The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
Was Planned in Cold Blood and Car
ried Ont with Unhinch-
ing Nerve.
MRS. LULU KLINE CONFESSES
POLICE HAVE ATHEoRY AS TO WHY
SHE DID 1T.
They Believe She Murdered Her Hus-
band. and Maud GoOdin, Her Ac-
complete, Knew of 1t.

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it was she who threw the acid upon DIR.
| Aimee Haskinson Monday night and in her
confession she implicated as the prime NOV
| er in the dastardly crime Mrs. Maud Good
in. She gave as the motive the jealousy
of Mrs Goodin toward DR.. Haskinson and
[ said that she was "wheedled" into the COM
mission of the deed by Mrs. Goodin, who,
she claims had hypnotic power over her.
Her reward was to be a home for life and
a life of ease.
The police do not believe all of Mrs.
| Kline's confession. They are inclined to be-
lieve that Mrs. Kline told the truth when
she admitted that she threw the acid. There
is evidence at hand enough to prove this
beyond a doubt without the confession.
They also believe the circumstances justify
a belief in Mrs. Klines statement that Mrs.
Goodin was her accomplice before the fact.
But the pressure which Mrs Goodn brought
to bear on Mrs. Kline is thought to have
been stronger than the mere promise of a
life of ease, which might be cut off at any
time.
CHASTITY CRIME RECALLED.
The police believe that the Goodin woman
had hold on Mrs. Kline which was strong
er than friendship, and the compact be-
tween the two women which led to the
throwing of the oil of vitriol and muriatic
acid was one which held Mrs. Kline TO do
the bidding of Mrs. Goodin be the deed
ordered whatever it might. In June, 1S93
Mrs. Kline's husband was brutally muir
dered. Suspicion pointed to Mrs. Kline as
the murderess, but she was never arrested.
She has been rooming in the Empire block
under the name of Wilson for some time,
and Mrs. Goodin was the custodian of the
block. The two women were very intimate
Mrs. Kline has been seriously i'll at different
times during her residence there, and is
even now in such condition that it is be-
lieved she can live but a few weeks or
months. The police believe that Mrs. Kline
might have admitted to Mrs. Goodin that
she murdered her husband. feeling that it
was in the nature Of a death-bed confess
sion for the relief of her mind and soul
They believe the confidence was kept, but
Mrs. Goodin found the opportunity to use
the information; that she needed tool
afp Mrs. Kline was pressed into SERVICE
her number or be exposed for the first.
The theory of the police is that she chose
the plan which she thought would keep her
from ending her life in prison.
Mrs. xlines confession was made last
night in the presence of Superintendent
Quigley and one other person, and Mrs.
Goodin was arrested at IL o'clock. All day
long Mrs. Kline refused to talk much of
the case, and she persistently denied any
knowledge of it. She was confronted with
the evidence which the police had collected
MORE silk, was shown her, and she saw the
red stains and the holes made by the acid,
and could see the fresh acid still saturating
it. She was shown the two jars in which the
the Office of Miss Haskinscn- She was told
that the police had found these things in
her own room, and she was impressed with
the positiveness with which DR.. Haskinson
identified her as the woman who came to
her as pretended patient and then threw
the acid upon her.
But still Mrs Kline did not weaken. She
stoutly maintained her innocence and
claimed she could establish an alibL In the
meantime Superintendent Quigley had
learned the name of the man who had been
block and who was known as Mrs. Kline's
husband. He knew the man personally and
sent for him. The man was shown the evil
dence and was convinced that Mrs. Kline
was guilty and believed that her best course
would be to confess and implicate the really
guilty person. He had talk with her at
the jail, and in half an hour he informed
superintendent Quigley that Mrs. Kline adj
mitted everything and that she implicated
Mrs. Goodin as the person back of the awful
crime. - i.A-.
HER CONFESSION.
Later Mrs. Kline told the same facts to
the superintendent She was brought down
to the private Office in the jail and told of
| her connection with the case calmly, as
though she We're relating some trivial mat
| ter She did not have the appearance of an
insane person excepting at times when she
referred to Mrs. Goodins influence over
| her. At such times her large eyes would
flash an unnatural light and she would al
most lose control of herself. But she would
recover and go on calmly. She said in sub
stance:
81 did this deed. did 1t under persuasion
| from Mrs. Goodin. For some weeks Mrs.
| Goodin has been talking to me about James
| Van Malta and this woman doctor. From
what / understand. Mrs. Goodin and Van
Malta were good friends or lovers, and
Mrs. Goodin became insanely Jealous OF
Miss Haskinson. She would talk to me
about these affairs and paint to me the
! picture OF this woman in the blacklist col
ors She told me that she was a designing
woman. who had come between her and
| the man she loved, and who had cast some
| sort of a spell over him to get HIM away
from her. She told me that the doctor was