The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-03
MURDER OF ROSA KAISER
DEARBORN COUNTY SHERIFF HOPE
FUL OF CLEARING UP CRIME.
Lawrenceburg Marshal INDUCES in
Some Sherlock Holmes Deductions
History OF the Black Deed.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, Sept. 2.-Sherih
John ABBY returned here to-day from Gin
cinnati, where. in conjunction with the
police of that city, he has been making
strenuous efforts to locate a young man
named Otto Pool, who is wanted by the
Dearborn county authorities on a grand
larceny charge and who. 1T is believed, can
clear UP the heretofore impenetrable mys-
terry surrounding the murder Of pretty Rosa
Kaiser. which occurred near Manchester
station last May. At the time of the muir
der Pool was employed on the Big Four
Railway improvements in progress between
Manchester station and Guilford. Ind, and
on the day preceding the crime he, in COM
pany with three suspicious-looking charac-
tiers, were seen hanging about the Kaiser
home. However, suspicion did not point
to HIM until recently. when the police
learned certain facts, which they do not
care TO disclose at present.
Sheriff Axby claims to have in his pos
session evidence duplicating Pool in the
murder of Rosa Kaiser, and believes that
if the young man is arrested he will be
glad to secure leniency by divulging all he
knows about the case.
OcteCtiNc tTdWloIu, VI NlHciliidtl, HOiuS
a warrant for Pools arrest on the grand
larceny charge.
The murder of Rosa Kaiser is the dark
est crime that ever blackened the criminal
ANIMAL of Dearborn county. Late one eve
ming in May, when the girl, in company
with her aged father, Martin Kaiser, was
returning home on foot from Yorkvilie
Catholic Church. where the father and
daughter had been attending Ascension
day Services. she was murdered in cold
blood and her body thrown into West
Fork a branch of Tanners creek where
Ii was found horribly mutilated few DAYS
later. Martin Kaiser was attacked and
felled TO the earth unconscious by blow
from heavy club dealt from behind, a
gaping cash was made in his throat and he
was beaten brutally. The assailant then
threw him into the creek, where he re-
vived hours afterward and made his way
home more dead than alive. Kaiser did
not witness the assault on his daughter as
she was many yards ahead OF him, running
to escape heavy storm that was approach
ing From this fact ii would appear that
the man was struck down first and the
girl, seeing the attack on him rushed 10
his rescue and met her death. Her UNI
brella, which was broken about five inches
from the tip. indicated that she had made
a fierce struggle in defense of either her
father or herself. Martin Kaiser did not
see the assailant. The blow which rendered
him unconscious was struck from behind
and he could give no details other than
that he heard a football behind him. re-
ceived the blow and all was blank Some
deductions in the case which have never
been made public were the result of a per-
sonal investigation of the crime on the pa rt
or Marshal Theodore Crusse.
when Kaiser was struck he was facing
the west, said Mr.. Crusse to- a Journal
representative this morning. HE carried
an umbrella raised to keep off the rain
which had just begun to fall The storm
was coming from the east, and therefore
the umbrella was slanted I'm that direction
The blow which felled Kaiser was received
upon the left side of his face and was
dealt from behind Such blow must neces-
sarily have been delivered by a lefthanded
man. When the police capture a left
handed suspect. will share their belief I'm
his possible guilt"
Heretofore all efforts to locate the muir
derer have proved futile. Shortly after
the discovery of the crime the country
for many miles about Manchester station
was secured by armed posses searching for
the guilty one. They were aided by blood
hounds, but even the keen-scented man
hunting dogs were at fault Now IL Is
hoped that the mystery will be at last
cleared up. and the girls murder avenged
Martin Kaiser. who has fully recovered
from the effects of the assault. is heart
broken over the loss of his wife who died
recently from the effects of the shock of
her daughters horrible death