The record-union., 1896-05-25
The Razors and Butcher-Knife Were
Rev. Hermann's.
The Search for Miss Samuelson's
Body Continues and Will be Kept
Up-Her Watch and Ring Were
Pawned by Hermann Before His
Departure-A Family nurdered at
Ava, MO.-AtchisOn, Topeka and
Santa Fe Seeking Through Line.

SALT LAKE, May 24-The Scandi-
navian Church, where the murders OF
Henrietta Clauson and Annie Samuel
son took place, has been visited by
large number of people ever since the
horrible discovery was made known on
Saturday
No services were held in the church
to-day. The human remains, together
with the garter buckle and belt buckle
which We're found in the furnace, have
been SO identified that there is now no
doubt but that they are those of Miss
Clauson. One of the razors and the
butcher knife also found in the furnace
have been positively identified by Rev.
Mork as the property of Rev. Francis
Hermann, who is accused of the crime.
The razor is of English make and was
brought from England by Hermann
with his other toilet articles. Several
women say the butcher knife was the
one used in the pastors kitchen. The
remains of Miss Samuelson have not
yet been found, although every hole
searched. The police, however, adhere
somewhere in or about the church, and
tomorrow they will commence digging
up the floor of the basement, where
they may have been buried. The grounds
around the church are quite extensive
and in case the remains are not found
in the basement the grounds will also
be dug up.
Another theory is that the pastor,
after cutting the body up, preserved the
parts in a trunk which he took with
him when he left for Kansas City on
May 9th. Miss Samuelson had been
living with the pastor for several
months before her disappearance as
his housekeeper or mistress under a
promise of marriage. She was last seen
on February 2Sth. On that day she
told her friends that she was going to
Ogden to be married to Mr. Hermann
the following day. The next morning
the pastor was found in town as usual
and told Elder Hansen that Miss Sam
uelson had gone to Ogden and that he
did not know when she would return.
She never did return and it transpired
that she did not go to Ogden at ALL and
the chances are that she was murdered
by the minister that night in the
church. When Miss ClausOn disap
peared in September of last year there
was a good deal of talk and inquiry,
and some months afterward Mr.. Her
mann gave out that he had solved the
mystery of her disappearance and stat
ed that he saw her in Butte, Mont,
where she was an inmate of a house of
ill-fame. The story was never con-
firmed and there is no doubt in the
light of recent events that it was
fabrication.
Miss Samuelson's watch and a ring
have been found in a pawnbroker's
shop. where they We're pledged by Mr..
Hermann just before he left for Kan
sas. The police here have so far no
further clew to the whereabouts of
Hermann.
LIVED IN OMAHA
OMAHA, May 24.-Miss Henrietta
Clauson, the young woman supposed
to have been murdered by Rev. Francis
Hermann in the Scandinavian Metho-
dist Church of Salt Lake, lived in
Omaha four years prior to going to
that city and has yet a host Of friends
here, who have been anxiously waiting
for several months for letters from her,
and not until to-day was any intima-
ton received that she had met a vio-
lent death.
Theodore Erickson, shoemaker re-
membered her well as an active worker
in the Danish Norwegian Methodist
Church at Twenty and Franklin
streets in this city, and Miss Tillie An
derson, also living here, was an in
innate friend of the dead girl and knew
her both here and in Salt Lake.
Miss Clauson, then 20 years of age,
came here from Denmark about nine
years ago. and having no relatives in
this country, lived with a family named
Johnson in the western part of the
city. The young woman suffered from
ill-health and at the solicitation of Miss
Anderson, who had gone to Salt Lake
City, followed her there Later Miss
Anderson returned, but Miss Clauson
remained. A close friendship between
Miss Clauson and her Omaha friends
was kept up by correspondence for the
past three years. After Rev Hermann
and his wife moved to Salt Lake City
her letters frequently contained allu-
sions to their aid and friendship for
her.
During the latter part of last sum-
denly ceased without any explana-
tion, although several letters were sent
to her. Then as last effort to reach
her during last winter Miss Anderson
wrote her another letter addressed in
care of Rev. Francis Hermann be-
cause it was thought that would surely
reach her friend But no reply came,
and at every meeting of the dead girls
fY~in dc nt hn; oh,
quirles have been made about her. The
last heard was that she was employed
in the southern part of Salt Lake City
and nothing was known of her keeping
house for the Scandinavian pastor.
FAMILY MURDERED.