The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-10
HER SON IS SUSPECTED
Believed to Be Murderer of
 His Mother.
Believed Also That That He Put to Death Miss Minnie Mitchell. Chicago Police Hope to
 Land Him in Jail.

Chicago, August 9.-With a Jagged wound in the left temple and physical evidence that she had been strangled and 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 4310 Calumet Avenue.
 Coincident with the finding of the body. the police redoubled their efforts to find the missing son, William Bartholin. who is also suspected of the murder of Miss Minnie Mitchell, whose body was found in a vacant lot at Seventy-fourth and State Streets last Thursday evening. The in the house on Calumet Avenue last Thursday 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. Barthohn 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 concealed some
 
 rooms of the house had been ransacked partitions torn down. walls sounded and the basement and the premises searched.
 Found Dogs Body.
 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 what at first was supposed to be frag- ments of a human body Later they be- came satisfied that a dog had been buried there. A crew bar, apparently stained with blood aud a. h1tchet which bore dark marks ere round in the basement 1 and the sear5l cNs v unwilling to ahaa- don their task tvsiL after iS seemed that there was nothing further for them to do.
 Finally, tonight some one found small erevice in the cement floor. indicating that the cement had been disturbed and then skiltully patched. In a moment the men were attacking the floor with picks and spades, while large crowd of neigh bors and other curious ones watched the work from the stairway or through the basement windows.
 The cement was quickly broken away and then the diggers came on bed of white sand. Digging through this. they came upon a dress skirt. This was drag ged out and other articles of woman S wear were found. When these had been removed. the body of the woman was found. It 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, it was believed that Mrs. Bartholin was struck dow1 either while disrobing for the night or when dressing in the morn ing. On the woman's left temple was a deep and ragged gash two inches long, but pr. E. P. Neol, a physician, who was summoned, said that in his opinion it could not have caused death.
 Choked or Smothered. "The wound Is superficial. but may have served to render the victim unconscious, Dr. Noel said. After the blow had been struck, the woman was either choked or | smothered.'
 The body was removed to an undertak- | ing establishment, where the coroner S l irquest will be held Monday.
 The police have abandoned the theory | that Bartholin is dead and Police Inspec- | tor Hunt in whose district is located the home of Mrs. Bartholin, declared tonight that he was confident that the man is alive and has not left Chicago.
 | The clerk of d real estate agent, one of whose clients holds d mortgage on the property of Mrs. Bartholin, met William Bartholin in front of the house on the morning of July 31. or August 1. he does not remember which. This fact causes the police to believe that they will cap ture him soon, as he has had less than 1 one weeks start of them. There Is nc apparent motive for the killing of Mrs Bartholin or of Minnie Mitchell. but the l police are following every possible the ory. The one that finds most favor al present is that the young man, being ir debt, killed his mother in order that her equity in the mortgaged property might revert to him. While this theory will not cover the murder of the Mitchell girl in any way. the police believe that Bartho- lin had the idea that she either suspected him of killing his mother or that she had taken him to task for telling con hicting stories regarding her disappear ance. Bartholn and his mother were not on good terms. although they lived in the same house. Beyond a desire to inherit her property, there is at present nc known motive for the murder.