The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-10
CORPSE UNDER
CELLAR FLOOR
Mrs. Bartholin's Body Found
Under Her Own Home.

n HICAGO, Aug. 9.-With a Jagged
" wound in the left temple, and
physical evidence that she had
been strangled or smothered, the almost
nude body of Mrs. Annie Bartholin was
found this evening, buried beneath the
cellar floor of the house in which she
had lived at 1910 Calumet avenue.
Coincident with the finding of the
body, the police redoubled their efforts
TO find the missing son, William Bar
tholin, who is also suspected of the
murder of Miss Minnie Mitchell, whose
body was found in a vacant lot at Sew
enty-fourth and State streets last
Thursday evening.
The police have evidence that Bar
thOlin slept in the house on Calumet
avenue last Tuesday night, three weeks
after his mother had been murdered,
and six days after he is supposed to
have killed Minnie Mitchell.
The body of Mrs. Bartholin was
found by a party of newspaper men,
after the police had searched the house
and had concluded that if the woman
had been murdered her body was con-
cealed somewhere away from the resi-
dence- All the rooms of the house had
been ransacked, partitions torn down,
walls sounded and the basement and
premises searched.
Earlier in the day persons who were
searching IN the basement found a
place where the cement floor seemed to
have been disturbed.
Digging there, they found at first
what was supposed to be fragments of
a human body.
Later they became satisfied that a
dog had been buried there. A crow bar
apparently stained with blood. and a
Ratchet which bore dark marks We're
found in the basement, and the search
ers were unwilling to abandon their
task, even after it seemed that there
was nothing further for them 10 do.
Finally, tonight. some one found a.
small crevice in the cement floor. indi-
eating that the cement had been dis
turbed and then skilfuIly patched. In
a moment the men were attacking the
floor with picks and spades. while a
large crowd of neighbors and other
curious ones watched the work from
toe stairway Or through the basement
windows
Woman's Body Found.
The cement was quickly broken away,
and then the diggers came on q bed
of white sand. Digging throffh this.
they came upon dress skirt This
was dragged out, and other articles of
WINCH wear we're IOUDO.
When these had been removed the
body of the woman was found. II was
wrapped in a blanket, and practically
was without clothing, there being only
a stocking on the left foot and a corset
cover around the chest.
from the appearance of the body il
was believed that Mrs BarthoIin WAS
struck down, either while disrobine for
the night or when dressing in the
On the woman's left temple was a
deep and ragged cash. two inches
long, but DR.. Z. P--NoeI, a physician
who was summoned, said that. in his
opinion, ii could not have caused death
Inc wound is superficial, but may
have served - render the victim nm
conscious" Or. Noel said. After the
blow had been struck the woman was
either choized Of smothered."
The body was removed to an under
taking establishment. where the eoro-
ner's inquest win be held on Monday.
The police have abandoned the the
DRY that Bartholin is dead, and Police
inspector Hunt, in whose district is
the home of Mrs. BarthoIin. declared
tonight that he was confident that the
man is alive and has not left Chicago.
The clerk OF a real estate agent. one
OF whose clients holds a mortgage on
the property of Mrs. Bartholin. met
William Bartholin in front of the house
on the morning of July 81 or Aug.
he does not remember which. This
TACT causes the police to believe that
they win capture him soon, as he has
had less than one weeks start of them.
There is no apparent motive for the
killing OF Mrs. Bartholin or of Minnie
Mitchell, but the police are following
every possible theory The one that
mas most favor at present is that the
young man, being in debt, killed his
mother, in order that her equity ia <he
mortgaged property might revert 20
him.
While this theory will not cover the
murder of the Mitchell girl in any way
the police believe that Bartholin had
the idea that she either suspected him
OF killing his mother or that she had
taken him to task for telling conflict
ing stories regarding her disappear
ance- Bartholin and his mother were
not on good terms, although they lived
IN the same house. Beyond a desire
TO inherit her property, however, there
IS at present no known motive for the
murder.