Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-04-18
Tragedy i'm Pittsburg.


Thomas d. Kahney. a grocer OF Mt.
Washington, Pittsburg, was shot dead
in his home by burglars.
This affair and the numerous burg
lars that have occurred in the city
lately caused the Sup't of Police TO call
out his entire detective force and they
found one of the burglars boarding with
his wife at 1714 Bedford Ave. and ar
rested them and secured some articles
and burglars implements; then the de
tect yes went to - Fulton st. and at
tempted to arrest a man and woman
there. when the man used his pistol
and shot and killed detective P. e.
Fitzeerald and attempted the life of
policeman The man who gave his
name as Wright was wounded and
taken to the hospital. In all three men
and two women, said to be crooks
from Chicago and several thousand
dollars in stolen goods were captured.
The prisoners and goods were taken
to Central Station and forty people
called at the station next day and in
Identified stolen property.
Fitzgerald's b ,dy was taken to his
home on Saline Ave. Saturday, and the
funeral Monday was very largely at
tended. He leaves wife and six small
children in poor circumstances and a
fund of several thousand dollars was
raised for them by popular subscrip-
tons
The local detectives found in Mrs.
Jesse Wright and Mrs .iennie Wilcox,
the wives of the two principals of the
bloody chapter, young women OF many
extraordinary qualities Every word
thev spoke and all their actions were
carefully watched detectives questioned
them over and over again; they We're
confronted with startling evidence that
they and their husbands were members
of a gang Of bold thieves; yet not
word could be wrung from them ad-
mitting their own guilt or duplicating
the three men under arrest.
From Milwaukee comes a story COM
pletely indentifying the two women and
telling much of their history. This IN
formation is that Mrs. Wilcox comes
from that city. where their parents are
living, and that Mrs. Wright was known
there as Jessie NJ. Bodine. Both the
girls were stage struck. Each of them
is said to have ended one matrimonial
venture by divorce and to have begun
new one by eloponent Mrs Wilcox's
mother said that she had last heard from
Jenuie in Pittsburg, but she did not
know whether Wright and Wilcox are
the men with whom the girls eloped
from Milwaukee.
A dispatch from Milwaukee read:
From information secured by the Mil
waukee police they became convinced
that the Mrs. Wilcox arrested in Pitts
bvrg was Miss Siebers, whose parents
reside at 242 Hamilton street. The
young woman has been away from home
for year or more, except for visit to
the city last winter. There was a
Bodine girl who was a companion OF the
Siebers girl some years ago, and she
roomed at the Siebers home for time
Both girls were stage struck, it is
claimed, and frequented the local thea
ters. Both were afterward married,
and, according to the information
the police have been able to get, both
were afterward divorced. The last
heard of them they had gone East with
some theatrical company.
"a dispatch from Ironwood, Mich,
SAYS that Jessie NJ. Bodine lived at
Hurley, Wis, about a year ago, at the
home of her brother-ln-law, Frank J.
Stone, who was then a mail agent with
route on the Northwestern road.
Later Mrs. Stone got divorce and she
and her sister, Miss Bodine, kept a
candy store and gave dancing lessons.
They supported themselves in this way
for some time, and then Mrs Bodine
came to Milwaukee to join her brother.
Although the name is spelled differently
the description of the woman who fig
ures in the Pittsburg case corresponds
to that of the Hurley dancing teacher.
She is about 81 years old.
This evening at the house in Hamil-
| ton street, Mrs. Siebers admitted that
| though she at first denied that she knew
anything of the Wilcox woman. OF the
other girl Mrs. Siebers said: Jessie
Bodine was a very pretty girl. She
boarded with me about two months last
fall, and | never saw anything wrong
| with her. She seemed to be in hard
luck and didn't seem to have much
money or many clothes Before she
came to board with me sac said she
clerked in a grocery store. l don
know where it was. While she lived
at my house she earned her living by
acting at the different theaters. She
| told me- she played at the Academy.
She seemed to be without friends or re-
lations in the city, though she received
letters from out of town. She told me
her mother was dead, and that she had
a stepfather somewhere, There would
be days at time that she wouldn'
leave the house, and then when she had
an engagement at the theater she wonld
go out nights. but always come home
directly after the play was out.
1.-THE two girls roomed together fol
about two months and then made the
acquaintance of two men, whom Mrs
Siebers said she did not know Their,
was double elopement and the mother
next heard from her daughter at Pitts
burg. She supposed the girls We're OF
the stage there. She says she does no
know whether the two men arrested il
Pittsburg are the one S sthe girls elopeC
! with or not
On Sunday two of the men were iden
tilted as Edward and John Biddle
brothers, who We're born in Canada
lived for time in Detroit, and have
brother living in Knoxville.
WASHINGTON.
Pensions-John N. McI.au rhlin O