, we are glad
to learn, fully exculpates Mr.. Thil'
man from the crime of murder
Mr.. Thilman has been in Dubuque
within a few days-is now at work
near by, and if this account meets
his eye, he will doubtless feel pain
full interest in it, dimly lighted, il
may be, with satisfaction.
The dispatch referred to Is as fol
lows;
CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 10.
Cleveland is much excited over 1
remarkable theft of dead body
which was first made public in the
Plain Dealer of this afternoon. Mrs
} Thilman, q poor woman who cam.
here from Iowa last February, witt
her three children and went out L
service on Ohio ST., died on the Stl
of scarlet fever. Two students o
the Women's medical college who
were anxious to get a subject made he
friends believe that the body shoulC
be taken to the college for pos
mOrtem examination, their real OBJ
iect being 10 disseCt the remains
The better to disarm suspicion. a cof
fin was procured. a large billet o
wood was put into it to personate {
corpse, and then public funera
was held, two days afterward, a
which the pastor of st. Paul (Epis'
copaD church innocently officiated.
1t would appear from the above
that when Mrs. Thilman fled from
the above reputed brutal treatmen
of her husband at Fort Dodge, thai
she proceeded with her children di'
rectly to CleaveIand, and there
worked and supported her children
until fever came and relieved her oil
her sufferings.