The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-15
OF MAN UNDER ARREST AND
DEAD BODY.
RETURN OF CORPSE ASKED
Officer Starts for Louisville to Ident-
ify Man Under Arrest
There.

Little Rock, Nov. 12.-The author
tiles here that they will
have the supposed Newell G. Rathbun
now under arrest at Louisville, KY,
brought here to testify in the inquest
over the corpse sen here as the body
of Rathbun, whose life was insured for
S 4,OOO..
One Of the attorneys representing
Rathbun's relatives made the follow
ing statement: "The family of Mr..
McKown and Mrs. Rathbun only want
to be satisfied beyond a doubt that
Rathbun is alive and that this body
they have here is not the body of Rath-
bun. So much has been reflected on
the case by the insurance company
and their detectives that no n can
saw what the outcome will be. The
family of McKnown and Mrs. Rath-
bun and all parties interested have Of
fered to bear the expense of bringing
the person arrested in Louisville and
who is said to be Rathbun and is said
to have made a confession, to Little
Rock, if the party proves not to be
Rathbun, otherwise the insurance
company is to bear the expense. This
is the offer which has been made to
the agent of the insurance company.
Louisville, Nov. 13.-The new feat
ures today in the case Of Newell Z.
Rathbun, held here on a charge OF de-
sertion from the United States army,
and suspected of the murder of Chas
Goodman, who was found dead last
Thursday in a Jeffersonville hotel,
were Rathbun's statement to the po-
lice that his wife, at Little Rock, had
known of his plan to defraud the in
surance company, though not OF the
murder feature of it; the decision to
have the corpse of the supposed Good
man returned to Jeffersonville for an
autopsy and Identification; the an
nouncement from Washington that
the war department had decided to
send Rathbun to Jeffersonville and
turn him over to the Indiana author
tiles, and the refusal of the local au'
thorities to send Rathbun to Little
Rock to testify at the coroner's IN
quest over the corpse that was ship
ped there. They say Rathbun will
20 nowhere except to J~effersonvllle
where he is to be tried on the charge
of numbering by poison Charles Good
man. A telegram was sent to Little
Rock today asking that the corpse DC
returned to Jeffersonville.
A telegram has been received iron
the chief of police of Evansville, IND.
stating that Goodman was a residen
of Cripple Creek, Colo, where he was
a brass WORKER. When asked for nj:
opinion as to the claim made by Mrs
Rathbun that the corpse shipped tt
Little Rock was that of her husband
Rathbun laughed and remarked
"Maybe it is his corpse"
This is all he would say on the sub
ject.
Under instructions from the war de
partment at Washington, Rathbun
who is a deserter from the Unite'
States army. was turned over to tn
Indiana authorities and taken acros
the river tonight. He is locked up Il
: Jail charged with murder.
.- r.. L.. ;o;1 ~ ToffnrCnnui11p fOn1g1
Rathbun was asked whether his Wit
at Little Rock was implicated in tn
plot to collect the insurance. Ate
several moments silence he replied
No. there was nobody in it at Littl
Rock"
Little Rock, Ark, Nov. 13.-1n o
der to establish the identity OF tn
man under arrest at Louisville, Ky
and said to be Newell G. Rathbul
Deputy Sheriff Chichester left this a
ternoon for Louisville accompanie
by Emil T.. C%loeckler, who Know
Rathbun we'll. Today Coroner Youn
took testimony touching the identl'
of the dead body sent here as that
Rathbun. Chas. McKown, whose Wi
is a sister of Rathbun's wife, testlhe
that he was well acquainted with Rat
bun. He had looked at the body al
thought that it was undoubtedly tn
of Rathbun. He said that his WI
had told him that Rathbun had hi
his moustache shaved off two da'
before. he left here eight weeks az
but he had never seen him with b
moustache of. Witness received Il
remains at the depot Sunday mornll
and had them conveyed to his houf
When the coffin was opened, Ha'
buns wife viewed the remains, q