The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-04-14
HER LIFE AT STAKE
Mrs. Bennett on Trial at MARSHALL
town, Iowa, for Murder.
KILLED MISS ANNA WEISE
The Evidence Against tho Accused wo.
man IL Circamstantisa and IL
shrouded In Mystery.

MARsHALTowN. Iowa, April 9.-Mrs.
Emily Bennett is on trial here for the
murder of Miss Anna Weise. Briefly
stated, the facts Of the murder are
that Anna 'Weise was a German about
20 years of age AID good looking. She
had for several years been working for
different persons as domestic. She
was girl of kind disposi,ion and had
lived an exemplary life. At the time
of her murder she was working in the
family of Henry Russie, in. Vienna
township On the evening OF August
s6 last she went to Arthur Hill's house
sometime between shutdown and dark
to spend the evening. At few min.
utes after 10 O'Clock she left Hills and
started to go home. It was a bright
moonlight night and Hill and Russie
only lived about three-eights of a mile
apart.
When Miss Weise had gone about
two-thirds of this distance on her re-
turn home Russie heard her scream and
told his hired boy, Perry Griggs, to RIM
and see what was the matter. This the
boy started to do, but returned and
said he was afraid. Russie then &C
c. mpanied him and they heard two
more screams. When they were near
where the murdered girl lay they heard
low moan. They found the girl lying
by the side of the road, with her throat
cut from ear to ear. about twenty
stabs on her breast and her head
crushed by blows of club. She was
left in that position until Coroner
David arrived, that night.
The evidence against Mrs. Bennett
is said to be all circumstantial 1t Is
known that the club with which Anna
was 50 numerically beaten was taken
from the grove surrounding the Ben
net residence. One of the first things
to arouse suspicion against Mrs. Ben
nett was the fact that on the night of
the murder, when the neighbors went
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their assistance In searching for the
"uluelel, tney were Ie'usea Aumt-
'snce 70 tue house. inc nuso&na sAylDs
'ha' ''s "'ie hao oeen taken VITA ne'v-
GUS snocAs ana couio NOT oe seen Later
on wnen the oooy OF Anna Wease was
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ago Lewis oIeiser "olAeu = ING nen-
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nett neisn ooInoou' Dut suuu ny ois~
pesreo. :. W. Lily, conouctor On the
chicago Great western, y autnoflty ior
the statement tnat aDout tne time Of J
Greiger's disapPearance some men were
seen pushing : mana car along that hne
upon which vas an oD]ect, supposed 20
oe the oooy o. 2 man.
The car was stopped Opposite the
house then occupied BY the BENEFITS
and James James. the latter being Ii u
some way connected with the murder
Of J. B. Hurto Al Stats Center two
years ago. At the tine 81 the alleged
disappearance Of Greigsr the, Bennett
family lived in the house just east 81 S
their present home, which wss subse-
rents. The BODY, 90 the story eoe7 -
buried in the wall Of the cellar of:the
Bennett home. Anna Weise, = Il y
said, declared that the sody wss burtsd
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