The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-11-11
FAIR FUGITIVE CAUGHT.
Arrest Of Lizzie DeKalb. The Woman in
BLACK"

The murder Of Emma p. Kaiser on
dark and lonely road in Upper Mer.
ion township, near Norristown. on the
evening of October 28, 1906, was re-
vlved Thursday last in all its shocking
details by the arrest of Lizzie DeKalb.
the alleged woman in black who was
on the scene of the murder at or
about the time ofthe firing OF the fatal
shot, tor which the dead woman's hus-
band, Charles o. Kaiser, Sr., is under
sentence of death. The arrest was
made on Tuesday night by Captain
Rodenbaugh and Detective Crawford.
OF Philadelphia. Captain Roden-
baugh says the woman was taken into
custody on a Pennsylvania Railroad
train as it neared Broad Street Stat
ion. She was brought to Norristown
by Captain Rodenbaugh Thursday
afternoon, and for nearly four hours
she was at the mercy of the police,
the District Attorney and Attorney
James b. Holland, who subjected her
to most rigid examination, without,
however, elicting any replies that I'M
plicate Miss DeKalb or clear up the
mystery in which the murder is sur
rounded.
Immediately after the murder of
Mrs. Kaiser the county offered a re.
ward of 5000 fer the arrest of Miss
De Kalb, and like amount for the
apprehension of James A. Clemmer.
in whose company Lizzie was seen in
Norrlstown on the day of the tragedy.
No tidings have ever been received of
Clemmer, but now that his companion
is in custody it is believed the detec.
tives will soon be in possession of in
formation pointing to his whereabouts.
District Attorney Strassburger says
Miss De Kalb was located through
the assistance of one OF her acquaint-
ances who was tempted by the 5000
reward.
On the evening of October aS,
1896, Kaiser and his wife drove out of
Norristown in falling top carriage,
followed few minutes later by man
and woman in a second carriage.
Subsequently the two teams were seen
in close proximity in Upper Merton.
Within IS minutes after the teams
were noticed Mrs. Kaiser was a
corpse, her dead body lying on the
seat of the carriage in which she and
her husband were chattering as they
drove over the Upper Merton roads.
Kaiser returned to Norlis,own with
his wife's limp body in the bullet-cut,
blood-stained carriage, with a wound
in his arm. He said that they had
been stopped by hlghwaymen and
shot, after being stripped of their
money and jewels.
"A pool of blood in the dust covered
road marked the spot where Kalser's
carriage stood after the bullet that
ended his wife's life had been buried
into her brain. Fifty yards away were
found Kaiser's watch and bloody
pistol, both secreted along the fence
that skirts the road, Several days
later Mrs. Kaiscr's watch was picked
up in the street IN Pottsville, Pa.
Kaiser was tried in March last, and
convicted after the jury had been out
less than four hours. He was recently
refused new trial, and the death SEN
tence was imposed. In January the
Supreme Court will hear argument on
an appeal from the Montgomery
County Court.
Kaiser's father lives in Philadelphia,
where the condemned murderer was
at one time intimate with Lizzie K.
DeKalb and James A. Clemmer. The
latter aided in procuring insurance on
Mrs. Kaisers life at the time of her
death. Policies aggregating about
$1,000 were in force.