The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-12
MIJRDER MYSTERY
IS BEING SOLVED
Evidence Points Strongly Toward
William BarthoIin.
IN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT
eov SURPRISED AT THE GRAVE
oF HIS MURDERED MOTHER.

ouCAGO. Aug. 11.-An important
development in the Bartholin-
" Mitchell murder mystery was
ado TODAY. when it was discovered
w. Bartholin had been surprised July
"a while standing at the cellar grave
~ his murdered mother. by a real es-
tate agent.
peter Van Vlissingen. who holds a
-,,rtgage on Mrs. Bartholin's home,
"a u.ho sent his agent to the Calumet
1rorerrv to appraise II the afternoon of
mi, 90 furnished the police with the
s,fornation about Bartholin working
IN the grave Of his mother The agent
causd and rang the front door bell re-
,safedlv No one appeared. and he
vent 70 the rear of the house and
looked through basement window.
There ne saw a man standing in one
Garner looking at the floor. apparently
Inscribed in thought Suddenly the
man in the basement looked up and
ssr the agent peering in. A moment
later Bar,hoiin came to the rear door
and asked the agent what he wanted.
The latter replied that he wanted to see
Mrs Bartholin. Bartholin told the
aren't his mother was in Milwaukee,
and that she would not return for sew
e-al DAYS shortly after this CONVEX
ssfion he was seen to leave the house,
and the same evening called at Minnie
,iitchelrs home. The couple left to-
eAlher. and the girl did not return.
Inspector Hunt, when shown the To-
ledo interview with Hunter, said that
oscar Thompson. a former lcdger in
the house and who is now under arrest,
denied having told Hunter that VII
1af 1a n no ma f-r-ia a ff1o
Inspector further stated that Hunter
will be brought to this city. together
with Milton L. r. Edwards, another
roomer i'm the Bartholin house. who is
now IN Denver.
Developments today in the mysteri-
Gus murders of Minnie Mitchell and
Mrs Annie Rartholin led the police
10 redouble their efforts to locate VIII
lam J. Bartholin. fiance and the son
~ the two women. At the coroner's
inquest over the body of the older
woman, which was found Saturday
night crammed into the hole in the
cellar OF the BarthOlin home, neighbors
readily identified the corpse as that of
Mrs. Bartholin. The burial today of
Minnie Mitchell by her family removed
al doubt in the public mind that the
body found in the field at Seventy
fourth and State streets last week was
that Of the young woman who was
last seen with BaTthOlin. Complete
hearing over Mrs. Bartholin's body was
postponed by the coroner until Aug. u.
in the hope that additional clews to the
murders may be obtained. Today il
developed that Bartholin had quarreled
with his mother just before she disap-
peared. over the question OF bringing
his prospective wife TO live aklis moth
sr's home.
Late developments today indicated
that Bartholin may have made a care
ful survey of the field where Minnie
MitchelTs body and clothing were
found. William WaldrOp told the police
that on Wednesday. July 30, he met
William Bartholin at Seyenty-fourth
end State streets. within a few feet of
the spot where the dead body of the
young woman was found. Waldrop
talked with Bartholin. whom he knew
personally. The last he saw of him
was when ne boarded a nerthbound
state street car. II is supposed that
the murder of Minnie Mitchell took
Place the same night. Bsrtholin' s
presence at the field where the body
was found later gives color 70 the
theory that the murder was planned
in cold blood
The police are using all their in
geHutty 70 force Oscar Thompson, Mrs
bartholin's principal rOOmer, to give
additional Information about the crime
or crimes committed in the Calumet
avenue death house. They have been
working on the theory that the Mitchell
girl may have been killed there and
taken in Thompsons laundry wagon to
the lonely field. A test is to be made
10 prove this theory. The horse is TO
he started south and left to it's own
instincts in the hope that it will stop
az Sev"nty-fOurth and State streets.
Residents in the neighborhood of
0rty-third street and Calumet avenue
Today filed protest with the police de
p7rtment. stating that the crowds OF
curiosity hunters and rubbish occa-
stoned by ransacking the Bartholin
mouse was becoming a nuisance.