The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-01-04
Deuble Murder in Nebraska
Surrounded by Strange
Conditions.
Woman Involved Compelled
to Shield Her Partner
In Crime.
By Wire From Kearney, Neb., Jan. s.

Extraordinary circumstances surround the
tragedy which resulted In the recent DELHI
crate murder of Fred Lane and Mrs. Frank
l.. Dinsmore at Odessa. Frank Dinsmore
10 accused of the double murder of Mrv.
rreo Laue, who asserts that she consented
10 the crime while under the hypnotic
control ~of Dinsmore. The object of the
murder was, she says, to get rid of Mrb
Dinsmore and Mr.. Laue, 80 Dinsmore and
herself could marry.
The two couples occupied the same resi-
dence. They were prominent socially Dins-
more has been in charge Of the Omaha Ele->
Vator Co.'S business In that section of the
state LOT years. Laue has been a promi-
nent business man of Odessa. The two
men were bosom friends. Mrs. Dinsmore
was bride Of only four months. Dinsmore
having married her in Chicago in August
last.
TRAGEDY AT NIGHT.
On the night of the tragedy Dinsmors
aroused the town by screaming Murder
early In the morning. A crowd gathered
ana found Mrs. Laue sobbing by the beside
OF her husband, who had a bullet in his
brain. The dead body OF Dinsraare's wife
lay on the kitchen floor. Sac had been
poisoned with prussic acid. The stories
OF the two survivors agreed in detail. Mrs.
Laue said her husband woke her by kissing
ner good-by, and then blew out his brains.
Ihe shot aroused Dinsmore and finding his
wife gone, he had started in search Of her.
ana round her dead body. Both bodies were
cold, however, when the crowd arrived, and
this gave rise TO suspicion
me evidences of a peculiar influence ex-
erclsed over Mrs. Laue by Dinsmore devel-
opend the morning of the tragedy. When
the man was in the same room with Mrs.
authorities hat ho
steadily on the woman Under this look
sne told q straight story and told it over
and over again. In fact it was this very
unvarying story which first attracted sus-
2 Plcien. Mrs. Laue seemed to be in a
dream This was at first accounted for on
the theory that the tragedy had temporarily
impaired her reason. Then it was observed
That Dinsmore kept constantly in her pres
ence. He is man Of great physique-six
feet tall, very heavy, and with the most
extraordinary eyes ever seen in human
head They are abnormally large and Jet
black They are close together and once
seen could never be forgotten. Mrs. Laue
was at ease only when under Dinsmore's
piercing gaze. The moment he would leave
the room the woman appeared to collapse
and remained nervous until his return
PEOPLE BECOME SUSPICIOUS.
These circumstances were remarked by a
number of people. Then Mrs. Laue's father
arrived on the scene, and the authorities
to have him question the woman
They insisted on Dinsmore's leaving the
premises He did not want to do 1t. He
was removed by force, and instantly the
woman became hysterical. He passed out
side the house land under the window of
the room. Mrs. Laue glanced outside, saw
the man and Instantly stopped ner tears
and appeared calm. The curtain was pulled
down, shutting out all sight of Dinsmore,
and again the woman appeared frenzied.
Then she was asked to repeat her story.
For the first time it differed in minor de-
tails from those reported in Dinsmore's
presence with SO much persistency. Then
she was told boldly by the father that there
was something wrong, and she must tell
the truth. The woman began to break down.
and insisted that Dinsmore be sent for.
The father refused and the nervousness Of
the woman increased. After five hours of
exhaustive work she confessed that the two
had arranged the double murder. She told
all the details Of the affair; told how Dins-
more forced prussic acid down his strug-
Cling wife's throat; how he then shot Laue,
and how he had taken the quivering body
Of his own wife into the kitchen and waited
for 1t to cool on before warning the neigh
bors The woman declared that she had
been mesmerized by Dinsmore, and had been
under his influence for years, even before
she had married Laue.
Dinsmore was informed of the confession,
and carelessly asked that she repeat 1t in
his presence. The authorities consented
When Dinsmore faced the trembling woman
she denied every word of what she had said.
When she was alone again she repeated the
confession and swore to it.
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he country than all other diseases put
ogether, and until the last few years was
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'ears doctors pronounced it local disease,
md prescribed local remedies, and by con-
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