Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-12
|CHICAGO'S GREAT
MURDER MYSTERY
:. 4AoIIn Surprised While Stand
log by Cellar Grave
n MS MURDERED MOTHER
neal Estate Agent raternai
order May be shielding the
Parricide

u,,,go Aug. .1l.-An important de-
." ,ert in the Bartholin- Mitchell
''v ,ssr mystery was made today when
pu'S . dlscoyered that Bartholin had
we surprlsed july 80, while standing
W ,a cellar grave of his murdered
uotssr by a rsai estate agent.
n.y. wa, Van N,tslngen, who holds a
r. ,..se ON Mrs. Bartholin's home,
I' 'yho sent his agent to the Calumet
y. .,rty TO appraise II the afternoon
,'y mly 80, furnished the police with
STARVATION about Bartholin work.
!, On the grave of his mother
agent called aud rang the front
i. nell repeatedly. No one appeared
no went to the rear Of the house
looked through a basement win
There he saw a man standing in
amer looking at the floor, appar-
.,,Iy absorbed in thought
'I s',denly the man in the basement
Ia ~ and saw the agent peering
moment later Bartholin came to
4. roar door and asked the agent
~, he wanted. The latter replied
u, he wanted to see Mrs. Bartholin'
p,,tholin told the agent his mother
!, IN Milwaukee and she would not
.r,u for several days Shortly after
!. conversation he was seen to leave
" honse. and the same evening called
Z. Minnie Mitchells home. The couple
IA ,ogether and the girl did not re-
| rum .ho, ,ho no
"a interyiew with Hunter, said that
e.,ar Thompson. a former ledger III
~ house and who Is now under arrest,
p.isd having told Hunter that VIII
W. S'r lad left the city to be married.
M Inspector further stated that
srotsr val be brought to this city, to-
ss1sr With Milton l.. Il. Edwards, an
sssr rooner in the Bartholin house,
IA & now IN Denver.
M burial today Of Minnie Mitchell
1, her family removed all doubt In the
,sAr mind that the body In the field
,Syenty- fourth and State streets last
Ssk was that Of the young woman
yso was last seen with Bartholin.
late developments today indicated
,st Rsrtholln may have made q care
n survey OF the field where Minnie
vithelrs body and clothing were
upd william Waldrop told the po-
IA that on Wednesday July 80, he
4, william Barth0lin at Seventy
l,urh and state streets. within n Few
b, Of the spot where the dead body
4 me Young woman was found. Wal
isD talked with Bartholin, whom he
i,,v personally. The last he saw OF
M was when he boarded north
| load State street car. II Is supposed
An the murder OF Minnie Mitchell
lrk Mace the same night. Bartholin's
r.ssnce at the field where the body
vs found later gives color to the the
cy that the murder was planned IN
ola blood.
he police are using all their ingenu-
M 10 force Oscar Thompson, Mrs,
| hrholins principal roomer, to give
| lliuonal information about the crime
crimes committed IN the Calumet
rsnne death house. They have been
working on the theory that the Mitchell
N may have been killed there and
tken IN Thompson's laundry wagon
b ne lonely field. A test Is to be made
B prove this theory The horse is to
\ started south and left TO its own
hrlnct in the hope that IL viii stop
aseyenty fourth and State streets.
INSPECTOR HUNTS OPINION.
Chicago, Aug 1l.--Police Inspector
Hunt who has the Bartholin case in
Charge. tonight made the statement
Nat frternal organization is shielding
william Bartholin, and battling the ef-
isfts Of the police TO find him. The
hgector refused TO give the name
4 the organization and would not de-
Nute the methods IL was using TO pro-
III BaHholin. He chung to the state
rent but would not make other
aarges than Of the most general char
sftsr