Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-08-09
IDENTIFY THE DEAD WOMAN
BODY Found IN Vacant Lot at chicago
Proves 60 ne that OF Miss
Minnie mitchell.


CHICAGO. Aug. s.--The body Of the youn.
woman found last night in a vacant lot Al
Seventy-fourth and State streets has beer
Identified as that Of Miss Minnie Mitchell
Of e04 Fourty fourth street and the polio,
are looking for william Bartholin. q younl
mechanic who was with her at the tim,
Of her disappearance.
The case is shrouded IN mystery, bui
the police are firmly Of the opinion that
the girl was murdered BY Bartholin and
that he also murdered his own mother, Mrs
Anna BarthoIin who mysterioutly disap.
peared three weeks before the Mitchell
girl went away with the young man.
The body Of the girl was beyond identl.
lcation. but her sister. Lille Mitchell, to-
night positively Identified the dress, the
pettieoat OF lavender sin and the hat worr
by her sister at the time Of her diBap.
pearance and there Is no doubt IN the minds
Of the police that the body Is that Of MIN
nie Mitchell.
Miss Mitchell was last seen by the mem
bers Of her family on the night Of July 30
when she left her fafher'e house IN CON-
pany with Bartholin, the couple saying that
they intended to take a walk. She ala not
return to the house that night and moth
ing was heard Of her or Of BRrtholin until
two days later, when the girls father re-
ceived q note from Bartholin saying that
he and the girl had eloped and had started
for California to spend their honeymoon.
Mrs. Annie Barthoiin, the mother, whom
the poiica firmly believe was killed by her
son, disappeared from her home at 1s1o
Calumet avenue a month ago. Her son
hSsde no report of her disappearance ia
the police. and q man who had boarded
with her iOr years reported the matter,
saying that he was confident that she had
met with foul play. for the reason that
she had said nothing about going away
and had disappeared on a washing day
so suddenly as to leave the clothes in the
tub. He thought she wac lying dead in
her room. Oflcers were at once sent to
the house and forced the door of her
apartment. but found no trace OF her. Her
sen said that she had gone 70 Milwaukee,
and. as there was mo reason at that time
to think that she had been murdered, the
matter was allowed to drop.
The day after the visit Of the police "a
the residence OF his mother, Bartholsn
called for the Mitchell girl. and they went
away together. The letter written By Barr
tholin to Mr.. Mitchell was posted In Chi
cago two days after his disappearance.
Bartholin Is 2s years Of age. and has been
employed as a mechanic IN a wagon shop
at Auburn park. He has not been seen
by his employers for more than two weeks,
and they have reoeived no word from him.
There IL no known motive for the mur-
der, but the w6und In the back OF the
siitolSii siTis iloaaa - 30 situatsd as u
render Il out OF the question that abe could
have inflicted 1t herself, and there Is no
doubt that she was murdered.
Why the son should have tried to make
away with his mother is not known, and
there is no evidences that abe has been
killed beyond the fact that she has dis
appeared and cannot be found. She kept
ropmers IN her house. a6DAe ~ whom had
lived with ihar for twsnsy assrs shs was
not In theshabit Of ieavingilher home and
men in her house are oonident that she
would not have done so without saying
something to them before leaving. s.
The police base their belief in her mur-
der on the fact that Bartholin disappeared
SO quickly after he knew that his mothers
disappearance was being investigated.