Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-28
The Michigan Team Again Beaten.
THE WEST.
Indiana.

After Seventeen YOarS-The M yst@ry of Q
 Murder Cleared up at Last-A Woman
 Who Held the Secret Through Fear.
 SEYMOUR, Nov. 27.-Last evening there ar rived in Msdors, . small town near here, 8 woman describing herself as Eliza Kemp, agent for the sale of dress patterns. Seven teen years ago there occurred in Seymour one of the most blood -curdling aad mystsri- ous murders ever committed in this section. Subsequently three other murders were oom- rnitted, caused directly by the first. For the past seventeen years these murders have been entirely surrounded In the deepest nays tery, and not until this moraing. when the testimony of Eliza Kemp was given, was the true history of the crime known. On Jan usry 3, 1866, Moore WooSmansse, wealthy merchant of Msdora, came to Seymour on his way to Cincinnati. He had $2,Ooo in cash to buy goods with. He registered at the Rader House for the night. Next morning he was missed from his room. Nine months later body was found In White river pith the head cut of, but on examination the doo- tors proved 1t to be the remains of Wood mansee. The Radar House was ransRoked for evidence of the suspected murderer. On removing the carpet of the room occupied by Woodmansee blood stains were upn the floor. Gordon Kinney, m smploye of She hwsel. Vas suspected of having knowledge Of the murder. When the excitement caused by the finding of She body was at it's highest point, an unknown man called Kinney from his door one night and As Kinney opened the door he was shot and Instantly killed by the stranger. After this all efferts to find the murderer were abandoned. In 1872 Reuben Wheeler was mortAlly woanded and on his dsathbed confessed that on Che night of the WoodmAnses murder der's 6 horse and wagon which they re- turned next morning with the bottom of the wagon covered with blood. Rsder vas ar rested for the murder but acquitted, and the affair was again mystery. On the night of the murder a dance was being held ak the and A. ". Flynn, two gamblers, left sudden ly. It was known that Flynn and Woodman- see had had 8 difficulty over . law suit. Flynn threatened to kill him and his partner Long said the case should never come to sn- other trial. After the murder these men returned to Aedora Evsrytime during the many years that any new evidence concern ing the Woodmansee murder was reported 1t was followed by a meeting of these men. Suspicion began to point strongly towards them. Flynn then threatsaed to shoot one ] Emory, who accused him of the murder, but
 
 then disappeared and Alden Rodman, his suspected accomplice, WAS taken from the jail by mob and hung Thus from know ing the murder of WooAmansee Kinney was killed, Wheeler mertally wound ed, Flynn shot dead and Rodmsn hung. Seventeen years had passed, bat the mystery had Hot yet besn solved. Eliza Kemp testified that she occupied room No. next to Woedmansee in the Rader Blouse on the fatal night. She said On that night I was suddenly awakened by a noise in Wood mansee's room. In a second I was fully awake and realized that some one In the next room was begging for his life then heard some one say: ''Sam, kill the he---@. Then blow followed by heavy fall. Then agreed to take his body cut the head of and throw the body into the river. left Sey- mour early next morning and have never told what heard ss my life has been threat ened time and again through anonymous lst- ters and in other ways" Thus after seven- teen years murder will out.