Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-12
NO CLUE YET TO BARTHOLB
Disappears a. 0Omplstsly as Though the
Earth Had Swallowed Him.
MILTON EDWARDS LOCATED IN DENVER
Tells why He Len chicago and
Later auit omaha--Other
RoOmer f. IN
Toledo.

" uouple tnbH euOFtt 20. locate William j.
B~artholin,. respectively hence aud son Of
the two, women. At the inquest over the
body OF the older woman,~wkich was found
Saturday night crammed into. q hole In the
cement floor Of the. BarthoiIh home. neigh
bors readily Identified the corpse az tina,
Of Mrs. BsrthoIln. The burial today Of
Minnie Mitchell BY her family removed all
doubt In the public mind that the body
found in the field AZ Seventy fourth and
STATE streets wednesday, sas ths4 OF the
young woman who waa ldatsaeeh with
Bartholin. Complete hearing over Mrs.
Bartholin's body was postponed By the
coroner until August II in the hope that
additional clues to the murder may be OBJ
tanned.
Today 1t developed that young Bertholin
had quarreled with his mother just before
she disappeared over the question Of bring
ing his prospective wife to live at his
mothers home.
Important Development.
An important development In the Bar
tholin murder mystery was made today.
when It was discovered that Bartholin had
been surprised July 80 while standing at
the cellar grave Of his mother by a real
estate agent.
Peter Van Vlissengen. who holds a mort
gage on Mrs. Bsrtholin's home. and who
sent his agent to the Calumet property to
appraise It on the afternoon Of July 90, fur
nished the police With the information about
Barthoiin working on the grave Of his
mother. The agent called and rang the
front door bell repeatedly. No one an
swered and he went to the rear OF the house
and looked through q basement window.
There he saw q man standing In one corner
looking at the floor, apparently absorbed
In thought. Suddenly the man In the base
ment looked around and saw ttS agent
peering' In. A moment later Bartholin
came to a rear door and asked the
agent what he wanted. The agent re-
piled that he wanted to see Mira. Bartholin.
Barthclin told the agent his mother was in
Milwaukee and she would not return for
several days. After this conversation he
was seen to leave the house and the same
evening be called at Minnie Mitcheli's
home. The couple left together and the
girl did not return.
Inspector Hunt, when shown the Toledo
interview with q. o. Hunter. said that Os-
car Thompson, a former lodger in the house
and who is now under arrest. denied having
told Hunter that William had left the city.
The inspector further stated that Hunter
WOut0 pC uAOuBut " tnIo Cityp tONCtAcI WIN
miitOH 4. EdwuTas, aIO1iner rOomvT in Inc
Bartholln house, who is now In Denver.
Latest Developments I'm Case.
Late Developments today indicated that
Bartholin may have made a careful survey
Of the neld where Minnie Mitchel1ss body
and clothing we're found, william Waidrop
told the police that on Wednesday, July 80.
he met William Bartholin at seventy-fourth
and State streets within a foot Of the spot
where the dead body Of the young mans
nAncse was found, ,t5WeidropE talked With
BaFtholin! whom ne knew personally J. The
last he saw Of him was when he boarded a
northboupd State street car. It IL sup
posed hat the murder Of Minnie Mitchell
took place the same night. Bartholin's
presence at the. field where the body was
found later gives color tn Ire &he6ry that
the murder was planned M' Geld blood.
The police are using all gheir ingenuity
to force Oscar Thompson, Mrs. Bartholin's
principal rcomer, 10 give additional infor-
nation about the crime or crimes commit
ted in the Calumet avenue death house.
They have been working on tbs theory
thar the Mitchell girl may have been killed
there and taken IN Thompscn'A laundry
wagon to the lonely field. A test Is to be
made to prove this theory1 The horse is
to be started south and left to tic owh In
%stlncts. In hopes hat It will stop at
sevsnty-fourth and State streets.
Residents in the nsighborhood of Forty
third street and Calumet avenue to-day nled
a protest with the police department, stat
ing that the crowds Of edsioaity hunters
and the rubbish occasioned by ra~nsaeklng
the barthoiin house we're Becoming q
nuisance.
Police Inspector Hunt, who has the BAR
tholin case In charge, tonight made the
abatement that a fratsrnal organization is
shielding william BarthoIln and halkina she
shorts Of the police to and him. The in
spcctor refused to give, the name OF the
organization and would not describe the
methods used. He cIung to the statement.
but would not make II ether than OF the
most general character.
Found in Denver.
DENVER. Avg. u.-MIton [. R. nd
wards, who formerly roomed' At the home Of
Mrs. Anna Bartholin 10 Chicago ana for
whom tina polics Of thai city Rave been
looking In order to learn what he may know
concerning the murders Of Mrs. BarthoIin
and Miss Minnie Mitchell. Is new IN Den
yer- He arrived here last night At IL o'clock
over the union Pacific railroad ana regis-
tered at the Belvidere hotel under his cor
rect name. To a representative of the As
s~ociated Press this morning he made the
following statement;
The reason that you have been able 10
find mo is that l wrote to Robert Mitchell.
the brother Of Minnie Mitchell. ana ted
him why ! had LETT Chicago 50 suddenly. /
related 70 him the fact that I had become
suspicious Of tbs actions Of william Bar
tholin GRd decided that 1t would b. unsa-s
for me to remain longer IN Chicago. As
soon az I read IN IN Omaha pager the story
Of the girls murder communicated with
her brother. who was . psfaonal friend Of
mine.
''The reason I vent 10 Omaha was to Sc
cure employment. I had for some time
been working in Chicago for the Chicago
Junction Railway compeny which Il con-
nected with the Union stock yards. I was
about to 50 on my vacation when the unto
ward actions Of William Bartholin fastened
my departure.
Il left the home Of Mrs, nartholln on the
aieht Of July 81. On August 1 I slept IN 4
hotel downtown. fearing hat my life was
IN jeopardy. and. e. I remember a. left On
August 4 On July a I had gone to q room
not my own IN. order 10 set where Il was
cooler. About 3 or . o'clock IN the mdn-
Ing ] was awakened By q window jumping