The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-08-14
CHICAGO CRIMES.
Millionaire W. A. Scott Murder
ed in His Office.

Chicago, Aug. 9.-Walter A. Scott,
president of the Illinois Wire Com
pany, was killed in his private Office
today by Walter A. Stubbins, civil
engineer, during an alteration con-
corning the payment of bill for ex-
haust fans, installed in the company's
plant. The desperate fight was not
witnessed, but Stubbings says Scott
refused to pay; words followed until
Scott kicked him. The men grappled
and struggled back and forth. Finally
Stubbings seized a paper knife on the
desk and buried it to the hilt in Scott's
body. Scott fell dead almost instantly.
Scott was a reputed millionaire and
moved in high social circles. Stub
bings was also well to do:
Murder Mystery.
The latest murder mystery, that of
Minnie Mitchell, whose decomposed
body was found at Seventy-fourth and
State streets Wednesday, was made
more complicated by the finding of the
body of man supposed to be William
Barthelin, accused by the police of
having killed Miss Mitchell and his
mother, Mrs. Annie Barthelin. Two
chambers of a revolverlying near had
been discharged, indicating suicide. At
noon Mrs. Barthelin's body was found
in the basement of her home, having
been there month.
Chicago, Aug. 9.-The body of the
woman who was found dead in the
weeds at Seventy-fourth and State
streets Thursday evening was identi-
fled Friday evening as that of Miss
Minnie Mitchell, GOA Forty-fourth
street, who was supposed to have
eloped with William Bartholin, July 80.
The whereabouts of Bartholin, who
was last seen leaving the Mitchell
house with the girl, is unknown.
Neither has any trace of Mrs. Anna
Bartholin, his mother, who was last
seen about her home at 4310 Calumet
avenue, July 10, been learned. All is
shrouded in mystery, and the police
working on the case are confronted
with mystery which bids fair to re-
main unsolyed for some time, at least.
Wearing apparel found near the
spot where the body lay in the weeds,
was identified without doubt, by Miss
Lily Mitchell, sister of the dead girl,
at the Englewood police station.
Intense excitement reigned in South
side police circles after it became es-
tablished as fact that the body which
had reposed for nearly two weeks in
the prairie, was that of the daughter
of Humane Officer William Mitchell.
What at first was thought to be an
elopement is now in the minds of the
police believed to have been plot
formed to do away with the young
woman. Lured to the lonely spot in
the outskirts of the city, she was shot
with an assassin's bullet. More start
ling details are expected to come to
light at any moment, and until the
finding of William Bartholin and his
mother, who was supposed to have
gone to Milwaukee on a visit, the af-
fair bids fair to be wrapped in mystery
Of the deepest kind.
According to Inspector Hunt, Capt.
Madden and those working on the case,
there may be some connection with the
disappearance of Bartholin and the
death of Miss Mitchell On Thursday,
July 81, the day following the disap-
pearance of Bartholin and Miss Mitch
ell, letter was received at the
Mitchell residence which purported to
contain details of the elopement OF
the young woman and Bartholin. Miss
Lily Mitchell identifies the handwrit-
ing as that of Bartholin. and the po'
lice have further substantiated her
judgment by comparing other writing
of the young man with the letter re
ceived at the house. They say the two
hands are one and the same. The let
ter was addressed to Mrs. Mitchell.
Mothers lose their dread for "tha
terrible. second summer" when the
have DR.. Fowler's Extract Of viii
Strawberry in the house. Nature
specific summer complaints of ever
sort.