The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-10

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD, Ind, Feb. 9.-James McDon-
aid, teamster, was arrested tonight at
1880 o'clock on a warrant charging him
with the murder of Sarah Catharine Scha-
fer the pretty Latin teacher who met a
brutal death in the deserted cab shed off of
street on the night of Jan. q.
The warrant on which Mcdonald was ar
rested was sworn out by Detective Reed at
8 o'clock tonight before Mayor j. Hickson
Smith and Prosecutor Miller. the latter ar
irving here late this evening for that pur-
pose.
The arrest was made by Detectives Smith
and Reed, of the Pinkerton agency, Police
man Myers and Sheriff Smith.
The prisoner was arrested at his home on
Ninth street bundled into cab and taken
to the office of S. b. Lowe by the detec-
tives, where he will be confined until 4:3O to-
morrow morning and taken to the Jeffer-
sonville Reformatory by Detectives Reed
and Smith over the Monon Railroad.
The movements of the officers were
clothed in secrecy, no one but the newspa-
per correspondents being aware of the an
ticipated action of the authorities.
Following a rumor that the arrest had
cred at the Monon station, expecting the
prisoner to be taken north on the Monon to
indianapolis No little disappointment was
manifested when the full import of the ruse
dawned on the minds of the people. Crowds
congregated on the street corners. late as it
was, discussing the arrest. The prisoners
whereabouts was assiduously kept from the
general public.
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keep the public in ignorance of their ac-
tions. and the cab containing Mcdonald and
his captors was driven in roundabout way
down an alley in the rear of Mr.. Lowe s
office, the prisoner being hustled up a rear
stairway For several hours the detectives
and their prisoner were closeted together.
the former resorting TO the usual sweating
method, but whether Mcdonald made a con-
fession or not Detective Reed would not
divulge. The officer said emphatically to
the Journal representative that the guilty
man had been apprehended.
The detectives search of the fatal alley
at 1:30 o'clock Monday morning in a ter
rife downpour of rain is said to have re-
suited in finding the final link in the chain
of evidence necessary to convict This
proved to be the foot prints of man wear
ing a No s. shoe and those of
a woman in mound of fresh
clay, around a telephone pole. re-
Gently erected in the alley. These foot
prints faced each other. and from the ma
ture Of them demonstrated that a terrible
struggle had occurred at this particular
point. Several pickets of the fence, against
which Miss Schafer had been forced, were
pulled loose from their fastenings. indicat-
ing that she had battled bravely with her
assailant on. that bleak January night. on
their visit to the fatal alley the detectives
made a plaster OF paris cast OF the foot
prints and this will be exhibited in evil
dence against the accused.
The motive for the crime was two fold.
according TO the detectives, robbery and
assault The latter was unsuccessful but
as TO the former, Detective Reed will not
state whether anything of value was se-
cured.
Mcdonald is the same person who when
before the court of inquiry testified that