The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-12
RESEMBLES BARTH0LlN
A Suspect Has Been Arrested
at KenOsha, Wis.

Chicago, Aug. Especial advices to
the Daily News from Kenosha, Wis,
today announced the arrest there of a
man answering the description of VIM.
Bartholin. wanted in Chicago to explain
the killing of his mother and or mis-
fiancee. Minnie Mitchell. person who
knows Bartholin has been sent to iden-
tify the prisoner.
Late developments indicate that Bar
tholin may have made a careful survey
of the field where Minnie Mitchells body
and clothing were found William
Waldrop told the police that on We'd
nesday. July 80. he met William Bar
tholin at Seventy-fourth and State
streets within few streets of the spot
where the dead body of the young
mans fiancee was found Waldrop talk
ed with Bartholin, whom he knew per-
sonally. The last he saw of him was
when he boarded a northbound State
street car. 1t is supposed that the muir
der of Minnie Mitchell took place the
same night Bartholin's presence at the
field where the body was found later
gives color to the theory that the muir
der was planned in cold blood.
The police are using all their ingenui-
ty to force Oscar Thompson, Mrs. Bar
tholin's principal roomer, to give addf-
tional information about the crime or
crimes committed in the Calumet ave-
nue. death house. They have been work.
ing on the theory that the Mitchell girl
may have been killed and taken in
Thompson's laundry wagon to the lone
ly field. A test is to be made to prove
this theory. The horse is to be started
south aad left to its own instincts, in
the hope that it will stop at Seventy
fourth and State streets.
Residents in the neighborhood of
Forty third street and Calumet avenue
filed protest with the police depart
ment, stating that the crowds of curios-
ity hunters and the rubbish occasioned
by ransacking the Bartholin house were
becoming nuisance.
An important development in the
Bartholin- Mitchell murder mystery was
made when it was discovered that Bar
tholin had been surprised July 80. while
standing at the cellar grave of his muir
dered mother. by a real estate agent
Peter Van vlissingen. who holds a
mortgage on Mrs. Bartholins home and
who sent his agent to the Calumet pro-
perty to appraise it the afternoon of
July 80, furnished the police with the in
formation about Bartholin working on
the grave of his mother
The agent called and rang the front
door bell repeatedly. No one answered
and he went to the rear of the house
and looked through a basement window.
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 peering in
A moment later Rartholin came to the
rear and asked the agent what he want
ed The latter replied that he wanted
to see Mrs. Rartholin.
Bartholin told the agent his mother
was in Milwaukee and she would not
return for several days. Shortly after
this conversation he was seen to leave
the house and the same evening he call
ed at Minnie Mitchelrs home. The
couple left together and the girl did not
return
Inspector Hunt, when shown the To-
ledo interview with E. o. Hunter, said
that Oscar Thompson, a former ledger
in the house and who is now under ar
rest. denied having told Hunter that
William had left the city to be mar
ried.
The inspector further stated that
Hunter will be brought to this city to-
gether with Milton L r. Edwards. an
other roomer in the Bartholin house
who is now in Denver.
EDWARDS DISAPPEARS.
Denver, Aug. 12-M I. r. Edwards
wanted in Chicago in connection with