Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-11-09
Brutal MURDER Of
A servant GIRL
CRIME COMMITTED NEAR MAR
SHALL, MO-, AND BODY LEFT
IN A PASTURE.
CLEW TO THE SLAYER
OF CINCINNATI GIRL
Theory of Accident Is Disproved-
Street Car Conductor Tells of Stran-
ger Who Had Evidently Been
Watching Young Lady.

white servant girl of this city, was
found Friday in the suburbs of South
Marshall in pasture. The girl evil
IDENTIFY had been murdered. Her throat
had been cut with a sharp stick, a piece
of which still remains in the flesh, her
left ear had been cut off and there was
bullet hole in her head. There was
evidence that the girl had made a strug-
gle for her life. A cigarette near the
body and bloody tracks leading away
from the spot are the only tangible
clews. Miss Butts was last seen late
Wednesday night last. according to her
sister, with two young men, one of
whom she says she can recognize.
Neither of the men have been located.
A man living near where the body was
found reports having heard screams on
Wednesday night, but no search for the
girl was started before early Friday.
Girls Death Still Mystery.
Cincinnati, Nov. 5.-The awful death
of Alma Steinigeweg, the telephone
operator whose body was found
Thursday in vacant lot near
Spring Grove cemetery entrance, still
remains mystery. The one thing GER
tain is that the girl was murdered The
pool of blood found on the railway
track disproves the theory of accident,
as in such a case the body would be
thrown off the track, and it is absurd
to suppose that the impact with a. street
car could throw the body nearly 200
feet away. The only thing yet discov-
cred in the nature of a clew is the story
told by Frank Limle, the conductor on
whose car Miss Steinigeweg rode on her
way home Wednesday night. The girl
had been in the habit of going home on
that car and Limle knew her by sight.
He says that on Monday night a
short, stout man, stranger, boarded
the car with Miss Steinigeweg and sat
facing her. He alighted when she did,
with other passengers. Miss Steinige-
veg had transfer for the Winton road
car, but the stranger asked for no trans
fer. The conductor wondered why the
man took the car for such a short dis
lance. Tuesday night the man did the
same. Then also other passengers got
off with Miss Steinigeweg, but on
Wednesday night the man alighted
alone with his victim. The conductor
infers that the presence of other pas
sengers caused the murderer to desist
until Wednesday night. Coupled with
this is the statement of Jacob Kollmer,
a saloon keeper, who says a stranger,
dusty and nervous, entered his place a
few squares from the scene of the MUIR
der, at 1915 Wednesday night and
asked the nearest place to board a
freight train. Kollmer directed him to
Elmwood place and he left hurriedly.
The coroner has not yet begun the in
quest, but the police force is using every
effort to reach the criminal.
There is a striking similarity in the
murder of Miss Steinway to that OF
Louise Mueller, whose mutilated body
was found a month ago, about a half
mile from where the body of Miss Stein
way was found, and Chief of Detectives
Crawford is of the opinion that one man
committed both deeds. William Wilson
and Theodore Salmon are in Jail waiting
trial, charged with the murder of Louise
Mueller.