The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-10
NUDE BODY OF A WOMAN IN CHI
cAGo BEARS EVIDENCE OF
MURDER rs
HER SON is SUSPECTED
OF THE AWFUL DEED
He Is Missing and Is Thought to Have
Also Killed a Young Woman, Whose
Body Was Found in Vacant Lot
Fiendish Ingenuity in Destroying
Traces of the Mothers Fate.

CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-With a jagged
wound in the left temple and physical
evidence that she had been strangled
or smothered, the almost nude body
of Mrs Annie Bartholin was found to-
night buried beneath the cellar floor of
the house in which she lived, 4S10 Cal
umet avenue.
Coincident with the finding of the
body the police redoubled their efforts
to find the missing son, William Bar
tholin, who is also suspected of the
murder of Miss Minnie Mitchell, whose
body was found in a vacant lot at Sew
enty-fourth and State streets, Thurs
day evening. The police have evidence
that Bartholin slept in the house on
Calumet avenue last Tuesday night,
three weeks after his mother had been
murdered and six days after he is sup
posed to have killed Minnie Mitchell.
Found by Newspaper Men.
The body of Mrs. Bartholin 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 con-
cealed somewhere away from the resi-
dence. All the rooms of the house had
been ransacked, partitions torn down,
walls sounded and the basement and
the premises searched.
Earlier in the day persons who
were searching in the basement
found a place where the cement floor
seemed to have been disturbed. Dig
ging there, they found what at first
was supposed to be fragments Of a
human body. Later they became sat
isfied that a dog had been buried there
Crowbsr and Ratchet.
A crowbar, apparently stained with
blood, and q Ratchet which bore dark
marks were found in the basement, and
the searchers were unwilling to aban-
don their task even after it seemed
that there was nothing further for
them to do. Finally tonight some one
found a small crevice in the cement
floor, indicating that the cement had
been disturbed and then skillfully
patched.
The cement was quickly broken away
and then the diggers came on a bed
of white sand. Delving through this,
they came upon a dress skirt. This
was dragged out and other articles of
woman's wear were found. When
A4tNoC AlciO DOOn IeulON0Q the pOQN OK
the woman was found. 1t was wrap
ped in a blanket and practically was
without clothing, there being only a
stocking on the left foot and a corset
cover around the chest.
Character of the Wound.
From the appearance of the body
II was believed that Mrs BarthoIin
was struck down either while disrob-
Ing for the night or when dressing in
the morning.
On the woman's left temple was a
deep and ragged cash two inches long,
but DR.. E. P. Noel, a physician who
was summoned, said that in his opin-
ion it could not have caused death.
The wound is superficial, but may
have served to render the victim un-
conscious" DR.. Noel said. after the
blow had been struck the woman was
either choked or smothered."
The body was removed to an UNDER
taking establishment, where the cor
oner's inquest will be held on Monday.
The police have abandoned the the
DRY that Bartholin is dead, and Police
Inspector Hunt, in whose district is
the home of Mrs. Bartholin, declared
tonight that he was confident that the
man is alive and has not left Chicago.
The clerk of a real estate agent, one
OF whose clients holds a mortgage on
the property of Mrs. Bartholin, met
William Bartholin in front of the
house on the morning of July 81 or
Aug. /, he does not remember which.
Hope for Early Capture.
This fact causes the police to be-
heVe that they will capture him soon
as ne mas had less than one weeks
start of them.
There was no apparent motive for
the killing of Mrs. Bartholin or OF
Minnie Mitchell, but the police are
following every possible theory. The
one that finds most favor at present
IS that the young man, being in debt
Killed his mother in order that her
equity IN the mortgaged property
might revert to him. While the theory
VIII not cover themurder of the Mitch
ei! girl, the police believe that Barth-
ol1n had the idea that she either sus-
pected him of killing his mother q,
had taken him to task for telling con-
Hlctlng stories regarding her disap-
pearance.
Bartholin and his mother were NOT
on good terms, although they lived in
the same house, but beyond a desire
to inherit her property there is al
present no known motive for the MIR
der.
DR.. Springer, the coroner's pbvsi-
clan, conducted an autopsy on the
Douy Oh MRS. Barthol1n tonight, and
announced that her death had beer
caused by strangulation, the assassin
having made sure of his victim b,
first breaking her skull with a blum
instrument, as fracture was founf
beneath the wound on the temple.
Accessory After the Fact.
The police tonight decided to hole
IN custody Oscar Thompson, whc
boarded with Mrs. Bartholin for eiehs