The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
THE CHICAGO CRIME
POLICE CONTINUE TO GET NEW
LIGHT ON CASE.
BARTH0LIN STILL MISSING.
SUPPOSED, ACCESSORY is UNDER
ARREST.

Now shown That Mrs. BarthOlin
Night of July Z. and Her Body
Thrown Into a Closet Where 1t
Remained Several Days Before de-
ing Buried in Bnsement-POlice
Think Thompson, Who Was the
Woman's Friend for Years. Knows
More Than Ne Is willing to Tell.
Chicago. Aug. 10.-The search for
William Bartholin, who was suspected
of having murdered his mother and
Miss Minnie Mitchell, his sweetheart,
was continued to-day, but no trace of
the missing man was found. Oscar
Thompson, for eighteen years the con-
slant friend of the fugitive's mother,
who was arrested, stoutly maintains
his innocence of the murders and
pleaded with the authorities to be re-
leased. After a long examination, how
ever, Thompson was sent back to his
cell, as the police feel confident that
he has not told all he knows. e. o.
Hunter and Milton E. r. Edwards,
former roomers at the Bartholin
house, are being sought by the police.
Late to-day a special delivery ct
ter arrived from Omaha for r. H.
Mitchell, brother of the murdered
Minnie Mitchell, from Edwards who
wrote the day after Miss Mitchell's
body was identified, stating that he
was morally certain that Bartholin
had murdered his mother. Edwards
in the letter declared that he had fled
from Chicago because he feared that
he might, too, fall q victim to Bar
tholin's thirst for blood. 1t was
learned to-day that Thompson was
in the house the night that Mrs.
Bartnoln was killed Thompson has
ad l'-ted that he was in a room d.
recty across the hall from Mrs.
Bartholin's. The police have discov-
cred, they say, that the aged woman
was strangled on a couch in her
own room the night of July
L and her body thrown into a
closet, where it remained undoubtedly
for several days before burial in the
basement. 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
bloodstained area on the floor of the
closet in Mrs. Bartholins room. The
bloody garment was tucked away in a
corner under a shelf, together with the
teeth, but the bloodstained floor show
ed that the body of the murdered wo-
man was first hidden in the closet and
the door to her room kept locked for
several days.
Denies Seeing Anything.
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, un-
| til Friday evening, and he also de-
| ciares that he never heard a suspicious
| sound or saw a suspicious sign 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 Tuesday,
nearly a week after he disappeared
with Minnie Mitchell his sweetheart,
who was killed on the night of July 80
Bartholin called at the house of this
friend last Tuesday night. He was in
a terrible state of mind.
and his actions aroused the wonder
Inent of his host. From him the police
obtained a description of the clothing
Bartholin wore when last seen. The
clothes, the shoes, imitation Panama
hat. the coat with the lodge button in
the lapel, and the shirt were found
to-day in Bartholins room, thus prov
ing beyond a doubt that he returned to
the house six days after the death of
Minnie Mitchell and that he could have
returned at no other time save at
night, when Thompson was at home
Thompson says he never saw Bartho-
lin after the Wednesday night he went
away with Minnie Mitchell.