The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-12
Young Was Seer Standing
Cellar of Their Home.
ALSO SEEN ON STATE STREET
NEAR WHERE THE RODY OF HIS
FIANCEE WAS DISCOVERED.
Police Looking for One of Mrs. Bar
thO1in's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of
Two of Her

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-An important devel-
opment in the Observation-Disclosures murder
mystery was made to-day when it was dis
covered that Bartholin had been surprised
July 80 while standing in the cellar grave of
his murdered mother by a real estate agent.
Peter Van Vlissingen, who holds a mort
gage on Mrs. Bartholin's home and who
sent his agent TO the Calumet property TO
appraise il the afternoon of July 80, fur
nished the police with the Information
about Bartholin working on the grave of
his mother. The agent called and rang the
front door bell repeatedly. No one an
swered, and he went 10 the rear of the
house and looked through a basement win
dow. There he saw a man standing in
one corner looking at the floor, apparently
absorbed in thought. Suddenly the man
in the basement looked up and saw the
agent pCering in. A moment later Bartho-
lin came to the rear door and asked the
agent what he wanted. The latter replied
that he wanted 10 see Mrs. Bartholin. Bar
tholin told the agent his mother was in
Milwaukee and she would not return for
several days. Shortly after this conversa-
ton he was seen to leave the house, and
the same evening he called at Minnie
Mitchells home. The couple left together
and the girl did not return.
Inspector Hunt, when shown the Toledo
interview with Z. O. Hunter, said that
Oscar Thompson, a former ledger in the
house and who is now under arrest, de-
MED having told Hunter that William had
left the city TO be married. The inspector
further stated that Hunter will be brought
TO this city together with Milton L. r. Ed
wards, another roomer in the Bartholin
house, who is now in Denver.
The burial to-day of Minnie Mitchell by
her family relieved all doubt 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
Bartholin. To-day it developed that young
Bartholin had quarreled with his mother
just before she disappeared over the ques-
ton of bringing his prospective wife to live
at his mothers home.
Late developments to-day indicated that
Bartholin may have made a careful survey
of the field where Minnie Mitchelis body
and clothing were found William Waldrop
told the police that on Wednesday, July 80.
he met William Bartholin on seventy
fourth and State streets within a few feet
of the spot where the body Of the young
mans fiance was found. Waldrop talked
with Bartholin, whom he knew personally.
The last he saw of him was when he
boarded a north-bound State-street car. 1t
is imposed that the murder of Minnie
Mitchell took place the same night. Bar
tholin's presence at the field where the
body was found later gives color to the
theory that the murder was planned in
cold blood. The police are using all their
Bartholin's principal roomer, to give addi-
tional Information about the crime or
crimes committed III the CdlumeJ-dNenue
deathhouse. They nave been working on
the theory that the Mitchell girl may have
been killed there and taken in T~hompson's
laundry wagon to the lonely field. A test
is to be made TO prove this theory. The
horse is to be started south and left to its
own instincts in hopes that ii will stop at
Seventy-fourth and State streets.
Residents in the neighborhood of Forty
third street and Calumet avenue to-day
filed a protest with the police department,
stating that the crowds of curiosity hunt
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sacking the Bartholin house were becoming
a nuisance.