Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-23
BURY SECRET WITH PERRY
Belief That Victim Of Suicide Knew Who
Killed Mabel schofsld.
FORT MADISON CONVICT GIVES THE TIP
william Lucas of Page County Files
Appeal From Conviction on the
Charge OF Wandering
Emma Moore.
FORT MADISON CONVICT GIVES THE TIP
(From a star EXTRAORDINARY

FTOm a stan correspondent
DIES MONIES. April 22.-(special.)-
Governor Cummins has been carrying on
correspondence with a convict in the state
p~enitentiary at Fort Madison who has
asked for clemency on promise tina he
would reveal some important evidence, and
the total OF the correspondence has been
to raise a question as TO whether or not
Arthur Perry, who attempted murder and
then committed suicide, did not carry to
his grave the Indispensable clue to the mys-
terry of the death. Of Mabel Schofeld. The
murder was committed nearly three years
ago and was the cause OF a great deal OF
investigating and more or less trouble in
the courts. The body OF the girl was found
in the river, but II was evident she had
been murdered and the body thrown there.
Charles Thomas was arrested and given a
preliminary hearing, but not bound over
to the grand jury, and two or three grand
juries Investigated, but returned no lndict-
ment. A short time ago Clarence Kiehle.
a convict, sent to the penitentiary for q
short term from this county. wrote that
he had evidence that would clear up the
mystery, and that he would give the evil
dence II promised clemency. Investigation
was made and there seemed to be much
reason to think that the evidence would
be forthcoming: but this week Kiehle read
an account OF the suicide Of Perry and an
nounced that he was depending on Perry
for assisting him IN the evidence and now
that Perry is dead nothing further could
be done. This has ended the matter for
the present, but investigation shows that
| the woman Perry shot was a close friend
Of one of the witnesses on the trial Of
Thomas, and that Perry was intimate with
persons suspected OF connection with the
crime Of killing Mabel Schoheld. The iden-
tity of Perry has never been fully estab-
lished and 1t lie believed that Perry was
not his name. All the facts taken together
indicate that Perry, II he had been called
to testify, and Kiehle, might have given
testimony that would. have cleared up the
matter. The county attorney has taken the
papers in the case and will pursue the mat
ter further. -rt.
Appointed on Governors stan.
Charles ]. Wilson of Washington, Ia, has
been appointed on the military staff of Gov
ernor CummIns to succeed Colonel e. @.
Pratt Of his city, who resigned the position
Of chief of engineers owing to his removal
from the states Wilson Is a member Of
the legislature and as such was opposed to
Governor Cummins. He has been connected
with the national guard for twenty-six
years, served Ia the Fiftieth Iowa in the
Cuban war and is now commissioned as
commissary Of subsistence in the Fifty
fourth regiment. Iowa national guard. Will
son has long ,ibeen popular In the guard
and he is also Eonspicuous in the politics
of the First eSEgFessfonai' districts"f1
A protest has been made against the mus
tering out of Company B. 'Fifty-sixth reg
iment. Iowa national guard. at Perry. A
committee OF prominent citizens has been
appointed to call on the governor and get
him to recall the order and permit the
company to be Feorganized.
Page County Case Appealed.
-he transcript Of the evidence has been
filed in the case Of the State against, Will
liam Lucas, from Page county. Lucas was
| convicted OF the murder of Emma Moore,
near shambaugh, and sentenced to life Inn
prisonment. He had been intimate with
the girl and was out riding with her the
night she was murdered. Her body was
found by the railroad track and his revolver
near It. He claimed that she had threat
ened suicide when he refused to marry her,
and that she stole his revolver and COM
mitted suicide. The case was tried before
Judge Wheeler at Clarinda last November.
hoy Murderer Doing Well.
Wesley Elkins, the boy murderer OF Clay
ton county, who was psroled by the state
legislature at the last session, has just
finished his first year OF college life at
Cornell college. He wrote a letter to the
governor mentioning his vacation and his
studies, and stating:
This report marks my first anniversary.
As 1 look back over the last year l realize
that while I have tried to improve all OF its
opportunities, l have not Improved them
ali to my own satisfaction. AS / enter
upon another year. however, / shall not
be unmindful of the mistakes OF the past
year, but by allowing Its lessons to have
proper weight 1 hope TO avoid many of the
past failures and make the coming year
better than the one past.