The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-13

Col John ID. ROdmdn, Onlleu otatSs
recruiting officer here, notified CnleI
! Sullivan today that no requisitlon VIII VIII
be necessary for the return of Rathbun
to Jeffersonville He says Rathbun is
now a government prisoner, charged
with desertion and as soon as he can
communicate with Washington he Will
have the prisoner taken there. me
/ Jeffersonville authorities will make
claim for Rathbun on charge OF MUIR
der
! Just before he was taken back to jail
Rathbun made the following statement
to Chief Sullivan:
II admit everything except that
killed Goodman and meant to keep him
drunk for that purpose but he died OF
alcoholism and l was not forced TO
make way with him. ! acted alone ana
without confederate"
! Blanchard. according to the story
Rathbun told yesterday, was corporal
whom Rathbun became acquainted
with at Plattsburg, N. Y.
1t is said that Goodman. who was q
I a rowing nature, came to this city on
loot. 20, and put up at the Salvation
Army Hotel. He repeatedly told the
clerk, ]. c. Pelton. that he did not have
any money and did not know how ne
would get out of the city.
Mr.. Pelton says that about noon last
Wednesday Goodman entered his hotel
and remarked that he had Just met an
easy mark" who had given him a
Quarter. 81 have an engagement with
him tonight and he is going to snow
Inc how to make some money con-
tinued Goodman.
| Shortly before Z O'Clock Pelton says
he saw Goodman meet a man answer
ling Rathbun's description In front OF
the hotel
Rathbun- registered for both-and they
were assigned TO different rooms. In
about half an hour they appeared IN
the office and the hotel clerk says that
the man whom Rathbun had said was
Ten Eyek had changed his attire. the
1.-TWO left the hotel saying they would re-
turn. According to Pelton's story
| Goodman returned to the Salvation
Army shortly after 8 o'clock with a
new coat and vest and necktie Good
imam told Pelton to check him off as he
was going to spend the night in In
diana with his friends
Goodman then went out and has not
been seen at the hotel since. me Jet-
ifersonville coroner today identified a
pair of trousers found in Rathbun's
grip as being those of a suit, the coat
land vest of which were found on the
corpse at the Falls City Hotel, Jeffer-
Isonville.
Louisville. KY. Nov. IA thorough
investigation is being made into the de-
tails of the alleged attempt of Newell
IC. Rathbun to defraud the Metropoll-
ltan Insurance Company. Rathbun ad-
mits that he proposed to secure the
body of a dead man, dress it in his own
Iclothes. place it in JeffersonVille I'm
ldiana) hotel and then burn the hotel
lin the belief that the body would be
identified as his and the insurance
money paid. The police believe that
the body of the man found was that
of murdered man.
Having, as they believe established
the identity of the supposed murdered
man. the detectives are now busy de-
veloping the case against Rathbun. He
has told several stories, but the one
that he stuck to the longest and which
he still insists is true, is that ne
formed the conspiracy in conjunction
with a deserter from the regular army
of the name of Blanchard. He states
that he and Blanchard met here by
agreement and discussed details of the
ipIot. Blanchard agreed to provide a
lcorpse if Rathbun would set fire to the
building after the corpse was prepared.
blanchard brought the body here,
said Rathbun. Il had nothing to do
with killing him, and doubt If he was
| killed. The man may have died acct
Identally but I don't know anything
about this. Blanchard, however, acted
the fool in flushing the game before the
hotel could be set on fire. 1 hope you
will find him."
Plattsburg, N Y, Nov. 12.-Newen G.
| Rathbun. who is in custody at Louis
willie. Ky, in connection with alleged
insurance frauds, enlisted in the United
States Army at Detroit, Mich, Feb. l,
1901. and Joined company K, twenty
seventh Infantry here on Sept. II 1901.
He was born at OswegO, n. Y, is Is
wears old, and by occupation, a printer.
He has blue ewes, dark brown hair and