The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-11
STILL SEARCHING
FOR BARTH0LIN
chicago's Murder Mysteries Con.
tinue to Puzzle Police.
THOMPSON Is IN JAIL
WOMAN STRANGLED TO DEATH
IN HER OWN EooN.

CHICAGO. Aug. 1o.-The. search for
l., William Bartholin. who is Sus-
pected Of having murdered his
mother and Miss Minnie Mitchell was
continued today. but no trace of the
missing man was found.
Oscar Thompson. who was for eight
cen years the constant friend of the
fugitive's mother and who was arrest
ed yesterday. stOutly maintained his in
nocence of any knowledge of the muir
ders and pleaded with the authorities
to be released.
After long examination, however,
Thompson was sent back TO his cell.
as the police feel confident that he has
not told all he knows. +. .. Hunter
and Milton r. Edwards, former room
ers at the BarthOlin house, are being
sought by the police.
Late today special delivery letter
arrived from Omaha for r. II. Mitch
ell, brother of the murdered Minnie
Mitchell. from Edwards, who wrote the
day after Miss Mitchelrs body was
identified, stating that he was morally
certain that Bartholin had murdered
his mother.
Edwards. in the letter. declared that
he fed from Chicago because he, too,
feared he would fall victim TO Bar
thoin's thirst for blood.
1t was learned today that Thompson
was in the house the night Mrs. Bar
thOlin was killed Thompson has ad-
mitted that he was in a room across
the hall from Mrs. Bartholin's.
Strangled on Couch
The police have discovered, they say,
! that the aged woman was strangled
/ on a couch in her own room on the
night of July and her body thrown
into a closet. where it remained for
several days before burial in the base
ment. Evidence of this was found to-
day by the police, who discovered Mrs.
Bartholin's false teeth, a night robe
covered with blood and a large blood
stained area on the floor of the closet
in Mrs. Barthohn's room.
The bloody garment was in a corner
! under a shelf, together with the
teeth. but the bfood-stained floor re-
vealed that the body of the murdered
woman was first hidden in the closet
and the door to her own room kept
| locked for several days.
Another suspicious circumstance to
add to the complications of the mys-
| terry developed tonight, when it was
/ discovered that Horace Clark, a COM
! panion of Bartholin. has been missing
/ since the murder of Mrs. Bartholin,
1t is now stated that it was abso-
| lutely impossible for Bartholin to have
| buried his mother in the basement
during the day time. because there is
no entrance to the cellar except by
way of an outside door.
Buried Corpse at Night.
To get the corpse into the bssement
/ he would have had 10 carried il out Of
! the closet and out of doors into A back
yard directly under the elevated road
! structure. where trains constantly pass
| on Forty-third street.
! Thompson. having admitted TO the
] police that he was in the house every
/ night for two weeks after Mrs. Bar
tholin's disappearance. firmly denies
that he saw Bartholin from Tuesday
| morning. the day after her murder
| until Friday evening. and he also de
/ Clares that he never heard suspicious
! sound or saw suspicious signs during
! the day in which the awful tragedy
was committed within his very reach
Inspector Hunt found a close friend
! of Bartholin who saw him last Tues
day. nearly a week after he disap-
peared with Minnie Mitchell. who was
killed on the night Nof July 40.
Bartholin called at the house of this
friend last Tuesday night He was in
/ A terrible state of mind and his &C
/ tions aroused the wouderment of hi:
host
From him the police obtained dc
scription Of the clothing BartholiI
, wore when last seen. These clothes
1 were found today in Bartholin's room
| thus proving beyond doubt that h
| returned TO the house six days afte
| the death of Minnie Mitchell and tina
he could have returned at no othe
/ time save at night. when Thompson
was al home. Thompson says he nsve
saw 8artholin after the Wednesda,
( night he went away vith Minnie
Z Mitchell