The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-15

CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-BecOnnnS QeS-
perate tonight while being subjected
to vigorous examination by Inspector
Hunt, Oscar Thompson, who is detain-
ed pending investigation of the Bar
tholin- Mitchell murders, confessed to
everything that the police have been
trying to make him tell. When he had
finished Thompson laughed derisively,
and said:
Inspector, that story is a lie. You
wanted me to tell you all these things.
I have admitted all, but L must con-
fess that it is all a lie."
Inspector Hunt, who has been labor
ing with Thompson for days, thought
for moment that the solution. of the
mystery was pouring from Thompson's
lips, but the next moment he realized
that Thompson was endeavoring to
perpetrate joke. In making the bo-
gus confession Thompson said:
Thompson's So Called Confession.
yes, Bartholin made me go to the
laundry barn and get the wagon that
Wednesday night. He made me bring
1t to the house at 1910 Calumet avenue
and back it up to the curb. Then Bar
tholin came out of the house carrying
a mysterious bundle. He put it in the
wagon. Then we drove to the Engle-
wood prairie and hid the bundle in the
weeds. You have been telling me to
tell you that and admit it is the truth.
You have told me the same stories day
after day and have pressed me to con-
fesS that they are true 1 will tell you
that all these things happened; but,
Inspector Hunt, 1 will also state to you
that every word l have spoken is false
Everything 1 have told you is a delib-
crate falsehood."
The bogus confession came just at
the very moment when a confession
was expected, and Inspector Hunt was
greatly disappointed. After Thompson
was returned to his cell, Inspector
Hunt said
Il believe that strange confession is
Thompson's last card, and that he will
tell a terrible story before long"
Her Identity Revealed.
The identity of the woman in black,
who told Inspector Hunt she had seen
William Bartholin, Oscar Thompson
and "Old Dad" Claffey wrangling about
Thompson's laundry wagon early on
the morning of the Mitchell girls sup
posed murder, has been cleared up.
She is Mrs. Mary Tallerday. Today
she positively identified Thompson's
wagon and horse as those she had
seen with the men.
Confirmation Of her story came when
d. A. Meyers, motorman of a Wallace
and Center avenue electric car told
the police that he had seen the laundry
wagon where Mrs. Tallerday described
1t as being between and o'clock of
the morning following Minnie MitchelPs
disappearance. Meyers identified the
horse and wagon as Thompson's. This,
the police say, satisfies them that Min
ME Mitchell was murdered in the Bar
tholin home and carted far out on
State street.
Horse as Witness.
What the police believe to be another
strong link in the chain of evidence
was developed tonight, when Police
Lieut.. Backus, under instructions from
Inspector Hunt, took the horse and
laundry wagon which it is thought NAV
nave been used to convey the body of
Minnie Mitchell to the spot where it
was found, and went over the same
ground again.
TWO police officers who were una
ware of the locality where the BODY
was found were put in charge of the
wagon. After proceeding leisurely to
Sixty eighth and State streets the
horse was turned into State street and
given his head. Slowly he ambIed
along to within 260 feet of the spot
where Minnie Mitchell's body was
found. There he stopped and nibbled
bunch of grass growing along the
side of the road. Then, turning a half
circle, he crossed the road and stopped
at a point directly in front of where
the police had found a pair of bloody
cuffs on the prairie few feet from
the road.
Where the Shoe Was Found.
At this point the driver turned the
horse about and crossed Seventy fourth
street and stopped at a point where
Minnie Mitchelrs shoe had been picked
up. Thence the horse leisureIy took
his way south until within few feet
OF SeVenty-ffth street, where he turned
abruptly and retraced his steps, stop
ping about twenty feet north of Sew
enty-fourth street and about forty-five
feet north of where the body was
found.
A second test was made by Lieut.
Backus, and upon this occasion the
morse stopped directly in front of the
spot where the body was found.
witnesses have been produced who
VIII testify that Oscar Thompson, John
CdlIy ana third man, supposed
TO nave been young BarthoIin. were in
the street with this horse and wapor
at daylight the morning after the dis
appearance of Minnie Mitchell. and the
police are now of the opinion that the
morse and wagon are to play an i'm