The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-16
CLAFFY DID NOT
MAKE CON FESSION
bartholin Murder Mystery Is kto
Yet Solved.
MILTON EDWARDS ARRIVES
HIS STORY CONFIRMS SUsPIC-
IONS OF THE POLICE.
MILTON EDWARDS ARRIVES

NAiCAGO, Aug. lj.-Littlc progress
was made by the police today in
solving the mysteries OF the Bar
tholin case. Inspector Hunt was con-
WINGED that he would obtain important
Information from John Claffy. who WAS
positively identified by Mrs. Tallerday
as one of the men she saw with the
laundry wagon on the morning follow
ing the night OF the disappearance Of
Minnie Mitchell. Clany has been ac-
custoIned TO a supply OF liquor and the
inspector was of the opinion that ne
would weaken after be had been de-
prived OF his allowance for few days.
Late this afternoon he concluded that
Ciaffy should be about ready to tell
what he knew. and had him called into
the Office The result was 4 failure.
Claffy not only refused to admit that
he was one of the men seen by Mrs.
, alierday but declared with great pos
1tiveness that he was not there at all.
When asked how he explained Mrs.
Ialierday's Identification Of him, he re-
piled that 81 was not for him TO explain
81 She had simply made a mistake.
and that was her affair and rot his.
He insisted that he was at home in
bed a. the time Mrs. Taiierday declared
that she saw him with the laundry
wagon, and denied any connection with
the case. The police could make moth
ing whatever out of him, and he was
locked up again.
Inspector Disappointed,
Inspector Hunt said:
I thought that we would get the
story from Claffy, but we did not get a
single thing. He denied everything,
and stuck to his deniaIs. I asked him
where he was that night, and he said
r NJ in, I h
d Inc had not gone to bed intoxicated,
md II, while in that condition, he
might not have done some things he
cannot now recall, and he said he was
sober that night"
Milton Edwards. who arrived from
Denver today, was able to do no more
than 20 strengthen the suspicion of the
police regarding the guilt of Thomp-
son. He recited no facts that bore di-
5ectly upon the killing of either of Mrs
Bartholin or of Minnie MiecheiI.
oscar Thompson late last night adj
rnltted TO newspaper man that he no
longer denied the story of Mrs. Taller
day. who makes the charge that he and
Daddy Claffy and a man supposed 10
DE William Bartholin were quarreIing
under her window at 4 O'Clock in the
morning after Minnie Mitchell disap-
peared, and that with them was
fhompson's laundry wagon; in which il
is supposed the murdered girls body
was carted to the prairie at Seventy
fourth and State streets
Had Several Drinks.
II turned in my. laundry wagon at
the Aagard stables the night Minnie
Mitchell was killed about $50 O'Clock,
he said. II stopped and had several
drinks at Clancy's saloon, and then /
went to the house in Calumet avenue
1t must have BEEN about 10 O'Clock
when l reached there.
i met Bartholin in the house. /
90 not know what happened there. ]
went 20 my room, and after that L
cannot say anything as 10 what trans
pred IN the house. may have been
drunk or 1 may have been drugged: /
do not know.
Whatever / did I do not know.
90 not deny now that / went out with
him. hut / cannot remember. What
ever / did ne made me do 1 may
have gone with him in the wagon. as
TINS woman says she saw me with the
wagon in the street the next morning
II was there ii is all a blank to me-
Milton X. Edwards; one of the for
mer rooIners OF Mrs. Anne Bartholin.
ana a Witness whom the police think
VIII prove valuable in clearing up the
mystery in the murders of Mrs. Bar
tholin and Minnie Mitchell, arrived in
this city early today from Denver and
at once placed himself in the hands of
the police. Edwards was frank i'm his
statements and showed no signs of
nervousness.
Things Looked Queer.
To a representative of the Associated
Press he made the following state
ment:
Il barely know Thompson and have
spoken 10 him only three OF four
times. / never was doctor or a hvp-
notist and could not possibly have put
Thompson under am influence as he
irrationally stated. | have already said
that l thought things were queer at
the Bartholin home and that is, the
reason / left there. | have a few
things more 10 tell the chief of police
hut the public must wait until the
chief speaks. I saw Bartholin Kiss
ing woman in The house. but what
bearing that may have on the case
do not know.
Edwards was cross examined both by
chief of Police. O'Neii and Inspector
HUNT. but practically nothing new was
elected. Edwards told in a straight
forward manner what he remembered
III suspicious actions about the RarthO-
lin house. u his fear that Mrs Bar
thnlin had been murdered and his fear
for his own safety IL he stayed longer
I'm the house. The story was repeated
Of how he had been awakened by the
bowling Of a cat. Of how ne had seen
Thompson leaning over his bed one
night and how Thompson had ex-
by saying he thought William BarthO-
lin was sleeping there. Edwards met
Thompson today. The men nodded
but said nothing