Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-08-25
C0ULDN NOT IDENTIFY
RELATIVES NOT SURE ABOUT
SUPPOSED MITCHELL BODY.
IMPROBABILITY APPEARS
AS to Whether Corpse Found on Chi
cage Prairie Was That of Alleged
Sweetheart Victim of William
-Saloonkeeper Says the
Missing Man Called Last Week.

Chicago, Aug. 2O.-At the inquest
yesterday four members of the
Mitchell family testified that they
could not positively identify the body
found on the prairie and believed to
be that of the missing Minnie
Mitchell. The only Identification
they could make was that part of the
clothing found near the body belong
ed to Miss Mitchell.
The coroner's physician stated posi-
lively that he did not believe the
body that of Miss Mitchell because
when the body was found Miss Nit
chell had been missing but eight
days, and he claimed 1t would be i'm
possible for her body to have, decom-
posed as much as the one discovered
on the prairie.
Inspector Hunt produced a witness
who positively identified Oscar
Thompson as one of two on the
street car near the place where the
body was found, and a photograph of
Bartholin as that of the second man.
Bartholin, according to police be-
lief, has been traced up to last Fri
day, August 10. Philip Bond, a real
estate man, told Lieutenant Healy
that on that day he saw Edward
COunselman and Bartholin on a street
car. He was positive In his state
ments.
Bartholin appears to have been
traced in his movements up to last
Wednesday night. According to the
statements of saloonkeeper Silks
Malak, the man accused of murder
appeared in his saloon last Wednes-
day night and drank a glass of beer
there. Malak is positive that the
man whom he served was Bartholin.
Martin Carlson, who was in the
saloon at the time, corroborates the
statements of the saloonkeeper. Both
declare that the description of the
man tailed exactly with that given
of Bartholin. He ordered q glass of
beer and then fumbled around In his
pockets and finally produced nickel.
Malak tried to engage him In CONVEX
satton, but the stranger was mute.
After emptying his glass he walked
out of the saloon. AS soon as he left
both Carlson and Malak were i'm
pressed with the idea that their visit
OF had been Bartholin. Carlson hur-
riedly left the saloon and trieu to
follow the man, but he had disap-
pearedt in the darkness. Both Carl
son and Malak are positive of their
identification of Bartholin. Should
It prove true that Bartholin was
about the neighborhood it would bear
out the. theory of the police that
Bartholin was waiting for Counsel
man to get him money to flee. The
saloon of Malak is within two blocks
o. the house where Counselman lives.
Police Excited.
Chicago, Aug. 20.-Tnspector Hunt
received word last night as to Bar
thOlin's possible whereabouts and
set every bit of the police machinery
IN motion in an instant. BY midnight
score of detectives were ransacklng
the neighborhood of Kensington,
Harvey, Pullman, West Pullman and
RiVerdale and as far south as 10th
street in search Of q man supposed
to hold the secret of the fugitive's
hiding place.
Inspector Hunt was summoned to
the telephone by man who claimed
to be somewhere in Kensington. The
stranger asked the inspector If
citizen had the power to place Bar
tholin under arrest.
"Certainly,'' was the response, "but
you must turn him over at once to
an officer"
The man on the phone explained
that he had known of BarthOlins
place of cOncealment for several
days and that he had been dickering
without success to arrange for the
deposit of a reward before he would
divulge his information. He talked
at length with the police official ano
refused to agree to let a detail of
police join him. He said he thought
he could effect the capture, but want
ed to carry out his plan unaided by
the city authorities. He would only
say that his name was Mccarthy.