Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-10-02
CAUGHT BY A LETTER
A Probable Murderer Arrested
at Camden, N. j.
WANTED FOR A HORRIBLE CRIME
Charged With KILN His Sweetheart's
Mother and Quitting Her Body to Pieces

He Makes Partial Conference.-The Muir
dered wOman's Daughter Implicated.
A Number of Suspicious Papers Found
Upon Him-The Prisoner to be Taken
TO the Scene of the Tragedy.
CAMDEN, N. J., Oct. 2.-Deputy Sheriff
Pickens arrived here from Leavenworth,
Kan, last night to identify Arthur
Felden, alias G. A. Benson, who is
wanted there for murder. Felden was
arrested here yesterday. The officials
knew the man at once. and a partial
confession of discriminating facts has
been obtained from him.
The police were notified on Monday
that the man was wanted, and he was
caught in the postoffice while asking
for a letter. 1t was found that he
recently moved to No. 916 Hamilton
street, Philadelphia, but came here for
his mail. Up to the arrival of Deputy
Pickens, Felden denied his identity
but last night admitted it. The officials
will not allow him to be interviewed,
but in their presence he acknowledges
that he courted Mary Rautzhan and was
at the house the night before the
murder. He states that the daughter
gave him the bag of money, but denies
that he is the murderer. He says he is
willing to return, and claims that he
knows who murdered Mrs. Mettman.
It has been learned that the man has
purchased seven building lots in Ber-
lin, Camden County, in the name of
George Rau. A number of suspicious
papers were found upon him. Pickens
intimates that the daughter is implica-
ted in the crime.
Felden will be taken to Leavenworth
as soon as requisition papers are is
sued. He is said to haYa wife and
children in Kansas City.
History of the Crime.
LRAyENwoRTH, Kan, Oct. AT last
the man directly charged with the muir,
der of Mrs. Mettman, here, last March,
is under arrest. This man is A. O.
the daughter of the murdered woman,
who has been in Jail since the crime.
Benson was captured at Camden, n. J.,
where he went under the name of cat
tar Felton,"
On March 20 last Mrs. Mettman dis
appeared from her home in Leaven-
worth. She had $40 on her person at
the time. Five days later a headless,
armless and legless body was found in
the Missouri river, just above the city.
There was no clew to its identity until
the discovery of a human head in a
sack was also made in the river where
the trunk was found. The head was
that of Mrs. Mettman.
Her husband was at once arrested,
but was released. as nothing could be
proven against him. Then her married
daughter, Mrs. Rautzhan, who lived
with her parents, was put in Jail. 1t
was found that she was intimate with
a married man named c. A. Benson,
who lived near, and that the money
the mother carried with her, represent
ing the savings of her son, had been
the subject of conversation between
them.
Benson disappeared after Mrs. Rautz-
hans arrest, and though he was heard
of both East and West the police could
not lay their hands on him.
The police say that Benson and Mrs.
Rautzhan conspired to kill Mrs. Nett
man, and that Benson killed her in
a clump of bushes in the Government
reservation some distance north of her
house, where he mad decoyed her.
They believe he then dismembered the
body, and carrying the trunk, head and
limbs to the river threw them in.