The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-11-01
SLAIN FOR HER CASH.
THE FATS OF A CHICAGO WOMAN IN
MICHIGAN.

Mice Carleton Was Last Seen ~ Detroit on
Sept. IS When She Purchased q Ticket
for Chicago = Remains Of . womas
Dragged from the River ut Amherst.
Of the Missing Woman.
DETROIT. Oct s5-It has been settled
beyond the question Of doubt that the
body OF the woman dragged from the
river at Amherstburg Ont, Sept. 80, was
that of Miss Olive Carleton of Chicago. a
distant relative OF the poet, Will Carleton.
She disappeared Sept 23 while on her
way from St Clair. this state, to Chicago.
IL appears that Miss Carleton visited IN
An Sable early in the summer and over a
month ago went to st. Clair TO spend five
or six weeks with her brother. Horace
Carleton A week before she was expect
ed TO leave she suddenly announced that
she would start for Chicago the next
morning She was considered in st. Clair
an exceptionally bright woman but very
strong minded The day before she left
she told her brother, Horace. that she had
200 but needed clio more, and he gave
her the money.
All Trace of Her Lost.
When she left st. Clair she checked her
trunks to Detroit only, buying her ticket
to this city. She is known TO have
reached suburban station, and q woman
answering her description bought ticket
from Detroit TO Chicago, and then all
trace of her is lost. 1t was at first be
lieved that she had committed suicide, as
she was quite respondent when she left
St. Clair because her favorite nephew had
gone away TO college. She told her broth
er Horace that she must go home 10 Chi
cago to prepare for her two nieces who
were to live with her there When body
was recovered from the river at Amherst.
burg, Ont, no Identification was made,
but the facts were reported here Detec-
tive Mathew Holmes of the Pinkerton
agency went to Amherstburg and had the
body exhumed He positively identified 1t
by means of a disfgured hand, but was
surprised TO learn that no valuables or
money were found upon the corpse
Murdered for Her Money.
1t is now the belief that Miss Carleton
went to one of the railroad offices in the
city to buy her ticket for Chicago and her
display of wealth led to her death and
that after she was killed the murderers
threw the body into the liver. The only
clew on which the detectives have TO work
is that mentioned by Detective Holmes
to the Detroit detectives as he learned that
a strange man had called for her trunks
in Chicago the day following her disap
pearance. queer feature of the case is
that the nieces she spoke of meet
ing in Chicago-daughters OF Edwin r.
Holmes, the Oscoda lumberman million
aire-had not yet returned to Chicago and
could not have been there 20 meet her.
The Detroit police are investigating the
mysterious disappearance and aiding
Detective Holmes of Chicago as far as
possible
Reached Detroit Safely.
From details CLEANED IL has been learned
that Miss Carleton and her trunks
reached the Brush street depot safely and
that there she had her trunks transferred
to the Michigan Central, intending tC
spend the night at the Wayne hotel and
go forward TO Chicago the next morning.
While nothing definite can be learned, il
is believed that she went from the Grand
Trunk depot at Brush street TO the Mich
gan Central, and somewhere between the
two was murdered and the checks for her
trunks taken from her. She had about
$3.50 in money, besides her jewelry, when
she arrived in Detroit. The detectives are
now laboring TO get description of the
man who either checked the baggage out
of Detroit on the Michigan Central Oh
claimed it in Chicago Her relatives in
St Clair are firm in the statement that
she intended to spend the night Mt the
Wayne hotel. but the clerk there states
that no such person registered at the no
tel