The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-14
Louisville Suspect Is Throwing New
Light the Death of Charles
Goodman at Jeffersonville.
DEVELOPMENTS OF THE DAY
PROOF THAT THE VICTIMS DEATH
WAS DUE TO POISON.
Statement of Physician on This
Point-Hathbun's Confessi0n-
Brought to Indiana.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Nov. 13.-New fea-
| tures to-day in the case of Newell c. Rath-
bun, held here on charge of desertion
from the United States army and suspected
/ of the murder of Charles Goodman. who
was found dead last Thursday in a Jeffer-
sonville hotel. were Rathbuns statement to
the police that his wife at Little Rock had
/ known of his plan to defraud the insurance
company, though not OF the murder feature
OF It; the decision to have the corpse of
the supposed Goodman returned 10 Jeffer-
sonVille for an autopsy and identification;
the announcement from Washington that
the War Department has decided to send
Rathbun to Jeffersonville and turn him
over to the Indiana authorities, and the re-
fusal of the local authorities to send Rath-
bun to Little Rock to testify at the cor
oner's inquest over the corpse that was
shipped there. They say Rathbun will go
nowhere except to Jeffersonviile, where he
is to be tried on the charge of numbering
by poison Charles Goodman. A long mes
sage was sent to Little Rock, asking that
the corpse be returned to Jeffersonville.
Rathbun still further implicated himself
in his interviews with the detectives to-day
For the first time he admitted that he had
closely pushed by Chief of Detectives Sui
livan, stated that his wife was in part of
the conspiracy, although he insisted that
she was entirely innocent of completely in
any plot TO put Goodman out Of the way
At first Rathbun stated that his only con-
federate was a deserter from the regular
army by the name of Blanchard, but he
finally admitted that this was false and
that Blanchard was fictitious. He then
stated, yesterday morning, that he had
worked the plot alone. The suspicious of
Captain Sullivan were aroused this morning
by news from Little Rock that Miss
Corinne Prior had stated that Rathbun had
proposed a very much similar plot of de-
frauding an insurance company 10 her and
had said that II she would marry him and
! carry out her part he would send a CORPSE
home; that it could be buried as being
| him, and that he and she would divide the
insurance. He also learned that Mrs Rath-
| bun still insisted that the corpse sent from
| that of her husband.
After ascertaining these facts, Captain
| Sullivan had Rathbun brought into his pri-
Vate office and interrogated him about this
| phase of the case. Rathbun said:
Il have only told you half of the truth
| so far. i arranged this matter with my
wife in Little Rock long ago. but did not
| want TO bring her into the case. Now il
/ looks like / viii have to. l told her that
! l would find a corpse and that she was
/ 10 telegraph for il TO be buried. and then
collect the insurance and in time | would
| desert again from the army and meet her
at some place and we would divide IT."
After making this statement Rathbun
/ said that his wife knew nothing OF any
| plot TO commit murder or 10 set fire TO a
hotel Indeed" he said, mo murder was