The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-30

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 ted, a young girl choked and wounded
 and a little child badly battered and
 bruised in an attempt at kidnapping-all occurring within the space of half an hour, between the hours of 2:3o ana o'clock Sunday morning. There aiso came the news of foul murder com
 mitted at Cottage Hill, about eight miles
 from the city.
 The Dead and Wounded.
 The murdered are:
 MRS. HELEN DICKSON, strangisd to death in her bed at her home III thiS
 city on the south side of Savannah street between Broad and Marine, and
 WILLIAM GODEAU, found murdereo in his yard at Cottage Hill with two
 bullet holes made by pistol balls III ms
 brain.
 The injured are:
 MISS HELEN ROBERTSON, who was
 sleeping in the bed with Mrs. DlcKsoh' and who was choked by the man "n' murdered Mrs. Dickson, and also stru 'n | bv him with some kind of instrument | the wounds looking as though maoe "i'h nails driven through a piece Of boaro' | ROSAx LEE BINZER. a little 5-yeaf- | old daughter of Policeman Binzer, wno | was kidnapped from her bed and Wnea | the kidnapper was closely pursued by the | chiids mother in her night clothes, he | threw the little one against a fence, pau- l ly bruising her.
 | Murder of Mrs. Dickson. The murder of Mrs. Dickson occurred | about 2:30 o'clock in the morning. The l la ho the fact that the murderer was bare- kfooted and gained access to the house by placing a box which he got from naighbor's yard under the window. through which he climbed into the room in which the murdered woman, her ht- tie 2-year-old babe and her niece, Miss H elen Robertson, were sleping. According to the statement of John B. Robertson, brother-in-law Of the mur- dered woman, he retired about 2 o'clock in the morning, after seeing that all the doors of the house had been secureiy To cked. It was about midnight that he closed the house. but he read till 7 o'clock, finishing the book he was read ing before going to sleep. He says that he had not been asleep long when he was aroused by the screaming of his daugh- | ter, Miss Helen, and hurrying into the | next room he found Mrs. Dickson lying at full length on the bed, gasping fqy | breath.
 Hemorrhages from Strangulation. | He took her in his arms, called for wa | ter and attempted to revive her, at the
 same time summoning physician, who | found the woman unconscious and suf- l fering from hemorrhages of the lungs | due to strangulation. She lived till | o'clock. Robertson said that when he re- l hotxv ia
 that of his sister and daughter was open;
 when he was awakened he found the | door closed and damned with the back l of a rocking chair so that he had to
 call his daughter to open 1t before he
 could get in.
 | The police have yet discovered no clue | to the perpetrator of the deed and the | Chief of Police confesses that he is quite
 mystified as to the motive.
 No Arrests Made. | No arrests have yet been made in con- | nection with the murder or the kidnap-
 ping, though the police are of the opin-
 ion that the kidnapping was not done b. the same person who murdered Mrs. | Dickson.
 | Mrs. Dickson was formerly Miss He!en
 Mclean of Cottage Hill and was the | wife of Rockwell Dickson, son of E. R. Dickson, former superintendent of the
 Mobile public schools. Rockwell Dickson is now said to be residing in Montgom- cry. an employe of the electric street car line of that city, having been formec- ly connected in a similar capacity with the White Line here under General Manager Raphael Semmes, who is now managing the Montgomery line. It is said here that Dickson and his wife failed to agree and that they have been separated for some eighteen months.
 Case of Kidnapping.
 Not long after the murder Rosa Lee Binzer, the 5-year-old daughter of Po- | liceman BinZer, who resides on Marine | Street, only a few blocks from the scene l of the murder of Mrs. Dickson, was kid | mapped from a bed in which she was
 sleeping with her older sister and little
 Irma Snyder, a granddaughter of MT. Binzer. The alarm was given by the old
 est daughter. and Mrs Binzer, in her
 night clothes. immediately gave chase to
 the kidnapper. following him to Palmetto | Street and then west on that street, call | ing out, Give me my Rosa Lee" l When ohe was within a few feet of the | fleeing man. he threw the little one | against the fence and made his escape, 1 although Policeman Binzer and his son | had joined in the chase. The little child s
 neck was badly bruised where the man | had throttled her. but even then she
 made enough outcry to wake her oldest sister. Mrs. Binzer recovered her child and carried her back home The police are working on clue in this case which they think will enable them to arrest the right man.
 Shooting of Godeau.
 It was about o'clock Sunday morning when William Godeau, a cotton and timber stevedore. was found dead in his yard with two bullet holes in his hea l. which proved to have been made by pis made such an outcry that he got up. took | into the yard. About half an hour after his wife heard two shots fired. but as he
 was in the habit of firing off his gun l'tion, she thought nothing of it and went had not returned she began an investiga-
 ton. with the result stated.
 The Coroner held an inquest and the jury rendered verdict that the man came to his death from a gunshot wound in the head at the hands of party or parties unknown to the jury. negro Oscar Thomas, has been arrested by the Sheriff, but there seems to be very little evidence against him.
 Funerals of Victims.
 The funerals of the victims of yester- days murders took place this morning
 and were largely attended by sorrowing friends The funeral of Mrs. Dickson
 was peculiarly affecting and the little
 cottage was thronged and the large