The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-13
Connection of the Two Men Is Estab-
Iished Through Number of
COrrOborative Statements.
REQUISITI0N NOT NECESSARY
MILITARY AUTHORITIES WILL DE-
LIVER RATHBUN FOR TRIAL.
Prisoners Antecedents Wanted-Little
Rock Coroner Wants Rathbun
There-InvestigatiOn Pending.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 12--Newell c.
Rathbun, who. according to the police, has
confessed that he planned to defraud an in
surance company out of $4,000 by pretend
ing that a corpse shipped to Little Rock
was his own dead body. to-day admitted,
according to the authorities that the man
who accompanied him to the hotel in JEFF
fersonville, Ind, and was found dead the
next day was Charles Goodman, who is
said to have come from Evansville. Ind.
The Associated Press said last night that
on account of the disappearance of Good
man from the Salvation Army Hotel in
Louisville last Wednesday night. with the
announced intention of going to Indiana
with a newly found friend and his nom
return, the police thought the dead man
was Goodman. Not until to-day. however,
would Rathbun admit that Goodman was
the name of the man that accompanied him
to the Jeffersonville hotel.
Chief of Detectives Sullivan, of Louis
Vile. Chief Applegate. of Jeffersonville, and
the coroner interviewed Rathbun to-day.
Rathbun listened as one by one the cir
cumstances which the police regard as
proofs of his guilt were laid before him by
Chief Sullivan. According to the officers.
Rathbun suddenly sprang up, and, walking
hastily to a window, looked out for a few
minutes. Then, turning like an animal at
bay he faced the men in the room and
asked in shaking voice:
What is the punishment for offenses of
this kind in Indiana? Does the death pen
atty exist there?"
Never mind about the penalty. Rath-
bum said Captain Sullivan, what we are
interested in is the name of the dead man."
For a moment Rathbun looked at the
group Of faces before him and then he said:
You are on the right track. Goodman is
the name of the dead man. 1 met him in
front of the Salvation Army and deter
mined to keep him drunk for several days
and then fix him..
Here he stopped and then said: IF /
should make a confession 1t would be
printed in the papers, and would turn the
people against me-"
He then lapsed into a sullen silence,
toned further he denied having given
Goodman laudanum, and said he would
have made use of chloroform. He then
refused to go back to Indiana without re-
QUESTION papers.
REQUISITION NOT NEEDED.
Colonel John d. Rodman, United States
recruiting officer here, notified Chief Sulli-
necessary for the return of Rathbun to
Jeffersonville. He says that Rathbun is
now a government prisoner charged with
desertion, and soon he COM
municate with Washington he will have
the prisoner taken over. The Jeffersonville
authorities will make claim for the GUS
tody of Rathbun on charge of murder
The detectives now working on clews
as to where the laudanum was purchased.
Further efforts to secure a complete con-
fession were unavailing and Rathbun was
taken back to Jail. Just before this. how
Chief of Detectives Sullivan:
Il admit everything except that / killed
Goodman. | meant to kill him and kept
him drunk for the purpose, but he died of
alcoholism and | was not forced to make
way with him. My story about an accom-
plice named Blanchard was fictitious.
acted alone and without a confederate"
blanchard was, according to the story
Rathbun told yesterday, a corporal whom
Rathbun got acquainted with at Platts
burg n. Y. 1t Is said that Goodman, who
city on Oct. 20 and took up quarters at
the Salvation Army. He repeatedly told
the clerk, J. c. Pelton, that he did not
have any money and did not know how
he would get out of the city.
Mr.. Pelton says that about noon last
Wednesday Goodman entered the hotel and
mark" who had given him a quarter. Il
have got an engagement with him at Z
o clock tonight, and he is going to show
me how TO make some money" continued
Goodman.
shortly before 7 o'clock Pelton says he
saw Goodman meet man answering Rath-
buns description in front of the hotel De-
tective Donohue followed the clew and
found that the two men who answer the
descriptions of Rathbun ana Goodman ap-
peared in the Falls City Hotel in Jefferson
xil1a ah n n
for both and they were assigned 10 diff
ferent rooms. In about half an hour they
appeared in the office, and the hotel clerk
saws that the man whom Rathbun had said
was Ten Eyke had on a different coat and
vest than when he went to the room. He
had also added a collar and necktie TO his
attire. The two left the hotel saying they
would return.
FROM THE EASY MARK"
According to Peltons story Goodman re-
turned TO the Salvation Army Hotel shortly
after o'clock with a new coat and vest
on and also a collar and tie. Pelton says
he joked him about the change in his ap-
pearance and Goodman said he had got the
clothes from the easy mark he had met
in the morning. Goodman told Pelton TO
check him. as he was going to spend the
night in Indiana with his friend Good
man went out in a short time and has not
been seen at the hotel since.
The Jeffersonville coroner to-day identi-
fed a pair of trousers found in Rathbun's
grip being of a suit the coat and vest
Of which were on the corpse found at the
Falls City Hotel.
The Louisville detectives to-day received
kilograms from the chief of police at Little
Rock giving an exhaustive description OF
the corpse forwarded from Jeffersonvflle as
that of Rathbun. In almost every particu-
lar the directions tailed with that % Good
man.
Goodman is little known here. About a
year ago he induced Jake Schneider, six
teen years OF age, to accompany him on a