Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-02-19

stt1A On charge OF MURDER. lie Is
mystery 20 the officers. and his seem
Ing lack Of guile has enabled him for
years to carry out plans which would
have delighted Arehfiend Holmes. Four
wives. a mother-in-iaw and a daugh-
ter. all dead. all insured in favor OF
zanoli. This is the record made by
him In three years William Schmidt.
man who worked for ZanoiI. also
died. Then the genius OF the barber
shone respondent He went to .he
insurance Office and representing that
Charles Zanoli was dead. took an in
speeioF from the ofiiee 10 the house
where sehmidt's body was and iden-
tined u a. that OF himself. Then be
went back 20 the insurance Office and
collected the money on a policy IN his
oEn life. His insurance transactions
Melted him ss.s5i.s5. This is The
amount he collected on the policies
drawn In his favor on the lives OF his
daughter. mother-in-lAw and wives.
Furthermore. he still has Il. He has
several bank accounts. with good bal
anees on his side Of the ledger, and
when arrested he had 81 900 In crisp
bills. He was preparing TO marry
again when the police seized him.
He IL small and repuisive. walks with
a limp. and Il not the sort OF a man
that usually attracts women. Yet he
aizays managed TO marry the woman
he wanted. and exerted q strange In !.
nuenee over al women he met. Only
one woman vas proof against his ne
eromancy. and that was a younger
sister % his first wife. who died in
1885,.
After the death % his wife he want
ed 70 marry her sister. but the young
lady seemed 10 know By intuition that
something was wrong With Zanoli. The
nan. who Is believed by the police 10
be a nend. came 10 America. from
Germany IL 1876. ard IA 1883 married
hia first wife The idea Of collecting
tho insurance on her life does not seem
70 have occurred 70 him untis 10 years
later. The life Of his mother-in-lsw
MIRA Leopoldsne Dorm. had been Ia
sured for $40 In the Prudential Insur-
snoe Company in favor Of zancli. she
died in 1884,. and the insurance was
collected by him. Then the deaths Of
bis other wives and other relatives
followed with but a few months be-
tween each. His first wife died in
isss. and after collecting the insur-
anoe on her life he moved TO another
part OF the city and commenced TO cast
about for another wife. lie had two
children by his frst wife. a girl and a
boy. and the lives OF these were duly
insured. Then he began to look over
the advertisements In the German pa
.pers, and at last found one that In
.terested him. II had been inserted by
a woman who wanted a situation as
hounkeeper. The barber hunted her
iup. engaged her. Then followed the
Insurance policy. His new wife had
a daughter about ten years old. and
her life was also insured. A month
after his second marriage his own
daughter died and he collected the in
surance on her life This was the
second policy he had collected. and &c
began 10 see what easy money" II was.
Two months later his second wife died,
This was the largest prize he had as
yet landed. His wife was insured for
5000 in the knights and Ladies OF
Honor, and this dropped into his
hands. She had also been insured in
the Prudential Insurance company for
a small amount. but Zanoli overlooked