The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-07-27
"A MURDER MYSTERY
After Many Years the Body
Found in a Well.
ANOTHER VICTIM
Miss Minnie Williams Supposed
to Have Been Murdered
by Holmes.
The New York Herald Robbed Captive
by the Indians-Damage Done to
Property in Iowa by
Cloudburst.

FRANKFORT, Ind, July 19.-The
discovery made yesterday of the skele
ton of woman in an old abandoned
well near Burlington, Is miles north
east of here, has created tremendous
sensation by reviving the greatest
Indiana. The remains have been
identified as those of Miss Louella
| Mabbitt, who mysteriously disappeared
10 wears age, and for whose murder her
| lover, Omer Green, was lynched.
About 10 years ago Miss Louella Nab
bitt, daughter of one of the leading
citizens of Carroll county, and herself
a woman of rare beauty and a leader
of society, left her home in the even
ing with her accepted suitor, Omer
Green, a man of wealth and widely
known. She failed to return home,
and searching parties were organized.
Green claimed to have let her out of
his buggy at her home, and for few
days appeared distracted with grief
and led searching parties everywhere.
Evidence that indicated Green's
guilt began to accumulate, and he sud.
denly disappeared. At bound excite
ment sprang to frenzy. 1t became
a sort of mania. Almost the entire
population of Clinton, Cass, Carroll,
Howard and Tippecanoe counties
joined in the search. Houses were
searched generally. whether people
were suspected or not. Cellars and
wells were explored everywhere, and
every suspicious-looking mound of
earth was dug up. The Wabash river
was dragged for so miles, but the body
of the woman was not found.
In the meantime the Pinkertons had
been employed in the case, but after
years hunt gave up finding either the
girls body or the murderer. Green
was finally captured by the noted de-
tective, Buck Stanley, in Texas, after
two years. search and brought
back to the scene of the supposed
crime. He refused to say whether the
girl was dead or alive, and was placed
in Jail at Delphi.
A few days later fully 1000 men took
him from the Jail, drove him to the
Mabbitt house and lynched him. The
father of the girl, who was very
wealthy, spent all of his possessions
following up any clew, believing his
daughter yet alive.
The discovery of the body in the |
well yesterday was made by workmen
who were cleaning it out, it having re
mained unused for nearly 20 years.
Green was last seen with the girl less
than a mile from the well, which, at |
the time, was covered over with planks
and earth, and but few knew of its |
existence.
Miss Mabbitt had peculiarly shaped |
teeth, nearly all of them being double,
and one of them had filling of gold |
shaped almost exactly like a heart.
This same filling was found in the
teeth of the skeleton discovered. The
teeth were also double. When small
girl she had three ribs broken, and
evidence of fracture is plainly discern
ible on three of the ribs of the skele-
ton.
The popular excitement has again
broken out in the neighborhood of the
scene and hundreds of people are flock
ing to see the skeleton. The general
verdict is that at last Indiana's great |
murder mystery has been solved. /