Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-14
FIND A NEW CLUE
Arrest of Fresh Suspect in the Aga
tina ReichIin Murder Case at Lorain
oho-important Developments.

Lorain Ohio, May 14.-With the ar
rest of fresh suspect and the demand
that the body of the murdered Agatha
Reichlin be exhumed for another exam
iration. the investigation into the cir
cumstances OF the girls death is to be
Immediately reopened on lines which
the police believe Will lead to the
speedy detection of her assassin.
The arrest was that OF Noah Sprad-
ling, the bartender who sold Casimir
Reichlin the murdered girls brother, a
gallon of whisky within short time
after the crime was committed. The de-
c:sion TO take Spradline into custody
was reached on the advice of Detective
Mintz, of Cleveland who recently as
sumed charge of the investigation.
Taken to police headquarters by De-
tectives Mintz and Gold smith, Spradling
was subjected to 4 sweatboX eXamina-
ton, as soon as Prosecutor Stroup ar
rived, and is said by the police to have
divulged such important information
that Mintz called for the reopening OF
the case.
Mayor King and Prosecutor Stroup
held conference with reference to the
detectives demand, and have not yet
announced their decision, tho there is
little doubt that the request will be
compiled with. In the meantime
Spradling will be held as witness be-
fore the grand jury under heavy bonds.
The determination to exhume the
dead girls body was also the result of
Mintz's suggestion, and is the outcome
of the disagreements among the physi-
clans as to the condition of the corpse
when 1t was examined after the mur-
der Coroner G. T.. French and Police
Captain S. L. Koch are both, the de-
tective says, ready to swear that there
were finger marks about her throat, and
that the presence of a large quantity OF
blood in the stomach was an additional
Indication that she was choked to death.
DIR. Cox, who conducted the autopsy,
denies that there were any finger marks
visible.
The Reichlin murder was one of the
most sensational in the criminal his
tory of Ohio. The young girl lived with
her brother. Father Reichlin of st. Jo-
seph's Catholic church. and was killed
late on the night of April 80 by an un-
known man who entered her bedcham-
ber thru window, ard. when con-
fronted by two men attracted to the
spot by her screams, calmly pushed the
rescuers aside. with ain assurance that
there was no cause for alarm, and made
his escape.
Father Reichln was away from home
at the time. but his younger brother,
Casimir, and Father Ferdinand Walser.
n priest from Elyria, Ohio, occupied
rooms In the house, and when blood
hounds were taken to TIE girls room in
the hope that it might thus be possible
TO trace the murderer the animals led
the officers to the bed occupied by the
priest. The latter's arrest followed. but
Father Reichlin emphatcally declared
his belief in the prisoners Innocence,
and, on May S, he was discharged at
the preliminary hearing of the case.
The walls of the room in which the
crime was committed We're spattered
with blood. the girls head was beaten
into an almost shapeless mass and, as
a bloody cobble-stone was found in one
corner of the room, it was conjectu
that It was the weapon with which the
crime was committed. The murdererh had
been perfectly cool, pulling the bedcloth-
ing up to the girls chin to hide, as far
as possible. all signs of the struggle,
The girls iewelry and pocketbook,
which lay in full view an her dressing
table, were untouched however so that
robbery did not appear to have peeii
the motive of the crime. Should 1t ar
pear that the victim YVES choked to
&C ath and thu the stone was used aftef
her death to give the police false I'M
preston the detectives think the affair
will have a very different face from
what it has appeared to wear thus 1ar.