The age-herald., 1901-11-15
Mayor Rader in the Police Court Binds Him Over
 Without Bail
SPECIAL TERM OF COURT
Rathbun Positively Identified by For mer Acquaintances-Says His Wife May Have Thought"
 About His Scheme.

Jeffersonville, Ind, November H-New- ell c. Rathbun suspected of killing Charles Goodman in a hotel here by poison was this afternoon positively identified by an officer and an acquaintance of the prisoner from Little Rock where he lived for a while.
 Later Rathbun was arranged before Mayor Rader in the police station on a charge of murder. Rathbun pleaded not guilty and Mayor Rader held him over to the Circuit Court without bond. The prisoner had no lawyer. After being ar raigned he was taken back to jail. The Circuit Court will convene in special term Monday and grand jury will be empanelled to consider Rathbun's case.
 Rathban was identified by Deputy Sheriff Al Chichester and E. J. Gloeck- ner, from Little Rock, Ark.
 The m eeting between the prisoner and the Arkansas visitors whose trip was for the purpose of identification took place in Sheriff Raves office.
 "Hellow Rathbun.' said Gloeckner. Don't you know me?' was the first sa- luton.
 ''Yes, you're Gloeckner." responded the prisoner.
 Did you give that man the dope?' asked Gloeckner.
 "I am not guilty of the crime as charg- ed''
 Wife May Be Implicated.
 ''Did your wife know anything about your schepes''
 "She might have thought it.
 Why didn't she identify the body as not being yours?'
 q can't tell. She's an excitable woman"
 What about the statement of Carrie Pryor that you wanted her to go into an insurance swindle with your"
 "She Is an enemy of mine.'
 At the conclusion of the interview Rath- bun signed the following paper for the purpose of proving his identity in Little Rock:
 ITO Whom it May Concern: 'I am in custody in Jeffersonville, Ind, awaiting trial. I will send this by Al Chichester and E. J. Gloeckner.
 IN. c. RATHBUN."
 Rathbun Asks Questions.
 Rathbun became tired of being inter- rogated and turned questioner himself, first asking:
 How is my wife?"
 Deputy Sheriff Chichester said Mrs. Rathbun was very well. Rathbun ex- pressed his pleasure.
 When reference was made to his wife tears showed in Rathbun's eyes. He asked Chichester to take the following message to her:
 Everything looks dark for me. l will be with you some day
 The prisoner could no longer restra ain his feelings He cried and brushed away the tears with his coat sleeve.
 Sheriff Rave take me to my cell' said Rathbun, arising and shaking hands with the men from Arkansas.
 Here is a picture, Rathbun," said Chichester. "If it is a likeness of your self say so on the reverse side and sign your name. He wrote: This Is like ness of N. c. Rathbun."
 Deputy Sheriff Chichester, who repre- sents Frederick Schader, Sheriff of Pu- laska county Arkansas, and the Metro politan Life Insurance Com pany said:
 Mrs Rathbun accounted for the mis- take of Identification in calling Goodman her darling by saying she only glanced at the body. Later when she said 1t was not her husband, she said she was sorry she had not examined the body more closely.
 q know of several cases where Rath- bun made to a number of women in Little Rock the same proposition Miss Corrine Pryor says he made to her. These wo- men will make depositions and they will be introduced in court in Jeffersonville. Miss Pryor whom Rathbun approached is one of the most estimable women in the city. She will swear that Rathbun asked her to join him in the insurance swindle and shall probably introduce her as witness when the case is tried in Jeffersonville
 The prisoner is becoming less talkative and evidently realizes that he has al- ready talked too much but he is report. ed to have said to a few prisoners at the jail:
 The officers haven't a thing on which to convict. mans intention does not mean that he may be convicted
 Coroner Young's Statement.
 Little Rock. November 14.-The corpse sent here as that of Newell c. Rathbun continues to repose in a vault at Oakland Cemetery, subject to the order of Coroner J. M. Young. a
 The latter states that he will surrender the body only upon sworn testimony before the coroners jury here that the prisoner at Jeffersonville Is Newell c. Rathbun. The coroner makes this state ment:
 About b:3o p. m. I received telegram from Coroner Coots of Jeffersonville re- questing that return the body held here for further investigation. took the mat ter under advisement and conferred with my attorneys, also with the mayor of the city and decided not to release the body. This body was shipped to Mrs. Rathbun as that her husband. Shortly after ii came into her possession a question arose as that of her husband. Shortly after il thorities here were notified and at the request of the mayor I took cha,ve oi the body. There has been much contro- versy in regard to the identity of thi.