Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-29
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED
One of the Important Witnesses of the
Haddoek Murder, who Disappeared,
Supposed TO Have been Murdered TO
Prevent Revealing the Assassin.
Another Strike at the Chicago Packing
Houses Liable 10 Occur Soon.
THE SECOND VICTIM.
Witness of the Haddock Murder Put Out OF
the WAY

- witness vi lie ltduUOCk Murutf nut out OF
the Way.
DEs MoINEs, Ia, Oct. 26.-The disap-
pearance of Henry Peters, one of the i'm
portant witnesses of the Haddock muir
der, at Sioux City, and the intimation
that he had been killed to prevent his tell
ing tales, has heen in measure confirm
ed. On the 4th of this month the body
of stranger was found in the willows,
about mile from Crescent, near Coun-
Gil Bluffs. 1t was badly decomposed,
and could not be identified. The place
where the body was found was one
which could be reached by skiff COM
ing down the Missouri river, and it is
thought that the men came down the
river after the Haddock murder, brought
the body of this man and hid it there.
In the pocket was found ascrumpled piece
of paper on which were written: Miss
Mine Newman, Capitol avenue. II. Bag
burn" The body was buried in the pot
ter's field at Council Bluffs, but to-day
an examination of the clothing was
made, leading to the almost complete
identification of Peters. 1t is thought
that he too was killed by the Had
dock murderers TO prevent his
REVEALING THE pIRsT ASSASSIN.
tNtlS IL llS hitl WHO biSlndTCk
states went out toward Haddock at the
time when Arensdorf did, when the latter
fired the fatal shot. After the night of
the murder he continued to drive the
brewery wagon as usual until August %,
since when no trace of him has been
found. The stories of Mr.. Wallace
and the Van Agins, who live across
the street from the brewery, to
the effect that tho NIGHT nf AnupSt
% they were startled by loud means and
cries for help by some one in the back
part of the brewery, seem now to be fur
ther corroborated by the statement made
Saturday by William Smith, an employe
of the United States Express company.
He states that on the night of August %
he was coming down West Third street
past the brewery on his way to the Pacific
train between 10 and IL o'clock; that
when in front of the brewery he heard
some man cry out
HELP! HELP! FOR GODS SAKE HELP ME!'
but supposing 1t be some drunken quar-
rel of brewery men he went on. As he
was passing the brewery on his way home
after the train had come in, Nick Pauley,
the night watchman at the brewery, came
out of the front door, hailed him, and in
an excited manner asked where he could
find a policeman. He said he asked
him what the matter was, and
Pauley answered: Nothing; | want
an officer" He drove on home, and next
day, seeing one of the brewery men, he
asked what allied Nick Pauley. The
brewery man answered; SO, Nick was
on a drunk last night. We found him i'll
the horse barn this morning" This, to-
gether with the statement of the people
across the street, and also that Peters
disappeared very suddenly that
same night, leaving his watch, best
clothes, and some money at his board
ing place, would seem to confirm the
theory that he met with foul play
to place him beyond the possibility of
telling the facts of the murder of Had
dock. Still, to offset this theory, there
are the facts that Peters, connected as he
was with the plan to assassinate Haddock,
had ample reason for suddenly leaving
this part of the country. Arensdorf
claims to have received a letter from him
a couple of weeks after he left the city,
but refuses to state from where it was
written.