The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-16
FOUND MURDERED.


Dead In Her Room at Kansas City-The
Murd.rers Arrested and Confcss Their
l. Crime-Robbery the Mottve-The Mur-
dered Woman Said to Have Been q 5ls-
OF Hat Nasterson, the Western Sport. ..
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept 1O.-Mrs
DANES Wright, an employment agent,
tvas found murdered yesterday 'even-
ing, in her Office on the second floor of
the Hall building, in the very heart of
the business center of the city.
The corpse lay ut the right of an
open desk. The hands were tied be-
hind her back with n double wrap of
stout binding twine. Her feet were
drawn slightly upward, send at the
ankles single wrap of the same twine
confined the limbs She wore a plain
black dress and waist of figured cot
ton goods About the woman's fore
head was bound a blood-stained hand
kerchief
When the police surgeon came and
turned the woman's face from the
carpet It was seen that she had been
frightfutly beaten. The face was
swollen and discolored, and from the
nostrils had trickled pool of blood in
which the face was almost buried.
Her dress was open at the neck and
the throat showed cruel bruises and
the marks of finger nails-the latter ut
first thought to be knife cuts, so cruel
had they been A broken watch chain
lay upon the floor, and under chair a
little to one side lay the upper set Of
false teeth of the dead woman, who
was some so years old and of rather
powerful build.
The only evidence of struggle was
upon the body itself, aside from the
broken chain and the set of teeth. A
small glass case of artificial flowers
upon a stand between the windows
was unbroken, and not n thing in the
room seemed disturbed. A vacant
canary cage hung above the head of
the corpse, the singer that had occu-
pied it being with a mate in a cage
across the room.
The cotton handkerchief about the
woman's head was a mans size. IL
was doubtless used as gag. The wo-
man was probably seated ut her desk.
frail affair set against the wall. A
blow sent her to the floor, and then
she was pounded and choked and
beaten into insensibility. Then her
hands and feet were bound. She could
not have struggled much after this,
else she would have lOosened her feet,
for there was only a single wrap of the
twine about her ankles.
She was last seen alive, so far as has
been developed, at 4:3O. She was
found dead just before :.
Mrs. Wright, or Nine. Wright, as she
was familiarly known, had been in the
employment agency business here for
years, and has grown son in the same
business ON Main street. lie has not
yet been found. His partner is de-
tained by the police, but simply as
precautionary measure, not from any
suspicion attaching to him.
In pocket in the woman's dress was
found a pocketbook containing s1.Gl
in small change. Not until after the
police had completed their examina-
tion and the body had been taken in
charge by an undertaken and the cor
orner was other money found. As the
body was undressed il was found that
under her ordinary flannel underwear
she wore what appeared to have once
been a pair of mans trousers with the
legs cut off close tothe thighs. the ends
scalloped and embroidered in lace. In
each of the two pockets were old and
much worn pocketboolSs containing
gold, each coin wrapped in cloth or pa
per so that it could not jingle. There
was slT0 in all. Seven gold rings,
some of them of elegant workmanship,
were also among the contents of the
pocketbooks-
There is q theory, upon which the
detectives are working. that the mur.
der was committed by the malta. Re-
Gently several employment agents
here, and among them Mrs Wright, il
is claimed, have collected money from
Italians and sent them out to water
tanks and way stations, where work
was promised, but none found. Two
agents were arrested yesterday on
complaint of some score of indignant
Italians who had been swindled. II
is thought that such party may have
been defrauded by Mrs. Wright and
wreaked vengeance by t1king her
life.
About 10 o'clock last night Ed Froisv.
son of Mrs Wright by former hus-
band, and Albert Louk, hired Ia
borer, drove in from the family resi-
dence, four miles south of the city.
They went directly to the undertaker's
and reported that they had heard of
the murder through neighbor. They
were taken before Chief Speers. There
was blood upon Louk's shirt. He adj
mitted having been at Mrs. Wright's
office at @ o'clock, but said he found
the door locked and could not enter
The chief thinks he killed the woman.
lie was held pending an investigation
by the police.
The murdered woman's son says she
was a sister of Bat Masterson, who has
a record of having killed many men.
Masterson is now a sporting man ut
Denver, and will probably second
Mitchell in his fight with Corbett.