The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
GIRLS BODY is FOUND
VICTIM OF AN UNKNOWN NEGRO's
CRIME NEAR LAwRENCEBURG.
She Was Not Ravished by Her Assail-
ant. but Her Bones Were Broken
by the Terrible Beating.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, May 23.-The
numerous posses which, day and night,
have been securing the country around
Manchester Station in search of Rosa kais-
er. who was brutally assaulted. murdered
and thrown into Tanners creek Wednes-
day evening by an unknown negro who
had previously beaten into insensibility and
left for dead her father. seventy-three-
year-old Martin Kaiser, were rewarded
about 6 o'clock this morning by the find
ing of the girls body in West Fork. a
tributary Of Tanners creek. nearly three
miles from the supposed scene of the
tragedy.
The body. which lay close to the shore in
partly submerged clump of willows. was
discovered by Leroy GLENN, young man
employed to look after the Big Four track
lights along West Fork. All of the body
save one hand was submerged. and 1t was
this white hand on the surface of the
water that attracted Clemm's attention.
Miss Kaiser evidently had been subjected
to the most brutal and inhuman treatment.
Her body was almost nude and bore UNI
mistakable signs of the ravisher's work.
The left arm was broken in two places and
dislocated at the shoulder. There was
battered almost beyond recognition.
1t was ascertained that the negro had
kept his victim for some hours in dis
mantled church about fifty yards from the
junction of the West Fork and Tanners
creek. The interior of the church showed
many indications Of a terrible life-and-
death struggle. There were numerous blood
clots on the floor and walls. blood
stained undergarment, Identified as belong
ing to the murdered girl, was found near
the crumbling altar.
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on handcar by section men and placed
in the church to await the arrival OF Cor
oner Swales, who was telegraphed for at
once. Relatives arrived a few hours later
and took charge of the body.
Martin Kaiser, father of the murdered
girl, who came so near sharing, in a meas
at any moment. Mrs. Kaiser, who is con-
fined to her bed with dropsy, suffered so
severely from the effects OF the shock that
her life is despaired of.
Great excitement prevails in and about
Manchester Station and the neighboring
hamlets and lynching or burning at the
stake can scarcely be avoided if suspect
Is Captured and identified as the murderer
in that locality. This morning this ex-
element assumed such threatening aspect
that 1t was deemed necessary to bring to
this city for protection Louis EvenSon, a
negro suspect arrested at Cloves, o., last
night and held there for identification. Ac-
cordingly, he was brought here about noon
by Sheriff Axley and Marshal Jesse Grim,
Mrs. Mary Griffin and Mrs. Jane Darling,
the two women who claim to have seen and
talked with the supposed murderer a short
time before the deed was committed, are
expected to arrive here early tomorrow
morning and identify Everson as the man
who acted so suspiciously at their homes
Wednesday afternoon. Everson is an ex-
convict. He is wanted at his home town,
Rising Sun, Ind, for cutting with intent
to kill. He is much feared in localities
where he is well known.
When interviewed in his cell at the coun-
ty Jail this evening by a representative Of
the Journal, Everson admitted having
passed through Manchester Station on the
day of the murder, but emphatically de-
MES any connection with the assault on
either Mr.. Kaiser or his daughter Ever
since his incarceration men from the re-
mote country districts have been pouring
into town and it is feared that a desperate
effort will be made to lynch the negro.
Sheriff Axley has placed a triple guard
about the Jail and every effort will be
made to protect the prisoner from mob
violence.
post-mortem on the body of Rosa
Kaiser develops the fact that she was not
assaulted by her negro slayer, as was first
supposed, evidently having persisted in de-
Tense of her honor. Coroner Swaler, at the
inquest this afternoon, rendered verdict of
Murdered at the hands of some person
or persons unknown, but believed to have
been two negroes seen acting suSpiciously
near the scene of the crime shortly before
the double assault was committed"