Graham guardian., 1904-12-02
AWFUL GRIMES COMMITTED.
fcung GitIs the Victims ,riraftinsss
Employed BY The Slayer Balrns
Detectives,

Wllhlh SIX months have appalleo
the people and baffied tile police
In each case the victim was u
young and defenseless woman.
There seems to have been an alb
sence of any motive except de-
pravity.
The method of murder was the
same in the trio of tragedies The
unsuspecting girls were struck on
the head with some blunt instru-
ment and, to make death certain
the slayer beat their skulls and
mutilated. their faces. The bodies
we're found in remote and lonely
places, and 1t puzzles the student
of criminology to discover by what
uncanny craft the young women
we're lured to their frightful fate.
The three murders took place
within radius Of one mile and
within the precincts Of the Twenty
third ward, Of Cummingsville.
Singularly enough the first con-
ciusion OF the authorities was that
the girls had been killed by acci
dent The lifeless and disfigured
bodies were only a short distance
from the railroad or street car
track, showing that the perpetFa'
tor, with devilish cunning had
thought to throw suspicion from
himself. 1t was only by the ac-
emulation Of damaging evidence
that the police were forced to ad-
init iu AT least two of the cases
that the girls had been brutally
killed.
The first discovery to startle the
community was the body of Mary
Mcdonald near the tracks Of the
Big Four Railroad, east of the
Dane street crossing. The en-.
gineer of the freight train saw the
girl, and, stopping his engine,
went to the rescue. The left leg
of the girl bad been severed above
the knee. A bruise on the head
back of the ear led to the suspic-
lon that she bad been murdered
MISS Mcdonald was stili alive
I wHeh isund, but died SHORTLY after
w4fa at tho hospital. She re-
gained CONSCIOUSNESS long enough
70 tell her name, but could give no
account Of the supposed accident
which led to her death.
When on the morning Of Oct.
2, the body of Lulu Mueller vas
discovered in cump Of weeds in
taat section OF Cummiugsviile
/ known us Lovers Lane" the
mysterious death OF Mary McDon-
aid had almost been torgotlon.
III wer, Two deep woun Is on
either side Of Miss Muellers mead
extcuoiug down the face. The
skull was fractured at the base.
Iews innumerable were de-
vclcp. 4 by the tireless and rigid
I investigation, and they finally led
u The arrest on suspicion OF Iheo-
d6le salmon and William Wilson,
who are now in Jail awaiting o
hearing. Salmon has small shed
for the keeping Of wagons at the
end # path east of Lovers Lane
He and Wilson and two girls
Sadie Pierce and Stella Key, who
we're with them, said they had
seen Miss Mueller shortly before
8 O'clock that night at the en-.
trance Of the lane. They spoke tc
her and passed on A few min.
utes later, Salmon claims he board
ed a car for the city and Wilson
weut with him. Conflicting state
meats OF the two men and the girls
caused the holding of Salmon anc
/ Wilson, the authorities believing
that they at least, mad guilty
knowledge Of the crime.
Climax of horror came with the
discovery Of the bruised and bat
tered remains Of Alma SteinwaJ
in vacant lot somee feet east o
the street car tracks on the Win
ton road. The unfortunate CIR
was telephone operator at th'
Park exchange. She was pretty
and Is years old. Everybody
who knew her liked her She wa
devoted to her widowed mothe
and brothers, with whom she live'
in cozy home in Winton place
She fnished her work at the ex
change at 8 O'clock, and watkins
down Hamilton avenue to the IN
tersection with Spring Grove ayen
ue took a car for Winton place, re
ceiving transfer to the branch
line on Wlnton road.
The entire Mill Creek valley
was enveloped in heavy fog. /
was just such u night as u tien'
would select for Il foul crime, sucl
as this one was. II is believed
that the murderer stole up behinC
his victim and struck her Wei
Gus blow with the same unerrinl
aim that blotted out the life 0
Lulu Mueller just one month be
fore, and possibly ended the caree
of Mary Mcdonald on the nigh
Of the Both of April last, Th,
base of the girl's sknll WAS flMc