The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-09-10
FLYING FROM JUSTICE.
b. e. Musyrave frustrated in Els Plan to
Secure $4,000 Insurance.


The Musgrave mystery at Terre
Haute, Ind, has been solved The man
who would have the world believe him
dead is alive and we'll in Chicago.
Charles NJ Trout, the young real estate
dealer who was strongly suspected of
completely in the conspiracy, confessed
al at the Coroner,s inquest and was
placed under arrest for arson, perjury,
and conspiracy to defraud.
Frederick E. Markle, brother-in-law
to the fugitive real estate dealer, set the
ball rolling. He is a citizen of repute,
and he had too much on his mind about
this case. 1t troubled him, and when
he was called before the Coroner he
made up his mind to tell all he knew.
After he had told his story the police
took Trout into custody. When he
learned that Marlle had exposed the
conspiracy he weakened, and then he
also went before the Coroner. in q
room closed to all save the police Of
Gals Trout was for two hours the most
supreme object Of interest. He was
detected to pitable degree and he was
IN antintense state of nervous agitation.
The story of the desperate attempt to
swindae the insurance companies by this
fugitive forger with $50 600 ON his life is
sensational in the extreme. Musgraye,
| according to both witnesses, is now hid
ing in Chicago undor the alias of Z. G.
Thornton Marke gave the fugitiYe'S
whereabouts as 4345 Berkeley avenue
and Trout gives il as 7436 st. Lawrence
avenue. Just how this discrepancy oc-
ours is not apparent. Markle is married
to AtIrSgrayeS sister and the latter was
greatly agitated, believing her brother
had really met a terrible fate A few
days after the log cabin fire Trout con-
fded to Markle that Musgrave was
really alive, and that 1t was just q
scheme of his that he was working.
AS Musgrave had borrowed 5000 from
Markle, which the latter needed badly,
he got Musgraves address from Trout,
and going to Chicago saw him near the
! Oakland Hotel, at Drexel and lakewood
| boulevards. Musgrave was greatly sur
prised to see him. Markle wanted to
know what object he Lad in acting in
this manner, in becoming q fugitive on
the face OF the earth once more, as If
| one. experience was not enough for him,
and MuSgraye answered that he wanted
the insurance
Markle tod him he could not hope to
escape, as detectives were everywhere
on his track, and the fugitive said If he
only had $500 he could make his way lin
safety to England Musgrave paid him
$40 on account. He did not seem to have
much money, and his appearance was
changed, according to Markle, so that
| be could scarcely be recognized,
| although he was not in any manner dis
| guised.
.Musgrave wanted to see him again
| next morning, but Markle did not go
back. Musgrave told him in the con-
| versation that the remains found in the
| cabin were those of skeleton he had
| bought August II at st. Louis. He paid
| $105 for the skeleton. It was shipped
! August IA to Chicago in the name OF L.
| B. Burnham.
Trout's story, giving the way in which
| the CHASTITY scheme was worked, was de-
| cidedly thEilling. -~Musgrave conceived
| the idea of insuling his life heavily and
| then disappearing, and he effected $780,
| 600 insurance on his life-$1O, COZ in the
| United ST ates Mutual Accident, SIS, 900 in
| the AEtnan and SIS, 900 in two ether com
panies He made $50, 900 1ayabe to his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Musgrave, S., 900
| to his unmarried sister Anna, and S.,
600 to Miss Catherine Mclaughlin, Of
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, 20 whom he was en-
| gagged to be married.
He and Trout had conference at
| Chicago Aug. 2, and two weeks later
! they met at Hillsdale. The Friday
| night before the fire Musgrave and.
| Trout returned to Terre Haute from
| HilIsdale, the former carrying the box
containing the skeleton, box about a
| foot square and two feet long, across the
prairie to the cabin Musgrave took up
| his abode in this lonely hut early Satur-
day moSning. 1t was agreed as part OF
| the scheme that Trout should work some
prominent Knights of Pythias friends OF
| MusgEave to visit him at the cabin so as
to establish sonclusively that he was
there. This Trout successfully accom-
| plished.
| Sunday night Musgrave and Trout
| took the skeleton out of the box to ar
range it for the cremation Trout says
that when Mhsgrave saw it he shivered
and could not, do anything So Trout
said: ."This thing has gone too far to
go back now," and he arranged the
| skeleton himself in the straw on the
| bunk and placed the Knights of PYthias
| emblem bearing Musgrave's name and
address near it
Then Musgrave fired the cabin. 1t
was really his tracks that the farmers
| traced to the cornfeld. Musgrave
| waited until he saw that the fire had
good start, and then he cut across the
| prairie and caught the north-bound
train for Chicago. Trout had started
| for Terre Haute before the hut was fired.
| All that was left to burn besides the
skeleton was Musgrave's va1ise, specta-
cles and knights of Pythias badge. He
| was going to leave his shoes, but Trout
| objected, saying that it would create
! suspicious to buy new pair at Tecum-
sch or Terre Haute.
Trout says the mistake that was made
was in no. leaving his shoes and the
| buttons of his pants. The skeleton was
one such as is used in museums, strung
! together by catgut. Trout is the most
| detected mortal on earth, and he takes
| his arrest very keenly.
Detective Schumacher, of Chicago,
| thinks the letter from Musgrave's sister
| to Trout several days after the fire,
/ which was intercepted by the police and
| published, in which she asked about in
| terest on money in Hudnuts bank, was
| a cipher MESA Q. There was 10 money
/ in that bank or any other.